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Indian Americans are citizens or residents of the United States of America who trace their family descent to India .[1] [2] Notable Indian Americans include:
Academics Nobel Prize recipients Subramanyan Chandrasekhar , Nobel Prize for Physics , 1983Deans and presidents Rakesh Khurana (born 1967), dean of Harvard College [4] Neeli Bendapudi (born 1962), president of University of Louisville [5] Jamshed Bharucha (born 1956), former president of Cooper Union , (2011-2015); former dean of arts & sciences at Dartmouth College and former provost at Tufts University Vijay K. Dhir (born 1943), former dean of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science , (2003-2016)Ravi V. Bellamkonda (born 1968), Vinik Dean of Engineering at Duke University Edmund T. Pratt Jr. School of Engineering [6] Dinesh D'Souza (born 1961), former president of The King's College, New York , (2010-2012)Anjli Jain (born 1981), executive director of Campus Consortium Dipak C. Jain (born 1957), former dean of INSEAD , (2011-2013); former dean of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University , (2001-2009)Vistasp Karbhari , former president of the University of Texas at Arlington , (2013-2020)Pramod Khargonekar (born 1956), control theorist; vice chancellor of research at University of California, Irvine ;[7] former dean, College of Engineering at University of Florida , Gainesville, (2001-2009)Renu Khator (born 1958), chancellor of the University of Houston System and president of the University of Houston ;[8] former provost and senior vice president, University of South Florida Pradeep Khosla (born 1957), chancellor of the University of California, San Diego [9] Sunil Kumar (academic administrator) , president of Tufts University ,[10] Vijay Kumar (born 1962), dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania [11] Saira Rao , former Colorado congressional candidate and activist [12] Geeta Menon , dean emeritus of the undergraduate college at New York University Stern School of Business [13] Nitin Nohria (born 1962), former dean of Harvard Business School ,[14] (2010-2020)Sethuraman Panchanathan , director of National Science Foundation and former executive vice president and chief research and innovation officer at Arizona State University [15] Michael Rao , president of Virginia Commonwealth University S. Narasinga Rao , former dean of Jackson College of Graduate Studies and Research at the University of Central Oklahoma Beheruz Sethna , president of the University of West Georgia Paul Shrivastava , chief sustainability officer and director, Sustainability Institute, Pennsylvania State University Molly Easo Smith , president of Manhattanville College Kumble R. Subbaswamy , chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Amherst Subra Suresh , president of Carnegie Mellon University Satish K. Tripathi , president of University at Buffalo Sundaraja Sitharama Iyengar , Ryder Professor of Computer Science and director of the School of Computing and Information Sciences at Florida International University , MiamiS. Shankar Sastry , former dean of the UC Berkeley College of Engineering Bala V. Balachandran (born 1937), professor emeritus at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University ; founder, dean and chairman of Great Lakes Institute of Management and executive professor & strategy adviser to the dean of the Bauer College of Business at University of Houston [16] [17] Nagi Naganathan , president of Oregon Institute of Technology [18] and former president and dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Toledo , (2001-2016)Sri Zaheer , dean of Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota [19] Vallabh Sambamurthy , Dean of the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Shiva Jaganathan, Chief Data Officer at The University of Texas at Austin Mathematicians Raj Chandra Bose (1901-1987), mathematicianShamit Kachru (b. 1970), Mathematical Physicist, professor at Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics Akshay Venkatesh (b. 1981), Fields Medal laureate, mathematicianShreeram Shankar Abhyankar (1930-2012), mathematician, singularity theory and Abhyankar's conjecture of finite group theoryRaghu Raj Bahadur (1924-1997), statistician Manjul Bhargava (b. 1974), professor of mathematics at Princeton University and winner of Fields Medal , 2014Rahul Pandharipande (b. 1969), joined as Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University in 2002, he accepted a Professorship at ETH Zürich Sarvadaman Chowla (1907-1995), mathematician specializing in number theory Harish-Chandra (1923-1983), mathematician, IBM Von Neumann Professor at Institute for Advanced Study , PrincetonNarendra Karmarkar (b. 1955), mathematician, inventor of Karmarkar algorithm Chandrashekhar Khare (b. 1968), professor of mathematics at the University of California Los Angeles G. S. Maddala (1933-1999), mathematician and economist best known for work in the field of econometrics Anil Nerode (b. 1932), mathematician, proved the Myhill-Nerode Theorem Ria Persad (b. 1974), mathematician, classical musician, and modelK. C. Sreedharan Pillai (1920-1985), mathematicianCalyampudi Radhakrishna Rao (1920–2023), professor at Penn State University and research professor at the University of BuffaloS. R. Srinivasa Varadhan (b. 1940), NYU mathematician who specialised in probability; winner of the Abel Prize and Steele Prize DJ Patil (b. 1974), mathematician & Data scientistSucharit Sarkar (b. 1983), mathematician and topologistSourav Chatterjee (b. 1979), statistician, mathematician and professor at StanfordKannan Soundararajan (b. 1973), mathematician, professor at Stanford and IMO medalist.Subhash Khot (b. 1978), mathematician, theoretical computer scientist famous for Unique games conjecture .Sanjeev Arora (b. 1968), mathematician, theoretical computer scientist and Gödel Prize winner.Kiran Kedlaya (b. 1974), mathematicianEconomists Abhijit Banerjee , Professor of Economics at MIT , Nobel Prize winner in Economic Sciences in 2019.Abhijit Banerjee (b. 1961), Ford Foundation international professor of economics at MIT , and Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences 2019.Pranab Bardhan (b. 1939), Professor Emeritus of Economics University of California, Berkeley Kaushik Basu (b. 1952), C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics Cornell University Jagdish Natwarlal Bhagwati (b. 1934), professor of economics at Columbia University Alok Bhargava (b. 1954), professor of economics at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy V. V. Chari (b. 1952), professor of economics at the University of Minnesota Raj Chetty (b. 1979), professor of economics at Harvard University Srikant Datar , The 11th Dean of Harvard Business School , took charge from January 1, 2021Avinash Kamalakar Dixit (b. 1944), professor