Daftar tokoh India

Inilah daftar tokoh-tokoh India.

 Seniman 
 Amrita Sher-Gil, pelukis
 Birju Maharaj, penari
 Jatin Das, pelukis
 Kelucharan Mohapatra, penari Odissi
 Mallika Sarabhai, penari
 M.F. Husain, pelukis
 Protima Bedi, penari
 Raja dan Radha Reddy, penari Kuchipudi
 Raja Ravi Varma, pelukis
 P.C. Sorcar, pesulap
 P.C. Sorcar, Jr., pesulap
 Manick Sorcar, animator/sutradara
 Sudha Chandran, penari
 BV. Karanth, musikus
 Girish Karnad, dramawan

 Pebisnis dan Industriwan 
 Peeyush Pandit,
 Ajay Piramal, pimpinan Piramal Enterprises Limited
 Amar Bose, pendiri Bose Corporation
 Arjun Malhotra, salah satu pendiri, HCL Technologies
 Azim Premji, pimpinan, Wipro
 Dewang Mehta, kepala NASSCOM
 J.R.D. Tata, Industriwan, Tata Groups
 GD. Birla, Industriwan, Birla Group
 Sohrab Pirojsha Godrej, Godrej Industries
 Jamnalal Bajaj
 Lakshmi Narayan Mittal
 Mukesh Ambani
 N.R. Narayana Murthy, salah satu pendiri Infosys
 Sabeer Bhatia, salah satu pendiri Hotmail
 Sanjiv Sidhu, pendiri i2 Technologies
 Shantanurao Laxmanrao Kirloskar, Kirloskar Group
 Subrata Roy, Sahara India Parivar
 Verghese Kurien, pendiri Operation Flood
 Bobby Kishore, DirUt Microsoft Corporation
 Vinod Khosla, salah satu pendiri Sun Microsystems
 Vivek Paul, CEO of Wipro

 Kartunis 

 Abu Abraham, di The Guardian
 Ajit Ninan, di India Today
 Bal Thackeray
 Jug Suraiya
 Kesav, di The Hindu
 Mario Miranda
 Ranga
 R. K. Laxman, di Times of India
 Shanker, di mingguan ilustasi India, The Hindustan Times
 Yesudasan, di The Week

 Model 
 Dino Morea, model dan aktor
 John Abraham, model dan aktor
 Madhu Sapre
 Manish Malhotra, desainer
 Milind Soman, model dan aktor
 Nafisa Joseph, model dan VJ
 Ritu Beri, desainer
 Rohit Bal, desainer

