List of Indian Americans

Indian Americans are citizens or residents of the United States of America who trace their family descent to India. This article is a list of notable Indian Americans.

Academics

Nobel Prize recipients

* Har Gobind Khorana (1922-2011), Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1968
* Subramanyan Chandrasekhar (1910-1995), Nobel Prize for Physics, 1983
* Amartya Sen (b. 1933), Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998; Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University
* Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (b. 1952), Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2009; Former President of the Royal Society, (2015-2020)
* Abhijit Banerjee (b. 1961), Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, 2019; Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Deans and presidents

* Rakesh Khurana (born 1967), dean of Harvard College
* Neeli Bendapudi (born 1962), president of University of Louisville
* 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
* 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; 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; former provost and senior vice president, University of South Florida
* Pradeep Khosla (born 1957), chancellor of the University of California, San Diego
* Vijay Kumar (born 1962), dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania
* Geeta Menon, dean emeritus of the undergraduate college at New York University Stern School of Business
* Nitin Nohria (born 1962), former dean of Harvard Business School, (2010-2020)
* Sethuraman Panchanathan, director of National Science Foundation and former executive vice president and chief research and innovation officer at Arizona State University
* 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, Miami
* S. 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
* Nagi Naganathan, president of Oregon Institute of Technology 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

Mathematicians

* Raj Chandra Bose (1901-1987), mathematician
* Shamit Kachru (b. 1970), Mathematical Physicist, professor at Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics
* Akshay Venkatesh (b. 1981), Fields Medal laureate, mathematician
* Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar (1930-2012), mathematician, singularity theory and Abhyankar's conjecture of finite group theory
* Raghu Raj Bahadur (1924-1997), statistician
* Manjul Bhargava (b. 1974), professor of mathematics at Princeton University and winner of Fields Medal, 2014
* Rahul 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, Princeton
* Narendra 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 model
* K. C. Sreedharan Pillai (1920-1985), mathematician
* Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao (b. 1920), professor at Penn State University and research professor at the University of Buffalo
* S. 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 scientist
* Sucharit Sarkar (b. 1983), mathematician and topologist
* Sourav Chatterjee (b. 1979), statistician, mathematician and professor at Stanford
* Kannan 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), mathematician

Economists

* Abhijit Banerjee (b. 1961), Ford Foundation international professor of economics at MIT
* Amartya Sen (b. 1933), Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University.
* 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, 2021
* Avinash 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 Kerala
* Reema Harrysingh-Carmona (b. 1970), economist and the 5th First Lady of Trinidad and Tobago
* Sendhil Mullainathan (b. 1973), professor of economics, Harvard University
* Arvind Panagariya (b. 1952), professor of economics at Columbia University
* Debraj 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 Management
* Arvind 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
* 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
* Hardik Gohel, a faculty of computer science at University of Houston-Victoria
* 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, regarded as one of the greatest pioneers in semiconductor research in USA.

Professors and scholars in other disciplines

* Amishi Jha, American neuroscientist and professor of psychology
* Kuzhikalail M. Abraham, professor at Northeastern University, electrochemistry; materials science; lithium, lithium ion, and lithium air batteries
* Mrinal 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 India
* P.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 biases
* Sugata Bose, professor of history at Harvard University
* Ananda 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 University
* Ashok 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 Berkeley
* Narayan 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 Laboratory
* Bharati Mukherjee, author, professor in the department of English at the University of California, Berkeley
* C. M. Naim, scholar of Urdu
* 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 University
* Deepak Sarma, professor of religious studies at Case Western Reserve University
* Jagdish Sheth, professor of marketing at Goizueta Business School of Emory University
* 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 University
* Sanjay 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 UCLA

Activism and philanthropy

* Rajiv Malhotra, Hindu Activist for promoting Indic cultures, author of Breaking India and founder of Infinity Foundation.
* Maya Ajmera, founder of The Global Fund for Children and author of more than 20 books for children
* Kala Bagai, immigrant advocate and one of the first South Asian women in the United States
* Bhairavi Desai, founding member of the Taxi Workers Alliance in New York
* Kartar Dhillon, Ghadar Party, labor, and civil rights activist
* Mallika Dutt, executive director of Breakthrough human rights organization
* Vijaya Lakshmi Emani (1958-2009), social activist
* Arun Manilal Gandhi, fifth grandson of Mohandas Gandhi
* Meera Gandhi, founder and CEO of The Giving Back Foundation
* Abraham George, philanthropist humanitarian, founder of The George Foundation (TGF)
* Gitanjali S. Gutierrez, lawyer who is defending Guantanamo prisoners
* Maya Harris, executive director of the ACLU of Northern California and sister of Kamala Harris
* Prerna Lal, immigrant rights advocate and attorney
* Girindra Mukerji, leader of one of the first Indian-American student protests against colonialism in 1908
* Kavita Ramdas, president and CEO of Global Fund for Women
* Dinesh Sharma (academic), leader, CRO and Director at Steam Works Studio and author in human development, human rights and global education, and professor at Walden University
* Inder 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 activist
* Thomas 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 emigrants
* John Prabhudoss (b.1964), current Chairman of the Federation of Indian American Christian Organizations (FIACONA)