of economics at Princeton University Gita Gopinath (b. 1971), chief economist at the International Monetary Fund and Economic Adviser to the Chief Minister of KeralaReema Harrysingh-Carmona (b. 1970), economist and the 5th First Lady of Trinidad and Tobago Sendhil Mullainathan (b. 1973), professor of economics, Harvard UniversityArvind Panagariya (b. 1952), professor of economics at Columbia UniversityDebraj Ray (b. 1957), Silver Professor of Economics, New York University Ruchir Sharma , chief global strategist of asset management and emerging markets equity , Morgan Stanley Investment ManagementArvind Subramanian (b. 1959), Chief Economic Advisor Government of India and formerly an economist at the International Monetary Fund Professors and scholars in computer science or engineering and electrical engineering Amit Sahai (b.1974), professor of computer science at University of California, Los Angeles , fellow of Association for Computing Machinery ,Amit Sheth , computer scientist at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio[20] Anant Agarwal , professor of electrical engineering and director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT Aravind Joshi (1929-2017), professor of computer and cognitive science at the University of Pennsylvania Arvind , Johnson Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Arogyaswami Paulraj (b. 1944), professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University Ashwin Ram (b. 1960), head of artificial intelligence Amazon Alexa Avinash Kak (b. 1944), professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University B. Jayant Baliga (b. 1948), inventor of the Insulated-gate bipolar transistor Bhubaneswar Mishra (b. 1961), professor of computer science, engineering & mathematics at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University and visiting scholar at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory .Chandra Kintala (1948-2009), former Vice President Bell Labs Gopal H. Gaonkar (b. 1936), a professor of engineering at Florida Atlantic University Hari Balakrishnan , Fujitsu Chair Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology K. Mani Chandy , professor of computer science at the California Institute of Technology Krishna Saraswat , professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University Madhu Sudan , professor of computer science at Harvard University Prabhat Mishra , professor of computer science and engineering at University of Florida Raj Jain , professor of computer science and engineering at Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science Rangasami L. Kashyap (b. 1938), professor of electrical engineering at Purdue University Ricky J. Sethi , professor of computer science at Fitchburg State University ; director of Research at The Madsci Network Saraju Mohanty , professor of computer science and engineering at the University of North Texas Shree K. Nayar , professor of computer science at Columbia University Shrikanth Narayanan , award-winning researcher, inventor and educator at University of Southern California Shwetak Patel , professor of computer science and electrical engineering at the University of Washington Supriyo Datta , Thomas Duncan Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Purdue University Thomas Kailath , professor of engineering at Stanford University Vijay Vazirani (b. 1957), professor of computer science at University of California, Irvine Suman Datta (b. 1973), professor of electrical engineering at the University of Notre Dame , Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Stinson Professor of Nanotechnology at the University of Notre Dame
Professors and scholars in other disciplines Arun Rai , Regents' Professor of the University System of Georgia and Howard S. Starks Distinguished Chair, Georgia State University Amishi Jha , American neuroscientist and professor of psychologyKuzhikalail M. Abraham , professor at Northeastern University , electrochemistry; materials science; lithium, lithium ion, and lithium air batteriesMrinal K. Sen , John A. and Katherine G. Jackson Chair in Applied Seismology at Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin .Nita Ahuja , Chief of Surgical Oncology at Johns Hopkins Hospital , surgeon-scientist, first women ever to lead this department at Johns Hopkins Hospital.Pulickel M. Ajayan , professor of material science at Rice University Salman Akhtar , professor at the Jefferson Medical College Muzaffar Alam , professor in South Asian Languages & Civilizations at the University of Chicago Akhil Amar , professor of law at Yale Law School Vikram Amar , professor of law at the University of California, Davis School of Law Abhay Ashtekar , professor of physics and Director of the Institute for Gravitational Physics and Geometry at Pennsylvania State University Satya N. Atluri , Presidential Chair and University Distinguished Professor Texas Tech University , Recipient, Padma Bhushan in Science and Engineering in 2013 from the President of IndiaP.S. Ayyaswamy , professor of dynamical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania Homi K. Bhabha , Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature and Language, and the Director of the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University Mahzarin Banaji , professor at Harvard University , best known for exploring implicit racial and gender biasesSugata Bose , professor of history at Harvard UniversityAnanda Mohan Chakrabarty , professor of microbiology at University of Illinois at Chicago Arup Chakraborty , Robert T. Haslam Professor focusing in biophysics, computational modeling and infectious disease at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Naresh Dalal , Dirac Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Florida State University Aswath Damodaran , professor of finance at the Stern School of Business at New York UniversityAshok Das , professor of physics at the University of Rochester Ashok Gadgil , professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of California, Berkeley Rajit Gadh , professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at University of California, Los Angeles Akhilesh K. Gaharwar , professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University Atul Gawande , professor in the Department of Health Policy & Management at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Swapan K. Gayen , professor of physics at the City University of New York Anirvan Ghosh , professor at the University of California, San Diego Radhika Govindrajan , associate professor of anthropology at University of Washington Vijay Govindarajan , Coxe Distinguished Professor at Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business and the Marvin Bower Fellow at Harvard Business School Kausalya Hart , scholar of Tamil language at UC BerkeleyNarayan Hosmane , professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Northern Illinois University Ashish Jha , Dean of Brown University School of Public Health Ravi Jagannathan , professor at the Kellogg School of Management Jainendra K. Jain , professor of physics at Pennsylvania State University Piyare Jain , professor emeritus at University at Buffalo Rakesh Jain , professor of tumor biology at Massachusetts General Hospital in the Harvard Medical School S. Lochlann Jain , associate professor in the Anthropology Department at Stanford University Sachin H. Jain , physician and health policy analyst at Harvard Medical School Nazir Jairazbhoy , professor of folk and classical music of South Asia at University of California at Los Angeles Yogesh Jaluria , Board of Governors Professor and Distinguished Professor at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey , in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.M. A. Muqtedar Khan , Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware Ravindra Khattree , professor of statistics at Oakland University Satish Nagarajaiah , professor of civil engineering and of mechanical engineering at Rice University .S. P. Kothari , Gordon Y Billard Professor of Management at MIT Sloan School of Management Shrinivas Kulkarni , professor of astrophysics and planetary science at Caltech Vijay Mahajan (academic) , John P. Harbin Centennial Chair in Business and Professor of Marketing at University of Texas at Austin Raj Mittra , electrical engineering professor at Pennsylvania State University Jagadeesh Moodera , American physicist of Indian origin; senior research scientist at MIT 's Francis Bitter Magnet LaboratoryBharati Mukherjee , author, professor in the department of English at the University of California, BerkeleyC. M. Naim , scholar of Urdu language and literature at the University of Chicago V. Parmeswaran Nair , Physicist, currently a Distinguished Professor at City University of New York .Shrikanth Narayanan , award-winning researcher, inventor and educator at University of Southern California Jaishree Odin , professor, postmodern literary theorist at the University of Hawaii C.K. Prahalad , professor of corporate strategy at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business in the University of Michigan Vijay Prashad , professor of international studies at Trinity College Vilayanur S. Ramachandran , behavioral neurologist and psychophysicist; Professor with the Psychology and Neurosciences University of California, San Diego J. N. Reddy , professor and holder of the Oscar S. Wyatt Endowed Chair in Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University Anantanand Rambachan , professor of religion at St. Olaf College , Minnesota , United States K. R. Rao , professor at University of Texas at Arlington Subrata Roy , professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Florida Subir Sachdev , Herchel Smith Professor of Physics at Harvard University ; Dirac Medal and National Academy of Sciences Nitin Samarth , Head and Professor of Physics, Pennsylvania State UniversityJagdish Sheth , professor of marketing at Goizueta Business School of Emory University[21] Jagdish Shukla , professor at George Mason University Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak , professor at Columbia University Marti G. Subrahmanyam , professor of finance at the Stern School of Business at New York UniversitySanjay Subrahmanyam , holder of Navin and Pratima Doshi Chair of Indian History and scholar at UCLA Mriganka Sur , professor of neuroscience at the MIT Medha Yodh , scholar of classical Indian dance at UCLAVenkatesh Shankar , Ford Chair in Marketing and E-Commerce, Texas A&M University Activism and philanthropy Rajiv Malhotra , Hindutva activist for promoting Indic cultures, author of Breaking India and the founder of Infinity FoundationMaya 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 StatesBhairavi Desai , founding member of the Taxi Workers Alliance in New YorkKartar Dhillon , Ghadar Party , labor, and civil rights activistRamesh Kapur , Massachusetts-based Democratic fundraiserMallika Dutt , executive director of Breakthrough human rights organizationVijaya Lakshmi Emani (1958-2009), social activistArun Manilal Gandhi , fifth grandson of Mohandas Gandhi Meera Gandhi , founder and CEO of The Giving Back FoundationAbraham George , philanthropist humanitarian, founder of The George Foundation (TGF)Gitanjali S. Gutierrez , lawyer who is defending Guantanamo prisonersMaya Harris , of half Indian descent, executive director of the ACLU of Northern California and sister of Kamala Harris Prerna Lal , immigrant rights advocate and attorneyHemant Mehta - atheist activist, YouTuber and writerGirindra Mukerji , leader of one of the first Indian-American student protests against colonialism in 1908Kavita Ramdas , president and CEO of Global Fund for WomenDinesh 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 UniversityInder 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 activistThomas 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 emigrantsArts and entertainment M. Night Shyamalan , Hollywood directorMira Nair , director and producerSharad Devarajan , superhero creator and producer Rohit Gupta , director, producerNina Davuluri , Miss America 2014 Ashok Amritraj , Hollywood film producer Salma Arastu , artistSan Banarje , independent filmmakerRina Banerjee , artistPrashant Bhargava , directorNiala Boodhoo , journalist, host, and executive producerLesley-Ann Brandt , actressJay Chandrasekhar , director, actor, comedian, and writerShanthi Chandrasekar , visual artistAneesh Chaganty , film director, screenwriterSabu Dastagir , actorNina Davuluri , Miss America 2014 Sharad Devarajan , superhero creator, producer, writerParam Gill , director, screenwriter and producerKovid Gupta , bestselling author and screenwriterReef Karim , actor, director, writer, and producerNeeraj Khemlani , producer for CBS News ' 60 Minutes Bharti Kirchner , writerShirish Korde , artistAdam Bhala Lough , director, screenwriterTirlok Malik , filmmaker and actorDharminder Mann , entrepreneur, film producer and YouTuber.Benny Mathews , film and music video directorFaris McReynolds , painter and musicianMira Nair , director and producerSunil Nayar , TV writer and producer; producer of CSI: Miami Oopali Operajita , choreographer and Odissi and Bharatanatyam artiste; Distinguished Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University Yatin Patel , photographer and artistMythili Prakash , Bharatanatyam dancer and choreographerAsha Puthli , singer-songwriter, producer and actressChitra Ramanathan, contemporary visual artist, painting Sarayu Rao , actor and directorHarish Saluja , filmmakerStephanie Sengupta , producer and writerMehul Shah , actor, director, writer, and producerAdi Shankar , producer and actorNaren Shankar , TV writer, producer and director; an executive