 Sastrawan 
 Allama Iqbal, penyair berbahasa Urdu
 Arundhati Roy – pemenang Booker Prize pada The God of Small Things
 Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
 Dom Moraes, pengarang, penyair
 Harivansh Rai Bachchan, penyair berbahasa Hindi
 Jayakanthan, Tamil penulis.
 Jhumpa Lahiri - pemenang Pulitzer Prize melalui "Interpreter of Maladies"
 Kabir
 Kaifi Azmi, penyair
 Kalhana
 Kalidasa, dramawan, pencipta Shakuntalam
 Kamala Markandaya, penyair
 Khushwant Singh, novelis
 Manil Suri, novelis
 Mahadevi Verma, penyair berbahasa Hindi
 Mirza Ghalib, penyair berbahasa Urdu
 Mulk Raj Anand
 Munshi Premchand, novelis berbahasa Hindi
 Nissim Ezekiel - penyair, kritikus seni
 Rabindranath Tagore – pemenang Hadiah Nobel Sastra, komponis lagu kebangsaan India dan Bangladesh
 R.K. Narayan, penulis cerpen berbahasa Inggris
 Salman Rushdie – pemenang Booker Prize untuk Midnight's Children
 Shashi Tharoor - pemenang The Great Indian Novel di samping buku lain
 Subhash Kak, penulis
 Sumitranandan Pant, penyair berbahasa Hindi
 Tulsidas, penyair, pengarang Ramayana dalam bahasa Hindi
 Vikram Seth, novelis berbahasa Inggris, penyair
 Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul – pemenang Hadiah Nobel 2001 (kelahiran Trinidad, cucu dari seorang India, bukan warga negara India)
 Vaikom Muhammad Basheer – novelis berbahasa Malayalam
 Vayalar Ramavarma – penyair berbahasa Malayalam
Media Massa
 Aniruddha Bahal, penulis dan wartawan Tehelka
 Deepak Chaurasia
 Khushwant Singh
 M. J. Akbar, editor kepala, Asian Age
 Prannoy Roy, pemilik NDTV
 Arun Shourie, wartawan
 Pritish Nandy
 Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, koordinator penelitian, Doordarshan
 Saeed Naqvi
 Sanjay Pugalia, direktur, STAR News
 Sanjay Gupta
 Vir Sanghvi, editor, Hindustan Times
 Vinod Mehta, editor Outlook
 Monita Rajpal
 Film 
 Sutradara 
 Adoor Gopalakrishnan
 Bimal Roy
 Boney Kapoor
 David Dhawan
 Dev Anand
 Farah Khan
 Farhan Akhtar
 Gulzar
 Gurinder Chadha
 Guru Dutt
 Hrishikesh Mukherjee
 Ismail Merchant
 KC. Bokadia
 Kaizad Gustad
 Kamal Amrohi
 Karan Johar
 Mani Ratnam
 Manoj Night Shyamalan (kelahiran India, warga negara AS)
 Mira Nair
 Mrinal Sen
 Nazir Hussain
 Raj Kapoor
 Rajkumar Santoshi
 Ram Gopal Varma
 Ritwik Ghatak
 Sai Paranjpe
 Satish Kaushik
 Satyajit Ray
 Shekhar Kapoor
 Shyam Benegal
 Subhash Ghai
 Shakti Samanta
 Vishal Bharadwaj
 Yash Chopra

 Produser 
 Amitabh Bachchan, Amitabh Bachchan Corporation Ltd. (ABCL)
 Aziz Mirza, Dreamz Unlimited
 Boney Kapoor, Narsimha Enterprises
 Dev Anand, Navketan Films
 Gulshan Rai, Trimurti Films
 Juhi Chawla, Dreamz Unlimited
 KC. Bokadia
 K.T. Kunjumon, Gentleman Films
 Mira Nair, Mirabai Films
 Mohanlal, Pranavam Arts
 Mukesh Bhatt, Vishesh Films
 Pooja Bhatt, mulanya Pooja Bhatt Productions, Fish Eye Network
 Raj Kapoor, R.K. Films
 Ram Gopal Varma, Varma Corporation Ltd.
 Shahrukh Khan, Dreamz Unlimited
 Sooraj Barjatya, Rajshri Films
 Subhash Ghai, Mukta Arts
 Sunil Dutt, Ajanta Arts
 Yash Chopra, Yashraj Films
 Yash Johar, Dharma Productions
 Bobby Bedi, Kaleidoscope Entertainment

 Aktor 

 A-F 
 Aamir Khan
 Abhishek Bachchan
 Aftab Shivdasani
 Amrish Puri
 Amitabh Bachchan
 Amjad Khan
 Ajay Devgan
 Akshay Khanna
 Akshay Kumar
 Amol Palekar
 Anil Kapoor
 Annu Kapoor
 Aman Verma
 Anupam Kher
 Ashok Kumar
 Balraj Sahni
 Biswajit
 Bobby Deol
 Chandrachur Singh
 Dev Anand
 Dharmendra (kelahiran 1935)
 Dilip Kumar
 Dino Morea
 Fardeen Khan
 Feroze Khan
 G-P 

 Govinda
 Guru Dutt
 Hrithik Roshan
 Jackie Shroff
 Jeetendra
 John Abraham
 Johnny Walker, nama aslinya Badruddin Qazi
 Jimmy Shergill
 Kadar Khan
 Kamal Haasan
 Madhavan
 Mammootty, aktor Malayalam
 Manoj Bajpai
 Manoj Kumar
 Mehmood
 Mithun Chakraborty
 Mohanlal, film berbahasa Malayalam
 Naseeruddin Shah
 Navin Nischol
 Om Prakash
 Om Puri
 Pran
 Prem Nazir, film berbahasa Malayalam

