List of Indian Americans

This is a list of notable Indian Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.

To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Indian American or must have references showing they are Indian American and are notable.

List

Notable academic awards

Har Gobind Khorana, Nobel Prize for Medicine, (1968). (Nobel Laureate)
Subramanyan Chandrasekhar, Nobel Prize for Physics, (1983). (Nobel Laureate)
Amartya Sen, Nobel Prize for Economics, (1998). (Nobel Laureate)
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Nobel Prize for Chemistry, (2009). (Nobel Laureate)
Raghuram Rajan, International Monetary Fund Chief Economist, winner of the Fischer Black Prize.
Madhu Sudan, computer science professor at MIT, winner of the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize and Gödel Prize.
S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, NYU mathematician who specialised in probability, winner of the Abel Prize and Steele Prize.
Raj Reddy, founder of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, winner of the Turing Award.
Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao, world renowned statistician, is awarded National Medal of Science by President George W. Bush.

Academic

C. R. Rao, Internationally known and arguably most famous living statistician of Cramér–Rao bound and Rao-Blackwell Theorem fame, Indian Statistical Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Penn State University.
Ravindra Khattree, Internationally known statistician at Oakland University
Beheruz Sethna, current president of the University of West Georgia.
Akhil Amar, Professor of Law at Yale Law School, an expert on constitutional law and criminal procedure.
Salman Akhtar, professor at the Jefferson Medical College
Vikram Amar, Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis School of Law.
Homi K. Bhabha, post-colonial theorist at Harvard.
Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty, Distinguished Professor of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Chicago. Creator of the controversial oil-eating bacterium used in Gulf War.
K. Mani Chandy, Simon Ramo Professor of Computer Science at the California Institute of Technology.
Anil Gupta, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, and important philosopher and logician.^[1]
Narayan Hosmane, Distinguished Research Professor & Board of Trustees Professor at the Northern Illinois University
Dipak C. Jain, Dean of the J. L. Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Rakesh Jain, Head of the Edwin L. Steele Laboratory for Tumor Biology, Harvard Medical School.
Muzaffar Alam, Professor in South Asian Languages & Civilizations and the College at University of Chicago.
V. V. Chari, professor of economics at the University of Minnesota.
Aravind Joshi, computer scientist, defined the tree-adjoining grammar formalism.
Thomas Kailath, Emeritus Professor of Engineering at Stanford University
Subhash Kak, Head of the Department, Oklahoma State University, Researcher in Neural Networks and Cryptography.
M. A. Muqtedar Khan, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware.
Marti G. Subrahmanyam, Charles E. Merrill Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University.
Vijay K. Dhir, Dean of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science
Neal Katyal, Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law School, lead counsel in the landmark Supreme Court case Hamdan v. Rumsfeld.
Jogesh Pati, theoretical physicist at the University of Maryland, College Park.
C.K. Prahalad, leading management guru.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, post-colonial theorist, literary critic and deconstructionist who teaches at Columbia University.
Krishna Saraswat, professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University.
Surain Subramaniam, professor of international relations and prolific author developing the theory of Asian Values
Arvind Panagariya, Professor of Economics at Columbia University
Jagdish Natwarlal Bhagwati, an economist known for his advocacy of free trade currently a professor at Columbia University.
Abhay Ashtekar, Professor of Physics at Pennsylvania State University.
G. V. Loganathan,was a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental engineering at Virginia Tech. He was a victim of the Virginia Tech massacre.
Anirvan Ghosh, professor at the University of California, San Diego
Vijay Vazirani, is a Professor of Computer Science at Georgia Tech. One of his significant research was proving, UNIQUE-SAT ∈ P → NP=RP called the Valiant–Vazirani theorem.
Aswath Damodaran, a Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University.
Umesh Vazirani, is the Roger A. Strauch Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and the director of the Berkeley Quantum Computation Center.
Sanjay Subrahmanyam, holder of Navin and Pratima Doshi Chair of Indian History at UCLA.
Ashok Das, professor of physics at University of Rochester
Vijay Kumar (roboticist), is a UPS Foundation Professor in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics and Computer and Information Science, at University of Pennsylvania. He is the also Associate Dean of School of Engineering and Applied Science.^[2]
Khem Shahani, microbiologist who conducted pioneer research on probiotics, he discovered the DDS-1 strain of Lactobacillus acidophilus
Jagdish Shukla, is a meteorologist and Distinguished University Professor at George Mason University in the United States.
J. N. Reddy, Distinguished Professor and holder of the Oscar S. Wyatt Endowed Chair in Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University.
Veena Talwar Oldenburg, Professor of History at Baruch College
Jaishree Odin, post-modern literary theorist who teaches at the University of Hawaii
Ravi Jagannathan, professor at the Kellogg School of Management
Pran Nath, theoretical physicist working at Northeastern University.
Vijay Prashad, professor of International Studies at Trinity College.
Mriganka Sur, Head of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Arjun Makhijani, electrical and nuclear engineer who is President of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
Medha Yodh, teacher of classical Indian dance at UCLA
C. M. Naim, scholar of Urdu language and literature
G. S. Maddala, economist, best known for his work in the field of econometrics.
Shrinivas Kulkarni, professor of astrophysics and planetary science at Caltech.
Nazir Jairazbhoy, Professor of Folk and classical music of South Asia at University of California at Los Angeles.
Amit Goswami, a theoretical nuclear physicist and member of University of Oregon
Pradeep Khosla, Dean of Carnegie Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University and Philip and Marsha Dowd Professor from the ECE Department.
Avinash Kak, professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University
Ashok Gadgil, works with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Sugata Bose, is the Gardiner Professor of History at Harvard University.
Kausalya Hart, scholar of Tamil language at UC Berkeley
Raj Chetty, professor of economics at Harvard University.
Maya Chadda, Professor of Political Science, William Patterson University, New Jersey

