List of Indian Americans
Encyclopedia
This is a list of notable Indian American
s, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.
To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Indian American or must have references showing they are Indian American and are notable.
Indian American
Indian Americans are Americans whose ancestral roots lie in India. The U.S. Census Bureau popularized the term Asian Indian to avoid confusion with Indigenous peoples of the Americas who are commonly referred to as American Indians.-The term: Indian:...
s, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.
To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Indian American or must have references showing they are Indian American and are notable.
Nobel Prize
- Subramanyan Chandrasekhar, Nobel Prize for Physics, (1983). (Nobel Laureate)
- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Nobel Prize for Chemistry, (2009). (Nobel Laureate)
- Amartya SenAmartya SenAmartya Sen, CH is an Indian economist who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory, and for his interest in the problems of society's poorest members...
, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic SciencesNobel Memorial Prize in Economic SciencesThe Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, commonly referred to as the Nobel Prize in Economics, but officially the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel , is an award for outstanding contributions to the field of economics, generally regarded as one of the...
, (1998). - Har Gobind Khorana, Nobel Prize in Medicine, (1968).
Dean/President
- Satish K. TripathiSatish K. TripathiSatish K. Tripathi is the president of the University at Buffalo, part of the State University of New York system. He was selected by the SUNY Board of Trustees with backing from SUNY Chancellor Nancy L...
, President of University at Buffalo - Renu KhatorRenu KhatorRenu Khator is the eighth chancellor of the University of Houston System and the thirteenth president of the University of Houston. She is the first foreign-born president of the university, and the second woman to hold the position...
, Chancellor of the University of Houston SystemUniversity of Houston SystemThe University of Houston System is a state university system in Texas, encompassing four separate and distinct universities. It has two system centers, which operate as and distance learning course delivery sites for its universities...
and President of the University of HoustonUniversity of HoustonThe University of Houston is a state research university, and is the flagship institution of the University of Houston System. Founded in 1927, it is Texas's third-largest university with nearly 40,000 students. Its campus spans 667 acres in southeast Houston, and was known as University of... - Beheruz SethnaBeheruz SethnaDr. Beheruz N. Sethna is in his 17th year as Professor of Business at the University of West Georgia and President of the University.During his tenure, the University of West Georgia has acquired university status, achieved designation as a member of the robust tier of doctoral comprehensive...
, President of the University of West GeorgiaUniversity of West GeorgiaThe University of West Georgia is a comprehensive doctoral-granting university in Carrollton, Georgia, approximately 45 miles west of Atlanta, Georgia. The University is built on 645 acres including a recent land gift of 246 acres from the city of Carrollton in 2003...
. - Molly Easo SmithMolly Easo SmithDr. Molly Easo Smith is an Indian-American professor and scholar of Shakespeare and Renaissance drama, and academic administrator.-Biography:Born in Chennai in India, Dr...
, President of Manhattanville CollegeManhattanville CollegeManhattanville College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college offering undergraduate and graduate degrees, located in Purchase, New York. Founded in 1841 it was known initially as Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart... - Nitin NohriaNitin NohriaNitin Nohria is the 10th and the current dean of Harvard Business School. He is also the George F. Baker Professor of Business Administration, co-chair of the HBS Leadership Initiative and sits on the executive committee of the University's interfaculty initiative on advanced leadership.Over the...
, Dean of Harvard Business SchoolHarvard Business SchoolHarvard Business School is the graduate business school of Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, United States and is widely recognized as one of the top business schools in the world. The school offers the world's largest full-time MBA program, doctoral programs, and many executive... - Vijay K. DhirVijay K. DhirVijay K. Dhir is currently the Dean of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, since March 2003. He is also a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, joining the UCLA faculty in 1974...
, Dean of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied ScienceHenry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied ScienceThe Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of California, Los Angeles was opened with an enrollment of 379 students in the fall of 1945. It opened as the College of Engineering until it was changed to school on February 21, 1969. The School now has seven... - Pradeep KhoslaPradeep khoslaPradeep K. Khosla is an Indian American computer scientist and Dean of the College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University's College of Engineering. He is also the Philip and Marsha Dowd University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon.-Work:Khosla...
, Dean of Carnegie Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon UniversityCarnegie Mellon UniversityCarnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.... - Vijay Kumar (roboticist)Vijay Kumar (roboticist)Vijay Kumar is an Indian roboticist and professor in the School of Engineering & Applied Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. Kumar is known for his research in the control and coordination of multi-robot formations.-Education:* B...
, Associate Dean of School of Engineering and Applied Science at University of PennsylvaniaUniversity of PennsylvaniaThe University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution... - Dipak C. JainDipak C. JainDipak C. Jain is the current dean of INSEAD and the former dean of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.He is also Sandy and Morton Goldman Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies & Professor of Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management, where he has been a member of the...
, Dean of INSEADINSEADINSEAD is an international graduate business school and research institution. It has campuses in Europe , Asia , and the Middle East , as well as a research center in Israel...
and former Dean of the Kellogg School of ManagementKellogg School of ManagementThe Kellogg School of Management is the business school of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, downtown Chicago, Illinois and Miami, Florida. Kellogg offers full-time, part-time, and executive programs, as well as partnering programs with schools in China, India, Hong Kong, Israel,...
at Northwestern UniversityNorthwestern UniversityNorthwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees.... - Dinesh D'SouzaDinesh D'SouzaDinesh D'Souza is an author and public speaker and a former Robert and Karen Rishwain Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He is currently the President of The King's College in New York City. D'Souza is a noted Christian apologist and conservative writer and speaker....
, President of The King's College - Jamshed BharuchaJamshed BharuchaJamshed Bharucha is President of Cooper Union. Prior to this, he was Provost and Senior Vice President of Tufts University and Professor in the Departments of Psychology, Music and in the Medical School's Department of Neuroscience...
, President of Cooper UnionCooper UnionThe Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, commonly referred to simply as Cooper Union, is a privately funded college in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, United States, located at Cooper Square and Astor Place...
. Formerly Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences at Dartmouth CollegeDartmouth CollegeDartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...
and Provost at Tufts UniversityTufts UniversityTufts University is a private research university located in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, Massachusetts. It is organized into ten schools, including two undergraduate programs and eight graduate divisions, on four campuses in Massachusetts and on the eastern border of France...
Professors
- Narayan HosmaneNarayan HosmaneNarayan S. Hosmane is an Indian-born cancer research scientist who made the featured article in NRI Achievers magazine and is currently distinguished research professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the inaugural board of trustees professor at Northern Illinois University, Dekalb. He received...
, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Northern Illinois UniversityNorthern Illinois UniversityNorthern Illinois University is a state university and research institution located in DeKalb, Illinois, with satellite centers in Hoffman Estates, Naperville, Rockford, and Oregon. It was originally founded as Northern Illinois State Normal School on May 22, 1895 by Illinois Governor John P...
(winner of Humboldt PrizeHumboldt PrizeThe Humboldt Prize, also known as the Humboldt Research Award, is an award given by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to internationally renowned scientists and scholars, and is currently valued at € 60,000 with the possibility of further support during the prize winner's life. Up to one...
[twice] for Chemistry, [2001 & 2008]). - Raghuram RajanRaghuram RajanRaghuram Govind Rajan is currently the Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. He is also an honorary economic adviser to Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh and the current President of the American Finance...
, Professor of Finance at the Booth School of Business at the University of ChicagoUniversity of ChicagoThe University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
; also International Monetary FundInternational Monetary FundThe International Monetary Fund is an organization of 187 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world...
Chief EconomistEconomistAn economist is a professional in the social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy...
(winner of Fischer Black PrizeFischer Black PrizeFischer Black Prize is a memorial prize awarded in honor of Fischer Black that rewards individual financial research. The prize was established in 2002 and first awarded in 2003. It is awarded to a financial scientist for a body of work that demonstrates significant original research that is...
). - Satya N. AtluriSatya N. AtluriSatya Atluri, born in India and a citizen of the USA, is , in the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at UCI. His research focuses upon the areas of aerospace and mechanics. His professional interests lie in the areas of aerospace and mechanical engineering...
, Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at University of California, IrvineUniversity of California, IrvineThe University of California, Irvine , founded in 1965, is one of the ten campuses of the University of California, located in Irvine, California, USA... - Madhu SudanMadhu SudanMadhu Sudan is an Indian computer scientist, professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.-Career:...
, Professor of computer science at MIT (winner of the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize and Gödel PrizeGödel PrizeThe Gödel Prize is a prize for outstanding papers in theoretical computer science, named after Kurt Gödel and awarded jointly by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science and the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory .The...
). - C. R. RaoC. R. RaoCalyampudi Radhakrishna Rao FRS known as C R Rao is an Indian statistician. He is currently professor emeritus at Penn State University and Research Professor at the University at Buffalo. Rao has been honored by numerous colloquia, honorary degrees, and festschrifts and was awarded the US...
, Professor at Penn State University and Research Professor at the University at Buffalo (awarded the National Medal of ScienceNational Medal of ScienceThe National Medal of Science is an honor bestowed by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the fields of behavioral and social sciences, biology, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and...
) - Arogyaswami PaulrajArogyaswami PaulrajProf. Arogyaswami Paulraj was born in Pollachi near Coimbatore, India. He joined the Indian Navy at age 15 through the National Defence Academy, Kharakvalsa and served the Navy for 30 years. He is currently a Professor Emeritus at the Dept. of Elect. Engineering, Stanford University...
, Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford UniversityStanford UniversityThe Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
(awarded the Padma BhushanPadma BhushanThe Padma Bhushan is the third highest civilian award in the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan, but comes before the Padma Shri. It is awarded by the Government of India.-History:...
by the Govt. of India) - Ravindra KhattreeRavindra KhattreeRavindra Khattree is an Indian born statistician and professor of statistics at Oakland University. His contribution to the Fountain-Khattree-Peddada Theorem in Pitman measure of closeness is one of the important results of his work. Khattree is the coauthor of two books and has coedited two...
, Professor of statisticsStatisticsStatistics is the study of the collection, organization, analysis, and interpretation of data. It deals with all aspects of this, including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments....
at Oakland UniversityOakland UniversityOakland University is a public university co-founded by Matilda Dodge Wilson and John A. Hannah whose campus is located in central Oakland County, Michigan, United States in the cities of Auburn Hills and Rochester Hills. It is the only major research university in Oakland County, from which OU... - Akhil Amar, Professor of Law at Yale Law SchoolYale Law SchoolYale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Established in 1824, it offers the J.D., LL.M., J.S.D. and M.S.L. degrees in law. It also hosts visiting scholars, visiting researchers and a number of legal research centers...
- Salman AkhtarSalman AkhtarSalman Akhtar is a psychoanalyst who also holds a professorship at the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia....
, Professor at the Jefferson Medical College - Vikram AmarVikram AmarVikram David Amar is professor and the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the UC Davis School of Law . Before becoming a professor, he clerked for Judge William A. Norris of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and for Justice Harry Blackmun at the Supreme Court of the...
, Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis School of Law. - P.S. AyyaswamyP.S. AyyaswamyPortonovo S. Ayyaswamy is the Asa Whitney Professor of Dynamical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. He is known for his work on phase-change heat/mass transfer with droplets and bubbles, multi-phase flows, buoyancy-driven transport, and ionized arc-plasma transport...
, Professor of Dynamical Engineering at the University of PennsylvaniaUniversity of PennsylvaniaThe University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...
, Philadelphia, USA - Homi K. BhabhaHomi K. BhabhaHomi K. Bhabha is the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature and Language, and the Director of the Humanities Center at Harvard University. He is one of the most important figures in contemporary post-colonial studies, and has coined a number of the field's neologisms and...
, Professor at Harvard UniversityHarvard UniversityHarvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
. - Ananda Mohan ChakrabartyAnanda Mohan ChakrabartyAnanda Mohan Chakrabarty , Ph.D. is an Bengali American microbiologist, scientist, and researcher, most notable for his work in directed evolution and his role in developing a genetically engineered organism using plasmid transfer while working at GE....
, Professor of microbiology at University of Illinois at ChicagoUniversity of Illinois at ChicagoThe University of Illinois at Chicago, or UIC, is a state-funded public research university located in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its campus is in the Near West Side community area, near the Chicago Loop... - K. Mani ChandyK. Mani ChandyKanianthra Mani Chandy is the Simon Ramo Professor of Computer Science at the California Institute of Technology. He has been the Executive Officer of the Computer Science Department twice, and he has been a professor at Caltech since 1989....
, Professor of Computer Science at the California Institute of TechnologyCalifornia Institute of TechnologyThe California Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Pasadena, California, United States. Caltech has six academic divisions with strong emphases on science and engineering...
. - Rakesh JainRakesh JainRakesh K. Jain is the Andrew Werk Cook Professor of Tumor Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital in the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Jain primarily researches tumor pathophysiology...
, Professor of Tumor Biology at Massachusetts General HospitalMassachusetts General HospitalMassachusetts General Hospital is a teaching hospital and biomedical research facility in the West End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts...
in the Harvard Medical SchoolHarvard Medical SchoolHarvard Medical School is the graduate medical school of Harvard University. It is located in the Longwood Medical Area of the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.... - Muzaffar AlamMuzaffar AlamMuzaffar Alam is the George V. Bobrinskoy Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilization at the University of Chicago.-Biography:...
, Professor in South Asian Languages & Civilizations at University of ChicagoUniversity of ChicagoThe University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
. - V. V. ChariV. V. ChariVaradarajan Venkatachari Chari is an Indian-American economist and professor of economics at the University of Minnesota.-Biography:Chari received a Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1974, and was a production engineer at Union Carbide...
, Professor of economics at the University of MinnesotaUniversity of MinnesotaThe University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...
. - Aravind JoshiAravind JoshiAravind Krishna Joshi is the Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science in the computer science department of the University of Pennsylvania...
, Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science at the University of PennsylvaniaUniversity of PennsylvaniaThe University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution... - Thomas KailathThomas KailathThomas Kailath is an Indian electrical engineer, information theorist, control engineer, entrepreneur and the Hitachi America Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, at Stanford University...
, Professor of Engineering at Stanford UniversityStanford UniversityThe Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San... - M. A. Muqtedar KhanM. A. Muqtedar KhanDr. M. A. Muqtedar Khan [محمد عبد المقتدر خان] is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science, a Sufi and International Relations at the University of Delaware. He is also the founding Director of the Islamic Studies Program at the University of Delaware...
, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of DelawareUniversity of DelawareThe university is organized into seven colleges:* College of Agriculture and Natural Resources* College of Arts and Sciences* Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics* College of Earth, Ocean and Environment* College of Education and Human Development...
. - Marti G. SubrahmanyamMarti G. SubrahmanyamMarti G. Subrahmanyam is the Charles E. Merrill Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University. He also teaches for the Master of Science in Global Finance , which is a joint program between Stern and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology...
, Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business at New York UniversityNew York UniversityNew York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
. - C.K. Prahalad, Professor of Corporate Strategy at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business in the University of MichiganUniversity of MichiganThe University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
- Gayatri Chakravorty SpivakGayatri Chakravorty SpivakGayatri Chakravorty Spivak is an Indian literary critic, theorist and a University Professor at Columbia University. She is best known for the essay "Can the Subaltern Speak?", considered a founding text of postcolonialism, and for her translation of Jacques Derrida's Of Grammatology. She...
, Professor at Columbia UniversityColumbia UniversityColumbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
. - Krishna SaraswatKrishna SaraswatKrishna Saraswat is a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University in the United States. In May 2002, he was recognised for his work on dielectric science and technology, being awarded the Thomas D. Callinan Award by the Electrochemical Society. In 2004, he was awarded IEEE Andrew S....
, Professor of electrical engineering at Stanford UniversityStanford UniversityThe Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
. - Surain SubramaniamSurain SubramaniamDr. Surain Subramaniam is a noted academic and professor of political science at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. He is contributor to several journals on international relations. The focus of his writing has developed the theory of Asian Values, defining and illustrating the contrast...
, Professor of political sciencePolitical sciencePolitical Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...
at the University of North Carolina at AshevilleUniversity of North Carolina at AshevilleThe University of North Carolina at Asheville is a co-educational, four year, public liberal arts university. The university is also known as UNC Asheville. Located in Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina, UNCA is the only designated liberal arts institution in the University of North...
. - Arvind PanagariyaArvind PanagariyaArvind Panagariya is an Indian economist and Bhagwati Professor of Economics at Columbia University and an ex-Chief Economist at the Asian Development Bank. In the past, he has been the Chief Economist of the Asian Development Bank and a Professor of Economics and Co-director, Center for...
, Professor of Economics at Columbia UniversityColumbia UniversityColumbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the... - Jagdish Natwarlal Bhagwati, Professor of economics at Columbia UniversityColumbia UniversityColumbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
. - Abhay AshtekarAbhay AshtekarAbhay Vasant Ashtekar is an Indian theoretical physicist. He is the Eberly Professor of Physics and the Director of the Institute for Gravitational Physics and Geometry at Pennsylvania State University. As the creator of Ashtekar variables, he is one of the founders of loop quantum gravity and its...
, Professor of Physics at Pennsylvania State UniversityPennsylvania State UniversityThe Pennsylvania State University, commonly referred to as Penn State or PSU, is a public research university with campuses and facilities throughout the state of Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1855, the university has a threefold mission of teaching, research, and public service...
. - Anirvan GhoshAnirvan GhoshAnirvan Ghosh is an American neuroscientist of Indian descent. His research has contributed to our understanding of the molecular mechanisms that regulate development of the mammalian brain. A major focus of his research has been to identify mechanisms that regulate neuronal connectivity and the...
, Professor at the University of California, San DiegoUniversity of California, San DiegoThe University of California, San Diego, commonly known as UCSD or UC San Diego, is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States... - Vijay VaziraniVijay VaziraniVijay Virkumar Vazirani is an Indian American Professor of Computer Science at Georgia Tech.He received his Bachelor's degree from MIT in 1979 and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1983. During the early to mid nineties, he was a Professor of Computer Science at the Indian...
, Professor of Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyGeorgia Institute of TechnologyThe Georgia Institute of Technology is a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States... - Aswath DamodaranAswath DamodaranAswath Damodaran is a Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University , where he teaches corporate finance and equity valuation...
, Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business at New York UniversityNew York UniversityNew York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
. - Umesh VaziraniUmesh VaziraniUmesh Virkumar Vazirani is the Roger A. Strauch Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and the director of the Berkeley Quantum Computation Center. Vazirani was himself a Ph.D. student at Berkeley, receiving his Ph.D. in 1986 under the...
, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, BerkeleyUniversity of California, BerkeleyThe University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
. - Ashok DasAshok DasAshok Das is an Indian American theoretical physicist, an author and award winning teacher of Physics. He is professor of physics at University of Rochester and Adjunct professor of Physics at Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India.He received his BS in 1972 and MS in 1974 in Physics...
, Professor of Physics at University of RochesterUniversity of RochesterThe University of Rochester is a private, nonsectarian, research university in Rochester, New York, United States. The university grants undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional degrees. The university has six schools and various interdisciplinary programs.The... - Jagdish ShuklaJagdish ShuklaJagdish Shukla is an Indian meteorologist and Distinguished University Professor at George Mason University in the United States.-Early years:...
, Professor at George Mason UniversityGeorge Mason UniversityGeorge Mason University is a public university based in unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, south of and adjacent to the city of Fairfax. Additional campuses are located nearby in Arlington County, Prince William County, and Loudoun County... - J. N. ReddyJ. N. ReddyJunuthula N. Reddy is a Distinguished Professor and holder of the Oscar S. Wyatt Endowed Chair in Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA. He is one of the researchers responsible for the development of the Finite Element Method . He is an authoritative figure...
, Professor and holder of the Oscar S. Wyatt Endowed Chair in Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M UniversityTexas A&M UniversityTexas A&M University is a coeducational public research university located in College Station, Texas . It is the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System. The sixth-largest university in the United States, A&M's enrollment for Fall 2011 was over 50,000 for the first time in school...
. - Jaishree OdinJaishree OdinJaishree Odin is a post-modern literary theorist who teaches at the University of Hawaii. She has examined the feminist angle to mysticism and considered the current relevance of Shaivite theories of higher consciousness....
, Professor of post-modern literary theorist at the University of HawaiiUniversity of HawaiiThe University of Hawaii System, formally the University of Hawaii and popularly known as UH, is a public, co-educational college and university system that confers associate, bachelor, master, and doctoral degrees through three university campuses, seven community college campuses, an employment... - Ravi JagannathanRavi JagannathanRavi Jagannathan is an American economist. He is currently a chaired professor at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. With the exception of the period 1989-1997 when he was a professor at the University of Minnesota, Jagannathan has been at Kellogg since graduate...
, Professor at the Kellogg School of ManagementKellogg School of ManagementThe Kellogg School of Management is the business school of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, downtown Chicago, Illinois and Miami, Florida. Kellogg offers full-time, part-time, and executive programs, as well as partnering programs with schools in China, India, Hong Kong, Israel,... - Vijay PrashadVijay PrashadVijay Prashad is the George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History and Professor of International Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, USA. He is the author of eleven books, most recently The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World...
, Professor of International Studies at Trinity CollegeTrinity College (Connecticut)Trinity College is a private, liberal arts college in Hartford, Connecticut. Founded in 1823, it is the second-oldest college in the state of Connecticut after Yale University. The college enrolls 2,300 students and has been coeducational since 1969. Trinity offers 38 majors and 26 minors, and has...
. - Mriganka SurMriganka SurMriganka Sur is an Indian-born neuroscientist working in the USA.-Biography:Sur did his early schooling in Allahabad, India at the St. Joseph's Collegiate School...
, Professor of NeuroscienceNeuroscienceNeuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system. Traditionally, neuroscience has been seen as a branch of biology. However, it is currently an interdisciplinary science that collaborates with other fields such as chemistry, computer science, engineering, linguistics, mathematics,...
at the Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
(MIT). - Shrinivas KulkarniShrinivas KulkarniShrinivas R. Kulkarni FRS is a professor of astrophysics and planetary science at California Institute of Technology. He is on the Space Interferometry Mission science team and is the director of optical observatories at California Institute of Technology, including Palomar and Keck.Kulkarni is...
, Professor of astrophysics and planetary science at Caltech. - Nazir JairazbhoyNazir JairazbhoyNazir Ali Jairazbhoy was a professor of folk and classical music of South Asia at the University of California at Los Angeles, where he was the founding chair of the Department of Ethnomusicology and Systematic Musicology. He was appointed professor of music at UCLA in 1975, and retired in 1994...
, Professor of folk and classical music of South Asia at University of California at Los Angeles. - Amit GoswamiAmit GoswamiAmit Goswami is a theoretical nuclear physicist and member of The University of Oregon Institute for Theoretical Physics since 1968, teaching physics for 32 years...
, Professor of Physics at University of OregonUniversity of Oregon-Colleges and schools:The University of Oregon is organized into eight schools and colleges—six professional schools and colleges, an Arts and Sciences College and an Honors College.- School of Architecture and Allied Arts :... - Avinash KakAvinash KakAvinash C. Kak is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University who has done pioneering research in several different aspects of information processing...
, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue UniversityPurdue UniversityPurdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S., is the flagship university of the six-campus Purdue University system. Purdue was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university when the Indiana General Assembly, taking advantage of the Morrill Act, accepted a donation of land and... - Ashok GadgilAshok GadgilAshok Gadgil is a physicist with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, and a professor in civil and environmental engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known for "UV Waterworks" - a simple, effective and inexpensive water disinfection system.-Education:He...
, Professor in civil and environmental engineering at the University of California, BerkeleyUniversity of California, BerkeleyThe University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA... - Sugata BoseSugata BoseSugata Bose is the Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs at Harvard University.-Early life:Sugata Bose was born in Calcutta, India. He studied at the Presidency College, Kolkata. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge under Eric Stokes...
, Professor of History at Harvard UniversityHarvard UniversityHarvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
. - Raj ChettyRaj ChettyRaj Chetty is an Indian American economist. He is currently a professor of economics at Harvard University and was a former professor at the University of California, Berkeley...
, Professor of economics at Harvard UniversityHarvard UniversityHarvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
. - Maya ChaddaMaya ChaddaMaya Kulkarni Chadda is a professor of political science at William Paterson University of New Jersey and a research fellow at the Southern Asian Institute, Columbia UniversityShe is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations....
, Professor of Political Science at William Patterson University - Ramesh Agarwal, William Palm Professor of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis
Military
- Uday Singh TaunqueUday Singh TaunqueSergeant Uday Singh Taunque was the first soldier of Sikh descent to die fighting in the Iraq War as part of the U.S. Army. His death in Iraq was widely reported in the Indian and American media.-Early Years:...
, first Indian AmericanIndian AmericanIndian Americans are Americans whose ancestral roots lie in India. The U.S. Census Bureau popularized the term Asian Indian to avoid confusion with Indigenous peoples of the Americas who are commonly referred to as American Indians.-The term: Indian:...
to die in Operation Iraqi Freedom
Scholar
- Sanjay SubrahmanyamSanjay SubrahmanyamSanjay Subrahmanyam is the holder of Navin and Pratima Doshi Chair of Indian History at UCLA which he joined in 2004.-Biography:...
, holder of Navin and Pratima Doshi Chair of Indian History and scholar at UCLA. - C. M. NaimC. M. NaimC. M. Naim is an American scholar of Urdu language and literature. He is currently professor emeritus at the University of Chicago....
, scholar of UrduUrduUrdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...
language and literature at University of ChicagoUniversity of ChicagoThe University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890... - Kausalya HartKausalya HartKausalya Hart is a scholar of Tamil language at UC Berkeley. She is famous for translating Sangam literature from Tamil to English and for writing many Tamil textbooks.-Life:...
, scholar of Tamil languageTamil languageTamil is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and in the Indian union territory of Pondicherry. Tamil is also an official language of Sri Lanka and Singapore...
at UC Berkeley - Medha YodhMedha YodhMedha Yodh was an Indian and Indian American Bharatanatyam dancer and teacher of classical Indian dance at UCLA. She was a disciple of Tanjore Balasaraswati and created a documentary on Garba.-Early life:...
, scholar of classical Indian dance at UCLA
Mathematician
- S. R. Srinivasa VaradhanS. R. Srinivasa VaradhanSathamangalam Ranga Iyengar Srinivasa Varadhan FRS is an Indian-American mathematician from Madras , Tamil Nadu, India.-Biography:...
, NYU mathematician who specialised in probability, winner of the Abel PrizeAbel PrizeThe Abel Prize is an international prize presented annually by the King of Norway to one or more outstanding mathematicians. The prize is named after Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel . It has often been described as the "mathematician's Nobel prize" and is among the most prestigious...
and Steele Prize.
- Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar, mathematician, singularity theory and Abhyankar's conjectureAbhyankar's conjectureIn abstract algebra, Abhyankar's conjecture is a 1957 conjecture of Shreeram Abhyankar, on the Galois groups of function fields of characteristic p...
of finite group theory - Anil NerodeAnil NerodeAnil Nerode is a U.S. mathematician, born in 1932. He received his undergraduate education and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Chicago, the latter under the directions of Saunders Mac Lane. He enrolled in the Hutchins College at the University of Chicago in 1947 at the age of 15, and...
, mathematician, proved the Myhill-Nerode Theorem. - Narendra KarmarkarNarendra KarmarkarNarendra K. Karmarkar is an Indian mathematician, renowned for developing Karmarkar's algorithm. He is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher.- Biography :...
, mathematician, inventor of Karmarkar algorithm. - Chandrashekhar KhareChandrashekhar KhareChandrashekhar B. Khare is a professor of mathematics at the University of California Los Angeles. In 2005, he made a major advance in the field of Galois representations and number theory by proving the level 1 Serre conjecture, and later a proof of the full conjecture with Jean-Pierre Wintenberger...
, professor of mathematics at the University of California Los Angeles. - Harish-ChandraHarish-ChandraHarish-Chandra was an Indian mathematician, who did fundamental work in representation theory, especially Harmonic analysis on semisimple Lie groups. -Life:...
, mathematician - K. C. Sreedharan PillaiK. C. Sreedharan PillaiK C Sreedharan Pillai was an Indian statistician who was known for his works on multivariate analysis and probability distributions....
, mathematician - Manjul BhargavaManjul BhargavaManjul Bhargava is a Canadian-American mathematician of Indian origin. He is the R. Brandon Fradd Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University...
, is a professor of mathematics at Princeton UniversityPrinceton UniversityPrinceton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
. - Sarvadaman Chowla, mathematician specializing in number theoryNumber theoryNumber theory is a branch of pure mathematics devoted primarily to the study of the integers. Number theorists study prime numbers as well...
- Pulickel M. Ajayan, is a professor of Material Science at Rice University
- G. S. MaddalaG. S. MaddalaGangadharrao Soundalyarao "G. S." Maddala was an Indian-American economist and mathematician, best known for his work in the field of econometrics....
, mathematicianMathematicsMathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
and economist best known for his work in the field of econometricsEconometricsEconometrics has been defined as "the application of mathematics and statistical methods to economic data" and described as the branch of economics "that aims to give empirical content to economic relations." More precisely, it is "the quantitative analysis of actual economic phenomena based on...
.
Science and technology
- Anita GoelAnita GoelAnita Goel Hindi:अनीता गोयल is a Harvard-MIT trained physicist and physician in the United States. She is notable for her research at the nano-bio level, particularly for the study of molecular mechanics behind the reading and writing of information in DNA....
: Dr. Anita Goel, MD, PhD is a Harvard-MIT Physicist- Physician, Globally recognized expert in Nanobiophysics and Nanotechnology; Chairman & CEO, Nanobiosym - Ajay BhattAjay BhattAjay V. Bhatt is an Indian-American computer architect who helped define and develop several widely used technologies, including USB , AGP , PCI Express, Platform Power management architecture and various chipset improvements.Ajay Bhatt rose to global celebrity as the co-inventor of USB through an...
: Co-Inventor of the USB. Chief Client Platform Architect at Intel - Anil DashAnil DashAnil Dash is a blogger, entrepreneur and technologist. He is currently the Director of Public Technology Incubator Expert Labs and a partner at ACTIVATE.com, a media & technology consulting firm....
: Blogger and technologist - Raj ReddyRaj ReddyDabbala Rajagopal "Raj" Reddy , a Turing Award winner, is one of the early pioneers in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence and has served on the faculty of Stanford and Carnegie Mellon University for over 40 years. He was the founding Director of the Robotics Institute at CMU...
: Founder of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon UniversityCarnegie Mellon UniversityCarnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States....
, winner of the Turing AwardTuring AwardThe Turing Award, in full The ACM A.M. Turing Award, is an annual award given by the Association for Computing Machinery to "an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community. The contributions should be of lasting and major technical importance to the...
. - Arun NetravaliArun NetravaliArun N. Netravali is an Indian-American engineer who is a pioneer of digital technology including HDTV. He conducted seminal research in digital compression, signal processing and other fields. Netravali has been President of Bell Laboratories and Chief Scientist for Lucent Technologies.-Early...
: Scientist. Former President of Bell LabsBell LabsBell Laboratories is the research and development subsidiary of the French-owned Alcatel-Lucent and previously of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company , half-owned through its Western Electric manufacturing subsidiary.Bell Laboratories operates its...
. Former CTO of Lucent. A pioneer of digital technology including HDTV and MPEG4. - C. Kumar N. PatelC. Kumar N. PatelC. Kumar N. Patel developed the carbon dioxide laser in 1963; it is now widely used in industry for cutting and welding, as a laser scalpel in surgery, and in laser skin resurfacing...
: Developed the carbon dioxide laser, used as a cutting tool in surgery and industry. - Khem ShahaniKhem ShahaniKhem Shahani was a microbiologist who conducted pioneer research on probiotics .-Career:Khem Shahani is best known for his discovery of the DDS-1 strain of Lactobacillus acidophilus in 1959, at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln...
: MicrobiologistMicrobiologistA microbiologist is a scientist who works in the field of microbiology. Microbiologists study organisms called microbes. Microbes can take the form of bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protists...
who conducted pioneer research on probiotics, he discovered the DDS-1 strain of Lactobacillus acidophilusLactobacillus acidophilusLactobacillus acidophilus is a species in the genus Lactobacillus. L. acidophilus is a homofermentative species, fermenting sugars into lactic acid, which grows readily at rather low pH values and has an optimum growth temperature of 37 °C . L... - Arjun MakhijaniArjun MakhijaniArjun Makhijani is an electrical and nuclear engineer who is President of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research. Makhijani has written many books and reports analyzing the safety, economics, and efficiency of various energy sources...
: Electrical and nuclear engineer who is President of the Institute for Energy and Environmental ResearchInstitute for Energy and Environmental ResearchThe Institute for Energy and Environmental Research focuses on the environmental safety of nuclear weapons production, ozone layer depletion, and other issues relating to energy. IEER publishes a variety of books on energy-related issues, conducts workshops for activists on nuclear issues, and... - George SudarshanGeorge SudarshanEnnackal Chandy George Sudarshan , also E.C.G. Sudarshan, is a prominent Indian American physicist, author, and professor at The University of Texas at Austin.-Early life:...
: Physicist, author - first to propose the existence of TachyonTachyonA tachyon is a hypothetical subatomic particle that always moves faster than light. In the language of special relativity, a tachyon would be a particle with space-like four-momentum and imaginary proper time. A tachyon would be constrained to the space-like portion of the energy-momentum graph... - Kalpana ChawlaKalpana ChawlaKalpana Chawla was an Indian-American astronaut with NASA. She was one of seven crew members killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.-Early life:...
: Female NASANASAThe National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...
Space Shuttle astronaut, and space shuttle mission specialist - Jogesh PatiJogesh PatiJogesh C. Pati is an Indian American theoretical physicist at the University of Maryland, College Park.-Biography:...
: Theoretical physicist at the University of Maryland, College ParkUniversity of Maryland, College ParkThe University of Maryland, College Park is a top-ranked public research university located in the city of College Park in Prince George's County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C...
. - Krishan SabnaniKrishan SabnaniKrishan Sabnani is an Indian-American engineer and Senior Vice President of the Networking Research Laboratory at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs in New Jersey. He manages several research teams based in the US, UK, Ireland, Belgium, France, Germany, and India...
: Engineer and Senior Vice President of the Networking Research Laboratory at Alcatel-LucentAlcatel-LucentAlcatel-Lucent is a global telecommunications corporation, headquartered in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France. It provides telecommunications solutions to service providers, enterprises, and governments around the world, enabling these customers to deliver voice, data, and video services...
Bell LabsBell LabsBell Laboratories is the research and development subsidiary of the French-owned Alcatel-Lucent and previously of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company , half-owned through its Western Electric manufacturing subsidiary.Bell Laboratories operates its...
in New Jersey - Paul Sanghera : Scientist, technologist, and author.
- Subrah IyarSubrah IyarSubrah S. Iyar is a leading technocrat, entrepreneur and Web conferencing pioneer of Indian origin. He is the founder and CEO of WebEx which has recently merged with Cisco Systems.- Early life :...
: Co-Founder and CEO of Webex Communications - Pranav Mistry: Sixth Sense Project.
- Sunita WilliamsSunita WilliamsSunita Williams is a United States Naval officer and a NASA astronaut. She was assigned to the International Space Station as a member of Expedition 14 and then joined Expedition 15...
: Female NASANASAThe National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...
astronaut - Thomas AnantharamanThomas AnantharamanThomas S. Anantharaman is a computer statistician specializing in Bayesian inference approaches for NP complete problems. He is best known for his work with Feng-hsiung Hsu from 1985-1990 on the Chess playing computers ChipTest and Deep Thought at Carnegie Mellon University which led to his 1990...
: Computer statistician specializing in Bayesian inferenceBayesian inferenceIn statistics, Bayesian inference is a method of statistical inference. It is often used in science and engineering to determine model parameters, make predictions about unknown variables, and to perform model selection... - Thomas ZachariaThomas ZachariaThomas Zacharia is an Indian-American computer scientist. He received his bachelors degree in Mechanical engineering from National Institute of Technology Karnataka in 1980 and a master’s degree in Materials Science from the University of Mississippi in 1984...
: Computational scientist - Vijay Raghunath PandharipandeVijay Raghunath PandharipandeVijay Raghunath Pandharipande was an Indian-American physicist, who played a leading role in the development of the nuclear many-body problem....
: Physicist - Vilayanur S. RamachandranVilayanur S. RamachandranVilayanur Subramanian "Rama" Ramachandran, born 1951, is a neuroscientist known for his work in the fields of behavioral neurology and visual psychophysics...
: Behavioral neurologist and psychophysicist. - Mahadev SatyanarayananMahadev SatyanarayananMahadev Satyanarayanan is an experimental computer scientist who has pioneered research in mobile and pervasive computing. One outcome is the Coda file system, which supports mobility in low-bandwidth and intermittent wireless networks through disconnected and bandwidth-adaptive operation.Key...
: Computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon UniversityCarnegie Mellon UniversityCarnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States....
. Pioneered research in mobile and pervasive computing - Mathukumalli VidyasagarMathukumalli VidyasagarMathukumalli Vidyasagar is a leading control theorist. He is currently the Cecil & Ida Green Professor of Systems Biology Science at the University of Texas at Dallas. Prior to that he was an executive vice-president at Tata Consultancy Services where he headed the Advanced Technology Center...
: Control Theorist - Mani Lal BhaumikMani Lal BhaumikMani Lal Bhaumik is an Indian-born American physicist. He has been an author, lecturer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist.His early contributions to laser technology are exemplified by the development of the excimer laser at the Northrop Corporation Research and Technology Center in Los Angeles. As...
: Contributor excimer laserExcimer laserAn excimer laser is a form of ultraviolet laser which is commonly used in the production of microelectronic devices , eye surgery, and micromachining....
technology. - Narinder Singh KapanyNarinder Singh KapanyNarinder Singh Kapany is an Indian born American physicist known for his work in fiber optics. He was named as one of the seven 'Unsung Heroes' by Fortune magazine in their ‘Businessmen of the Century’ issue ....
: Engineer, called the "Father of Fiber Optics". - Om MalikOm MalikOm Perkash Malik is an Indian-American web and technology writer. He is the founder of Giga Omni Media, Inc. and executive editor for technology blog GigaOM. He is also a host on a former Revision3 weekly web-business centric podcast, The GigaOm Show.- Personal life and education :Malik was born...
: Technology journalist and blogger - Pramod KhargonekarPramod KhargonekarPramod Khargonekar was born in Indore, India. He is a well-known expert in control systems.Khargonekar earned his bachelor's degree at the Indian Institutes of Technology, Bombay...
: Control Theorist, Dean and Eckis Professor, College of Engineering, University of FloridaUniversity of FloridaThe University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906...
, Gainesville, Florida - Vamsi MoothaVamsi MoothaVamsi Mootha is an Indian-American physician-scientist and computational biologist. He holds the position of Professor of Systems Biology and Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School...
: Physician-scientist and computational biologist - Chitranjan Singh RanawatChitranjan Singh RanawatChitranjan Singh Ranawat is a hip surgeon. He is based in New York and is of Indian origin. He is a winner of Padma Bhushan, which is one of the highest civilian honours of India. He has also authored over 200 papers on orthopaedics....
: Eminent orthopaedic and knee surgeon - Vineeta RastogiVineeta RastogiVineeta Rastogi was an Indian-American AIDS activist, public health worker and Peace Corps Volunteer in Democratic Republic of the Congo....
: Public health worker - Deepak ChopraDeepak ChopraDeepak Chopra is an Indian medical doctor, public speaker, and writer on subjects such as spirituality, Ayurveda and mind-body medicine. Chopra began his career as an endocrinologist and later shifted his focus to alternative medicine. Chopra now runs his own medical center, with a focus on...
: Medical doctor - Noshir GowadiaNoshir GowadiaNoshir Sheriarji Gowadia, born in Bombay, India in 1944 is an Indian American design engineer of Parsi descent. One of the creators of the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber during a career at Northrop, he was arrested in 2005 on espionage-related federal charges...
: Design engineer - Rangaswamy SrinivasanRangaswamy SrinivasanRangaswamy Srinivasan is an inventor at IBM Research. One of the famous inventions he has contributed to is LASIK.-Ablative Photodecomposition :...
: in the Inventors’ Hall of FameHall of FameA hall of fame, wall of fame, walk of fame, walk of stars or avenue of stars is a type of attraction established for any field of endeavor to honor individuals of noteworthy achievement in that field...
for pioneering work on excimer laser surgery. - Siva S. BandaSiva S. BandaSiva Subrahmanyam Banda is an Indian-American aerospace engineer. He is Director of the Control Science Center of Excellence and senior scientist for Control Theory for the Air Vehicles Directorate at the United States Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base...
: Aerospace engineer and researcher, recipient of a Silver Medal from the Royal Aeronautical SocietyRoyal Aeronautical SocietyThe Royal Aeronautical Society, also known as the RAeS, is a multidisciplinary professional institution dedicated to the global aerospace community.-Function:...
, a Presidential Rank Award, and elected to membership in the National Academy of EngineeringNational Academy of EngineeringThe National Academy of Engineering is a government-created non-profit institution in the United States, that was founded in 1964 under the same congressional act that led to the founding of the National Academy of Sciences... - Rajiv DuttaRajiv DuttaRajiv Dutta was a noted technology manager who has worked at major bioscience, semiconductor, software, and online companies. Dutta worked at Bio-Rad Laboratories from 1988 to 1998, and after a brief tenure at semiconductor equipment manufacturer KLA-Tencor moved to eBay shortly before its IPO as...
: Technology manager - Subhash KakSubhash KakSubhash Kak is an Indian American computer scientist, most notable for his controversial Indological publications on history, the philosophy of science, ancient astronomy, and the history of mathematics...
: head of the Computer Science department at Oklahoma State University. - Vinod DhamVinod DhamVinod Dham is an Inventor, Entrepreneur and Venture Capitalist. He is popularly known as the Father of the Pentium chip. for his contribution to the development of highly successful Pentium Processors from Intel...
: Designed the Intel Pentium Chip Processor (Known as the Father of the "Pentium Chip") - Ajit VarkiAjit VarkiAjit Varki is a physician-scientist who is currently distinguished professor of medicine and cellular and molecular medicine, associate dean for physician-scientist training, co-director of the Glycobiology Research and Training Center at the University of California, San Diego , and co-director of...
: Physician-scientist - Amit SinghalAmit SinghalAmit Singhal is a software engineer at Google Inc., a Google Fellow, and the head of Google's core ranking team.- Education :Born in Jhansi, a city in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India, Amit received a Bachelor of Engineering degree in computer science from IIT Roorkee in 1989. He continued his...
: Google Fellow, the designation the company reserves for its elite master engineers in the area of "ranking algorithm". - Arvind RajaramanArvind RajaramanArvind Rajaraman is an Indian-born theoretical physicist and string theorist. Rajaraman earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University. He is an associate professor at University of California, Irvine....
