List of Famous people born in India

Leander Adrian Paes is an Indian professional tennis player. He holds the record for the most doubles wins in the Davis Cup. Paes has won eight doubles and ten mixed doubles Grand Slam titles. He holds a career Grand Slam in men's doubles and mixed doubles, and achieved the rare men's doubles/mixed doubles double at the 1999 Wimbledon tournament. His mixed doubles Wimbledon title in 2010 made him the second man to win Wimbledon titles in three decades.

Yeduguri Sandinti Jagan Mohan Reddy, also known as Y. S. Jagan or mononymously Jagan, is an Indian politician serving as the 17th and current chief minister of Andhra Pradesh since 30 May 2019. He is also the founder and president of the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP).

Muthuvel Karunanidhi Stalin is an Indian politician from Tamil Nadu and the opposition leader in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly since 25 May 2016. He is the son of the former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, M. Karunanidhi.

Amarjeet Sohi is an Indo-Canadian politician who served as Minister of Natural Resources from 2018 to 2019 and Minister of Infrastructure and Communities from 2015 to 2018. A Liberal, Sohi sat as the member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Edmonton Mill Woods in the House of Commons from his 2015 election until his defeat in the 2019 election.

Varun Dhawan is an Indian actor who works in Hindi films. One of the country's highest-paid celebrities, he has featured in Forbes India's Celebrity 100 list since 2014. Born to the film director David Dhawan, he studied business management from the Nottingham Trent University, after which he worked as an assistant director to Karan Johar on the 2010 drama My Name Is Khan. Eventually, across his foray into acting, he became the only actor in the history of Indian cinema to feature in eleven box-office successes in a row from the inception of his career.

Tamanna Bhatia, known professionally as Tamannaah, is an Indian film actress who predominantly appears in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi-language films. In addition to acting, she also participates in stage shows and is a prominent celebrity endorser for brands and products.

Vijay Raghavendra is an Indian film actor who appears predominantly in Kannada films. Referred to popularly as "Chinnari Mutha", Vijay is the son of producer S. A. Chinne Gowda and nephew of actor Rajkumar.

Madhubala was an Indian actress, film producer and playback singer who worked in Hindi films. One of the most popular and highest-paid actresses of her time, she appeared in 73 Bollywood films in a career spanning over two decades. In the media, she is referred to as one of the most beautiful, greatest and influential personalities of Indian cinema.

Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee is an Indian-born naturalized American economist who is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Banerjee shared the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty". He and Esther Duflo, who are married, are the sixth married couple to jointly win a Nobel Prize.

Sonu Nigam is an Indian singer, music director and actor. He sings predominantly in Hindi and Kannada language films but has also sung in Bengali, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Nepali, Malayalam, Tulu and other Indian languages. Nigam has also released numbers of albums and acted in some Hindi films. He is known as the “Modern Rafi” after his idol Mohammad Rafi, Sonu has won multiple awards including a nomination for academy awards