Mathematician

Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar, mathematician, singularity theory and Abhyankar's conjecture of finite group theory
Anil Nerode, mathematician, proved the Myhill-Nerode Theorem.
Narendra Karmarkar, mathematician, inventor of Karmarkar algorithm.
Chandrashekhar Khare, professor of mathematics at the University of California Los Angeles.
Harish-Chandra, mathematician
Abhinav Kumar, mathematician
K. C. Sreedharan Pillai, mathematician
Manjul Bhargava, is a professor of mathematics at Princeton University.
Sarvadaman Chowla, mathematician specializing in number theory

Science and Technology

Vivek Kundra, is the Federal Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the United States of America.
Aneesh Chopra, is the Federal Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the United States of America.
Arun Majumdar, first director of the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E).
Gopal Khanna, is the Chief Information Officer in the state of Minnesota.
Arun Netravali, scientist, former President of Bell Labs, former CTO of Lucent. A pioneer of digital technology including HDTV and MPEG4.
Narinder Singh Kapany, engineer, called the "Father of Fiber Optics".
Sabeer Bhatia, co-founder of Hotmail
Ajay Bhatt, Chief Client Platform Architect at Intel
Mani Lal Bhaumik, contribuitor excimer laser technology.
George Sudarshan, physicist, author - first to propose the existence of Tachyon
C. Kumar N. Patel, developed the carbon dioxide laser, used as a cutting tool in surgery and industry.
Rangaswamy Srinivasan, in the Inventors’ Hall of Fame for pioneering work on excimer laser surgery.
Kalpana Chawla, female NASA Space Shuttle astronaut, and space shuttle mission specialist
Sunita Williams, female NASA astronaut (second woman of Indian descent to head into space)
Anil Dash, blogger and technologist
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
Thomas Anantharaman, computer statistician specializing in Bayesian inference
Pramod Khargonekar Control Theorist, Dean and Eckis Professor, College of Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida,
Om Malik, technology journalist and blogger
Vijay Raghunath Pandharipande, physicist
Arvind Rajaraman, theoretical physicist and string theorist
Krishan Sabnani, Engineer and Senior Vice President of the Networking Research Laboratory at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs in New Jersey
Mahadev Satyanarayanan, computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, pioneered research in mobile and pervasive computing
Rahul Mahajan, blogger
Amit Singhal, Google Fellow, the designation the company reserves for its elite master engineers in the area of “ranking algorithm”.
Thomas Zacharia, computational scientist
Deepak Pandya, neuroanatomist
Rajiv Dutta, technology manager
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, neurologist
Pulickel M. Ajayan, Prof of Material Science at Rice University
Ajit Varki, Physician-scientist
Noshir Gowadia, design engineer
Sharmila Bhattacharya, head of the Biomodel Performance and Behavior laboratory at NASA Ames Research Center.
Krishna Bharat, Principal Scientist at Google who is famous for creating Google News.

