List of Indian Americans

This is a list of notable Indian Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.

To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Indian American or must have references showing they are Indian American and are notable.

List

Nobel Prize

Har Gobind Khorana, Nobel Prize for Medicine, (1968). (Nobel Laureate)
Subramanyan Chandrasekhar, Nobel Prize for Physics, (1983). (Nobel Laureate)
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Nobel Prize for Chemistry, (2009). (Nobel Laureate)
Amartya Sen, Nobel Prize for Economics, (1998). (Nobel Laureate)

Academic

Dean/President

Beheruz Sethna, current president of the University of West Georgia.
Molly Easo Smith, current president of Manhattanville College
Nitin Nohria, Dean of Harvard Business School
Sunil Kumar, Dean of University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Vijay K. Dhir, Dean of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science
Pradeep Khosla, Dean of Carnegie Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University
Vijay Kumar (roboticist), Associate Dean of School of Engineering and Applied Science at University of Pennsylvania.^[1]
Dipak C. Jain, current Dean of INSEAD and former Dean of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Professors

Narayan Hosmane, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Northern Illinois University (winner of Humboldt Prize [twice] for Chemistry, [2001 & 2008]).
Raghuram Rajan, Professor of Finance at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago; also International Monetary Fund Chief Economist (winner of Fischer Black Prize).
Madhu Sudan, Professor of computer science at MIT (winner of the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize and Gödel Prize).
C. R. Rao, Professor at Penn State University and Research Professor at the University at Buffalo (awarded the National Medal of Science)
Arogyaswami Paulraj, Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University (awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Govt. of India)
Akhil Amar, Professor of Law at Yale Law School
Vikram Amar, Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis School of Law.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Professor at Columbia University.

Mathematician

S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, NYU mathematician who specialised in probability, winner of the Abel Prize and Steele Prize.
Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar, mathematician, singularity theory and Abhyankar's conjecture of finite group theory
Anil Nerode, mathematician, proved the Myhill-Nerode Theorem.
Narendra Karmarkar, mathematician, inventor of Karmarkar algorithm.

Science and technology

Ajay Bhatt : Co-Inventor of the USB. Chief Client Platform Architect at Intel
Anil Dash : Blogger and technologist
Raj Reddy : Founder of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, winner of the Turing Award.
Arun Netravali : Scientist. Former President of Bell Labs. Former CTO of Lucent. A pioneer of digital technology including HDTV and MPEG4.
C. Kumar N. Patel : Developed the carbon dioxide laser, used as a cutting tool in surgery and industry.
Khem Shahani : Microbiologist who conducted pioneer research on probiotics, he discovered the DDS-1 strain of Lactobacillus acidophilus
Arjun Makhijani : Electrical and nuclear engineer who is President of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
George Sudarshan : Physicist, author - first to propose the existence of Tachyon
Kalpana Chawla : Female NASA Space Shuttle astronaut, and space shuttle mission specialist
Jogesh Pati : Theoretical physicist at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Krishan Sabnani : Engineer and Senior Vice President of the Networking Research Laboratory at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs in New Jersey
Mahadev Satyanarayanan : Computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Pioneered research in mobile and pervasive computing
Mani Lal Bhaumik : Contributor excimer laser technology.
Narinder Singh Kapany : Engineer, called the "Father of Fiber Optics".
Om Malik : Technology journalist and blogger
Pramod Khargonekar : Control Theorist, Dean and Eckis Professor, College of Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida,

Rangaswamy Srinivasan : in the Inventors’ Hall of Fame for pioneering work on excimer laser surgery.
Siva S. Banda : Aerospace engineer and researcher, recipient of a Silver Medal from the Royal Aeronautical Society, a Presidential Rank Award, and elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering
Vinod Dham : Designed the Intel Pentium Chip Processor (Known as the Father of the "Pentium Chip")

