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Mother Teresa
Albanian-Indian Catholic nun and missionary (1910–1997)
Tenzing Norgay
Nepalese Indian Sherpa mountaineer (1914-1986)
Sonia Gandhi
Indian politician
Akshay Kumar
Actor
J.B.S. Haldane
Geneticist and evolutionary biologist (1892-1964)
J. R. D. Tata
Indian industrialist, philanthropist and aviator (1904–1993)
Mirra Alfassa
Spiritual Leader, occultist and collaborator of Sri Aurobindo (1878–1973)
S. N. Goenka
Burmese teacher of vipassanā meditation
Adnan Sami
Indian musician
Bade Ghulam Ali Khan
Indian singer (1902-1968)
Urjit Patel
Indian economist
Fearless Nadia
Indian actress and stuntwoman (1908–1996)
Sam Pitroda
Indian businessman and former adviser to the Prime Minister of India
Margaret Cousins
Irish-Indian suffragist and feminist
Nellie Sengupta
Indian politician (1886–1973)
Dibyendu Barua
Indian chess player
Svetoslav Roerich
Russian artist (1904-1993)
Savitri Khanolkar
Swiss-Indian designer, best known for designing the Param Vir Chakra
Jitu Rai
Indian sport shooter
Jogendra Nath Mandal
leader of dalit movement and one of the founding fathers of Pakistan
Laurie Baker
English architect (1917–2007)
Robin Singh
Indian cricketer
Camille Bulcke
Jesuit missionary (1909–1982)
Bhim Sen Sachar
Indian politician (1894-1978)
Gail Omvedt
American-born Indian sociologist (1941–2021)
Arata Izumi
Japanese-born Indian association football player
Verrier Elwin
British anthropologist (1902-1964)
Nawang Gombu
Sherpa mountain climber (1936-2011)
Bhupendra Kumar Datta
Indian revolutionary
Anju Ghosh
Bangladeshi actress
Romulus Whitaker
Indian herpetologist
Simone Tata
Indian businesswoman (born 1930)
Usha Narayanan
10th First Lady of India
Freda Bedi
British buddhist nun (1911-1977)
Bob Christo
Indian actor (1940-2011)
Otto Königsberger
German architect (1908–1999)
Naoomal Jeoomal
Indian cricket player. (1904-1980)
Barry John
Anglo-Indian theatre director (born 1944)
Jean Drèze
Belgian-Indian economist
Avabai Bomanji Wadia
Sri Lankan-born Indian social worker, writer
Kushang Sherpa
Indian mountaineer (1965–2024)
Pepita Seth
British-born Indian writer and photographer
Emile Czaja
Indian professional wrestler and actor
James Cousins
Irish writer, poet and playwright (1873–1956)
Abhishiktananda
Abhishiktananda (; 30 August 1910, in Saint Briac, Brittany–7 December 1973, in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India), born Henri Le Saux, was a French-born Indian monk. He moved to India in 1948 in search of a more radical form of spiritual life, adopted sannyasa in accordance with Indian tradition, and became one of the pioneers of Hindu-Christian dialogue. Multiple contacts with prominent saints such as Sri Ramana Maharshi, Sri Gnanananda Giri, and Sri H.W.L. Poonja led him to profound advaitic experience as well as to final recognition of the truth of advaita during the last years of his li
Basanta Bahadur Rana
Indian race walker
Jeremy Bujakowski
Indian alpine skier (1939-2010)
Henry Heras
Indian historian (1888–1955)
Robert Antoine
Belgian Catholic theologian, indologist, Jesuit priest and missionary (1914–1981)
Gupta Bahadur
Indian cross-country skier
Surai Sasai
Japanese Buddhist monk
Gadwal Vijayalakshmi
Indian politician
Jamshid Nassiri
Iranian footballer
Kiran Shankar Roy
Home Minister of West Bengal
Tara Prasad
Indian-American figure skater
Bettina Bäumer
Austrian-Indian scholar
Debendra Thapa
boxer
Mike Pandey
Indian filmmaker