List of Indian Americans

Academics

Nobel Prize recipients

• Har Gobind Khorana, Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1968
• Subramanyan Chandrasekhar, Nobel Prize for Physics, 1983
• Amartya Sen, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998; professor of economics and philosophy at Harvard University
• Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2009; current President of the Royal Society
• Abhijit Banerjee, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, 2019

  Deans and presidents

• Sanjay Sarma, Vice President of Open Learning at MIT
• Rakesh Khurana, dean of Harvard College
• Neeli Bendapudi, president of University of Louisville
• Jamshed Bharucha, president emeritus of Cooper Union, previously Dean of Arts & Sciences at Dartmouth College and Provost at Tufts University
• Vijay K. Dhir, dean of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science
• Ravi V. Bellamkonda, Vinik Dean of Engineering Duke University Edmund T. Pratt Jr. School of Engineering
• Dinesh D'Souza, former president of The King's College, New York
• Anjli Jain, executive director of CampusEAI Consortium
• Dipak C. Jain, dean of INSEAD and former dean of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University
• Vistasp Karbhari, president of the University of Texas at Arlington
• Pramod Khargonekar, control theorist; dean and Eckis Professor, College of Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville; vice chancellor of Research, University of California, Irvine
• Renu Khator, chancellor of the University of Houston System and president of the University of Houston
• Pradeep Khosla, chancellor of the University of California, San Diego
• Vijay Kumar, associate dean of School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania
• Geeta Menon, dean of the Undergraduate College at New York University Stern School of Business
• Nitin Nohria, dean of Harvard Business School
• Sethuraman Panchanathan, executive vice president and Chief Research and Innovation Officer at Arizona State University
• Michael Rao, president of Virginia Commonwealth University
• 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, dean of the UC Berkeley College of Engineering
• Bala V. Balachandran, J. L. Kellogg Distinguished Professor of Accounting and Information Management at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and Founder & Dean, Great Lakes Institute of Management Chennai, India

  Mathematicians

• Shamit Kachru, Mathematical Physicist, professor at Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics
• Akshay Venkatesh, Fields Medal laureate, mathematician
• Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar, mathematician, singularity theory and Abhyankar's conjecture of finite group theory
• Raghu Raj Bahadur, statistician
• Manjul Bhargava, professor of mathematics at Princeton University and winner of Fields Medal, 2014
• Raj Chandra Bose, mathematician
• Rahul Pandharipande, joined as Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University in 2002, he accepted a Professorship at ETH Zürich
• Sarvadaman Chowla, mathematician specializing in number theory
• Harish-Chandra, mathematician, IBM Von Neumann Professor at Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
• Narendra Karmarkar, mathematician, inventor of Karmarkar algorithm
• Chandrashekhar Khare, professor of mathematics at the University of California Los Angeles
• G. S. Maddala, mathematician and economist best known for work in the field of econometrics
• Anil Nerode, mathematician, proved the Myhill-Nerode Theorem
• Ria Persad, mathematician, classical musician, and model
• K. C. Sreedharan Pillai, mathematician
• Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao, professor at Penn State University and research professor at the University of Buffalo
• S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, NYU mathematician who specialised in probability; winner of the Abel Prize and Steele Prize
• DJ Patil, mathematician & Data scientist
• Sucharit Sarkar, mathematician and topologist
• Sourav Chatterjee, statistician, mathematician and professor at Stanford
• Kannan Soundararajan, mathematician, professor at Stanford and IMO medalist.
• Subhash Khot, mathematician, theoretical computer scientist famous for Unique games conjecture.
• Sanjeev Arora, mathematician, theoretical computer scientist and Gödel Prize winner.

