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This is an incomplete list, which can or may never satisfy any subjective standard for completeness. Revisions and additions are welcome.
A list of prominent and famous people who are Hindus.
Religious Figures / Philosophers
- Adi Shankara : Philosopher Saint, Social reformer
- Abhinavagupta : Exponent of Kashmir Saivism
- Agastyar : Saint, First and foremost person of Siddha
- Aksapada Gautama : author of Nyaya Sutras, the foundation of the Nyaya school of Hinduism
- Annie Besant : Theosophist and president of the Congress Party
- Sri Aurobindo : Mystic and philosopher
- Auvaiyar : Beloved Tamil female saint
- A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada : Founder-acharya of ISKCON
- Bhakti Vaibhava Puri Maharaj : Founder-acharya of the Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mission
- Bharata : Advocated Advaita philosophy, Bharat, the other name for India, is named after him
- Bhartrihari : Author of Vairagya Satakam, hundred verses of renunciation
- Bhaskara Raya : Author of Varivasya Rahasyam
- Bogar : Legendary South Indian Siddhar. Created Lord Murugan statue in Palani.
- Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya : Philosopher
- Kanakadasa:Saint of Bhakti movement.
- Swami Chinmayananda : Religious leader
- Deepak Chopra : Personality Development Author
- Ananda Coomaraswamy : Art historian
- Dattatreya : Narrated Jnana Kanda, taught Ashtanga Yoga to Patanjali
- Swami Dayananda : Religious leader
- Jayabaya a.k.a. Ratu Joyoboyo : Indonesian Hindu King Prophet
- Shri Madhvacharya : Philosopher Saint
- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Spirtual leader, Founder of Art of Living movement
- Frank Gaetano Morales: Philosopher, Hindu Reconstructionist, Dharma Teacher.
- Narayana Guru : Mystic and philosopher
- Nisargadatta Maharaj : Teacher
- Patanjali : Founder of Patanjali Yoga
- Pandurang Shastri Athavale : Founder of Swadhyaya movement
- Ram Dass : American spiritual leader
- Ramana Maharshi : Mystic
- Ram Mohan Roy : Reformer
- Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa : Philosopher Saint, Social reformer
- Ramanuja : Philosopher Saint
- Sabdapalon : 15th Century Indonesian Hindu prophet
- Sai Baba of Shirdi: Philosopher Saint
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan : Vedantic Philosopher
- Shankaracharya of Kanchi, Hindu Seer & Spiritual preceptor
- Sathya Sai Baba : Philosopher Saint
- Shriram Sharma Acharya : Founder of the All World Gayatri Pariwar
- Swami Ramdeo Baba: Yoga Guru
- Swami Sivananda: Yogi
- Swami Sivananda : Modern sage
- Sivaya Subramuniyaswami : Modern sage
- Thirumoolar : One of the 18 Siddhars
- Maharishi Valmiki : Author of the epic Ramayana
- Swami Vivekananda : Philosopher Saint, Social reformer
- Swami Yogiraj Vethathiri Maharishi : Scientific Philosopher of 21st century, Saint, Poet, Seer
- Sage Vyasa : Author of the epic Mahabharata
- Paramahansa Yogananda : Yogi
Monarchs / National Leaders / Politicians
Maurya Dynasty (324 BC-184 BC)
- Chandragupta Maurya (324 BC-301 BC)
- Bindusara Amitraghata (301 BC-269 BC)
- Ashoka Vardhana (269 BC-232 BC)
- Chanakya : Prime Minister to the Chandragupta Maurya
Gupta Dynasty (319-?)
- Chandra Gupta I (319-335)
- Samudra Gupta (335-380)
- Chandra Gupta II (380-415)
- Kumara Gupta I (415-455)
- Skanda Gupta (455 -467)
- Buddha Gupta (467-499)
- Bhana Gupta (499-543)
Pallava Dynasty
Chola Dynasty (1st century to 1279) Karikaal Chola - A great emperor built grand anaicut, oldest dam in the earth!