: Theoretical physicist and string theorist - Satya N. AtluriSatya N. AtluriSatya Atluri, born in India and a citizen of the USA, is , in the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at UCI. His research focuses upon the areas of aerospace and mechanics. His professional interests lie in the areas of aerospace and mechanical engineering...
: Aerospace and mechanics - Deepak PandyaDeepak PandyaDeepak Pandya is a neuroanatomist who is best known for his contributions to the understanding of cortical and subcortical brain connectivity in the macaque using tract-tracing methods. He was born at Julasan, Mehsana District Gujarat in India. He was orphaned, but completed his I.S. in 1953 from...
: Neuroanatomist - Krishna Bharat : Principal Scientist at GoogleGoogleGoogle Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
- Famous for creating Google NewsGoogle NewsGoogle News is a free news aggregator provided by Google Inc, selecting recent items from thousands of publications by an automatic aggregation algorithm....
. - Pran NathPran NathPran Nath is a theoretical physicist working at Northeastern University, with research focus in elementary particle physics. He holds a Matthews Distinguished University Professor chair.-Research:...
: is a theoretical physicist at Northeastern University. - Sabeer BhatiaSabeer BhatiaSabeer Bhatia is an Indian American entrepreneur who co-founded the Hotmail email service and Jaxtr.- Background :...
: Co-founder of HotmailHotmailWindows Live Hotmail, formerly known as MSN Hotmail and commonly referred to simply as Hotmail, is a free web-based email service operated by Microsoft as part of its Windows Live group. It was founded by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith and launched in July 1996 as "HoTMaiL". It was one of the first...
- Sharmila BhattacharyaSharmila BhattacharyaDr. Sharmila Bhattacharya is the head of the Biomodel Performance and Behavior laboratory at NASA Ames Research Center-Education:...
: Head of the Biomodel Performance and Behavior laboratory at NASA Ames Research CenterNASA Ames Research CenterThe Ames Research Center , is one of the United States of America's National Aeronautics and Space Administration 10 major field centers.The centre is located in Moffett Field in California's Silicon Valley, near the high-tech companies, entrepreneurial ventures, universities, and other...
. - V. Mohan ReddyV. Mohan ReddyVadiyala Mohan Reddy is an Indian professor at Stanford's Medical School in USA.A graduate from Kakatiya Medical College in Warangal, India with a masters from the All India Institute of Medical SciencesAIIMS in New Delhi, he is the chief of pediatric cardiac surgery and specializes in paediatric...
: World famous Paediatric Cardiothoracic Surgeon at Stanford - Ashutosh TewariAshutosh TewariAshutosh K. Tewari is a board certified American urologist, oncologist, and clinical researcher at Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University in New York City where he directs the Institute of Prostate Cancer and Robotic Surgery. Tewari holds the Ronald P...
: Professor of Urology at New York Presbyterian Hospital and noted prostate cancerProstate cancerProstate cancer is a form of cancer that develops in the prostate, a gland in the male reproductive system. Most prostate cancers are slow growing; however, there are cases of aggressive prostate cancers. The cancer cells may metastasize from the prostate to other parts of the body, particularly...
surgeon. - Ramesh K. AgarwalRamesh K. Agarwal-Biography:Dr. Ramesh K. Agarwal is the William Palm Professor of Engineering in the department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Washington University in St. Louis . He is also the director of Aerospace Engineering Program, Aerospace Research and Education Center and Computational...
: Aviation Pioneer, William Palm Professor of Engineering at Washington University
Medicine
- Yellapragada SubbaraoYellapragada SubbaraoYellapragada Subbarao was an Indian biochemist who discovered the function of Adenosine Triphosphate as a energy source in the cell, and made important contributions to the treatment of cancer. Most of his career was spent in the United States...
, Harvard doctor & scientist - discovered folic acid - Balamurali AmbatiBalamurali AmbatiBalamurali "Doogie Howser" Ambati is an Indian-American ophthalmologist, educator, and researcher, currently working at the University of Utah. In 1995, he entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's youngest doctor, at the age of seventeen....
, physicianPhysicianA physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...
, World's youngest doctor at age 17 - Paul AntonyPaul AntonyPaul Antony is Executive Director of Global Health Progress and the Chief Medical Officer for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America serving as PhRMA’s principal advocate on all health care and medical policy issues ....
, MD, MPH is the Chief Medical Officer for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of AmericaPharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of AmericaPharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America , founded in 1958, is a trade group representing the pharmaceutical research and biopharmaceutical companies in the United States. PhRMA's stated mission is advocacy for public policies that encourage the discovery of new medicines for patients...
(PhRMA) - Rama P. Coomaraswamy, Cardiac surgeon
- E. Premkumar ReddyE. Premkumar ReddyE. Premkumar Reddy is a biologist. He obtained his Ph. D. in molecular biology in 1971 from the Osmania University, Hyderabad, India. After post-doctoral training in the United States of America at the UCLA School of Medicine and the National Cancer Institute , he joined the NCI, with which he was...
, World Famous Oncologist and Director of Fels institute of cancer research and molecular biology at temple university - Atul GawandeAtul GawandeAtul Gawande is an American physician and journalist. He serves as a general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts and associate director of their Center for Surgery and Public Health...
, General and endocrine surgeon, professor, medical author, and National Book AwardNational Book AwardThe National Book Awards are a set of American literary awards. Started in 1950, the Awards are presented annually to American authors for literature published in the current year. In 1989 the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization which now oversees and manages the National Book...
finalist - Amit PatelAmit PatelAmit Patel is an Indian American cardiac surgeon and Director of Clinical Regenerative Medicine and Tissue Engineering at the University of Utah though he is currently a student the University of Missouri- Kansas City School of Dentistry. He studied medicine at the Case Western Reserve University...
, Cardiovascular Surgeon and Stem Cell Researcher - First person to inject stem cells directly into the heart. - Sangeeta Bhatia, Harvard-MIT doctor & scientist - engineer of artificial liver cells
- Sanjay GuptaSanjay GuptaSanjay Gupta is an American neurosurgeon and an assistant professor of neurosurgery at Emory University School of Medicine and associate chief of the neurosurgery service at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia....
, Neurosurgeon & CNN chief medical correspondent - Anita GoelAnita GoelAnita Goel Hindi:अनीता गोयल is a Harvard-MIT trained physicist and physician in the United States. She is notable for her research at the nano-bio level, particularly for the study of molecular mechanics behind the reading and writing of information in DNA....
: Dr. Anita Goel, MD, PhD is a Harvard-MIT Physicist- Physician, Globally recognized expert in Nanobiophysics and Nanotechnology; Chairman & CEO, Nanobiosym; Inventor of the Gene-RADAR technology
Musician
- Kim ThayilKim ThayilKim Thayil is an American guitarist best known as the lead guitarist of the Seattle-based grunge band Soundgarden, which he cofounded with singer Chris Cornell and bassist Hiro Yamamoto in 1984...
, lead guitarist for Grammy AwardGrammy AwardA Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
-winning rock band SoundgardenSoundgardenSoundgarden is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington in 1984 by singer Chris Cornell, lead guitarist Kim Thayil, and bassist Hiro Yamamoto...
. - Norah JonesNorah JonesNorah Jones is an American singer-songwriter and occasional actress.In 2002, she launched her solo music career with the release of the commercially successful and critically acclaimed album Come Away With Me, which was certified a diamond album in 2002, selling over 20 million copies...
, (one-half Indian), musician, Grammy AwardGrammy AwardA Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
winner, daughter of Ravi ShankarRavi ShankarRavi Shankar , often referred to by the title Pandit, is an Indian musician and composer who plays the plucked string instrument sitar. He has been described as the best known contemporary Indian musician by Hans Neuhoff in Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.Shankar was born in Varanasi and spent...
. - Tony KanalTony KanalTony Kanal is an English musician, record producer and songwriter. Kanal is the bassist for the American rock band No Doubt...
, two-time Grammy AwardGrammy AwardA Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
winner, bass player for No DoubtNo DoubtNo Doubt is an American rock band from Anaheim, California that formed in 1986. The ska-pop sound of their first album No Doubt , failed to make an impact...
. - Sameer Bhattacharya, one of two guitarists in the Texas alternative rock band FlyleafFlyleafFlyleaf is an American alternative metal band, formed in the Belton and Temple, Texas regions in 2000. The band has charted on mainstream rock, Christian pop and Christian metal genres. They performed around the United States in 2003 until releasing their eponymous debut album, Flyleaf, in 2005....
. - Bizzy BoneBizzy BoneBryon Anthony McCane II , better known by his stage name Bizzy Bone, is an American rapper and a member of the Cleveland rap group Bone Thugs-n-Harmony.- Solo career :Bizzy Bone started his solo career in 1998...
, Rapper (one-quarter Indian), member of the Cleveland rap group Bone Thugs-n-HarmonyBone Thugs-n-HarmonyBone Thugs-N-Harmony is an American Hip-Hop/R'n'B band from Cleveland, Ohio formed in 1991. It originally consisted of rappers Layzie Bone, Flesh-n-Bone, Bizzy Bone, Krayzie Bone, and Wish Bone. Rapper Eazy-E of the group N.W.A signed Bone Thugs-N-Harmony to Ruthless Records in 1994, when Bone...
. - ÁngelÁngel (rapper)Ángel Schaffer,better known by stage name Angel Boi, is an American rapper, and poet. His first released project. Blessed Child in 2004, was a romantic poetry book. Then his first recorded single Toe Lover' in 2005, which was historic by being the first song ever about sucking women toes. He feels...
, is of Indian heritage-born American rapper and poet. - Sanjaya MalakarSanjaya MalakarSanjaya Joseph Malakar is an American singer of Indian origin, who was a finalist on the sixth season of American Idol. He gained national attention on the series, controversially advancing to 7th place with public votes, despite being poorly received by the show's judges, particularly Simon...
, a finalist on the sixth seasonAmerican Idol (Season 6)The sixth season of American Idol premiered on the Fox Broadcasting Company as a two-night, four-hour premiere special on January 16 and January 17, and ran until May 23, 2007. Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul, and Randy Jackson returned to judge once again, and Ryan Seacrest returned as host...
of American IdolAmerican IdolAmerican Idol, titled American Idol: The Search for a Superstar for the first season, is a reality television singing competition created by Simon Fuller and produced by FremantleMedia North America and 19 Entertainment...
. - Anoop DesaiAnoop DesaiAnoop Desai is an American singer-songwriter best known for his time as a contestant on the eighth season of American Idol. Motivated by the death of his friend Eve Carson, Desai auditioned for American Idol. Desai made American Idol history by being the first ever 13th finalist on American Idol...
, a finalist on the eighth seasonAmerican Idol (season 8)The eighth season of American Idol premiered on January 13, 2009, and concluded on May 20, 2009. Judges Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul, and Randy Jackson continued to judge the show's contestants, along with Ryan Seacrest as host. The season introduced Kara DioGuardi as the fourth judge on the Idol...
of American IdolAmerican IdolAmerican Idol, titled American Idol: The Search for a Superstar for the first season, is a reality television singing competition created by Simon Fuller and produced by FremantleMedia North America and 19 Entertainment...
. - Zubin MehtaZubin MehtaZubin Mehta is an Indian conductor of western classical music. He is the Music Director for Life of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.-Biography:...
, former conductor, New York Philharmonic Orchestra. - Zarin Mehta, executive director of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.
- Vijay IyerVijay IyerVijay Iyer is a jazz pianist, composer, bandleader, producer, electronic musician, and writer based in New York City.-Biography:Born in 1971 and raised in Rochester, New York, Vijay Iyer is the son of Indian Tamil immigrants to the US. He received 15 years of Western classical training on violin...
, jazz musician and Composer. - Karsh KaleKarsh KaleKarsh Kale is an Indian American musician, producer and composer, and is considered one of the pioneering figures in defining the Asian Underground genre by mixing disparate genres of music such as Indian classical and folk with electronica, rock, pop and ambient music...
, an Indian producer, composer and musician. - Paul SabuPaul Sabu-Early life:Born January 2, 1960. Paul is the son of Indian-born film star Sabu and Marilyn Cooper.-Career:Paul Sabu is best known for his work with his band Only Child plus an arsenal of artists such as David Bowie, Alice Cooper, Little Caesar, Lee Aaron, Madonna, Malice, Robbie Neville, Motels,...
, producer - Raje ShwariRaje ShwariRaje Shwari is an American contemporary R&B and Indian music singer and songwriter. She has appeared on several songs by hip hop musicians. She was signed to Beat Club Records by Timbaland but is no longer with the label; she did not renew her contract due to differences.Shwari's family is from...
, R&B singer - FaluFaluFalu, born Falguni Shah in Mumbai, India is a New York-based singer and songwriter whose music blends ancient classical Indian melodies with contemporary western sounds. In her burgeoning U.S.-based career, she has worked with and performed alongside a wide array of artists including A.R...
, singer and songwriter - Bamboo ShootsBamboo ShootsBamboo Shoots is an American four-piece musical group based out of Brooklyn, New York and suburban New Jersey. They are known for their dueling, two-person rhythm section and their South Asian identity and influence...
, dance-rock band - Tatyana AliTatyana AliTatyana Marisol Ali is an American actress and R&B singer, best known for her childhood role as Ashley Banks on the NBC sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air...
, singer - Arun LuthraArun LuthraArun Luthra is a jazz musician based in New York, N.Y., U.S.A.-Early life:Arun Luthra was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.A. of an Indian father and a British mother. He began his formal music training in Belgium at the age of nine, studying European classical guitar...
, jazz musician - Thara PrashadThara Prashad- External links :* - South Asian Life style* MoraFire - July/August 2007* about.com...
, singer - Vasant RaiVasant RaiVasant Rai was one of world's most acclaimed performers of Indian music and virtuoso of the Indo/Persian/Afghan instrument Sarod.-Personal life and education:Rai was born in Unjha, Kutch, Gujarat and studied music in India...
, performer of Indian music - Shaheen SheikShaheen SheikShaheen Sheik is a South Asian American, singer, song-writer, producer, dancer and an actor based in Los Angeles, California. Her musical work spans several genres, including rock/pop, electronic and chill-out music...
, song-writer - Sanjay MishraSanjay MishraSanjay Mishra is an American Guitarist/Composer born in India and subsequently becoming a citizen of the United States who began performing after completing his studies at...
, guitarist and composer - Bikram SinghBikram SinghBikram Singh is an American bhangra music artist. A graduate of Touro Law School, he also works as an attorney in New York City.-Early years:...
, singer - Jeff Bhasker, producer
- Nicki MinajNicki MinajOnika Tanya Maraj , better known by her stage name Nicki Minaj; ), is a Trinidadian-born American recording artist...
, (one-quarter Indian), pop singer & rapper
Actors and actresses
- Kal PennKal PennKalpen Suresh Modi , best known by his stage name Kal Penn, is an American film and television actor, producer, and civil servant....
, Actor - Danny PudiDanny PudiDanny Pudi is an American actor, best known for his role as Abed Nadir on the NBC comedy series Community.-Early years:Pudi, who is of Indian and Polish descent, was born and raised in Chicago and grew up speaking Polish...
, Actor - Noureen DeWulfNoureen DeWulfNoureen DeWulf is an Indian American actress. She is best known for her roles in films like West Bank Story, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, and The Back-Up Plan.-Early life:...
, Actress - Adhir KalyanAdhir KalyanAdhir Kalyan is a South African actor noted for his role in the CBS sitcom Rules of Engagement.-Early years:Adhir was born in Durban, South Africa to an Indian South African family...
, Actor - Sendhil RamamurthySendhil RamamurthySendhil Ramamurthy is an American actor. He is best known for the role as geneticist Mohinder Suresh in the NBC drama Heroes.-Personal life:...
, Actor - Navi RawatNavi RawatNavi Rawat is an American television actress, known for her roles as Theresa Diaz on the drama series The O.C. and math prodigy Amita Ramanujan on the drama series Numb3rs. She is the niece of Prem Rawat....
, Actress - Shishir KurupShishir KurupShishir Ravindran Kurup is an Indian American actor, most notably seen on the television sci fi series Surface as Dr. Singh. Most recently he was on seen on episodes of top TV shows, Heroes and Lost. He is a playwright and theatrical director as well, and a member of the Cornerstone Theater...
, Actor - Sheetal ShethSheetal ShethSheetal Sheth is an actress who is known for her wide range of roles in an impressive body of work in film, television, and theater. She has starred in many feature films, perhaps best known for starring opposite Albert Brooks in Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World...
, Actress - Tanveer K. AtwalTanveer K. AtwalTanveer Kaur Atwal is an American teen actress. She appeared in The Matrix Revolutions as well as The Matrix Online as the fictional character Sati. Tanveer speaks fluent English, Punjabi and Hindi.-Filmography:...
, Actress - Ravi KapoorRavi KapoorRavi Kapoor is an actor of Indian heritage best known for his roles on Gideon's Crossing and Crossing Jordan. Before relocating to Los Angeles, Kapoor worked for ten years as an actor in England. He trained at East 15 Acting School...
, Actor - Deep KatdareDeep KatdareDeep Katdare, born in Buffalo, New York, and brought up in New York City, is an Indian American actor.He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science degree in political science....
, Actor - Waris AhluwaliaWaris AhluwaliaWaris Ahluwalia |Punjab]], India, c. 1975) is an Indian-American jewelry designer and actor. He immigrated with his family to the United States at the age of five, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He is based in New York City but has also lived in Los Angeles and travels frequently to Rome,...
, Actor - Namrata Singh GujralNamrata Singh GujralNamrata Singh Gujral born 26 February 1976 is an American actress.She is of Sikh faith and Indian as well as Tibetan descent. She was born in Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh and is a 1998 graduate from the University of West Florida.-Roles:...
, Actress - Sonal Shah, Actress
- Sunkrish BalaSunkrish BalaSunkrish Bala , on May 21, 1984) is an American actor.Bala was born in Bombay, Maharashtra, India and is of Tamil ancestry....
, Actor - Purva BediPurva BediPurva Bedi is an Indian American actress. Although she was born in Chandigarh, she was brought up in Belgium and the United States....
, Actress - Devika ParikhDevika ParikhDevika Parikh ], USA) is a black-Indian American actress, whose name means "little goddess" in Sanskrit. Born in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, in 1966 she holds a degree in broadcast journalism from Syracuse University....
, Actress - Janina GavankarJanina GavankarJanina Zione Gavankar is an Indian-American actress and musician of mixed Indian and Dutch descent. Gavankar is also trained as a pianist, vocalist, and orchestral percussionist...
, Actress - Sakina JaffreySakina JaffreySakina Jaffrey is an Indian American actress.Jaffrey was born in Manhattan, New York, the youngest daughter of Madhur Jaffrey and Saeed Jaffrey. She graduated from Vassar College in 1984. Jaffrey appeared with her father in the film Masala and with her mother in The Perfect Murder...
, Actress - Deepti GuptaDeepti GuptaDeepti Gupta is an Indian-American actress who lives in New York City. She was born and raised in Delhi, India.Deepti got her MFA in Acting from University of Texas in Austin, Texas. She also has an MA in Theatre Studies from National University of Singapore in Singapore...
, Actress - Serena VargheseSerena VargheseSerena Varghese-Gonzalez is an American actress and voice actress of Indian descent. She primarily does voice work in anime titles with ADV Films and Seraphim Digital.-Anime:...
, Voice Actress - Firdous BamjiFirdous BamjiFirdous Bamji is an Indian-American actor.-Personal life:Bamji was born in Mumbai, India and attended Kodaikanal International School, a small American boarding school in the mountains of South India. He also grew up in Bahrain and South Carolina. Bamji now lives in New York City and...
, Actor - Samrat ChakrabartiSamrat ChakrabartiSamrat Chakrabarti is a British-American actor and musician of Indian descent.-Early life:Born in London, England to immigrant parents from Kolkata, India, he performed in Indian community functions in Boston, Massachusetts, where he was exposed to music, poetry and the plays of Rabindranath...
, Actor - Rory CochraneRory CochraneRory Cochrane is an American actor. He is known for playing Ron Slater in Dazed and Confused, Lucas in Empire Records, and Tim Speedle in CSI: Miami.-Early life:...
, Actor - Sabu DastagirSabu DastagirSabu Dastagir was a film actor of Indian origin—although he later took American citizenship. He was normally credited only by his first name, Sabu, and is primarily known for his work in film during the 1930s-40s in Britain and America.-Early life:Born in 1924 in Karapur, Mysore, Kingdom of...
, Actor - Aasif MandviAasif MandviAasif Hakim Mandviwala , known professionally as Aasif Mandvi , is an American actor and comedian. He began appearing as an occasional contributing correspondent on The Daily Show on August 9, 2006. On March 12, 2007, he was promoted to a regular correspondent.-Early life and stage career:Mandvi...
, Actor - Ajay MehtaAjay MehtaAjay Mehta is an Indian-American actor.Mehta was born in New Delhi, India and he was educated in New Delhi, in Mayo College and St. Stephens College. After university, Ajay moved to Hong Kong to be a scriptwriter for the Hong Kong English TV channel TVB Pearl and occasionally appeared as cameo in...
, TV Actor - Shelly Malil, Film and TV Actor
- Ajay NaiduAjay NaiduAjay Kalahastri Naidu is an American actor.Naidu was born in Evanston, Illinois He attended Evanston Township High School. As an actor, he trained with the American Repertory Theater's Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University.His first professional acting job was the film ...
, Actor - Maulik PancholyMaulik PancholyMaulik Pancholy is an American actor. He is best known for his recurring role as Sanjay on Weeds from 2005 to present, and his role as Jonathan on 30 Rock, which he has played since the show began in 2006....