 R 
 Rajini Kanth
 Raj Kapoor (Aktor dan sutradara)
 Rajendra Kumar
 Raaj Kumar (aktor Hindi)
 Rajeev Kapoor
 Rajesh Khanna
 Dr. Rajkumar (aktor Kannada)
 Rakesh Roshan
 Randhir Kapoor
 Rishi Kapoor
 Roshan Seth

 S-V 

 Saif Ali Khan
 Salman Khan
 Sanjay Dutt
 Sanjay Kapoor
 Sanjay Khan
 Sanjeev Kumar (aktor) – aktor Bollywood
 Sanjeev Kumar (insinyur) - CTO dari PortalPlayer
 Shahrukh Khan
 Shakti Kapoor
 Shammi Kapoor
 Shashi Kapoor
 Shatrughan Sinha
 Sivaji Ganesan
 Sunil Dutt
 Sunil Shetty
 Sunny Deol
 Suresh Gopi
 Tusshar Kapoor
 Utpal Dutt
 Uttam Kumar
 Vinod Khanna
 Vinod Mehra
 Vivek Oberoi

 Musik 
 Abhijeet, penyanyi
 Alka Yagnik, penyanyi
 Amjad Ali Khan
 A.R. Rahman - komponis
 Asha Bhosle, penyanyi
 Babul Supriyo
 Geeta Dutt, penyanyi
 Hemant Kumar, komponis dan penyanyi
 Hridaynath Mangeshkar, komponis
 Ilayaraja, komponis
 Kartik Seshadri, sitaris
 Kavita Krishnamurthy
 Kay Kay, penyanyi
 Khayyam
 Kishore Kumar, penyanyi, aktor
 Lata Mangeshkar, penyanyi
 Lucky Ali, penyanyi
 Mahendra Kapoor, penyanyi
 Manna Dey, penyanyi
 MS. Subbulakshmi, penyanyi klasik (Karnatakka)
 Mohammad Rafi, penyanyi
 Mukesh, penyanyi
 Nitin Sawhney, komponis
 Naushad, komponis
 Noor Jehan, penyanyi
 O.P. Nayyar, komponis
 Rahul Dev Burman, komponis
 Ravi, komponis
 Ravi Shankar, maestro sitar
 S.D. Burman, komponis
 Sadhana Sargam
 Salil Chowdhury, komponis
 Shamshad Begum
 Sultan Khan
 Suraiya, penyanyi
 Talat Mahmood, penyanyi
 Talvin Singh, komponis
 Trilok Gurtu, pemain perkusi
 Yesudas, penyanyi, penyanyi kebaktian dan film, eksponen musik Karnatakka
 Zakir Hussain, maestro Tabla
 Zubin Mehta, dirigen

 Gangster 

 Chhota Rajan
 Dawood Ibrahim
 Ejaz Lakdawala
 Chhota Shakeel
 Abu Salem
 Veerappan

 Politikus 

 A-L 

 Abdul Kalam
 Amarsinh Chaudhary, (1941-2004) Ketua Menteri Gujarat
 Arjun Singh
 Arun Gandhi
 Arun Gawli
 Atal Bihari Vajpayee
 Bal Gangadhar Tilak
 Bal Thackeray
 Chakravarti Rajagopalachari
 Charu Majumdar
 Dasarath Deb
 E.K. Nayanar
 Feroze Gandhi
 Ghulam Nabi Azad
 Indira Gandhi
 J. Jayalalithaa, Ketua Menteri Tamil Nadu
 Jayaprakash Narayan
 Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964)
 Lal Krishna Advani
 Laloo Prasad Yadav

 M-P 

 M. Karunanidhi, Ketua Menteri Tamil Nadu
 Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
 Mani Shankar Aiyar
 Manik Sarkar
 Manmohan Singh – Perdana Menteri
 Manohar Parrikar, Ketua Menteri Goa
 Mayawati
 M.G. Ramachandran, terkenal sebagai MGR, Ketua Menteri Tamil Nadu
 Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, Ketua Menteri Jammu dan Kashmir
 Mulayam Singh Yadav, Ketua Menteri Uttar Pradesh
 Narendra Modi, Ketua Menteri Gujarat
 Natwar Singh
 Nripen Chakroborthy
 P. Chidambaram
 P.K. Vasudevan Nair
 P.V. Narasimha Rao
 Pranab Mukherjee
 Pratapsinh Rane, Ketua Menteri Goa

