List of Famous people born in India

Jagjit Kaur is an Indian Hindi/Urdu singer and the spouse of the music director, Mohammed Zahur Khayyam. She sang fewer songs for films than her contemporaries like Lata and Asha, yet all of her songs have been described as memorable masterpieces.

Venkatraman "Venki" Ramakrishnan is an Indian-born British-American structural biologist who shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada Yonath, "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome".

Shiv Pandit, known professionally as Shiv Panditt, is an Indian actor and television host. He is the brother of Gayatri Pandit, who has been an assistant director on the films Desi Boyz (2011), Boss (2013), Roy (2015) and Shivaay (2016) and Arjun Pandit, an ex sports anchor on NDTV & STAR Sports. Shiv is also the co-owner of the Chandigarh Cubs cricket team in the Box Cricket League (B.C.L.) along with actress Anita Hassanandani.

Bala Palanisamy is an Indian film director, screenwriter, and producer, working in Tamil cinema. Often considered to be one of the finest Indian directors, Bala is widely acclaimed for "revolutionizing Tamil cinema" through his realistic, dark and disturbing depiction of the working class on celluloid screen.

Dr. Daggubati Venkateswara Rao, M.B.,B.S., is a former member of the Indian National Congress.

Rekhitha R. Kurup, better known by her stage name Bhamaa, is an Indian film actress who has mainly appeared in Malayalam and Kannada language films. She made her debut in 2007 with the film Nivedyam directed by A. K. Lohithadas. In a career spanning over a decade, she has starred in over 40 films.

Parkash Singh Badal is an Indian politician who was Chief Minister of Punjab state from 1970 to 1971, from 1977 to 1980, from 1997 to 2002, and from 2007 to 2017. He is also the patron of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), a Sikh-centered regional political party. He was the president of the party from 1995 to 2008, when he was replaced by his son Sukhbir Singh Badal. As the patron of SAD he exercises a strong influence on the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee and Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee. The Government of India awarded him the second-highest civilian award, Padma Vibhushan, in 2015.

Prakashi Tomar, nicknamed Revolver Dadi, from Johri village of Uttar Pradesh's Baghpat district is one of the oldest sharpshooters in the world. She is an iconoclast in the world of shooting.

Dolon Roy is a Bengali actress, based in Kolkata, India.

Zarina Wahab is an Indian actress who predominantly worked in Hindi and Malayalam films. Known for critically acclaimed roles in Chitchor and Gopal Krishna in Bollywood and in Malayalam Cinema with films like Madanolsavam, Chamaram, Palangal and Adaminte Makan Abu. She is better known for her motherly roles in the 2000s decade and on, earning rave reviews for her performances.