, Actor - Deep KatdareDeep KatdareDeep Katdare, born in Buffalo, New York, and brought up in New York City, is an Indian American actor.He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science degree in political science....
, Actor - Bobby RouthBobby RouthSubrata "Bobby" Routh is an Indian-American actor of Bengali descent. Routh is a native of Jackson Heights in the Queens borough of New York City. Routh is a graduate of the William Cullen Bryant High School and received his bachelors from St. John's University...
, Actor - Raja FenskeRaja FenskeRaja Jean Fenske is an American actor, probably best known for his role as Jake Behari in Nickelodeon's Unfabulous alongside Emma Roberts and Malese Jow. He is sometimes credited as RJ Fenske.- Biography :...
, Actor - Omi VaidyaOmi VaidyaOmi Vaidya is an Indian American actor who is best known for his performance as Chatur Ramalingam or "The Silencer" in the 2009 Bollywood film, 3 Idiots. In addition, Vaidya has directed two short films and worked as an editor on others. He has also appeared in a number of television programs and...
, Actor - Dileep RaoDileep RaoDileep A. Rao is an American actor who has appeared in feature films and television series. He starred in Sam Raimi's horror film Drag Me to Hell , James Cameron's science fiction film Avatar , and Christopher Nolan's thriller Inception .-Life and career:Rao was born in Los Angeles, California to...
,Actor{inception} - Mindy KalingMindy KalingVera Mindy Chokalingam , better known as Mindy Kaling, is an American actress, comedian, writer and producer who plays Kelly Kapoor on the NBC sitcom The Office. Kaling is also a co-executive producer and writer of several of the show's episodes.-Early life:Kaling was born Vera Chokalingam in...
, Actress - Avan JogiaAvan JogiaAvan Tudor Jogia is a Canadian actor and singer best known for playing Beck Oliver on Victorious.-Early life:Jogia was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia. His father is a Gujarati Indian originally from London, England. His mother is Canadian, with her roots originating from Wales...
, Actor - Sujata DaySujata DaySujata DeChoudhury, also credited as Sujata Day is an Indian-American actress, model and screenwriter.-Early life:...
, Actress - Aziz AnsariAziz AnsariAziz Ansari is an American actor, writer, and stand-up comedian. He currently stars as Tom Haverford on the NBC show Parks and Recreation....
, Actor
British Indian actors in U.S.
- Ben KingsleyBen KingsleySir Ben Kingsley, CBE is a British actor. He has won an Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards in his career. He is known for starring as Mohandas Gandhi in the film Gandhi in 1982, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor...
, Actor - Naveen AndrewsNaveen AndrewsNaveen William Sidney Andrews is a British American actor. He is best known for portraying Kip in the movie The English Patient and Sayid Jarrah on the American television series Lost.-Early life:...
, Actor (LostLost (TV series)Lost is an American television series that originally aired on ABC from September 22, 2004 to May 23, 2010, consisting of six seasons. Lost is a drama series that follows the survivors of the crash of a commercial passenger jet flying between Sydney and Los Angeles, on a mysterious tropical island...
) - Indira VarmaIndira VarmaIndira Varma is an English actress. Her first major role was in Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love. She has gone on to appear in the television series Rome and Human Target.-Early life and background:...
, Actress (RomeRome (TV series)Rome is a British-American–Italian historical drama television series created by Bruno Heller, John Milius and William J. MacDonald. The show's two seasons premiered in 2005 and 2007, and were later released on DVD. Rome is set in the 1st century BC, during Ancient Rome's transition from Republic...
) - Zuleikha RobinsonZuleikha RobinsonZuleikha Robinson is an English actress, raised in Thailand and Malaysia by a Burmese-Indian mother and an English father. She is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Los Angeles, and best known for playing Ilana in the ABC show Lost.In 2006, she played a Bengali character called...
, Actress (The NamesakeThe Namesake (film)The Namesake is a 2006 film which was released in the United States on March 9, 2007, following screenings at film festivals in Toronto and New York City. It was directed by Mira Nair and is based upon the novel of the same name by Jhumpa Lahiri, who appeared in the movie. Sooni Taraporevala...
, RomeRome (TV series)Rome is a British-American–Italian historical drama television series created by Bruno Heller, John Milius and William J. MacDonald. The show's two seasons premiered in 2005 and 2007, and were later released on DVD. Rome is set in the 1st century BC, during Ancient Rome's transition from Republic...
) - Parminder NagraParminder NagraParminder Kaur Nagra is an English actress of Indian descent. She came to international prominence in 2002 after starring in Bend It Like Beckham. She starred as Dr. Neela Rasgotra in the Emmy Award-winning American medical drama series ER for six years until the series ended on 2 April 2009...
, Actress (Bend It Like BeckhamBend It Like BeckhamBend It Like Beckham is a 2002 comedy-drama film starring Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Myers, Anupam Kher, Shaznay Lewis, and Archie Panjabi first released in the United Kingdom. The film was directed by Gurinder Chadha...
, ERER (TV series)ER is an American medical drama television series created by novelist Michael Crichton that aired on NBC from September 19, 1994 to April 2, 2009. It was produced by Constant c Productions and Amblin Entertainment, in association with Warner Bros. Television...
) - Rhona MitraRhona MitraRhona Natasha Mitra , sometimes credited as Rona Mitra, is an English actress, model and singer.-Early life:Mitra was born in Paddington, London, England, the daughter of Anthony Mitra, a cosmetic surgeon, and Nora Downey...
, Actress (Nip/TuckNip/TuckNip/Tuck is an American drama series created by Ryan Murphy, which aired on FX in the United States. The series focuses on McNamara/Troy, a plastic surgery practice, and follows its founders, Sean McNamara and Christian Troy...
) - Dev PatelDev PatelDev Patel is a British actor. He is best known for playing Jamal Malik in Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire , for which Patel won a number of awards, including a Critics' Choice Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award...
, Actor (Slumdog MillionaireSlumdog MillionaireSlumdog Millionaire is a 2008 British epic romantic drama adventure film directed by Danny Boyle, written by Simon Beaufoy, and co-directed in India by Loveleen Tandan. It is an adaptation of the novel Q & A by Indian author and diplomat Vikas Swarup...
) - Reshma ShettyReshma Shetty-Education:Shetty was born to Indian parents and was raised in England and Richmond, Virginia. She originally studied pre-med at James Madison University, but success in vocal competitions prompted her to switch majors and graduate with a B.A. in opera performance...
, Actress (Royal PainsRoyal PainsRoyal Pains is a USA Network television series that premiered on June 4, 2009, starring Mark Feuerstein, Paulo Costanzo, Jill Flint and Reshma Shetty. The series is based in part on actual concierge medicine practices of independent doctors and companies...
) - Kunal NayyarKunal NayyarKunal Nayyar is an Indian actor born in London, England, and raised in New Delhi, India. He is known for his role as Rajesh Koothrappali on the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory.-Education:...
, Actor (The Big Bang TheoryThe Big Bang TheoryThe Big Bang Theory is an American sitcom created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, both of whom serve as executive producers on the show, along with Steven Molaro. All three also serve as head writers...
) - Gabrielle AnwarGabrielle AnwarGabrielle Anwar is an English actress. She is known for her role as Margaret Tudor on The Tudors, for dancing the tango with Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman and for her current role as Fiona Glenanne on USA's Burn Notice.- Early life :...
, Actress - Archie Panjabi, Actress (Bend it like BeckhamBend It Like BeckhamBend It Like Beckham is a 2002 comedy-drama film starring Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Myers, Anupam Kher, Shaznay Lewis, and Archie Panjabi first released in the United Kingdom. The film was directed by Gurinder Chadha...
, The Good Wife) - Naomi ScottNaomi ScottNaomi Scott is an English actress, singer and musician. She is best known for her role as Mohini "Mo" Banjaree in the Disney Channel Original Movie Lemonade Mouth, and as Megan in the Disney Channel UK series Life Bites. She currently co-stars in the Steven Spielberg-produced series Terra...
, Actress (Lemonade MouthLemonade Mouth (film)Lemonade Mouth is a 2011 musical drama film based on the book of the same name by Mark Peter Hughes. The film was directed by Patricia Riggen and written by April Blair, and stars Bridgit Mendler, Adam Hicks, Hayley Kiyoko, Naomi Scott, and Blake Michael...
, Terra NovaTerra Nova (TV series)Terra Nova is an American science fiction drama television series that airs on Fox on Monday nights. It premiered September 26, 2011 with a one-and-a-half-hour episode...
) - Sacha DhawanSacha DhawanSacha Dhawan is an English actor. He has performed on stage, film, television and radio. Dhawan was born in Bramhall, Stockport, Greater Manchester.-Career:...
, Actor (Outsourced (TV series)Outsourced (TV series)Outsourced is an American television sitcom set in an Indian workplace. It was based on the John Jeffcoat film of the same name and adapted by Ken Kwapis and Universal Media Studios for NBC. The series originally ran from September 23, 2010 to May 12, 2011...
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Arts and entertainment
- M. Night ShyamalanM. Night ShyamalanManoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan,known professionally as M. Night Shyamalan, is an Indian-born American screenwriter, film director, and producer known for making movies with contemporary supernatural plots that climax with a twist ending. He is also known for filming his movies in and around...
, Filmmaker and Actor (Director of SignsSigns (film)Signs is a 2002 American science fiction horror film directed by M. Night Shyamalan. It was adapted from a screenplay also written by Shyamalan. Executive producers for the film comprised Shyamalan, Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy and Sam Mercer. The story focuses on a former preacher named Graham...
and The Sixth SenseThe Sixth SenseThe Sixth Sense is a 1999 American psychological thriller film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. The film tells the story of Cole Sear , a troubled, isolated boy who is able to see and talk to the dead, and an equally troubled child psychologist who tries to help him...
) - Ashok AmritrajAshok AmritrajAshok Amritraj is an Indian American film producer, former tour professional tennis player, and chairman of Hyde Park Entertainment.-Professional tennis:...
, Hollywood producer - Tarsem SinghTarsem SinghTarsem Dhandwar Singh , known professionally as Tarsem, is an Indian director who has worked on films, music videos, and commercials.- Life and career :...
, Director - Mira NairMira NairMira Nair is an Indian film director and producer based in New York. Her production company is Mirabai Films.She was educated at Delhi University and Harvard University. Her debut feature film, Salaam Bombay! , won the Golden Camera award at the Cannes Film Festival and also earned the nomination...
, Director and Producer - Jay ChandrasekharJay ChandrasekharJayanth Jambulingam "Jay" Chandrasekhar is a Tamil American actor, comedian, writer, and film director with the comedy team Broken Lizard.-Life and career:...
, Director, Actor, Comedian, and Writer - Harish SalujaHarish SalujaHarish Saluja is a filmmaker and artist residing in Pittsburgh, United States. He is the founder and Executive Director of Silk Screen Asian Arts and Cultural Organization, host of “Music from India” radio program, working on his next feature film and creating art for upcoming gallery shows.-Early...
, Filmmaker - Babu SubramaniamBabu SubramaniamTR Babu Subramaniam is an American director and assistant director, best known for his work on Star Trek: The Next Generation. He was also involved in several other television series such as ER, The Paper Chase, Third Watch and One Tree Hill....
, Director - Ajay SahgalAjay SahgalAjay Sahgal is a Canadian-born American novelist, television writer, screenwriter, director and producer.-Career:His novel "Pool" was published in 1994 by Groove/Atlantic. He wrote, directed and produced the comedy short "It's A Shame About Ray"...
, Director, Screenwriter and Producer - Benny MathewsBenny MathewsBenny Mathews aka Swami Dada is an international director who directed the films Dude, Where's the Party? and Santeria . When he is not directing independent films, he shoots music videos for Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, and notorious Houston hip hop artists such as Scarface and Bun B...
, Film and Music Video Director - Naren ShankarNaren ShankarNaren Shankar is a writer, producer and director of several television series. As a writer Shankar has contributed with works for Farscape, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Night Visions, The Outer Limits, The Chronicle, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, seaQuest 2032, and Star Trek: Voyager.After...
, TV Writer, Producer and Director, an Executive Producer of CSI: Crime Scene InvestigationCSI: Crime Scene InvestigationCSI: Crime Scene Investigation is an American crime drama television series, which premiered on CBS on October 6, 2000. The show was created by Anthony E. Zuiker and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer... - Sunil NayarSunil NayarSunil Nayar is an Indian American television writer and producer, most notable for his work on CSI: Miami.- TV work includes :* "Oz"** "Next Stop, Valhalla" ** "Wheel of Fortune" ** "See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Smell No Evil"...
, TV Writer and Producer, a Producer of CSI: MiamiCSI: MiamiCSI: Miami is an American police procedural television series, which premiered on September 23, 2002 on CBS. The series is a spin-off of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.... - Neeraj KhemlaniNeeraj KhemlaniNeeraj Khemlani is a producer at the CBS News 60 Minutes television news magazine, where he is responsible for researching, reporting and writing stories with various CBS News correspondents. Before joining CBS News in 1998, Mr...
, a producer at the CBS NewsCBS NewsCBS News is the news division of American television and radio network CBS. The current chairman is Jeff Fager who is also the executive producer of 60 Minutes, while the current president of CBS News is David Rhodes. CBS News' flagship program is the CBS Evening News, hosted by the network's main...
60 Minutes60 Minutes60 Minutes is an American television news magazine, which has run on CBS since 1968. The program was created by producer Don Hewitt who set it apart by using a unique style of reporter-centered investigation....
. - Mindy KalingMindy KalingVera Mindy Chokalingam , better known as Mindy Kaling, is an American actress, comedian, writer and producer who plays Kelly Kapoor on the NBC sitcom The Office. Kaling is also a co-executive producer and writer of several of the show's episodes.-Early life:Kaling was born Vera Chokalingam in...
, Writer, Producer, Actor on The Office. - Padma LakshmiPadma LakshmiPadma Parvati Lakshmi also Padma, Lady Rushdie is an American cookbook author, actress, model and television host. She has been the host of the US reality television program Top Chef since season two in 2006, for which she received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for...
, Model, Top ChefTop ChefTop Chef is an American reality competition show that airs on the cable television network Bravo, in which chefs compete against each other in culinary challenges. They are judged by a panel of professional chefs and other notables from the food and wine industry with one or more contestants...
Host - Saira MohanSaira MohanSaira Mohan is a Canadian fashion model of Indian, Irish and French heritage. Although successful for many years prior in New York City, she was launched into international fame in 2003 after Newsweek put her on the cover with the headline "The Perfect Face". She is actively involved with product...
, Model, was ranked #91 on the Maxim Magazine Hot 100100Year 100 was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Traianus and Frontinus...
Women of 2002 - Julie Titus, Model, Contestant of America's Next Top ModelAmerica's Next Top ModelAmerica's Next Top Model is a reality television show in which a number of women compete for the title of America's Next Top Model and a chance to start their career in the modeling industry....
- Pooja KumarPooja Kumar (model)Pooja Kumar is an American actress, producer, model and television hostess. She was crowned Miss India USA and has been a veejay for Channel V, a newsreader on the show Namaste America and has starred in such feature films as Kaadhal Rojave, Night of Henna, Flavors, Hiding Divya, Park Sharks,...
, Model - Govindini MurtyGovindini MurtyGovindini Murty is an Indian American actress and writer. She has been published in The Atlantic, The Huffington Post and the Los Angeles Times, and is currently the Co-Editor of Libertas Film Magazine....
, Co-founder of Liberty film festival. - Manick SorcarManick SorcarManick Sorcar is an Indian American artist, engineer, and entrepreneur based in Denver, Colorado, USA....
, Animator, Artist, and Producer - Stephanie SenguptaStephanie SenguptaStephanie SenGupta is an American producer and writer better known for her collaborations in the Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Paris enquêtes criminelles TV-series....
, Producer and Writer - Salma ArastuSalma ArastuSalma Arastu is an Indian artist, living in North America. Arastu is a native of Rajasthan and had a masters in fine arts from MS University in Baroda. Arastu's main mediums include clay sculpture, paper mache, and print work. She has also worked extensively with calligraphy and produces greeting...
, Artist - Rina BanerjeeRina BanerjeeRina Banerjee is an Indian born, New York based artist of international repute.-Biography:Banerjee was born in Kolkata in 1963 and moved with her family to the UK and then to USA...
, Artist - Reef KarimReef KarimReef Karim is a physician and psychiatrist and is the host of the television show, House of Clues which airs on Court TV. He has also acted in movies such as, Lords of Dogtown , Night of Henna , and Flavors . He occasionally appears on CNN as a psychiatric commentator...
, Host - Tina SugandhTina SugandhTina Sugandh is an Indian born writer, singer, tabla player, dancer, guitarist, and actress.-Biography:Sugandh was born in Mumbai, but moved with her family to New Jersey in the United States at age five months...
, Entertainer - Prosenjit KunduProsenjit KunduProsenjit "Tony" Kundu is an American dancer, dance teacher and choreographer primarily in the styles of hip hop, house, bboying, locking and popping. Having danced professionally since 1998, Prosenjit Guy Kundu has been actively involved in the Urban Dance Scene for 2 decades...
, dancer and choreographer - Yatin PatelYatin PatelYatin Patel is an Orlando-based photographer, internet entrepreneur and native of India, Yatin Patel is currently displaying work from his personal "Sutra" series of photos. Patel has created a series of successful internet companies, but his focus on art has remained consistent throughout his career...
, Photographer & Artist
Fashion designers
- Bibhu MohapatraBibhu MohapatraFashion designer Bibhu Mohapatra was born in Rourkela,Orissa on June 7, 1972. He earned a masters in economics from Utah State University 1996, then moved to New York City in 1996 to enroll in the Fashion Institute of Technology...
- Rachel RoyRachel RoyRachel Roy is an American fashion designer, and philanthropist who was born and raised in California. She grew up and attended Seaside High School along the Monterey Peninsula in Northern California. Rachel attended Columbia Union College, where she majored in liberal arts...
- Naeem KhanNaeem KhanNaeem Khan is an Indian-born, American fashion designer. He is the designer and CEO for Naeem Khan, which was launched in 2003. His designs have been worn by celebrities including Beyoncé, Carrie Underwood, Eva Longoria and Brooke Shields, and by First Lady Michelle Obama.-References:1. 2....
- Christine PhilipChristine PhilipChristine Philip is a designer. She is known for her Indo-Western 'fusion' clothing and jewelry designs. Philip is of Indian, German and Portuguese decent...
Comedian
- Aziz AnsariAziz AnsariAziz Ansari is an American actor, writer, and stand-up comedian. He currently stars as Tom Haverford on the NBC show Parks and Recreation....
, Comedian - Hari KondaboluHari KondaboluHari Kondabolu is an American stand-up comic.-Career:A graduate of Bowdoin College and the London School of Economics, he has appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live as well as appearing on a variety of national comedy festivals, including the 2007 HBO US Comedy Arts Festival. Additionally, he has made...
, Comedian - Paul VarghesePaul VarghesePaul Varghese is a Dallas, Texas, comedian of Indian descent who appeared on the hit reality show Last Comic Standing 2, where he made it to the semi-finals. He taped his first full-set for national television on March 8, 2007, for Comedy Central's Live at Gotham which aired July 13, 2007. He was...
, Comedian from Dallas, TexasDallas, TexasDallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...
appeared on Last Comic StandingLast Comic StandingLast Comic Standing is an American reality television talent show that has aired from 2003 through 2010.The goal of the program is to select a comedian from a group, who will receive a development contract with the NBC network, and a television special first to air on the cable-TV network Comedy... - Dan NainanDan Nainan-Early life:Nainan born in Bloomington, Indiana to a nuclear physicist from India and child psychologist from Japan. Before becoming a comedian, he worked as a "demonstration engineer" and then as strategic relations manager with Intel...
, Comedian - Arj BarkerArj BarkerArjan Singh , known by the stage name Arj Barker, is an American stand-up comedian and actor from San Anselmo, California. He has toured in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe. He was born to an engineer father and artist mother, and is half-Indian, half-European...
, Comedian - Adam MamawalaAdam MamawalaAdam Mamawala is an American stand-up comic. He graduated from Hillsborough High School in Hillsborough Township, New Jersey in 2005 and graduated from The College of New Jersey in Ewing, New Jersey with a degree in Communication Studies in 2009...
, Comedian - Azhar UsmanAzhar UsmanAzhar Usman is a Indian American Muslim comedian and actor born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.He is a former lecturer, community activist and lawyer and is often referred to as the 'Ayatollah of Comedy' and 'Bin Laughin'.-Background and education:...
, Comedian
Founder / Entrepreneurs / Venture Capitalists
- Ajit HutheesingAjit HutheesingAjit G. Hutheesing is the Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of International Capital Partners Inc. . ICP commenced investment activities in 1992, providing private placement equity to finance the growth of successful smaller companies. After a successful record of investments in small...
: Founder, Chairman and CEO of International Capital Partners Inc. - Amar BoseAmar BoseAmar Gopal Bose is an Bengali American electrical engineer, sound engineer and billionaire entrepreneur. He is the founder and chairman of Bose Corporation...
: Founder of Bose Corporation - Sashi ReddiSashi ReddiSashi P. Reddi is founder and chairman of AppLabs, a software testing company based in Philadelphia, US. Sashi is also a founder and chairman of FXLabs, a developer of high quality game products in India for PC’s and Videogame consoles. Sashi has started two other companies prior to AppLabs...
: Founder CEO, AppLabs (World's #1 Software Testing company) - Arjun GuptaArjun GuptaArjun Gupta is the Founder and Managing Director of TeleSoft Partners, a special situations venture capital firm founded in 1996. TeleSoft provides value added capital for Technology, Communications companies and companies in the Energy Value Chain...
