List of Famous people born in India

Mona Singh is an Indian actress and television presenter. Having first gained prominence in 2000s for playing the eponymous heroine in the comedy series Jassi Jaissi Koi Nahin (2003–06), she has since appeared in several other television and film roles. Singh is the recipient of two Indian Television Academy Awards.

Rahul Dev is an Indian film actor and former model. He predominantly works in Hindi, Punjabi, Bhojpuri, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Odia, Tamil and Telugu films. He was a contestant in Bigg Boss Season 10.

Akshay Venkatesh is an Australian mathematician and a professor at the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study. His research interests are in the fields of counting, equidistribution problems in automorphic forms and number theory, in particular representation theory, locally symmetric spaces, ergodic theory, and algebraic topology.

Sayani Gupta is an Indian film actress who appears in Hindi films. A graduate from the Film and Television Institute of India, she made her feature film debut in 2012 in Second Marriage Dot Com. She has since appeared in supporting roles in films such as Fan (2016), Jolly LLB 2 (2017) and Article 15 (2019). She essayed the role of a blind Pakistani-Bangladeshi lesbian activist named Khanum in Margarita with a Straw opposite Kalki Koechlin.

Nusli Wadia is an Indian businessman, entrepreneur and the chairman of the Wadia Group, an Indian conglomerate involved in the FMCG, textiles and real estate industries among others. His net worth was estimated at US$3.8 billion by Forbes in 2020.

Amala Paul is an Indian film actress who mainly appears in Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu films. After appearing in a supporting role in the Malayalam-language film Neelathamara, Amala became noted after playing the title role in Mynaa, receiving critical acclaim for her work.

Tanmay Bhat is an Indian YouTuber, comedian, script writer, performer, producer, co-founder of the creative agency All India Bakchod (AIB) along with Gursimranjeet Singh Khamba. He was one of the first four comedians to be featured at the Comedy Store Mumbai's first all-Indian comedian line up, titled Local, and soon thereafter he performed alongside comedians from Nepal in Stand Up event.

Rani Rampal is an Indian field hockey player. At the age of 15, she was the youngest player in the national team which participated in the 2010 World Cup. She has completed her schooling but was not able to get the graduate degree due to practice sessions and matches which were lined up. She plays forward on her team. She has played 212 international matches and scored 134 goals. She is currently the Captain for Indian Women's Hockey Team. She is also well known as a striker who often doubles up as mid-fielder. She has a great fascination with CWG. In 2020, the Government of India honoured her with the Padma Shri.

Satti Vijayashanti is an Indian actress, producer and politician. She is fondly called as the "Lady Superstar" and “Lady Amitabh” of South Indian Cinema and "The Action Queen of Indian Cinema" who was able to pull the entire movie on her shoulders. In a film career spanning 40 years, she has acted in 187 feature films in a variety of roles in various languages predominantly in Telugu Cinema in addition to several Hindi, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam films. She won the National Film Award for Best Actress for her work as a "super cop" in Kartavyam (1990), for depicting both aggression and feminity with balance and restraint. For her role in Pratighatana (1985), Vijayashanti won her first state Nandi Award and Filmfare Award. She is a recipient of several accolades, including four Andhra Pradesh state Nandi Awards for Best Actress, seven Filmfare Awards South together with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003, and the Kalaimamani Award from Tamil Nadu Government.

Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri is an Indian film director, screenwriter, author and activist. As of 2019, he is a member of the board of India's Central Board of Film Certification. He is appointed as cultural representative of Indian Cinema at ICCR.