- Athiththa Chola (871-907 )
- Uththama Chola (973-985 )
- Rajaraja Chola I (985-1014 )
- Rajendra Chola I (1012-1044 )
- Rajadhiraja Chola I (1018-1054 )
- Kulothunga Chola I (1070-1120 )
Vijayanagar Empire
Maratha Rulers (1674-1818)
- Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj (1674-1680)
- Sambhaji (1680-1688)
- Emperor Rajaram (1688-1700)
- Queen Tarabai (1700-1707)
- Chattrapati Shahu Maharaj (1707-1712)
- Balaji Vishwanath (1707-1720)
- Peshwa Bajirao I (1720-1740)
- Balaji Bajirao (1740-1761)
- Madhavrao Peshwa (1761-1772)
- Narayanrao Peshwa (1772-1773)
- Raghunath Rao (1773-1774)
- Madhava Rao Narayan (1774-1796)
- Baji Rao II (1796-1818)
Wodeyars of Mysore (1399-1950)
- Yaduraya (1399 - 1423)
- Hiriya Bettada Chamaraja Wodeyar I (1423 - 1459)
- Thimmaraja Wodeyar I (1459 - 1478)
- Hiriya Chamaraja Wodeyar II (1478 - 1513)
- Hiriya Bettada Chamaraja III Wodeyar (1513 - 1553)
- Thimmaraja Wodeyar II (1553-1572)
- Bola Chamaraja Wodeyar IV (1572 - 1576)
- Bettada Devaraja Wodeyar (1576 - 1578)
- Raja Wodeyar I (1578 - 1617)
- Chamaraja Wodeyar V (1617 - 1637).
- Raja II Wodeyar (1637 - 1638)
- (Ranadhira) Kantheerava Narasaraja Wodeyar I (1638 - 1659)
- Dodda Devaraja Wodeyar (1659 - 1673)
- Chikka Devaraja Wodeyar (1673 - 1704)
- Kantheerava Narasaraja Wodeyar II (1704 - 1714)
- Dodda Krishnaraja Wodeyar (1714 - 1732)
- Chamaraja Wodeyar VI (1732-1734)
- (Immadi)Krishnaraja II Wodeyar (1734 - 1766)
- Nanajaraja Wodeyar (1766-1770)
- Bettada Chamaraja Wodeyar VII (1770 - 1776)
- Khasa Chamaraja Wodeyar VIII (1766 - 1796)
- (Mummudi) Krishnaraja III Wodeyar (1799 - 1868)
- Chamaraja Wodeyar IX (1868 - 1894)
- H.H. Vani Vilas Sannidhana, queen of Chamaraja Wodeyar IX served as regent from 1894 to 1902.
- (Nalvadi) Krishnaraja Wodeyar IV (1894 - 1940)
- Jayachamaraja Wodeyar Bahadur (1940 - 1950).
