List of Famous people born in India
Shane Nigam
Shane Nigam is an Indian film actor who appears in Malayalam films. Having made his debut with the 2013 road film Neelakasham Pachakadal Chuvanna Bhoomi (2013), he went to receive wider attention for his performances in successful drama films Kismath (2016), Parava (2017), and Kumbalangi Nights (2019).
Athawale Ramdas Bandu
Ramdas Bandu Athawale is an Indian politician and social activist from Maharashtra. He is the president of the Republican Party of India (A), a splinter group of the Republican Party of India and has its roots in the Scheduled Castes Federation led by B. R. Ambedkar. Currently, he is Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment in the Narendra Modi government, and represents Maharashtra in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of India's Parliament. Previously he was the Lok Sabha MP from Pandharpur.
Binny Bansal
Binny Bansal is an Indian billionaire Internet entrepreneur. In 2007 he co-founded the e-commerce platform Flipkart with Sachin Bansal and served as the chief operating officer until 11 January 2016 and was then promoted to chief executive officer (CEO). In January 2017 he was promoted to Group CEO and resigned in November 2018 due to personal misconduct allegations of Flipkart. Binny is from Chandigarh and graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi with a degree in computer science and engineering. He is currently an anchor investor in the venture firm 021 Capital which focuses on investing in the fields of biotechnology, agritech, and the internet.
Sid Sriram
Sidharth Sriram, popularly known as Sid Sriram is an Indian-American music producer, playback singer, and songwriter. He is an R&B songwriter, singer and performer, and works predominantly in the Tamil and Telugu music industry while also working in a few Malayalam film productions. He regularly collaborates with Bharata Natyam dancer, his sister Pallavi Sriram, and music directors.
Kailash Satyarthi
Kailash Satyarthi is an Indian social reformer who campaigned against child labour in India and advocated the universal right to education. In 2014, he was the co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, along with Malala Yousafzai, "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education." He is the founder of multiple social activist organizations, including Bachpan Bachao Andolan, Global March Against Child Labour, Global Campaign for Education and Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation.
Mahi Gill
Rimpy Kaur "Mahie" Gill is an Indian actress, working in the Hindi and Punjabi film industries. She is best known for her role of Paro in Anurag Kashyap's critically acclaimed Hindi film Dev.D, a modern take on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's Bengali novella Devdas, for which she also won the 2010 Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress. She started her career in Punjabi films before making a debut in Bollywood with Dev.D.
Alphons Kannanthanam
Alphons Joseph Kannanthanam or K. J. Alphons is an Indian civil servant, advocate, and politician from Kerala. He is the former Union Minister of State for Culture, and Tourism, in office since 3 September 2017 to May 2019 under the B.J.P. Government of Narendra Modi.He is currently serving as a Rajyasabha MP.
Raadhika Sarathkumar
Raadhikaa Sarathkumar is an Indian actress, entrepreneur, and producer who works predominantly in the Tamil and Telugu cinema. She also starred in Malayalam, Hindi, Kannada and appeared in 350 films during her career. She is the founder and CP of the Radaan Mediaworks India Limited and doing serials in most of the south Indian languages.
Rama Devi
Rama Devi is an Indian politician from Bihar and belongs to Bhartiya Janata Party. She is on the Panel of chairpersons of the 17th Lok Sabha as of 2019.
Rahul Dholakia
Rahul Dholakia is an Indian film director-producer-screenwriter, most known for his National Film Award-winning film, Parzania (2005), prior to which he also made documentaries like Teenage Parents and New York Taxi Drivers.