Medicine

Balamurali Ambati, physician, world's youngest doctor at age 17.
Paul Antony, MD, MPH is the Chief Medical Officer for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA)
Rama P. Coomaraswamy, a cardiac surgeon
Atul Gawande, general and endocrine surgeon, professor, medical author, and National Book Award finalist.
Amit Patel, Cardiovascular Surgeon and Stem Cell Researcher - First person to inject stem cells directly into the heart.
Vamsi Mootha, physician-scientist and computational biologist.
Chitranjan Singh Ranawat, eminent orthopaedic and knee surgeon
Vineeta Rastogi, public health worker
Deepak Chopra, medical doctor
Avijit Lahiri,a cardiologist in UK
Ashutosh Tewari, Professor of Urology at New York Presbyterian Hospital and noted prostate cancer surgeon.
Naresh Saxena, cardiac surgeon. Performed rare cardiac surgery on new born.

Musician

Jay Sean, Successful R&B singer
Kim Thayil, Guitarist for Grammy Award winning rock group Soundgarden.
Norah Jones, Musician, Grammy Award winner, daughter of Ravi Shankar.
Tony Kanal, Two-time Grammy Award winner, bass player for No Doubt.
Sameer Bhattacharya, One of two guitarists in the Texas alternative rock band Flyleaf.
Rozonda Thomas or Chilli, member of TLC
Bizzy Bone, Rapper (one-quarter Indian), member of the Cleveland rap group Bone Thugs-n-Harmony.
Ángel, is of indian heritage -born american rapper and poet.
Sanjaya Malakar, a finalist on the sixth season of American Idol.
Anoop Desai, a finalist on the eighth season of American Idol.
Zubin Mehta, Conductor, New York Philharmonic Orchestra.
Zarin Mehta, executive director of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.
Nicki Minaj, singer/rapper (One-fourth Indian)
Vijay Iyer, Jazz musician and Composer.
Karsh Kale, an Indian producer, composer and musician.
Paul Sabu, producer
Raje Shwari, R&B singer
Falu, singer and songwriter
Bamboo Shoots, dance-rock band
Tatyana Ali, singer
Arun Luthra, jazz musician
Thara Prashad, singer
Vasant Rai, performer of Indian music
Shaheen Sheik, song-writer
Haji Springer, rapper
Sanjay Mishra, guitarist and composer

Actors and actresses

Kal Penn, Actor
Noureen DeWulf, Actress
Sendhil Ramamurthy, Actor
Navi Rawat, Actress
Shishir Kurup, Actor
Sheetal Sheth, Actress
Tanveer K. Atwal, Actress
Ravi Kapoor, Actor
Deep Katdare, Actor
Waris Ahluwalia, Actor
Namrata Singh Gujral, Actress
Sonal Shah, Actress
Sunkrish Bala, Actor
Purva Bedi, Actress
Devika Parikh, Actress
Janina Gavankar, Actress
Sakina Jaffrey, Actress
Deepti Gupta, Actress
Serena Varghese, Voice Actress
Kavi Ladnier, Actress
Firdous Bamji, Actor
Samrat Chakrabarti, Actor
Summer Bishil, Actress
Rory Cochrane, Actor
Sabu Dastagir, Actor
Aasif Mandvi, Actor
Ajay Mehta, TV Actor
Shelly Malil, Film and TV Actor
Ajay Naidu, Actor
Maulik Pancholy, Actor
Deep Katdare, Actor
Tiya Sircar, Actress
Bobby Routh, Actor
Dilshad Vadsaria, Actress
Imran Khan, Actor
Raja Fenske, Actor

British Indian actors in U.S.