Nepal
- Prithvi Narayan Shah (1768–1775) ruler of Gurkha from 1743
- Pratap Singh Shah (1775–1777)
- Rana Bahadur Shah (1777–1799)
- Girvan Yudha Bikram Shah (1799–1816)
- Rajendra Bikram Shah (1816–1847)
- Surendra Bikram Shah (1847–1881)
- Prithvi Bir Bikram Shah (1881–1911)
- Tribhuvan Bir Bikram Shah (1911–1955) first time
- Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah (1956–1972)
- Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev (1972–2001)
- Dipendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev (2001)
- Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev (2001–present) second time
Cambodia
- Jayavarman I (7th century)
- Suryavarman I (1002-1050)
- Udayadityavarman II (1050-1066)
- Suryavarman II (1113-1150)
- Dharanindravarman II (1150-1160)
Indonesia
- Gajah Mada Prime Minister of Majapahit,14th century
- Hayam Wuruk Ruler of Majapahit,14th century
- Sabdapalon Priest, advisor to king of Majapahit, 15th Century
- Jayabaya Ruler of Kediri, 12th Century
- Airlangga Ruler of Kediri
20th Century
- Mohandas Gandhi : National leader
- CN Annadurai, popularly known as Anna, ex-Chief Minister
- Balgangadhar Tilak : National leader
- Bidhan Chandra Roy : Indian politician
- Dayanidhi Maran, Politician; IT & Communications Minister of India
- Deeran Chinnamalai, Indian Freedom Fighter
- Devan Nair, Former President, Singapore
- P. Chidambaram, Politician; Finance Minister of India
- S Dhanabalan, ex-Minister (various portfolios), Singapore
- S Jayakumar, Deputy Prime Minister, Singapore
- J Jayalalithaa, ex Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu; yesteryears actress
- M. Karunanidhi, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu
- T.T. Krishnamachari, Industrialist & India's first Finance Minister
- Mani Shankar Aiyar, Politician; Oil Minister of India
- Murasoli Maran, Politician; ex-Industries Minister of India
- Velupillai Prabhakaran, Chief of the LTTE
- C. Rajagopalachari, Ex-Governor General of India; writer & statesman
- S.Rajaratnam, ex-Deputy Prime Minister, Singapore (Sri Lankan Tamil ancestry)
- M.G.Ramachandran,ex-CM of TN; yesteryears actor
- Ramaswamy Venkataraman, Ex-President, India
- S.R. Nathan, President, Singapore
- E.M.S. Namboothiripad, Communist Leader
- Samy Vellu, works minister, Malaysia
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan : Ex-President, India
- Chidambaram Subramaniam, ex-Steel & Mines Minister of India; Bharat Ratna Awardee & 'Father of the Indian Green Revolution'
- Subramanian Swamy, Politician
- Thanthai Periyar, Popularly known for his rationalism
- Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Minister of Education, Singapore (Sri Lankan Tamil ancestry)
- Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, National Leader
- Jawahar Lal Nehru, First Prime Minister of Independent India.
- N.T.Rama Rao, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Telugu movie actor
- P.V.Narasimha Rao, Former prime minister of India, First Prime minister from south India.
Military
- General O.P. Malhotra, Ex-Army Chief, Governor of Punjab, Social Worker
- Rakesh Sharma, first Indian astronaut
- Shashindra Pal Tyagi, chief of Indian Air Force
Business Leaders / Top Executives
India
- Ajay Piramal, chairman, Piramal Enterprises Limited
- Anil Ambani son of Dhirubhai Ambani, Reliance
- Dewang Mehta, ex-chief of NASSCOM
- Dhirubhai Ambani Founder of Reliance
- Dilip Sanghvi,
- GD Birla, Industrialist, Birla Group
- Jamnalal Bajaj
- Kalanidhi Maran, Media Baron
- Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Biotechnology entrepreneur
- Kumar Birla , Multibillionaire, Birla Group
- M. A. Chidambaram, Industrialist
- Mukesh Ambani son of Dhirubhai Ambani, Reliance
- N.R. Narayana Murthy, co-founder Infosys
- S. Ramadorai, CEO of Tata Consultancy Services
- Ramalinga Raju : Satyam Computers
- Saabir Bhatia, founder of HotMail
- Shantanu Laxmanrao Kirloskar, Kirloskar Group
- Shiv Nadar, Chairman & CEO of HCL & Forbes List of Billionaires
- Subrata Roy, Sahara India Parivar
- Sunil Mittal, Bharati Televentures
- Vijay Mallya, chairman, UB group of companies
- Akshay Rastogi, Sri Lakshmi Tobacco Company
Overseas
- Lakshmi Mittal : 3rd Richest Man in the World, Richest non-American
- Amar Bose : Founder of Bose Corporation
- Ananda Krishnan : Media Baron, Richest man in Malaysia, ethnic Sri Lankan Tamil
- Bobby Kishore, General Manager Microsoft Corporation
- Gururaj "Desh" Deshpande, founder of Sycamore Networks
- Indra Nooyi : President, PepsiCo
- Rajat Gupta : CEO, McKinsey
- Sanjay Kumar : CEO, Computer Associates International
- Sanjiv Ahuja, CEO, Orange Telecommunications
- Sanjiv Sidhu, founder, i2 Technologies
- Srichanda Hinduja, Hinduja Brothers
- Vinod Khosla : Venture Capitalist, Co-founder Sun Microsystems
- Anurag Dikshit : Founder, PartyGaming.
