This is a list of notable Indian Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants. Note that unlike many countries, India does not allow dual citizenship.
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.
Subramanyan Chandrasekhar, Nobel Prize for Physics, 1983
Har Gobind Khorana, Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1968
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2009; current President of the Royal Society (as of November 2015)
Amartya Sen, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998; Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University
Deans and presidents
Angappa Gunasekaran, Dean of Charlton College of Business at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Rakesh Khurana, Dean of Harvard College
Jamshed Bharucha, President Emeritus of Cooper Union; previously Dean of Arts & Sciences at Dartmouth College and Provost at Tufts University
Vijay K. Dhir, Dean of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science
Dinesh D'Souza, President of The King's College, New York
Anjli Jain, Executive Director of CampusEAI Consortium
Dipak C. Jain, Dean of INSEAD and former Dean of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University
Vistasp Karbhari, President of the University of Texas at Arlington
Pramod Khargonekar, control theorist; Dean and Eckis Professor, College of Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville; Vice Chancellor of Research, University of California, Irvine
Renu Khator, Chancellor of the University of Houston System and President of the University of Houston
Pradeep Khosla, Chancellor of the University of California, San Diego
Vijay Kumar, Associate Dean of School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania
Geeta Menon, Dean of the Undergraduate College at New York University Stern School of Business
Nitin Nohria, Dean of Harvard Business School
Sethuraman Panchanathan, Executive Vice President and Chief Research and Innovation Officer at Arizona State University
Michael Rao, President of Virginia Commonwealth University
Beheruz Sethna, President of the University of West Georgia
Dr. Paul Shrivastava, Distinguished Professor and Director, David O'Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise, Concordia 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
S.S Iyengar, Ryder Professor of Computer Science and Director of the School of Computing and Information Sciences at Florida International University, Miami
Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar, mathematician, singularity theory and Abhyankar's conjecture of finite group theory
Raghu Raj Bahadur, statistician
Manjul Bhargava, professor of mathematics at Princeton University and winner of Fields Medal, 2014
Raj Chandra Bose, mathematician
Sarvadaman Chowla, mathematician specializing in number theory
Harish-Chandra, mathematician
Narendra Karmarkar, mathematician, inventor of Karmarkar algorithm
Chandrashekhar Khare, professor of mathematics at the University of California Los Angeles
G. S. Maddala, mathematician and economist best known for his work in the field of econometrics
Anil Nerode, mathematician, proved the Myhill-Nerode Theorem
K. C. Sreedharan Pillai, mathematician
Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao, professor at Penn State University and research professor at the University at Buffalo
S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, NYU mathematician who specialised in probability; winner of the Abel Prize and Steele Prize
Akshay Venkatesh, mathematician
Abhijit Banerjee, Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at MIT
Kaushik Basu, Chief Economist of the World Bank
Jagdish Natwarlal Bhagwati, Professor of Economics at Columbia University
Alok Bhargava, Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy
V. V. Chari, Professor of Economics at the University of Minnesota
Raj Chetty, Professor of Economics at Harvard University
Avinash Kamalakar Dixit, Professor of Economics at Princeton University
Arvind Panagariya, Professor of Economics at Columbia University
Debraj Ray, Silver Professor of Economics, New York University
Arvind Subramanian, Chief Economic Advisor Government of India and formerly an economist at the International Monetary Fund
Raghuram Rajan Professor University of Chicago and former Governor of Reserve Bank of India
Professors and scholars in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering
Anant Agarwal, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT
K. Mani Chandy, Professor of Computer Science at the California Institute of Technology
Anil K. Jain (born 1946), Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Davis
Anil K. Jain (born 1948), Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University
Raj Jain, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science
Aravind Joshi, Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science at the University of Pennsylvania
Thomas Kailath, Professor of Engineering at Stanford University
Avinash Kak, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University
