Famous Personalities of India

Renowned In India brings to anyone personalities who may have made a change to India in the grounds of Politics, Dance and also Music, Literary works, Science, Religious beliefs, Industry, Cinema etc along with  contributed a lot to India’s Traditions and Heart. Each one of these individuals has contributed towards the advancement of India in their very own way.

Here you can have a look at the particular profiles of these great Indian Personalities who make you feel proud for being an Indian.

List of Indians renowned in India and Overseas

You can get to understand these personalities in a much better way:

Beauty Queens:

• Aishwarya Rai
• Diana Hayden
• Lara Dutta
• Madhu Sapre
• Mumtaz Mahal
• Priyanka Chopra
• Sushmita Sen
• Yukta Mookhey

Businessman :

• Azim Premji
• Adi Godrej
• Amar Bose
• Anil Ambani
• B.M. Munjal
• Bhai Mohan Singh
• Dr.K. Anji Reddy
• Indra Nooyi
• Dhirubhai Ambani
• G. D. Birla
• Kumar Mangalam Birla
• Lalit Suri
• Laxmi Mittal
• M.S.Oberoi
• Mukesh Ambani
• Rahul Bajaj
• Ramalinga Raju
• Narayan Murthy
• Ratan Tata
• Sunil Mittal
• Raunaq Singh
• Shiv Nadar
• Shobhana Bhartia
• Subroto Roy
• Sulajja Firodia Motwani
• Tulsi Tanti
• Vijay Mallya
• Vinod Khosla

Dancers :

• Birju Maharaj
• Mallika Sarabhai
• Sanjukta Panigrahi
• Shovana Narayan
• Sitara Devi
• Sonal Mansingh
• Yamini Krishnamurthy

Famous Persons :

• Akbar
• Ashoka
• Anjolie Ela Meno
• Arun Sarin
• Dr. Pratap Reddy
• Ekta Kapoor
• K.P. Singh
• Baiju Bawra
• Gautama Buddha
• Guru Arjan Dev
• E. Sreedharan
• Indra Nooyi
• Kalpana Chawla
• MS Oberoi
• Guru Gobind Singh
• Guru Nanak Dev
• Guru Tegh Bahadur
• Kalidasa
• Lord Mahavir
• Rakesh Sharma
• Romesh Chandra Dutt
• Shakuntala Devi
• Shivinder Singh Sidhu
• Kiran Mazumdar Shaw
• Mallika Srinivasan
• Naina Lal Kidwai
• Nandan Nilekani
• Mirza Ghalib
• Rana Pratap
• Rani Lakshmi Bai
• Shah Jahan
• Wajid Ali Shah
• Sir Mokshagundam   Visvesvaraya
• Sister Nivedita
• Sunita Williams
• Naresh Goyal
• Shahnaz Hussain
• Subhash Chandra
• Swathi Thirunal
• Vinod Dham

Film Personalities :

• Amitabh Bachchan
• Aamir Khan
• Ajay Devgan
• Ashok Kumar
• B.R.Chopra
• Basu Bhattacharya
• Dada Kondke
• Dadasaheb Phalke
• Deepa Mehta
• Dev Anand
• Devika Rani
• Dharmendra
• Dimple Kapadia
• Guru Dutt
• Hrithik Roshan
• Jaya Bachchan
• Jitendra
• Karan Johar
• Sri Devi
• Dilip Kumar
• Girish Karnad
• Hema Malini
• Kamal Amrohi
• Kamal Hasan
• Madhu Bala
• Mani Ratnam
• Manmohan Desai
• Meera Nair
• R. Madhavan
• Madhuri Dixit
• Mammootty
• Manoj Kumar
• Manoj Night Shyamalan
• Mithun Chakraborty
• Mohanlal
• Subhash Ghai
• Sunil Dutt
• Smita Patil
• Naseeruddin Shah
• Raj Kapoor
• Rajendra Kumar
• Ritu Beri
• Satyajit Ray
• Shabana Azmi
• Shivaji Ganeshan
• Shyam Benegal
• Uttam Kumar
• V. Shantaram
• Yash Chopra
• Nana Patekar
• Nargis
• Rajinikanth
• Rekha
• Salman Khan
• Sanjay Dutt
• Sharmila Tagore
• Shahrukh Khan