Arts and entertainment

* Ashok Amritraj, Hollywood film producer
* Salma Arastu, artist
* San Banarje, independent filmmaker
* Rina Banerjee, artist
* Prashant Bhargava, director
* Niala Boodhoo, journalist, host, and executive producer
* Jay Chandrasekhar, director, actor, comedian, and writer
* Shanthi Chandrasekar, visual artist
* Aneesh Chaganty, film director, screenwriter
* Sabu Dastagir, actor
* Nina Davuluri, Miss America 2014
* Param Gill, director, screenwriter and producer
* Kovid Gupta, bestselling author and screenwriter
* Reef Karim, actor, director, writer, and producer
* Neeraj Khemlani, producer for CBS News' ''60 Minutes''
* Bharti Kirchner, writer
* Shirish Korde, artist
* Adam Bhala Lough, director, screenwriter
* Tirlok Malik, filmmaker and actor
* Benny Mathews, film and music video director
* Faris McReynolds, painter and musician
* Mira Nair, director and producer
* Sunil 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 artist
* Mythili Prakash, Bharatanatyam dancer and choreographer
* Asha Puthli, singer-songwriter, producer and actress
* Sarayu Rao, actor and director
* Harish Saluja, filmmaker
* Stephanie Sengupta, producer and writer
* Mehul Shah, actor, director, writer, and producer
* Adi Shankar, producer and actor
* Naren Shankar, TV writer, producer and director; an executive producer of ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation''
* M. Night Shyamalan, director, filmmaker
* Tarsem Singh, director
* Rohit Gupta, director, producer
* Manick Sorcar, animator, artist, and producer
* Babu Subramaniam, director
* Tina Sugandh, entertainer
* Julie Titus, model, contestant on ''America's Next Top Model''
* Serena Varghese, voice actress
* Prashanth Venkataramanujam, television writer, actor, and producer

Actors and actresses

* Karan Soni, actor
* Utkarsh Ambudkar, actor
* Simran Judge, actor
* Ravi Patel, actor
* Devika Bhise, actress
* Waris Ahluwalia, fashion designer
* Aziz Ansari, actor and comedian
* Gabrielle Anwar, actress
* Erick Avari, actor
* Sunkrish Bala, actor
* Firdous Bamji, actor
* Purva Bedi, actress
* Summer Bishil, actress
* Karan Brar, film and TV actor
* Samrat Chakrabarti, actor
* Melanie Chandra, actress
* Michelle Khare, actress, Youtuber, and television host
* Sabu Dastagir, actor
* Sujata Day, actress
* Manish Dayal, actor
* Noureen DeWulf, actress
* Raja Fenske, actor
* Janina Gavankar, actress
* Namrata Singh Gujral, actress
* Sakina Jaffrey, actress
* Poorna Jagannathan, actress and producer
* Avan Jogia, actor
* Avantika Vandanapu, actress and dancer. Known for her role in 2021 film, Spin
* Mindy Kaling, actress, writer, producer, comedian
* Ravi Kapoor, actor
* Rahul Kohli, actor
* Deep Katdare, actor
* Nivedita Kulkarni, actress
* Shishir Kurup, actor
* Nakul Dev Mahajan, Bollywood dancer and choreographer
* Sunny Leone, actor and former pornographic actress
* Tirlok Malik, actor
* Shelly Malil, film and TV actor
* Rizwan Manji, actor
* Aasif Mandvi, actor
* Sunita Mani, actress
* Ajay Mehta, TV actor
* Ajay Naidu, actor
* Anjul Nigam, actor

* Maulik Pancholy, actor
* Devika Parikh, actress
* Kal Penn, actor
* Danny Pudi, actor
* Ritesh Rajan, actor
* Sendhil Ramamurthy, actor
* Dileep Rao, actor
* Navi Rawat, actress
* Sonal Shah, actress
* Sheetal Sheth, actress
* Zenobia Shroff, Indian-American actress and comedienne
* Tiya Sircar, actress
* Omi Vaidya, actor
* Sugith Varughese,Indian-born Canadian-born actor with American citizenship
* Annet Mahendru, actress
* Nitya Vidyasagar, actress
* Nandana Sen, actress
* Pooja Batra, actress
* Monica Dogra, actress
* Deepti Naval, actress

Comedians

* Aziz Ansari
* Aman Ali
* Arj Barker
* Aasif Mandvi
* Jay Chandrasekhar
* Hari Kondabolu
*Hasan Minhaj
* Nimesh Patel
* Adam Mamawala
* Rajiv Satyal
* Anish Shah
* Paul Varghese, appeared on ''Last Comic Standing''
* Aparna Nancherla

