Personalities

Famous personalities of India

Short, sourced profiles — sector, state, honours, facts and quotes. Money figures always name their source and year; estimates are marked.

443 people

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Business & industry Sunil Mittal Businessperson b. 1957 · Punjab Science & space Sunita Williams American astronaut and USN officer b. 1965 Social work & NGOs Sunitha Krishnan Indian social activist b. 1972 · Karnataka Law & judiciary Surya Kant Chief judge of Supreme Court of India b. 1962 · Haryana Chess Surya Shekhar Ganguly Indian chess player b. 1983 · West Bengal Religion & spirituality Swami Maheshwarananda Indian guru b. 1945 · Rajasthan Business & industry Swati Piramal Indian businesswoman b. 1956 Law & judiciary T. S. Thakur 43rd Chief Justice of India b. 1952 · Jammu and Kashmir Social work & NGOs Teesta Setalvad Indian activist b. 1962 · Maharashtra Business & industry Uday Kotak Executive Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Kotak Mahindra Bank b. 1959 · Maharashtra Law & judiciary Uday Umesh Lalit 49th Chief Justice of India b. 1957 Politics & governance Uma Bharti Indian politician b. 1959 · Madhya Pradesh Banking & finance Urjit Patel Indian economist b. 1963 Chess Vaishali Rameshbabu Indian chess player b. 2001 · Tamil Nadu Politics & governance Vasundhara Raje Indian politician b. 1953 · Maharashtra Defence & security Ved Prakash Malik Former chief of the Indian Army b. 1939 Science & space Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Nobel prize winning American and British structural biologist b. 1952 · Tamil Nadu Chess Vidit Gujrathi Indian chess player b. 1994 · Maharashtra Tennis Vijay Amritraj Indian tennis player b. 1953 · Tamil Nadu Shooting Vijay Kumar Indian sport shooter b. 1985 · Himachal Pradesh Defence & security Vijay Kumar Singh Indian politician and former army general b. 1950 · Haryana Business & industry Vijay Mallya Indian businessman and former Member of Parliament b. 1955 · West Bengal Business & industry Vijay Shekhar Sharma CEO of Paytm b. 1978 · Uttar Pradesh Science & space Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath Indian neuroscientist b. 1953 · Tamil Nadu

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Net worth and income come from official records (election affidavits, company filings) or recognised rich lists (Forbes, Hurun), each with its year. News-report figures are shown only as marked estimates. We never guess anyone's gender: it is shown only as the person states it.

Reliability 1–5 on each profile is the weakest source behind what the page shows: 5 official record, 4 strong sources (Forbes, major publications), 3 encyclopedic sources, 2 or less weak.

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