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Indian American
Indian Americans are Americans who are of Indian ancestry. The U.S. Census Bureau popularized the term Asian Indian to avoid confusion with "American Indian".
In North America the term Indian has an ambiguous meaning. Historically and currently, Indian was and is commonly used to indicate Native...
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M. Night Shyamalan
Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan (pronounced /ˈʃɑːməˌlɑːn/; Malayalam: മനോജ് നെല്ലിയട്ടു ശ്യാമളന്, Manōj Nelliyaṭṭu Śiyāmaḷan; Maṉōj Nelliyāṯṯu Ṣiyāmaḷaṉ, born 6 August 1970), known professionally as M. Night Shyamalan, is a two-time Academy Award...
Date of birth:
- Aug 6, 1970 (age 39 years)
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, FRS (Tamil: சுப்பிரமணியன் சந்திரசேகர்), English: /ˌtʃʌndrəˈʃeɪkɑr/) (October 19, 1910 – August 21, 1995) was an Indian American astrophysicist. He was a Nobel laureate in physics along with William Alfred Fowler for their...
Date of birth:
- Oct 19, 1910
Date of death:
- Aug 21, 1995 (age 84 years)
Kalpana Chawla
Kalpana Chawla (Hindi: कल्पना चावला; Punjabi: ਕਲਪਨਾ ਚਾਵਲਾ) (March 17, 1962 – February 1, 2003), was an Indian-American scientist and a NASA astronaut. She was one of seven crewmembers killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
Kalpana Chawla...
Date of birth:
- Mar 17, 1962
Date of death:
- Feb 1, 2003 (age 40 years)
Vinod Khosla
Vinod Khosla was a co-founder of Daisy Systems and founding Chief
Executive Officer of Sun Microsystems, where he pioneered open systems
and commercial RISC processors. Vinod serves on the boards of Agami,
eASIC, Indian School of Business, Infinera,...
Date of birth:
- Jan 28, 1955 (age 54 years)
Subhash Kak
Subhash Kak (Hindi: सुभाष काक Subhāṣ Kāk) (born March 26, 1947 in Srinagar, Kashmir) is an Indian American computer scientist, most notable for his controversial Indological publications on history, the philosophy of science, ancient astronomy, and...
Date of birth:
- Mar 26, 1947 (age 62 years)
Arj Barker
Arjan Singh, better known by the stage name Arj Barker, (born August 12, 1974) is an Indian-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...
Date of birth:
- Apr 18, 1971 (age 38 years)
Raj Reddy
Dabbala Rajagopal "Raj" Reddy (born June 13, 1937) is one of the early pioneers in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence and served on the faculty of Stanford and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) for over 40 years. He was the founding...
Date of birth:
- Jun 13, 1937 (age 72 years)
Happy Rhodes
Happy Rhodes (born August 9, 1965) is an American singer, songwriter, instrumentalist and electronic musician with a four octave vocal range. She has released 11 albums since 1986.
Born Kimberley Tyler Rhodes but called "Happy" since infancy, she...
Date of birth:
- Aug 9, 1965 (age 44 years)
Har Gobind Khorana
Har Gobind Khorana, or Hargobind Khorana Hindi: हरगोविंद खुराना, (Punjabi: ਹਰਿ ਗੋਬਿੰਦ ਖੁਰਾਨਾ , born January 9, 1922) is an Indian American molecular biologist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (shared with Robert W. Holley...
Date of birth:
- Jan 9, 1922 (age 88 years)
Sanjay Gupta
Sanjay Gupta (born October 23, 1969) is an American neurosurgeon and media personality on health-related issues based in Atlanta, Georgia. An assistant professor of neurosurgery at Emory University School of Medicine and associate chief of the...
Date of birth:
- Oct 23, 1969 (age 40 years)
Sonjay Dutt
Retesh Bhalla (born April 7, 1982) is an American professional wrestler of Indian 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...
Date of birth:
- Apr 7, 1982 (age 27 years)
Rory Cochrane
Rory Cochrane (born February 28, 1972) is an American actor. He is known as playing Ron Slater in Dazed and Confused, Lucas in Empire Records, and Tim Speedle in CSI: Miami.
Cochrane was born in Syracuse, New York.
