Nobel Prize (Economics) Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala , Nepali politician and philosopher. Javed Akhtar , famous poet, lyricist and scriptwriter. Amol Palekar , famous Bollywood and  Marathi  film actor. Ram Gopal Varma , film director. Beechi , the Kannada humourist-philosopher, whose ' positive atheism ' is similar to that of  Douglas Adams