List of Hindus

This a list of famous people of the past 150 years who are or were Hindu.

Religious Figures / Philosophers

Adi Shankara : Philosopher Saint, Social reformer
Ramanuja : Philosopher Saint
Shri Madhvacharya : Philosopher Saint
Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa : Philosopher Saint, Social reformer
Swami Vivekananda : Philosopher Saint, Social reformer
Sri Aurobindo : Mystic and philosopher
Narayana Guru : Mystic and philosopher
Annie Besant : Theosophist and president of the Congress Party
A.C._Bhaktivedanta_Swami_Prabhupada : Founder-acharya of ISKCON
Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya : Philosopher
Swami Chinmayananda : Religious leader
Ananda Coomaraswamy : Art historian
Ram Dass : American spiritual leader
Swami Dayananda : Religious leader
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan : Philosopher
Ramana Maharshi : Mystic
Ram Mohan Roy : Reformer
Swami Sivananda: Yogi
Sivaya Subramuniyaswami : Modern sage
Paramahansa Yogananda : Yogi
Nisargadatta Maharaj : Teacher
Swami Sivananda : Modern sage
Deepak Chopra : Personality Development Author

National Leaders / Politicians

Mohandas Gandhi : National leader
Gyanendra : King of Nepal.
Balgangadhar Tilak : National leader
Shivaji : Hindu Warrior

Business Leaders / Top Executives

Lakshmi Mittal : 3rd Richest Man in the World
Amar Bose : Founder of Bose Corporation
Ajay Piramal, chairman, Piramal Enterprises Limited
Vinod Khosla : Venture Capitalist, Co-founder Sun Microsystems
Rajat Gupta : CEO, McKinsey
Indra Nooyi : President, PepsiCo
Arun Sarin : CEO, Vodafone
Sanjay Kumar : CEO, Computer Associates International
Dewang Mehta, ex-chief of NASSCOM
GD Birla, Industrialist, Birla Group
Jamnalal Bajaj
Mukesh Ambani
N.R. Narayana Murthy, co-founder Infosys
Sanjiv Sidhu, founder i2 Technologies
Shantanurao Laxmanrao Kirloskar, Kirloskar Group
Subrata Roy, Sahara India Parivar
Bobby Kishore, General Manager Microsoft Corporation
Vijay Mallya, chairman, UB group of companies

Writers

Rabindranath Tagore : Writer, Nobel Prize Winner
V.S. Naipaul : Writer, Nobel Prize Winner
Eknath Easwaran : Keralan-American author
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Hindi poet
Jayakanthan, Tamil writer, Jnanpith awardee
Jhumpa Lahiri - Pulitzer Prize winner for "Interpreter of Maladies"
Kalhana
Kamala Markandaya, poetess
Manil Suri novelist
Mahadevi Verma, Hindi poetess
Mulk Raj Anand
Munshi Premchand, Hindi novelist
R.K. Narayan, English short-story writer
Shashi Tharoor - Author of The Great Indian Novel besides other books
Subhash Kak, writer
Sumitranandan Pant, Hindi poet
Vikram Seth, English novelist, poet
Vayalar Ramavarma - Malayalam poet
Arundhati Roy

Scientists / Inventors

Jagdish Chandra Bose : Scientist
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman : Scientist, Nobel Prize Winner
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar : Scientist, Nobel Prize Winner
Har Gobind Khorana : Scientist, Nobel Prize Winner
Erwin Schrödinger : Physicist
Amartya Sen : Economist, Nobel Prize Winner
J.D. Salinger : Novelist
Aldous Huxley : Novelist
Christopher Isherwood : Writer
Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul : Novelist
Sabeer Bhatia : Co-founder of Hotmail

Musicians

Ravi Shankar : Sitar virtuoso, multiple Grammy winner, mentor to George Harrison
George Harrison : Musician
Abhijeet, singer
Alka Yagnik, singer
Asha Bhosle, singer
Babul Supriyo
Balamurali Krishna
Geeta Dutt, singer
Hemant Kumar, composer and singer
Hridaynath Mangeshkar, composer
Ilayaraja, Composer
Kartik Seshadri,Sitarist
Kavita Krishnamurthy
Kay Kay, singer
Kishore Kumar, playback singer, actor
Lata Mangeshkar, singer
Mahendra Kapoor, singer
Manna Dey, singer
MS Subbulakshmi, Classical (Carnatic) Singer
Mukesh, singer
Nitin Sawhney, composer
O.P. Nayyar, composer
Rahul Dev Burman, composer
Ravi, composer
Ravi Shankar, Sitar maestro
S.D. Burman, composer
Sadhana Sargam
Salil Chowdhury, composer
Suraiya, singer
Trilok Gurtu, Percussionist
Yesudas, singer, devotional and film songs, exponent of Carnatic music