Cochrane returned to the United...
Date of birth:
- Feb 28, 1972 (age 37 years)
Ajay Naidu
Ajay Kalahastri Naidu (born 12 February 1972) is an American actor.
Naidu was born in Evanston, Illinois and raised in Chicago, the son of Indian immigrants to the U.S. He attended Evanston Township High School. As an actor, he trained with the...
Date of birth:
- Feb 12, 1972 (age 37 years)
George Sudarshan
Ennackal Chandy George Sudarshan (born September 16, 1931), also E.C.G. Sudarshan, is a prominent Indian American physicist, author, and professor at The University of Texas at Austin.
George Sudarshan was born in Pallam, Kottayam district, Kerala,...
Date of birth:
- Sep 16, 1931 (age 78 years)
Tyler Christopher
Tyler Christopher (born Tyler Christopher Baker on November 11, 1972 in Joliet, Illinois, United States) is an American actor. He best known for playing on General Hospital as Nikolas Cassadine (1996-1999, 2003-present) and Connor Bishop (2004-2005)...
Date of birth:
- Nov 11, 1972 (age 37 years)
S. T. Joshi
Sunand Tryambak Joshi (b. 22 June 1958 in Pune, India) — known as S. T. Joshi — is an award-winning Indian American literary critic, and a leading figure in the study of Howard Phillips Lovecraft and other authors of weird and fantastic fiction....
Date of birth:
- Jun 22, 1958 (age 51 years)
Padma Lakshmi
Padma Parvati Lakshmi, Lady Rushdie (Tamil; பத்மா பார்வதி லக்ஷ்மி) (born September 1, 1970) is an Indian American cookbook author, actress, and model. She has been the host of the US reality television program Top Chef since season two. In 2009 she...
Date of birth:
- Sep 1, 1970 (age 39 years)
Bobby Jindal
Piyush "Bobby" Jindal (pronounced as "Jindle") (born June 10, 1971) is the Governor of Louisiana and a member of the Republican Party. Before Jindal's election as governor, he was a member of Congress for Louisiana's 1st congressional district,...
Date of birth:
- Jun 10, 1971 (age 38 years)
Jogesh Pati
Jogesh C. Pati (born 1937 in Orissa, India) is an Indian American theoretical physicist at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Prof. Pati has made pioneering contributions to the notion of a unification of elementary particles – quarks and...
Date of birth:
- 1937 (age 73 years)
Kanwal Rekhi
As founder and
chairmanof TiE, Kanwal Rekhi brings with him more than 20
years of executive experience with successful Silicon Valley
technology companies. Kanwal was an original founder of Excelan...
Date of birth:
- 1945 (age 65 years)
Akhil Reed Amar
Akhil Reed Amar (born September 6, 1958) is an American legal scholar, an expert on constitutional law and criminal procedure. He was named Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School in 2008. Amar is considered one of the most influential legal...
Date of birth:
- Sep 6, 1958 (age 51 years)
Erick Avari
Erick Avari (born 13 April 1952) is an Indian American television, film and theater actor best known for his roles in various science-fiction serial productions.
Erick Avari was born Nariman Eruch Avari in Darjeeling, India, into an old Parsi...
Date of birth:
- Apr 13, 1952 (age 57 years)
Angela Devi
Angela Devi (born Angela Shunali Dhingra, July 30, 1975 - March 31, 2006) was an American adult model of Hindu Panjabi origin. Born in New York City; she originally became known through her modeling work for Foxes.com and later on her own website,...
Date of birth:
- 1975
Date of death:
- Mar 31, 2006 (age 31 years)
Manick Sorcar
Manick Sorcar (formal name Prafulla Chandra "P.C." Sorcar) is an Indian American artist, engineer, and entrepreneur based in Denver, Colorado, USA.
Sorcar is an award-winning artist in various media, including fine arts, cartoons, animations, and...
Azhar Usman
Azhar Usman is an Indian American Muslim comedian born in Chicago. He is a former lecturer, community activist and lawyer and is often referred to as the 'Ayatollah of Comedy' and 'Bin Laughin'. He says that his sole goal, through comedy, is to...