Culinary arts

* Ashok Bajaj, restaurateur
* Vishwesh Bhatt, chef
* Maneet Chauhan, celebrity chef, restaurateur, author
* H. Jay Dinshah, founded the American Vegan Society
* Raghavan Iyer, chef, author, culinary educator
* Vikas Khanna, Michelin starred celebrity chef, restaurateur, author, filmmaker, and TV host
* Jehangir Mehta, celebrity chef, restaurateur, author
* Rajat Parr, sommelier
* Suvir Saran, Michelin starred chef and author
* Aarti Sequeira (b. 1978), TV host on Food Network
* Vikram Sunderam (b. 1967), chef and author
* Padma Lakshmi

Fashion designers

* Naeem Khan
* Vashtie Kola
* Bibhu Mohapatra
* Rachel Roy (b. 1974)
* Sachin & Babi

Models

* Anchal Joseph, contestant on Cycle 7 of ''America's Next Top Model''
* Pooja Kumar, model
* Akshay Kapoor, model, actor

Media

* Manu Raju (b. 1980), CNN journalist anchor, reporter
* Deepak Ananthapadmanabha, online journalist
* Sanjay Gupta, journalist, medical correspondent, neurosurgeon
* Rajiv Chandrasekaran, assistant managing editor for continuous news, ''The Washington Post''; author of ''Imperial Life in the Emerald City''
* Syma Chowdhry, television host, reporter, and producer
* Priya 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 Team
* Vinita 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, journalist
* Safiya Nygaard, YouTube beauty creator
* Uma Pemmaraju, senior news anchor for Fox News Channel
* Ramesh Ponnuru, senior editor of the ''National Review'' magazine
* Ash-har Quraishi, correspondent, WTTW Chicago; former KCTV Chief Investigative Reporter; former CNN Islamabad Bureau Chief
* Gopal Raju, pioneer of Indian American ethnic media
* Aneesh Raman, first Indian-American presidential speechwriter under President Barack Obama, former CNN Middle East correspondent
* Alpana Singh, television personality
* Lakshmi Singh, NPR's national midday newscaster
* Hari Sreenivasan and the ''PBS NewsHour''
* Sreenath Sreenivasan, Columbia University professor; WABC-TV technology reporter
* Ali Velshi, business news anchor for CNN
* Zain Verjee, CNN anchor
* Rohit Vyas, first and longest serving Indian American broadcast journalist
* Fareed Zakaria, columnist for ''Time'' magazine and host of ''Fareed Zakaria GPS'' on CNN
* Lilly 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 category
* Liza Koshy, actress, YouTube comedian and television host

Musicians

* Rick Parashar (1963-2014), producer
* Sandeep Das (b. 1971), won the Grammy award for Best World Music Album, at the 59th Grammy Awards, 2017
* Sonika Vaid, Indian-American singer
* Bamboo Shoots, dance-rock band
* 6ix, record producer
* Rajiv Dhall, Indian-American singer
* Sid Sriram, Indian-American singer
* Jeff Bhasker, producer
* Nicki Minaj, rapper and singer-songwriter
* 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 Indian
* Anoop Desai, finalist on the eighth season of ''American Idol''
* Falu, singer and songwriter
* Sameer Gadhia, lead vocalist in Young the Giant
* Heems, rapper
* Ravi Hutheesing, singer-songwriter, guitarist
* iLoveMakonnen, rapper
* Daya, singer
* Sandeep Khurana, new age music and world music composer
* Raja Kumari, singer and songwriter
* Vijay Iyer, jazz musician and composer
* Sunny Jain, dhol player, drummer, and composer
* Norah Jones, singer, songwriter and actress; winner of multiple Grammy Awards
* Rajan Somasundaram, Music Composer, Songwriter and multi instrumentalist
* Karsh Kale, Indian producer, composer and musician
* Tony Kanal, two-time Grammy Award winner, bass player for No Doubt
* Savan Kotecha, songwriter
* KSHMR, electronic musician, record producer
* Arun Luthra, jazz musician
* Sanjaya 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 composer
* Vidya Vox, YouTube musician
* Vasant Rai, performer of Indian music
* Paul Sabu, producer
* Amar Sandhu, singer
* Shaheen Sheik, songwriter
* Bikram Singh, singer
* Mickey Singh, Indian-born singer from Detroit, MI
* Ramesh Srivastava, singer
* Ambi Subramaniam, violinist and composer
* Bindu Subramaniam, singer-songwriter
* Kim Thayil, named among 100th greatest guitarists of all time by ''Rolling Stone''
* Zoya, California-based singer and guitarist
* Sanjay Patel, animator and director and also illustrator of Pixar
* Shirish Korde (b. 1945), composer
* Dave Baksh (b. 1980), guitarist of punk band Sum 41
* Raveena Aurora, alternative singer and songwriter

Business

* Parag Agrawal, former CEO of Twitter
* Anu 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
* 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 drink
* Aneel 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
* 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 & Resorts
* Manu Daftary, money manager
* Bharat Desai, co-founder and chairman of Syntel
* Gururaj Deshpande

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