Medicine

Yellapragada Subbarao, Harvard doctor & scientist - discovered folic acid
Balamurali Ambati, physician, World's youngest doctor at age 17
Paul Antony, MD, MPH is the Chief Medical Officer for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA)
Rama P. Coomaraswamy, Cardiac surgeon
E. Premkumar Reddy, World Famous Oncologist and Director of Fels institute of cancer research and molecular biology at temple university
Atul Gawande, General and endocrine surgeon, professor, medical author, and National Book Award finalist
Amit Patel, Cardiovascular Surgeon and Stem Cell Researcher - First person to inject stem cells directly into the heart
Sangeeta Bhatia, Harvard-MIT doctor & scientist - engineer of artificial liver cells
Sanjay Gupta, Neurosurgeon & CNN chief medical correspondent

Musician

Kim Thayil, lead guitarist for Grammy Award-winning rock band Soundgarden.
Norah Jones, musician, Grammy Award winner, daughter of Ravi Shankar.
Tony Kanal, two-time Grammy Award winner, bass player for No Doubt.
Sameer Bhattacharya, one of two guitarists in the Texas alternative rock band Flyleaf.
Sanjaya Malakar, a finalist on the sixth season of American Idol.
Anoop Desai, a finalist on the eighth season of American Idol.
Zubin Mehta, former conductor, New York Philharmonic Orchestra.
Zarin Mehta, executive director of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.
Vijay Iyer, jazz musician and Composer.

Actors and actresses

Kal Penn, Actor
Noureen DeWulf, Actress
Sendhil Ramamurthy, Actor
Aziz Ansari, actor
Imran Khan, Actor

British Indian actors in U.S.

Ben Kingsley, Actor
Naveen Andrews, Actor (Lost)
Indira Varma, Actress (Rome)
Zuleikha Robinson, Actress (The Namesake, Rome)
Parminder Nagra, Actress (Bend It Like Beckham, ER)
Rhona Mitra, Actress (Nip/Tuck)
Dev Patel, Actor (Slumdog Millionaire)
Reshma Shetty, Actress (Royal Pains)
Kunal Nayyar, Actor (The Big Bang Theory)
Gabrielle Anwar, Actress
Archie Panjabi, Actress (Bend it like Beckham), The Good Wife (TV series)

Adult Film Actress

Sunny Leone, Pornographic Actress
Priya Rai, Pornographic Actress
Nicole Narain, Model and Actress
Angela Devi, former Adult Actress

Arts and entertainment

M. Night Shyamalan, Filmmaker and Actor (Director of Signs and The Sixth Sense)
Ashok Amritraj, Hollywood producer
Tarsem Singh, Director
Mira Nair, Director and Producer
Jay Chandrasekhar, Director, Actor, Comedian, and Writer
Ajay Sahgal, Director, Screenwriter and Producer
Naren Shankar, TV Writer, Producer and Director, an Executive Producer of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Sunil Nayar, TV Writer and Producer, a Producer of CSI: Miami
Neeraj Khemlani, a producer at the CBS News 60 Minutes.
Mindy Kaling, Writer, Producer, Actor on The Office.
Padma Lakshmi, Model, Top Chef Host
Saira Mohan, Model, was ranked #91 on the Maxim Magazine Hot 100 Women of 2002
Julie Titus, Model, Contestant of America's Next Top Model
Govindini Murty, Co-founder of Liberty film festival.^[2]

Fashion designers

Comedian

Aziz Ansari, Comedian
Hari Kondabolu, Comedian
Paul Varghese, Comedian from Dallas, Texas appeared on Last Comic Standing
Dan Nainan, Comedian
Arj Barker, Comedian
Adam Mamawala, Comedian
Azhar Usman, Comedian
Russel Peters, Comedian