Bhagat Singh Thind
Bhagat Singh Thind, PhD, (October 3, 1892 – September 15, 1967) was an Indian American Sikh writer and lecturer on "spiritual science" who was involved in an important legal battle over the rights of Indians to obtain U.S. citizenship.
Thind had...
Date of birth:
- Oct 3, 1892
Date of death:
- Sep 15, 1967 (age 74 years)
Ravi Jagannathan
Ravi Jagannathan is an Indian 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, Prof....
Asra Q. Nomani
Asra Q Nomani (born 1965) is an Indian-American journalist, author, and feminist, known as a controversial liberal activist involved in the Muslim reform and Islamic feminist movements. She teaches journalism at Georgetown University and is co...
Date of birth:
- 1965 (age 45 years)
Vikram Amar
Vikram David Amar is professor and the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the UC Davis School of Law (King Hall). Before becoming a professor, he clerked for Judge William A. Norris of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and...
Ramesh Ponnuru
Ramesh Ponnuru (born August 16, 1974) 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. He has written for several other...
Date of birth:
- Aug 16, 1974 (age 35 years)
Upendra J. Chivukula
Upendra J. Chivukula (born October 8, 1950) is an American Democratic Party politician, who has served in the New Jersey General Assembly since 2002, where he represents the 17th legislative district.
In 2001, Chivukula became the first Indian...
Date of birth:
- Oct 8, 1950 (age 59 years)
Kamala Harris
Kamala Devi Harris (born October 21, 1964, in Oakland, California) is the current District Attorney of San Francisco. She was elected in 2007 when she ran, unopposed, for District Attorney. She was also cited by the New York Times to be among the...
Date of birth:
- Oct 20, 1964 (age 45 years)
Rasika Mathur
Rasika Mathur (born September 4, 1976) is an American actress/comedian best known for her recurring role on Wild 'N Out.
Mathur grew up in Houston, Texas and attended Albright Middle School in Alief, Texas and Elsik High School. She discovered her...
Date of birth:
- Sep 4, 1976 (age 33 years)
Raghuram Rajan
Raghuram Govind Rajan (born 3 February 1963) is an American economist of Indian nationality. He is the Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago.
Raghuram Rajan was born in...
Date of birth:
- 1963 (age 47 years)
Jenaveve Jolie
Jenaveve Jolie, is the name used professionally by a Mexican-American pornographic actress, nude model and exotic dancer. She is also known as Jenaveve Joli or Jenevieve.
She worked as a waitress at a steak house, before beginning her adult film...
Date of birth:
- Jun 4, 1984 (age 25 years)
Sukanya Krishnan
Sukanya Krishnan (Tamil: ஸுகன்யா கிருஷ்ணன்) (born August 2, 1971) 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. She originally joined the WPIX in August 2001...
Date of birth:
- Aug 2, 1975 (age 34 years)
Sakina Jaffrey
Sakina Jaffrey (Punjabi: ਸਕੀਨਾ ਜਾਫ਼ਰੀ, Hindi: सकीना जाफ़री) (born 14 February 1962) 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...
Date of birth:
- Feb 14, 1962 (age 47 years)
Sunil Nayar
Sunil Nayar is an Indian American television writer and producer, most notable for his work on CSI: Miami. He speaks the word in many languages.
Noshir Gowadia
Noshir Sheriarji Gowadia, born in Bombay, India in 1944 is an Indian American design engineer. 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 and is...
Aasif Mandvi
Aasif Mandviwala (born March 5, 1966), 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...
Date of birth:
- Mar 5, 1966 (age 43 years)
Arun Netravali
Arun N. Netravali (born May 26, 1946 in Bombay) is an Indian-American engineer who is a pioneer of digital technology including HDTV and MPEG4. He conducted seminal research in digital compression, signal processing and other fields. Netravali has...
Date of birth:
- May 26, 1946 (age 63 years)
Alpana Singh
Alpana Singh (born 1976) is a sommelier and local television personality in Chicago, Illinois.
Singh passed the Court of Master Sommeliers' advanced certification test at age 21. In 2003, she passed the final exam to become the youngest person ever...
Date of birth:
- 1976 (age 34 years)
V. V. Chari
Varadarajan V. Chari is an Indian-American economist and professor of economics at the University of Minnesota.
Chari received a Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1974, and was a...
