List of Famous people born in India
Rupi Kaur
Rupi Kaur is an Indian-born Canadian poet, illustrator, and author. Kaur rose to fame on Instagram and Tumblr through sharing her short visual poetry.
Mayuri Deshmukh
Mayuri Deshmukh is an Indian actress who has performed in several television serials as well as Marathi-language movies. Mayuri began her formal career in acting in 2011.
Ramya
Divya Spandana, better known by her screen name Ramya, is an Indian actress and politician. She served as the Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha from Mandya, Karnataka. She primarily works in Kannada, alongside Tamil language films. Ramya is the recipient of two Filmfare Awards South, an Udaya Award, and a Karnataka State Film Award.
Archana Chandhoke
Archana Chandhoke is a Tamil television host who has hosted many reality shows since 2000. She is one of the most popular hosts in the Tamil television industry. Her debut show was Ilamai Pudhumai on Sun TV followed by Comedy Time, in which she appeared along with Chitti Babu on the same channel. Then she hosted many shows across various television channels. In 2016, she appeared as a judge of the comedy show Junior Super Star along with K. Bhagyaraj and Khushbu. As of 2019, Archana was hosting season 2 of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Seniors, which is the music reality show in Zee Tamil. In 2020, Archana entered Bigg Boss as a wildcard contestant. She is also known as "Love-bed Gang Leader" and recieved negativity for abusing Aari and for being fake.
Prannoy Roy
Prannoy Lal Roy is an Indian journalist and psephologist, who is the co-founder and executive co-chairperson of New Delhi Television (NDTV) along with his wife Radhika Roy. He won the Red Ink award by Mumbai Press Club for lifetime achievement for his consistent and pioneering contribution to news television and his service to journalism in 2015.
Neelesh Misra
Neelesh Misra is an Indian journalist, author, radio storyteller, scriptwriter and lyricist. He is most known for his radio show, Yaadon Ka IdiotBox with Neelesh Misra on BIG FM 92.7. He is co-founder-editor of Gaon Connection, India's rural newspaper. He has also founded a content creation company called Content Project Pvt. Ltd. He is currently working on "The Neelesh Misra Show" on Red FM 93.5 and "Kahaani Express" on Saavn. He has recently launched two shows on the audio platform Audible and another show called Zindagi Mobile on BIG FM 92.7 He is also popular for his show on YouTube - The Slow Interview, produced by Gaon Connection, where he chats with the celebs from Bollywood in the rural retreat near Lucknow district.
Ajmal Ameer
Ajmal Ameer is an Indian actor and former physician, who works in the Malayalam, Tamil, and Telugu film industries. He is known for his role as Vasanthan in political action thriller film Ko (2011). He has won two Filmfare Awards South.
Meenakshi Lekhi
Meenakshi Lekhi is an Indian politician and the minister of State for External Affairs and Culture. She is a member of Member of Parliament from New Delhi Parliamentary constituency in the 16th and 17th Lok Sabha from the Bharatiya Janata Party. She is also a lawyer in the Supreme Court of India.
Subbaraju
Penmetsa Subbaraju is an Indian actor who predominantly works in Telugu cinema. Subbaraju has played a variety of roles, from negative to supporting characters. His most notable works include Amma Nanna O' Tamil Ammayi, Arya, Pokiri, Leader, Bbuddah... Hoga Terra Baap, Businessman, Mirchi, Baahubali 2: The Conclusion, Temper, Duvvada Jagannadham, Geetha Govindam, and Majili. Subbaraju is immensely popular in Japan for his role as Kumara Varma in the 2017 epic action film, Baahubali: The Conclusion.
Amit Singhal
Amitabh Kumar "Amit" Singhal is a former senior vice president at Google Inc. having been a Google Fellow and the head of Google's Search team for 15 years. He left Google on 26 February 2016, following sexual harassment allegations.