: Silicon ValleySilicon ValleySilicon Valley is a term which refers to the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California in the United States. The region is home to many of the world's largest technology corporations...
venture capitalist - Ashwin NavinAshwin NavinAshwin Navin was the President and Co-Founder of BitTorrent, Inc. He joined Bram Cohen, the inventor of BitTorrent, in 2004 and reportedly handled business and company-related matters while Cohen focused on engineering and product development...
: Co-Founder and President of BitTorrent, Inc. - Bharat DesaiBharat DesaiBharat Desai is an Indian American entrepreneur and founder of Syntel. He currently serves as Chairman of Syntel headquartered in Troy, Michigan. Desai co-founded Syntel in 1980 with his future wife Neerja Sethi. As of April 16, 2009, it had a market capitalization of $943 million. Desai was...
: Founder of SyntelSyntelSyntel, Inc. is a global provider of Information Technology and Knowledge Process Outsourcing solutions, with global development centers in India and the United States.... - Gagan PalrechaGagan PalrechaGagan Palrecha is an Indian-born American entrepreneur, record producer and the founder of The First Time Records and Monsoon Recordings.-Biography:Palrecha was born in the city of Jodhpur in Rajasthan, India, and grew up in Michigan, United States....
: Entrepreneur - Gurbaksh ChahalGurbaksh ChahalGurbaksh Singh Chahal is an Indian-American internet entrepreneur and a best-selling author. By the age of 25, he had founded and sold two advertising companies for a total of US$340 million.-Early life:...
: Internet Entrepreneurs - Mukesh ChatterMukesh ChatterMukesh Chatter is the founder of Nexabit, which he sold to Lucent for $900 million in 1999. He is also the founder & CEO of Axiowave, a Boston-based company he founded with Ray Stata, which folded in 2004. He has also since started the company NeoSaej running the website MoneyAisle.com....
: Businessman - Lakireddy Bali ReddyLakireddy Bali ReddyLakireddy Bali Reddy is a prominent landlord in Berkeley, California, who was convicted in 2001 for immigration fraud and trafficking minors for illegal sexual activity.-Background:...
: Landlord, restaurant owner,owns more than 1000 apartments in California - M.R. Rangaswami : Founder of Sand Hill Group and Corporate Eco Forum
- Murugan PalMurugan PalMurugan Pal is a serial entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley, Bay Area, USA.Murugan is currently the co-founder & President of the CK-12 Foundation, a non-profit organization launched in 2006, that aims to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the US and worldwide...
: Founder and CTO of SpikeSourceSpikeSourceSpikeSource specialized in automated software testing, and tested several business models to monetize that expertise. These included the popular testgen4web tool for scripted web site testing, offering open source software that had undergone regression testing, pre-integrated open-source software... - Narendra PatniNarendra PatniNarendra Patni was the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Patni Computer Systems. He was born to a Marwari jain family....
: Founder of Patni Computer SystemsPatni Computer SystemsiGATE Patni , is a provider of Information Technology services and business solutions. The company employs over 15,000 people, and has 23 international offices across the Americas, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region, as well as offshore development centres in eight cities in India... - Naveen JainNaveen JainNaveen K. Jain is a business executive and entrepreneur. He is the founder of InfoSpace, Intelius, and Moon Express. In 2000, Forbes ranked Jain 121 on their list of 400 Richest Americans with a net worth of 2.2 billion dollars....
: Founder of InfoSpaceInfoSpaceInfospace provides metasearch and private-label Internet search services for consumers and businesses.InfoSpace's flagship metasearch site is Dogpile; its other consumer brands are WebCrawler, Nation, DoGreatGood and MetaCrawler.-History:...
and InteliusInteliusIntelius, Inc. is a public records business headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, United States. It provides information services to consumers and businesses, including background checks and identity theft protection. A majority of Intelius' revenue comes from selling background reports... - Pradeep SindhuPradeep SindhuPradeep Sindhu is the Co-founder and Chief Technical Officer/ Vice Chairman of the Board of the Directors of Juniper Networks Inc. He was also the CEO of the company until 1996....
: Co-Founder and CTO of Juniper NetworksJuniper NetworksJuniper Networks is an information technology and computer networking products multinational company, founded in 1996. It is head quartered in Sunnyvale, California, USA. The company designs and sells high-performance Internet Protocol network products and services... - Preetish NijhawanPreetish NijhawanPreetish Nijhawan is an entrepreneur known for co-founding internet company Akamai Technologies in 1998.-Early life:Nijhawan received a Bachelors Degree from BITS, Pilani, a Masters Degree from the University of Southern California and an M.B.A...
: Co-Founder of Akamai TechnologiesAkamai TechnologiesAkamai Technologies, Inc. is an Internet content delivery network headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US.The company was founded in 1998 by then-MIT graduate student Daniel M. Lewin, and MIT Applied Mathematics professor Tom Leighton...
. - Ram ShriramRam ShriramKavitark Ram Shriram is the founding board member of Google and one of the first investors in Google. He earlier served as an officer of Amazon.com working for Jeff Bezos, founder & CEO. Shriram came to Amazon.com in August, 1998, when Amazon acquired Junglee, an online comparison shopping firm of...
: Co-Founder of Junglee.com and board member at GoogleGoogleGoogle Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program... - Rohini SrihariRohini Kesavan SrihariRohini Kesavan Srihari is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur. She is the founder and CEO of Janya Inc., a high-technology company in Western New York. Prior to this she founded Cymfony Inc, which specializes in brand analytics. She also founded Cymfony Net Private Limited in...
: Founder of Cymfony and Janya - Sameer ParekhSameer ParekhSameer Parekh is best known for being the founder of C2Net Software, Inc.While in high school in Libertyville, Illinois, he published an underground newspaper called The Free Journal, promoting free speech and other libertarian ideas....
: Founder of C2NetC2NetC2Net was an Internet cryptography company founded by Sameer Parekh, which was sold to Red Hat in 2000. It was best known for its Stronghold secure webserver software.... - Sanjiv SidhuSanjiv SidhuSanjiv Sidhu is the founder and chairman of o9 Solutions, a Dallas, Texas based company that offers financially astute business planning and decision making processes and software to multinational corporations. Mr...
: Founder of i2 TechnologiesI2 Technologiesi2 Technologies was a supply chain management software and services company, founded in 1988 by Sanjiv Sidhu and Ken Sharma in Dallas, Texas... - Somen BanerjeeSomen BanerjeeSomen "Steve" Banerjee was an Indian American entrepreneur and co-founder of Chippendales. After operating a Mobil gas station and a failed backgammon club, Banerjee bought a failed Los Angeles club named "Destiny II" and turned it into a nightclub that featured female mud wrestling and a "Female...
: Founder of Chippendales - Suhas PatilSuhas PatilDr. Suhas S. Patil, born 1944 in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India, is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, venture capitalist and philanthropist. He founded the company Cirrus Logic a fabless semiconductor company....
: Founder of Cirrus LogicCirrus LogicCirrus Logic is a fabless semiconductor supplier specializing in analog, mixed-signal, and audio DSP integrated circuits . They are presently headquartered in Austin, Texas. Their audio processors and audio converters are found in many professional audio and consumer entertainment products,... - Vivek RanadiveVivek RanadiveVivek Ranadivé is the Chairman, CEO and Founder of TIBCO Software, the computer software technology company he founded in 1997 with the vision of bringing real-time technology into the mainstream...
: Founder, Chairman and CEO of TIBCO SoftwareTIBCO SoftwareTIBCO Software Inc. is a provider of infrastructure software for companies to use on-premise or as part of cloud computing environments. TIBCO manages information, decisions, processes and applications in real-time for over 4,000 customers worldwide... - Vinod GuptaVinod GuptaVinod Gupta is the former Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of infoGROUP . Mr. Gupta served as CEO of the company from the time of its incorporation in 1972 until September 1997 and from August 1998 to August 2008...
: Founder and Chairman of InfoUSAInfoUSAInfogroup, Inc., is a data, research and marketing company which offers email marketing and other marketing services. The company's corporate headquarters are located in Papillion, Nebraska. Infogroup employs approximately 3,200 people and operates in 9 countries.- History :Infogroup was formed in...
Inc. - Anita GoelAnita GoelAnita Goel Hindi:अनीता गोयल is a Harvard-MIT trained physicist and physician in the United States. She is notable for her research at the nano-bio level, particularly for the study of molecular mechanics behind the reading and writing of information in DNA....
: Chairman & CEO, Nanobiosym - Vinod KhoslaVinod KhoslaVinod Khosla is an Indian-born American venture capitalist and an influential personality in Silicon Valley....
: Co-founder of Sun MicrosystemsSun MicrosystemsSun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold :computers, computer components, :computer software, and :information technology services. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982...
, Venture Capitalist - Ali PabraiAli PabraiUday Ali Pabrai is an Indian-American entrepreneur based in Irvine, California, and a subject matter expert on information security and regulatory compliance standards. He is chairman and chief executive officer of ecfirst, an Inc. 500 business headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa...
: Entrepreneur
Business Executives
- Abbas SadriwalaAbbas SadriwalaAbbas Sadriwalla is chairman and CEO of the Fort Lauderdale-based Wireless Logix Group of seven companies, which offer a full bouquet of Wi-Fi technologies and solutions.-History:Sadriwalla is himself of Mewari origin...
: Chairman and CEO of the Fort Lauderdale-based Wireless Logix Group - Ajay BangaAjay BangaAjay Banga is the current president and chief executive officer of MasterCard.MasterCard announced on April 12, 2010 that Ajay Banga, previously MasterCard’s president and chief operating officer, had been named by the Board of Directors to serve as the company’s president and chief executive...
: President and CEO of MastercardMasterCardMastercard Incorporated or MasterCard Worldwide is an American multinational financial services corporation with its headquarters in the MasterCard International Global Headquarters, Purchase, Harrison, New York, United States... - Ajay WaghrayAjay WaghrayAjay Waghray is chief information officer for Verizon Wireless, the premier wireless service provider with the nation's most reliable wireless voice and data network...
: Chief Information Officer for Verizon WirelessVerizon WirelessCellco Partnership, doing business as Verizon Wireless, is one of the largest mobile network operators in the United States. The network has 107.7 million subscribers as of 2011, making it the largest wireless service provider in America.... - Ajit JainAjit JainAjit Jain is a businessman who currently heads several reinsurance businesses for Berkshire Hathaway and has been touted as a possible successor to Warren Buffett.-Early life:...
: Possible successor to Warren BuffettWarren BuffettWarren Edward Buffett is an American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He is widely regarded as one of the most successful investors in the world. Often introduced as "legendary investor, Warren Buffett", he is the primary shareholder, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. He is... - Anshu Jain : Global Head and Managing Director of capital markets at Deutsche BankDeutsche BankDeutsche Bank AG is a global financial service company with its headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany. It employs more than 100,000 people in over 70 countries, and has a large presence in Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific and the emerging markets...
. - Arvind RaghunathanArvind RaghunathanArvind Raghunathan is the CEO of Roc Capital Management LP . On February 25, 2009, it was announced that Raghunathan and his associates would be leaving Deutsche Bank to set up the independent quant trading hedge fund.Raghunathan was the former Managing Director and Head of Global Arbitrage at...
: Managing Director and Head of Global Arbitrage at Deutsche BankDeutsche BankDeutsche Bank AG is a global financial service company with its headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany. It employs more than 100,000 people in over 70 countries, and has a large presence in Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific and the emerging markets...
. - Dinesh PaliwalDinesh PaliwalDinesh C. Paliwal is Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Harman International – a leading provider of premium audio and infotainment systems for the automotive, consumer and professional markets....
: Chairman and CEO, Harman International - Francisco D'SouzaFrancisco D'SouzaFrancisco D'Souza is the president and CEO of Cognizant and was part of the team that founded the Nasdaq-100 company in 1994. In 2007, at the age of 38, he took over from Lakshmi Narayanan, who was promoted to Vice Chairman...
: CEO of Cognizant Technology SolutionsCognizant Technology SolutionsCognizant Technology Solutions Corp. is an American global provider of custom information technology, consulting and business process outsourcing services. Its headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey, United States and is a member of NASDAQ-100, the S&P 500 and Fortune 500... - Gunjan Bagla : Management Consultant, Managing Director, AmrittAmrittAmritt Ventures is a global management consulting firm based in the Los Angeles area. The stated purpose of the company is to aid North American and European firms in becoming familiar with routine Asian business practices, specifically in marketing their products to India and China, both of which...
; Author Doing Business in 21st Century India. - Gunjan SinhaGunjan SinhaGunjan Sinha in India is an Indian-American entrepreneur. He is currently the chairman of MetricStream, a market leader in Enterprise-wide GRC and Quality Solutions for global corporations...
: Chairman of MetricStream - Indra NooyiIndra NooyiIndra Krishnamurthy Nooyi is an Indian-born American business executive. She is the current Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of PepsiCo, the second largest food & beverage business in the world ....
: Chairman annd CEO, PepsiCoPepsiCoPepsiCo Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Purchase, New York, United States, with interests in the manufacturing, marketing and distribution of grain-based snack foods, beverages, and other products. PepsiCo was formed in 1965 with the merger of the Pepsi-Cola Company... - Padmasree Warrior : CTO of Cisco SystemsCisco SystemsCisco Systems, Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in San Jose, California, United States, that designs and sells consumer electronics, networking, voice, and communications technology and services. Cisco has more than 70,000 employees and annual revenue of US$...
- Pradeep K JaisinghPradeep K JaisinghPradeep Kumar Jaisingh, MBA is an alumnus of IIM, Ahmedabad and is a successful business professional and an entrepreneur. He was also awarded the prestigious British Chevening scholarship by the Foreign and Commonwealth office of the British High Commission and attended the Advanced management...
: CEO of International Oncology - Prakash PuramPrakash PuramPrakash Puram is President and CEO of iXmatch, and a member of President Bush's Export Council.-Education:He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Loyola College, Chennai, India; a Business Management diploma from Xavier Labour Relations Institute, Jamshedpur, India; an MBA from the...
: President and CEO of iXmatch. - Rajiv GuptaRajiv GuptaRajiv Gupta is a former General Manager at Hewlett Packard where he reported to Carly Fiorina. He was co-inventor and general manager of Hewlett Packard's E-speak project in 1999, and was one of the developers of the IA-64 architecture.-Early life:...
: General Manager of Hewlett Packard - Ramani AyerRamani AyerRamani Ayer is an American-Indian business executive, and the former the CEO and chairman of The Hartford.-Education:Ayer earned his bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 1969 and his master's and doctorate from Drexel University in...
: Chairman and CEO of The Hartford Financial Services Group - Ranji H. NagaswamiRanji H. NagaswamiRanji H. Nagaswami is the Chief Investment Officer for AllianceBernstein Fund Investors. She has held this position since 2004. Nagaswami has responsibility for growth, value, and core stock as well as fixed income investments. She chairs the retail investors investment policy group and has been...
: Chief Investment Officer for AllianceBernstein Fund Investors - Rono DuttaRono DuttaRono Dutta is the former President of United Airlines from 1999 to 2002.From July 2004 until 2006 he served as Chairman of Air Sahara.In 2007, Mr. Dutta joined US based AAR Corporation as a strategic adviser for the Indian market.-External links:**...
: Former President of United AirlinesUnited AirlinesUnited Air Lines, Inc., is the world's largest airline with 86,852 employees United Air Lines, Inc., is the world's largest airline with 86,852 employees United Air Lines, Inc., is the world's largest airline with 86,852 employees (which includes the entire holding company United Continental...
; Chairman of Air SaharaAir SaharaJetLite, formerly Air Sahara, is an airline based in Mumbai, India. owned by Jet Airways, the airline operates scheduled services connecting metropolitan centres in India, it operates 110 flights daily... - Sanjay JhaSanjay JhaSanjay K. Jha is chairman and chief executive officer of Motorola Mobility and previously served as co-chief executive officer of Motorola. from 2008.-Early life:...
: Co-CEO of MotorolaMotorolaMotorola, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois, which was eventually divided into two independent public companies, Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions on January 4, 2011, after losing $4.3 billion from 2007 to 2009...
and CEO of Motorola Mobile DevicesMotorola Mobile DevicesMotorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. , formerly the Mobile Devices division of Motorola Inc. until January 2011, is a communications corporation headquartered in Libertyville, Illinois, a Chicago suburb. Motorola's networks division pioneered the flip phone with the StarTAC in the mid-1990s... - Sanjay KumarSanjay KumarSanjay Kumar Sanjay Kumar Sanjay Kumar (Sanjay Kumar (Sanjay Kumar ([[hindi) (born [[Dhanbad,India]]) was the [[Chairman]] and [[CEO]] of [[CA, Inc.|Computer Associates International]] (now CA Technologies), until April 2004.-Emigration:...
: CEO of Computer Associates International - Sanjiv AhujaSanjiv AhujaSanjiv Ahuja is currently Chairman and CEO of LightSquared a company that is developing a wholesale-only nationwide 4G LTE Long Term Evolution wireless broadband communications network integrated with satellite coverage. The company is the result of Harbinger Capital Partners acquisition in March,...
: CEO of Orange Telecommunications - Shantanu NarayenShantanu NarayenShantanu Narayen is the current CEO of Adobe Systems. Prior to this post, he held the role as the President and Chief Operating Officer since 2005.-Early life:...
: CEO of Adobe SystemsAdobe SystemsAdobe Systems Incorporated is an American computer software company founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, United States...
. - Suresh V. ShenoySuresh V. ShenoySuresh V. Shenoy is an Indian-American engineer, senior business executive and philanthropist.Suresh V. Shenoy is Executive Vice President at Information Management Consultants, Inc., a Virginia, USA based consulting and technology services company that provides information technology and software...
: Executive Vice President, Information Management Consultants (IMC), VA, USA and a Philanthropist - Thomas AbrahamThomas AbrahamDr. Thomas Abraham is the Founder President and Chairman Emeritus of the Global Organization of People of Indian Origin , having previously founded the organization and served as its president. He is also president of Innovative Research and Products, Inc., Stamford, CT, USA-Accomplishments:Dr...
: President, Innovative Research and Products (iRAP), Inc, Stamford,CT, A Technology, Industry and Market Research Firm - Umang GuptaUmang GuptaUmang Gupta is an Indian-American engineer, businessman and millionaire philanthropist.- Career :Umang Gupta is the current Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Keynote Systems, Inc. since December 1997. Keynote Systems is a Silicon Valley, California Company that employs 307...
: Chairman of the Board and CEO of Keynote Systems, Inc, Ex-Founder and Chairman of Gupta TechnologiesGupta TechnologiesGupta Technologies, LLC, taken over by Unify Corporation in 2006 was a software development company whose principal products were the SQL relational database SQLBase, and a Rapid application development system called Team Developer...
and a Philanthropist - Unni WarrierUnni WarrierUnni Warrier is the co-founder, and former president, chairman, and CEO of CyberMedia, a public company providing automatic service and support software for the PC.-Biography:...
: Co-Founder and Former President, chairman, CEO of CyberMedia - Vikram PanditVikram PanditVikram S. Pandit is an Indian-born American business executive. He is the current CEO of Citigroup.-Early life:Vikram Pandit was born in Nagpur, India to an affluent Marathi family . His father, S B Pandit was an executive director at Sarabhai Chemicals in Baroda. He completed his schooling at the...
: Chairman and CEO, CitigroupCitigroupCitigroup Inc. or Citi is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. Citigroup was formed from one of the world's largest mergers in history by combining the banking giant Citicorp and financial conglomerate... - Victor MenezesVictor MenezesVictor J. Menezes is an engineer and banker, who acts as a top official in international financial organizations.-Early life:...
: Chairman of Clearing House Association, former Chairman and CEO of CitibankCitibankCitibank, a major international bank, is the consumer banking arm of financial services giant Citigroup. Citibank was founded in 1812 as the City Bank of New York, later First National City Bank of New York... - Bobby MehtaBobby MehtaSiddharth N. "Bobby" Mehta was former CEO and Vice Chairman of HSBC North America. He stepped down as head of the North American unit after the lender raised its forecast for bad loans in the U.S. He is of Indian descent.-References:...
: CEO, TransunionTransUnionTransUnion is the third largest credit bureau in the United States, which offers credit-related information to potential creditors. Like major competitors Equifax and Experian, TransUnion markets credit reports directly to consumers.- History :...
Company. - Vyomesh JoshiVyomesh JoshiVyomesh Joshi is the executive vice president of Hewlett-Packard Company's Imaging and Printing Group. He also serves as the executive sponsor for all HP operations and initiatives in India and is a member of HP’s Executive Council....
: Executive Vice President of Imaging and Printing Group, Hewlett-PackardHewlett-PackardHewlett-Packard Company or HP is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA that provides products, technologies, softwares, solutions and services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses and large enterprises, including...
Company. - Nikesh AroraNikesh AroraNikesh Arora is the current Senior Vice President and Chief Business Officer at Google.-Early life:Nikesh holds a degree from Boston College and an MBA from Northeastern University, both of which were awarded with distinction. He also holds the CFA designation...
: Senior Vice President and Chief Business Officer of GoogleGoogleGoogle Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
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- Bobby MehtaBobby MehtaSiddharth N. "Bobby" Mehta was former CEO and Vice Chairman of HSBC North America. He stepped down as head of the North American unit after the lender raised its forecast for bad loans in the U.S. He is of Indian descent.-References:...
: Former CEO and Vice Chairman of HSBC North America - Jay SidhuJay SidhuJay Sidhu is the Chairman and CEO of Customers Bank, a $1.6 billion asset bank with headquarters in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania. Customers Bank currently has 11 branches in suburban Philadelphia, Hamilton, NJ and Port Chester, NY...