Saraju Mohanty, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of North Texas
Shwetak Patel, Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington
Arogyaswami Paulraj, Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
Krishna Saraswat, Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
Ricky J. Sethi, Professor of Computer Science at Fitchburg State University; Director of Research at The Madsci Network
Amit Sheth, computer scientist at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio
Madhu Sudan, Professor of Computer Science at MIT
Umesh Vazirani, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley
Vijay Vazirani, Professor of Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Professors and scholars in Other Disciplines
Kuzhikalail M. Abraham, professor at Northeastern University, electrochemistry; materials science; lithium, lithium ion, and lithium air batteries
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 at Pennsylvania State University
Satya N. Atluri, Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at University of California, Irvine
P.S. Ayyaswamy, Professor of Dynamical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania
Mahzarin Banaji, professor at Harvard University, best known for exploring implicit racial and gender biases
Homi K. Bhabha, professor at Harvard University
Sugata Bose, Professor of History at Harvard University
Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty, Professor of Microbiology at University of Illinois at Chicago
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 in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley
Rajit Gadh, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at University of California, Los Angeles
Bhargav Gajjar, aerospace robotics scientist, educator, entrepreneur from MIT; founder of bio-inspired robotics company Vishwa Robotics
Swapan K. Gayen, Indian-American physicist, Professor of Physics at the City University of New York
Anirvan Ghosh, professor at the University of California, San Diego
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
Ravi Jagannathan, professor at the Kellogg School of Management
Rakesh Jain, Professor of Tumor Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital in the Harvard Medical School
Jainendra K. Jain, Professor of Physics at Pennsylvania State University
John Jain, reproductive endocrinologist at the Lyan Institute of Fertility Research
Piyare Jain, Professor Emeritus at University at Buffalo
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
M. A. Muqtedar Khan, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware
Ravindra Khattree, professor of statistics at Oakland University
Shrinivas Kulkarni, professor of astrophysics and planetary science at Caltech
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 language and literature at the University of Chicago
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
Ishwar K. Puri, N. Waldo Harrison Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Virginia Tech
Anantanand Rambachan, Professor of Religion at St. Olaf College, Minnesota, United States
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, behavioral neurologist and psychophysicist; Professor with the Psychology and Neurosciences University of California, San Diego
K. R. Rao, professor at University of Texas at Arlington
J. N. Reddy, Professor and holder of the Oscar S. Wyatt Endowed Chair in Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University
Subir Sachdev, Herchel Smith Professor of Physics at Harvard University; Dirac Medal and National Academy of Sciences
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
Thomas Abraham, Founder President of the Global Organization of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO) as well as the National Federation of Indian American Associations (NFIA)
Maya Ajmera, founder of The Global Fund for Children and author of more than 20 books for children
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
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
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
Inder Singh, Chairman of the Global Organization of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO)
Bhagat Singh Thind, civil rights figure, lecturer, author
Urvashi Vaid, gay rights activist
Arts and entertainment
Ashok Amritraj, Hollywood film producer
Salma Arastu, artist
San Banarje, independent filmmaker
Rina Banerjee, artist
Prashant Bhargava, director
Jay Chandrasekhar, director, actor, comedian, and writer
Nina Davuluri, Miss America 2014
Param Gill, director, screenwriter and producer
Rohit Gupta, director, producer
Reef Karim, actor, director, writer, and producer
Neeraj Khemlani, producer for CBS News' 60 Minutes
Bharti Kirchner, writer
Adam Bhala Lough, director, screenwriter
Tirlok Malik, filmmaker and actor
Benny Mathews, film and music video director
Faris McReynolds, painter and musician
Govindini Murty, co-founder of the Liberty film festival
Mira Nair, director and producer
Sunil Nayar, TV writer and producer; producer of CSI: Miami
