Rabindranath Tagore07 May 1861
Poet
Salman Rushdie19 June 1947
British-Indian novelist
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar28 May 1883
Independence Activist, Reformer
Ruskin Bond19 May 1934
Writer
R. K. Narayan10 October 1906
Spike Milligan16 April 1918
Comedian
Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi14 June 1856
Islamic Scholar, Reformer
Khushwant Singh02 February 1915
Novelist, Lawyer, Journalist & Politician
Kamal Amrohi17 January 1918
Director
Ahmed Deedat01 July 1918
Writer
Amrita Pritam31 August 1919
Writer
Vikram Seth20 June 1952
Writer
Mulk Raj Anand12 December 1905
Kuvempu29 December 1904
Novelist
Kusumagraj27 February 1912
Poet
Ramdhari Singh Dinkar23 September 1908
Poet
Mahadevi Varma26 March 1907
Poet
Mammootty07 September 1951
actor, film producer, screenwriter, film actor
Ramanand Sagar29 December 1917
Film director, Screenwriter, Film producer, Writer
Tanikella Bharani14 July 1956
writer, film director, actor, journalist
Shreya Ghoshal12 March 1984
Singer, Writer, Actor, Composer
Zakir Naik18 October 1965
Physician, Writer, Intellectual, Preacher
Kalki Koechlin10 January 1984
Actor, Screenwriter, Writer
Sajid Nadiadwala18 March 1966
film producer
Shashi Tharoor09 March 1956
Writer, Politician, Diplomat
Arundhati Roy24 November 1961
Novelist, Writer, Screenwriter, Essayist
Ashutosh Rana10 November 1967
Actor
Tom Alter23 June 1950
Actor
Meena Kumari01 August 1933
Actress
Javed Akhtar17 January 1945
Screenwriter, Politician, Writer, Poet, Lyricist,
Gulzar18 August 1936
film director, film producer, screenwriter,
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Girish Karnad19 May 1938
Linguist, Author, Film director, Actor,
Dinesh D'Souza25 April 1961
Conservationists
Atlee Kumar21 September 1986
Director
Suresh Oberoi17 December 1946
Actor
Honey Irani25 August 1955
Actor, Writer, Screenwriter
Soumitra Chatterjee19 January 1935
Actor
Vandana Shiva05 November 1952
Philosopher, Physicist, Writer, University teacher
Rahul Khanna20 June 1972
Actor
Chetan Bhagat22 April 1974
Writer
Gollapudi Maruti Rao14 April 1939
Writer, Screenwriter, News presenter, Journalist,
Piyush Mishra13 January 1963
Screenwriter, Music director, Actor, Singer,
Palak Muchhal30 March 1992
Singer
Kumar Vishwas10 February 1970
Politician
Nandana Sen19 August 1967
Actress
Amish Tripathi18 October 1974
Writer
Madhur Jaffrey13 August 1933
Actor, Television actor, Film actor, Writer, Film
Kannadasan24 June 1927
Poet, Lyricist, Songwriter
Crazy Mohan16 October 1952
screenwriter
Dibakar Banerjee21 June 1969
Film director, Screenwriter
Sagarika Ghose08 November 1964
Author, Journalist
Siddhartha Mukherjee21 July 1970
Physician
Sujatha Rangarajan03 May 1935
Writer, Screenwriter
Vairamuthu13 July 1953
Author, Actor, Poet, Lyricist, Songwriter
Vikramaditya Motwane06 December 1976
Film director
Joy Mathew30 December 1951
film director, playwright, actor
Sahir Ludhianvi08 March 1921
Poet, Lyricist, Songwriter
Devdutt Pattanaik11 December 1970
Mythographer
Purushottam Laxman Deshpande08 November 1919
Author, Film director, Actor, Composer, Poet,
M. T. Vasudevan Nair15 July 1933
Author, Film director, Screenwriter
Amitav Ghosh11 July 1956
Writer, Novelist, Journalist
Anand Gandhi26 September 1980
Film director, Film producer, Screenwriter
Majrooh Sultanpuri01 October 1919
Author, Poet, Lyricist, Songwriter
Na. Muthukumar12 July 1975
Poet
Ankit Fadia24 May 1985
Shiv Kumar Batalvi23 July 1936
Author, Poet, Lyricist, Songwriter
Tarun Tejpal15 March 1963
Journalist, Writer
Naushad25 December 1919
Musician
Suhaib Ilyasi08 September 1966
Television director
Irshad Kamil05 September 1971
Poet, Writer, Lyricist, Songwriter
Ritwik Ghatak04 November 1925
Film director, Actor, Screenwriter, Film producer,
Balakumaran05 July 1946
Writer
Karunanidhi03 June 1924
Politician, Screenwriter, Author, Journalist,
Sudha Murthy19 August 1950
Author, Social worker, Computer scientist,
Vaikom Muhammad Basheer21 January 1908
Novelist, Screenwriter, Essayist, Writer, Diarist,
Anita Desai24 June 1937
Novelist
Mahasweta Devi14 January 1926
Human rights activist, Writer, Poet, Novelist,
Ramchandra Gandhi09 June 1937
Author, Philosopher, University teacher, Writer
Vijay Tendulkar06 January 1928
linguist, screenwriter, writer, translator
Nissim Ezekiel14 December 1924
poet
Shobhaa De07 January 1948
Journalist, Writer, Socialite, Model
Bipin Chandra Pal07 November 1858
Writer
Irom Chanu Sharmila14 March 1972
Poet, Journalist
Mirza Tahir Ahmad18 December 1928
Translator, Homeopath, Writer
O. N. V. Kurup27 May 1931
Poet, Lyricist, Songwriter
Javed Siddiqui13 January 1942
Screenwriter, Playwright, Journalist
Raja Rao08 November 1908
Author, Writer
Jan Nisar Akhtar14 February 1914
author, poet, lyricist, songwriter
Arun Shourie02 November 1941
Politician, Journalist, Writer
Vikas Swarup1963 AD
diplomat, writer
Veturi Sundararama Murthy29 January 1936
Poet, Songwriter, Lyricist
Nayantara Sahgal10 May 1927
Journalist, Writer
Jayant Narlikar19 July 1938
Physicist, Astronomer, Astrophysicist, Scientist,
Salman Khurshid01 January 1953
Politician