List of Hindus
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Hinduism is the oldest living culture which follow "Dharmo Rakshati Rakshita" Protect Dharma for it will protect you (Hinduism is a religion) . Hindus constitute a population of 950 million around the world. The following is a list of prominent and famous people who are Hindus.
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[edit] Hindu Cultural Followers
- Adi Shankara: Philosopher Saint, Social reformer
- Abhinavagupta: Exponent of Kashmir Saivism
- Agastyar: Saint, First and foremost person of Siddha
- Aksapada Gautama: author of Nyaya Sutras, the foundation of the Nyaya school of Hinduism
- Annie Besant: Theosophist and president of the Congress Party
- Sri Aurobindo: Mystic and philosopher
- Auvaiyar: Beloved Tamil female saint
- A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada: Founder-acharya of ISKCON
- Acharya Koshalendraprasad Pande Acharya of Ahmedabad Gadi of the Swaminarayan Sampraday[1]
- Acharya Rakeshprasad Pande Acharya of Vadtal Gadi of the Swaminarayan Sampraday[2]
- Bhagawan Nityananda,Mystic Yogi
- Bharata: Advocated Advaita philosophy, Bharat, the other name for India, is named after him
- Bhartrihari: Author of Vairagya Satakam, hundred verses of renunciation
- Bhaskararaya: Author of Varivasya Rahasyam
- Bogar: Legendary South Indian Siddhar. Created Lord Murugan statue in Palani.
- Kautilya Chanakya: Philosopher,Social Reformer, Economist, Politician, Administrator, Author of Artha shastra
- Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya: Philosopher
- Kanakadasa:Greatest Saint of Bhakti movement.
- Swami Chinmayananda: Religious leader
- Deepak Chopra: Personality Development Author
- Ananda Coomaraswamy: Art historian
- Dattatreya: Narrated Jnana Kanda, taught Ashtanga Yoga to Patanjali
- Swami Dayananda: Religious leader
- Shri Madhvacharya: Philosopher Saint
- Narayana Guru: Mystic and philosopher
- Nigamananda: Yogi,Philosopher Saint[3]
- Nisargadatta Maharaj: Teacher
- Patanjali: Founder of Patanjali Yoga
- Ram Dass: American spiritual leader
- Ramana Maharshi: Mystic
- Ram Mohan Roy: Reformer
- Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa: Philosopher Saint, Social reformer
- Ramanuja: Philosopher Saint
- Dr. Rajeev Menon, Hindu Rashtrapathy, Hindu Mahasabha spiritual Leader
- Sant Sri Asaramji Bapu: Saint & Spiritual preceptor
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan: Vedantic Philosopher
- Shankaracharya of Kanchi, Hindu Seer & Spiritual preceptor
- Shriram Sharma Acharya: Founder of the All World Gayatri Pariwar
- Swami Sivananda: Yogi
- Sivaya Subramuniyaswami: Modern sage
- Thirumoolar: One of the 18 Siddhars
- Sage Valmiki: Author of the epic Ramayana
- Swami Vivekananda: Philosopher Saint, Social reformer
- Swami Sathyananda Saraswathi: Jagadguru,Reckoned as the greatest Karmayogi to uphold Sanatana Dharma since Swami Vivekananda
- Vyasa: Author of the epic Mahabharata
- Paramahansa Yogananda: Yogi
- Tibbetibaba: Philosopher Saint
- Purandara Dasa: Father of Carnatic music & philosopher
[edit] Monarchs / National leaders / Politicians
Maurya Dynasty (324 BC-184 BC)
- Chandragupta Maurya (324 BC-301 BC)
- Bindusara Amitraghata (301 BC-269 BC)
- Ashoka Vardhana (269 BC-232 BC)
- Chanakya: Prime Minister to the Chandragupta Maurya
. Gupta Dynasty (319–543)