producer of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation M. Night Shyamalan , director, filmmakerTarsem Singh , directorRohit Gupta , director, producerManick Sorcar , animator, artist, and producerBabu Subramaniam , directorTina Sugandh , entertainerJulie Titus , model, contestant on America's Next Top Model Serena Varghese , voice actressPrashanth Venkataramanujam , television writer, actor, and producerActors and actresses Kal Penn , actorMindy Kaling , actressSendhil Ramamurthy , actorDanny Pudi , actorKaran Soni , actorUtkarsh Ambudkar , actorSimran Judge , actorRavi Patel , actorDevika Bhise , actressTatyana Ali , actressWaris Ahluwalia , fashion designerAziz Ansari , actor and comedianGabrielle Anwar , actressErick Avari , actorSunkrish Bala , actorFirdous Bamji , actorPurva Bedi , actressSummer Bishil , actressKaran Brar , film and TV actorSamrat Chakrabarti , actorMelanie Chandra , actressMichelle Khare , actress, Youtuber, and television hostSabu Dastagir , actorSujata Day , actressManish Dayal , actorNoureen DeWulf , actressRaja Fenske , actorJanina Gavankar , actressNamrata Singh Gujral , actressSakina Jaffrey , actressAnu Emmanuel , actressPoorna Jagannathan , actress and producerAvan Jogia , actorAvantika Vandanapu , actress and dancer. Known for her role in 2021 film, Spin Mindy Kaling , actress, writer, producer, comedianRavi Kapoor , actorRahul Kohli , actorDeep Katdare , actorNivedita Kulkarni , actressShishir Kurup , actorNakul Dev Mahajan , Bollywood dancer and choreographerSunny Leone , actor and former pornographic actressTirlok Malik , actorShelly Malil , film and TV actorRizwan Manji , actorAasif Mandvi , actorSunita Mani , actressAjay Mehta , TV actorAjay Naidu , actorAnjul Nigam , actorMaulik Pancholy , actorDevika Parikh , actressKal Penn , actorDanny Pudi , actorRitesh Rajan , actorSendhil Ramamurthy , actorDileep Rao , actorNavi Rawat , actressSonal Shah , actressSheetal Sheth , actressZenobia Shroff , Indian-American actress and comedienneTiya Sircar , actressErrol Sitahal , actorKapil Talwalkar , actorOmi Vaidya , actorSugith Varughese , Indian-born Canadian actor with American citizenshipNaren Weiss , actor and playwrightAnnet Mahendru , actressNitya Vidyasagar , actressNandana Sen , actressPooja Batra , actressMonica Dogra , actressDeepti Naval , actressComedians Aziz Ansari , comedian and actorHasan Minhaj , comedianHari Kondabolu , comedianPadma Lakshmi Ashok Bajaj , restaurateurVishwesh Bhatt , chefManeet Chauhan , celebrity chef, restaurateur, authorH. Jay Dinshah , founded the American Vegan SocietyRaghavan Iyer , chef, author, culinary educatorVikas Khanna , Michelin starred celebrity chef, restaurateur, author, filmmaker, and TV hostJehangir Mehta , celebrity chef, restaurateur, authorRajat Parr , sommelierSuvir Saran , Michelin starred chef and authorAarti Sequeira (b. 1978), TV host on Food Network Vikram Sunderam (b. 1967), chef and authorPadma Lakshmi Fashion Models Media Fareed Zakaria , journalistLilly Singh , actress and YouTuberManu Raju (b. 1980), CNN journalist anchor, reporterDeepak Ananthapadmanabha , online journalistSanjay Gupta , journalist, medical correspondent, neurosurgeonRajiv Chandrasekaran , assistant managing editor for continuous news, The Washington Post ; author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City Syma Chowdhry , television host, reporter, and producerPriya David , correspondent for CBS News Dinesh D'Souza , political commentator, author and filmmaker. Former president of The King's College, New York Deepa Fernandes , host of the WBAI radio program Wakeup Call Deepti Hajela , journalist for the Associated Press Pico Iyer , author and journalist for Time magazine, Harper's Magazine , Condé Nast Traveler , and The New York Review of Books Shibani Joshi , reporter for the Fox Business Network Sukanya Krishnan , news anchor for CW 11 Morning News on WPIX Seema Mody , news reporter/anchor for CNBC Mish Michaels , meteorologist for the WBZ-TV Weather TeamVinita Nair , anchor of World News Now and America This Morning on ABC Kevin Negandhi , sports anchor for ESPN SportsCenter Reena Ninan , Middle East correspondent for Fox News Channel Asra Nomani , journalistSafiya Nygaard , YouTube beauty creatorUma Pemmaraju , senior news anchor for Fox News Channel Ramesh Ponnuru , senior editor of the National Review magazineAsh-har Quraishi , correspondent, WTTW Chicago; former KCTV Chief Investigative Reporter; former CNN Islamabad Bureau ChiefGopal Raju , pioneer of Indian American ethnic mediaAneesh Raman , first Indian-American presidential speechwriter under President Barack Obama , former CNN Middle East correspondentAlpana Singh , television personalityLakshmi Singh , NPR 's national midday newscasterHari Sreenivasan , correspondent for CBS News and the PBS NewsHour Sreenath Sreenivasan , Columbia University professor; WABC-TV technology reporterAli Velshi , business news anchor for CNN Zain Verjee , CNN anchorRohit Vyas , first and longest serving Indian American broadcast journalistFareed Zakaria , columnist for Time magazine and host of Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNNLilly Singh , YouTuber of Indian descent widely known as IISuperwomanII, ranked tenth on the Forbes list of the world's highest paid YouTube stars, ranked first on 2017 Forbes Top Influencers List in the entertainment categoryLiza Koshy , actress, YouTube comedian and television hostAmbreen Tariq , author, activist and founder of @BrownPeopleCampingMusicians Norah Jones , singer and winner of multiple Grammy Awards Zubin Mehta , musician and receiver of a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Rick Parashar (1963-2014), producerSandeep Das (b. 1971), won the Grammy award for Best World Music Album, at the 59th Grammy Awards , 2017Sonika Vaid , Indian-American singerBamboo Shoots , dance-rock band6ix , record producerRajiv Dhall , Indian-American singerSid Sriram , Indian-American singerJeff Bhasker , producerNicki Minaj , rapper and singer-songwriter of half Indian descent[23] Sameer Bhattacharya , one of two guitarists in the Texas alternative rock band Flyleaf Das Racist , alternative hip hop group; two of the three members are IndianAnoop Desai , finalist on the eighth season of American Idol Falu , singer and songwriterSameer Gadhia , lead vocalist in Young the Giant Terry Vivkeanand Gajraj , chutney-soca singerHeems , rapperRavi Hutheesing , singer-songwriter, guitaristiLoveMakonnen , rapperDaya , singerSandeep Khurana , new age music and world music composerRaja Kumari , singer and songwriterVijay Iyer , jazz musician and composerSunny Jain , dhol player, drummer, and composerNorah Jones , singer, songwriter and actress; winner of multiple Grammy Awards Rajan Somasundaram , Music Composer, Songwriter and multi instrumentalistKarsh Kale , Indian producer, composer and musicianTony Kanal , two-time Grammy