Freedom Fighters :

• Annie Besant
• Aruna Asaf Ali
• Ajmal Khan
• Bal Gangadhar Tilak
• Bipin Chandra Pal
• Bhagat Singh
• Bahadur Shah Zafar
• Begum Hazrat Mahal
• Bishnu Ram Medhi
• Govind Ballabh Pant
• Shahu Chhatrapati
• Kasturba Gandhi
• Madam Cama
• Mangal Pandey
• Chandra Shekhar Azad
• Dr. B R Ambedkar
• Jawaharlal Nehru
• Lakshmibai
• Lala Lajpat Rai
• Jyotiba Phule
• Vinoba Bhave
• Chakravarthi   Rajagopalachari
• Chittaranjan Das
• Dadabhai Naoroji
• Gopal Krishna Gokhale
• Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
• Motilal Nehru
• Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan
• Mahatma Gandhi
• Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
• Subash Chandra Bose
• ‘Veer’ Savarkar
• Mridula Sarabhai
• Pattabhi Sitaramayya
• Rani Gaidinliu
• S.Srinivasa Iyengar
• Sucheta Kriplani

Musicians :

•  R. Rahman
• Ali Akbar Khan
• Alla Rakha
• Amir Khusro
• Amjad Ali Khan
• Allauddin Khan
• Ananda Shankar
• Begum Akhtar
• Anand Bakshi
• Anand Milind
• Bappi Lahiri
• Tyagaraja
• Gulzar
• Jasraj Pandit
• Majrooh Sultanpuri
• Naushad Ali
• Pandit Bhimsen Joshi
• Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia
• Laxmi Kant Pyarelal
• Madan Mohan
• Nadeem Shravan
• Annapurna Devi
• L. Subramaniam
• MS Subbulakshmi
• Muthuswami Dikshitar
• Pandit Ravi Shankar
• Tansen
• Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan
• Ustad Bismillah Khan
• Zakir Hussain
• Rajesh Roshan
• S D Burman
• Shankar Ehsaan Loy
• Shankar Jaikishan
• Shubha Mudgal
• Pandit Debu Chaudhuri
• RD Burman
• Shiv Kumar Sharma
• Sri Lalgudi Jayarama Iyer

Painters :  

• M. F. Hussain
• Rameshwar Broota
• Satish Gujral

Personalities in Abroad :

• Amitava Ghosh
• Sabeer Bhatia
• Mira Nair
• Salman Rushdie
• Swraj Paul

Politicians :

• Ananth Kumar
• Ananthasayanam   Ayyangar
• Arjun Singh
• B. C. Khanduri
• Balram Jakhar
• Bhupinder Singh Hooda
• Biju Patnaik
• Ghulam Nabi Azad
• K.R Gowri Amma
• E. S. L. Narasimhan
• Gegong Apang
• Sanjay Gandhi
• Gopal Krishna Gandhi
• Gopinath Bordoloi
• H. D. Kumaraswamy
• J Dringwell Rymbai
• James Michael Lyngdoh
• Jaswant Singh
• Jyoti Basu
• Kailas Nath Katju
• Khushwant Singh
• Lachit Borphukan
• Lal Krishna Advani
• Lalu Prasad Yadav
• P. Chidambaram
• Pramod Mahajan
• Shri Balasaheb   Gangadhar Kher
• T.N. Seshan
• Yashwant Sinha
• K Kamaraj
• Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

President of India :

• Dr. Rajendra Prasad
• Dr. Zakir Husain
• Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
• Kocheril Raman Narayanan
• B D Jatti
• Muhammad Hidayatull
• Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
• R.Venkataraman
• Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
• Shankar Dayal Sharma
• Dr. A.P.J.Abdul Kalam
• Varahagiri Venkata Giri
• Shrimati Pratibha Devisingh Patil

Prime Minister :

