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Indian Americans are citizens or residents of the
United States of America who trace their family descent to
India .
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[2] Notable Indian Americans include:
Academics
Nobel Prize recipients
Subramanyan Chandrasekhar ,
Nobel Prize for Physics , 1983
Har Gobind Khorana (1922-2011),
Nobel Prize in Medicine , 1968
Subramanyan Chandrasekhar (1910-1995),
Nobel Prize for Physics , 1983
Amartya Sen (b. 1933),
Nobel Prize in Economics , 1998; Professor of Economics at
Harvard University
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (b. 1952),
Nobel Prize in Chemistry , 2009; Former
President of the Royal Society , (2015-2020)
Abhijit Banerjee (b. 1961),
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences , 2019; Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Deans and presidents
Rakesh Khurana (born 1967), dean of
Harvard College
[4]
Neeli Bendapudi (born 1962), president of
University of Louisville
[5]
Jamshed Bharucha (born 1956), former president of
Cooper Union , (2011-2015); former dean of arts & sciences at
Dartmouth College and former provost at
Tufts University
Vijay K. Dhir (born 1943), former dean of the
UCLA
Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science , (2003-2016)
Ravi V. Bellamkonda (born 1968), Vinik Dean of Engineering at
Duke University
Edmund T. Pratt Jr. School of Engineering
[6]
Dinesh D'Souza (born 1961), former president of
The King's College, New York , (2010-2012)
Anjli Jain (born 1981), executive director of
Campus Consortium
Dipak C. Jain (born 1957), former dean of
INSEAD , (2011-2013); former dean of the
Kellogg School of Management at
Northwestern University , (2001-2009)
Vistasp Karbhari , former president of the
University of Texas at Arlington , (2013-2020)
Pramod Khargonekar (born 1956), control theorist; vice chancellor of research at
University of California, Irvine ;
[7] former dean, College of Engineering at
University of Florida , Gainesville, (2001-2009)
Renu Khator (born 1958), chancellor of the
University of Houston System and president of the
University of Houston ;
[8] former provost and senior vice president,
University of South Florida
Pradeep Khosla (born 1957), chancellor of the
University of California, San Diego
[9]
Sunil Kumar (academic administrator) , president of
Tufts University ,
[10]
Vijay Kumar (born 1962), dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the
University of Pennsylvania
[11]
Saira Rao , former Colorado congressional candidate and activist
[12]
Geeta Menon , dean emeritus of the undergraduate college at
New York University Stern School of Business
[13]
Nitin Nohria (born 1962), former dean of
Harvard Business School ,
[14] (2010-2020)
Sethuraman Panchanathan , director of
National Science Foundation and former executive vice president and chief research and innovation officer at
Arizona State University
[15]
Michael Rao , president of
Virginia Commonwealth University
S. Narasinga Rao , former dean of Jackson College of Graduate Studies and Research at the
University of Central Oklahoma
Beheruz Sethna , president of the
University of West Georgia
Paul Shrivastava , chief sustainability officer and director, Sustainability Institute,
Pennsylvania State University
Molly Easo Smith , president of
Manhattanville College
Kumble R. Subbaswamy , chancellor of the
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Subra Suresh , president of
Carnegie Mellon University
Satish K. Tripathi , president of
University at Buffalo
Sundaraja Sitharama Iyengar , Ryder Professor of Computer Science and director of the School of Computing and Information Sciences at
Florida International University , Miami
S. Shankar Sastry , former dean of the
UC Berkeley College of Engineering
Bala V. Balachandran (born 1937), professor emeritus at
Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University ; founder, dean and chairman of
Great Lakes Institute of Management and executive professor & strategy adviser to the dean of the
Bauer College of Business at
University of Houston
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Nagi Naganathan , president of
Oregon Institute of Technology
[18] and former president and dean of the College of Engineering at the
University of Toledo , (2001-2016)
Sri Zaheer , dean of
Carlson School of Management at the
University of Minnesota
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Vallabh Sambamurthy , Dean of the
Wisconsin School of Business at the
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Shiva Jaganathan , Chief Data Officer at the
The University of Texas at Austin
Mathematicians
Raj Chandra Bose (1901-1987), mathematician
Shamit Kachru (b. 1970), Mathematical Physicist, professor at
Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics
Akshay Venkatesh (b. 1981), Fields Medal laureate, mathematician
Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar (1930-2012), mathematician, singularity theory and
Abhyankar's conjecture of finite group theory
Raghu Raj Bahadur (1924-1997),
statistician
Manjul Bhargava (b. 1974), professor of mathematics at
Princeton University and winner of
Fields Medal , 2014
Rahul Pandharipande (b. 1969), joined as Professor of Mathematics at
Princeton University in 2002, he accepted a Professorship at
ETH Zürich
Sarvadaman Chowla (1907-1995), mathematician specializing in
number theory
Harish-Chandra (1923-1983), mathematician, IBM Von Neumann Professor at
Institute for Advanced Study , Princeton
Narendra Karmarkar (b. 1955), mathematician, inventor of
Karmarkar algorithm
Chandrashekhar Khare (b. 1968), professor of mathematics at the
University of California Los Angeles
G. S. Maddala (1933-1999), mathematician and economist best known for work in the field of
econometrics
Anil Nerode (b. 1932), mathematician, proved the
Myhill-Nerode Theorem
Ria Persad (b. 1974), mathematician, classical musician, and model
K. C. Sreedharan Pillai (1920-1985), mathematician
Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao (1920–2023), professor at
Penn State University and research professor at the University of Buffalo
S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan (b. 1940),
NYU mathematician who specialised in probability; winner of the
Abel Prize and
Steele Prize
DJ Patil (b. 1974), mathematician & Data scientist
Sucharit Sarkar (b. 1983), mathematician and topologist
Sourav Chatterjee (b. 1979), statistician, mathematician and professor at Stanford
Kannan Soundararajan (b. 1973), mathematician, professor at Stanford and IMO medalist.
Subhash Khot (b. 1978), mathematician, theoretical computer scientist famous for
Unique games conjecture .
Sanjeev Arora (b. 1968), mathematician, theoretical computer scientist and
Gödel Prize winner.
Kiran Kedlaya (b. 1974), mathematician
Economists
Abhijit Banerjee , Professor of Economics at
MIT ,
Nobel Prize winner in Economic Sciences in 2019.
Abhijit Banerjee (b. 1961),
Ford Foundation international professor of economics at
MIT , and Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences 2019.