Writers / Poets
Ancient Times to 19th Century
- Auvaiyar, Saivite Saint and Tamil Poet
- Bharathidasan, Tamil Poet & Rationalist
- Dnyaneshwar, Marathi Saint, founder of Varkari Sampradaay
- Eknath, Marathi Saint
- Kalidasa:Great sanskrit poet, wrote the play Sakuntala
- Kambar, Tamil Poet, Translated Ramayana into Tamil
- Namdeo, Marathi Saint
- Ramdas, Marathi Saint
- Subramanya Bharathy, Tamil Poet, Anti-colonialist writer
- Thiruvalluvar, Tamil Author & Poet, Wrote the ancient Tamil treatise Thirukural
- Tholkappiar, Tamil Grammarian, wrote Tholkappiyam over 2000 years ago
- Tulsidas, Hindi Poet, Translated Ramayana into Hindi
- Tukaram, Marathi Saint
20th Century
- Aathreya, Telugu Poet & Lyricist
- Rabindranath Tagore : Writer, 1913 Nobel Literature Prize Winner
- V.S. Naipaul : Writer, Nobel Literature Prize Winner
- Aldous Huxley : Novelist, author of Brave New World
- Arun Kolatkar, Modern Poet
- Arundhati Roy, Author, Booker Prize Winner
- Bharati Mukherjee, Author, US
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Christopher Isherwood, Writer
- David Frawley, One of the world's leading authors on Hinduism, Yoga, Ayurveda, and contemporary Indian politics. Dr. Frawley presents authentic Vedic knowledge in the Western world.
- Eknath Easwaran, Keralan-American author
- Gopal Baratham, Singapore writer (also, leading neurosurgeon)
- Harivanshrai Bachchan, Hindi poet, father of Amitabh Bachchan
- Prof. Karmegha Konar, Tamil Poet
- Jayakanthan, Tamil writer, Jnanpith awardee
- Jhumpa Lahiri - Pulitzer Prize winner for "Interpreter of Maladies"
- Kalhana
- Kamala Markandaya, poetess
- Kannadasan, Tamil poet & lyricist, known as kavi arasu (king of poets)
- R.K. Laxman, Famous Indian Cartoonist & Humorist
- Manil Suri novelist
- Mahadevi Verma, Hindi poetess
- Mulk Raj Anand
- Munshi Premchand, Hindi novelist
- Pudhumaipithan, Influential and revolutionary Tamil writer
- P. L. Deshpande, Marathi theatrical personality
- R.K. Narayan, English short-story writer, Malgudi tales
- J.D. Salinger : Novelist
- Som Thakur, Author of "Ek Racha Patal Ki" Hindi Well known Poet
- Shashi Tharoor - Author of The Great Indian Novel besides other books
- Subhash Kak, writer
- Sumitranandan Pant, Hindi poet
- Vikram Seth, English novelist, poet
- Vayalar Ramavarma - Malayalam poet
- V. D. Karandikar, Marathi Poet
- V. V. Shirwadkar, Marathi Poet, writer, novelist, also called as Kusumagraj
- V. S. Khandekar, Marathi novelist
- Vishwas Patil, Marathi novelist
- Savitri Devi Mukherji - writer and devotee of Adolf Hitler
Scientists / Inventors
Ancient Times to 19th Century
- Madhav : (8th century A.D.) - medical text author and systematizer
- Charaka :Indian physician, one of the founders of Ayurveda
- Susruta : Indian surgeon, one of the earliest to perform Plastic Surgery
20th Century
- Amartya Sen : Economist, Nobel Prize Winner
- Abhay Ashtekar : — Loop Quantum Gravity Researcher
- Sabeer Bhatia : Co-founder of Hotmail
- Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, 1930 Nobel Prize Winner in Physics
- R. Chidambaram, Scientific Adviser to Prime Minister; ex-Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission
- Ganapathi Thanikaimoni, Palynologist, French Institute of Pondicherry, awarded the Fyson Prize in Natural Science
- Har Gobind Khorana : Scientist, Nobel Prize Winner
- Jagdish Chandra Bose : Scientist, Developer of Wireless Communication
- Marti Subrahmanyam, Finance Expert; Professor at NYU & Board of Directors of Infosys & ICICI
- C.K. Prahalad, Management Expert; University of Michigan Business School
- V.S. Ramachandran, Neuroscientist; Director Professor at UC San Diego
- S.S. Ratnam, pioneer in Singapore in-vitro fertilisation
- S.R. Ranganathan, Eminent librarian who devised the five laws of library science
- Srinivasa Aiyangar Ramanujan, Brilliant 20th century Mathematician
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, 1983 Nobel Prize Winner in Physics
- Chandrasekhara Raman 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics
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Mathematicians
- Yajnavalkya : 1800 BC, the author of the altar mathematics of the Shatapatha Brahmana.
- Lagadha : Author of a 1350 BC text on Vedic astronomy
- Baudhayana : 800 BC
- Manava : 750 BC
- Apastamba : 700 BC
- Aksapada Gautama 550 BC, Logician
- Katyayana 400 BC
- Panini5th century BC
- Pingala 5th century BC
- Bharata Muni 450 BC
- Aryabhata- Astronomer who gave very accurate calculations for astronomical constants, 500
- Varahamihira
- Bhaskara I 620
- Brahmagupta - Helped bring the concept of zero into arithmetic,
- Virahanka(8th century) - Gave explicit rules for the Fibonacci series.
- Shridhara (between 650-850) - Gave a good rule for finding the volume of a sphere.
- Lalla 720-790
- Govindsvamin (9th century)
- Virasena
- Mahavira (9th century)
- Jayadeva(9th century)
- Prithudaka 9th century
- Halayudha10th century
- Aryabhata II 920-1000
- Vateshvara(10th century)
- Brahmadeva 1060-1130
- Sripati 1019-1066
- Gopala - Studied Fibonacci numbers before Fibonacci
- Hemachandra - Also studied Fibonacci numbers before Fibonacci
- Bhaskara- Conceived of Differential Calculus
- Gangesha Upadhyaya 13th century, Logician, Mithila school
- Pakshadhara sone of Gangehsa, Logician, Mithila school
- Shankara Mishra Logician, Mithila school
- Narayana Pandit
- Madhava- Considered the father of mathematical analysis, Founded some concepts of Calculus
- Parameshvara(1360-1455)
- Nilakantha Somayaji - Mathematician and Astronomer
- Mahendra Suri (14th century)
- Shankara Variyar (c. 1530)
- Vasudeva Sarvabhauma 1450-1525, Logician, Navadvipa school
- Raghunatha Shiromani (1475-1550), Logician, Navadvipa school
- Mathuranatha Tarkavagisha c. 1575, Logician, Navadvipa school
- Jyesthadeva
- Jagadisha Tarkalankara c. 1625, Logician, Navadvipa school
- Gadadhara Bhattacharya c. 1650, Logician, Navadvipa school