Yatin Patel, photographer and artist
Mythili Prakash, Bharatanatyam dancer and choreographer
Asha Puthli, singer-songwriter, producer and actress
Sarayu Rao, actor and director
Ajay Sahgal, director, screenwriter and producer
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
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
Actors and actresses
Waris Ahluwalia, fashion designer
Aziz Ansari, actor and comedian
Gabrielle Anwar, actress
Tanveer K. Atwal, actress
Erick Avari, actor
Sunkrish Bala, actor
Firdous Bamji, actor
Purva Bedi, actress
Summer Bishil, actress
Karan Brar, film and TV actor on Disney ("Diary of a Wimpy Kid")
Samrat Chakrabarti, actor
Melanie Chandra, actress
Rory Cochrane, actor
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
Mindy Kaling, actress
Ravi Kapoor, actor
Deep Katdare, actor
Nivedita Kulkarni, actress
Shishir Kurup, actor
Sunny Leone, actress
Nakul Dev Mahajan, Bollywood dancer and choreographer
Tirlok Malik, actor
Shelly Malil, film and TV actor
Aasif Mandvi, actor
Ajay Mehta, TV actor
Ajay Naidu, actor
Anjul Nigam, actor
Maulik Pancholy, actor
Devika Parikh, actress
Kal Penn, actor
Danny Pudi, actor
Priya Rai, pornographic actress
Sendhil Ramamurthy, actor
Dileep Rao, actor
Navi Rawat, actress
Sonal Shah, actress
Sheetal Sheth, actress
Lilly Singh, actress
Tiya Sircar, actress
Thomas Tevana, actor
Omi Vaidya, actor
Aman Ali
Arj Barker
Mindy Kaling
Hari Kondabolu
Adam Mamawala
Kunal Nayyar
Russell Peters, born in Canada, now living in USA
Rajiv Satyal
Anish Shah
Azhar Usman
Aziz Ansari
Paul Varghese, from Dallas, Texas; appeared on Last Comic Standing
H. Jay Dinshah, founded the American Vegan Society
Raghavan Iyer, chef, author, culinary educator
Vikas Khanna, Michelin starred chef, restaurateur, author, filmmaker, and TV host
Jehangir Mehta, celebrity chef, restaurateur, author
Rajat Parr, sommelier
Naeem Khan
Vashtie Kola
Bibhu Mohapatra
Christine Philip
Rachel Roy
Anchal Joseph, contestant on Cycle 7 of America's Next Top Model
Pooja Kumar, model
Padma Lakshmi, model, Top Chef host
Deepak Ananthapadmanabha, online journalist
Erik Angra, documentary filmmaker
Asha Blake, Emmy award-winning journalist; works for KTLA-TV in Los Angeles
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
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
Mish Michaels, meteorologist for the WBZ-TV Weather Team
Vinita Nair, current 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
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, former CNN Middle East correspondent
Shihab Rattansi, CNN International anchor; news anchor for Al Jazeera English
Simran Sethi, journalist
Alpana Singh, television personality
Hari Sreenivasan, correspondent for CBS News and the PBS NewsHour
Sreenath Sreenivasan, Columbia University professor; WABC-TV technology reporter
Ali Velshi, business news anchor for CNN
Zain Verjee, CNN anchor
Fareed Zakaria, columnist for Time magazine and host of Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN
Ángel, of Indian heritage, American rapper and poet
Bamboo Shoots, dance-rock band
Mr. Capone-E, West Coast Rapper
Jeff Bhasker, producer
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
Ravi Hutheesing, singer-songwriter, guitarist
Vijay Iyer, jazz musician and composer
Sunny Jain, dhol player, drummer, and composer
Norah Jones, singer, songwriter and actress; winner of multiple Grammy Awards
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
Thara Prashad, singer
Vasant Rai, performer of Indian music
Paul Sabu, producer
Shaheen Sheik, songwriter
Bikram Singh, singer
Ambi Subramaniam, violinist and composer
Bindu Subramaniam, singer-songwriter
Kim Thayil, named among 100th greatest guitarists of all time by Rolling Stone
Jay Sean, singer, songwriter
Rimi Basu, singer, dancer
Nikesh Arora, former Senior Vice President and Chief Business Officer of Google; former COO and President of SoftBank
Prith Banerjee, Managing Director of Global Technology R&D at Accenture
Ajay Banga, President and CEO of MasterCard
Francis deSouza, CEO of Illumina
Rono Dutta, former President of United Airlines; Chairman of Air Sahara
Asim Ghosh, President and Chief Executive Officer at Husky Energy
Rajiv Gupta, General Manager of Hewlett Packard
Ajit Jain, President of Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance Group
Anshu Jain, former co-CEO of Deutsche Bank
Sanjay Jha, CEO of Global Foundries and former CEO of Motorola Mobile Devices
Vyomesh Joshi, Executive Vice President of Imaging and Printing Group, Hewlett-Packard Company
Thomas Kurian, President of Product Development at Oracle Corporation
Victor Menezes, Chairman of Clearing House Association; former Chairman and CEO of Citibank
Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft
Ranji H. Nagaswami, Chief Investment Officer for AllianceBernstein Fund Investors
Shantanu Narayen, CEO of Adobe Systems
Indra Nooyi, Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo
Dinesh Paliwal, Chairman and CEO of Harman International
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google Inc.