Pranab Bardhan (b. 1939), Professor Emeritus of Economics
University of California, Berkeley
Kaushik Basu (b. 1952), C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics
Cornell University
Jagdish Natwarlal Bhagwati (b. 1934), professor of economics at
Columbia University
Alok Bhargava (b. 1954), professor of economics at the
University of Maryland School of Public Policy
V. V. Chari (b. 1952), professor of economics at the
University of Minnesota
Raj Chetty (b. 1979), professor of economics at
Harvard University
Srikant Datar , The 11th Dean of
Harvard Business School , took charge from January 1, 2021
Avinash Kamalakar Dixit (b. 1944), professor of economics at
Princeton University
Gita Gopinath (b. 1971), chief economist at the
International Monetary Fund and Economic Adviser to the Chief Minister of Kerala
Reema Harrysingh-Carmona (b. 1970), economist and the 5th
First Lady of Trinidad and Tobago
Sendhil Mullainathan (b. 1973), professor of economics, Harvard University
Arvind Panagariya (b. 1952), professor of economics at Columbia University
Debraj Ray (b. 1957), Silver Professor of Economics,
New York University
Ruchir Sharma , chief global strategist of
asset management and
emerging markets
equity ,
Morgan Stanley Investment Management
Arvind Subramanian (b. 1959), Chief Economic Advisor Government of India and formerly an economist at the
International Monetary Fund
Professors and scholars in computer science or engineering and electrical engineering
Amit Sahai (b.1974), professor of computer science at
University of California, Los Angeles , fellow of
Association for Computing Machinery ,
Amit Sheth , computer scientist at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio
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Anant Agarwal , professor of electrical engineering and director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at
MIT
Aravind Joshi (1929-2017), professor of computer and cognitive science at the
University of Pennsylvania
Arvind , Johnson Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Arogyaswami Paulraj (b. 1944), professor of electrical engineering at
Stanford University
Ashwin Ram (b. 1960), head of artificial intelligence
Amazon Alexa
Avinash Kak (b. 1944), professor of electrical and computer engineering at
Purdue University
B. Jayant Baliga (b. 1948), inventor of the
Insulated-gate bipolar transistor
Bhubaneswar Mishra (b. 1961), professor of computer science, engineering & mathematics at
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of
New York University and visiting scholar at
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory .
Chandra Kintala (1948-2009), former Vice President
Bell Labs
Gopal H. Gaonkar (b. 1936), a professor of engineering at
Florida Atlantic University
Hari Balakrishnan , Fujitsu Chair Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
K. Mani Chandy , professor of computer science at the
California Institute of Technology
Krishna Saraswat , professor of electrical engineering at
Stanford University
Madhu Sudan , professor of computer science at
Harvard University
Prabhat Mishra , professor of computer science and engineering at
University of Florida
Raj Jain , professor of computer science and engineering at
Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science
Rangasami L. Kashyap (b. 1938), professor of electrical engineering at
Purdue University
Ricky J. Sethi , professor of computer science at
Fitchburg State University ; director of Research at
The Madsci Network
Saraju Mohanty , professor of computer science and engineering at the
University of North Texas
Shree K. Nayar , professor of computer science at
Columbia University
Shrikanth Narayanan , award-winning researcher, inventor and educator at
University of Southern California
Shwetak Patel , professor of computer science and electrical engineering at the
University of Washington
Supriyo Datta , Thomas Duncan Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the
Purdue University
Thomas Kailath , professor of engineering at
Stanford University
Vijay Vazirani (b. 1957), professor of computer science at
University of California, Irvine
Suman Datta (b. 1973), professor of electrical engineering at the
University of Notre Dame , Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Stinson Professor of Nanotechnology at the University of Notre Dame
Professors and scholars in other disciplines
Arun Rai , Regents' Professor of the University System of Georgia and Howard S. Starks Distinguished Chair,
Georgia State University
Amishi Jha , American neuroscientist and professor of psychology
Kuzhikalail M. Abraham , professor at
Northeastern University , electrochemistry; materials science; lithium, lithium ion, and lithium air batteries
Mrinal K. Sen , John A. and Katherine G. Jackson Chair in Applied Seismology at Jackson School of Geosciences,
University of Texas at Austin .
Nita Ahuja , Chief of Surgical Oncology at
Johns Hopkins Hospital , surgeon-scientist, first women ever to lead this department at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Pulickel M. Ajayan , professor of material science at
Rice University
Salman Akhtar , professor at the
Jefferson Medical College
Muzaffar Alam , professor in South Asian Languages & Civilizations at the
University of Chicago
Akhil Amar , professor of law at
Yale Law School
Vikram Amar , professor of law at the
University of California, Davis School of Law
Abhay Ashtekar , professor of physics and Director of the Institute for Gravitational Physics and Geometry at
Pennsylvania State University
Satya N. Atluri , Presidential Chair and University Distinguished Professor
Texas Tech University , Recipient, Padma Bhushan in Science and Engineering in 2013 from the President of India
P.S. Ayyaswamy , professor of dynamical engineering at the
University of Pennsylvania
Homi K. Bhabha , Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature and Language, and the Director of the Mahindra Humanities Center at
Harvard University
Mahzarin Banaji , professor at
Harvard University , best known for exploring implicit racial and gender biases
Sugata Bose , professor of history at Harvard University
Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty , professor of microbiology at
University of Illinois at Chicago
Arup Chakraborty , Robert T. Haslam Professor focusing in biophysics, computational modeling and infectious disease at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Naresh Dalal , Dirac Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at
Florida State University
Aswath Damodaran , professor of finance at the
Stern School of Business at New York University
Ashok Das , professor of physics at the
University of Rochester
Ashok Gadgil , professor of civil and environmental engineering at the
University of California, Berkeley
Rajit Gadh , professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at
University of California, Los Angeles
Akhilesh K. Gaharwar , professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at
Texas A&M University
Atul Gawande , professor in the Department of Health Policy & Management at
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Swapan K. Gayen , professor of physics at the
City University of New York
Anirvan Ghosh , professor at the
University of California, San Diego
Radhika Govindrajan , associate professor of anthropology at
University of Washington
Vijay Govindarajan , Coxe Distinguished Professor at
Dartmouth College's
Tuck School of Business and the Marvin Bower Fellow at
Harvard Business School
Kausalya Hart , scholar of
Tamil language at UC Berkeley
Narayan Hosmane , professor of chemistry and biochemistry at
Northern Illinois University
Ashish Jha , Dean of
Brown University School of Public Health
Ravi Jagannathan , professor at the
Kellogg School of Management
Jainendra K. Jain , professor of physics at
Pennsylvania State University
Piyare Jain , professor emeritus at
University at Buffalo
Rakesh Jain , professor of tumor biology at
Massachusetts General Hospital in the
Harvard Medical School
S. Lochlann Jain , associate professor in the Anthropology Department at
Stanford University
Sachin H. Jain , physician and health policy analyst at
Harvard Medical School
Nazir Jairazbhoy , professor of folk and classical music of South Asia at
University of California at Los Angeles
Yogesh Jaluria , Board of Governors Professor and Distinguished Professor at
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey , in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
M. A. Muqtedar Khan , Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the
University of Delaware
Ravindra Khattree , professor of
statistics at
Oakland University
Satish Nagarajaiah , professor of
civil engineering and of
mechanical engineering at
Rice University .
