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.

607 people

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Business & industry Ramnath Goenka Indian newspaper publisher (1904–1991) 1904–1991 · Bihar Law & judiciary Ranjan Gogoi 46th Chief Justice of India b. 1954 · Assam Chess Raunak Sadhwani Indian chess player b. 2005 · Maharashtra Wrestling Ravi Kumar Dahiya Indian freestyle wrestler b. 1997 · Haryana Composers Ravi Shankar Indian sitar player (1920–2012) 1920–2012 · Uttar Pradesh Journalism & media Ravindra Prabhat Hindi poet, scholar, journalist, novelist and short story writer b. 1969 · Bihar Environment Rishad Naoroji Billionaire and environmentalist b. 1951 Science & space Roddam Narasimha Indian scientist (1933–2020) 1933–2020 · Karnataka Tennis Rohan Bopanna Indian tennis player (born 1980) b. 1980 · Karnataka Cricket Rohit Sharma Indian cricketer (Captain) b. 1987 · Maharashtra Business & industry Romesh Wadhwani Indian-American businessman b. 1947 Literature & writing Rudyard Kipling English writer and poet (1865–1936) 1865–1936 · Maharashtra Law & judiciary S. H. Kapadia 38th Chief Justice of India (1947–2016) 1947–2016 · Maharashtra Banking & finance S. Jagannathan Indian banker 1914–1996 Chess S. L. Narayanan Indian chess player b. 1998 · Kerala Business & industry S. N. Goenka Burmese teacher of vipassanā meditation (1924–2013) 1924–2013 Science & space S. Somanath Indian aerospace engineer Kerala Banking & finance S. Venkitaramanan Indian economist, (1931-2023) 1931–2023 · Tamil Nadu Business & industry Sabeer Bhatia Indian-American businessperson b. 1968 · Chandigarh Journalism & media Sachchidananda Vatsyayan Indian writer (1911–1987) 1911–1987 · Uttar Pradesh Chess Sahaj Grover Indian chess player b. 1995 · Delhi Religion & spirituality Sai Kaleshwar 1973–2012 · Tamil Nadu Actors Saif Ali Khan Indian film actor and producer b. 1970 Religion & spirituality Sakyong Mipham Tibetan lama b. 1962 · Bihar

Where this comes from

Profiles start from Wikidata (CC0) and Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; summaries are short and credited on each page), with portraits only under free Commons licences. Editors review every profile before it is published — living people always.

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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