List of Indian Americans

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

United States of America who trace their family descent to India.[1][2]
Notable Indian Americans include:

Academics

Nobel Prize recipients

Nobel Prize for Physics
, 1983

Deans and presidents

Mathematicians

Economists

Abhijit Banerjee, Professor of Economics at MIT, Nobel Prize winner in Economic Sciences in 2019.

Professors and scholars in computer science or engineering and electrical engineering


Professors and scholars in other disciplines

Activism and philanthropy

  • Rajiv Malhotra, Hindutva activist for promoting Indic cultures, author of Breaking India and the founder of Infinity Foundation
  • Maya Ajmera, founder of The Global Fund for Children and author of more than 20 books for children[22]
  • Kala Bagai, immigrant advocate and one of the first South Asian women in the United States
  • Bhairavi Desai, founding member of the Taxi Workers Alliance in New York
  • Ghadar Party
    , labor, and civil rights activist
  • Ramesh Kapur, Massachusetts-based Democratic fundraiser
  • Mallika Dutt, executive director of Breakthrough human rights organization
  • Vijaya Lakshmi Emani (1958-2009), social activist
  • Mohandas Gandhi
  • Meera Gandhi, founder and CEO of The Giving Back Foundation
  • Abraham George, philanthropist humanitarian, founder of The George Foundation (TGF)
  • Gitanjali S. Gutierrez, lawyer who is defending Guantanamo prisoners
  • Maya Harris, of half Indian descent, executive director of the ACLU of Northern California and sister of Kamala Harris
  • Prerna Lal, immigrant rights advocate and attorney
  • Hemant Mehta - atheist activist, YouTuber and writer
  • Girindra Mukerji, leader of one of the first Indian-American student protests against colonialism in 1908
  • Kavita Ramdas, president and CEO of Global Fund for Women
  • Dinesh Sharma, leader, CRO and Director at Steam Works Studio and author in human development, human rights and global education, and professor at Fordham, NYU, and Walden University
  • Inder Singh, chairman of the Global Organization of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO)
  • Bhagat Singh Thind, civil rights activist who defended the right of Indian immigrants to gain United States citizenship in United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind
  • Urvashi Vaid, gay rights activist
  • Thomas Abraham (b. 1948), founder president of the Global Organization of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO) as well as the National Federation of Indian American Associations (NFIA)
  • Sakharam Ganesh Pandit (1875-1959), lawyer who argued against government efforts to revoke American citizenship for Indian emigrants

Arts and entertainment

M. Night Shyamalan, Hollywood director
Mira Nair, director and producer
Sharad Devarajan, superhero creator and producer
Rohit Gupta, director, producer
Nina Davuluri, Miss America 2014

Actors and actresses

Kal Penn, actor
Mindy Kaling, actress
Sendhil Ramamurthy, actor
Danny Pudi, actor

Comedians

Aziz Ansari, comedian and actor
Hasan Minhaj, comedian
Hari Kondabolu, comedian

Culinary arts

Padma Lakshmi

Fashion

Models

  • America's Next Top Model
  • Pooja Kumar
    , model
  • Akshay Kapoor, model, actor

Media

Fareed Zakaria, journalist
Lilly Singh, actress and YouTuber

Musicians

Norah Jones, singer and winner of multiple Grammy Awards
Zubin Mehta, musician and receiver of a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Business

Businessman, President of Satnam Enterprises, CEO of Paul Brothers, Inc.

Crime

Literature

Man Booker Prize
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction

Military

Politics and government

Elected officials

Aruna Miller, 10th Lieutenant Governor of Maryland
Sikh U.S. mayor, of Hoboken, New Jersey
Jenifer Rajkumar, member of the New York State Assembly (Democratic), representing the 38th district in Queens

Federal elected officials

Dalip Singh Saund, first Indian American to be elected to Congress
Kamala Harris, Vice President of the United States.

Civil servants

United States Ambassador to the United Nations

Federal judges

Religion and spirituality

Science and technology

Dr. Subbarow Yellapragada
Kalpana Chawla, NASA astronaut, On February 1, 2003, Kalpana Chawla died on the Space Shuttle Columbia
Sunita Williams, NASA astronaut

Medicine

Vivek Murthy, Surgeon General of U.S.; former vice admiral of U.S. Health Corps

Sports

Mohini Bhardwaj, 2004 Summer Olympics medalist in gymnastics

See also

References

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