List of Famous people born in India
Y. S. Avinash Reddy
Y. S. Avinash Reddy is an Indian politician who is the Member of Parliament in Lok Sabha from Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh. He won the Indian general elections of 2014 and 2019 being a Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party candidate. He along with his party MPs resigned for their posts in protest for not giving special status to AP as promised by putting no confidence motion on PM Modi. YSRCP is first party to put no confidence motion on PM Modi.
Pravin Jadhav
Pravin Ramesh Jadhav is an Indian archer who competes in the recurve discipline. At the 2019 World Archery Championships, he was a member of the first Indian team to qualify for the final since 2005; the team received the silver medal.
Pratap Bhanu Mehta
Pratap Bhanu Mehta is an Indian academician. He was the president of the Centre for Policy Research, a New Delhi-based think tank and was the Vice-Chancellor of Ashoka University from July 2017 to July 2019.
Manjot Singh
Manjot Singh is an Indian Bollywood actor, best known for his role in films like Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!, Student Of The Year and Fukrey. He won Filmfare Critics Award for the Best Debut Actor category for his performance in Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!. He completed his schooling from Hillwoods Academy.
Jay Bhanushali
Jay Bhanushali is an Indian television actor. He is best known for his portrayal as Neev Shergill in Ekta Kapoor's Indian soap opera Kayamath that aired on Star Plus.
Archana Shastry
Archana Shastry is an Indian film actress, working in Telugu cinema, Tamil cinema and Kannada cinema. She was one of the contestants in the first season of Bigg Boss - Telugu, hosted by N. T. Rama Rao Jr.. In November 2019, she married Jagadeesh Bakthavachalam, vice president of a leading health-care company.
Khandro Rinpoche
Mindrolling Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche is a lama in Tibetan Buddhism. Born in Kalimpong, India and the daughter of the late Mindrolling Trichen, Khandro Rinpoche was recognized by Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa at the age of two as the reincarnation of the Great Dakini of Tsurphu Monastery, Urgyen Tsomo, who was one of the most well-known female masters of her time. Khandro Urgyen Tsomo was the consort to Khakyab Dorje, 15th Karmapa Lama (1871–1922) and recognised in this Buddhist tradition as an incarnation of Yeshe Tsogyal. Her name is in fact her title, Khandro being Tibetan for dakini and rinpoche an honorific usually reserved for tulkus that means "precious one."
Reshmi Menon
Reshmi Menon is an Indian actress who predominantly appears in Tamil films.
Rajiv Menon
Brother = Maniratinam Rajiv Menon is an Indian filmmaker who has worked as a director and cinematographer in several Indian regional film industries. After making his breakthrough as a film cinematographer with Mani Ratnam's drama Bombay (1994), Menon has continued to collaborate with Ratnam on other projects including Guru (2007) and Kadal (2013). He has also directed 2 critically acclaimed Tamil films, Minsara Kanavu (1997) and Kandukondain Kandukondain (2000), winning a Filmfare Award for the latter. After a sabbatical, Menon returned to directing with Sarvam Thaala Mayam.
Pradeep Machiraju
Pradeep Machiraju is an Indian Telugu television presenter and actor. He won State Nandi award as Best Anchor in 2014 for the show Gadasari Atta Sogasari Kodalu.