List of Famous people born in Shillong, India

Suzanna Arundhati Roy is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things (1997), which won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the best-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author. She is also a political activist involved in human rights and environmental causes.

Patralekha Mishra Paul is an Indian film actress. She made her debut with director Hansal Mehta's Hindi film CityLights, alongside Rajkummar Rao.

Karen Shenaz David is a Canadian-British actress, singer, and songwriter best known for portraying Princess Isabella Maria Lucia Elizabetta of Valencia in ABC's fairytale-themed musical-comedy television series, Galavant, as well as the Head of Spanish, Cesca Montoya, in the BBC One school-based drama series Waterloo Road and Layla in the American action film The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior. She starred as Angela in the ITV television series Cold Feet and played Princess Jasmine in the American television series Once Upon a Time.

Chidananda Das Gupta was an Indian filmmaker, film critic, a film historian and one of the founders of Calcutta Film Society with Satyajit Ray in 1947. He lived and worked in Calcutta and Santiniketan.

John Adrian Shepherd-Barron, OBE was a British inventor, who led the team that installed the first cash machine, sometimes referred to as the automated teller machine or ATM.