List of Famous people born in India
Shalini Pandey
Shalini Pandey is an Indian actress who appears predominantly in Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi films. She established herself with her debut in Arjun Reddy, a Telugu film.
Sameera Reddy
Sameera Reddy is a former Indian actress who primarily starred in Hindi-language films. She has also appeared in a few Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Kannada and Malayalam-language films.
Sarbananda Sonowal
Sarbananda Sonowal is an Indian politician and current Chief Minister of Assam, Sonowal also served as the Union Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs, Government of India. He was elected as the Chief Minister of Assam in 2016.
Om Raut
Om Raut is an Indian film director, writer & producer who works in Hindi and Marathi cinema. He received numerous awards for his 2015 Marathi film Lokmanya: Ek Yug Purush. Raut is currently working on his Hindi historical magnum opus Adipurush, based on Ramayana and starring Prabhas.
Jayanthi
Kamala Kumari, known by her mononymous stage name Jayanthi, is an Indian actress known for her work in Kannada cinema. She is noted for her contributions to different genres of films from the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s. She has appeared in over 500 films, including films in the Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi and Marathi languages. She has received seven Karnataka State Film Awards, four times as Best Actress and twice as Best Supporting Actress the President's Medal for Best Actress and two Filmfare Awards for Best Actress. She has been cited as Kannada cinema's "most bold and beautiful" actress by various media outlets, a title for which she has received substantial publicity. The Kannada film industry has honored her with the title "Abhinaya Sharadhe",.
Poonam Dhillon
Poonam Dhillon is an Indian Hindi-language film, theatre and TV actress and a politician. A former Femina Miss India (1977), she is best known for her 1979 film Noorie. Some of her well-known films include Red Rose, Dard, Romance (1983), Sohni Mahiwal (1984), Teri Meherbaniyan (1985) Samundar (1986), Saveray Wali Gaadi (1986), Karma (1986), Naam (1986) and Maalamaal (1988).
Sajid Nadiadwala
Sajid Nadiadwala is an Indian film producer, director, and owner of Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment. He is the grandson of filmmaker A K Nadiadwala, and has written and produced films including Housefull (2010), Baaghi (2016) to directing Kick (2014) that brought him various debutant director awards, and wrote the Marathi film Lai Bhaari that was produced by Riteish Deshmukh.
Stuart Binny
Stuart Terence Roger Binny is an Indian international cricketer, who has played One Day Internationals, Twenty20 Internationals, and Tests. He played for the Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League.
Anupam Shyam
Anupam Shyam was an Indian film and television actor, who usually played villainous roles. He appeared as Thakur Sajjan Singh in the STAR Plus TV series Mann Kee Awaaz Pratigya. Apart from that, he worked in films like Lajja, Nayak, Dubai Return, Parzania, Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi (2005), Shakti: The Power, Bandit Queen, in the internationally acclaimed movie Slumdog Millionaire (2008) and acted in numerous international films set in India. He died on 8 August 2021 at the age of 63 due to multiple organ failure.
Mohammad Hamid Ansari
Mohammad Hamid Ansari is an Indian politician and retired Indian Foreign Service officer who served as the 12th Vice President of India from 2007 to 2017.