: Former Chairman and CEO of Sovereign Bancorp - Kanwal RekhiKanwal RekhiKanwal Rekhi is an Indian-American engineer, businessman and millionaire philanthropist.Kanwal was born in Rawalpindi . After the partition of India, his family settled in Kanpur, India...
: Former EVP & CTO of NovellNovellNovell, Inc. is a multinational software and services company. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Attachmate Group. It specializes in network operating systems, such as Novell NetWare; systems management solutions, such as Novell ZENworks; and collaboration solutions, such as Novell Groupwise... - Lakshmi NarayananLakshmi NarayananLakshmi Narayanan is the vice chairman and ex-CEO of Cognizant. He was the CEO and president of Cognizant until 2006. [1]Lakshmi has played a leading role in the global information technology industry for more than 25 years, managing divisions and business units in Europe, India and the United...
: Vice Chairman and former CEO of Cognizant Corporation. - Padmasree Warrior : Former CTO of MotorolaMotorolaMotorola, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois, which was eventually divided into two independent public companies, Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions on January 4, 2011, after losing $4.3 billion from 2007 to 2009...
. - Rajat GuptaRajat GuptaRajat Kumar Gupta was the managing director of management consultancy McKinsey & Company from 1994 to 2003 and a business leader in India and the United States...
: Former Managing Director of McKinsey & CompanyMcKinsey & CompanyMcKinsey & Company, Inc. is a global management consulting firm that focuses on solving issues of concern to senior management. McKinsey serves as an adviser to many businesses, governments, and institutions... - Rakesh GangwalRakesh GangwalRakesh Gangwal is a former CEO and Chairman of US Airways Group. From June 2003 to August 2007, Mr. Gangwal was the chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Worldspan Technologies, Inc., a provider of travel technology and information services to the travel and transportation industry....
: Former CEO and Chairman of US Airways GroupUS Airways GroupUS Airways Group Inc. is an airline holding company based in Tempe, Arizona. US Airways Group operate US Airways, along with its subsidiaries PSA Airlines, Inc. and Piedmont Airlines, Inc., which are wholly owned but marketed under the branding of US Airways Express...
Media
- Fareed ZakariaFareed ZakariaFareed Rafiq Zakaria is an Indian-American journalist and author. From 2000 to 2010, he was a columnist for Newsweek and editor of Newsweek International. In 2010 he became Editor-At-Large of Time magazine...
, columnist for Time Magazine and host of Fareed Zakaria GPSFareed Zakaria GPSFareed Zakaria GPS is a weekly public affairs show hosted by journalist and author Fareed Zakaria. As of November 2011, the show airs Sundays at 10am Eastern Time and 1pm Eastern Time on CNN. The show also airs Sundays at 1200 and 1900 GMT on CNN International...
on CNNCNNCable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States... - Sanjay GuptaSanjay GuptaSanjay Gupta is an American neurosurgeon and an assistant professor of neurosurgery at Emory University School of Medicine and associate chief of the neurosurgery service at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia....
, CNNCNNCable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
senior medical correspondent - Zain VerjeeZain VerjeeZain Verjee is a Canadian journalist, who was born and raised in Kenya prior to immigrating to Canada. Verjee is co-anchor of CNN International's European daytime program World One. She also serves as the international correspondent for American Morning, the daily morning news program on CNN US...
, CNNCNNCable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
anchor - Sumi DasSumi DasSumi Das is the former co-host of TechTV's Fresh Gear. On July 3, 2003, she left TechTV to join the cable news channel MSNBC as a reporter. While there, she reported from Modesto, California on the Scott Peterson trial....
, CNNCNNCable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
national correspondent - Shihab RattansiShihab RattansiShihab Rattansi works for Al Jazeera English as a lead news anchor in their Washington, DC Broadcast Center. He regularly anchors the Al Jazeera Newshour presenting news and conducting interviews primarily relating to the Americas....
, CNNCNNCable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
International Anchor - Aneesh RamanAneesh RamanAneesh Raman currently works at the Department of Defense.Raman was previously Speechwriter to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. Before joining the government, Raman was an award-winning CNN reporter and the network's first ever correspondent based in the Middle East responsible for region-wide...
, former CNNCNNCable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
Middle East correspondent - Sanjay GuptaSanjay GuptaSanjay Gupta is an American neurosurgeon and an assistant professor of neurosurgery at Emory University School of Medicine and associate chief of the neurosurgery service at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia....
, CNNCNNCable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
senior medical correspondent - Ash-har QuraishiAsh-har QuraishiAsh-har Quraishi is an Emmy Award-winning American broadcast journalist who reports for WTTW-TV in Chicago and for the Chicago News Cooperative...
, Correspondent, WTTWWTTWWTTW channel 11 is one of three Public Broadcasting Service member public television stations serving the Chicago, Illinois market; the others are WYCC and WYIN. WTTW began broadcasting on September 6, 1955 and it is owned and operated by Window to the World Communications, Inc., a not-for-profit...
Chicago, former KCTVKCTVKCTV channel 5 is the CBS-affiliated television station for the Kansas City Metropolitan Area that is licensed to the Missouri side. Owned by the Meredith Corporation, the station is sister to MyNetworkTV affiliate KSMO-TV and the two share facilities on Shawnee Mission Parkway KCTV channel 5 is...
Chief Investigative Reporter, CNNCNNCable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
former Islamabad Bureau Chief - Ali VelshiAli VelshiAli Velshi is a Canadian-American television journalist best known for his work on CNN. He is CNN's Chief Business Correspondent, Anchor of CNN's Wake Up Call and a co-host of CNN's weekday morning show American Morning.-Personal life:...
, business news anchor for CNNCNNCable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States... - Vinita NairVinita NairVinita Nair is an American television journalist who was co-anchor of World News Now and America This Morning on ABC, from September 17, 2008 until February 18, 2011. She was partnered with Jeremy Hubbard and later Rob Nelson on both shows...
, current anchor of World News NowWorld News NowWorld News Now is an American overnight news program broadcast on American Broadcasting Company's television network. Its tone is often lighthearted, irreverent and humorous...
and America This Morning on ABCAmerican Broadcasting CompanyThe American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
. - Uma Pemmaraju, senior news anchor for Fox News ChannelFox News ChannelFox News Channel , often called Fox News, is a cable and satellite television news channel owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of News Corporation...
- Shibani JoshiShibani JoshiShibani Sona Joshi is a reporter for the Fox Business Network. Joshi holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and completed the investment banking analyst program at Morgan Stanley. She also earned a bachelor's degree in finance and accounting at the University of Oklahoma. Joshi is a native of...
, reporter for the Fox Business NetworkFox Business NetworkFox Business Network is an American cable news and satellite news television channel that began broadcasting on October 15, 2007. It is owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation... - Reena NinanReena NinanReena Ninan is the Middle East Correspondent for Fox News Channel. She reports from throughout the world, including Libya, Indonesia, India, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and Iraq. She is married to Kevin Peraino of Newsweek, and she gave birth to her first child, Jackson Ninan Peraino, on...
, Middle East Correspondent for Fox News ChannelFox News ChannelFox News Channel , often called Fox News, is a cable and satellite television news channel owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of News Corporation...
. - Asha BlakeAsha BlakeAsha Blake is an Emmy award-winning journalist who anchored KTLA-TV News @ 1PM with Frank Buckley in Los Angeles. She previously was the anchor of the 9:00 p.m. news on Denver's CW affiliate, KWGN-TV before leaving KWGN in 2007 to return to Los Angeles...
, an Emmy awardEmmy AwardAn Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
-winning journalist who works for KTLA-TV in Los Angeles. - Hari SreenivasanHari SreenivasanHariharan "Hari" Sreenivasan is an Indian-born journalist who has worked primarily for American broadcast media.Sreenivasan was born in Mumbai, India around 1974. After immigrating to the United States at age seven, he attended high school in Seattle, Washington, where he became a radio disc jockey...
, correspondent for CBS NewsCBS NewsCBS News is the news division of American television and radio network CBS. The current chairman is Jeff Fager who is also the executive producer of 60 Minutes, while the current president of CBS News is David Rhodes. CBS News' flagship program is the CBS Evening News, hosted by the network's main...
. - Priya DavidPriya DavidPriya David is an American journalist based in San Francisco, California. David has worked as a CBS News correspondent based in New York, reporting for the CBS Evening News and for The Early Show, and filling in as an occasional Saturday and Sunday CBS Evening News anchor. In 2008 and 2009...
, correspondent for CBS NewsCBS NewsCBS News is the news division of American television and radio network CBS. The current chairman is Jeff Fager who is also the executive producer of 60 Minutes, while the current president of CBS News is David Rhodes. CBS News' flagship program is the CBS Evening News, hosted by the network's main...
. - Sukanya KrishnanSukanya KrishnanSukanya Krishnan is an Indian-born American news anchor for the 6-9 am segments of the PIX Morning News on WPIX in New York City, paired with John Muller...
, news anchor for CW 11 Morning News on WPIXWPIXWPIX, channel 11, is a television station in New York City built, signed on, and owned by the Tribune Company. WPIX also serves as the flagship station of The CW Television Network... - Shihab RattansiShihab RattansiShihab Rattansi works for Al Jazeera English as a lead news anchor in their Washington, DC Broadcast Center. He regularly anchors the Al Jazeera Newshour presenting news and conducting interviews primarily relating to the Americas....
, news anchor for Al Jazeera English - Asra Nomani, journalist
- Simran SethiSimran SethiSimran Preeti Sethi is an Emmy award-winning Indian American journalist and associate professor at the University of Kansas.-Career:...
, journalist - Mish MichaelsMish MichaelsMish Michaels is an Emmy Award winning broadcast meteorologist and environmental reporter. She joined the WBZ-TV Weather Team in September 2001, and left in July 2009. She was born in Kolkata, India...
, meteorologist for the WBZ-TVWBZ-TVWBZ-TV, virtual channel 4, is a CBS owned-and-operated television station, located in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. WBZ-TV's studios and office facilities, shared with sister station WSBK-TV , are located in the Allston-Brighton section of Boston, and its transmitter is located in Needham,...
Weather Team. - Deepa FernandesDeepa FernandesDeepa Fernandes is currently the host of the WBAI radio program "Wakeup Call" and formerly hosted the nationally syndicated Pacifica radio news show "Free Speech Radio News" on the politically independent, anti-war Pacifica Radio Network...
, host of the WBAIWBAIWBAI, a part of the Pacifica Radio Network, is a non-commercial, listener-supported radio station, broadcasting at 99.5 FM in New York City.Its programming is leftist/progressive, and a mixture of political news and opinion from a leftist perspective, tinged with aspects of its complex and varied...
radio program "Wakeup CallWakeup CallWakeup Call is a morning radio program produced in New York City by the WBAI station of the Pacifica Radio Network. The program is hosted by Deepa Fernandes and airs Monday through Friday.-External links:* Official Site* Official Site...
" - Deepti HajelaDeepti HajelaDeepti Hajela is an American journalist who is has been a newswoman for the Associated Press since 1996. She works in the New York bureau of the AP, covering a wide range of stories in the metropolitan region...
, newswoman for the Associated PressAssociated PressThe Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists... - Deepak AnanthapadmanabhaDeepak AnanthapadmanabhaDeepak Ananthapadmanabha is an online journalist and comedian based in New York City who hosts "The Circuit", a weekly online show on MOJO HD. On "The Circuit" he uses his stage name D-Pak, chosen to sound like a hip-hop name...
, online journalist - Alpana SinghAlpana SinghAlpana Singh is a sommelier and local television personality in Chicago, Illinois.-Career:Singh passed the Court of Master Sommeliers' advanced certification test at age 21. In 2003, she passed the final exam to become the youngest woman ever to achieve the rank of Master Sommelier...
, television personality - Gopal RajuGopal RajuGopal Raju was an Indian-born American publisher, editor, journalist, businessman and philanthropist. He was considered to be a pioneer of Indian American ethnic media in the United States.-Career:...
, pioneer of Indian American ethnic media in the United States. - Sreenath SreenivasanSreenath SreenivasanSreenath Sreenivasan – also known as Sree Sreenivasan – is an academic administrator, professor and technology journalist based in New York City....
, Columbia UniversityColumbia UniversityColumbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
professor and WABC-TVWABC-TVWABC-TV, channel 7, is the flagship station of the Disney-owned American Broadcasting Company located in New York City. The station's studios and offices are located on the Upper West Side section of Manhattan, adjacent to ABC's corporate headquarters, and its transmitter is atop the Empire State...
technology reporter. - Syma ChowdhrySyma ChowdhrySyma Chowdhry is an award-winning television host, reporter, producer, news writer, model and actress. In January 2011, she became the news anchor for the program First Forecast Mornings seen daily on Detroit television station WWJ-TV and, as of February 7, 2011, on sister-station CW50...
, television host, reporter, and producer - Ramesh PonnuruRamesh PonnuruRamesh Ponnuru is a Washington, D.C.-based Indian American columnist and a senior editor for National Review magazine. He is also a contributor to TIME magazine and WashingtonPost.com...
, senior editor of National ReviewNational ReviewNational Review is a biweekly magazine founded by the late author William F. Buckley, Jr., in 1955 and based in New York City. It describes itself as "America's most widely read and influential magazine and web site for conservative news, commentary, and opinion."Although the print version of the...
magazine - Rajiv ChandrasekaranRajiv ChandrasekaranRajiv Chandrasekaran is an Indian-American journalist. He is currently the National Editor of The Washington Post, where he has worked since 1994...
, assistant managing editor for continuous news, The Washington PostThe Washington PostThe Washington Post is Washington, D.C.'s largest newspaper and its oldest still-existing paper, founded in 1877. Located in the capital of the United States, The Post has a particular emphasis on national politics. D.C., Maryland, and Virginia editions are printed for daily circulation...
, author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City (published by Knopf) - Pico IyerPico IyerPico Iyer is a British-born essayist and novelist. He is the author of numerous books on travel including Video Night in Kathmandu. His shorter pieces regularly appear in Time, Harper's, NYRB and many other publications.-Life and career:...
, author and journalist for 'TimeTime (magazine)Time is an American news magazine. A European edition is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition is based in Hong Kong...
magazine, Harper's MagazineHarper's MagazineHarper's Magazine is a monthly magazine of literature, politics, culture, finance, and the arts, with a generally left-wing perspective. It is the second-oldest continuously published monthly magazine in the U.S. . The current editor is Ellen Rosenbush, who replaced Roger Hodge in January 2010...
, Condé Nast TravelerCondé Nast TravelerCondé Nast Traveler is a US magazine published by Condé Nast. It has its origins in a mailing sent out by the Diners Club club beginning in 1953, listing locations that would take the card. It began taking advertising in 1955. In order to attract more advertisers, it became a full-fledged magazine,...
, and The New York Review of BooksThe New York Review of BooksThe New York Review of Books is a fortnightly magazine with articles on literature, culture and current affairs. Published in New York City, it takes as its point of departure that the discussion of important books is itself an indispensable literary activity...
Literature
- Jhumpa LahiriJhumpa LahiriJhumpa Lahiri is a Bengali American author. Lahiri's debut short story collection, Interpreter of Maladies , won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and her first novel, The Namesake , was adapted into the popular film of the same name. She was born Nilanjana Sudeshna, which she says are both...
, Pulitzer PrizePulitzer PrizeThe Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
-winning author - Siddhartha MukherjeeSiddhartha MukherjeeSiddhartha Mukherjee is an Indian-born American physician, scientist and writer. He authored the 2010 book, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction...
, Pulitzer PrizePulitzer PrizeThe Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
-winning author - Kiran DesaiKiran DesaiKiran Desai is an Indian author who is a citizen of India and a permanent resident of the United States. Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award...
, winner of the 2006 Man Booker PrizeMan Booker PrizeThe Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, or Zimbabwe. The winner of the Man Booker Prize is generally assured of international renown and... - Anita DesaiAnita DesaiAnita Mazumdar Desai is an Indian novelist and Emeritus John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
, novelist, she has been shortlisted for the Booker prize three times, mother of Kiran DesaiKiran DesaiKiran Desai is an Indian author who is a citizen of India and a permanent resident of the United States. Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award...
. - Dhan Gopal MukerjiDhan Gopal MukerjiDhan Gopal Mukerji was the first successful Indian man of letters in the United States and winner of Newbery Medal 1928...
, First successful Indian man of letters in the U.S., Winner of Newbery MedalNewbery MedalThe John Newbery Medal is a literary award given by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association . The award is given to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. The award has been given since 1922. ...
1928 - Amitav GhoshAmitav GhoshAmitav Ghosh , is a Bengali Indian author best known for his work in the English language.-Life:Ghosh was born in Calcutta on July 11, 1956, to Lieutenant Colonel Shailendra Chandra Ghosh, a retired officer of the pre-independence Indian Army, and was educated at The Doon School; St...
, Indo-nostalgic writer and winner of Prix Médicis étranger - Shauna Singh BaldwinShauna Singh BaldwinShauna Singh Baldwin is a Canadian-American novelist of Indian descent. Her 2000 novel What the Body Remembers won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize , and her 2004 novel The Tiger Claw was nominated for the Giller Prize. She currently lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin...
, novelist, won the Commonwealth Writers' PrizeCommonwealth Writers' PrizeCommonwealth Writers is an initiative by the Commonwealth Foundation to unearth, develop and promote the best new fiction from across the Commonwealth. It's flagship are two literary awards and a website...
. - Ravi BatraRavi BatraRaveendra Nath "Ravi" Batra is an Indian-American economist, author, and professor at Southern Methodist University. Batra is the author of six international bestsellers, two of which appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list...
, bestselling author and economist - Chitra Banerjee DivakaruniChitra Banerjee DivakaruniChitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an Indian-American author, poet, and the Betty and Gene McDavid Professor of Writing at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program....
, author - Dinesh D'SouzaDinesh D'SouzaDinesh D'Souza is an author and public speaker and a former Robert and Karen Rishwain Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He is currently the President of The King's College in New York City. D'Souza is a noted Christian apologist and conservative writer and speaker....
, author and conservative political commentator - Anu GargAnu GargAnu Garg , an Indian-American author and speaker, is best known as the founder of Wordsmith.org, an online community comprising word lovers from an estimated 200 countries. His books explore the joy of words...
, author, speaker, and computer engineer - Bharati MukherjeeBharati MukherjeeBharati Mukherjee is an award-winning Indian-born American writer. She is currently a professor in the department of English at the University of California, Berkeley.-Background:...
, author - Janaki RamJanaki RamJanaki Ram is an Indian-American author who has written biographies and collections of short stories, as well as a prominent figure in Asian art auctions. She is a relative of Krishna Menon and Sir C.P. Ramaswami Iyer and a member of the powerful South Indian Vengalil family. She was a founder and...
, author - Susham BediSusham BediSusham Bedi is a leading South Asian author of novels, short stories and poetry, currently living in the United States. She is a professor of Hindi language and literature at the department of Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University, New York...
, author - Thrity UmrigarThrity UmrigarThrity Umrigar is an Indian American writer, who was born in Mumbai and immigrated to the United States when she was 21. She is a journalist and the author of the novels Bombay Time, The Space Between Us and The Weight of Heaven...
, writer - S. T. JoshiS. T. JoshiSunand Tryambak Joshi — known as S. T. Joshi — is an award-winning Indian American literary critic, novelist, and a leading figure in the study of Howard Phillips Lovecraft and other authors of weird and fantastic fiction...
, literary critic - Indira Viswanathan PetersonIndira Viswanathan PetersonIndira Viswanathan Peterson is a literary critic and the David B. Truman Professor of Asian Studies at Mount Holyoke College. She is a specialist in South Asian Studies.-Background:...
, literary critic - Vijay SeshadriVijay SeshadriVijay Seshadri is a Brooklyn, New York-based poet, essayist, and literary critic of significant repute.He was born in India and came to the United States in 1959 at the age of five. He grew up in Columbus, Ohio and has lived in many parts of the United States, including the Northwest and the Upper...
, literary critic - Rishi ReddiRishi ReddiRishi Reddi is an American author. She was born in Hyderabad, India and grew up in the United Kingdom and the United States.Reddi is a graduate of Swarthmore College, where she studied English, and the Northeastern University School of Law. In 2001, she earned a masters degree in creative writing...
, author - Ravi ShankarRavi Shankar (poet)Ravi Shankar is an American poet. He was raised in Manassas, VA. He is the poet-in-residence at Central Connecticut State University and the founding editor of the online journal of the arts, Drunken Boat. His first book, Instrumentality, was published by Cherry Grove in May 2004, and was a...
, poet - Parag KhannaParag KhannaDr. Parag Khanna is an Indian American author and international relations expert. He is a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, Research Fellow in the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation, a think tank based in Washington, D.C. and Director of...
, author - Indu SundaresanIndu SundaresanIndu Sundaresan is an American author of Indian origins. She was born and raised in India as a daughter of an Indian Air Force pilot who died in a crash while on duty. The family then moved to Bangalore where she collected books eagerly...
, author - Rajiv JosephRajiv JosephRajiv Joseph is an American playwright and a 2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist who occasionally has been confused with a substandard dentist of similar name....
, playwright - Usha HaleyUsha HaleyUsha C. V. Haley is an influential American author and academic, currently Chaired Professor of International Business at Massey University in New Zealand, Distinguished Guest Professor in International Business at ITESM in Mexico and associated with the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, DC....
, author - Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla, author
- Thrity UmrigarThrity UmrigarThrity Umrigar is an Indian American writer, who was born in Mumbai and immigrated to the United States when she was 21. She is a journalist and the author of the novels Bombay Time, The Space Between Us and The Weight of Heaven...
