List of Famous people born in India
Naveen Selvadurai
Naveen Selvadurai is an American internet entrepreneur and co-founder of location-based social networking site Foursquare.com. Until recently, he was working at startup studio Expa which was founded by co-founder of Uber and StumbleUpon - Garrett Camp, as a partner. He was featured in Inc Magazine's 30 under 30 list in the year 2010. He was also featured in Rediff.com's article - 4 NRIs among US's coolest young entrepreneurs.
Abul Hasnat Khan
Abul Hasnat Khan is an Indian politician belonging to the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM). He is a four-time MLA and two-time MP.
Siril Verma
Siril Verma is an Indian badminton player. He was the silver medalist at the 2015 World Junior Championships. He reached a career high of world no. 1 of the world junior ranking in January 2016. Verma was the gold medalists at the 2019 South Asian Games in the men's singles and team events.
Baselios Cleemis
Baselios Cleemis is the current major archbishop of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church. He was named to the College of Cardinals of the Catholic Church by Pope Benedict XVI on 24 November 2012.
Sukhdev Thapar
Sukhdev Thapar was an Indian revolutionary. A senior member of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association, he participated in several actions alongside Bhagat Singh and Shivaram Rajguru, and was hanged by the British authorities on 23 March 1931 at the age of 23.
Tammineni Sitaram
Tammineni Sitaram is an Indian politician from the YSR Congress Party. He is the current speaker of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly.
Raju Narisetti
Raju Narisetti is a career journalist, former editor at major newspapers, and since June 2018 a director and professor of Professional Practice at the Columbia Journalism School. In October 2017, Narisetti was appointed to the board of trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation – publisher of Wikipedia and other sister projects.
Andrews Thazhath
Mar Andrews Thazhath
ܡܵܪܝ ܐܲܢܕܪܲܝܘܿܣ ܡܸܛܪܵܦܘܿܠܝܼܛܵܐ is an Indian Catholic archbishop.He is the third and the present metropolitan archbishop of Syro-Malabar Catholic Archdiocese of Trichur from 2007. He was nominated as the archbishop succeeding Mar Jacob Thoomkuzhy on 22 January 2007 and was installed to the office on 18 March 2007 by Cardinal Mar Varkey Vithayathil.
Founder, father and head of Legion of Apostolic Families (LOAF). LOAF is a lay pious association of consecrated families founded by Mar Andrews Thazhath in 2009.
Lakshya Sen
Lakshya Sen is an Indian badminton player. Sen, born in Almora, belongs to a badminton family. His father, D. K. Sen, is a coach in India and his brother, Chirag Sen, is also an international badminton player. Trained at the Prakash Padukone Badminton Academy, Sen has shown his talent as a badminton player at a young age, and has had a brilliant year in the junior badminton circuit in 2016. He became the number one junior singles player in BWF World Junior ranking in February, 2017. Sen also competed in the senior international level and won the men's singles title at the 2016 India International Series tournament. He emerged as the champion at the 2018 Asian Junior Championships defeating the top seeded World No. 1 Kunlavut Vitidsarn in the final.
George Alencherry
George Alencherry is the Major Archbishop (Head) of the Syro-Malabar Church and is also a cardinal of the Catholic Church. The title of Major Archbishop is essentially equivalent to that of a patriarch. He was elected by the Holy Synod of the Syro-Malabar Church in 2011 to succeed Varkey Vithayathil. He was created a cardinal on 18 February 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI. He was the first bishop of Thuckalay from 1997 to 2011 before his enthronement as the Major Archbishop. He is also the current president of Kerala Catholic Bishops' Council (KCBC), which is the general conference for the bishops of the Latin, Malankara Catholic and Syro-Malabar Catholic hierarchies of Kerala, and the Chairman of the Inter-church Council of Kerala.