- Munishvara (17th century)
- Kamalakara (1657)
- Jagannatha Samrat(1730)
- Jagdish Chandra Bose (1858-1937)
- Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920)
- A. A. Krishnaswami Ayyangar (1892-1953)
- Meghnad Saha (1893-1956)
- Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893-1972
- Satyendra Nath Bose (1894-1974) Mathematical Physicist, famous for Bose-Einstein statistics
- Raj Chandra Bose (1901-1987)
- D.K. Ray-Chaudhuri
- Harish-Chandra (1923-1983)
- C.Radhakrishna Rao
- Gopalasamudram Narayana Iyer Ramachandran (1922-2001)
- Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar (1930-)
- Shakuntala Devi (1939-)
- Vijay Kumar Patodi (1945-1976)
- Narendra Karmarkar (1957-)
- M.V. Subbarao
Musicians / Singers / Dancers
- Abhijeet, singer
- Alka Yagnik, singer
- Asha Bhosle, singer
- Babul Supriyo
- Balamurali Krishna
- Geeta Dutt, singer
- Hemant Kumar, composer and singer
- Hridaynath Mangeshkar, composer
- Ilayaraaja, Famous Tamil Film Songs Composer
- Kannadasan, Famous Tamil Film Songs lyricist
- Kanya Manoj, Bharatanatyam dancer based in Atlanta,USA
- Kartik Seshadri,Sitarist
- Kavita Krishnamurthy
- Kay Kay, singer
- Kishore Kumar, playback singer, actor
- Lata Mangeshkar, singer
- Mahendra Kapoor, singer
- Manna Dey, singer
- Medha Hari, Bharatanatyam dancer
- M.S. Subbulakshmi, Classical (Carnatic) Singer
- Mukesh, singer
- Nina Hagen, German singer
- Nitin Sawhney, composer
- O.P. Nayyar, composer
- Rahul Dev Burman, composer
- Ravi, composer
- Ravi Shankar : Sitar virtuoso, multiple Grammy winner, mentor to George Harrison
- S.D. Burman, composer
- Sadhana Sargam
- Salil Chowdhury, composer
- Suraiya, singer
- T.N. Krishnan, violinist
- Trilok Gurtu, Percussionist
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Film Producers / Directors
- Satyajit Ray : Film Director
- Adoor Gopalakrishnan
- Bimal Roy
- Boney Kapoor
- David Dhawan
- Dev Anand
- Gemini Ganesan
- Guru Dutt
- Hrishikesh Mukherjee
- K C Bokadia
- Karan Johar
- Mani Ratnam
- Manoj Nelliattu Shyamalan (born Indian, later American citizen)
- Mrinal Sen
- Raj Kapoor
- Rajkumar Santoshi
- Ram Gopal Varma
- Ritwik Ghatak
- Sai Paranjpe
- Satish Kaushik
- Shekhar Kapoor
- Shyam Benegal
- Subhash Ghai
- Subodh Mukherjee
- Shakti Samanta
- Vishal Bharadwaj
- Yash Chopra
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Actors / Actresses
- Abhishek Bachchan
- Aftab Shivdasani
- Amrish Puri
- Amitabh Bachchan
- Ajay Devgan
- Akshay Khanna
- Akshay Kumar
- Amol Palekar
- Anil Kapoor
- Annu Kapoor
- Aman Verma
- Anupam Kher
- Ashok Kumar
- Asha Parekh
- Aishwarya Rai
- Balraj Sahni
- Dev Anand
- Diya Mirza
- Govinda
- Gulshan Grover
- Guru Dutt
- Hrithik Roshan
- Jackie Shroff
- Jeetendra
- Juhi Chawla
- Kamal Haasan
- Karan Kapoor - Shashi Kapoor's son
- Kareena Kapoor
- Koena Mitra
- Mammooty
- Madhavan
- Madhuri Dixit
- Mark Zuber
- Manoj Bajpai
- Manoj Kumar
- Mithun Chakraborty
- Mohanlal
