List of Famous people born in India

Michael James Radford is an Indian-born English film director and screenwriter. He began his career as a documentary director and television comedy writer before transitioning into features in the early 1980s. His best-known credits include the 1984 film adaptation of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four starring John Hurt and Richard Burton, the Shakespeare adaptation The Merchant of Venice, the true crime drama White Mischief, and the 1994 Italian-language comedy drama Il Postino: The Postman, for which he won the BAFTA Awards for Best Direction and Best Film Not in the English Language, and earned Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Zayed Abbas Khan is an Indian actor and producer who appears in Hindi films. He has received a Filmfare Award nomination and is the son of Bollywood actor Sanjay Khan.

Mohammad Akram Nadwi is an Islamic scholar and the Dean of Cambridge Islamic College, Principal of Al-Salam Institute, and an Honorary Visiting Fellow at the Markfield Institute of Higher Education. He is the author of the 43 volume biographical dictionary called Al-Wafa Bi Asma Al-Nisa, which chronicles the lives of 10,000 female hadith scholars and narrators.

Boman Irani is an Indian theatre and Bollywood film actor, voice artist, and photographer of Irani descent. After making his film debut with the 2003 anthology horror film Darna Mana Hai, Irani had his first commercial success with the 2003 comedy Munna Bhai M.B.B.S.

Hari Gopalakrishnan is an Indian film director best known for his action and masala films in Tamil cinema. He made his directorial debut with Thamizh (2002). He later directed films such as Saamy (2003), Kovil (2004), Ayya (2005), Thaamirabharani (2007), Vel (2007) and the Singam film series.

Vikram Singh Chauhan is an Indian actor known for portraying Atharv Vashisht in Jaana Na Dil Se Door, Vyom Bedi / Akash Khurana in Ek Deewaana Tha and Aman Junaid Khan in Yehh Jadu Hai Jinn Ka!.

Michael John Hartmann GBS is a senior judge. He is Chairman of the Market Misconduct Tribunal and the Securities and Futures Appeals Tribunal in Hong Kong.

Vrushika Mehta is an Indian actress and professional dancer known for playing Sharon Rai Prakash in Channel V's Dil Dosti Dance and Puchki/Devika Ghosh in Zee TV's Yeh Teri Galiyan.

Samiksha Jaiswal is an Indian television actress known for her role of Mehek Sharma in Zee TV's Zindagi Ki Mehek and Noor Qureshi in Bahu Begum.

Tina Datta is an Indian television actress known for her dual portrayal of Ichha and Meethi in the popular daily soap Uttaran, that aired on Colors TV. She was a participant in Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi and then was seen in Shani and Daayan.