  Economists

• Abhijit Banerjee, Ford Foundation international professor of economics at MIT
• Amartya Sen, Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University.
• Pranab Bardhan, Professor Emeritus of Economics University of California, Berkeley
• Kaushik Basu, C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics Cornell University
• Jagdish Natwarlal Bhagwati, professor of economics at Columbia University
• Alok Bhargava, professor of economics at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy
• V. V. Chari, professor of economics at the University of Minnesota
• Raj Chetty, professor of economics at Harvard University
• Avinash Kamalakar Dixit, professor of economics at Princeton University
• Gita Gopinath, chief economist at the International Monetary Fund and Economic Adviser to the Chief Minister of Kerala
• Reema Harrysingh-Carmona, economist and the 5th First Lady of Trinidad and Tobago
• Sendhil Mullainathan, professor of economics, Harvard University
• Arvind Panagariya, professor of economics at Columbia University
• Raghuram Rajan Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at University of Chicago Booth School of Business and former governor of Reserve Bank of India
• Debraj Ray, 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, 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 Sheth, computer scientist at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio
• Anant Agarwal, professor of electrical engineering and director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT
• Aravind Joshi, 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, professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University
• Ashwin Ram, head of artificial intelligence Amazon Alexa
• Avinash Kak, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University
• B. Jayant Baliga, inventor of the Insulated-gate bipolar transistor
• Bhubaneswar Mishra, 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, former Vice President Bell Labs
• Gopal H. Gaonkar, 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
• Raj Jain, professor of computer science and engineering at Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science
• 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
• 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
• Thomas Kailath, professor of engineering at Stanford University
• Vijay Vazirani, professor of computer science at Georgia Institute of Technology

  Professors and scholars in other disciplines

• Abhay Ashtekar, professor of physics at Pennsylvania State University
• Akhil Amar, professor of law at Yale Law School
• Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty, professor of microbiology at University of Illinois at Chicago
• Atul Gawande, professor in the Department of Health Policy & Management at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
• Anantanand Rambachan, professor of religion at St. Olaf College, Minnesota, United States
• Anirvan Ghosh, professor at the University of California, San Diego
• Arup Chakraborty, Robert T. Haslam Professor focusing in biophysics, computational modeling and infectious disease at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Ashok Das, professor of physics at the University of Rochester
• Ashok Gadgil, professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of California, Berkeley
• Aswath Damodaran, professor of finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University
• 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
• C.K. Prahalad, professor of corporate strategy at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business in the University of Michigan
• Deepak Sarma, professor of religious studies at Case Western Reserve University
• Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, professor at Columbia University
• 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
• Ishwar K. Puri, N. Waldo Harrison professor of engineering science and mechanics at Virginia Tech
• J. N. Reddy, professor and holder of the Oscar S. Wyatt Endowed Chair in Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University
• Jagadeesh Moodera, American physicist of Indian origin; senior research scientist at MIT's Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory
• Jagdish Sheth, professor of marketing at Goizueta Business School of Emory University
• Jagdish Shukla, professor at George Mason University
• Jainendra K. Jain, professor of physics at Pennsylvania State University
• Jaishree Odin, professor, postmodern literary theorist at the University of Hawaii
• K. R. Rao, professor at University of Texas at Arlington
• Kausalya Hart, scholar of Tamil language at UC Berkeley
• Kuzhikalail M. Abraham, professor at Northeastern University, electrochemistry; materials science; lithium, lithium ion, and lithium air batteries
• M. A. Muqtedar Khan, associate professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware
• Mahzarin Banaji, professor at Harvard University, best known for exploring implicit racial and gender biases
• Marti G. Subrahmanyam, professor of finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University
• Medha Yodh, scholar of classical Indian dance at UCLA
• Mriganka Sur, professor of neuroscience at the MIT
• Muzaffar Alam, professor in South Asian Languages & Civilizations at the University of Chicago
• Narayan Hosmane, professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Northern Illinois University
• Naresh Dalal, Dirac Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Florida State University
• Nazir Jairazbhoy, professor of folk and classical music of South Asia at University of California at Los Angeles
• Nita Ahuja, Chief of Surgical Oncology at Johns Hopkins Hospital, surgeon-scientist, first women ever to lead this department at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
• Nitin Samarth, Head and Professor of Physics, Pennsylvania State University
• P.S. Ayyaswamy, professor of dynamical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania
• Piyare Jain, professor emeritus at University at Buffalo
• Pulickel M. Ajayan, professor of material science at Rice University
• Radhika Govindrajan, associate professor of anthropology at University of Washington
• Raj Mittra, electrical engineering professor at Pennsylvania State University
• Rajit Gadh, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at University of California, Los Angeles
• Rakesh Jain, professor of tumor biology at Massachusetts General Hospital in the Harvard Medical School
• Ravi Jagannathan, professor at the Kellogg School of Management
• Ravindra Khattree, professor of statistics at Oakland University
• S. Lochlann Jain, associate professor in the Anthropology Department at Stanford University
• S. P. Kothari, Gordon Y Billard Professor of Management at MIT Sloan School of Management
• Sachin H. Jain, physician and health policy analyst at Harvard Medical School
• Salman Akhtar, professor at the Jefferson Medical College
• Sanjay Subrahmanyam, holder of Navin and Pratima Doshi Chair of Indian History and scholar at UCLA
• 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
• Shrikanth Narayanan, award-winning researcher, inventor and educator at University of Southern California
• Shrinivas Kulkarni, professor of astrophysics and planetary science at Caltech
• Subir Sachdev, Herchel Smith Professor of Physics at Harvard University; Dirac Medal and National Academy of Sciences
• Subrata Roy, professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Florida
• Sugata Bose, professor of history at Harvard University
• Swapan K. Gayen, professor of physics at the City University of New York
• Vijay Govindarajan, Coxe Distinguished Professor at Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business and the Marvin Bower Fellow at Harvard Business School
• Vijay Prashad, professor of international studies at Trinity College
• Vikram Amar, professor of law at the University of California, Davis School of Law
• Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, behavioral neurologist and psychophysicist; Professor with the Psychology and Neurosciences University of California, San Diego
• V. Parmeswaran Nair, Physicist, currently a Distinguished Professor at City University of New York.
• 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.