- Chandra Gupta I (319–335)
- Samudra Gupta (335–380)
- Chandra Gupta II (380–415)
- Kumara Gupta I (415–455)
- Skanda Gupta (455 -467)
- Buddha Gupta (467–499)
Pallava Dynasty
Chola Dynasty (1st century to 1279)
- Athiththa Chola (871–907 )
- Uththama Chola (973–985 )
- Rajaraja Chola I (985–1014 )
- Rajendra Chola I (1012–1044 )
- Rajadhiraja Chola I (1018–1054 )
- Kulothunga Chola I (1070–1120 )
Rajput Dynesty (700 to 1526)
- Prithvi Raj Chauhan(1149–1192)
Vijayanagar Empire Hakka Raya Bukka Raya Krishna Deva Raya Aliya Rama Raya
Maratha Emperors (1674–1818)
- Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj (1674–1680)
- Sambhaji (1680–1688)
- Emperor Rajaram (1688–1700)
- Queen Tarabai (1700–1707)
- Chattrapati Shahu Maharaj (1707–1712)
- Balaji Vishwanath (1707–1720)
- Peshwa Bajirao I (1720–1740)
- Balaji Bajirao (1740–1761)
- Madhavrao Peshwa (1761–1772)
- Narayanrao Peshwa (1772–1773)
- Raghunath Rao (1773–1774)
- Baji Rao II (1796–1818)
Wodeyars of Mysore (1399–1950)
- Chamaraja Wodeyar IX (1868–1894)
- H.H. Vani Vilas Sannidhana, queen of Chamaraja Wodeyar IX served as regent from 1894 to 1902.
- (Nalvadi) Krishnaraja Wodeyar IV (1894–1940)
- Jayachamaraja Wodeyar Bahadur (1940–1950).
Nepal
- Prithvi Narayan Shah (1768–1775) ruler of Gurkha from 1743
- Pratap Singh Shah (1775–1777)
- Rana Bahadur Shah (1777–1799)
- Girvan Yuddha Bikram Shah Deva (1799–1816)
- Surendra Bikram Shah (1847–1881)
- Prithvi Bir Bikram Shah (1881–1911)
- Tribhuvan Bir Bikram Shah (1911–1955) first time
- Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah (1956–1972)
- Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev (1972–2001)
- Dipendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev (2001)
- Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev (2001–2008) second time
Cambodia
- Jayavarman I (7th century)
- Suryavarman I (1002–1050)
- Udayadityavarman II (1050–1066)
- Suryavarman II (1113–1150)
- Dharanindravarman II (1150–1160)
Indonesia
- Gajah Mada Prime Minister of Majapahit,14th century
- Hayam Wuruk Ruler of Majapahit,14th century
- Sabdapalon Priest, advisor to king of Majapahit, 15th Century
- Jayabaya Ruler of Kediri, 12th Century
- Airlangga Ruler of Kediri
20th century
- Mahatma Gandhi: Political and ideological leader of India
- C. Rajagopalachari, Ex-Governor General of India; writer & statesman
- Balgangadhar Tilak: National leader
- Ramaswamy Venkataraman, Ex-President, India
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan: Ex-President, India
- Bidhan Chandra Roy: Indian politician
- Devan Nair, Former President, Singapore
- S Jayakumar, Deputy Prime Minister, Singapore
- Chidambaram Subramaniam, ex-Steel & Mines Minister of India; Bharat Ratna Awardee & 'Father of the Indian Green Revolution'
- Subramanian Swamy, Politician
- Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Minister of Education, Singapore (Sri Lankan Tamil ancestry).
- Atal Behari Vajpayee: Ex. PM of India, Leader of BJP.
- L.K.Advani: Leader BJP
- Balasaheb Keshav Thackeray, (Founder of Hindu Political Party Shivsena).
- Kamla Persad-Bissessar, First Female and Current Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago.
- Cheddi Jagan, First Hindu President of Guyana.
- Basdeo Panday, First Hindu Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago.
- Bharrat Jagdeo, Current President of Guyana.