Business and industry

Founder / Entrepreneurs / Venture Capitalists

Ajit Hutheesing : Founder, Chairman and CEO of International Capital Partners Inc
Amar Bose : Founder of Bose Corporation
Sashi Reddi : Founder CEO, AppLabs (World's #1 Software Testing company)
Arjun Gupta : Silicon Valley venture capitalist
Ashwin Navin : Co-Founder and President of BitTorrent, Inc.
Bharat Desai : Founder of Syntel
Naveen Jain : Founder of InfoSpace and Intelius
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
Rohini Srihari : Founder of Cymfony and Janya
Sameer Parekh : Founder of C2Net
Sanjiv Sidhu : Founder of i2 Technologies
Somen Banerjee: Founder of Chippendales
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
Unni Warrier, Co-Founder and Former President, chairman, CEO of CyberMedia

Business Executives

Abbas Sadriwala : Chairman and CEO of the Fort Lauderdale-based Wireless Logix Group
Ajay Banga : President and CEO of Mastercard
Ajay Waghray : Chief Information Officer for Verizon Wireless
Anshu Jain : Global Head and Managing Director of capital markets at Deutsche Bank.
Arvind Raghunathan : Managing Director and Head of Global Arbitrage at Deutsche Bank.
Dinesh Paliwal : Chairman and CEO, Harman International
Francisco D'Souza : CEO of Cognizant Technology Solutions
Gunjan Bagla : Management Consultant, Managing Director, Amritt; Author Doing Business in 21st Century India.
Gunjan Sinha : Chairman of MetricStream
Indra Nooyi : Chairman annd CEO, PepsiCo
Padmasree Warrior : CTO of Cisco Systems
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
Sanjay Jha : Co-CEO of Motorola and CEO of Motorola Mobile Devices
Sanjay Kumar : CEO of Computer Associates International
Sanjiv Ahuja : CEO of Orange Telecommunications
Shantanu Narayen : CEO of Adobe Systems.
Srichanda Hinduja : Hinduja Group
Suresh V. Shenoy: Executive Vice President, Information Management Consultants (IMC), VA, USA and a Philanthropist
Sivakumar Chinniah: Vice President- Operations of Wockhardt USA
Umang Gupta: Chairman of the Board and CEO of Keynote Systems, Inc, Ex-Founder and Chairman of Gupta Technologies and a Philanthropist
Vikram Pandit : Chairman and CEO, Citigroup
Victor Menezes: Chairman of Clearing House Association, former Chairman and CEO of Citibank
Bobby Mehta : CEO, Transunion Company.
Vyomesh Joshi : Executive Vice President of Imaging and Printing Group, Hewlett-Packard Company.

Former

Bobby Mehta : Former CEO and Vice Chairman of HSBC North America
Jay Sidhu : Former Chairman and CEO of Sovereign Bancorp
Kanwal Rekhi : Former EVP & CTO of Novell
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
Rono Dutta : Former President of United Airlines; Chairman of Air Sahara

Media

Fareed Zakaria, columnist for Time Magazine and host of Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN
Zain Verjee, CNN anchor
Ali Velshi, business news anchor for CNN
Asha Blake, an Emmy award-winning journalist who works for KTLA-TV in Los Angeles.
Gopal Raju, pioneer of Indian American ethnic media in the United States.

Literature

Jhumpa Lahiri, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Kiran Desai, winner of the 2006 Man Booker Prize
Anita Desai, novelist, she has been shortlisted for the Booker prize three times, mother of Kiran Desai.
Dhan Gopal Mukerji, First successful Indian man of letters in the U.S., Winner of Newbery Medal 1928
Amitav Ghosh, Indo-nostalgic writer and winner of Prix Médicis étranger
Shauna Singh Baldwin, novelist, won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize.
Ravi Batra, bestselling author and economist
Ravi Shankar, poet
Parag Khanna, author

Politics

Elected Officials

Bobby Jindal, is the 55th and current Governor of Louisiana and formerly a member of the United States House of Representatives.
Nikki Haley, is the 116th and current Governor of South Carolina.
Mervyn M. Dymally, was the 41st Lieutenant Governor of California (1975–1979) and in the U.S. House of Representatives (1981–1993)
Dalip Singh Saund, was the first Asian and Indian American member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California.
Kamala Harris, is the 32nd and current Attorney General of California.
Kumar P. Barve, member of the Maryland House of Delegates (majority leader)
Aruna Miller, member of the Maryland House of Delegates
Sam Arora, member of the Maryland House of Delegates
Robin Elackatt, City Council Member of the City of Missouri City, Texas

