Rabindranath Tagore07 May 1861
Poet
Salman Rushdie19 June 1947
British-Indian novelist
Ruskin Bond19 May 1934
Writer
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar28 May 1883
Independence Activist, Reformer
R. K. Narayan10 October 1906
Writer
Fareed Zakaria20 January 1964
Journalist
Chetan Bhagat22 April 1974
Author
Spike Milligan16 April 1918
Comedian
Khushwant Singh02 February 1915
Novelist, Lawyer, Journalist & Politician
Mahadevi Varma26 March 1907
Poet
Amrita Pritam31 August 1919
Writer
Kumar Vishwas10 February 1970
Poet
Mulk Raj Anand12 December 1905
Vikram Seth20 June 1952
Writer
Kamal Amrohi17 January 1918
Director
Kuvempu29 December 1904
Novelist
Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi14 June 1856
Islamic Scholar, Reformer
Ahmed Deedat01 July 1918
Writer
Tanikella Bharani14 July 1954
Actor
Kusumagraj27 February 1912
Poet
Ramdhari Singh Dinkar23 September 1908
Poet
Ramachandra Guha29 April 1958
Writer
Nabaneeta Dev Sen13 January 1938
Writer
Gollapudi Maruti Rao14 April 1939
Actor
Shreya Ghoshal12 March 1984
Singer, Writer, Actor, Composer
Mammootty07 September 1951
actor, film producer, screenwriter, film actor
Dinesh D'Souza25 April 1961
Conservationists
Shashi Tharoor09 March 1956
Writer, Politician, Diplomat
M. Karunanidhi03 June 1924
Politician, Screenwriter, Author, Journalist,
Kalki Koechlin10 January 1984
Actor, Screenwriter, Writer
Sudha Murthy19 August 1950
Author, Social worker, Computer scientist,
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Physician, Writer, Intellectual, Preacher
Aravind Adiga23 October 1974
Writer, Journalist, Novelist, Film director
Sajid Nadiadwala18 March 1966
film producer
Arundhati Roy24 November 1961
Novelist, Writer, Screenwriter, Essayist
Ashutosh Rana10 November 1967
Actor
Meena Kumari01 August 1933
Actress
Javed Akhtar17 January 1945
Screenwriter, Politician, Writer, Poet, Lyricist,
Nasser Hussain28 March 1968
Cricketer
Kamala Suraiyya31 March 1934
Harivanshrai Bachchan27 November 1907
Poet
Honey Irani25 August 1955
Actor, Writer, Screenwriter
Girish Karnad19 May 1938
Linguist, Author, Film director, Actor,
Vandana Shiva05 November 1952
Philosopher, Physicist, Writer, University teacher
Tom Alter23 June 1950
Actor
Soumitra Chatterjee19 January 1935
Actor
Suresh Oberoi17 December 1946
Actor
Madhur Jaffrey13 August 1933
Actor, Television actor, Film actor, Writer, Film
Palak Muchhal30 March 1992
Singer
Koratalla Siva15 June 1975
Rahul Khanna20 June 1972
Actor
Amish Tripathi18 October 1974
Writer
Vikramaditya Motwane06 December 1976
Film director
Sahir Ludhianvi08 March 1921
Poet, Lyricist, Songwriter
M. J. Akbar11 January 1951
Journalist, Writer, Politician
Nandana Sen19 August 1967
Actress
Piyush Mishra13 January 1963
Screenwriter, Music director, Actor, Singer,
Amitav Ghosh11 July 1956
Writer, Novelist, Journalist
Sheela22 March 1945
Actress
Habib Tanvir01 September 1923
Playwright
Vaikom Muhammad Basheer21 January 1908
Novelist, Screenwriter, Essayist, Writer, Diarist,
Dibakar Banerjee21 June 1969
Film director, Screenwriter
Rahat Indori01 January 1950
Poet
Kannadasan24 June 1927
Poet, Lyricist, Songwriter
Sugathakumari03 January 1934
Writer, Human rights activist, Children's writer
Sagarika Ghose08 November 1964
Author, Journalist
Raja Rao08 November 1908
Author, Writer
Nissim Ezekiel14 December 1924
poet
Anita Desai24 June 1937
Novelist
Bipin Chandra Pal07 November 1858
Writer
J. P. Dutta03 October 1949
Film producer
Vairamuthu13 July 1953
Author, Actor, Poet, Lyricist, Songwriter
Ramanand Sagar29 December 1917
Film director, Screenwriter, Film producer, Writer
Anand Gandhi26 September 1980
Film director, Film producer, Screenwriter
Siddhartha Mukherjee21 July 1970
Physician
Purushottam Laxman Deshpande08 November 1919
Author, Film director, Actor, Composer, Poet,
Ankit Fadia24 May 1985
Swami Sivananda08 September 1887
Spiritual & Yoga Teacher
Mahasweta Devi14 January 1926
Human rights activist, Writer, Poet, Novelist,
Irom Chanu Sharmila14 March 1972
Poet, Journalist
M. T. Vasudevan Nair15 July 1933
Author, Film director, Screenwriter
Jayant Narlikar19 July 1938
Physicist, Astronomer, Astrophysicist, Scientist,
Ramchandra Gandhi09 June 1937
Author, Philosopher, University teacher, Writer
Satinder Sartaaj31 August 1982
Singer
Shiv Kumar Batalvi23 July 1936
Author, Poet, Lyricist, Songwriter
Sumitranandan Pant20 May 1900
Writer, Poet
Sujatha Rangarajan03 May 1935
Writer, Screenwriter
Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri18 March 1926
Author
Crazy Mohan16 October 1952
screenwriter
Kiran Desai03 September 1971
Novelist, Writer
Ritwik Ghatak04 November 1925
Film director, Actor, Screenwriter, Film producer,
Arun Shourie02 November 1941
Politician, Journalist, Writer
Vijay Tendulkar06 January 1928
linguist, screenwriter, writer, translator
Nayantara Sahgal10 May 1927
Journalist, Writer