S. P. Kothari , Gordon Y Billard Professor of Management at
MIT Sloan School of Management
Shrinivas Kulkarni , professor of astrophysics and planetary science at
Caltech
Vijay Mahajan (academic) , John P. Harbin Centennial Chair in Business and Professor of Marketing at
University of Texas at Austin
Raj Mittra , electrical engineering professor at
Pennsylvania State University
Jagadeesh Moodera , American physicist of Indian origin; senior research scientist at
MIT 's Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory
Bharati Mukherjee , author, professor in the department of English at the University of California, Berkeley
C. M. Naim , scholar of
Urdu language and literature at the
University of Chicago
V. Parmeswaran Nair , Physicist, currently a Distinguished Professor at
City University of New York .
Shrikanth Narayanan , award-winning researcher, inventor and educator at
University of Southern California
Jaishree Odin , professor, postmodern literary theorist at the
University of Hawaii
C.K. Prahalad , professor of corporate strategy at the
Stephen M. Ross School of Business in the
University of Michigan
Vijay Prashad , professor of international studies at
Trinity College
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran , behavioral neurologist and psychophysicist; Professor with the Psychology and Neurosciences
University of California, San Diego
J. N. Reddy , professor and holder of the
Oscar S. Wyatt Endowed Chair in Mechanical Engineering at
Texas A&M University
Anantanand Rambachan , professor of religion at
St. Olaf College ,
Minnesota ,
United States
K. R. Rao , professor at
University of Texas at Arlington
Subrata Roy , professor of aerospace engineering at the
University of Florida
Subir Sachdev , Herchel Smith Professor of Physics at
Harvard University ;
Dirac Medal and
National Academy of Sciences
Nitin Samarth , Head and Professor of Physics, Pennsylvania State University
Jagdish Sheth , professor of marketing at
Goizueta Business School of Emory University
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Jagdish Shukla , professor at
George Mason University
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak , professor at
Columbia University
Marti G. Subrahmanyam , professor of finance at the
Stern School of Business at New York University
Sanjay Subrahmanyam , holder of Navin and Pratima Doshi Chair of Indian History and scholar at
UCLA
Mriganka Sur , professor of
neuroscience at the
MIT
Medha Yodh , scholar of classical Indian dance at UCLA
Venkatesh Shankar , Ford Chair in Marketing and E-Commerce,
Texas A&M University
Activism and philanthropy
Rajiv Malhotra , Hindutva activist for promoting Indic cultures, author of
Breaking India and the founder of Infinity Foundation
Maya Ajmera , founder of
The Global Fund for Children and author of more than 20 books for children
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Kala Bagai , immigrant advocate and one of the first South Asian women in the United States
Bhairavi Desai , founding member of the Taxi Workers Alliance in New York
Kartar Dhillon ,
Ghadar Party , labor, and civil rights activist
Ramesh Kapur , Massachusetts-based Democratic fundraiser
Mallika Dutt , executive director of
Breakthrough human rights organization
Vijaya Lakshmi Emani (1958-2009), social activist
Arun Manilal Gandhi , fifth grandson of
Mohandas Gandhi
Meera Gandhi , founder and CEO of The Giving Back Foundation
Abraham George , philanthropist humanitarian, founder of The George Foundation (TGF)
Gitanjali S. Gutierrez , lawyer who is defending Guantanamo prisoners
Maya Harris , of half Indian descent, executive director of the ACLU of Northern California and sister of
Kamala Harris
Prerna Lal , immigrant rights advocate and attorney
Hemant Mehta - atheist activist, YouTuber and writer
Girindra Mukerji , leader of one of the first Indian-American student protests against colonialism in 1908
Kavita Ramdas , president and CEO of Global Fund for Women
Dinesh Sharma , leader, CRO and Director at Steam Works Studio and author in human development, human rights and global education, and professor at Fordham, NYU, and Walden University
Inder Singh , chairman of the Global Organization of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO)
Bhagat Singh Thind , civil rights activist who defended the right of Indian immigrants to gain United States citizenship in
United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind
Urvashi Vaid , gay rights activist
Thomas Abraham (b. 1948), founder president of the Global Organization of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO) as well as the National Federation of Indian American Associations (NFIA)
Sakharam Ganesh Pandit (1875-1959), lawyer who argued against government efforts to revoke American citizenship for Indian emigrants
John Prabhudoss (b.1964), current Chairman of the Federation of Indian American Christian Organizations (FIACONA)
Arts and entertainment
M. Night Shyamalan , Hollywood director
Mira Nair , director and producer
Sharad Devarajan , superhero creator and producer
Rohit Gupta , director, producer
Nina Davuluri ,
Miss America 2014
Ashok Amritraj , Hollywood
film producer
Salma Arastu , artist
San Banarje , independent filmmaker
Rina Banerjee , artist
Prashant Bhargava , director
Niala Boodhoo , journalist, host, and executive producer
Lesley-Ann Brandt , actress
Jay Chandrasekhar , director, actor, comedian, and writer
Shanthi Chandrasekar , visual artist
Aneesh Chaganty , film director, screenwriter
Sabu Dastagir , actor
Nina Davuluri ,
Miss America 2014
Sharad Devarajan , superhero creator, producer, writer
Param Gill , director, screenwriter and producer
Kovid Gupta , bestselling author and screenwriter
Reef Karim , actor, director, writer, and producer
Neeraj Khemlani , producer for
CBS News '
60 Minutes
Bharti Kirchner , writer
Shirish Korde , artist
Adam Bhala Lough , director, screenwriter
Tirlok Malik , filmmaker and actor
Dharminder Mann , entrepreneur, film producer and YouTuber.