  University and college institutions named after Indian Americans

• Naveen Jindal School of Management at University of Texas at Dallas
• Tandon School of Engineering at New York University

  Activism

• Maya Ajmera, founder of The Global Fund for Children and author of more than 20 books for children
• Bhairavi Desai, founding member of the Taxi Workers Alliance in New York
• Kartar Dhillon, Ghadar Party, labor, and civil rights activist
• Mallika Dutt, executive director of Breakthrough human rights organization
• Vijaya Lakshmi Emani, social activist
• Arun Manilal Gandhi, fifth grandson of Mohandas Gandhi
• Abraham George, philanthropist humanitarian, founder of The George Foundation
• Gitanjali S. Gutierrez, lawyer who is defending Guantanamo prisoners
• Maya Harris, executive director of the ACLU of Northern California and sister of Kamala Harris
• Prerna Lal, immigrant rights advocate and attorney
• 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
• Inder Singh, chairman of the Global Organization of People of Indian Origin
• 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, founder president of the Global Organization of People of Indian Origin as well as the National Federation of Indian American Associations
• Sakharam Ganesh Pandit, lawyer who argued against government efforts to revoke American citizenship for Indian emigrants

  Arts and entertainment

• 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
• Jay Chandrasekhar, director, actor, comedian, and writer
• Shanthi Chandrasekar, visual artist
• Nina Davuluri, Miss America 2014
• 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
• Adam Bhala Lough, director, screenwriter
• Tirlok Malik, filmmaker and actor
• Benny Mathews, film and music video director
• Faris McReynolds, painter and musician
• Govindini Murty, co-founder of the Liberty film festival
• Mira Nair, director and producer
• Sunil Nayar, TV writer and producer; producer of '
• 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
• 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 '
• 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
• Shirish Korde, artist

