Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index This is a list of famous and notable people from India. This would include persons who are known to a large number of people and is not based on the extent of their popularity. Neither is the list viewed from the context of the present. Their fame could be brief, what matters is that they were well-known during the peak of their popularity. Table of contents 1 Arts 2 Business and Industry 3 Literature 4 Mass Media 5 Movies 5.1 Directors 5.2 Actors 5.3 Actresses 6 Music 7 Politics 8 Sciences 9 Religion 10 Sports 11 Others Arts Birju Maharaj, Dancer Mallika Sarabhai, Dancer MF Hussain, Painter Raja Ravi Varma, Painter PC Sorcar, Magician Business and Industry J.R.D. Tata, Industrialist, Tata Groups GD Birla, Industrialist, Birla Group NR Narayana Murthy, co-founder Infosys Sabeer Bhatia, co-founder Hotmail Shantanurao Laxmanrao Kirloskar, Kirloskar Group Subrata Roy, Sahara India Parivar Vinod Khosla, co-founder Sun Microsystems Literature Also see Indian writing in English Arundhati Roy - Booker Prize for God of Small Things Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Hindi poet Kalidasa, playwrite, creator of Shakuntalam Khushwant Singh, novelist Mahadevi Verma, poetess Mirza Ghalib, Urdu poet Munshi Premchand, Hindi novelist Rabindranath Tagore - Nobel Prize in Literature, composer of Indian national anthem R.K. Narayan, English short-story writer Salman Rushdie - Booker Prize for ''Midnight's Children Vikram Seth, English novelist, poet V.S. Naipaul - Nobel Prize 2001 (of Indian descent, never an Indian citizen) Mass Media Aniruddha Bahal, writer and Tehelka journalist Deepak Chaurasia, consulting editor and anchor, Doordarshan News M J Akbar, chief editor, Asian Age Prannoy Roy, president, NDTV Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, research coordinator, Doordarshan Sanjay Pugalia, director, STAR News Veer Sanghvi, editor, Hindustan Times Movies Also see: Dadasaheb Phalke Award winners Directors Ismail Merchant, Producer and director, Howard's End Mani Ratnam - Anjali, Roja, Bombay, Dil Se Manoj Night Shyamalan - Sixth Sense, Signs Mira Nair - Salaam Bombay, Kama Sutra, Monsoon Wedding Raj Kapoor - Actor and Director, Awaara, Sangam, Shri 420, Mera Naam Joker Ram Gopal Varma - Rangeela, Satya, Company Satyajit Ray - Oscar for lifetime achievement, Pather Panchali Shekhar Kapoor - Masoom, Mr. India, Bandit Queen Shyam Benegal Subhash Ghai Actors Aamir Khan - Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak, Rangeela, Dil Chahta Hai, Lagaan Abhishek Bachchan Amitabh Bachchan - Sholaay, Zanjeer, Agneepath Ajay Devgan - Phool Aur Kaante, Company Akshay Khanna - Dil Chahta Hai, Taal Akshay Kumar - Khiladi Amol Palekar - Chitchor, Golmaal Anil Kapoor - Tezaab, Mr. India Arjun Rampal Ben Kingsley (Krishna Bhanji) - Gandhi, Schindler's List Dev Anand - Guide Dharmendra - Sholaay Dilip Kumar - Devdas Govinda Hrithik Roshan - Kaho Naa Pyar Hai, Koi Mil Gaya Jackie Shroff - Hero, Rangeela Jeetendra Jimmy Shergill Kamal Hassan Madhavan Manoj Kumar Mithun Chakraborty Naseeruddin Shah Om Puri Raj Kapoor - Actor and Director, Awaara, Sangam, Shri 420, Mera Naam Joker Raj Kumar Rajesh Khanna - Aradhana, Anand Rakesh Roshan Rishi Kapoor - Bobby, Sagar Salman Khan - Maine Pyaar Kiya, Hum Apke Hain Kaun Sanjay Dutt - Khalnayak Shahrukh