Benny Mathews , film and music video director
Faris McReynolds , painter and musician
Mira Nair , director and producer
Sunil Nayar , TV writer and producer; producer of
CSI: Miami
Oopali Operajita , choreographer and Odissi and Bharatanatyam artiste; Distinguished Fellow,
Carnegie Mellon University
Yatin Patel , photographer and artist
Mythili Prakash ,
Bharatanatyam dancer and choreographer
Asha Puthli , singer-songwriter, producer and actress
Chitra Ramanathan , contemporary visual artist, painting
Sarayu Rao , actor and director
Harish Saluja , filmmaker
Stephanie Sengupta , producer and writer
Mehul Shah , actor, director, writer, and producer
Adi Shankar , producer and actor
Naren Shankar , TV writer, producer and director; an executive producer of
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
M. Night Shyamalan , director, filmmaker
Tarsem Singh , director
Rohit Gupta , director, producer
Manick Sorcar , animator, artist, and producer
Babu Subramaniam , director
Tina Sugandh , entertainer
Julie Titus , model, contestant on
America's Next Top Model
Serena Varghese , voice actress
Prashanth Venkataramanujam , television writer, actor, and producer
Actors and actresses
Kal Penn , actor
Mindy Kaling , actress
Sendhil Ramamurthy , actor
Danny Pudi , actor
Karan Soni , actor
Utkarsh Ambudkar , actor
Simran Judge , actor
Ravi Patel , actor
Devika Bhise , actress
Tatyana Ali , actress
Waris Ahluwalia , fashion designer
Aziz Ansari , actor and comedian
Gabrielle Anwar , actress
Erick Avari , actor
Sunkrish Bala , actor
Firdous Bamji , actor
Purva Bedi , actress
Summer Bishil , actress
Karan Brar , film and TV actor
Samrat Chakrabarti , actor
Melanie Chandra , actress
Michelle Khare , actress, Youtuber, and television host
Sabu Dastagir , actor
Sujata Day , actress
Manish Dayal , actor
Noureen DeWulf , actress
Raja Fenske , actor
Janina Gavankar , actress
Namrata Singh Gujral , actress
Sakina Jaffrey , actress
Anu Emmanuel , actress
Poorna Jagannathan , actress and producer
Avan Jogia , actor
Avantika Vandanapu , actress and dancer. Known for her role in 2021 film,
Spin
Mindy Kaling , actress, writer, producer, comedian
Ravi Kapoor , actor
Rahul Kohli , actor
Deep Katdare , actor
Nivedita Kulkarni , actress
Shishir Kurup , actor
Nakul Dev Mahajan ,
Bollywood dancer and choreographer
Sunny Leone , actor and former pornographic actress
Tirlok Malik , actor
Shelly Malil , film and TV actor
Rizwan Manji , actor
Aasif Mandvi , actor
Sunita Mani , actress
Ajay Mehta , TV actor
Ajay Naidu , actor
Anjul Nigam , actor
Maulik Pancholy , actor
Devika Parikh , actress
Kal Penn , actor
Danny Pudi , actor
Ritesh Rajan , actor
Sendhil Ramamurthy , actor
Dileep Rao , actor
Navi Rawat , actress
Sonal Shah , actress
Sheetal Sheth , actress
Zenobia Shroff , Indian-American actress and comedienne
Tiya Sircar , actress
Errol Sitahal , actor
Kapil Talwalkar , actor
Omi Vaidya , actor
Sugith Varughese , Indian-born Canadian actor with American citizenship
Naren Weiss , actor and playwright
Annet Mahendru , actress
Nitya Vidyasagar , actress
Nandana Sen , actress
Pooja Batra , actress
Monica Dogra , actress
Deepti Naval , actress
Comedians
Aziz Ansari , comedian and actor
Hasan Minhaj , comedian
Hari Kondabolu , comedian
Padma Lakshmi
Ashok Bajaj , restaurateur
Vishwesh Bhatt , chef
Maneet Chauhan , celebrity chef, restaurateur, author
H. Jay Dinshah , founded the American
Vegan Society
Raghavan Iyer , chef, author, culinary educator
Vikas Khanna , Michelin starred celebrity chef, restaurateur, author, filmmaker, and TV host
Jehangir Mehta , celebrity chef, restaurateur, author
Rajat Parr , sommelier
Suvir Saran , Michelin starred chef and author
Aarti Sequeira (b. 1978), TV host on
Food Network
Vikram Sunderam (b. 1967), chef and author
Padma Lakshmi
Fashion
Models
Media
Fareed Zakaria , journalist
Lilly Singh , actress and YouTuber
Manu Raju (b. 1980),
CNN journalist anchor, reporter
Deepak Ananthapadmanabha , online journalist
Sanjay Gupta , journalist, medical correspondent, neurosurgeon
Rajiv Chandrasekaran , assistant managing editor for continuous news,
The Washington Post ; author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City
Syma Chowdhry , television host, reporter, and producer
Priya David , correspondent for
CBS News
Dinesh D'Souza , political commentator, author and filmmaker. Former president of
The King's College, New York
Deepa Fernandes , host of the
WBAI radio program
Wakeup Call
Deepti Hajela , journalist for the
Associated Press
Pico Iyer , author and journalist for
Time magazine,
Harper's Magazine ,
Condé Nast Traveler , and
The New York Review of Books
Shibani Joshi , reporter for the
Fox Business Network
Sukanya Krishnan , news anchor for CW 11 Morning News on
WPIX
Seema Mody , news reporter/anchor for
CNBC
Mish Michaels , meteorologist for the
WBZ-TV Weather Team
Vinita Nair , anchor of
World News Now and
America This Morning on
ABC
Kevin Negandhi , sports anchor for
ESPN SportsCenter
Reena Ninan , Middle East correspondent for
Fox News Channel
Asra Nomani , journalist
Safiya Nygaard ,
YouTube beauty creator
Uma Pemmaraju , senior news anchor for
Fox News Channel
Ramesh Ponnuru , senior editor of the
National Review magazine
Ash-har Quraishi , correspondent,
WTTW Chicago; former
KCTV Chief Investigative Reporter; former
CNN Islamabad Bureau Chief
Gopal Raju , pioneer of Indian American ethnic media
Aneesh Raman , first Indian-American presidential speechwriter under President
Barack Obama , former
CNN Middle East correspondent
Alpana Singh , television personality
Lakshmi Singh ,
NPR 's national midday newscaster
Hari Sreenivasan , correspondent for
CBS News and the
PBS NewsHour
Sreenath Sreenivasan ,
Columbia University professor;
WABC-TV technology reporter
Ali Velshi , business news anchor for
CNN
Zain Verjee , CNN anchor
Rohit Vyas , first and longest serving Indian American broadcast journalist
Fareed Zakaria , columnist for
Time magazine and host of
Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN
Lilly Singh ,
YouTuber of Indian descent widely known as IISuperwomanII, ranked tenth on the
Forbes list of the world's highest paid YouTube stars, ranked first on 2017
Forbes Top Influencers List in the entertainment category
Liza Koshy , actress,
YouTube comedian and television host
Ambreen Tariq , author, activist and founder of @BrownPeopleCamping
Musicians
Norah Jones , singer and winner of multiple
Grammy Awards
Zubin Mehta , musician and receiver of a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame
Rick Parashar (1963-2014), producer
Sandeep Das (b. 1971), won the Grammy award for Best World Music Album, at the
59th Grammy Awards , 2017
Sonika Vaid , Indian-American singer
Bamboo Shoots , dance-rock band
6ix , record producer
Rajiv Dhall , Indian-American singer
Sid Sriram , Indian-American singer
Jeff Bhasker , producer
