The following is a who are famous, have made significant contributions to the American Culture or Society Politic ally, Artistic ally or Scientific ally, or have appeared in the News numerous times:
- Agha Shahid Ali , poet
- Ravi Batra , beststelling author and economist
- Homi K. Bhabha , post-colonial theorist at Harvard
- Mohini Bhardwaj , first Indian American medalist, gymnastics
- Sabeer Bhatia , co-founder Hotmail
- Anand Bhatt , grammy recognized american rock star
- Amar Bose , physicist and founder of Bose Corporation
- Jay Chandrasekhar , actor, comedian, writer, and film director
- Subramanyan Chandrasekhar , Nobel Prize , Physics , 1983
- Satveer Chaudhary , first Indian American elected in Minnesota's history and the youngest State Senator in Minnesota
- Kalpana Chawla , NASA astronaut (perished in the 2003 Columbia disaster)
- Brandon Chillar , Professional American Football player
- Deepak Chopra , personality development and health author
- Anita Desai , author
- Kiran Desai , author
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni , author
- Dinesh D'Souza , author and conservative political commentator
- Rajat Gupta , former Managing Director, McKinsey & Company
- Sanjay Gupta , CNN senior medical correspondent
- Kamala Harris , District Attorney of San Francisco, first Indian American elected as a D.A. in the country
- Engelbert Humperdinck (singer) , singer, half India n
- Zakir Hussain , Tabla maestro
- Bobby Jindal , Republican - former Louisiana gubernatorial candidate and current member of the U.S. Congress
- Norah Jones , singer, Grammy award winner 2003, half India n
- Tony Kanal , Bass player for No Doubt , two-time Grammy award winner, producer, songwriter
- Har Gobind Khorana , Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine (1968)
- Vinod Khosla - general partner, venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers ; co-founder, Sun Microsystems
- Jhumpa Lahiri - writer
- Gary Lawyer , rock musician
- Zubin Mehta - conductor
- Ismail Merchant - film producer
- Bharati Mukherjee - author
- Mira Nair , filmmaker
- Suhas Patil , founder, Cirrus Logic
- Kal Penn , actor
- Ramesh Ponnuru , senior editor of '' National Review '' magazine
- C.K. Prahalad , management guru
- Kavita Ramdas , President and CEO of ''Global Fund for Women''.
- Arun Sarin , CEO, Vodafone
- Dalip Singh Saund , first Indian-American congressman
- Amartya Sen , The Bank Of Sweden Prize In Economic Sciences In Memory Of Alfred Nobel , 1998
- Manick Sorcar , artist, producer, entrepreneur
- M. Night Shyamalan , filmmaker, actor
- Kim Thayil , guitarist for rock group Soundgarden
- Bhagat Singh Thind , civil rights figure, lecturer, author
- Ali Velshi , business news anchor for CNN
- Fareed Zakaria , editor of '' Newsweek International '', author
By Americans we are referring to citizens of the United States of America, and not to persons living in either the North American or South American continents.
Also by Indians, we are referring to individuals with some portion of ancestry from the Indian Subcontinent.
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