List of Famous people born in India

Y. G. Mahendran is an Indian dramatist, actor, singer, playwright and comedian from the state of Tamil Nadu. He has acted in a number of plays and films. He is the son of Y. G. Parthasarathy, one of the pioneers of modern Tamil drama and Rajalakshmi Parthasarathy, founder and dean of Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan group of schools, and nephew of veteran Tamil filmmaker K. Balaji. Mahendra is also the cousin of actress Vyjayanthimala and the co-brother of Rajinikanth and Mohanlal.

Prasidh Krishna is an Indian cricketer who plays for Karnataka in domestic cricket. He is a right-arm fast bowler. He is a member of the Kolkata Knight Riders squad in IPL. He made his international debut for the Indian cricket team in March 2021.He became the first Indian to claim 4 wickets in ODIs on debut.

Shaheer Sheikh is an Indian actor and model. He is best known for playing the warrior prince Arjun in Mahabharat, Dev Dixit in Kuch Rang Pyar Ke Aise Bhi, Abir Rajvansh in Yeh Rishtey Hain Pyaar Ke and Prince Salim in Dastaan-E-Mohabbat: Salim Anarkali.

Basu Chatterjee was an Indian film director and screenwriter.

Biplab Kumar Deb is an Indian politician and the current Chief Minister of Tripura. He has been the state president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Tripura since 7 January 2016 till 2018. He led the BJP to victory in the 2018 Legislative Assembly Election, defeating 25 years rule of the Left Front government led by the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He took his oath as the 10th Chief Minister of Tripura on 9 March 2018.

Krishnappa Gowtham is an Indian cricketer who plays for Karnataka.

Venu Sriram is an Indian film screenwriter and director known for his works primarily in Telugu cinema. In 2011 he directed Oh My Friend. In 2017, he directed MCA . produced by Sri Venkateswara Creations;

Chandro Tomar, nicknamed Shooter Dadi, is an octogenarian sharp shooter from the village of Johri in the Bagpat district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

Javed Akhtar is an Indian political activist, poet, lyricist and screenwriter. He is originally from the Gwalior area. He is a recipient of the Padma Shri (1999), Padma Bhushan (2007), the Sahitya Akademi Award as well as five National Film Awards. In the early part of his career, he was a screenplay writer, creating films such as Deewar, Zanjeer and Sholay. Later, he left screenplay-writing and became a lyricist and social-political activist. He also remained a member of Rajya Sabha. In 2020, he received the Richard Dawkins Award for his contribution to secularism, free thinking, for critical thinking, holding religious dogma up to scrutiny, advancing human progress and humanist values. Javed Akhtar was chosen as a recipient for the Richard Dawkins Award for being "the bright light for reason, freethought, and atheism in a dark time".

Tanya Hope is an Indian film actress from Bangalore, who appears in South Indian films. Hope started modeling and became Miss India Kolkata 2015. She was a finalist of Femina Miss India 2015. In the year of 2016, she debuted as Nithya in the Telugu film Appatlo Okadundevadu.