Nicki Minaj , rapper and singer-songwriter of half Indian descent
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Sameer Bhattacharya , one of two guitarists in the Texas alternative rock band
Flyleaf
Das Racist , alternative hip hop group; two of the three members are Indian
Anoop Desai , finalist on the
eighth season of
American Idol
Falu , singer and songwriter
Sameer Gadhia , lead vocalist in
Young the Giant
Terry Vivkeanand Gajraj ,
chutney-soca singer
Heems , rapper
Ravi Hutheesing , singer-songwriter, guitarist
iLoveMakonnen , rapper
Daya , singer
Sandeep Khurana , new age music and world music composer
Raja Kumari , singer and songwriter
Vijay Iyer , jazz musician and composer
Sunny Jain , dhol player, drummer, and composer
Norah Jones , singer, songwriter and actress; winner of multiple
Grammy Awards
Rajan Somasundaram , Music Composer, Songwriter and multi instrumentalist
Karsh Kale , Indian producer, composer and musician
Tony Kanal , two-time
Grammy Award winner, bass player for
No Doubt
Ashok Kondabolu , rapper (also known as Dapwell)
Savan Kotecha , songwriter
KSHMR , electronic musician, record producer
Arun Luthra , jazz musician
Sanjaya Malakar , finalist on the
sixth season of
American Idol
Mathai , finalist on season 2 of
The Voice
Zarin Mehta , executive director of the
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Zubin Mehta , former conductor, New York Philharmonic Orchestra; receiver of a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame
Sanjay Mishra , guitarist and composer
Thara Prashad , R&B singer and model of half Indian descent
Vidya Vox ,
YouTube musician
Vasant Rai , performer of Indian music
Paul Sabu , producer
Amar Sandhu , singer
Shaheen Sheik , songwriter
Real Sikh, battle rapper
Bikram Singh , singer
Mickey Singh , Indian-born singer from
Detroit, MI
Ramesh Srivastava , singer
Ambi Subramaniam , violinist and composer
Bindu Subramaniam , singer-songwriter
Kim Thayil , named among 100th greatest guitarists of all time by Rolling Stone
Zoya , California-based singer and guitarist
Sanjay Patel , animator and director and also illustrator of
Pixar
Shirish Korde (b. 1945), composer
Raveena Aurora , alternative singer and songwriter
Business
Parag Agrawal , former CEO of Twitter
Anu Aiyengar , managing director of North American mergers and acquisitions of
JPMorgan Chase & Co
Nikesh Arora (b. 1968), CEO,
Palo Alto Networks , former Google executive and COO,
Softbank
Samir Arora , former CEO of
Mode Media
Ramani Ayer , former chairman and CEO of
The Hartford Financial Services Group
Sunny Balwani , former President and Chief Operating Officer of
Theranos
Prith Banerjee , managing director of Global Technology R&D at
Accenture
Somen Banerjee , co-founder of
Chippendales
Ajay Banga , president and CEO of
MasterCard
Mahaboob Ben Ali (1927-2009), co-founder of
Ben's Chili Bowl
Manoj Bhargava , founder and CEO of Innovations Ventures LLC; the company is known for producing the
5-hour Energy drink
Aneel Bhusri , co-founder and CEO of
Workday, Inc. ; partner at
Greylock Partners ; member of the board of directors of
Intel
Jagjeet (Jeet) S. Bindra , director of
Edison International ,
Southern California Edison
Amar Bose , founder and chairman of
Bose Corporation
Vanu Bose , American electrical engineer, founder of Vanu Inc, son of
Amar Bose
Sant Singh Chatwal , owner of the Bombay Palace chain of restaurants and Hampshire Hotels & Resorts
Manu Daftary , money manager
Bharat Desai , co-founder and chairman of
Syntel
Gururaj Deshpande , founder of
Sycamore Networks
Francis deSouza , CEO of
Illumina
Vinod Dham , designed the Intel Pentium Chip Processor; the "father of the Pentium Chip"
Rono Dutta , former president of
United Airlines , chairman of
Air Sahara
Rhona Fox , founder of
Fox Fuse
Amrapali Gan , marketing executive and former CEO of
OnlyFans
Rakesh Gangwal , former CEO and chairman of
US Airways Group
Asim Ghosh , president and chief executive officer at
Husky Energy
Ajit Gupta , founder and CEO of
Speedera Networks ,
Aryaka Networks
Rajat Gupta , former managing director of
McKinsey & Company
Rajiv Gupta , CEO of SkyHigh Networks, former general manager of
Hewlett-Packard
Umang Gupta , former CEO of Keynote Systems, Inc.
Ajit Jain , president of
Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance Group
Anjli Jain , founder and
Managing Partner of EVC Ventures
Anshu Jain , President of
Cantor Fitzgerald and former co-CEO of
Deutsche Bank
Sanjay Jha , CEO of
Global Foundries and former CEO of
Motorola Mobile Devices
Vyomesh Joshi , former executive vice president of Imaging and Printing Group,
Hewlett-Packard
John Kapoor , founder and executive chairman of
Insys Therapeutics
Vinod Khosla , founder of
Khosla Ventures , co-founder of
Sun Microsystems
Jay Vijayan , founder of Tekion Corp., former CIO of
Tesla
Arvind Krishna , CEO of
IBM
Anil Kumar , former senior partner and chairman, Asia Center of
McKinsey & Company
Sanjay Kumar , former CEO of Computer Associates International
Thomas Kurian , CEO of Google Cloud, former President of product development at
Oracle Corporation
Sachin Lawande , president and CEO of
Visteon
Krishna Maharaj , businessman convicted of murder
Sonny Mehta , Chairman/Editor in chief of
Alfred A. Knopf
Victor Menezes , chairman of Clearing House Association, former
chairman and
CEO of
Citibank
Satya Nadella , CEO of
Microsoft
Lakshmi Narayanan , vice chairman and former CEO of
Cognizant Corporation
Shantanu Narayen , CEO of
Adobe Systems
Indra Nooyi , former chairman and CEO of
PepsiCo
Dinesh Paliwal , chairman and CEO of
Harman International
Vikram Pandit , former CEO of
Citigroup
Suhas Patil , entrepreneur, venture capitalist & Founder of
Cirrus Logic
Sundar Pichai , CEO of
Google ,
Alphabet Inc
Stanley Praimnath , bank executive and survivor of the
September 11 attacks
Prakash Puram , president and CEO of iXmatch
Vivek Ramaswamy , founder of
Roivant Sciences
Vivek Ranadivé , former CEO of
TIBCO Software
Naval Ravikant , co-founder, chairman and former CEO of
AngelList , investor, and entrepreneur
Sashi Reddi , serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist, angel investor, technologist, and philanthropist
Kanwal Rekhi , former EVP and CTO of
Novell
Ashutosh Saxena , Founder & CEO of Caspar.AI, prolific author in the area of
AI , and former Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University.
Abbas Sadriwala , chairman and CEO of the
Fort Lauderdale -based Wireless Logix Group
Arun Sarin , former president of
Vodafone
Niraj Shah , CEO and co-founder of Wayfair
Deven Sharma , former president of
Standard & Poor's
Ram Shriram , venture fund capitalist and one of the first investors in
Google
Pradeep Sindhu , founder and CTO of
Juniper Networks
Prem Singh Soni , Entrepreneur, Financier,
Businessman, President of Satnam Enterprises,
CEO of Paul Brothers,Inc.