 R-Y 
 R.R. Patil, Wakil Ketua Menteri Maharashtra
 Rabri Devi (lahir 1959)
 Rahul Gandhi, Polisi Militer dari Amethi
 Rajendra Prasad
 Rajiv Gandhi (1944-1991)
 Rajiv Pratap Rudy
 Ram Vilas Paswan (lahir 1946)
 Ravi Shankar Prasad
 S.M. Krishna
 Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (1875-1950)
 Sharad Pawar (lahir 1940)
 Shibu Soren (lahir 1944)
 Shivraj Patil
 Somnath Chatterjee
 Sonia Gandhi (lahir 1946)
 Subhash Chandra Bose (1897-1945)
 Suresh Kalmadi (lahir 1944)
 Sushilkumar Shinde (lahir 1941)
 T. Nagi Reddy (pemimpin revolusioner komunis Andhra Pradesh)
 Venkaiah Naidu
 Vilasrao Deshmukh
 Vinay Katiyar
 Yashwant Sinha (lahir 1937)

 Agamawan dan Filsuf 
 Fajar Firdaus Muslim
 Zakir Naik
 Ahmed Deedat
 Adi Sankara
 Amir Khusrau
 Mata Amritanandamayi
 Sri Aurobindo
 Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
 Farid
 Gautama Buddha – pendiri agama Buddha
 Mirzan Ghaluman Ahmad - pendiri ahmadiyah
 Hazrat Makhdum Bukhari Jahanian Jahangasht
 Hazrat Mueen-ud-Din Chishti Ajmeri Khwajah
 Hazrat Sirhindi
 Hazrat Usmaan Pir Harooni
 J. Krishnamurti
 Jayendra Saraswathi, Shankaracharya dari Kanchi
 Kabir
 Lord Mahavir
 Meera
 Narayana Guru
 Nisargadatta Maharaj
 Nizaam-ud-Din Auliya
 Osho Shree Rajneesh
 Prabhupada A.C. Bhaktivedanta
 Prem Rawat
 Ramakrishna Paramhansa
 Sai Baba dari Shirdi
 Sathya Sai Baba
 Samartha Ramdas Swami
 Sant Tukaram
 Sant Namdeo
 Swami Vivekananda
 Tulsidas, penyair, penulis Ramayana dalam bahasa Hindi
 Sepuluh Guru Sikh, pemimpin aliran Sikh:
 Guru Nanak Dev
 Guru Angad Dev
 Guru Amar Das
 Guru Ram Das
 Guru Arjan Dev
 Guru Hargobind
 Guru Har Rai
 Guru Har Krishan
 Guru Teg Bahadur
 Guru Gobind Singh
 Akshapada Gotama
 Badarayana
 Maharishi Debendranath Tagore
 Jiddu Krishnamurti
 Kanada
 Kapila
 Madhva
 Ramanuja
 Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
 Shankara
 Tiruvalluvar
 Vallabha

 Kerabat Kerajaan 
 Akbar yang Agung
 Ashoka
 Aurangzeb
 Babur
 Bindusara
 Chandragupta Maurya
 Chandragupta II (Chandragupta Vikramaditya)
 Jahanara Begum, putri Shah Jahan
 Jahangir
 Lakshmi bai, Rani dari Jhansi
 Mumtaz Mahal
 Rajendra Chola
 Raja Ravi Varma
 Samudragupta
 Shah Jahan
 Sher Shah Suri
 Shivaji
 Tipu Sultan