Arati Prabhakar, Director of DARPA
Prakash Puram, President and CEO of iXmatch
Arvind Raghunathan, Managing Director and Head of Global Arbitrage at Deutsche Bank
Vivek Ranadivé, CEO of TIBCO Software
Abbas Sadriwala, Chairman and CEO of the Fort Lauderdale-based Wireless Logix Group
Rajeev Suri, CEO of Nokia
Abhi Talwalkar, President and CEO of LSI Corporation
Padmasree Warrior, CTO of Cisco Systems
Sandeep Tyagi, Chairman/Managing Director of Estee Advisors
Samir Arora, former CEO of Mode Media
Ramani Ayer, former Chairman and CEO of The Hartford Financial Services Group
Rakesh Gangwal, former CEO and Chairman of US Airways Group
Rajat Gupta, former Managing Director of McKinsey & Company
Umang Gupta, former CEO of Keynote Systems, Inc.
Anil Kumar, former Senior Partner and Chairman, Asia Center of McKinsey & Company
Sanjay Kumar, former CEO of Computer Associates International
Bobby Mehta, former CEO and Vice Chairman of HSBC North America and former CEO of Transunion Company
Lakshmi Narayanan, Vice Chairman and former CEO of Cognizant Corporation
Vikram Pandit, former CEO of Citigroup
Kanwal Rekhi, former EVP and CTO of Novell
Deven Sharma, former president of Standard & Poor's
Jay Sidhu, former Chairman and CEO of Sovereign Bancorp
Businesspersons and entrepreneurs
Kumar Arora, CEO of Aroridex Ltd. and Investor on CNBC
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
Amar Bose, founder and chairman of Bose Corporation
Bharat Desai, co-founder and chairman of Syntel
Sant Singh Chatwal, owner of the Bombay Palace chain of restaurants and Hampshire Hotels & Resorts
John Kapoor, founder and executive chairman of Insys Therapeutics
Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures; co-founder of SUN Microsystems
Mark Persaud, President of Qwest Records from 1997–1999 and owner and Chairman of Persaud Brothers, Inc. from 1999 to present
Ram Shriram, venture fund capitalist and one of the first investors in Google
Romesh Wadhwani, founder, chairman and CEO of Symphony Technology Group
Kovid Gupta, bestselling author and screenwriter
Agha Shahid Ali, poet
Shauna Singh Baldwin, novelist, winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize
Ravi Batra, bestselling author and economist
Susham Bedi, author
Anita Desai, novelist; shortlisted for the Booker prize three times; mother of Kiran Desai
Kiran Desai, winner of the 2006 Man Booker Prize
Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla, author
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, author
Anu Garg, author, speaker, and computer engineer
Amitav Ghosh, Indo-nostalgic writer and winner of Prix Médicis étranger
Usha Haley, author
Rajiv Joseph, playwright
S. T. Joshi, literary critic
Siddharth Katragadda, author, filmmaker, artist
Parag Khanna, author
Jhumpa Lahiri, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Tulika Mehrotra, author, journalist
Dhan Gopal Mukerji, first successful Indian man of letters in the US; winner of the Newbery Medal, 1928
Bharati Mukherjee, author, professor
Siddhartha Mukherjee, physician, scientist and writer, 2011 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
Aimee Nezhukumatathil, poet
Indira Viswanathan Peterson, literary critic
Janaki Ram, author
Rishi Reddi, author
Saumitra Saxena, Hindi poet, Bharatiya Jnanpith Navlekhana Award winner
Vijay Seshadri, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and essayist
Vikram Seth, poet, novelist, travel writer, librettist, children's writer, biographer and memoirist
Ravi Shankar, poet
Indu Sundaresan, author
Thrity Umrigar, author of Bombay Time
Abraham Verghese, doctor and author; wrote In My Own Country and My Tennis Partner
Kaavya Viswanathan, novelist
Joe Roche, Iraq war veteran and conservative political commentator
Uday Singh Taunque, first Indian American to die in Operation Iraqi Freedom; posthumously awarded Bronze Star and Purple Heart gallantry awards
Sunita Williams, astronaut and former Navy officer
John Abraham, former mayor of Teaneck, New Jersey
Saqib Ali, former member of the Maryland House of Delegates
Harvinder "Harry" Anand, mayor of Laurel Hollow, New York
Sam Arora, member of the Maryland House of Delegates