  Actors and actresses

• Karan Soni, actor
• Simran Judge, actor
• Ravi Patel, actor
• Dev Patel, actor
• Devika Bhise, actress
• Waris Ahluwalia, fashion designer
• Aziz Ansari, actor and comedian
• Gabrielle Anwar, actress
• Tanveer K. Atwal, 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
• Priyanka Chopra, actress and former beauty pageant
• 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
• Poorna Jagannathan, actress and producer
• Avan Jogia, actor
• 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
• 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
• Tiya Sircar, actress
• Shenaz Treasury, actress
• Omi Vaidya, actor
• Sugith Varughese, Canadian-born actor with American citizenship

  Comedians

• Aziz Ansari
• Aman Ali
• Arj Barker
• Jay Chandrasekhar
• Hasan Minhaj
• Hari Kondabolu
• Neel Kolhatkar
• Nimesh Patel
• Adam Mamawala
• Russell Peters, born in Canada, now living in USA
• Rajiv Satyal
• Anish Shah
• Paul Varghese, appeared on Last Comic Standing
• Aparna Nancherla

  [Culinary art]s

• 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, TV host on Food Network
• Vikram Sunderam, chef and author

  Fashion designers

• Naeem Khan
• Vashtie Kola
• Bibhu Mohapatra
• Christine Philip
• Rachel Roy

  Models

• Anchal Joseph, contestant on Cycle 7 of America's Next Top Model
• Pooja Kumar, model
• Padma Lakshmi, model, Top Chef host
• Akshay Kapoor, model, actor

  Media

• Manu Raju, 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
• 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
• 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
• Simran Sethi, journalist
• 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
• 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

  Musicians

• Sandeep Das, won the Grammy award for Best World Music Album, at the 59th Grammy Awards, 2017
• Sean Paul, father is of Portuguese and Indo-Jamaican descent
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Karsh Kale, Indian producer, composer and musician
• Tony Kanal, two-time Grammy Award winner, bass player for No Doubt
• 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
• Vidya Vox, YouTube musician
• Vasant Rai, performer of Indian music
• Paul Sabu, producer
• Amar Sandhu, singer
• Shaheen Sheik, songwriter
• 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
• Nav, Canada-based rapper and producer
• Sanjay Patel, animator and director and also illustrator of Pixar
• Shirish Korde, composer
• XXXTentacion, American rapper

  Pornographic actors

• Sunny Leone
• Priya Anjali Rai

  Business

• Anu Aiyengar, managing director of North American mergers and acquisitions of JPMorgan Chase & Co
• Mahaboob Ben Ali, co-founder of Ben's Chili Bowl
• Nikesh Arora, 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
• Prith Banerjee, managing director of Global Technology R&D at Accenture
• Somen Banerjee, co-founder of Chippendales
• Ajaypal Singh Banga, president and CEO of MasterCard
• 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 S. Bindra, director of Edison International, Southern California Edison
• Amar Bose, founder and chairman of Bose Corporation
• 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
• 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 Company
• John Kapoor, founder and executive chairman of Insys Therapeutics
• Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures, co-founder of Sun Microsystems
• 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, President of Google Cloud, former President of product development at Oracle Corporation
• Sachin Lawande, president and CEO of Visteon
• Krishna Maharaj, businessman convicted of murder
• Bobby Mehta, former CEO and vice chairman of HSBC North America and former CEO of Transunion Company
• 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
• Ranji H. Nagaswami, chief investment officer for AllianceBernstein Fund Investors
• 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
• B.U.Patel, Founder and Patron of Tarsadia University
• Ganpat Patel, Founder and Patron of Ganpat University
• Mitesh Patel, CEO of Teq AVIT. Innovator of wireless presentation system
• Suhas Patil, entrepreneur, venture capitalist & Founder of Cirrus Logic
• Mark Persaud, lawyer, former president of Qwest Records, and chairman and owner of Persaud Brothers, Inc.
• Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, Alphabet Inc.
• Prakash Puram, president and CEO of iXmatch
• Vivek Ranadivé, former CEO of TIBCO Software
• 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 Group plc
• Deven Sharma, former president of Standard & Poor's
• Ram Shriram, venture fund capitalist and one of the first investors in Google
• Jay Sidhu, former chairman and CEO of Sovereign Bancorp
• Pradeep Sindhu, founder and CTO of Juniper Networks
• K. R. Sridhar, founder and CEO of Bloom Energy
• Bhargav Sri Prakash, founder and CEO of FriendsLearn and Managing Director of Nirmana LP
• Rajeev Suri, CEO of Nokia
• Abhi Talwalkar, president and CEO of LSI Corporation
• Romesh Wadhwani, founder, chairman and CEO of Symphony Technology Group
• Padmasree Warrior, CEO of NIO