Award winner, bass player for No Doubt Ashok Kondabolu , rapper (also known as Dapwell)Savan Kotecha , songwriterKSHMR , electronic musician, record producerArun Luthra , jazz musicianSanjaya Malakar , finalist on the sixth season of American Idol Mathai , finalist on season 2 of The Voice Zarin Mehta , executive director of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra Zubin Mehta , former conductor, New York Philharmonic Orchestra; receiver of a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Sanjay Mishra , guitarist and composerThara Prashad , R&B singer and model of half Indian descentVidya Vox , YouTube musicianVasant Rai , performer of Indian musicPaul Sabu , producerAmar Sandhu , singerShaheen Sheik , songwriterReal Sikh, battle rapper Bikram Singh , singerMickey Singh , Indian-born singer from Detroit, MI Ramesh Srivastava , singerAmbi Subramaniam , violinist and composerBindu Subramaniam , singer-songwriterKim Thayil , named among 100th greatest guitarists of all time by Rolling Stone Zoya , California-based singer and guitaristSanjay Patel , animator and director and also illustrator of Pixar Shirish Korde (b. 1945), composerRaveena Aurora , alternative singer and songwriterBusiness Parag Agrawal , former CEO of TwitterAnu Aiyengar , managing director of North American mergers and acquisitions of JPMorgan Chase & Co Nikesh Arora (b. 1968), CEO, Palo Alto Networks , former Google executive and COO, Softbank Samir Arora , former CEO of Mode Media Ramani Ayer , former chairman and CEO of The Hartford Financial Services Group Sunny Balwani , former President and Chief Operating Officer of Theranos Prith Banerjee , managing director of Global Technology R&D at Accenture Somen Banerjee , co-founder of Chippendales Ajay Banga , president and CEO of MasterCard Mahaboob Ben Ali (1927-2009), co-founder of Ben's Chili Bowl Manoj Bhargava , founder and CEO of Innovations Ventures LLC; the company is known for producing the 5-hour Energy drinkAneel Bhusri , co-founder and CEO of Workday, Inc. ; partner at Greylock Partners ; member of the board of directors of Intel Jagjeet (Jeet) S. Bindra , director of Edison International , Southern California Edison Sanjit Biswas , co-founder of Cisco Meraki and Samsara (company) Amar Bose , founder and chairman of Bose Corporation Vanu Bose , American electrical engineer, founder of Vanu Inc, son of Amar Bose Sant Singh Chatwal , owner of the Bombay Palace chain of restaurants and Hampshire Hotels & ResortsJay Chaudhry , co-founder of Zscaler Manu Daftary , money managerBharat Desai , co-founder and chairman of Syntel Gururaj Deshpande , founder of Sycamore Networks Francis deSouza , CEO of Illumina Vinod Dham , designed the Intel Pentium Chip Processor; the "father of the Pentium Chip"Rono Dutta , former president of United Airlines , chairman of Air Sahara Rhona Fox , founder of Fox Fuse Amrapali Gan , marketing executive and former CEO of OnlyFans Rakesh Gangwal , former CEO and chairman of US Airways Group Asim Ghosh , president and chief executive officer at Husky Energy Ajit Gupta , founder and CEO of Speedera Networks , Aryaka Networks Rajat Gupta , former managing director of McKinsey & Company Rajiv Gupta , CEO of SkyHigh Networks, former general manager of Hewlett-Packard Umang Gupta , former CEO of Keynote Systems, Inc.Ajit Jain , president of Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance GroupAnjli Jain , founder and Managing Partner of EVC VenturesAnshu Jain , President of Cantor Fitzgerald and former co-CEO of Deutsche Bank Sanjay Jha , CEO of Global Foundries and former CEO of Motorola Mobile Devices Vyomesh Joshi , former executive vice president of Imaging and Printing Group, Hewlett-Packard John Kapoor , founder and executive chairman of Insys Therapeutics Vinod Khosla , founder of Khosla Ventures , co-founder of Sun Microsystems Jay Vijayan , founder of Tekion Corp., former CIO of Tesla Arvind Krishna , CEO of IBM Anil Kumar , former senior partner and chairman, Asia Center of McKinsey & Company Sanjay Kumar , former CEO of Computer Associates InternationalThomas Kurian , CEO of Google Cloud, former President of product development at Oracle Corporation Sachin Lawande , president and CEO of Visteon Krishna Maharaj , businessman convicted of murderSonny Mehta , Chairman/Editor in chief of Alfred A. Knopf Victor Menezes , chairman of Clearing House Association, former chairman and CEO of Citibank Satya Nadella , CEO of Microsoft Lakshmi Narayanan , vice chairman and former CEO of Cognizant CorporationShantanu Narayen , CEO of Adobe Systems Indra Nooyi , former chairman and CEO of PepsiCo Dinesh Paliwal , chairman and CEO of Harman International Vikram Pandit , former CEO of Citigroup Suhas Patil , entrepreneur, venture capitalist & Founder of Cirrus Logic Sundar Pichai , CEO of Google , Alphabet Inc Stanley Praimnath , bank executive and survivor of the September 11 attacks Prakash Puram , president and CEO of iXmatchVivek Ramaswamy , founder of Roivant Sciences , candidate in the 2024 Republican Party presidential primaries Vivek Ranadivé , former CEO of TIBCO Software Naval Ravikant , co-founder, chairman and former CEO of AngelList , investor, and entrepreneurSashi Reddi , serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist, angel investor, technologist, and philanthropistKanwal Rekhi , former EVP and CTO of Novell Ashutosh Saxena , Founder & CEO of Caspar.AI, prolific author in the area of AI , and former Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University.Abbas Sadriwala , chairman and CEO of the Fort Lauderdale -based Wireless Logix GroupArun Sarin , former president of Vodafone Niraj Shah , CEO and co-founder of WayfairDeven Sharma , former president of Standard & Poor's Ram Shriram , venture fund capitalist and one of the first investors in Google Pradeep Sindhu , founder and CTO of Juniper Networks Prem Singh Soni, Entrepreneur, Financier, Businessman, President of Satnam Enterprises,CEO of Paul Brothers, Inc.