K. R. Sridhar , founder and CEO of
Bloom Energy
Rajeev Suri , CEO of
Nokia
Balaji Srinivasan , co-founder of
Counsyl , former CTO of
Coinbase , and former
general partner at
Andreessen Horowitz
Abhi Talwalkar , president and CEO of
LSI Corporation
Thiru Vikram , CEO of
Buffalo Automation
Romesh Wadhwani , founder, chairman and CEO of
Symphony Technology Group
Padmasree Warrior , CEO of
Nio (car company)
Crime
Somen Banerjee , convicted arsonist, racketeer, and murderer
Sant Singh Chatwal , pled guilty to giving illegal campaign contributions for the
Democratic Party
Gurmeet Singh Dhinsa , convicted murderer, racketeer, and kidnapper
Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai , convicted of
espionage for
Pakistan
Rajat Gupta , convicted financial fraudster who participated in the
Galleon scandal
Noshir Gowadia , convicted of espionage for
China
Anand Jon , convicted rapist
John Kapoor , convicted financial fraudster
Subhash Kapoor , convicted of
art theft and
grand larceny
Anil Kumar , convicted financial fraudster
Shelley Malil , convicted of attempted premeditated murder and assault
Nirav Modi , fugitive charged with corruption, fraud, and money laundering
Jayant Patel , convicted of fraud and manslaughter
Purvi Patel , convicted and later acquitted of
feticide
Lakireddy Bali Reddy , convicted human trafficker and immigration fraudster
Prakashanand Saraswati , fugitive and convicted child molester
Ravi Singh , convicted of four felony counts for illegally influencing the
San Diego mayoral election
Sabrina De Sousa , convicted kidnapper
Sneha Anne Philip , missing person
Literature
Kiran Desai , winner of the 2006
Man Booker Prize
Siddhartha Mukherjee , physician and 2011 winner of the
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
Abraham Verghese , doctor and author; wrote In My Own Country and My Tennis Partner
Agha Shahid Ali , poet
Aimee Nezhukumatathil , poet
Alka Joshi , author
Amitav Ghosh ,
Indo-nostalgic writer and winner of
Prix Médicis étranger
Anita Desai , novelist; shortlisted for the
Booker Prize three times; mother of
Kiran Desai
Anju Hasan , author, of Neti,Neti
Anu Garg , author, speaker, and computer engineer
Arnold Rampersad , biographer and literary critic
Bhaskar Sunkara , political writer, founding editor and publisher of
Jacobin and current publisher of London's
Tribune
Bharati Mukherjee , author, professor
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni , author
Davan Maharaj , journalist and former
editor-in-chief and
publisher of the
Los Angeles Times
Dhan Gopal Mukerji , first successful Indian
man of letters in the US; winner of the
Newbery Medal , 1928
Gaiutra Bahadur , author
Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla , author
Gita Mehta , author
Harischandra Khemraj , writer
Indira Ganesan , novelist
Indira Viswanathan Peterson , literary critic
Indu Sundaresan , author
Ismat Chughtai , author
Ismith Khan , author and educator
Jhumpa Lahiri ,
Pulitzer Prize -winning author
Kaavya Viswanathan , novelist
Kiran Desai , winner of the 2006
Man Booker Prize
Parag Khanna , author
Paul Kalanithi , author
Rajiv Joseph , playwright
Rajiv Mohabir , poet
Ramya Ramana , poet
Ravi Batra , bestselling author and economist
Ravi Shankar , poet
Rishi Reddi , author
Roshani Chokshi novelist
Rupi Kaur , poet
S. T. Joshi , literary critic
Salman Rushdie , novelist and essayist
Saumitra Saxena , Hindi poet,
Bharatiya Jnanpith Navlekhana Award winner
Shauna Singh Baldwin , novelist, winner of the
Commonwealth Writers' Prize
Siddharth Katragadda , author, filmmaker, artist
Siddhartha Mukherjee , physician, scientist and writer, 2011 winner of the
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
Susham Bedi , author
Thrity Umrigar , author of Bombay Time
Tulika Mehrotra , author, journalist
Usha Haley , author
Vijay Prashad , Marxist writer, director for
Tricontinental , Chief editor for
LeftWord Books , written 30 books
Vijay Seshadri , Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and essayist
Vikram Seth , poet, novelist, travel writer, librettist, children's writer, biographer and memoirist
Military
Politics and government
Elected officials
Aruna Miller , 10th
Lieutenant Governor of Maryland
Ravinder Bhalla , elected the first
turban-wearing
Sikh U.S. mayor, of
Hoboken ,
New Jersey
Niraj Antani - Ohio state senator
Sara Gideon - former Speaker of the
Maine House of Representatives (Democrat)
Ram Villivalam - State Senator, 8th District- Illinois (Democrat)
Aftab Pureval , mayor of
Cincinnati (Democrat)
John Abraham , former mayor of
Teaneck, New Jersey (Republican)
Suhas Subramanyam (b. 1986),
Virginia's 87th House of Delegates district Representative (Democrat)
Saqib Ali , former member of the
Maryland House of Delegates (Democratic)
Harvinder "Harry" Anand , mayor of
Laurel Hollow, New York (Republican)
Sam Arora , former member of the
Maryland House of Delegates (Democratic)
Kumar P. Barve , former member of the
Maryland House of Delegates , former (
majority leader ) (Democratic), the first Indian American elected to a state legislature
[25]
Ravinder Bhalla ,
mayor ,
Hoboken ,
Hudson County ,
New Jersey (Democratic), the first
turban-wearing
Sikh American mayor in the United States to be elected by a municipality's residents, in November 2017
[26]
Satveer Chaudhary , former
Minnesota State Senator (Democratic)
Upendra J. Chivukula , member of the
New Jersey General Assembly (Democratic)
Swati Dandekar (b. 1951),
Iowa State Senator (Democratic)
Mervyn M. Dymally ,
41st Lieutenant Governor of California (1975–1979); member of the
U.S. House of Representatives (1981–1993) (Democratic)
Kashmir Gill , mayor of
Yuba City, California , first Indian-American mayor in CA and first Sikh mayor in the US (Republican)
Jay Goyal , member of the
Ohio State Representative (Democratic)
Raj Goyle , member of the
Kansas State Representative (Democratic)
Faz Husain , first native of India to win elected office in Michigan (Democratic)
Bobby Jindal , 55th
governor of Louisiana (2008–2016) (Republican)
Nimi McConigley , first Indian American women to serve in any American State legislature served in the
Wyoming State Legislature from 1994 until 1996 (Republican)
Jenifer Rajkumar , member of the
New York State Assembly (Democratic), representing the
38th district in
Queens
Aruna Miller , 10th Lt. Governor of
Maryland and the first
South Asian woman elected lieutenant governor in the
United States ,
[27] (Democratic)
Ameya Pawar , served as the
alderman for the 47th Ward of the
City of Chicago
Jenifer Rajkumar , member of the
New York State Assembly (Democratic), representing the
38th district in
Queens
Kshama Sawant , member of the
Seattle City Council .
Balvir Singh , first Indian American member,
Board of Chosen Freeholders ,
Burlington County, New Jersey , first Sikh American to win a countywide election in New Jersey, in November 2017 (Democratic)
[28]
Kannan Srinivasan , member of the
Virginia House of Delegates (Democratic)
Federal elected officials
Dalip Singh Saund , first Indian American to be elected to
Congress
Kamala Harris ,
Vice President of the United States .
