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 (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