Kumar P. Barve, member of the Maryland House of Delegates (majority leader)
Satveer Chaudhary, former Minnesota State Senator
Upendra J. Chivukula, member of the New Jersey General Assembly
Swati Dandekar, Iowa State Senator
Mervyn M. Dymally, 41st Lieutenant Governor of California (1975–1979); member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1981–1993)
Kashmir Gill, mayor of Yuba City, California
Jay Goyal, member of the Ohio State Representative
Raj Goyle, member of the Kansas State Representative
Nikki Haley, current U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and former Governor of South Carolina
Faz Husain, first native of India to win elected office in Michigan
Kamala Harris, first Indian-American elected to the United States Senate
Bobby Jindal, former Governor of Louisiana; Vice Chairman of the Republican Governors Association
Nimi McConigley, former member of the Wyoming State Legislature
Aruna Miller, member of the Maryland House of Delegates
Kshama Sawant, member of the Seattle City Council.
Harry Sidhu, city councilman of Anaheim, California
Bala K. Srinivas, former mayor of Hollywood Park, Texas
Jenifer Rajkumar, Lower Manhattan district leader and candidate for the New York State Assembly
Kamala Harris, 32nd current Attorney General of California, Senator-Elect from California.
Ami Bera, U.S. Representative for California's 7th congressional district
Raja Krishnamoorthi, U.S. Representative-elect for Illinois's 8th congressional district
Ro Khanna, U.S. Representative-elect for California's 17th congressional district
Pramila Jayapal, U.S. Representative-elect for Washington's 7th congressional district
Dalip Singh Saund, first Asian and Indian American member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California
Huma Abedin, aide to United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Arif Alikhan, former Assistant Secretary for Policy Development at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security; former Deputy Mayor for Homeland Security and Public Safety for the City of Los Angeles; former senior adviser to Attorneys General John Ashcroft and Alberto Gonzales
Preeta D. Bansal, member and past chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom; former Solicitor General of New York
Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York
Cathy Bissoon, judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
Nisha Desai Biswal, current Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs
Joy Cherian, first Asian head of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Aneesh Chopra, Federal Chief Technology Officer of the US
Har Dayal, founder of the Ghadar Party
Sabrina De Sousa, ex-CIA officer; is suing the US government for diplomatic immunity
Rashad Hussain, U.S. Special Envoy to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
Neel Kashkari, former interim Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability in the United States Department of the Treasury
Neal Katyal, Solicitor General of the United States
Gopal Khanna, Chief Information Officer of Minnesota
Narayana Kocherlakota, President of Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Kris Kolluri, New Jersey Commissioner of Transportation
Vivek Kundra, Federal Chief Information Officer of the US
Arun Majumdar, Director of the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy
Raj Mukherji, Deputy Mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey; candidate for the New Jersey State Legislature
Shekar Narasimhan, co-chair of the Democratic National Committee Indo-American Council
Ajit Pai, serving as Commissioner at Federal Communications Commission
Farah Pandith, Special Representative to Muslim Communities for the United States Department of State
Rachel Paulose, former United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota
Anant Raut, counsel to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee
Rajiv Shah, former Under Secretary of Agriculture for Research, Education, and Economics; current Administrator of USAID
Sonal Shah, member of the Obama-Biden Transition Project advisory board
Islam A. Siddiqui, Chief Agricultural Negotiator in the Office of the United States Trade Representative