Civil servants
Nikki Haley ,
United States Ambassador to the United Nations
Arif Alikhan (b. 1968), former Assistant Secretary for Policy Development at the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security ; former Deputy Mayor for Homeland Security and Public Safety for the
City of Los Angeles ; former senior adviser to Attorneys General
John Ashcroft and
Alberto Gonzales
Preeta D. Bansal (b. 1965), member and past chair of the
United States Commission on International Religious Freedom ; former
Solicitor General of New York
Cathy Bissoon , judge for the
United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (Democratic)
Nisha Desai Biswal , current
Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs
Saikat Chakrabarti ,
chief of staff to
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , the
U.S. representative from
New York's 14th congressional district representing parts of
The Bronx and
Queens in
New York City
Joy Cherian , first Asian head of the
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Aneesh Chopra , Federal
Chief Technology Officer of the U.S.
Har Dayal , founder of the
Ghadar Party
Sabrina De Sousa , ex-CIA officer; is suing the US government for diplomatic immunity
Gurbir Grewal ,
Bergen County, New Jersey
prosecutor , first Sikh American county prosecutor in the U.S.,
[29]
Vanita Gupta , Former Lawyer for
ACLU and current
United States Associate Attorney General
Nikki Haley , former
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations ; former
Governor of South Carolina (Republican)
Rashad Hussain ,
U.S. Special Envoy to the
Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
Neel Kashkari , former interim Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability in the
United States Department of the Treasury (Republican)
Neal Katyal ,
Solicitor General of the United States
Atul Keshap , U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka and Maldives
Gopal Khanna , chief information officer of
Minnesota
Narayana Kocherlakota , president of
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Kris Kolluri ,
New Jersey Commissioner of Transportation
Vivek Kundra , Federal Chief Information Officer of the US
Arun Majumdar , director of the
U.S. Department of Energy 's
Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy
Raj Mukherji (b. 1984), Deputy Mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey; candidate for the New Jersey State Legislature
Ajit Pai , former chairman of the
Federal Communications Commission
Farah Pandith , Special Representative to Muslim Communities for the
United States Department of State
Rachel Paulose , former
United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota
Rajiv Shah (b. 1973), former
Under Secretary of Agriculture for Research, Education, and Economics ; former Administrator of
USAID ; President,
Rockefeller Foundation
Sonal Shah , member of the
Obama-Biden Transition Project advisory board
Islam A. Siddiqui ,
Chief Agricultural Negotiator in the
Office of the United States Trade Representative
Daleep Singh , former U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor; former Executive Vice President & Head of Markets at New York Fed
Sabita Singh , first judge of Indian descent in Massachusetts history
Subra Suresh , director of
National Science Foundation
Vinai Thummalapally (b. 1954), served as
U.S. Ambassador to Belize
Richard Verma (b. 1968),
Assistant Secretary for Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs , at the
Department of State and Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources at the
Department of State
Surya Yalamanchili , 2010 US Congressional candidate
Federal judges
Religion and spirituality
Bikram Choudhury (b. 1944), yoga guru and founder of
Bikram Yoga
Eknath Easwaran , spiritual teacher, author, and translator of Indian religious texts such as the
Bhagavad Gita and the
Upanishads
Earl K. Fernandes ,
Bishop-Elect of the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Columbus
Chitrabhanu Jain , founded the Jain Meditation International Center in Manhattan, New York City
Harbhajan Singh Khalsa , introduced Kundalini Yoga and Sikhism to the US
Padmanabh Jaini , scholar of Jainism
Harbhajan Singh Khalsa , introduced Kundalini Yoga and Sikhism to the US
Sushil Kumarji ,
Jain
Acharya
Dipa Ma , yoga teacher
Eboo Patel , member of the New Faith Advisory Council
Anantanand Rambachan , Hindu scholar, author, and professor of religion at
St. Olaf College
Prem Rawat , also known as Guru Maharaji Ji, head of the
Divine Light Mission and later organizations
Muzammil Siddiqi, Ph.D. , chairman,
Fiqh Council of North America
Yasir Nadeem al Wajidi , Chicago-based Muslim scholar, educationist and author
Ravi Zacharias ,
Christian
evangelist and
apologist
Science and technology
Dr. Subbarow Yellapragada
Kalpana Chawla ,
NASA astronaut, On February 1, 2003,
Kalpana Chawla died on the Space Shuttle Columbia
Sunita Williams ,
NASA astronaut
Yellapragada Subbarow (1895-1948), pioneering biochemist who discovered ATP, the human body's energy molecule.
Ajay Bhatt (b. 1957), co-inventor of the USB; Chief Client Platform Architect at
Intel
Ajit V. Pai , chairman of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Ajit Varki , physician-scientist
Amar Gopal Bose , PhD in electrical engineering, founder and chairman of Bose Corporation
Bimal Kumar Bose , pioneer in power electronics
Amit Goyal , scientist and inventor
Amit Singhal , Google Fellow, the designation the company reserves for its elite master engineers in the area of "ranking algorithm"
Amitabha Ghosh , the only Asian on NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission
Anil Dash , blogger and technologist
Anirvan Ghosh , neuroscientist
Govindjee , biochemist
Arjun Makhijani , electrical and nuclear engineer; president of the
Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
Arun Netravali , scientist; former president of
Bell Labs ; former CTO of
Lucent ; pioneer of digital technology, including
HDTV and
MPEG4
Arvind Rajaraman , theoretical physicist and string theorist
Avtar Saini , co-led the development of the Pentium processor
Intel ; holds seven patents related to microprocessor design
Bedabrata Pain , co-inventor of the
active pixel sensor
C. Kumar N. Patel , developed the carbon dioxide laser, used as a cutting tool in surgery and industry
Deepak Pandya , neuroanatomist
Arati Prabhakar , director of
DARPA
Dhairya Dand , inventor and artist
DJ Patil , Chief Data Scientist of the United States Office of Science and Technology Policy
George Sudarshan , physicist, author; first to propose the existence of the
tachyon
Jogesh Pati , theoretical physicist at the
University of Maryland, College Park
Kalpana Chawla ,
NASA Space Shuttle astronaut, who died in the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster
Khem Shahani ,
microbiologist who conducted pioneer research on
probiotics ; discovered the
DDS-1 strain of
Lactobacillus acidophilus
Krishan Sabnani , engineer and senior vice president of the Networking Research Laboratory at
Alcatel-Lucent
Bell Labs in New Jersey
Krishna Bharat , principal scientist at
Google ; created
Google News
Kuzhikalail M. Abraham , pioneer in lithium and lithium ion battery technologies, professor,
Northeastern university , Boston, Massachusetts and president, E-KEM Sciences, Needham, Massachusetts