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Sridhar , founder and CEO of Bloom Energy Rajeev Suri , CEO of Nokia Balaji Srinivasan , co-founder of Counsyl , former CTO of Coinbase , and former general partner at Andreessen Horowitz Abhi Talwalkar , president and CEO of LSI Corporation Thiru Vikram , CEO of Buffalo Automation Romesh Wadhwani , founder, chairman and CEO of Symphony Technology Group Padmasree Warrior , CEO of Nio (car company) Crime Somen Banerjee , convicted arsonist, racketeer, and murdererSant Singh Chatwal , pled guilty to giving illegal campaign contributions for the Democratic Party Gurmeet Singh Dhinsa , convicted murderer, racketeer, and kidnapperSyed Ghulam Nabi Fai , convicted of espionage for Pakistan Rajat Gupta , convicted financial fraudster who participated in the Galleon scandal Noshir Gowadia , convicted of espionage for China Anand Jon , convicted rapistJohn Kapoor , convicted financial fraudsterSubhash Kapoor , convicted of art theft and grand larceny Anil Kumar , convicted financial fraudsterShelley Malil , convicted of attempted premeditated murder and assaultNirav Modi , fugitive charged with corruption, fraud, and money launderingJayant Patel , convicted of fraud and manslaughterPurvi Patel , convicted and later acquitted of feticide Lakireddy Bali Reddy , convicted human trafficker and immigration fraudsterPrakashanand Saraswati , fugitive and convicted child molesterRavi Singh , convicted of four felony counts for illegally influencing the San Diego mayoral electionSabrina De Sousa , convicted kidnapperSneha Anne Philip , missing personLiterature Kiran Desai , winner of the 2006 Man Booker Prize Siddhartha Mukherjee , physician and 2011 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction Abraham Verghese , doctor and author; wrote In My Own Country and My Tennis Partner Agha Shahid Ali , poetAimee Nezhukumatathil , poetAlka Joshi , authorAmitav Ghosh , Indo-nostalgic writer and winner of Prix Médicis étranger Anita Desai , novelist; shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times; mother of Kiran Desai Anju Hasan , author, of Neti,NetiAnu Garg , author, speaker, and computer engineerArnold Rampersad , biographer and literary criticBhaskar Sunkara , political writer, founding editor and publisher of Jacobin and current publisher of London's Tribune Bharati Mukherjee , author, professorChitra Banerjee Divakaruni , authorDavan Maharaj , journalist and former editor-in-chief and publisher of the Los Angeles Times Dhan Gopal Mukerji , first successful Indian man of letters in the US; winner of the Newbery Medal , 1928Gaiutra Bahadur , authorGhalib Shiraz Dhalla , authorGita Mehta , authorHarischandra Khemraj , writerIndira Ganesan , novelistIndira Viswanathan Peterson , literary criticIndu Sundaresan , authorIsmat Chughtai , authorIsmith Khan , author and educatorJhumpa Lahiri , Pulitzer Prize -winning authorKaavya Viswanathan , novelistKiran Desai , winner of the 2006 Man Booker Prize Parag Khanna , authorPaul Kalanithi , authorRajiv Joseph , playwrightRajiv Mohabir , poetRamya Ramana , poetRavi Batra , bestselling author and economistRavi Shankar , poetRishi Reddi , authorRoshani Chokshi novelistRupi Kaur , poetS. T. Joshi , literary criticSalman Rushdie , novelist and essayistSaumitra Saxena , Hindi poet, Bharatiya Jnanpith Navlekhana Award winnerShauna Singh Baldwin , novelist, winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Siddharth Katragadda , author, filmmaker, artistSiddhartha Mukherjee , physician, scientist and writer, 2011 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction Susham Bedi , authorThrity Umrigar , author of Bombay Time Tulika Mehrotra , author, journalistUsha Haley , authorVijay Prashad , Marxist writer, director for Tricontinental , Chief editor for LeftWord Books , written 30 booksVijay Seshadri , Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and essayistVikram Seth , poet, novelist, travel writer, librettist, children's writer, biographer and memoiristMilitary Politics and government Elected officials Aruna Miller , 10th Lieutenant Governor of Maryland Ravinder Bhalla , elected the first turban-wearing Sikh U.S. mayor, of Hoboken , New Jersey Niraj Antani - Ohio state senatorSara Gideon - former Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives (Democrat)Ram Villivalam - State Senator, 8th District- Illinois (Democrat)Aftab Pureval , mayor of Cincinnati (Democrat)John Abraham , former mayor of Teaneck, New Jersey (Republican)Suhas Subramanyam (b. 1986), Virginia's 87th House of Delegates district Representative (Democrat)Saqib Ali , former member of the Maryland House of Delegates (Democratic)Harvinder "Harry" Anand , mayor of Laurel Hollow, New York (Republican)Sam Arora , former member of the Maryland House of Delegates (Democratic)Kumar P. Barve , former member of the Maryland House of Delegates , former (majority leader ) (Democratic), the first Indian American elected to a state legislature[25] Ravinder Bhalla , mayor , Hoboken , Hudson County , New Jersey (Democratic), the first turban-wearing Sikh American mayor in the United States to be elected by a municipality's residents, in November 2017[26] Satveer Chaudhary , former Minnesota State Senator (Democratic)Upendra J. Chivukula , member of the New Jersey General Assembly (Democratic)Swati Dandekar (b. 1951), Iowa State Senator (Democratic)Mervyn M. Dymally , 41st Lieutenant Governor of California (1975–1979); member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1981–1993) (Democratic)Kashmir Gill , mayor of Yuba City, California , first Indian-American mayor in CA and first Sikh mayor in the US (Republican)Jay Goyal , member of the Ohio State Representative (Democratic)Raj Goyle , member of the Kansas State Representative (Democratic)Faz Husain , first native of India to win elected office in Michigan (Democratic)Bobby Jindal , 55th governor of Louisiana (2008–2016) (Republican)Nimi McConigley , first Indian American women to serve in any American State legislature served in the Wyoming State Legislature from 1994 until 1996 (Republican)Jenifer Rajkumar , member of the New York State Assembly (Democratic), representing the 38th district in Queens Aruna Miller , 10th Lt. Governor of Maryland and the first South Asian woman elected lieutenant governor in the United States ,[27] (Democratic)Ameya Pawar , served as the alderman for the 47th Ward of the City of Chicago Jenifer Rajkumar , member of the New York State Assembly (Democratic), representing the 38th district in Queens Kshama Sawant , member of the Seattle City Council .Balvir Singh , first Indian American member, Board of Chosen Freeholders , Burlington County, New Jersey , first Sikh American to win a countywide election in New Jersey, in November 2017 (Democratic)[28] Kannan Srinivasan , member of the Virginia House of Delegates (Democratic)Federal elected officials Dalip Singh Saund , first Indian American to be elected to Congress Kamala Harris , Vice President of the United States .Civil servants Nikki Haley , United States Ambassador to the United Nations Arif Alikhan (b. 1968), 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 Angeles ; former senior adviser to Attorneys General John Ashcroft and Alberto Gonzales Preeta D. Bansal (b. 1965), member and past chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom ; former Solicitor General of New York Cathy Bissoon , judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (Democratic)Nisha Desai Biswal , current Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Saikat Chakrabarti , chief of staff to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , the U.S. representative from New York's 14th congressional district representing parts of The Bronx and Queens in New York City Joy Cherian , first Asian head of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Aneesh Chopra , Federal Chief Technology Officer of the U.S.Har Dayal , founder of the Ghadar Party Sabrina De Sousa , ex-CIA officer; is suing the US government for diplomatic immunityGurbir Grewal , Bergen County, New Jersey prosecutor , first Sikh American county prosecutor in the U.S.,[29] Vanita Gupta , Former Lawyer for ACLU and current United States Associate Attorney General Nikki Haley , former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations ; former Governor of South Carolina (Republican)Rashad Hussain , U.S. Special Envoy to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Neel Kashkari , former interim Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability in the United States Department of the Treasury (Republican)Neal Katyal , Solicitor General of the United States Atul Keshap , U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka and MaldivesGopal Khanna , chief information officer of Minnesota Narayana Kocherlakota , president of Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Kris Kolluri , New Jersey Commissioner of TransportationVivek Kundra , Federal Chief Information Officer of the USArun Majumdar , director of the U.S. Department of Energy 's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy Raj Mukherji (b. 1984), Deputy Mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey; candidate for the New Jersey State LegislatureAjit Pai , former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission Farah Pandith , Special Representative to Muslim Communities for the United States Department of State Rachel Paulose , former United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota Rajiv Shah (b. 1973), former Under Secretary of Agriculture for Research, Education, and Economics ; former Administrator of USAID ; President, Rockefeller Foundation Sonal Shah , member of the Obama-Biden Transition Project advisory boardIslam A. Siddiqui , Chief Agricultural Negotiator in the Office of the United States Trade Representative Daleep Singh , former U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor; former Executive Vice President & Head of Markets at New York FedSabita Singh , first judge of Indian descent in Massachusetts historySubra Suresh , director of National Science Foundation Vinai Thummalapally (b. 1954), served as U.S. Ambassador to Belize Richard Verma (b. 1968), Assistant Secretary for Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs , at the Department of State and Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources at the Department of State Surya Yalamanchili , 2010 US Congressional candidateFederal judges Religion and spirituality Bikram Choudhury (b. 1944), yoga guru and founder of Bikram Yoga Eknath Easwaran , spiritual teacher, author, and translator of Indian religious texts such as the Bhagavad Gita and the Upanishads Earl K. Fernandes , Bishop-Elect of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Columbus Chitrabhanu Jain , founded the Jain Meditation International Center in Manhattan, New York CityHarbhajan Singh Khalsa , introduced Kundalini Yoga and Sikhism to the USPadmanabh Jaini , scholar of JainismHarbhajan Singh Khalsa , introduced Kundalini Yoga and Sikhism to the USSushil Kumarji , Jain Acharya Dipa Ma , yoga teacherEboo Patel , member of the New Faith Advisory CouncilAnantanand Rambachan , Hindu scholar, author, and professor of religion at St. Olaf College Prem Rawat , also known as Guru Maharaji Ji, head of the Divine Light Mission and later organizationsMuzammil Siddiqi, Ph.D. , chairman, Fiqh Council of North America Yasir Nadeem al Wajidi , Chicago-based Muslim scholar, educationist and authorRavi Zacharias , Christian evangelist and apologist 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 astronautYellapragada Subbarow (1895-1948), pioneering biochemist who discovered ATP, the human body's energy molecule.Ajay Bhatt (b. 1957), co-inventor of the USB; Chief Client Platform Architect at Intel Ajit V. Pai , chairman of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC)Ajit Varki , physician-scientistAmar Gopal Bose , PhD in electrical engineering, founder and chairman of Bose CorporationBimal Kumar Bose , pioneer in power electronicsAmit Goyal , scientist and inventorAmit Singhal , Google Fellow, the designation the company reserves for its elite master engineers in the area of "ranking algorithm"Amitabha Ghosh , the only Asian on NASA's Mars Pathfinder missionAnil Dash , blogger and technologistAnirvan Ghosh , neuroscientistGovindjee , biochemistArjun Makhijani , electrical and nuclear engineer; president of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research Arun Netravali , scientist; former president of Bell Labs ; former CTO of Lucent ; pioneer of digital technology, including HDTV and MPEG4 Arvind Rajaraman , theoretical physicist and string theoristAvtar Saini , co-led the development of the Pentium processor Intel ; holds seven patents related to microprocessor designBedabrata Pain , co-inventor of the active pixel sensor C. Kumar N. Patel , developed the carbon dioxide laser, used as a cutting tool in surgery and industryDeepak Pandya , neuroanatomistArati Prabhakar , director of DARPA Dhairya Dand , inventor and artistDJ Patil , Chief Data Scientist of the United States Office of Science and Technology PolicyGeorge Sudarshan , physicist, author; first to propose the existence of the tachyon Jogesh Pati , theoretical physicist at the University of Maryland, College Park Kalpana Chawla , NASA Space Shuttle astronaut, who died in the Columbia Space Shuttle disasterKhem Shahani , microbiologist who conducted pioneer research on probiotics ; discovered the DDS-1 strain of Lactobacillus acidophilus Krishan Sabnani , engineer and senior vice president of the Networking Research Laboratory at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs in New JerseyKrishna Bharat , principal scientist at Google ; created Google News Kuzhikalail M. Abraham , pioneer in lithium and lithium-ion battery technologies, professor, Northeastern university , Boston, Massachusetts and president, E-KEM Sciences, Needham, MassachusettsMahadev Satyanarayanan , computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University; pioneer of research in mobile and pervasive computingMani Lal Bhaumik , contributor to excimer laser technologyMathukumalli Vidyasagar , control theoristNarinder Singh Kapany , physicist, the "father of fiber optics "Nalini Nadkarni , ecologist who pioneered the study of Costa Rican rain forest canopies Noshir Gowadia , design engineerOm Malik , technology journalist and bloggerPran Nath , theoretical physicist at Northeastern University Pranav Mistry , Sixth Sense ProjectRaj Reddy , founder of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University ; winner of the Turing Award Raja