- Sunita Williams
Military
- General O.P. Malhotra, Ex-Army Chief, Governor of Punjab, Social Worker
- Rakesh Sharma, first Indian astronaut
- Shashindra Pal Tyagi, chief of Indian Air Force
[edit] Business leaders / Top executives
India
- Ajay Piramal, chairman, Piramal Enterprises Limited
- Alfred Ford, also known as Ambarish Das, is great grandson of legendary Henry Ford
- Anil Ambani son of Dhirubhai Ambani, Reliance Inc
- Deepak Parekh Chairman of Housing Development Finance Corporation
- Dewang Mehta, ex-chief of NASSCOM
- GD Birla, Industrialist, Birla Group
- Grandhi Mallikarjuna Rao, Founder and chairman of GMR Group
- Jamnalal Bajaj
- Kris Gopalakrishnan,co-founder Infosys
- Kalanidhi Maran, Media Baron
- Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Biotechnology entrepreneur
- Kumar Birla, businessman, Birla Group
- K. V. Kamath, Chairman of ICICI Bank
- M.A. Chidambaram, Industrialist
- Mukesh Ambani Chairman and CEO of the Largest Company in India (Reliance Industries). The 4th Richest Man in the World.
- Naresh Goyal Founder Chairman of Jet Airways
- N. Srinivasan, Managing-Director of the India Cements Limited
- N.R.Narayana Murthy,
- Nandan Nilekani, co-founder Infosys
- S. Ramadorai, CEO of Tata Consultancy Services
- Rahul Bajaj,Prominent Indian industrialist
- Ramalinga Raju: Satyam Computers
- Shantanu Laxmanrao Kirloskar, Kirloskar Group
- Shiv Nadar, Chairman & CEO of HCL & Forbes List of Billionaires
- Subrata Roy, Sahara India Parivar
- Sunil Mittal
- Vijay Mallya, chairman, UB group of companies
Overseas
Founder / Entrepreneurs / Venture Capitalists
- Amar Bose: Founder of Bose Corporation
- Arjun Gupta: A Silicon Valley venture capitalist
- Ashwin Navin: Co-Founder and President of BitTorrent, Inc.
- Bharat Desai: Founder of Syntel
- Gagan Palrecha: Entrepreneur
- Lakshmi Mittal: Chairman and CEO of Arcelor Mittal. The Richest Man in United Kingdom and the 5th Richest in the World.
- Mukesh Chatter: Businessman
- Micky Jagtiani: Founder of the Landmark group, Dubai.
- Murugan Pal: Founder and CTO of SpikeSource
- Pradeep Sindhu: Co-Founder and CTO of Juniper Networks
- Preetish Nijhawan: Co-Founder of Akamai Technologies.
- Ram Shriram: Co-Founder of Junglee.com and board member at Google
- Sameer Parekh: Founder of C2Net
- Sanjiv Sidhu: Founder of i2 Technologies
- Suhas Patil: Founder of Cirrus Logic
- Vivek Ranadive: Founder, Chairman and CEO of TIBCO Software
- Vinod Gupta: Founder and Chairman of InfoUSA Inc.
- Vinod Khosla: Co-founder of Sun Microsystems, Venture Capitalist.
Business Executives
- Ananda Krishnan: Media Baron. The Richest Man in Malaysia. (ethnic Sri Lankan Tamil)
- Arvind Raghunathan: Managing Director and Head of Global Arbitrage at Deutsche Bank.
- Dinesh Paliwal: Chairman and CEO, Harman International
- Gunjan Bagla: Management Consultant, Managing Director, Amritt; Author Doing Business in 21st Century India.
- Gunjan Sinha: Chairman of MetricStream
- Indra Nooyi: Chairman and CEO, PepsiCo
- Pradeep K Jaisingh: CEO of International Oncology
- Prakash Puram: President and CEO of iXmatch.
- Raj Vaswani: Vice President of Engineering at Epinions.com.
- Rajiv Gupta: General Manager of Hewlett Packard
- Ramani Ayer: Chairman and CEO of The Hartford Financial Services Group
- Ranji H. Nagaswami: Chief Investment Officer for AllianceBernstein Fund Investors
- Rono Dutta: Former President of United Airlines; Chairman of Air Sahara
- Sanjay Jha: Co-CEO of Motorola and CEO of Motorola Mobile Devices
- Sanjiv Ahuja: CEO of Orange Telecommunications
- Shantanu Narayen: CEO of Adobe Systems.