Ben Kingsley, Actor
Naveen Andrews, Actor (Lost)
Indira Varma, Actress (Rome)
Zuleikha Robinson, Actress (The Namesake, Rome)
Parminder Nagra, Actress (ER)
Nicollette Sheridan, Actress (Desperate Housewives, Knots Landing)
Rhona Mitra, Actress (Nip/Tuck)
Dev Patel, Actor (Slumdog Millionaire)
Reshma Shetty, Actress (Royal Pains)
Kunal Nayyar, Actor (The Big Bang Theory)
Agam Darshi, Actress
Gabrielle Anwar, Actress

Arts and entertainment

M. Night Shyamalan, Filmmaker and Actor (Director of Signs and The Sixth Sense)
Ashok Amritraj, Hollywood producer
Mira Nair, Director and Producer
Jay Chandrasekhar, Director, Actor, Comedian, and Writer
Anand Chandrasekaran, Filmmaker and Entrepreneur
Harish Saluja, Filmmaker
Nikhil Kamkolkar, Filmmaker
Babu Subramaniam, Director
Ajay Sahgal, Director, Screenwriter and Producer
Benny Mathews, Film and Music Video Director
Naren Shankar, TV Writer, Producer and Director, an Executive Producer of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Sunil Nayar, TV Writer and Producer, a Producer of CSI: Miami
Neeraj Khemlani, a producer at the CBS News 60 Minutes.
Mindy Kaling, Writer, Producer, Actor on The Office.
Padma Lakshmi, Model, Top Chef Host
Saira Mohan, Model, was ranked #91 on the Maxim Magazine Hot 100 Women of 2002
Julie Titus, Model, Contestant of America's Next Top Model
Sunny Leone, Model, former Penthouse Pet of the Year.
Pooja Kumar, Model
Nicole Narain, Model and Actress
Priya Rai, Adult Actress, AVN Award winner
Angela Devi, Adult Model and Actress
Govindini Murty, Co-founder of Liberty film festival.^[3]
Manick Sorcar, Animator, Artist, and Producer
Stephanie Sengupta, Producer and Writer
Salma Arastu, Artist
Rina Banerjee, Artist
Reef Karim, Host
Tina Sugandh, Entertainer
Prosenjit Kundu, dancer and choreographer

Fashion designers

Comedian

Aziz Ansari, Comedian and MTV personality
Hari Kondabolu, Comedian
Paul Varghese, Comedian from Dallas, Texas appeared on Last Comic Standing
Dan Nainan, Comedian
Arj Barker, Comedian
Adam Mamawala, Comedian
Azhar Usman, Comedian
Russell Peters, Comedian, 5th highest paid in America.

