Indian or Indians may refer to:

Peoples

South Asia

Indian people Indians or Indian people are the Indian nationality law, citizens and nationals of India. In 2022, the population of India stood at over 1.4 billion people, making it the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, second-most p ...

, people of Indian nationality, or people who have an Indian ancestor **

Non-resident Indian Overseas Indians ( IAST: ), officially Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) and Overseas Citizens of India (OCIs) are Indians who live outside of the Republic of India. According to the Government of India, ''Non-Resident Indians'' are citizens of In ...

, a citizen of India who has temporarily emigrated to another country *

South Asian ethnic groups South Asian ethnic groups are an ethnolinguistic grouping of the diverse populations of South Asia, including the nations of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, the Maldives, and Sri Lanka. While Afghanistan is variously considered to ...

, referring to people of the Indian subcontinent, as well as the greater South Asia region prior to the 1947 partition of India *

Anglo-Indian Anglo-Indian people fall into two different groups: those with mixed Indian and British ancestry, and people of British descent born or residing in India. The latter sense is now mainly historical, but confusions can arise. The '' Oxford English ...

s, people with mixed Indian and British ancestry, or people of British descent born or living in the Indian subcontinent *

East Indians The East Indians, also called East Indian Catholics or Bombay East Indians, are an ethno-religious Indian Christian community native to the Seven Islands of Bombay and the neighbouring Mumbai Metropolitan Area of the Konkan Division. His ...

, a Christian community in India

Europe

* British Indians, British people of Indian origin

The Americas

Indo-Canadians Indian Canadians are Canadians who have ancestry from India. The terms ''Indo-Canadian'' or ''East Indian'' are sometimes used to avoid confusion with the Indigenous Peoples of Canada. Categorically, Indian Canadians comprise a subgroup of ...

, Canadian people of Indian origin *

Indian Americans Indian Americans or Indo-Americans are citizens of the United States with ancestry from India. The United States Census Bureau uses the term Asian Indian to avoid confusion with Native Americans, who have also historically been referred to ...

, American people of Indian origin *

Indigenous peoples of the Americas The Indigenous peoples of the Americas are the inhabitants of the Americas before the arrival of the European settlers in the 15th century, and the ethnic groups who now identify themselves with those peoples. Many Indigenous peoples of the A ...

, the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Americas and their descendants ** Plains Indians, the common name for the Native Americans who lived on the Great Plains of North America **

Native Americans in the United States Native Americans, also known as American Indians, First Americans, Indigenous Americans, and other terms, are the Indigenous peoples of the mainland United States ( Indigenous peoples of Hawaii, Alaska and territories of the United State ...

, the indigenous people in the United States *** Native American tribes, specific groups of Native Americans ** Indigenous peoples in Canada ***

First Nations in Canada First Nations (french: Premières Nations) is a term used to identify those Indigenous Canadian peoples who are neither Inuit nor Métis. Traditionally, First Nations in Canada were peoples who lived south of the tree line, and mainly south ...

, the various Aboriginal peoples in Canada who are neither Inuit nor Métis ** Indigenous peoples of South America, peoples living in South America in the pre-Columbian era and their descendants ** Native Mexicans, indigenous people of Mexico ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas#Central America, Indigenous peoples of Central America ** Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean * West Indians, people from the Caribbean region and the Lucayan Archipelago * Mardi Gras Indians, African-American Carnival revelers in New Orleans, Louisiana, whose suits are influenced by Native American ceremonial apparel

Australia

* Aboriginal Australians, called "Indians" until the 19th century

Languages

* Indian English, a dialect of the English language used in India * Indigenous languages of the Americas, spoken by indigenous peoples from Alaska and Greenland to the southern tip of South America * Languages of India, including Indo-Aryan languages and Dravidian languages

Places

* Indian, West Virginia, a former unincorporated community in Kanawha County * The Indians, an islet group in the British Virgin Islands * Indian Creek (disambiguation) * Indian Island (disambiguation) * Indian River (disambiguation), several rivers and communities * Indian Run (disambiguation), streams in the U.S. states of Pennsylvania and West Virginia * Indian subcontinent * Indian Ocean

Arts, entertainment, and media

* Indian cinema

Films

* Indian (1996 film), ''Indian'' (1996 film), an Indian Tamil film starring Kamal Haasan * Indian (2001 film), ''Indian'' (2001 film), an Indian Hindi film

Music

* Indians (musician), moniker of Danish singer Søren Løkke Juul accompanied by some musicians also collectively known as Indians * Indian (song), "Indian" (song), by Sturm und Drang * Indian (soundtrack), ''Indian'' (soundtrack), an album from the 1996 film * Indians (song), "Indians" (song), by Anthrax

Other arts, entertainment, and media

* Indian (card game), a simple card game that involves strategy * Indian soap opera, soap operas written, produced, and filmed in India * Indians (play), ''Indians'' (play), a 1968 play by Arthur Kopit * Indians (sculpture), ''Indians'' (sculpture), a name for ''The Bowman'' and ''The Spearman'', sculptures by Ivan Meštrović

Businesses

* Indian (airline), a now-defunct state-owned airline of India, merged with Air India * Indian Motocycle Manufacturing Company, an American company later called Indian Manufacturing Company, that produced the brand "Indian motorcycles" from 1901 to 1953

Sport

* Cleveland Indians, former name of the Cleveland Guardians, an American professional baseball team based in Cleveland, Ohio, US * Frölunda HC or Frölunda Indians, a Swedish professional ice hockey club based in Gothenburg, Sweden * Hannover Indians, a German ice hockey club based in Hannover, Germany * Indian Arrows, the developmental football team of All India Football Federation * Indianapolis Indians, an American minor league baseball team based in Indianapolis, Indiana, US * Indios de Mayagüez, a baseball team in the Puerto Rican Professional Baseball League * Mumbai Indians, a franchise cricket team representing the city of Mumbai, India in the Indian Premier League * Springfield Indians, an American minor professional ice hockey franchise, originally based in West Springfield, Massachusetts, US

Other uses

* Indian cuisine, a wide variety of regional cuisines native to India * Indian Head cent, a coin produced by the United States Mint from 1859 to 1909