- Srichanda Hinduja: Hinduja Brothers
- Vikram Pandit: Chairman and CEO, Citigroup
- Vyomesh Joshi: Executive Vice President of Imaging and Printing Group, Hewlett-Packard Company.
Former Executives
- Arun Sarin: Former CEO of Vodafone Inc.
- Bobby Mehta: Former CEO and Vice Chairman of HSBC North America
- Jay Sidhu: Former Chairman and CEO of Sovereign Bancorp
- Lakshmi Narayanan: Vice Chairman and former CEO of Cognizant Corporation.
- Rajat Gupta: Former Managing Director of McKinsey & Company
- Rakesh Gangwal: Former CEO and Chairman of US Airways Group
- Rana Talwar: Former CEO of Standard Chartered Bank
[edit] Writers / Poets
Ancient times to 19th century
- Paravastu Chinnayya Soori, Telugu poet
- Aathreya, Telugu poet
- Auvaiyar, Saivite saint and Tamil poet
- Bharathidasan, Tamil poet & rationalist
- Kalidasa, Sanskrit poet, wrote the play Sakuntala
- Kambar, Tamil poet, translated Ramayana into Tamil
- Subramanya Bharathy, Tamil poet, anti-colonialist writer
- Tulsidas, Hindi poet, translated Ramayana into Hindi
- Kanaka Dasa
- Purandara Dasa
- Kumara Vyasa
- Akka Mahadevi
- Adikavi Pampa
- Vyasatirtha
- Allama Prabhu
- Sant Tukaram
- Sant Eknath
- Sant Dnyaneshwar
20th century
- Rabindranath Tagore, writer, 1913 Nobel Literature Prize Winner
- V.S. Naipaul, writer, Nobel Literature Prize winner
- Aldous Huxley, novelist, author of Brave New World
- Arun Kolatkar, poet
- Bharati Mukherjee, US author
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Christopher Isherwood, writer
- Eknath Easwaran, Malayali-American author
- Gopal Baratham, Singapore writer (also, leading neurosurgeon)
- Harivanshrai Bachchan, Hindi poet, father of Amitabh Bachchan
- Prof. Karmegha Konar, Tamil poet
- Jayakanthan, Tamil writer, Jnanpith awardee
- Jhumpa Lahiri, Pulitzer Prize winner for "Interpreter of Maladies"
- Kalhana
- Kamala Markandaya, poet
- Kannadasan, Tamil poet & lyricist, known as kavi arasu (king of poets)
- R.K. Laxman, cartoonist & humorist
- Manil Suri novelist
- Mahadevi Verma, Hindi poet
- Mulk Raj Anand
- Munshi Premchand, Hindi novelist
- Pudhumaipithan, influential and revolutionary Tamil writer
- R.K. Narayan, English short-story writer, Malgudi tales
- J.D. Salinger, novelist
- Shashi Tharoor, author of The Great Indian Novel
- Sumitranandan Pant, Hindi poet
- Vikram Seth, English novelist, poet
- Vayalar Ramavarma – Malayalam poet
- Savitri Devi Mukherji – writer and devotee of Adolf Hitler
- Gopalakrishna Adiga
- U. R. Ananthamurthy
- Kappe Arabhatta
- Amoghavarsha
- Basava
- Bhavageete
- D. R. Bendre
- Chamarasa
- Chikkupadhyaya
- Gangadhar V. Chittal
- Dinakara Desai
- Manu V. Devadevan
- Subbanna Ekkundi
- Gangadevi
- M. Govinda Pai
- Janna
- Gourish Kaikini
- Chandrashekhara Kambara
- Shivarama Karanth
- Kayyar Kinhanna Rai
- Kuvempu
- S. Manjunath
- A. N. Murthy Rao
- Nagavarma I
- Nagavarma II
- K. S. Narasimhaswamy
- K. S. Nissar Ahmed
- Sri Ponna
- Rajasekhara
- Samethanahalli Rama Rao
- Ranna
- Rudrabhatta
- Mamta Sagar
- Sarvajna
- Shishunala Sharif
- Shivakotiacharya
- G. S. Shivarudrappa
- B. M. Srikantaiah
- T. N. Srikantaiah
- Tirumalamba
- Manoj Das, Oriya Poet
- Brajanath Ratha, Oriya Poet
[edit] Scholar
- Baldev Upadhyaya, renowned Hindi, Sanskrit scholar, literary historian, essayist and critic.