• Choudhary Charan Singh
• Giani Zail Singh
• Atal Bihari Vajpayee
• Indira Gandhi
• Dr Manmohan Singh
• Inder Kumar Gujral
• Morarji Desai
• Chandra Shekhar
• Gulzarilal Nanda
• Rajiv Gandhi
• Lal Bahadur Shastri
• P.V. Narasimha Rao
• Vishwanath Pratap Singh

Poet :

• Amrita Pritam
• Bankim Chandra   Chattarjee
• Firaq Gorakhpuri
• Kabir
• Girish Chandra Ghosh
• Sri Aurobindo
• Mahadevi Verma
• Maithili Sharan Gupt
• Mohammad Iqbal
• Rabindra Nath Tagore
• Maithili Sharan Gupt
• Michael Madhusudan Dutt
• Subhadra Kumari   Chauhan
• Ramdhari Singh “Dinkar”
• Sumitranandan Pant
• Suryakant Tripathi
• Waris Shah
• Padmakar
• Subramanya Bharathi
• Nagarjun

Religious Thinkers :

• Ramakrishna Paramahansa
• Osho
• Acharya Narendra Deo
• Dayanand Saraswati
• Sri Satya Sai Baba
• Swami Vivekanand
• Adi Sankaracharya
• Mirabai

Scholars :

• A.K. Ramanujan
• Amartya Sen
• Dr. S Radhakrishnan
• M G Ranade
• Meghnad Saha
• Vishnu Sharma
• Srinivasa Ramanujan

Scientists :

• Dr. A.P.J.Abdul Kalam
• Dr.H.J.Bhabha
• Dr. H. Khorana
• Anil Kakodkar
• Birbal Sahni
• Dr. S. Chandrasekhar
• C.V.Raman
• Jagdish Chandra Bose
• Dr Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar
• Vikram.A.Sarabhai
• M Visvesvaraya
• Satyendra Nath Bose
• Shantha Sinha

Singers :

• Asha Bhonsle
• Kishore Kumar
• Kundan Lal Saigal
• Alisha Chinai
• Alka Yagnik
• Hemlata
• Lata Mangeshkar
• Mohammed Rafi
• Amit Kumar
• Anwar
• Jagjit Singh
• Sukhwiner Singh
• Kumar Sanu
• Manna Dey
• Mukesh
• Nitin Mukesh
• Sonu Nigam
• Suresh Wadekar
• Udit Narayan

Social Activists :

• Arundhati Roy
• Dr. Verghese Kurien
• Kiran Bedi
• Baba Amte
• Mother Teresa
• Raja Ram Mohan Roy
• Sarojini Naidu
• Medha Patkar
• Abdul Ghaffar Khan
• Karsanbhai Patel
• Rajkumari Amrit Kaur

 Sport Persons :

• Dhyan Chand
• Gama Pehalwan
• Jahnu Barua
• Kapil Dev
• Karnam Malleswari
• Leander Paes
• Mahesh Bhupathi
• Mihir Sen
• Narain karthikeyan
• P.T.Usha
• Prakash Padukone
• Ravi Shastri
• Rahul Dravid
• Sachin Tendulkar
• Sania Mirza
• Sourav Ganguly
• Sunil Gavaskar
• Vishwanathan Anand

Writer :

• Anita Desai
• Ananthmurthy, N. R
• Bana Bhatta
• Jhumpa Lahiri
• Mohan Rakesh
• Hazari Prasad Dwivedi
• Jai Shankar Prasad
• Kamala Das
• Raja Rao
• Kiran Desai
• Mahasweta Devi
• Mulk Raj Anand
• Premchand
• R.K.Narayan
• U.R. Ananthamurthy
• Kamleshwar
• Manik Bandopadhyay
• Mohan Rakesh
• Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
• Nirad C Chaudhuri
• Shashi Deshpande
• Shashi Tharoor
• Valmiki
• Vikram Seth
• Vishnu Prabhakar
• Vyasa
• Nissim Ezekeil
• Phanishwar Nath Renu
• Vikram Chandra
• Shobha De
• V.S.Naipaul