  Literature

• Abraham Verghese, doctor and author; wrote In My Own Country and My Tennis Partner
• Agha Shahid Ali, poet
• Aimee Nezhukumatathil, poet
• 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
• Anu Garg, author, speaker, and computer engineer
• Arnold Rampersad, biographer and literary critic
• 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
• Indira Viswanathan Peterson, literary critic
• Indu Sundaresan, author
• Janaki Ram, author
• Jhumpa Lahiri, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
• Kaavya Viswanathan, novelist
• Kiran Desai, winner of the 2006 Man Booker Prize
• Parag Khanna, author
• Rajiv Joseph, playwright
• Ramya Ramana, poet
• Ravi Batra, bestselling author and economist
• Ravi Shankar, poet
• Rishi Reddi, author
• Roshani Chokshi novelist
• 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 Seshadri, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and essayist
• Vikram Seth, poet, novelist, travel writer, librettist, children's writer, biographer and memoirist

  Military

• Joe Roche, Iraq war veteran and conservative political commentator
• Uday Singh Taunque, first Indian American to die in Operation Iraqi Freedom; posthumously awarded Bronze Star and Purple Heart gallantry awards
• Sunita Williams, astronaut and former Navy officer

  Politics

Elected officials

• John Abraham, former mayor of Teaneck, New Jersey
• Suhas Subramanyam, Virginia's 87th House of Delegates district Representative
• Saqib Ali, former member of the Maryland House of Delegates
• Harvinder "Harry" Anand, mayor of Laurel Hollow, New York
• Sam Arora, member of the Maryland House of Delegates
• Kumar P. Barve, member of the Maryland House of Delegates
• Ravinder Bhalla, mayor, Hoboken, Hudson County, New Jersey, the first turban-wearing Sikh American mayor in the United States to be elected by a municipality's residents, in November 2017
• Satveer Chaudhary, former Minnesota State Senator
• Upendra J. Chivukula, member of the New Jersey General Assembly
• Swati Dandekar, Iowa State Senator
• Mervyn M. Dymally, 41st Lieutenant Governor of California ; member of the U.S. House of Representatives
• Kashmir Gill, mayor of Yuba City, California
• Jay Goyal, member of the Ohio State Representative
• Raj Goyle, member of the Kansas State Representative
• Faz Husain, first native of India to win elected office in Michigan
• Bobby Jindal, former Governor of Louisiana; vice chairman of the Republican Governors Association
• Nimi McConigley, first Indian American women to serve in any American State legislature served in the Wyoming State Legislature from 1994 until 1996
• Ameya Pawar, served as the alderman for the 47th Ward of the City of Chicago
• Aruna Miller, member of the Maryland House of Delegates
• 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
• Jenifer Rajkumar, Lower Manhattan district leader and candidate for the New York State Assembly