- Navin Nischol
- Om Prakash
- Om Puri
- Padma Lakshmi
- Prabhu
- Pran
- Preity Zinta
- Rajini Kanth
- Raj Kapoor (Actor and Director)
- Rajendra Kumar
- Raaj Kumar (Hindi actor)
- Rajeev Kapoor
- Rajesh Khanna
- Dr. Rajkumar (Kannada actor)
- Rakesh Roshan
- Randhir Kapoor
- Rekha
- Rishi Kapoor
- Roshan Seth
- Sanjay Dutt
- Sanjay Kapoor
- Sanjeev Kumar
- Shahid Kapoor
- Shakti Kapoor
- Shammi Kapoor
- Shashi Kapoor
- Shatish Kaushik
- Shatrughan Sinha
- Sivaji Ganesan
- Sunil Dutt
- Sunil Shetty
- Suresh Gopi
- Tusshar Kapoor
- Utpal Dutt
- Uttam Kumar
- Vinod Khanna
- Vinod Mehra
- Vivek Oberoi
Sports figures
Golf
- Vijay Singh : Golf
Chess
- Viswanathan Anand, Chess
- P Harikrishna, Chess
- Krishnan Sasikiran, Chess
- Murugan Thiruchelvam, Chess
- Pravin Thipsay, Chess
- Ramachandran Ramesh, Chess
Tennis
- Mahesh Bhupathi, Tennis
- Ramanathan Krishnan, tennis (twice reached semifinals of wimbledon)(1960 and 1961)
- Ramesh Krishnan, tennis
- Karan Rastogi, Tennis
- Dhvani Patel, Tennis
Formula One Racing
- Narain Karthikeyan, Formula One Racing
Cricket
- Anil Kumble, Cricket
- Chandu Borde, Cricket
- Javagal Srinath, Cricket
- Kapil Dev, Cricket
- Lakshmipathy Balaji, Cricket
- Mohinder Amarnath, Cricket
- Rahul Dravid, Cricket
- Sachin Tendulkar, Cricket
- Saurav Ganguly, Cricket
- Sunil Gavaskar, Cricket
- Dilip Vengsarkar, Cricket
- Bhagwat Chandrasekhar, Cricket
- Rohan Kanhai, Cricket
- Raman Subba Row, Cricket
- Vinoo Mankad, Cricket
- Lala Amarnath, Cricket
- Vijay Merchant, Cricket
- CK Nayudu, Cricket
- Maharajkumar of Vizianagram, Cricket
- Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji, Cricket, Ranji Trophy named in his honour
- Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji, Cricket, Duleep Trophy named in his honour
- Muttiah Muralitharan, Cricket, Fast Bowler for Sri Lanka
- V.V.S. Laxman, Cricket
- Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Cricket, West Indies Captain
- Ramnaresh Sarwan, Cricket, West Indies
- Mahendra Nagamootoo, Cricket, West Indies
- Danish Kaneria, Cricket, Pakistan
Hockey
- Ashok Kumar, Hockey
- Dhanraj Pillay, Hockey
- Dhyan Chand, Hockey
- Dilip Tirkey, Hockey
Badminton
- Vimal Kumar, Badminton
- Prakash Padukone, Badminton
- Pulela Gopichand, Badminton
Other Sports
- Geet Sethi, Snooker
- P. T. Usha, Athlete, Asian Games medallist
- Karnam Malleswari, Weightlifting
- Baichung Bhutia, Football
- Pratik Mody, Football/Soccer
- Vikash Dhorasoo, Football/Soccer
Activists
- Vandana Shiva : Noted Environmentalist, critic of Globalisation
- Medha Patkar : Noted Environmentalist, Opponent of Narmada Dam
Others
- Chotta Rajan : Underworld kingpin who picked up fight with International Muslim Terrorist and Underworld don Dawood Ibrahim
- Varadharajan Mudaliar, known as Vardha Bhai; former prominent underworld kingpin. The Tamil film Nayagan and Hindi film 'Nayakan' (Starring Vinod Khanna, Madhuri Dikshit, Feroz Khan and Tinoo Anand)are based on his life.