Business and industry

Amar Bose, Billionaire, Founder of Bose Corporation
Bharat Desai, Billionaire, Founder of Syntel
Ram Shriram, Billionaire, Co-Founder of Junglee.com and board member at Google
Vinod Khosla, Billionaire, Co-Founder of Sun Microsystems
Pradeep Sindhu, Co-Founder and CTO of Juniper Networks
Preetish Nijhawan, Co-Founder of Akamai Technologies.
Ashwin Navin, Co-Founder and President of BitTorrent, Inc.
Shoba Purushothaman, Co-Founder and Chairman of The NewsMarket, Inc.
Unni Warrier, Co-Founder and Former President, chairman, CEO of CyberMedia
Suhas Patil, Founder of Cirrus Logic
Sanjay Mehrotra, Founder, COO, Executive Vice President of SanDisk
Somen Banerjee, Founder of Chippendales
Sanjiv Sidhu, Founder and CEO of i2 Technologies
Vinod Gupta, Founder and Chairman of InfoUSA Inc.
Sameer Parekh, Founder of C2Net
Vivek Ranadive, Founder, Chairman and CEO of TIBCO Software
Naveen Jain, Founder of InfoSpace and Intelius
Narendra Patni, Founder of Patni Computer Systems
Murugan Pal, founder and CTO of SpikeSource
Ajit Hutheesing, Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of International Capital Partners Inc
Simone Ahuja, Founder of Blood Orange Media
Indra Nooyi, CEO of PepsiCo.
Sanjay Jha, Co-CEO of Motorola and CEO of Motorola Mobile Devices
Vikram Pandit, CEO of Citigroup
Victor Menezes, Chairman of Clearing House Association, former Chairman and CEO of Citibank
Ajay Banga, president and chief operating officer of Mastercard
Ramani Ayer, Chairman and CEO of The Hartford Financial Services Group
Jay Sidhu, Former Chairman and CEO of Sovereign Bancorp
Rana Talwar, former Group CEO of Standard Chartered Bank
Bobby Mehta, former CEO and Vice Chairman of HSBC North America
Anshu Jain, Global Head and Managing Director of capital markets at Deutsche Bank.
Arun Sarin, former CEO of Vodafone Inc.
Shantanu Narayen, CEO of Adobe Systems.
Pradeep K Jaisingh, CEO of International Oncology
Abhi Talwalkar, President and CEO of LSI Corporation
Rono Dutta, former President of United Airlines; Chairman of Air Sahara
Rakesh Gangwal, former CEO and Chairman of US Airways Group
Rajat Gupta, former Managing Director of McKinsey & Company
Dinesh Paliwal, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Harman International.
Gunjan Sinha, Chairman of MetricStream
Lakshmi Narayanan, Vice Chairman and former CEO of Cognizant Corporation.
Francisco D'Souza, CEO of Cognizant Technology Solutions
Abbas Sadriwala, Chairman and CEO of the Fort Lauderdale-based Wireless Logix Group
Sanjiv Das[1], CEO of CitiMortgage
Prakash Puram, President and CEO of iXmatch.
Mukesh Chatter, Businessman
Raj Vaswani, Vice President of Engineering at Epinions.com.
Rajiv Gupta, a General Manager of Hewlett Packard
Vyomesh Joshi, Executive Vice President of Imaging and Printing Group, Hewlett-Packard Company.
Ajit Jain, head of National Indemnity, possible successor to Warren Buffett
Padmasree Warrior, Chief Technology Officer of Cisco Systems and former CTO of Motorola.
Gurbaksh Chahal, Internet Entrepreneurs
Ranji H. Nagaswami, Chief Investment Officer for AllianceBernstein Fund Investors
Vinod Dham, former microprocessor designer for Intel
Gunjan Bagla, Management Consultant, Managing Director, Amritt; Author Doing Business in 21st Century India.
Arjun Gupta, is a Silicon Valley venture capitalist
Arvind Raghunathan, Managing Director and Head of Global Arbitrage at Deutsche Bank.
Kanwal Rekhi, former EVP & CTO of Novell
Ali Pabrai, Entrepreneur
Gagan Palrecha, Entrepreneur
Vikram Chatwal, an American Hotelier
Thomas Abraham, President, Innovative Research and Products (iRAP), Inc, Stamford,CT, A Technology, Industry and Market Research Firm

Media

Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek and host of Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN
Zain Verjee, CNN anchor
Sumi Das, CNN national correspondent
Shihab Rattansi, CNN International Anchor
Aneesh Raman, CNN Middle East correspondent
Sanjay Gupta, CNN senior medical correspondent
Ash-har Quraishi, KCTV Chief Investigative Reporter, CNN former Islamabad Bureau Chief
Ali Velshi, business news anchor for CNN
Vinita Nair, current anchor of World News Now and America This Morning on ABC.
Uma Pemmaraju, senior news anchor for Fox News Channel
Shibani Joshi, reporter for the Fox Business Network
Reena Ninan, Middle East Correspondent for Fox News Channel.
Asha Blake, an Emmy award-winning journalist who works for KTLA-TV in Los Angeles.
Hari Sreenivasan, correspondent for CBS News.
Priya David, correspondent for CBS News.
Sukanya Krishnan, news anchor for CW 11 Morning News on WPIX
Shihab Rattansi, news anchor for Al Jazeera English
Asra Nomani, journalist
Simran Sethi, journalist
Mish Michaels, meteorologist for the WBZ-TV Weather Team.
Deepa Fernandes, host of the WBAI radio program "Wakeup Call"
Deepti Hajela, newswoman for the Associated Press
Deepak Ananthapadmanabha, online journalist
Falguni Lakhani, producer for Dateline NBC
Alpana Singh, television personality
Gopal Raju, pioneer of Indian American ethnic media in the United States.
Sreenath Sreenivasan, Columbia University professor and WABC-TV technology reporter.
Syma Chowdhry, television host, reporter, and producer
Ramesh Ponnuru, senior editor of National Review magazine
Rajiv Chandrasekaran, assistant managing editor for continuous news, The Washington Post, author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City (published by Knopf)
Pico Iyer, author and journalist for Time Magazine, Harper's Magazine, Conde Nast Traveler, and The New York Review of Books

