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.

817 people

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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 Defence & security Sam Manekshaw Indian military officer (1914–2009) 1914–2008 · Punjab Tennis Sania Mirza Indian tennis player b. 1986 · Maharashtra Actors Sanjeev Kumar Indian film actor (1938-1985) 1938–1985 · Gujarat Law & judiciary Sanjiv Khanna Indian judge and lawyer b. 1960 Medicine & health Sarungbam Bimola Kumari Devi Indian physician Manipur Law & judiciary Sarv Mittra Sikri 13th Chief Justice of India (1908–1992) 1908–1992 Religion & spirituality Satchidananda Saraswati Yogiraj (1914-2002) 1914–2002 · Tamil Nadu Science & space Satish Dhawan Former ISRO Chairman 1920–2002 · Jammu and Kashmir Literature & writing Satya Vrat Shastri Jnanpith Award recipient in Sanskrit. Indian academic 1930–2021 Defence & security Satyawant Mallannah Shrinagesh Indian general 1903–1977 · Maharashtra Actors Shabana Azmi Indian actress b. 1950 · Uttar Pradesh Science & space Shailesh Nayak Indian oceanographer b. 1953 · Gujarat Banking & finance Shaktikanta Das Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) b. 1957 · Odisha Politics & governance Shankar Dayal Sharma President of India from 1992 to 1997 1918–1999 · Madhya Pradesh Defence & security Shankar Roychowdhury Indian Army Chief of Staff b. 1937 · West Bengal

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.

Researchers can download any filtered list as CSV or Excel, or use the read-only JSON API at /api/v1/personalities (structured fields and source links; no biography text). Spot a mistake? Use "Report an error" on the profile.