- Govinda Dikshitar
[edit] Scientists / Inventors / Engineers / Doctors
Ancient times to 19th century
- Madhav (8th century A.D.), medical text author and systematizer
- Abhay Ashtekar, loop quantum gravity researcher
- Amartya Sen, economist, Nobel Prize winner
- Anil Kakodkar, nuclear scientist, Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission
- Kalpana Chawla, astronaut
- Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, 1930 Nobel Prize Winner in Physics
- R. Chidambaram, Scientific Adviser to Prime Minister; ex-Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission
- Ganapathi Thanikaimoni, palynologist, French Institute of Pondicherry, awarded the Fyson Prize in Natural Science
- Jagadish Chandra Bose, father of radio science
- Marti Subrahmanyam, finance expert, professor at NYU
- C.K. Prahalad, management expert at University of Michigan Business School
- V.S. Ramachandran, neuroscientist, Director Professor at UC San Diego
- S.S. Ratnam, pioneer in Singapore in-vitro fertilisation
- S.R. Ranganathan, devised the five laws of library science
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, 1983 Nobel Prize Winner in Physics
Information Technology
- Ajay Bhatt, co-inventor of USB
- Sabeer Bhatia, co-founder of Hotmail
- Vinod Dham, designed Intel's Pentium processor
- Vinod Khosla, Co-founder of Sun Microsystems, venture capitalist & an influential personality in Silicon Valley.
- N. R. Narayana Murthy, Software engineer & Indian industrialist. He is the founder and Chairman Emeritus of Infosys Technologies Limited.
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[edit] Mathematicians
- Yajnavalkya 1800 BC, author of the altar mathematics of the Shatapatha Brahmana
- Lagadha, author of a 1350 BC text on Vedic astronomy
- Baudhayana 800 BC
- Manava 750 BC
- Apastamba 700 BC
- Aksapada Gautama 550 BC, logician
- Katyayana 400 BC
- Pāṇini 5th century BC
- Pingala 5th century BC
- Bharata Muni 450 BC
- Aryabhata, astronomer who gave very accurate calculations for astronomical constants,discovered zero,decimal and value of pie.
- Varahamihira
- Bhāskara I 620
- Brahmagupta – Helped bring the concept of zero into arithmetic
- Virahanka (8th century) – Gave explicit rules for the Fibonacci series
- Shridhara (between 650–850) – Gave a good rule for finding the volume of a sphere
- Lalla 720–790
- Govindsvamin (9th century)
- Virasena
- Mahavira (9th century)
- Jayadeva(9th century)
- Prithudaka 9th century
- Halayudha10th century
- Aryabhata II 920–1000
- Vateshvara(10th century)
- Brahmadeva 1060–1130
- Sripati 1019–1066
- Gopala – Studied Fibonacci numbers
- Hemachandra – Also studied Fibonacci numbers
- Bhāskara II- Developed the Chakravala method and concepts of mathematical analysis
- Gangesha Upadhyaya 13th century, Logician, Mithila school
- Narayana Pandit
- Madhava- considered the father of mathematical analysis
- Parameshvara (1360–1455)
- Nilakantha Somayaji, mathematician and astronomer
- Mahendra Suri (14th century)
- Shankara Variyar (c. 1530)
- Jyesthadeva
- Munishvara (17th century)
- Kamalakara (1657)
- Jagannatha(1730)
- Jagdish Chandra Bose (1858–1937)
- Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887–1920)
- A. A. Krishnaswami Ayyangar (1892–1953)
- Meghnad Saha (1893–1956)
- Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893–1972
- Satyendra Nath Bose (1894–1974) mathematical physicist, famous for Bose-Einstein statistics
- Raj Chandra Bose (1901–1987)
- D.K. Ray-Chaudhuri
- Harish-Chandra (1923–1983)
- C.Radhakrishna Rao
- Gopalasamudram Narayana Iyer Ramachandran (1922–2001)
- Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar (1930–)
- Shakuntala Devi (1939–)
- Vijay Kumar Patodi (1945–1976)
- Narendra Karmarkar (1957–)
- M.V. Subbarao
- Rudranath Capildeo (1920–1970)
[edit] Musicians / Singers / Dancers
- Abhijeet Sawant, singer
- Alka Yagnik, singer
- Asha Bhosle, singer
- Babul Supriyo
- Balamurali Krishna
- Geeta Dutt, singer
- George Harrison, musician and member of The Beatles
- Hemant Kumar, composer and singer
- Hridaynath Mangeshkar, composer
- Ilan Chester, Latin Grammy Winner Venezuelan singer
- Ilayaraja, Famous Tamil Film Songs Composer
- KRS-One, Jamaican-American rapper
- Kannadasan, Famous Tamil Film Songs lyricist
- Neeraj Shridhar, singer and composer
- Kartik Seshadri, sitarist
- Kavita Krishnamurthy
- Kay Kay, singer
- Kishore Kumar, playback singer, actor
- Krishna Das: born Jeffrey Kagel, a singer of kirtan-style devotional music
- Lata Mangeshkar, singer
- M.I.A., singer, songwriter, rapper, record producer
- Mahendra Kapoor, singer
- Manna Dey, singer
- Machas With Attitude, Hip Hop Artists
- MS Subbulakshmi, classical (carnatic) singer
- Mukesh, singer
- Nitin Sawhney, composer
- O.P. Nayyar, composer
- Ravi Shankar: Sitar virtuoso, multiple Grammy winner, mentor to George Harrison
- Rahul Dev Burman, composer
- Ravi, composer
- S.D. Burman, composer
- Sadhana Sargam
- Salil Chowdhury, composer
- Sanjukta Panigrahi, classical Odissi Dancer
- Suraiya, singer
- Trilok Gurtu, percussionist
- Udit Narayan, singer
[edit] Film Producers / Directors
- Satyajit Ray, film director
- Adoor Gopalakrishnan
- Balachander
- Balu Mahendra
- Bimal Roy
- Boney Kapoor
- Dadasaheb Phalke
- David Dhawan
- Dev Anand
- Gemini Ganesan
- Guru Dutt
- Karan Johar
- Mani Ratnam
- Manoj Night Shyamalan (born Indian, later American citizen)
- Mira Nair
- Mrinal Sen
- Navnit Bham
- Raj Kapoor
- Ranbir Kapoor
- Rajkumar Santoshi
- Ram Gopal Varma
- Ritwik Ghatak
- Sai Paranjpe
- Satish Kaushik
- Shankar Nag
- Shekhar Kapoor
- Shyam Benegal
- Subhash Ghai
- Subodh Mukherjee
- Shakti Samanta
- Vishal Bharadwaj
- Yash Chopra
- Nila Madhab Panda
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- Dev Anand
- Abhishek Bachchan
- Cho Ramaswamy
- Amitabh Bachchan
- Anil Kapoor
- Simran Bagga
- Chiranjeevi
- Guru Dutt
- Sanjay Dutt
- Sunil Dutt
- Sivaji Ganesan
- Suresh Gopi
- Govinda
- Gulshan Grover
- Sunil Shetty
- Aftab Shivdasani
- Akshay Khanna
- Amol Palekar
- Kal Penn
- Amrish Puri
- Annu Kapoor
- Aman Verma
- Anupam Kher
- Ashok Kumar
- Asha Parekh
- Aishwarya Rai
- Balraj Sahni
- Bipasha Basu
- Hrithik Roshan
- Julia Roberts
- Jackie Shroff
- Jeetendra
- Kamal Haasan
- Karan Kapoor – Shashi Kapoor's son