Literature

Jhumpa Lahiri, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Kiran Desai, winner of the 2006 Man Booker Prize
Anita Desai, novelist, she has been shortlisted for the Booker prize three times, mother of Kiran Desai.
Dhan Gopal Mukerji, First successful Indian man of letters in the U.S., Winner of Newbery Medal 1928
Amitav Ghosh, Indo-nostalgic writer and winner of Prix Medicis Etranger
Shauna Singh Baldwin, novelist, won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize.
Ravi Batra, bestselling author and economist
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, author
Dinesh D'Souza, author and conservative political commentator
Anu Garg, author, speaker, and computer engineer
Bharati Mukherjee, author
Janaki Ram, author
Susham Bedi, author
Thrity Umrigar, writer
S. T. Joshi, literary critic
Indira Viswanathan Peterson, literary critic
Vijay Seshadri, literary critic
Rishi Reddi, author
Ravi Shankar, poet
Parag Khanna, author
Indu Sundaresan, author
Rajiv Joseph, playwright
Usha Haley, author
Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla, author
Thrity Umrigar, author of Bombay Time.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil, poet
Agha Shahid Ali, poet
Vikram Seth, poet, novelist, travel writer, librettist, children's writer, biographer and memoirist
Abraham Verghese noted Doctor and Author; "In My Own Country" and "My Tennis Partner"
Kaavya Viswanathan, novelist
Ravina Sharma, literary critic

Politics

Bobby Jindal, former U.S. Representative and current Governor of Louisiana.
Dalip Singh Saund, the first Asian and Indian-American congressman, was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California.
Mervyn M. Dymally, current California State Assemblyman; former California State Senator, Lieutenant Governor of California, and U.S. Representative.
Satveer Chaudhary, Minnesota State Senator
Swati Dandekar, Iowa State Senator
Kumar P. Barve, member of the Maryland House of Delegates (majority leader)
Upendra J. Chivukula, state legislator for New Jersey General Assembly.
Nimi McConigley, former member of Wyoming State Legislature.
Raj Goyle, Kansas State Representative
Jay Goyal, Ohio State Representative
Nikki Randhawa Haley, South Carolina State Representative
Saqib Ali, Maryland House of Delegates
Harvinder "Harry" Anand, mayor of Laurel Hollow, New York, the first Indian-American mayor in New York.
Kashmir Gill (Mayor of Yuba City)
Arun Jhaveri, former mayor of Burien, Washington
Bala K. Srinivas, former mayor of Hollywood Park, Texas
John Abraham, former mayor of Teaneck, New Jersey
Thomas Abraham, city councilman of Sugar Land, Texas
Harry Sidhu, city councilman of Anaheim, California
Kesha Ram, Vermont State Representative.
Satish Mohan, town supervisor of Amherst, New York
Joy Cherian, first Asian head of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Rajiv Shah, former Under Secretary of Agriculture for Research, Education, and Economics and current Administrator of USAID.
Neel Kashkari, interim Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability in the United States Department of the Treasury.
Sonal Shah, member of the Obama-Biden Transition Project advisory board
Farah Pandith, is currently the Special Representative to Muslim Communities for the United States Department of State.
Preeta D. Bansal, member and past chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) and former Solicitor General of New York.
Rachel Paulose, the first Indian American woman, the youngest person, and the first woman to become United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota.
Kris Kolluri, New Jersey Commissioner of Transportation.
Shekar Narasimhan, Co-chair of the Democratic National Committee Indo-American Council
Faz Husain, first native of India to win elected office in Michigan
Kamala Harris, District Attorney of San Francisco; first Indian-American elected as a D.A. in the United States.
Raj Peter Bhakta, entrepreneur, former The Apprentice contestant, and 2006 Republican U.S. House nominee
Bhagwan Dashairya, 2006 nominee for Governor of Michigan of the U.S. Taxpayers Party.
Raj Mukherji, New Jersey lobbyist and businessman.
Ashwin Madia, Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party nominee for U.S. Representative from Minnesota's 3rd congressional district
Jonathan Bedi, an Illinois politician
Mehul Thakker, Green Party candidate for State Treasurer in California.
Har Dayal, founder of the Ghadar Party.
Huma Abedin, aide to United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Raja Krishnamoorthi, former Illinois Deputy Treasurer for Policy and Programs and current candidate for Illinois Comptroller
Reshma Saujani, candidate for U.S. Representative in New York's 14th congressional district