Rachel Roy
Rachel Roy is a Manhattan-based fashion designer. She first became well-known as the romantic interest of Damon Dash, the hip hop businessman. They married on January 15, 2005 and have two daughters named Ava and Tallulah Ruth.
Her father is a first...
Bharat desai
Bharat Desai is a billionaire Indian American entrepreneur and founder of Syntel. He currently serves as Chairman of Syntel (NASDAQ: SYNT), a global provider of Information Technology and Knowledge Process Outsourcing services, headquartered in Troy...
Susham Bedi
Susham Bedi (born July 1, 1945) is a leading South Asian (Indian) 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...
Date of birth:
- Jul 1, 1945 (age 64 years)
Homi K. Bhabha
Homi K. Bhabha (born 1949) is an Indian postcolonial theorist. He currently teaches at Harvard University where he is the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature and Language and Director of the Humanities Center.
Bhabha was...
Date of birth:
- 1949 (age 61 years)
S.R. Sidarth
Shekar Ramanuja Sidarth (born 1985) is an Indian American and resident of the U.S. state of Virginia, where he was born and raised. His volunteer work for the Senate campaign of Democrat Jim Webb placed him at the center of a controversy over the...
Date of birth:
- 1985 (age 25 years)
Har Dayal
Lala Har Dayal (Hindi: लाला हरदयाल, Urdu: لالا ہردیال; October 4, 1884, Delhi, India - March 4, 1939, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was an Indian revolutionary and founder of the Ghadar Party.
He was the sixth of seven children of Bhoti and Gauri...
Date of birth:
- 1884
Date of death:
- 1939 (age 55 years)
Waris Ahluwalia
Waris Singh Ahluwalia (b. Amritsar, Punjab, India, c. 1975) is a American Sikh 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...
Date of birth:
- 1975 (age 35 years)
Preeta D. Bansal
Preeta D. Bansal is a leading Indian American lawyer whose career has spanned government service and private practice. She is a member and past chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), former Solicitor...
Date of birth:
- 1965 (age 45 years)
Mallika Chopra
Mallika Chopra (born 1972) an Indian American is a young writer about family and parenting. She is the daughter of Deepak Chopra.
She is the founder of www.intent.com, where she blogs frequently as well.
Date of birth:
- 1972 (age 38 years)
Nikki Haley
Nimrata Nikki Randhawa Haley (born January 20, 1972) is an American elected official from South Carolina currently serving in the South Carolina House of Representatives where she represents Lexington County. She is the first Indian American...
Date of birth:
- Jan 20, 1972 (age 37 years)
Rachel Paulose
Rachel Kunjummen Paulose (born March 12, 1973, Kerala, India) is an attorney for the Securities and Exchange Commission in Miami, Florida. She is the former U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota. Palouse resigned the position of U.S. Attorney...
Date of birth:
- Mar 12, 1973 (age 36 years)
Shelley Malil
Shelley Mathew Malil (born December 23, 1964) is an Indian-American actor who has appeared in a number of films and TV shows.
Malil was born in Kerala, India, and emigrated to the United States in 1974.
Shelley began pursuing his dream of...
Date of birth:
- Dec 23, 1964 (age 45 years)
Joy Cherian
Dr. Joy Cherian (Ph.D. International business law) is the first Asian American and first Indian American Commissioner at the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). He was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1987 in what...
Nikhil Kamkolkar
Nikhil Kamkolkar (born in Hyderabad, Andhra, India) is an Indian American actor and filmmaker of Maharashtrian descent. He began his career as a First Assistant Cameraperson on the wildly successful South Asian Independent film American Desi...
Shishir Kurup
Shishir Ravindran Kurup (born November 2, 1961) 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...
Date of birth:
- Nov 2, 1961 (age 48 years)
Thrity Umrigar
Thrity 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 and The Space Between Us. She has written for the Washington Post,...
Gitanjali Mathur
Gitanjali Mathur (born March in Pilani Rajasthan, India) is an Indian-American soprano.
She studied Hindustani classical music at an early age, in Pilani with Shri Narayan Rao Kelkar, a renowned vocalist in the Gwalior gharana. She moved to the...
Date of birth:
- Mar 19, 1977 (age 32 years)