 Ilmuwan 
 Zakir Naik
 Abdul Kalam
 Acharya P.C. Roy
 Aryabhata
 Ashoke Sen, fisikawan teoretis
 Bhaskaracharya
 Birbal Sahni
 Brahmagupta
 C.N.R. Rao
 C.V. Raman
 Satish Dhawan
 George Sudarshan
 Har Gobind Khorana
 Harish Chandra
 Homi Jehangir Bhabha
 Jagadish Chandra Bose
 J.J. Rawal, astrofisikawan
 Jayant Narlikar
 Ashoka Prasad also Ashoka Johnubiprasad
 Kollagunta Gopalaiyer Ramanathan
 Gurdev Singh Khush
 Lagadha
 M.G.K.Menon
 Madhava
 Madhu Sudan
 G. Balakrish Nair
 Meghnad Saha
 Vandana Shiva
 Nilakantha Somayaji
 Panini
 Pingala
 Raja Ramannann
 Roddam Narasimha
 Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
 Vulimiri Ramalingaswami
 Srinivasa Ramanujan
 Satyendra Nath Bose
 S. Bhagvantam
 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar
 C.S.Seshadri
 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
 Vikram Sarabhai
 Yellapragada Subbarao
 Mriganka Sur
 Jamshed Rustom Tata
 Yajnavalkya
 Dr. Rajender Singh Sangwan
 Fajar Firdaus Muslim

 Pekerja Sosial 
 Anna Hazare
 Arundhati Roy, Narmada Bachao Andolan
 Baba Amte
 Jayaprakash Narayan
 Medha Patkar, Narmada Bachao Andolan
 Bunda Teresa, misionaris
 Sudha Murty, Yayasan Infosys
 Sunderlal Bahuguna, pergerakan Chipko
 Vinoba Bhave, pergerakan Sarvodaya dan Bhoodan

 Olahragawan 
 Anil Kumble, kriket
 Anju George, atlet
 Ashok Kumar, hoki
 Baichung Bhutia, sepak bola
 Chandu Borde, kriket
 Dhanraj Pillay, hoki
 Dhyan Chand, hoki
 Geet Sethi, snooker
 Gopichand, bulu tangkis
 Harbhajan Singh, kriket
 Javagal Srinath, kriket
 Jeev Milkha Singh, golf
 Jyoti Randhawa, golf
 Kapil Dev, kriket
 Karan Rastogi, tenis
 Karnam Malleswari, angkat besi
 Lakshmipathy Balaji, kriket
 Leander Paes, tenis
 Mahesh Bhupathi, tenis
 Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, kriket
 Milkha Singh, Atlet
 Mohammed Azharuddin, kriket
 Narain Karthikeyan, balap mobil
 P. Harikrishna, catur
 Pargat Singh, hoki
 Prakash Padukone, bulu tangkis
 Pravin Thipsay, grandmaster catur
 P. T. Usha, atletik, juara Asian Games
 Ramesh Krishnan, tenis
 Rahul Dravid, kriket
 Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, menembak
 Ranjitsinghji, kriket
 Sachin Tendulkar, kriket
 Sania Mirza, tenis
 Saurav Ganguly, kriket
 Sunil Gavaskar, kriket
 Vijay Amritraj, petenis lapangan rumput
 Viswanathan Anand, catur

 Lainnya 
 Amartya Sen, ekonom, penerima Penghargaan Nobel dalam Ilmu Ekonomi 1998
 Partha Dasgupta, ekonom
 Jaishree Odin, guru
 B.K.S. Iyengar, penyokong yoga
 Balbir Singh Sodhi, korban 11 September
 Basava Premanand, guru skeptis
 Bimal Jalan, Gubernur Reserve Bank of India
 Irfan Habib, sejarawan
 Lieutenant General Joginder Jaswant Singh
 Kalpana Chawla, wanita India astronaut pertama, berada dalam pesawat Columbia yang meledak pada tahun 2003
 Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Menteri Pendidikan pertama India
 Nain Singh
 Noor Inyat Khan, mata-mata selama PD II, terlahir dari ayah India dan keturunan Tipu Sultan
 Rajendra Singh Lodha, akuntan
 Rakesh Sharma, astronaut India pertama
 Romila Thapar, (lahir 1931), sejarawan
 Rumaisa Rahman, bayi yang lahir terkecil dalam sejarah, dan saudarinya Hima, seorang India-Amerika
 Ramesh Chandra Lahoti, (lahir 1940), Ketua Pengadilan India
 Shashindra Pal Tyagi, ketua AU India
 Sidhartha Basu, quiz master
 Dr V Mohan Reddy, ahli bedah jantung

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