Religion

Harbhajan Singh Yogi, introduced Kundalini Yoga and Sikhism to the USA and was the spiritual director of the 3HO (Healthy, Happy, Holy Organization) Foundation.
Eboo Patel, member of New Faith Advisory Council
Reverend Kiran Sankhla, the first female Hindu chaplain in the U.S.
Ed Viswanathan, author of Am I A Hindu?
Ramananda Prasad, founder of the International Gita Society
Ravi Zacharias, Christian evangelist and apologist, Gold Medallion Book Award Winner for the book Can Man Live Without God?^[4]
Muzammil Siddiqi, Ph.D., Chairman, Fiqh Council of North America
Rajeev Srinivasan, Hindu rights activist
Prem Rawat, also known as Guru Maharaji Ji, head of the Divine Light Mission and later organizations
Sharmila Ford, member of the Board of Governors of the Oxford Center for Hindu Studies.
Sushil Kumarji, Jain Acharya

Scripps National Spelling Bee Champions

Sports

Alexi Grewal, first ever Indian American to win an Olympic medal, Gold Medalist in 1984 Summer Olympics in cycling
Mohini Bhardwaj, second Indian American Olympic medalist, 2004 Summer Olympics silver medalist in gymnastics
Raj Bhavsar, third Indian-American Olympic Medalist, 2008 Summer Olympics bronze medalist in the team gymnastics competition.
Sanjay Beach, was a former NFL wide receiver. He played for the San Francisco 49ers and the Green Bay Packers.
Brandon Chillar, NFL player, linebacker for the St. Louis Rams.
Sunil Gulati, in charge of United States Soccer Federation.
Laxmi Poruri, Tennis player
Shikha Uberoi, Tennis player
Rajeev Ram, Tennis player
Neha Uberoi, Tennis player
Prakash Amritraj, Tennis player (born in U.S.)
Stephen Amritraj, Tennis player
Leander Paes, Tennis player (Residence in U.S.)
Sonjay Dutt, TNA Pro Wrestler
The Great Khali, WWE Pro Wrestler
Ami Parekh, Skater
Vinay Bhat, Chess Grandmaster
Sushil Nadkarni, American cricketer
Neeta Sreekanth, NCAA Division 1 Women's Basketball Player at California State University Northridge

Others

Bhairavi Desai, founding member of the Taxi Workers Alliance in New York
Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO of Global Fund for Women.
Bikram Choudhury, yoga guru
Sabita Singh, first judge of Indian descent in Massachusetts history
Aman Kapoor, Founder and President of ImmigrationVoice, an advocacy group that united immigrants in USA
Bhagat Singh Thind, civil rights figure, lecturer, author
Maya Harris, the Executive Director of the ACLU of Northern California and sister of Kamala Harris.
Amrit Singh, a staff attorney at the ACLU.
Mallika Dutt, currently the Executive Director of Breakthrough (human rights)
Urvashi Vaid, famous gay rights activist
Abraham George, Philanthropist Humanitarian, Founder of The George Foundation (TGF)
Dipa Ma, famous yoga teacher
Maya Ajmera, Founder and President of The Global Fund for Children
Mahzarin Banaji, best known for a series of studies around exploring gender and racial bias
Swadesh Chatterjee, former elected National President of the Indian American Forum.
H. Jay Dinshah, founded the American Vegan Society
Arun Manilal Gandhi, fifth grandson of Mohandas Gandhi
Gitanjali S. Gutierrez, lawyer, who is defending Guantanamo prisoners.
Sant Keshavadas, guru
Rajat Parr, sommelier
Anant Raut, Counsel to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee
Joe Roche, Iraq war veteran and conservative political commentator
Sabrina De Sousa, ex-CIA officer, who is suing the US Govt for diplomatic immunity.
Thomas Abraham, Founder President and Chairman Emeritus, Global Organization of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO) as well as the National Federation of Indian Ameircan Associaitons (NFIA)

References

[1] ttp://www.pitt.edu/~philosop/people/gupta.html

[2] ttp://alliance.seas.upenn.edu/~kumar/wiki/index.php?n=Main.HomePage.

[3] ttp://www.libertyfilmfestival.com/

[4] ttp://www.ecpa.org/christianbookawards/gm1995.php

[5] ttp://www.rediff.com/news/2006/jun/02spec.htm

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