Sabita Singh, first judge of Indian descent in Massachusetts history
Subra Suresh, Director of National Science Foundation
Vinai Thummalapally, served as U.S. Ambassador to Belize
Richard Verma, Assistant Secretary for Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs, at the Department of State
Surya Yalamanchili, 2010 US Congressional candidate
Vince Girdhari Chhabria, judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California
Manish S. Shah, judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
Srikanth Srinivasan, judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Indira Talwani, judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
Amul Roger Thapar, judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky
Chitrabhanu, Jain, founded the Jain Meditation International Center in Manhattan, New York City
Padmanabh Jaini, scholar of Jainism
Sushil Kumarji, Jain Acharya
Eboo Patel, member of New Faith Advisory Council
Prem Rawat, also known as Guru Maharaji Ji, head of the Divine Light Mission and later organizations
Muzammil Siddiqi, Ph.D., Chairman, Fiqh Council of North America
Ravi Zacharias, Christian evangelist and apologist
Science and technology
Kuzhikalail M. Abraham, pioneer in lithium and lithium ion battery technologies, Professor, Northeastern university, Boston, Massachusetts and President, E-KEM Sciences, Needham, Massachusetts
Ramesh K. Agarwal, aviation pioneer; William Palm Professor of Engineering at Washington University
Thomas Anantharaman, computer statistician specializing in Bayesian inference
Satya N. Atluri, aerospace and mechanics
VA Shiva Ayyadurai, former guest lecturer at MIT
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
Krishna Bharat, Principal Scientist at Google; created Google News
Sabeer Bhatia, co-founder of Hotmail
Ajay Bhatt, co-inventor of the USB; Chief Client Platform Architect at Intel
DJ Patil, Chief Data Scientist of the United States Office of Science and Technology Policy
Sharmila Bhattacharya, head of the Biomodel Performance and Behavior laboratory at NASA Ames Research Center
Mani Lal Bhaumik, contributor to excimer laser technology
Swapan Chattopadhyay, particle accelerator physicist
Kalpana Chawla, NASA space shuttle astronaut, who died in space shuttle blast
Deepak Chopra, alternative medicine advocate, author and public speaker
Anil Dash, blogger and technologist
Vinod Dham, designed the Intel Pentium Chip Processor; the "father of the Pentium Chip"
Rajiv Dutta, technology manager
Bhargav Gajjar (Gujarati:ભાગૅવ ગજજર), aerospace robotics scientist, educator, entrepreneur from Massachusetts Institute of Technology; founder of bio-inspired robotics company Vishwa Robotics
Dr. Amitabha Ghosh, the only Asian on NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission
Anirvan Ghosh, neuroscientist
Noshir Gowadia, design engineer
Amit Goyal, scientist and inventor
Vic Gundotra, former Senior Vice President, Engineering for Google
Subrah Iyar, co-founder and CEO of Webex Communications
Subhash Kak, head of the Computer Science department at Oklahoma State University
Narinder Singh Kapany, engineer, the "father of fiber optics"
Arjun Makhijani, electrical and nuclear engineer; President of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
Om Malik, technology journalist and blogger
Pranav Mistry, Sixth Sense Project
Samir Mitragotri, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering at University of California, Santa Barbara
Vamsi Mootha, physician-scientist and computational biologist
Rajeev Motwani, professor, angel investor
Siddhartha Mukherjee, scientist, physician, winner of Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
Pran Nath, theoretical physicist at Northeastern University
Arun Netravali, scientist; former President of Bell Labs; former CTO of Lucent; pioneer of digital technology, including HDTV and MPEG4
Bedabrata Pain, co-inventor of the active pixel sensor
Vijay Raghunath Pandharipande, physicist
Deepak Pandya, neuroanatomist
C. Kumar N. Patel, developed the carbon dioxide laser, used as a cutting tool in surgery and industry
Jogesh Pati, theoretical physicist at the University of Maryland, College Park
Arvind Rajaraman, theoretical physicist and string theorist