- Veerappan, Sandalwood smuggler and forest brigand
- Vishal Ganesan, taxpayer
Others who believed in or were influenced by Hinduism
- Warren Hastings : British, first governor general of british india
- Bertrand Russell : British Philosopher
- Ralph Waldo Emerson : Author, American Transcendentalist
- Amos Bronson Alcott : Author, American Transcendentalist
- Edwin Arnold : British Poet, Journalist
- David Bohm : American Quantum Physicist
- Niels Bohr : Danish Physicist, Nobel Prize Winner
- Joseph Campbell : American Professor, writer, orator
- Fritjof Capra : Austrian born, American Physicist, author Tao of Physics
- Brendan Clune : 18th century American composer and philanderer
- Victor Cousin : French philosopher
- Alain Danielou : French writer
- Paul Deussen : German Orientalist and Sanskrit scholar, Influenced by Schopenhauer, friend of Nietzsche and Vivekananda.
- Will Durant : American philosopher and writer
- T.S. Eliot : Anglo-American author, Nobel Prize winner
- Rene Guenon : French philosopher
- Johann Gottfried Herder : German poet, critic, theologian, philosopher,and romanticist
- Herman Hesse : German author, Nobel Prize winner
- Wilhelm von Humboldt : German linguist, government functionary, foreign diplomat, philosopher, founder of Humboldt Universität
- William Jones (philologist): British philologist, discoverer of the Indo-European languages family
- Carl Jung : Swiss psychiatrist and founder of Analytical Psychology
- Herman Melville : American author, poet
- Jules Michelet : French historian
- Yehudi Menuhin : Violinist, exposed many Westerners to Yoga
- Max Muller : German Orientalist, created the discipline of comparative religion
- Friedrich Nietzsche : German philosopher, philologist, Atheist and psychologist
- Pythagoras : Ionian mathematician and philosopher, formulated the Pythagorean theorem
- Robert Oppenheimer : American physicist,Father of the Atomic Bomb
- Romain Rolland : French writer, Nobel Prize Winner
- George William Russell : Irish nationalist, critic and poet
- Carl Sagan : American astronomer, science popularizer, Promoted SETI
- Carlos Santana : Musician
- Arthur Schopenhauer : German Philosopher
- Erwin Schrödinger : Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- Albert Schweitzer : German theologian, philosopher, physician, Nobel Prize winner
- George Bernard Shaw : Irish playwright, satirist, vegetarian, Nobel Prize winner
- Huston Smith : Preeminent American religious studies scholars, wrote The Religions of Man
- Isaac Tigrett : Entrepreneur, Founder of Hard Rock Cafe
- Leo Tolstoy : Russian novelist, reformer, pacifist, moral thinker, vegetarian
- Arnold Joseph Toynbee : British historian
- Mark Twain : American humorist, writer and lecturer.
- Ludwig van Beethoven : German composer of classical music
- Henry David Thoreau : Author, American Transcendentalist
- Paul Verlaine : French poet
- HG Wells : British Science-Fiction writer, vegetarian
- John Archibald Wheeler : American theoretical physicist
- Alfred North Whitehead : British-American philosopher, physicist and mathematician
- Walt Whitman : American poet and humanist
- William Butler Yeats : Irish poet, dramatist, mystic, public figure, Nobel Prize winner
- Houman Younessi : Iranian-born Australian-American scientist, activist
References
- A Tribute to Hinduism - a site dedicated to the achievements and current issues of Hinduism, and has a good collection of quotes from famous personalities, Hindus and non-Hindus alike
- Adherents.com
External Links
- HinduWiki.Com - A collaborated wiki web site covering all aspects of Hinduism.
See also: List of people by belief
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