List of Famous people born in India
Mangal Lodha
Mangal Prabhat Lodha is a businessman and politician. He was the President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) unit of Mumbai unit. He is the founder of the Lodha Group, a Mumbai based real estate developer into housing and commercial projects. He is also the Member of the Legislative Assembly representing the Malabar Hill constituency of South Mumbai.
Jasleen Royal
Jasleen Kaur Royal, known professionally as Jasleen Royal, is an Indian singer, songwriter and composer who sings in Punjabi, Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati as well as in English.
Devadass Ambrose Mariadoss
Devadass Ambrose Mariadoss is an Indian Catholic bishop serving the Roman Catholic Diocese of Thanjavur. He was born on 6 October 1947 to Mariadoss and Ranjitham, a Catholic family from Ammapet in Thanjavur District of Tamil Nadu state. After finishing his basic education at Appavu Thevar High School at Ukkadai, he joined St. Mary's Minor Seminary to become a diocesan priest when the diocese was in a desperate need for the native priests and then he was sent to Sri Pushpam College, Poondi, along with F. Antonysamy, the present bishop of Kumbakonam to do a pre-university course for his secular UG degree. After finishing his secular studies, he was sent to St. Paul's Seminary, Trichy for his priestly formation and for his philosophical (B.ph) and theological studies (B.Th.). Eventually, he was ordained a priest on 5 August 1974 by Bishop Arokiasamy Sundaram, the first Bishop of Thanjavur.
Padmanabha Acharya
Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya is an Indian politician. He was Governor of Nagaland.
Remya Nambeesan
Remya Nambeesan is an Indian film actress and singer who appears in Malayalam and Tamil films. She has starred in over 60 films as child artist, minor supporting roles to character roles and has also sung over dozen songs including the song "Aande Londe" for the film Ivan Megharoopan (2012) and song "Muthuchippi Poloru" for Thattathin Marayathu (2012).
Dhritiman Chatterjee
Dhritiman Chatterjee is an Indian actor. He began his acting career in 1970 as the protagonist of Satyajit Ray's Pratidwandi. Most of his acting work has been in India's "parallel", or independent, cinema with filmmakers such as Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen and Aparna Sen, among others. He has also worked in English films with well-known filmmakers such as Deepa Mehta and Jane Campion. He has received several acting awards in India and has been on the Jury of the Indian National film Awards.
Jerry Rao
Jaithirth Rao, popularly known as Jerry Rao, is an Indian businessman and entrepreneur. He is the founder and former CEO of the software company Mphasis. He is the founder of Value and Budget Housing Corporation (VBHC), an affordable housing venture which he founded in 2008. He was also a founder and director of Home First Finance Company, a Housing Finance company focused on providing housing finance to first time home buyers. He was also a member of the editorial advisory board of the Swarajya magazine.
Samridh Bawa
Samridh Bawa is an Indian television actor. He is majorly known for his role of Leeladhar Chaturvedi in Life OK's Mere Rang Mein Rangne Waali and Karan Singh Chauhan in Colors TV's Ek Shringaar-Swabhiman.
Rupal Patel
Rupal Patel is an Indian actress best known for portraying Kokila Desai Modi in the drama series Saath Nibhaana Saathiya and Meenakshi Rajvansh Kapadia in Yeh Rishtey Hain Pyaar Ke.
Ruthvika Shivani
Gadde Ruthvika Shivani is an Indian badminton player who currently plays singles. She trains at the Gopichand Badminton Academy.