Chari , astronaut chosen for Artemis Moon missionRajeev Motwani , professor, angel investorRajiv Dutta , technology managerRamesh K. Agarwal , aviation pioneer; William Palm Professor of Engineering at Washington UniversityRamesh Raskar , Femto-camera inventor, MIT ProfessorRangaswamy Srinivasan , member of the Inventors' Hall of Fame for pioneering work on excimer laser surgeryRuchi Sanghvi , first female engineer of Facebook ; former VP of Operations, Dropbox Sabeer Bhatia , co-founder of Hotmail Samir Mitragotri , professor of chemical engineering and bioengineering at University of California, Santa Barbara Sasikanth Manipatruni , Pioneer in the area of Spintronics, Silicon Photonics, Optomechanics and In Memory ComputingSatya N. Atluri , aerospace and mechanics, Excellence in Aviation Medal, FAA , 1998; Recipient of Padma Bhushan in 2013 in Science & Engineering from the President of India, elected to membership to National Academies of Engineering, USA (1996) and India (1997)Salman Khan , founder of Khan Academy Sharmila Bhattacharya , head of the Biomodel Performance and Behavior laboratory at NASA Ames Research Center VA Shiva Ayyadurai , inventor, scientist, former guest lecturer at MIT Siddhartha Mukherjee , scientist, physician, winner of Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction Siva S. Banda , aerospace engineer and researcher, recipient of a Silver Medal from the Royal Aeronautical Society , a Presidential Rank Award , and elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering Subhash Kak , head of the Computer Science department at Oklahoma State UniversitySubrah Iyar , co-founder and CEO of Webex Communications Subrata Roy , plasma physicist, professor of aerospace engineering at University of Florida , inventor of the Wingless Electromagnetic Air Vehicle Sunita Williams , NASA astronautShya Chitaley - Paleo botanistSwapan Chattopadhyay , particle accelerator physicistSwati Mohan , NASA space engineerThomas Anantharaman , computer statistician specializing in Bayesian inference Thomas Zacharia , computational scientistV. Mohan Reddy , pediatric cardiothoracic surgeon at StanfordVamsi Mootha , physician-scientist and computational biologistVic Gundotra , former senior vice president, Engineering for GoogleVijay Raghunath Pandharipande , physicistVineeta Rastogi , public health workerSirisha Bandla , space engineerMedicine Vivek Murthy , Surgeon General of U.S. ; former vice admiral of U.S. Health CorpsAmit Patel , cardiovascular surgeon and stem cell researcher; first person to inject stem cells directly into the heartAnita Goel , Harvard-MIT physicist, physician; expert in nanobiophysics and nanotechnology; chairman and CEO of Nanobiosym; inventor of Gene-RADAR technologyAshutosh Tewari , professor of urology at New York Presbyterian Hospital ; prostate cancer surgeonAtul Gawande , general and endocrine surgeon, professor, medical author, and National Book Award finalistBalamurali Ambati , world's youngest doctor, at age 17Deepak Chopra , alternative medicine advocate, author and public speakerE. Premkumar Reddy , oncologist; director of Fels institute of cancer research and molecular biology at Temple University Harvinder Sahota , cardiologist; inventor of the FDA-approved perfusion balloon angioplasty; holds patents of 24 other medical inventionsInder Verma , Professor of Molecular Biology in the Laboratory of Genetics at Salk Institute for Biological Studies and University of California, San Diego Joia Mukherjee , associate professor with the Division of Global Health Equity at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical SchoolPaul Antony , MD, MPH, chief medical officer for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA)Ragavendra R. Baliga , FACC, FACP, FRCP (Edin), Professor of Medicine at; Ohio State University College of Medicine Sangeeta Bhatia , Harvard-MIT doctor and scientist; engineer of artificial liver cellsSanjay Gupta , neurosurgeon; CNN chief medical correspondent;Vivek Murthy (b. 1977), 19th and former Surgeon General of the United States ; former vice admiral of U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Officer CorpsAseem Shukla (b. 1972), Professor of Surgery (Urology) at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania , co-founder of Hindu American Foundation Kiran C Patel (b. 1949), cardiologist, philanthropist, serial entrepreneur, and hotelierDeborah Persaud (b. 1960), virologistSports Mohini Bhardwaj , 2004 Summer Olympics medalist in gymnasticsPrakash Amritraj (b. 1983), tennis player (born in the US)Stephen Amritraj (b. 1984), tennis playerSanjay Beach (b. 1966), former NFL wide receiver; played for the San Francisco 49ers and the Green Bay PackersMohini Bhardwaj , second Indian American Olympic medalist, 2004 Summer Olympics silver medalist in gymnasticsVinay Bhat , chess grandmaster Raj Bhavsar , third Indian American Olympic medalist, 2008 Summer Olympics bronze medalist in the team gymnastics competitionShaun Bridgmohan , jockeyAshish Chattha , soccer playerBrandon Chillar , NFL player, linebacker for the Green Bay Packers (father of Indian descent)Sean Desai (b. 1983), NFL coach and defensive coordinator for the Chicago Bears Jignesh Desai , cricketerSonjay Dutt , TNA pro wrestlerThe Great Khali , WWE pro wrestlerAlexi Grewal , first Indian American to win an Olympic medal, gold medalist in 1984 Summer Olympics in cyclingSunil Gulati , former President of the United States Soccer Federation Carlos Cordeiro , President of the United States Soccer Federation Nezam Hafiz , cricketer and victim of the September 11 attacks Amjad Khan , cricketerIbrahim Khaleel , cricketerNoshtush Kenjige , cricketerThirunavukkarasu Kumaran , cricketerIris Kyle , professional bodybuilderAnil Lashkari , cricketerSanjay Lal , wide receivers coach for the Dallas CowboysManny Malhotra , NHL hockey playerRajiv Maragh , jockeyAditya Mishra , cricketerMike Mohamed , former NFL player of Punjabi Mexican American descentSushil Nadkarni , American cricketer Arjun Nimmala , baseball playerAmi Parekh , figure skaterJapen Patel , cricketerMrunal Patel , cricketerSagar Patel , cricketerTimil Patel , cricketerLaxmi Poruri , tennis playerTara Prasad , figure skaterAbhimanyu Rajp , cricketerRajeev Ram , tennis playerAnnand Mahendra "Victor" Ramdin , professional poker player and philanthropistSunitha Rao , tennis playerSrini Santhanam , cricketerJessy Singh , cricketerMonank Patel , USA cricket captainSaurabh Netravalkar , USA cricket captainJaskaran Malhotra , cricketerMilind Kumar , cricketerSmit Patel , cricketerHarmeet Singh , cricketerUnmukt Chand , cricketerShikha Uberoi , tennis playerNeha Uberoi , tennis playerShiva Vashishat , cricketerAdeel Alam , professional wrestler best known ring name Mustafa Ali (Indian mother)Abhimanyu Mishra , chess grandmaster Kanak Jha , Table Tennis playerAkshay Bhatia , golferSee also References