, author of Bombay Time. - Aimee NezhukumatathilAimee NezhukumatathilAimee Nezhukumatathil is an Asian American poet, best known for her jovial and accessible reading style and lush descriptions of exotic foods and landscapes...
, poet - Agha Shahid AliAgha Shahid AliAgha Shahid Ali was a Kashmiri American poet...
, poet - Vikram SethVikram SethVikram Seth is an Indian poet, novelist, travel writer, librettist, children's writer, biographer and memoirist.-Early life:Vikram Seth was born on 20 June 1952 to Leila and Prem Seth in Calcutta...
, poet, novelist, travel writer, librettist, children's writer, biographer and memoirist - Abraham VergheseAbraham VergheseAbraham Verghese is Professor for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at Stanford University Medical School and Senior Associate Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine. He was born in Ethiopia to parents from Kerala, India who worked as teachers. He is a Syro-Malabar Christian...
noted Doctor and Author; "In My Own Country" and "My Tennis Partner" - Kaavya ViswanathanKaavya ViswanathanHow Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life is a young adult novel by Kaavya Viswanathan, an Indian-American woman who wrote it just after she graduated from high school. Its 2006 debut was highly publicized, but the book was withdrawn after allegations that portions had been plagiarized...
, novelist - Saumitra SaxenaSaumitra SaxenaSaumitra Saxena is a United States based poet of Indian origin. He is one of the widely read poets of Hindi language of present generation. His first collection of poems in Hindi titled "Mitra"...
, Hindi poet, Bharatiya Jnanpith Navlekhana Award winner.
Elected Officials
- Bobby JindalBobby JindalPiyush "Bobby" Jindal is the 55th and current Governor of Louisiana and formerly a member of the United States House of Representatives. He is a member of the Republican Party....
, is the 55th and current Governor of Louisiana and formerly a member of the United States House of RepresentativesUnited States House of RepresentativesThe United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...
. - Nikki HaleyNikki HaleyNimrata Nikki Randhawa Haley is the 116th and current Governor of South Carolina. A member of the Republican Party, Haley represented Lexington County in the South Carolina House of Representatives from 2005 to 2010....
, is the 116th and current Governor of South CarolinaGovernor of South CarolinaThe Governor of the State of South Carolina is the head of state for the State of South Carolina. Under the South Carolina Constitution, the Governor is also the head of government, serving as the chief executive of the South Carolina executive branch. The Governor is the ex officio...
. - Mervyn M. DymallyMervyn M. DymallyMervyn Malcolm Dymally is a California Democratic politician of mixed Indian and Afro-Trinidadian heritage. He served in the California State Assembly and the California State Senate , as the 41st Lieutenant Governor of California , and in the U.S. House of Representatives...
, was the 41st Lieutenant Governor of California (1975–1979) and in the U.S. House of RepresentativesUnited States House of RepresentativesThe United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...
(1981–1993) - Dalip Singh SaundDalip Singh SaundDalip Singh Saund was a member of the United States House of Representatives. He served the 29th District of California from January 3, 1957–January 3, 1963. He was the first Asian American, Indian American and Sikh member of the United States Congress...
, was the first AsianAsian peopleAsian people or Asiatic people is a term with multiple meanings that refers to people who descend from a portion of Asia's population.- Central Asia :...
and Indian American member of the U.S. House of RepresentativesUnited States House of RepresentativesThe United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...
from CaliforniaCaliforniaCalifornia is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
. - Kamala HarrisKamala HarrisKamala Devi Harris is an American attorney. She is the 32nd and current Attorney General of California following the 2010 California state elections. Harris has worked as an author and a politician and has served as District Attorney of San Francisco since 2004...
, is the 32nd and current Attorney GeneralCalifornia Attorney GeneralThe California Attorney General is the State Attorney General of California. The officer's duty is to ensure that "the laws of the state are uniformly and adequately enforced" The Attorney General carries out the responsibilities of the office through the California Department of Justice.The...
of CaliforniaCaliforniaCalifornia is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
. - Swati DandekarSwati DandekarSwati A. Dandekar is a former Iowa state legislator and a Democratic member of the Iowa Utilities Board, awaiting Senate confirmation in 2012. Previously, she was a member of the Iowa House of Representatives for the 36th District from 2003 to 2009 and a member of the Iowa Senate for the 18th...
, Iowa State SenatorIowa SenateThe Iowa Senate is the upper house of the Iowa General Assembly. There are 50 members of the Senate, representing 50 single-member districts across the state with populations of approximately 59,500 per constituency. Each Senate district is composed of two House districts... - Kumar P. BarveKumar P. BarveKumar P. Barve is an American politician. He is a member of the Maryland House of Delegates, representing district 17 in Montgomery County.-Legislative career:...
, member of the Maryland House of DelegatesMaryland House of DelegatesThe Maryland House of Delegates is the lower house of the General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Maryland, and is composed of 141 Delegates elected from 47 districts. The House chamber is located in the state capitol building on State Circle in Annapolis...
(majority leaderMajority leaderIn U.S. politics, the majority floor leader is a partisan position in a legislative body.In the federal Congress, the role differs slightly in the two houses. In the House of Representatives, which chooses its own presiding officer, the leader of the majority party is elected the Speaker of the...
) - Aruna MillerAruna MillerAruna Miller is an American politician who is a member of the Maryland House of Delegates representing District 15 in Montgomery County, Maryland.-Background:...
, member of the Maryland House of DelegatesMaryland House of DelegatesThe Maryland House of Delegates is the lower house of the General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Maryland, and is composed of 141 Delegates elected from 47 districts. The House chamber is located in the state capitol building on State Circle in Annapolis... - Sam AroraSam AroraSam Arora is an American community advocate, businessman and politician from Montgomery County, Maryland. A Democrat, Arora was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates in 2010, representing the state's 19th district...
, member of the Maryland House of DelegatesMaryland House of DelegatesThe Maryland House of Delegates is the lower house of the General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Maryland, and is composed of 141 Delegates elected from 47 districts. The House chamber is located in the state capitol building on State Circle in Annapolis... - Upendra J. ChivukulaUpendra J. ChivukulaUpendra Joge Chivukula is an American Democratic Party politician, who has served in the New Jersey General Assembly since 2002, where he represents the 17th Legislative District....
, member of the New Jersey General AssemblyNew Jersey General AssemblyThe New Jersey General Assembly is the lower house of the New Jersey Legislature.Since the election of 1967 , the Assembly has consisted of 80 members. Two members are elected from each of New Jersey's 40 legislative districts for a term of two years, each representing districts with average...
. - Raj GoyleRaj GoyleRajeev Kumar Goyle is a Democratic politician from Kansas, who represented the 87th District in the Kansas House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011. He was the 2010 Democratic nominee for .-Early life, education and career:...
, member of the Kansas State RepresentativeKansas House of RepresentativesThe Kansas House of Representatives is the lower house of the Kansas Legislature, the legislative body of the U.S. State of Kansas. Composed of 125 state representatives from districts with roughly equal populations of at least 19,000, its members are responsible for crafting and voting on... - Jay GoyalJay GoyalJay Goyal is a member of the Ohio House of Representatives. He is a Democrat representing the 73rd District, which includes the city of Mansfield and other parts of Richland County. Prior to 2011, Goyal served as the Majority Whip.-Life and career:...
, member of the Ohio State RepresentativeOhio House of RepresentativesThe Ohio House of Representatives is the lower house of the Ohio General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Ohio; the other house of the bicameral legislature being the Ohio Senate.... - Satveer ChaudharySatveer ChaudharySatveer Singh Chaudhary is an American politician and a former member of the Minnesota State Senate who represented District 50, which includes portions of Anoka and Ramsey counties in the northern Twin Cities metropolitan area. He is a member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party...
, former Minnesota State SenatorMinnesota SenateThe Minnesota Senate is the upper house in the Minnesota Legislature. There are 67 members, half as many as are in the Minnesota House of Representatives. In terms of membership, it is the largest upper house of any state legislature. Each Senate district in the state includes an A and B House... - Saqib AliSaqib AliSaqib Ali is a former State Delegate in the Maryland House of Delegates, having been elected in 2006 to represent the 39th District. Ali is an American of Pakistani descent.-Background:...
, former member of the Maryland House of DelegatesMaryland House of DelegatesThe Maryland House of Delegates is the lower house of the General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Maryland, and is composed of 141 Delegates elected from 47 districts. The House chamber is located in the state capitol building on State Circle in Annapolis... - Mohammad "Obama" Arif – Elected chairman of Peace and Freedom Party; Kern County Central Committees for 2010-2012. Furthermore he was a candidate for the Governorship of California in 2010.
- Nimi McConigleyNimi McConigleyNirmala Swamidoss McConigley is an Indian American politician who served in the Wyoming State Legislature from 1994 until 1996. McConigley, who was born in Madras, was the first Indian born person to serve in any State legislature....
, former member of the Wyoming State Legislature - Harvinder "Harry" Anand, mayor of Laurel Hollow, New YorkLaurel Hollow, New YorkLaurel Hollow is a village in the Town of Oyster Bay in Nassau County, New York in the United States. The population was 1,952 at the 2010 census.- History :The settlement began around 1653 with purchase of land from the local natives...
- Kashmir GillKashmir GillKashmir Gill is a past mayor of Yuba City,CA and a past council-member .Gill emigrated with his family from India as a young child, and the entire family worked in farming. He is the nephew of Didar Bains. Gill's family is still involved in farming. Gill is a graduate of California State...
, mayor of Yuba City, CaliforniaYuba City, CaliforniaYuba City is a Northern California city, founded in 1849. It is the county seat of Sutter County, California, United States. The population was 64,925 at the 2010 census.... - Mohammed Hameeduddin, mayor of Teaneck, New JerseyTeaneck, New JerseyTeaneck is a township in Bergen County, New Jersey, and a suburb in the New York metropolitan area. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township population was 39,776, making it the second-most populous among the 70 municipalities in Bergen County....
. - Arun JhaveriArun JhaveriArun Jhaveri is a Indian American who was the former mayor of Burien, Washington in the United States of America ....
, former mayor of Burien, WashingtonBurien, WashingtonBurien is a city in King County, Washington, United States, located south of Seattle. As of the 2010 Census, Burien's population is 33,313, which is a 2.9% increase since incorporation. Annexation in 2011 has increased the cities population to about 45,000.... - Bala K. SrinivasBala K. SrinivasBala K. Srinivas is an Indian American who was the former mayor of Hollywood Park, Texas in the United States of America.-References:...
, former mayor of Hollywood Park, TexasHollywood Park, TexasHollywood Park is a town in Bexar County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,983 at the 2000 census. It is an enclave of San Antonio and is part of the San Antonio Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:... - John AbrahamJohn Abraham (Mayor)John Abraham is an Indian American who was the former Mayor of Teaneck, New Jersey in the United States of America. He served one term from 1992 to 1993.Abraham arrived in the United States in 1972 after working as a textile engineer in Tanzania....
, former mayor of Teaneck, New JerseyTeaneck, New JerseyTeaneck is a township in Bergen County, New Jersey, and a suburb in the New York metropolitan area. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township population was 39,776, making it the second-most populous among the 70 municipalities in Bergen County.... - Harry SidhuHarry SidhuHarry Sidhu is an American businessman and Republican politician, in Orange County, California, currently serving as an Anaheim City Councilman....
, city councilman of Anaheim, CaliforniaAnaheim, CaliforniaAnaheim is a city in Orange County, California. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city population was about 365,463, making it the most populated city in Orange County, the 10th most-populated city in California, and ranked 54th in the United States...
- Satish MohanSatish MohanDr. Satish Mohan was Town Supervisor of Amherst, New York from 2006 through 2009.-Biography:Dr. Satish Mohan is an Associate Professor of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering at University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, and an entrepreneur who took leave from his position...
, town supervisor of Amherst, New YorkAmherst, New YorkAmherst is a town in Erie County, New York, United States. As of the 2010 census, the town had a total population of 122,366. This represents an increase of 5.0% from the 2000 census. The town is named for Jeffrey Amherst, a British Army officer of the colonial period... - Faz HusainFaz HusainFaizi Faz Husain was a pizza shop owner, Muslim community leader, and local politician in the Ann Arbor-Ypsilanti area of Michigan....
, first native of India to win elected office in Michigan
Civil Servants
- Rajiv ShahRajiv ShahRajiv “Raj” Shah is the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development . He was confirmed by the Senate on December 24, 2009, replacing acting chief Alonzo Fulgham, making him the highest-ranking Indian American in any presidential administration...
, former Under Secretary of Agriculture for Research, Education, and EconomicsUnder Secretary of Agriculture for Research, Education, and EconomicsThe Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics is a high-ranking official within the United States Department of Agriculture that provides leadership and oversight for the Agricultural Research Service, Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, Economic Research...
and current Administrator of USAID. - Vivek KundraVivek KundraVivek Kundra served as the 1st Chief Information Officer of the United States from March, 2009 to August, 2011 under President Barack Obama. He is currently a visiting Fellow at Harvard University.He previously served in D.C...
, Federal Chief Information OfficerChief information officerChief information officer , or information technology director, is a job title commonly given to the most senior executive in an enterprise responsible for the information technology and computer systems that support enterprise goals...
of the United States of America. - Aneesh ChopraAneesh ChopraAneesh Paul Chopra is the first Federal Chief Technology Officer of the United States .Chopra previously served as Virginia’s fourth Secretary of Technology. Prior to his government service, Chopra was Managing Director for the Advisory Board Company, a health care think tank for hospitals and...
, Federal Chief Technology Officer of the United States of America. - Arun MajumdarArun MajumdarArun Majumdar is a materials scientist, engineer, and Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay graduate who is presently President Barack Obama's nominee for the Under Secretary of Energy...
, Director of the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-EnergyARPA-EARPA-E, or Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy is a United States government agency to promote and fund research and development of advanced energy technologies...
(ARPA-E). - Subra SureshSubra SureshSubra Suresh is the Director of National Science Foundation and former Dean of Engineering and the Vannevar Bush Professor of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
, Director of National Science FoundationNational Science FoundationThe National Science Foundation is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health... - Neal KatyalNeal KatyalNeal Kumar Katyal is an American lawyer and chaired professor of law. He served as Acting Solicitor General of the United States from May 2010 until June 2011. As Acting Solicitor General, Katyal succeeded Elena Kagan, who was President Barack Obama's choice to replace the retiring Associate...
, is the Solicitor General of the United StatesUnited States Solicitor GeneralThe United States Solicitor General is the person appointed to represent the federal government of the United States before the Supreme Court of the United States. The current Solicitor General, Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. was confirmed by the United States Senate on June 6, 2011 and sworn in on June...
. - Islam A. SiddiquiIslam A. SiddiquiAmbassador Islam A. Siddiqui is Chief Agricultural Negotiator in the Office of the United States Trade Representative . Prior to this, he was Vice President for Science and Regulatory Affairs at CropLife America, a biotechnology industry consortium....
, is Chief Agricultural NegotiatorChief Agricultural NegotiatorThe Chief Agricultural Negotiator is an ambassador of the Office of the United States Trade Representative responsible for conducting and overseeing international negotiations related to trade in agricultural products...
in the Office of the United States Trade RepresentativeOffice of the United States Trade RepresentativeThe Office of the United States Trade Representative is the United States government agency responsible for developing and recommending United States trade policy to the president of the United States, conducting trade negotiations at bilateral and multilateral levels, and coordinating trade...
(USTR) - Joy CherianJoy CherianDr. Joy Cherian is the first Asian American and first Indian American Commissioner at the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission . He was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1987 in what was seen as a milestone. At the time he was the highest ranking Indian American in the US...
, first Asian head of the Equal Employment Opportunity CommissionEqual Employment Opportunity CommissionThe U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is an independent federal law enforcement agency that enforces laws against workplace discrimination. The EEOC investigates discrimination complaints based on an individual's race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, perceived intelligence,...
. - Gopal KhannaGopal KhannaGopal Khanna was appointed Minnesota's first Chief information officer by Governor Tim Pawlenty on August 15, 2005, and reappointed January 2, 2007. Announcing that Khanna would be leaving his post effective December 15, 2010, Governor Pawlenty said that Khanna " is a nationally recognized...
, Chief Information OfficerChief information officerChief information officer , or information technology director, is a job title commonly given to the most senior executive in an enterprise responsible for the information technology and computer systems that support enterprise goals...
in the state of MinnesotaMinnesotaMinnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
. - Richard VermaRichard VermaRichard Verma was the Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs, at the U.S. Department of State until March 2011. He was nominated by President Obama in 2009....
, is the Assistant Secretary for Legislative and Intergovernmental AffairsAssistant Secretary of State for Legislative AffairsThe Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs is the head of the Bureau of Legislative Affairs within the United States Department of State.- List of Assistant Secretaries of State for Legislative Affairs :-External links:**...
, at the Department of State - Arif AlikhanArif AlikhanArif Alikhan is currently a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Homeland Security and Counterterrorism at the National Defense University , College of International Security Affairs in Washington, D.C. He currently teaches and lectures on a variety subjects involving homeland and national security...
, 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 AngelesLos ÁngelesLos Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
, former senior adviser to Attorneys General John AshcroftJohn AshcroftJohn David Ashcroft is a United States politician who served as the 79th United States Attorney General, from 2001 until 2005, appointed by President George W. Bush. Ashcroft previously served as the 50th Governor of Missouri and a U.S...
and Alberto GonzalesAlberto GonzalesAlberto R. Gonzales was the 80th Attorney General of the United States. Gonzales was appointed to the post in February 2005 by President George W. Bush. Gonzales was the first Hispanic Attorney General in U.S. history and the highest-ranking Hispanic government official ever...
. - Neel KashkariNeel KashkariNeel T. Kashkari was the Interim Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability in the United States Department of the Treasury. While in this role, he led the Office of Financial Stability, the office set up to buy troubled financial assets from U.S. financial firms under the $700...
, former interim Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability in the United States Department of the TreasuryUnited States Department of the TreasuryThe Department of the Treasury is an executive department and the treasury of the United States federal government. It was established by an Act of Congress in 1789 to manage government revenue...
. - Sonal Shah, member of the Obama-Biden Transition ProjectPresidential transition of Barack ObamaThe presidential transition of Barack Obama began when he won the United States presidential election on November 4, 2008, and became the President-Elect. He was formally elected by the Electoral College on December 15, 2008...
advisory board - Farah PandithFarah PandithFarah Pandith is the first ever Special Representative to Muslim Communities for the United States Department of State...
, is currently the Special Representative to Muslim Communities for the United States Department of StateUnited States Department of StateThe United States Department of State , is the United States federal executive department responsible for international relations of the United States, equivalent to the foreign ministries of other countries...
. - Rashad HussainRashad HussainRashad Hussain , is an American attorney, and U.S. Special Envoy to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation , an intergovernmental group with 57 member states. Hussain, a Muslim of Indian heritage, has served in the White House Counsel's Office, and in his role as Envoy, has advised the...
, is the U.S. Special Envoy to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation - Preeta D. BansalPreeta D. BansalPreeta D. Bansal is an American lawyer who served as the General Counsel to the federal Office of Management and Budget from 2009 until announcing her departure for an undisclosed think tank in June 2011...
, member and past chair of the United States Commission on International Religious FreedomUnited States Commission on International Religious FreedomThe United States Commission on International Religious Freedom is an independent, bipartisan U.S. federal government commission created by the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998. USCIRF Commissioners are appointed by the President and the leadership of both political parties in the Senate...
(USCIRF) and former Solicitor General of New YorkNew YorkNew York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
. - Rachel PauloseRachel PauloseRachel Kunjummen Paulose is an attorney for the Securities and Exchange Commission in Miami, United States. She is the former U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota. Palouse resigned the position of U.S. Attorney on November 19, 2007...
, former United States Attorney for the District of MinnesotaUnited States District Court for the District of MinnesotaThe United States District Court for the District of Minnesota is the Federal district court whose jurisdiction is the state of Minnesota. Its two primary courthouses are in Minneapolis and Saint Paul...
. - Kris KolluriKris KolluriKris Kolluri serves as head of the New Jersey Schools Development Authority, having taken office as of December 1, 2008, where he succeeded Scott Weiner. He had previously served as Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Transportation , having been sworn into office on March 13, 2006...
, New JerseyNew JerseyNew Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
Commissioner of Transportation. - Shekar NarasimhanShekar NarasimhanShekar Narasimhan is Co-chair of the Democratic National Committee's Indo-American Council. He was a CEO of The WMF Group Ltd. a publicly traded fund group.-Politics:...
, Co-chair of the Democratic National CommitteeDemocratic National CommitteeThe Democratic National Committee is the principal organization governing the United States Democratic Party on a day to day basis. While it is responsible for overseeing the process of writing a platform every four years, the DNC's central focus is on campaign and political activity in support...
Indo-American Council - Raj MukherjiRaj MukherjiRaj Mukherji is a New Jersey lobbyist and real estate developer with close ties to New Jersey Democratic establishments and the Obama administration...
, New Jersey lobbyist and businessman. - Har DayalHar DayalLala Har Dayal was a Indian nationalist revolutionary who founded the Ghadar Party in America. He was a polymath who turned down a career in the Indian Civil Service...
, founder of the Ghadar PartyGhadar PartyThe Ghadar Party was an organization founded by Punjabi Indians, in the United States and Canada with the aim to liberate India from British rule...
. - Huma AbedinHuma AbedinHuma Mahmood Abedin is a deputy chief of staff and aide to US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. She served as traveling chief of staff and "body woman" for Clinton during Clinton's campaign for the Democratic nomination in the 2008 presidential election.-Early life:Abedin was born in...
