List of Famous people born in India

Lakshmi Niwas Mittal is an Indian steel magnate, based in the United Kingdom. He is the chairman and CEO of ArcelorMittal, the world's largest steelmaking company. Mittal owns 38% of ArcelorMittal and holds a 20% stake in Queens Park Rangers F.C..

Shumona Sinha, also spelled Sumana Sinha;, is a naturalised French writer born in Calcutta, West Bengal, India, who lives in France.

Sahibzada Iskander Ali Mirza, CIE, OSS, OBE, was a Pakistani general and civil servant who was the first President of Pakistan. He was elected in this capacity in 1956 until being dismissed by his appointed army commander General Ayub Khan in 1958.

Kumar Mangalam Birla is an Indian billionaire industrialist, and the chairman of the Aditya Birla Group, one of the largest conglomerates in India. He is also the chancellor of the Birla Institute of Technology & Science, and the chairman of the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad.

Mahmood Mamdani, FBA is a Ugandan academic, author, and political commentator. He currently serves as the Chancellor of Kampala International University, Uganda. He is the director of the Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR), the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University and the Professor of Anthropology, Political Science and African Studies at Columbia University.

Meghnad Jagdishchandra Desai, Baron Desai, is a British economist and former Labour politician. He stood unsuccessfully for the position of Lord Speaker in the House of Lords in 2011. He has been awarded the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award in the Republic of India, in 2008. He is Professor Emeritus of the London School of Economics.

Babasaheb Neelkanth Kalyani is an Indian businessman who served as the chairman and managing director of Bharat Forge, the Flagship company of the Kalyani Group and the world's second-largest forgings manufacturer after ThyssenKrupp of Germany.

Richard Adrian William Sharp OBE is a retired English rugby union player. Born in India during the British Raj, his family moved to Cornwall, England, where he was educated at Montpelier School, Paignton and Blundell's School in the neighbouring county of Devon and at Balliol College, Oxford. He is a former player at Redruth R.F.C., Wasps FC, Bristol FC and England rugby union fly-half and captain. He played for England while at Oxford and led England to the Five Nations title in 1963. He played cricket for Cornwall in the Minor Counties Championship between 1957 and 1970.

Hridaynath Mangeshkar is an Indian music director. He is the only son of noted musician Deenanath Mangeshkar and younger brother of Indian music legends Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle. He is popularly known as Balasaheb in the music and film industry.

John William Richmond Shakespeare, is a retired British diplomat.

• From 1949 to 1950 he was 2nd Lieutenant at the Irish Guards.
• From 1953 to 1954 he was lecturer in English, École Normale Supérieure, Paris
• In 1955 he was member of the Editorial Staff of the Times Educational Supplement.
• In 1956 he was member of the Editorial Staff of The Times.
• In 1959 he war Private Secretary to Gladwyn Jebb ambassador in Paris.
• On 22 September 1960 he was appointed a member of the Foreign Service and served in Paris.
• On August 1961 he was transferred to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London.
• On 1 July 1963 he was promoted 1st Secretary.
• In 1968 he was employed from the Secret Intelligence Service.
• 1985 Birthday Honours he became Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George.
• On 12 July 1973 he got Exequatur as Consul General in Buenos Aires.
• On 26 January 1976 Derick Ashe terminated his duty as ambassador in Buenos Aires and JWR Shakespeare stayed as Chargé d'affaires, a task he also fulfilled during the Falklands War.
• From 1983 to 1987 he was ambassador in Lima.
• From 1987 to 1990 he was ambassador in Rabat.