Civil Servants

Rajiv Shah, former Under Secretary of Agriculture for Research, Education, and Economics and current Administrator of USAID.
Vivek Kundra, Federal Chief Information Officer of the United States of America.
Aneesh Chopra, Federal Chief Technology Officer of the United States of America.
Arun Majumdar, Director of the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E).
Subra Suresh, Director of National Science Foundation
Neal Katyal, is the Solicitor General of the United States.
Islam A. Siddiqui, is Chief Agricultural Negotiator in the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR)
Joy Cherian, first Asian head of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Richard Verma, is the Assistant Secretary for Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs, at the Department of State
Arif Alikhan, former Assistant Secretary for Policy Development at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, former Deputy Mayor for Homeland Security and Public Safety for the City of Los Angeles, former senior adviser to Attorneys General John Ashcroft and Alberto Gonzales.
Neel Kashkari, former interim Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability in the United States Department of the Treasury.
Sonal Shah, member of the Obama-Biden Transition Project advisory board
Farah Pandith, is currently the Special Representative to Muslim Communities for the United States Department of State.
Rashad Hussain, is the U.S. Special Envoy to the Organisation of the Islamic Conference
Preeta D. Bansal, member and past chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) and former Solicitor General of New York.
Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
Kamala Lakhdhir, US Consul-General to Northern Ireland

Religion

Harbhajan Singh Yogi, introduced Kundalini Yoga and Sikhism to the USA and was the spiritual director of the 3HO (Healthy, Happy, Holy Organization) Foundation.
Eboo Patel, member of New Faith Advisory Council
Ravi Zacharias, Christian evangelist and apologist, Gold Medallion Book Award Winner for the book Can Man Live Without God?^[3]
Muzammil Siddiqi, Ph.D., Chairman, Fiqh Council of North America
Prem Rawat, also known as Guru Maharaji Ji, head of the Divine Light Mission and later organizations

Sports

Alexi Grewal, first ever Indian American to win an Olympic medal, Gold Medalist in 1984 Summer Olympics in cycling
Amjad Khan, Indian born American cricketer
Mohini Bhardwaj, second Indian American Olympic medalist, 2004 Summer Olympics silver medalist in gymnastics
Raj Bhavsar, third Indian American Olympic Medalist, 2008 Summer Olympics bronze medalist in the team gymnastics competition.
Sanjay Beach, was a former NFL wide receiver. He played for the San Francisco 49ers and the Green Bay Packers.
Bobby Singh
Brandon Chillar, NFL player, linebacker for the Green Bay Packers (Only father of Indian descent)
Manny Malhotra, NHL player, currently in the Vancouver Canucks
Sunil Gulati, in charge of United States Soccer Federation.
Sonjay Dutt, TNA Pro Wrestler
The Great Khali, WWE Pro Wrestler
Ami Parekh, Skater

Others

Bhairavi Desai, founding member of the Taxi Workers Alliance in New York
Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO of Global Fund for Women.
Sabita Singh, first judge of Indian descent in Massachusetts history
Aman Kapoor, Founder and President of ImmigrationVoice, an advocacy group that united immigrants in USA
Bhagat Singh Thind, civil rights figure, lecturer, author
Maya Harris, the Executive Director of the ACLU of Northern California and sister of Kamala Harris.
Mallika Dutt, currently the Executive Director of Breakthrough (human rights)
Maya Ajmera, Founder and President of The Global Fund for Children
Anant Raut, Counsel to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee

References

[1] ttp://alliance.seas.upenn.edu/~kumar/wiki/index.php?n=Main.HomePage.

[2] ttp://www.libertyfilmfestival.com/

[3] ttp://www.ecpa.org/christianbookawards/gm1995.php

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