Mahadev Satyanarayanan , computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University; pioneer of research in mobile and pervasive computing
Mani Lal Bhaumik , contributor to
excimer laser technology
Mathukumalli Vidyasagar , control theorist
Narinder Singh Kapany , physicist, the "father of
fiber optics "
Nalini Nadkarni ,
ecologist who pioneered the study of
Costa Rican
rain forest
canopies
Noshir Gowadia , design engineer
Om Malik , technology journalist and blogger
Pran Nath , theoretical physicist at
Northeastern University
Pranav Mistry , Sixth Sense Project
Raj Reddy , founder of the Robotics Institute at
Carnegie Mellon University ; winner of the
Turing Award
Raja Chari , astronaut chosen for Artemis Moon mission
Rajeev Motwani , professor, angel investor
Rajiv Dutta , technology manager
Ramesh K. Agarwal , aviation pioneer; William Palm Professor of Engineering at Washington University
Ramesh Raskar , Femto-camera inventor, MIT Professor
Rangaswamy Srinivasan , member of the Inventors'
Hall of Fame for pioneering work on excimer laser surgery
Ruchi Sanghvi , first female engineer of
Facebook ; former VP of Operations,
Dropbox
Sabeer Bhatia , co-founder of
Hotmail
Samir Mitragotri , professor of chemical engineering and bioengineering at
University of California, Santa Barbara
Sasikanth Manipatruni , Pioneer in the area of Spintronics, Silicon Photonics, Optomechanics and In Memory Computing
Satya N. Atluri , aerospace and mechanics, Excellence in Aviation Medal,
FAA , 1998; Recipient of
Padma Bhushan in 2013 in Science & Engineering from the President of India, elected to membership to National Academies of Engineering, USA (1996) and India (1997)
Salman Khan , founder of
Khan Academy
Sharmila Bhattacharya , head of the Biomodel Performance and Behavior laboratory at
NASA Ames Research Center
VA Shiva Ayyadurai , inventor, scientist, former guest lecturer at
MIT
Siddhartha Mukherjee , scientist, physician, winner of
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
Siva S. Banda , aerospace engineer and researcher, recipient of a Silver Medal from the
Royal Aeronautical Society , a
Presidential Rank Award , and elected to membership in the
National Academy of Engineering
Subhash Kak , head of the Computer Science department at Oklahoma State University
Subrah Iyar , co-founder and CEO of
Webex Communications
Subrata Roy , plasma physicist, professor of aerospace engineering at
University of Florida , inventor of the
Wingless Electromagnetic Air Vehicle
Sunita Williams ,
NASA astronaut
Shya Chitaley - Paleo botanist
Swapan Chattopadhyay , particle accelerator physicist
Swati Mohan , NASA space engineer
Thomas Anantharaman , computer statistician specializing in
Bayesian inference
Thomas Zacharia , computational scientist
V. Mohan Reddy , pediatric cardiothoracic surgeon at Stanford
Vamsi Mootha , physician-scientist and computational biologist
Vic Gundotra , former senior vice president, Engineering for Google
Vijay Raghunath Pandharipande , physicist
Vineeta Rastogi , public health worker
Sirisha Bandla , space engineer
Medicine
Vivek Murthy ,
Surgeon General of U.S. ; former vice admiral of U.S. Health Corps
Amit Patel , cardiovascular surgeon and stem cell researcher; first person to inject stem cells directly into the heart
Anita Goel , Harvard-MIT physicist, physician; expert in nanobiophysics and nanotechnology; chairman and CEO of Nanobiosym; inventor of Gene-RADAR technology
Ashutosh Tewari , professor of urology at
New York Presbyterian Hospital ;
prostate cancer surgeon
Atul Gawande , general and endocrine surgeon, professor, medical author, and
National Book Award finalist
Balamurali Ambati , world's youngest doctor, at age 17
Deepak Chopra , alternative medicine advocate, author and public speaker
E. Premkumar Reddy , oncologist; director of Fels institute of cancer research and molecular biology at
Temple University
Harvinder Sahota , cardiologist; inventor of the FDA-approved perfusion balloon angioplasty; holds patents of 24 other medical inventions
Inder Verma , Professor of Molecular Biology in the Laboratory of Genetics at
Salk Institute for Biological Studies and
University of California, San Diego
Joia Mukherjee , associate professor with the Division of Global Health Equity at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Paul Antony , MD, MPH, chief medical officer for the
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA)
Ragavendra R. Baliga , FACC, FACP, FRCP (Edin), Professor of Medicine at;
Ohio State University College of Medicine
Sangeeta Bhatia , Harvard-MIT doctor and scientist; engineer of artificial liver cells
Sanjay Gupta , neurosurgeon; CNN chief medical correspondent;
Vivek Murthy (b. 1977), 19th and former
Surgeon General of the United States ; former vice admiral of U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Officer Corps
Aseem Shukla (b. 1972), Professor of Surgery (Urology) at the
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania , co-founder of
Hindu American Foundation
Kiran C Patel (b. 1949), cardiologist, philanthropist, serial entrepreneur, and hotelier
Deborah Persaud (b. 1960), virologist
Sports
Mohini Bhardwaj ,
2004 Summer Olympics medalist in gymnastics
Prakash Amritraj (b. 1983), tennis player (born in the US)
Stephen Amritraj (b. 1984), tennis player
Sanjay Beach (b. 1966), former
NFL wide receiver; played for the San Francisco 49ers and the Green Bay Packers
Mohini Bhardwaj , second Indian American
Olympic medalist,
2004 Summer Olympics
silver medalist in gymnastics
Vinay Bhat ,
chess grandmaster
Raj Bhavsar , third Indian American Olympic medalist,
2008 Summer Olympics
bronze medalist in the team gymnastics competition
Shaun Bridgmohan , jockey
Ashish Chattha , soccer player
Brandon Chillar , NFL player, linebacker for the Green Bay Packers (father of Indian descent)
Sean Desai (b. 1983), NFL coach and
defensive coordinator for the
Chicago Bears
Jignesh Desai , cricketer
Sonjay Dutt ,
TNA pro wrestler
The Great Khali ,
WWE pro wrestler
Alexi Grewal , first Indian American to win an
Olympic medal,
gold medalist in
1984 Summer Olympics in cycling
Sunil Gulati , former President of the
United States Soccer Federation
Carlos Cordeiro , President of the
United States Soccer Federation
Nezam Hafiz , cricketer and victim of the
September 11 attacks
Amjad Khan , cricketer
Ibrahim Khaleel , cricketer
Noshtush Kenjige , cricketer
Thirunavukkarasu Kumaran , cricketer
Iris Kyle , professional bodybuilder
Anil Lashkari , cricketer
Sanjay Lal , wide receivers coach for the Dallas Cowboys
Manny Malhotra , NHL hockey player
Rajiv Maragh , jockey
Aditya Mishra , cricketer
Sushil Nadkarni ,
American cricketer
Ami Parekh , figure skater
Japen Patel , cricketer
Mrunal Patel , cricketer
Sagar Patel , cricketer
Timil Patel , cricketer
Laxmi Poruri , tennis player
Tara Prasad , figure skater
Abhimanyu Rajp , cricketer
Rajeev Ram , tennis player
Annand Mahendra "Victor" Ramdin , professional poker player and philanthropist
Sunitha Rao , tennis player
Srini Santhanam , cricketer
Jessy Singh , cricketer
Monank Patel , USA cricket captain
Saurabh Netravalkar , USA cricket captain
Jaskaran Malhotra , cricketer
Shikha Uberoi , tennis player
Neha Uberoi , tennis player
Shiva Vashishat , cricketer
Adeel Alam , professional wrestler best known ring name Mustafa Ali (Indian mother)
Abhimanyu Mishra ,
chess grandmaster
Kanak Jha ,
Table Tennis player
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