India
Historical figures born in India
23,697 notable historical figures were born in India. These are the most notable:
India ranks #8 of 197 countries by number of historical figures on Histiphy, just behind Russia, Italy and Japan.
By era
- Ancient: 2
- Early Modern: 3
- Modern: 35
By occupation
- Writer/Author: 18
- Politician: 15
- Actor: 13
- Director/Producer: 10
- Singer/Musician: 10
- Poet: 7
- Journalist: 6
- Philosopher: 6
- Ashoka (304 BC to 232 BC, Politics)
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 to 1948, Philosophy)
- Narendra Modi (born 1950, Politics)
- Priyanka Chopra (born 1982, Entertainment)
- Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895 to 1986, Literature)
- Satyajit Ray (1921 to 1992, Entertainment)
- Amitabh Bachchan (born 1942, Entertainment)
- Salman Khan (born 1965, Entertainment)
- Shah Rukh Khan (born 1965, Entertainment)
- Viswanathan Anand (born 1969, Sports)
- Aamir Khan (born 1965, Entertainment)
- Rani Mukerji (born 1978, Entertainment)
- Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887 to 1920, Science)
- Alia Bhatt (born 1993, Entertainment)
- B. R. Ambedkar (1891 to 1956, Politics)
- Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 to 1964, Politics)
- Indira Gandhi (1917 to 1984, Politics)
- George Orwell (1903 to 1950, Literature)
- Aurangzeb (1618 to 1707, Politics)
- Shivaji (1627 to 1680, Politics)
- Rabindranath Tagore (1861 to 1941, Literature)
- Krishna (3228 BC to 3102 BC, Philosophy)
- Rajiv Gandhi (1944 to 1991, Politics)
- Salman Rushdie (born 1947, Literature)
- Droupadi Murmu (born 1958, Politics)
- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (1931 to 2015, Politics)
- Mahmood Mamdani (born 1946, Science)
- Sambhaji (1657 to 1689, Politics)
- Rudyard Kipling (1865 to 1936, Literature)
- Rajneesh (1931 to 1990, Religion)
- Hema Malini (born 1948, Entertainment)
- Kajol (born 1975, Entertainment)
- Rajnath Singh (born 1951, Politics)
- Preity Zinta (born 1975, Entertainment)
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924 to 2018, Politics)
- Swami Vivekananda (1863 to 1902, Religion)
- A. R. Rahman (born 1966, Arts & Music)
- Subhas Chandra Bose (1897 to 1945, Politics)
- Ravi Shankar (1920 to 2012, Arts & Music)
- Pervez Musharraf (1943 to 2023, Politics)
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