- Kareena Kapoor
- Karthik Sivakumar
- Koena Mitra
- O. Madhavan
- Madhuri Dixit
- Manoj Bajpai
- Manoj Kumar
- Mithun Chakraborty
- Mohanlal
- Prithviraj Sukumaran Nair
- Navin Nischol
- Om Prakash
- Om Puri
- Padma Lakshmi
- Prabhu
- Pran
- Preity Zinta
- Rajini Kanth
- Raj Kapoor, actor and director
- Rajendra Kumar
- Rajkumar (Natasarvabhouma)
- Raaj Kumar
- Rajiv Kapoor
- Rajesh Khanna
- Rakesh Roshan
- Randhir Kapoor
- Rishi Kapoor
- Roshan Seth
- Sanjay Kapoor
- Sanjeev Kumar
- Shankar Nag
- Shakti Kapoor
- Shammi Kapoor
- Shashi Kapoor
- Satish Kaushik
- Shatrughan Sinha
- Silambarasan Rajendar
- Surya Sivakumar
- Tamannaah Bhatia
- Tusshar Kapoor
- Utpal Dutt
- Uttam Kumar
- Vinod Khanna
- Vinod Mehra
- Radha Mitchell
- Vivek Oberoi
- Vishnuvardhan
- Ganesh
- Anant Nag
- Upendra
- Shivrajkumar
- Kelli Williams
[edit] Sports figures
Chess
- Viswanathan Anand
- P Harikrishna
- Krishnan Sasikiran
- Murugan Thiruchelvam
- Pravin Thipsay
- Ramachandran Ramesh
Tennis
Formula One Racing
Cricket
- Anil Kumble
- Chandu Borde
- Javagal Srinath
- Kapil Dev
- Lakshmipathy Balaji
- Mohinder Amarnath
- Rahul Dravid
- Sachin Tendulkar
- Saurav Ganguly
- Sunil Gavaskar
- Dilip Vengsarkar
- Bhagwat Chandrasekhar
- Rohan Kanhai
- Raman Subba Row
- Vinoo Mankad
- Lala Amarnath
- Vijay Merchant
- CK Nayudu
- Maharajkumar of Vizianagram
- Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji, Ranji Trophy named in his honour
- Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji, Duleep Trophy named in his honour
- V.V.S. Laxman
- Mahendra Singh Dhoni
- Gautam Gambhir
- Virendra Sehwag
- Shivnarine Chanderpaul, West Indies
- Danish Kaneria, Pakistan
- Anil Dalpat, Pakistan
- Ramnaresh Sarwan, West Indies
- Mahendra Nagamootoo, West Indies
- Muttiah Muralitharan, Sri Lanka
- Ravi Bopara, England
- Jeetan Patel, New Zealand
- Ajit Agarkar
- Sunil Narine,Trinidad and Tobago
- Darren Ganga
- Sherwin Ganga
- Amit Jaggernauth
- Denesh Ramdin
- Adrian Barath
- Ravi Shastri
- S Venkataraghavan
- Venkatesh Prasad
- Sunil Joshi
- Gundappa Viswanath
- Parthiv Patel
- Suresh Raina
- Ashish Nehra
- Murali Vijay
- Praveen Kumar
Hockey
Badminton
Shooting
Other sports
- Pankaj Advani, snooker
- Geet Sethi, snooker
- P. T. Usha, Asian Games medallist
- Karnam Malleswari, weightlifting
- Ricky Williams, football
[edit] Activists
- Vandana Shiva, environmentalist, critic of globalization
- Medha Patkar, environmentalist, opponent of Narmada Dam
- Anna Hazare' Anti Corruption activist
- Vijaypal Baghel, Environmentalist
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "Times Music cassette on Swaminarayan serial launched". Times of India. 2006-01-19. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1742150037.cms. Retrieved 2009-04-13.
- ^ "Vadtal, the delinquent in Swaminarayan family". Times of India. 2003-02-17. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/37796601.cms. Retrieved 2009-04-13.
- ^ Paramahamsa Prajnanananda (15 August 2006). My Time with the Master. Sai Towers Publishing. pp. 25–. ISBN 9788178990552. http://books.google.com/books?id=9hrnJd9cRMcC&pg=PA25. Retrieved 18 March 2011.