Film Producers / Directors

Satyajit Ray : Film Director
Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Bimal Roy
Boney Kapoor
David Dhawan
Dev Anand
Guru Dutt
Hrishikesh Mukherjee
K C Bokadia
Kamal Amrohi
Karan Johar
Mani Ratnam
Manoj Night Shyamalan (born Indian, later American citizen)
Mira Nair
Mrinal Sen
Raj Kapoor
Rajkumar Santoshi
Ram Gopal Varma
Ritwik Ghatak
Sai Paranjpe
Satish Kaushik
Shekhar Kapoor
Shyam Benegal
Subhash Ghai
Subodh Mukherjee
Shakti Samanta
Vishal Bharadwaj
Yash Chopra

Actors / Actresses

Sports figures

Vijay Singh : Golfer
Anil Kumble, Cricket
Ashok Kumar, hockey
Baichung Bhutia, Football
Chandu Borde, Cricket
Dhanraj Pillay, Hockey
Dhyan Chand, Hockey
Geet Sethi, snooker
Gopichand, badminton
Javagal Srinath, Cricket
Jyoti Randhawa, golf
Kapil Dev, Cricket
Karan Rastogi, Tennis
Karnam Malleswari, Weightlifting
Lakshmipathy Balaji, Cricket
Mahesh Bhupathi, Tennis
Mohinder Amarnath, Cricket
Narain Karthikeyan, car racing
P Harikrishna, chess
Pargat Singh, Hockey
Prakash Padukone, Badminton
Pravin Thipsay, chess grandmaster
P. T. Usha, Athlete, Asian Games medallist
Ramesh Krishnan, tennis
Rahul Dravid, Cricket
Sachin Tendulkar, Cricket
Saurav Ganguly, Cricket
Sunil Gavaskar, Cricket
Viswanathan Anand, Chess

Others

Kalpana Chawla : Astronaut

Others who believed in or were influenced by Hinduism

Ralph Waldo Emerson : Author, American Transcendentalist
Amos Bronson Alcott : Author, American Transcendentalist
Edwin_Arnold : British Poet, Journalist
David Bohm : American Quantum Physicist
Niels Bohr : Danish Physicist, Nobel Prize Winner
Joseph Campbell : American Professor, writer, orator
Fritjof_Capra : Austrian born, American Physicist, author Tao of Physics
[[Alain_Dani%E9lou]] : French writer
T.S. Eliot : Anglo-American author, Nobel Prize winner
Herman_Hesse : German author, Nobel Prize winner
Carl Jung : Swiss psychiatrist and founder of Analytical Psychology
Herman Melville : American author, poet
Yehudi Menuhin : Violinist, exposed many Westerners to Yoga
Max Muller : German Orientalist, created the discipline of comparative religion
Friedrich Nietzsche : German philosopher, philologist, Atheist and psychologist
Robert Oppenheimer : American physicist,Father of the Atomic Bomb
Romain Rolland : French writer, Nobel Prize Winner
Carl Sagan : American astronomer, science popularizer, Promoted SETI
Arthur Schopenhauer : German Philosopher
Erwin Schroedinger : Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize winner
Albert Schweitzer : German theologian, philosopher, physician, Nobel Prize winner
George Bernard Shaw : Irish playwright, satirist, vegetarian, Nobel Prize winner
Leo Tolstoy : Russian novelist, reformer, pacifist, moral thinker, vegetarian
Arnold Joseph Toynbee : British historian
Mark Twain : American humorist, writer and lecturer.
Ludwig van Beethoven : German composer of classical music
Nikola Tesla : physicist, mathematician, inventor, and electrical engineer
Henry David Thoreau : Author, American Transcendentalist
HG Wells : British Science-Fiction writer, vegetarian
John Archibald Wheeler : American theoretical physicist
Alfred North Whitehead : British-American philosopher, physicist and mathematician
Walt Whitman : American poet and humanist
William Butler Yeats : Irish poet, dramatist, mystic, public figure, Nobel Prize winner
Rene Guenon : French philosopher
Carlos Santana : Musician
Houman Younessi : Iranian-born Australian-American scientist, activist