List of British Indians

Arts and entertainment

Naveen Andrews, actor

Upen Patel, model

Gabrielle Anwar, actress (father and grandfather had Indian ancestry)

Mina Anwar, actor

Samir Bhamra, theatre director

Jas Binag, acto

Gurinder Chadha, movie director

Ameet Chana, actor

Charli XCX, pop singer

Sarita Choudhury, actress

Bobby Friction, radio presenter

Tripet Garielle, singer

Kulvinder Ghir, actor

Neelam Gill, model

Shobna Gulati, actor

Waris Hussein, film and television director

Indira Joshi, actor

Juggy D, singer

Kamaal Khan, Bollywood singer and actor

Rani Khanijau, television presenter

Ben Kingsley, actor

Veronica Mehta, singer

Ismail Merchant, producer

Freddie Mercury, lead singer in the band Queen

Jimi Mistry, actor

Rhona Mitra (1976–), actress and model

Parminder Nagra, actor

Nihal, radio presenter

Archie Panjabi, actor

Panjabi MC, real name Rajinder Rai, dance musician

Anita Rani, television and radio presenter

Rishi Rich, music producer

Laila Rouass, actor

Sunetra Sarker, actor

Nitin Sawhney, dance musician

Jay Sean, R'n'B singer

Pooja Shah, actor

Talvin Singh, dance musician

Tjinder Singh, lead singer of Cornershop

Swami, rap/rock band

Meera Syal, comedian

Indira Varma, actor

Nina Wadia, comedian

Business and industry

Vikrant Bhargava, co-founder of PartyGaming

Karan Bilimoria, founder of Cobra Beer

Nina Bracewell-Smith, non-executive director of Arsenal F.C.

Anurag Dikshit, co-founder of PartyGaming

Hinduja brothers

Anshu Jain, Head of Global Markets, Deutsche Bank AG

Firoz Kassam, former owner of Oxford United F.C.

Gulu Lalvani, founder of Binatone

Avtar Lit, founder of Sunrise Radio

Lakshmi Mittal, billionaire, founder of Mittal Steel

Tom Singh, founder of New Look

Literature and media

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, columnist

Lord Waheed Alli, television producer

Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti, playwright

Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri, author

Rana Dasgupta, author

Vish Dhamija, author

Krishnan Guru-Murthy, television journalist

Sunny Hundal, journalist, political blogger

V.S. Naipaul, author (from Indian community in Trinidad)

Rahul Potluri, author of scientific and medical research

Salman Rushdie, writer

Sasthi Brata, writer

Vikram Seth, author

Simon Singh, author of scientific and mathematical interest

Politics

Mancherjee Bhownagree, former Conservative, second Indian MP in British Parliament

Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai

Nirj Deva, Conservative MEP

Parmjit Dhanda, former Labour MP

Parmjit Singh Gill, Liberal Democrat

Piara Khabra, former Labour MP (deceased)

Tarsem King, Baron King of West Bromwich

Ashok Kumar, former Labour MP

Seema Malhotra

Claude Moraes, Labour MEP

Dadabhai Naoroji, former Liberal Party MP, first Indian MP in British Parliament

Bhikhu Parekh, Baron Parekh

Adam Patel, Baron Patel of Blackburn

Priti Patel, Employment Minister in David Cameron's Cabinet

Dolar Popat, Baron Popat

Diljit Rana, Baron Rana, MP at the House of Lords

Shapurji Saklatvala, former Communist MP

Virendra Sharma, Labour MP and councillor in Ealing

Marsha Singh, former Labour MP

Shailesh Vara, Conservative MP

Keith Vaz, Labour MP

Sports

Naiktha Bains, tennis player

Ravi Bopara, cricketer

Michael Chopra, footballer, Newcastle United

Nasser Hussain, cricketer, former England captain

Ronnie Irani, cricketer

Monty Panesar, cricketer

Mark Ramprakash, cricketer

Harpal Singh, footballer, Leeds United AFC

Vikram Solanki, cricketer

Neil Taylor, Welsh footballer

Others

George Edalji, barrister falsely accused of horse killing, defended by Arthur Conan Doyle

Buck Ruxton, 1930s murderer, born a Parsi

Saira Shah, journalist, daughter of Idries Shah

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2009; current President of the Royal Society (as of November 2015)