Chitranjan Singh Ranawat, orthopaedic and knee surgeon
Vineeta Rastogi, public health worker
Raj Reddy, founder of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University; winner of the Turing Award
V. Mohan Reddy, paediatric cardiothoracic surgeon at Stanford
Krishan Sabnani, engineer and Senior Vice President of the Networking Research Laboratory at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs in New Jersey
Avtar Saini, co-led the development of the Pentium processor Intel; holds seven patents related to microprocessor design
Ruchi Sanghvi, first female engineer of Facebook; former VP of Operations, Dropbox
Mahadev Satyanarayanan, computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University; pioneer of research in mobile and pervasive computing
Khem Shahani, microbiologist who conducted pioneer research on probiotics; discovered the DDS-1 strain of Lactobacillus acidophilus
Amit Singhal, Google Fellow, the designation the company reserves for its elite master engineers in the area of "ranking algorithm"
Rangaswamy Srinivasan, member of the Inventors' Hall of Fame for pioneering work on excimer laser surgery
George Sudarshan, physicist, author; first to propose the existence of the tachyon
Ajit Varki, physician-scientist
Mathukumalli Vidyasagar, control theorist
Sunita Williams, NASA astronaut
Thomas Zacharia, computational scientist
Ramesh Raskar, Femto-camera inventor, MIT Professor
Balamurali Ambati, world's youngest doctor, at age 17
Paul Antony, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA)
Sangeeta Bhatia, Harvard-MIT doctor and scientist; engineer of artificial liver cells
Atul Gawande, general and endocrine surgeon, professor, medical author, and National Book Award finalist
Anita Goel, Harvard-MIT physicist, physician; expert in nanobiophysics and nanotechnology; Chairman and CEO of Nanobiosym; inventor of Gene-RADAR technology
Sanjay Gupta, neurosurgeon; CNN chief medical correspondent; declined offer by President Barack Obama to be nominated U.S. Surgeon General
Joia Mukherjee, Associate Professor with the Division of Global Health Equity at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Vivek Murthy, 19th and current Surgeon General of the United States; former Vice Admiral of U.S. Public Health Corps
Amit Patel, cardiovascular surgeon and stem cell researcher; first person to inject stem cells directly into the heart
E. Premkumar Reddy, oncologist; Director of Fels institute of cancer research and molecular biology at Temple University
Harvinder Sahota, cardiologist; inventor of the FDA-approved perfusion balloon angioplasty; holds patents of 24 other medical inventions
Ashutosh Tewari, Professor of Urology at New York Presbyterian Hospital; prostate cancer surgeon
Krishna Reddy,radiation oncologist ; associate professor and director of medical student clerkship for radition oncology at university of toledo.
Prakash Amritraj, tennis player (born in the US)
Stephen Amritraj, tennis player
Sanjay Beach, former NFL wide receiver; played for the San Francisco 49ers and the Green Bay Packers
Mohini Bhardwaj, second Indian American Olympic medalist, 2004 Summer Olympics silver medalist in gymnastics
Vinay Bhat, chess grandmaster
Raj Bhavsar, third Indian American Olympic medalist, 2008 Summer Olympics bronze medalist in the team gymnastics competition
James Blackmon Jr., basketball player for the Indiana Hoosiers
Brandon Chillar, NFL player, linebacker for the Green Bay Packers (father of Indian descent)
Sonjay Dutt, TNA pro wrestler
The Great Khali, WWE pro wrestler
Alexi Grewal, first Indian American to win an Olympic medal, gold medalist in 1984 Summer Olympics in cycling
Sunil Gulati, in charge of the United States Soccer Federation
Sanjay Lal, wide receivers coach for the Buffalo Bills
Jinder Mahal, WWE pro wrestler
Manny Malhotra, NHL hockey player
Sushil Nadkarni, American cricketer
Ami Parekh, figure skater
Laxmi Poruri, tennis player
Rajeev Ram, tennis player
Sunitha Rao, tennis player
Shikha Uberoi, tennis player
Bikram Choudhury, yoga guru
Dipa Ma, yoga teacher
Harbhajan Singh Yogi, introduced Kundalini Yoga and Sikhism to the US
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