List of Famous people born in India

Geethu Anna Jose is an Indian basketball player who has been the captain of the Indian women's national basketball team.

Preeti Jhangiani is an Indian model and actress. She is known for her work in Mazhavil(Malayalam)Mohabbatein (2000).

Sara Rai, is a contemporary Indian writer, editor of anthologies and translator of modern Hindi and Urdu fiction. She lives in Allahabad and New Delhi in North India. Rai mainly writes and publishes short stories in Hindi. Written in a reflective prose style, her stories explore the individual complexities in the lives of ordinary people and outsiders in contemporary India.

Senayangba Chubatoshi Jamir is an Indian politician and former Governor of Odisha. He has served as the Chief Minister of Nagaland, Governor of Maharashtra, Governor of Gujarat, Governor of Goa and Governor of Odisha. He was awarded the third-highest Civilian Award in India, Padma Bhusan in 2020 for his work in public affairs.

Jogesh C. Pati is an Indian American theoretical physicist at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao FRS, is an Indian chemist who has worked mainly in solid-state and structural chemistry. He has honorary doctorates from 83 universities from around the world, and has authored around 1,770 research publications and 53 books. He is described as a scientist who had won all possible awards in his field except the Nobel Prize.

Nigaar Khan is an Indian movie actress mainly known for her portrayal of negative characters. She was a contestant in the reality show Bigg Boss in 2014.

Tiku Talsania is an Indian film and television actor from Mumbai. Apart from acting in films and television serials, he also performs as a freelance theatre artist, working for Gujarati theatre in Mumbai and in foreign countries United States and Europe.

Dabbala Rajagopal "Raj" Reddy is an Indian-American computer scientist and a winner of the Turing Award. He is one of the early pioneers of Artificial Intelligence and has served on the faculty of Stanford and Carnegie Mellon for over 50 years. He was the founding director of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He was instrumental in helping to create Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies in India, to cater to the educational needs of the low-income, gifted, rural youth. He is the chairman of International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad. He is the first person of Asian origin to receive the ACM Turing Award, in 1994, known as the Nobel Prize of Computer Science, for his work in the field of artificial intelligence.

Richa Pallod is an Indian model and film actress who has been featured in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam language films. After appearing as a child artiste in Lamhe (1991), she appeared in an award-winning role in Nuvve Kavali (2000), her first film in Telugu. She has appeared in several Hindi films with her most notable appearance being in Yashraj Films' Neal 'N' Nikki (2005). Her roles in Tamil films Shahjahan (2001) and Unakkum Enakkum (2006) are noted whilst she has also featured in Kannada and Malayalam language films.