  Federal elected officials

• Kamala Harris, former and 32nd Attorney General of California, current U.S. Senator from California
• Michael Bennet, current U.S. Senator from Colorado
• Ami Bera, U.S. Representative for California's 7th congressional district
• Raja Krishnamoorthi, U.S. Representative for Illinois's 8th congressional district
• Ro Khanna, U.S. Representative for California's 17th congressional district
• Pramila Jayapal, U.S. Representative for Washington's 7th congressional district
• Dalip Singh Saund, first Asian and Indian American member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California

  Civil servants

• Arif Alikhan, 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, member and past chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom; former Solicitor General of New York
• Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York
• Cathy Bissoon, judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
• 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.,
• Nikki Haley, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; former Governor of South Carolina
• 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
• 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, Deputy Mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey; candidate for the New Jersey State Legislature
• Shekar Narasimhan, co-chair of the Democratic National Committee Indo-American Council
• Ajit Pai, serving as chairman at 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, 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
• Sabita Singh, first judge of Indian descent in Massachusetts history
• Subra Suresh, director of National Science Foundation
• Vinai Thummalapally, served as U.S. Ambassador to Belize
• Richard Verma, Assistant Secretary for Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs, at the Department of State
• Surya Yalamanchili, 2010 US Congressional candidate

  Federal judges

• Vince Girdhari Chhabria, judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California
• Nicholas Ranjan, District Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
• Neomi Rao, judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
• Manish S. Shah, judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
• Srikanth Srinivasan, judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
• Indira Talwani, judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
• Amul Thapar, judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

  Religion

• Chitrabhanu, Jain, founded the Jain Meditation International Center in Manhattan, New York City
• Padmanabh Jaini, scholar of Jainism
• Furquan Khaja, hafiz
• Sushil Kumarji, Jain Acharya
• Eboo Patel, member of 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
• Ravi Zacharias, Christian evangelist and apologist

  Science and technology

• Yellapragada Subbarow, pioneering piochemist who discovered ATP in 1929, the human body's energy molecule.
• Ajay Bhatt, co-inventor of the USB; Chief Client Platform Architect at Intel
• Ajit V. Pai, chairman of the United States Federal Communications Commission
• Ajit Varki, physician-scientist
• Amar Gopal Bose, PhD in electrical engineering, founder and chairman of Bose Corporation
• 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 space shuttle blast
• 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, engineer, 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
• 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
• 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 and India
• 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
• Swapan Chattopadhyay, particle accelerator physicist
• Thomas Anantharaman, computer statistician specializing in Bayesian inference
• Thomas Zacharia, computational scientist
• V. Mohan Reddy, paediatric 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

  Medicine

• 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
• Lall Ramnath Sawh, urologist and a pioneer of kidney transplantation in the Caribbean
• Paul Antony, MD, MPH, chief medical officer for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America
• Ragavendra R. Baliga, FACC, FACP, FRCP, 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; declined offer by President Barack Obama to be nominated U.S. Surgeon General
• Vasant Lad, Ayurvedic physician, professor and director of the Ayurvedic Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
• Vivek Murthy, 19th and former Surgeon General of the United States; former vice admiral of U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Officer Corps

  Sports

• Prakash Amritraj, tennis player
• Stephen Amritraj, tennis player
• Sanjay Beach, 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
• Brandon Chillar, NFL player, linebacker for the Green Bay Packers
• 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
• Amjad Khan, cricketer
• Ibrahim Khaleel, cricketer
• Noshtush Kenjige, cricketer
• Thirunavukkarasu Kumaran, cricketer
• 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
• 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
• Shikha Uberoi, tennis player
• Shiva Vashishat, cricketer
• Adeel Alam, professional wrestler best known ring name Mustafa Ali

  Yoga

• Bikram Choudhury, yoga guru
• Dipa Ma, yoga teacher
• Harbhajan Singh Yogi, introduced Kundalini Yoga and Sikhism to the US