, aide to United States Secretary of StateUnited States Secretary of StateThe United States Secretary of State is the head of the United States Department of State, concerned with foreign affairs. The Secretary is a member of the Cabinet and the highest-ranking cabinet secretary both in line of succession and order of precedence...
Hillary Rodham ClintonHillary Rodham ClintonHillary Diane Rodham Clinton is the 67th United States Secretary of State, serving in the administration of President Barack Obama. She was a United States Senator for New York from 2001 to 2009. As the wife of the 42nd President of the United States, Bill Clinton, she was the First Lady of the...
. - Raja KrishnamoorthiRaja KrishnamoorthiS. Raja Krishnamoorthi is currently a Democratic candidate for United States House of Representatives in Illinois' 8th congressional district....
, former Illinois Deputy Treasurer for Policy and Programs and former candidate for Illinois Comptroller - Preet BhararaPreet BhararaPreetinder S. Bharara , commonly known as Preet Bharara, is U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.-Early life and education:Bharara was born in 1968 in Firozpur, Punjab, India, to a Sikh father and Hindu mother...
, United States AttorneyUnited States AttorneyUnited States Attorneys represent the United States federal government in United States district court and United States court of appeals. There are 93 U.S. Attorneys stationed throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands...
for the Southern District of New York.
Religion
- Harbhajan Singh YogiHarbhajan Singh YogiSiri Singh Sahib Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogiji , also known as Yogi Bhajan and Siri Singh Sahib, was a spiritual leader and entrepreneur who introduced Kundalini Yoga and Sikhism to the United States...
, introduced Kundalini Yoga and Sikhism to the USA and was the spiritual director of the 3HO (Healthy, Happy, Holy Organization) Foundation. - Eboo PatelEboo PatelEboo Patel is a member of President Barack Obama's inaugural Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships. He is an American Muslim of Gujarati Indian heritage and founder and president of the ,...
, member of New Faith Advisory Council - Reverend Kiran SankhlaReverend Kiran Sankhla-Family & Education:Reverend Kiran Sankhla was born in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India. She is elder daughter of Retd. Justice Kan Singh Parihar of Rajasthan High Court. She did her masters in Political Science from the University of Jodhpur, India...
, the first female Hindu chaplain in the U.S. - Ed ViswanathanEd ViswanathanEd Viswanathan, a native of Kerala, is the author of Am I A Hindu?, an introductory book on Hinduism directed mainly at NRIs. Viswanathan works an electrical engineer in New Orleans.-External links:*...
, author of Am I A Hindu?Am I a Hindu?Am I A Hindu? ISBN 978-1-879904-06-4, is a primer about the Hindu religion, published in 1992, by Ed Viswanathan.The book takes the form of dialog between a Hindu father and his American-born son. The son wants to understand his family's religious traditions and discover what is relevant for him... - Ramananda PrasadRamananda PrasadRamananda Prasad is the founder of the International Gita Society. He has translated the Bhagavad Gita into English in 1988 from the original Sanskrit texts and the book is currently in its fourth edition....
, founder of the International Gita Society - Ravi ZachariasRavi ZachariasFrederick Antony Ravi Kumar Zacharias is an Indian-born, Canadian-American evangelical Christian apologist. Zacharias is the author of numerous Christian books, including Gold Medallion Book Award winner Can Man Live Without God? and bestsellers Light in the Shadow of Jihad and The Grand Weaver...
, ChristianChristianA Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...
evangelistEvangelismEvangelism refers to the practice of relaying information about a particular set of beliefs to others who do not hold those beliefs. The term is often used in reference to Christianity....
and apologist, Gold Medallion Book AwardGold Medallion Book AwardThe Christian Book Award is an annual award given by the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association to honor Christian content in several categories, including Bibles, Fiction, Children, Inspiration, Bible Reference, and Non-Fiction. Winners are announced each year at the industry's Executive...
Winner for the book Can Man Live Without God? - Muzammil Siddiqi, Ph.D., Chairman, Fiqh Council of North AmericaFiqh Council of North AmericaThe Fiqh Council of North America is an association of Muslims who interpret Islamic law on the North American continent.Its 18 members issue religious rulings, resolve disputes, and answer questions relating to the Islamic faith...
- Rajeev SrinivasanRajeev SrinivasanRajeev Srinivasan is an Indian journalist, blogger and Hindu rights activist. He was educated at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Syracuse University and at Stanford Business School and works in software sales and is a marketing professional . He writes a regular opinion column for Indian...
, HinduHinduHindu refers to an identity associated with the philosophical, religious and cultural systems that are indigenous to the Indian subcontinent. As used in the Constitution of India, the word "Hindu" is also attributed to all persons professing any Indian religion...
rights activist - Prem RawatPrem RawatPrem Pal Singh Rawat , also known as Maharaji and formerly known as Guru Maharaj Ji and Balyogeshwar, teaches a meditation practice he calls Knowledge....
, also known as Guru Maharaji Ji, head of the Divine Light MissionDivine Light MissionThe Divine Light Mission was an organization founded in 1960 by guru Shri Hans Ji Maharaj for his following in northern India. During the 1970s, the DLM gained prominence in the West under the leadership of his fourth and youngest son, Guru Maharaj Ji...
and later organizations - Sushil KumarjiSushil KumarjiAcharya Sushil Kumarji Maharaj was a Jain Acharya. Sushil Kumarji was the honorary president of the World Conference of Religions for Peace, founder of the World Fellowship of Religions , and a founding member of the Vishva Hindu Parishad...
, Jain AcharyaAcharyaIn Indian religions and society, an acharya is a guide or instructor in religious matters; founder, or leader of a sect; or a highly learned man or a title affixed to the names of learned men...
Sports
- Alexi GrewalAlexi GrewalAlexi Singh Grewal ' is a Sikh-American Olympic gold medalist and former professional road racing cyclist. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, Grewal became the first American man to win an Olympic gold medal in road cycling...
, first ever Indian American to win an OlympicOlympic GamesThe Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...
medal, GoldGoldGold is a chemical element with the symbol Au and an atomic number of 79. Gold is a dense, soft, shiny, malleable and ductile metal. Pure gold has a bright yellow color and luster traditionally considered attractive, which it maintains without oxidizing in air or water. Chemically, gold is a...
Medalist in 1984 Summer Olympics1984 Summer OlympicsThe 1984 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held in Los Angeles, California, United States in 1984...
in cycling - Mohini BhardwajMohini BhardwajMohini Bhardwaj is a retired American gymnast who competed at the 1997 and 2001 World Championships and earned a team silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens...
, second Indian American OlympicOlympic GamesThe Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...
medalist, 2004 Summer Olympics2004 Summer OlympicsThe 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, was a premier international multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece from August 13 to August 29, 2004 with the motto Welcome Home. 10,625 athletes competed, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team...
silver medalSilver medalA silver medal is a medal awarded to the second place finisher of contests such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, and contests with similar formats....
ist in gymnastics - Raj BhavsarRaj BhavsarRaj Bhavsar is an American artistic gymnast of Indian descent. He was a member of the 2001 and 2003 World Champion U.S. team. He earned a bronze medal as a member of the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team, becoming the third Indian-American ever to medal at the Olympics, after Mohini Bhardwaj and Alexi Grewal...
, third Indian American OlympicOlympic GamesThe Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...
Medalist, 2008 Summer Olympics2008 Summer OlympicsThe 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, was a major international multi-sport event that took place in Beijing, China, from August 8 to August 24, 2008. A total of 11,028 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees competed in 28 sports and 302 events...
bronzeBronzeBronze is a metal alloy consisting primarily of copper, usually with tin as the main additive. It is hard and brittle, and it was particularly significant in antiquity, so much so that the Bronze Age was named after the metal...
medalist in the team gymnastics competition. - Sanjay BeachSanjay BeachSanjay Rajiv Beach is a former professional American football player who played wide receiver for four seasons for the New York Jets, the Green Bay Packers, and the San Francisco 49ers....
, was a former NFLNational Football LeagueThe National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...
wide receiver. He played for the San Francisco 49ers and the Green Bay Packers. - Bobby SinghBobby SinghBobby Singh is a retired professional American and Canadian football guard. He last played for the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League. He was drafted by the Calgary Stampeders in the first round of the 1999 CFL Draft....
- Brandon ChillarBrandon Chillar-St. Louis Rams:Chillar joined the St. Louis Rams as a fourth-round draft pick in the 2004 NFL Draft. On July 26, 2004, Chillar signed a four-year $2.1 million contract with the Rams. Having a father, Ram Chillar, of East Indian descent, Chillar became one of the handful of Indian Americans in the...
, NFLNational Football LeagueThe National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...
player, linebacker for the Green Bay Packers (Father of Indian descent) - Manny MalhotraManny MalhotraEmmanuel Noveen Malhotra is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre currently playing for the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League , serving as an alternate captain. During his NHL career he has additionally played for the Dallas Stars, Columbus Blue Jackets, San Jose Sharks and New...
, NHLNational Hockey LeagueThe National Hockey League is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which 7 are currently located in Canada and 23 in the United States...
player, currently in the Vancouver CanucksVancouver CanucksThe Vancouver Canucks are a professional ice hockey team based in Vancouver, :British Columbia, Canada. They are members of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . The Canucks play their home games at Rogers Arena, formerly known as General Motors Place,... - Sunil GulatiSunil GulatiSunil Gulati is the current president of the United States Soccer Federation and special advisor to The Kraft Group and the Kraft family...
, in charge of United States Soccer FederationUnited States Soccer FederationThe United States Soccer Federation is the official governing body of the sport of soccer in the United States. Its headquarters are located in Chicago, Illinois. It is a member of FIFA and is responsible for governing amateur and professional soccer, including the men's, women's, youth, futsal...
. - Laxmi PoruriLaxmi PoruriLaxmi Poruri-Madan has the distinction of being the first Indian-American female to play professional tennis on the WTA tour in the modern era. She grew up in Southern California where, from a very young age, she was known as a tennis prodigy. In 1986, she won the Orange Bowl, beating Monica...
, Tennis player - Shikha UberoiShikha UberoiShikha Uberoi is a professional tennis player from India, though an American citizen . She has been ranked as high as 122nd in the world in singles ....
, Tennis player - Rajeev RamRajeev RamRajeev Ram is an American professional tennis player on the ATP Tour. Rajeev is a tall, lanky player with a serve-and-volley style who is known best as a doubles specialist. He has advanced as far as the quarter-finals in doubles at three Grand Slams, most recently with Scott Lipsky at the 2011...
, Tennis player - Neha UberoiNeha UberoiNeha Uberoi is a former professional tennis player. She is the sister of fellow tennis professional Shikha Uberoi....
, Tennis player - Prakash AmritrajPrakash AmritrajPrakash Amritraj is a now inactive tour professional tennis player.-Background:Amritaj is the son of Indian tennis great Vijay Amritraj, who played at Wimbledon for 17 years and in the Davis Cup for 20 years. He is also the cousin of fellow tour pro Stephen Amritraj, whose father Anand was also a...
, Tennis player (born in U.S.) - Stephen AmritrajStephen AmritrajStephen Amritraj is a now inactive professional tennis player who represented India.Amritraj is the son of former world tour player Anand Amritraj and cousin of fellow former pro Prakash Amritraj, both of whom also represented India...
, Tennis player - Sonjay DuttSonjay DuttRetesh Bhalla is an American professional wrestler of Indian Punjabi descent, better known by his ring name, Sonjay Dutt. He is best known working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, and is also known for his stints with Combat Zone Wrestling, Major League Wrestling, and other various independent...
, TNATotal Nonstop Action WrestlingTotal Nonstop Action Wrestling is a privately held professional wrestling promotion founded by Jeff Jarrett and Jerry Jarrett. The company broadcasts its events on television and the Internet fifty two weeks a year with over a million weekly viewers on its primary television program, Impact...
Pro Wrestler - The Great Khali, WWE Pro Wrestler
- Jinder Mahal, WWE Pro Wrestler
- Ami ParekhAmi ParekhAmi Parekh is an Indian-American skater, representing India.-Competitive highlights:For India*2007 - ISU Senior World Championships - 44th...
, Figure Skater - Vinay BhatVinay BhatVinay Bhat is an American chess Grandmaster. Bhat earned his third Grandmaster norm in July 2007 at the age of 23, though he did not obtain the Grandmaster title immediately due to rating requirements. Bhat ultimately earned the Grandmaster title in October 2008...
, Chess Grandmaster - Sushil NadkarniSushil NadkarniSushilkumar Suhas "Sushil" Nadkarni is an Indian born American cricketer. A left-handed batsman and off spin bowler, he has played for the United States national cricket team since 2006, and previously played for India Under-19s and played first-class and List A cricket for...
, American cricketer - Sunitha RaoSunitha RaoSunitha Manohar Rao is a former American professional tennis player of Indian background. She was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. Rao has 8 career titles on the ITF Women's Circuit and has reached many finals in singles.-Early life:...
, Tennis Player
Others
- Bhairavi DesaiBhairavi DesaiBhairavi Desai is the founding member of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, a union representing approximately 15,000 taxi drivers in New York City.-Early life:...
, founding member of the Taxi Workers Alliance in New York - Kavita RamdasKavita Ramdas-Background and Affiliations:Ramdas was born in Delhi, India and grew up in Mumbai, Delhi, London, Rangoon, and Bonn. She attended high school at the Nikolaus Cusanus Gymnasium in Bad Godesberg, Bonn, Germany; the Cathedral and John Connon School, Mumbai, and graduated from Springdales School, New...
, President and CEO of Global Fund for Women. - Bikram ChoudhuryBikram ChoudhuryBikram Choudhury is a multi-millionaire Indian yoga guru and the founder of Bikram Yoga, a form of hot yoga performed in a series of 26 hatha yoga postures done in a hot environment. Choudhury is a student of Bishnu Ghosh...
, yoga guru - Sabita SinghSabita SinghSabita Singh is an Indian-American lawyer and Judge of the District Circuit Court in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.On Oct. 25, 2006, Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney nominated Singh to be Judge of the District Circuit Court. Her nomination was confirmed on November 15 by the eight-man...
, first judge of Indian descent in Massachusetts history - Aman Kapoor, Founder and President of ImmigrationVoice, an advocacy group that united immigrants in USA
- Bhagat Singh ThindBhagat Singh ThindBhagat Singh Thind, PhD was an Indian American Sikh writer and lecturer on spirituality who was involved in an important legal battle over the rights of Indians to obtain U.S. citizenship....
, civil rights figure, lecturer, author - Maya HarrisMaya HarrisMaya Harris is Vice President for Peace & Social Justice at the Ford Foundation. She was named to that position in June 2008. Prior to joining the Ford Foundation, she served as the Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California...
, the Executive Director of the ACLU of Northern California and sister of Kamala HarrisKamala HarrisKamala Devi Harris is an American attorney. She is the 32nd and current Attorney General of California following the 2010 California state elections. Harris has worked as an author and a politician and has served as District Attorney of San Francisco since 2004...
. - Amrit SinghAmrit Singh- References :...
, a staff attorney at the ACLU. - Mallika DuttMallika DuttMallika Dutt is the Founder, President, and CEO of Breakthrough a global human rights organization that uses the power of media, popular culture, and community mobilization to inspire people to take bold action for dignity, equality, and justice...
, currently the Executive Director of Breakthrough (human rights)Breakthrough (human rights)Breakthrough is a global not-for-profit organization that uses pop culture to promote human rights. Breakthrough's stated mission is to "empower individuals and communities to stand for universal human rights by using multimedia tools that transform hearts and minds." They promote a message of... - Urvashi VaidUrvashi VaidUrvashi Vaid is an American activist who has worked for over 25 years promoting civil rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender persons.- Political activism :...
, famous gay rights activist - Abraham GeorgeAbraham GeorgeDr. Abraham M. George is a Indian-American businessman, academic, and philanthropist. He is the founder of The George Foundation , a non-profit organization based in Bangalore, India dedicated to the welfare and empowerment of economically and socially disadvantaged populations in India...
, Philanthropist Humanitarian, Founder of The George Foundation (TGF) - Dipa MaDipa MaDipa Ma was born Nani Bala Barua in a small village named Chittagong in East Bengal , moving to join her husband in Burma when she was 16...
, famous yoga teacher - Maya AjmeraMaya AjmeraMaya Ajmera is the founder of The Global Fund for Children, a nonprofit organization that seeks to advance the dignity of children and youth by making small grants to innovative community-based organizations working with some of the world’s most vulnerable young people.Ajmera is also the author of...
, Founder of The Global Fund for ChildrenThe Global Fund for ChildrenThe mission of The Global Fund for Children is to advance the dignity of children and youth around the world. GFC pursues its mission by making small grants to innovative community-based organizations working with some of the world’s most vulnerable children and youth, complemented by a dynamic...
and author of more than 20 books for childrenhttp://www.globalfundforchildren.org/index.php/Who-we-are/Founder-s-Story.html - Mahzarin BanajiMahzarin BanajiMahzarin Rustum Banaji was born and raised in India, in the town of Secunderabad, where she attended St. Ann's High School. Her B.A. is from and her M.A. in Psychology from Osmania University in Hyderabad. In 1986, Banaji received a Ph.D. from Ohio State University, and was an NIH postdoctoral...
, best known for a series of studies around exploring gender and racial bias - Swadesh ChatterjeeSwadesh ChatterjeeSwadesh Chatterjee is a recipient of the Padma Bhushan award, the third highest civilian award of India. He is a former elected national president of the Indian American Forum for Political Education. He is president of an industrial instrumentation company based in North Carolina. He accompanied...
, former elected National President of the Indian American Forum. - H. Jay DinshahH. Jay DinshahHom Jay Dinshah was founder and president of the American Vegan Society and editor of its publication, Ahimsa magazine .-Life:Dinshah was born in New Jersey, United States...
, founded the American Vegan Society - Arun Manilal GandhiArun Manilal GandhiArun Manilal Gandhi is the fifth grandson of Mohandas Gandhi through his second son Manilal. Following the footsteps of his grandfather, he is also a socio-political activist, although he eschews the ascetic lifestyle of his grandfather....
, fifth grandson of Mohandas Gandhi - Gitanjali S. GutierrezGitanjali S. GutierrezGitanjali S. Gutierrez is the lawyer for the defendant Mohammed al-Qahtani, who is held at Camp Delta in Guantanamo Bay by the United States Military....
, lawyer, who is defending Guantanamo prisoners. - Rajat ParrRajat ParrRajat Parr is an Indian-American sommelier, who oversees the wine program of the Michael Mina restaurant group.-Biography:Parr was born and raised in Calcutta, India. He grew up close to his cousin, who ran two restaurants in New Delhi...
, sommelier - Anant RautAnant RautAnant Raut is an American lawyer. He was formerly an associate at Weil, Gotshal & Manges. He was also formerly Counsel to the Committee on the Judiciary of the U.S. House of Representatives. He is currently an attorney at Pepper Hamilton LLP in Washington, DC....
, Counsel to the U.S. House Judiciary CommitteeUnited States House Committee on the JudiciaryThe U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, also called the House Judiciary Committee, is a standing committee of the United States House of Representatives. It is charged with overseeing the administration of justice within the federal courts, administrative agencies and Federal law enforcement... - Joe RocheJoe RocheJoseph Roche is an Iraq War veteran and conservative commentator.-Early life:Roche comes from a family of talented musicians. Roche's father, also named Joseph Roche, was a native of Madras, India who came to the United States to study at the New England Conservatory in Boston Roche's mother is...
, Iraq war veteran and conservative political commentator - Sabrina De SousaSabrina De SousaSabrina De Sousa is a convicted kidnapper and a former American diplomat, who made international news in 2009 for suing the State Department in order to secure diplomatic immunity for her role in kidnapping in an Italian court case...
, ex-CIA officer, who is suing the US Govt for diplomatic immunity. - Thomas AbrahamThomas AbrahamDr. Thomas Abraham is the Founder President and Chairman Emeritus of the Global Organization of People of Indian Origin , having previously founded the organization and served as its president. He is also president of Innovative Research and Products, Inc., Stamford, CT, USA-Accomplishments:Dr...
, Founder President and Chairman Emeritus, Global Organization of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO) as well as the National Federation of Indian American Associations (NFIA) - Inder SinghInder SinghIn the death of hockey Olympian Inder Singh, who breathed his last in Italy on August 19, 2001 at the age of 56, India lost a versatile sportsman who not only inspired youngsters back home with his dazzling stickwork but also motivated youngsters to take up hockey overseas...
, Writer on Indian American Diaspora, Chairman, Global Organization of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO), Founding president of Federation of Indo American Associations of Southern California
See also
- British IndianBritish IndianThe term British Indian refers to citizens of the United Kingdom whose ancestral roots lie in India. This includes people born in the UK who are of Indian descent, and Indian-born people who have migrated to the UK...
- Indian AmericanIndian AmericanIndian Americans are Americans whose ancestral roots lie in India. The U.S. Census Bureau popularized the term Asian Indian to avoid confusion with Indigenous peoples of the Americas who are commonly referred to as American Indians.-The term: Indian:...
- Indo-Canadian
- Non-resident Indian and Person of Indian OriginNon-resident Indian and Person of Indian OriginA Non-Resident Indian is an Indian citizen who has migrated to another country, a person of Indian origin who is born outside India, or a person of Indian origin who resides permanently outside India. Other terms with the same meaning are overseas Indian and expatriate Indian...
- List of Indian Britons
- List of Indo-Canadians
- List of Indians
- List of NRIs