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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Film & entertainment Soumitra Chatterjee Indian actor (1935–2020) 1935–2020 · West Bengal Hockey Sreejesh Ravindran Indian field hockey player b. 1986 Literature & writing Subhash Mukhopadhyay Indian writer 1919–2003 · West Bengal Mathematics Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Indian-American astrophysicist 1910–1995 Chess Subramanian Arun Prasad Indian chess player b. 1988 · Tamil Nadu Law & judiciary Sudhi Ranjan Das 5th Chief Justice of India (1894–1977) 1894–1977 · West Bengal Science & space Sudipta Sengupta Indian geologist b. 1946 · West Bengal Actors Suhasini Maniratnam Indian actress and director b. 1961 · Tamil Nadu Literature & writing Sumitranandan Pant Indian writer 1900–1977 · Uttarakhand Defence & security Sundararajan Padmanabhan Indian Army general (1940–2024) 1940–2024 · Kerala Football Sunil Chhetri Indian football player b. 1984 · Telangana Literature & writing Sunil Gangopadhyay Award-winning and bestselling Bengali poet and author (1934-2012) 1934–2012 Business & industry Sunil Mittal Businessperson b. 1957 · Punjab Science & space Sunita Williams American astronaut and USN officer b. 1965 Defence & security Sunith Francis Rodrigues Formerly Chief of the Army Staff of the Indian Army 1933–2022 · Maharashtra Social work & NGOs Sunitha Krishnan Indian social activist b. 1972 · Karnataka Playback singers Surinder Kaur Indian singer (1929-2006) 1929–2006 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 Religion & spirituality Swami Ramdas Hindu guru (1884–1963) 1884–1963 · Kerala Religion & spirituality Swami Vishnu Tirtha Hindu Yogi (1888–1969) 1888–1969 Business & industry Swati Piramal Indian businesswoman b. 1956 Law & judiciary T. S. Thakur 43rd Chief Justice of India b. 1952 · Jammu and Kashmir

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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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