Khan - Baazigar, Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jaayenge, Devdas Shammi Kapoor - Junglee, Professor Shatrughan Sinha Sunil Dutt - Mother India Sunil Shetty Aftab Shivdasani Bobby Deol Dino Morea Fardeen Khan John Abraham Manoj Bajpai Priyanshu Rajendra Kumar Saif Ali Khan Sanjeev Kumar Shashi Kapoor Sunny Deol Tushar Kapoor Vinod Khanna Vinod Mehra Vivek Oberoi Actresses Aishwarya Rai, Miss World '94 Amisha Patel Asha Parekh Bipasha Basu Dimple Kapadia Divya Bharati Diya Mirza Esha Deol Hema Malini Jaya Bachchan (Bhaduri) Jayaprada Juhi Chawla Kajol Kareena Kapoor Karisma Kapoor Madhubala Madhuri Dixit Mahima Chaudhary Mala Sinha Mandakini Manisha Koirala Meena Kumari Meenakshi Seshadri Namrata Shirodkar Nandita Das Nargis Neelam Nutan Padmini Kolhapure Pooja Batra Pooja Bhatt Poonam Dhillon Preity Zinta Raakhi Rani Mukherjee Rati Agnihotri Raveena Tandon Rekha Sadhana Saira Banu Shabana Azmi Sharmila Tagore Shilpa Shetty Smita Patil Sonali Bendre Sridevi Sushmita Sen, Miss Universe, 1994 Tabu Tanuja Tina Munim Urmila Matondkar Vyjayantimala Bali Waheeda Rehman Zeenat Aman Music A.R. Rahman - Composer, Roja, Rangeela, Lagaan Asha Bhosle, singer Geeta Dutt, singer Hemant Kumar, composer and singer Hridaynath Mangeshkar, composer Ilayaraja, Composer Kishore Kumar, Bollywood Playback singer, actor Lata Mangeshkar, singer Mahendra Kapoor, singer Manna Dey, singer MS Subbulakshmi, Classical (Carnatic) Singer Mohammad Rafi, singer Mukesh, singer Ravi Shankar, Sitar maestro Talat Mahmood, singer Udit Narayan, singer Yesudas, singer Zakir Hussain, Tabla maestro Zubin Mehta, conductor Kumar Sanu Abhijit Babul Supriyo Anu Malik Noorjehan Shamshad Begum Suraiya Suman Kalyanpur Alka Yagnik Kavita Krishnamurthy Sadhana Sargam Politics Also see President of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee Indira Gandhi Jawaharlal Nehru Mahatma Gandhi Narasimha Rao Rajiv Gandhi Sciences Aryabhatta Bhaskaracharya Sir C.V.Raman Hargobind Khorana Homi Jehangir Bhabha Raja Ramanna Srinivasa Ramanujan Satyendra Nath Bose Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Vikram Sarabhai Birbal Sahni Acharya P.C. Roy S. Bhagvantam Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose P.K. Sent Jagjit Singh Meghnad Saha E.C. George Sudarshan J.J. Rawal Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Jayant Narlikar Harish Chandra Religion Adi Sankara Mata Amritanandamayi Sri Aurobindo Gautama Buddha Guru Nanak Jiddu Krishnamurti Lord Mahavir Osho Shree Rajneesh Ramakrishna Paramhansa Sathya Sai Baba Samartha Ramdas Swami Sant Tukaram Sant Namdeo Swami Vivekananda Sports Anil Kumble, Cricket Baichung Bhutia, Football Dhanraj Pillay, Hockey Dhyan Chand, Hockey Kapil Dev, Cricket Karnam Malleswari, Weight-lifting Leander Paes, Tennis Mahesh Bhupathi, Tennis Milkha Singh, Athelete Mohammed Azharuddin, Cricket Pargat Singh, Hockey Prakash Padukone, Badminton P. T. Usha, Athlete, Asian Games medallist Sachin Tendulkar,Cricket Sania Mirza, Junior Wimbledon Girls champion Sunil Gavaskar, Cricket Viswanathan Anand, Chess Others Amartya Sen, Economist Rakesh Sharma, first Indian astronaut Kalpana Chawla, first Indian woman astronaut (Born Indian, later American citizen) See also: List of people by nationality, List of people by India state This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.