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{{Short description|none}} {{distinguish|List of Native Americans of the United States|List of indigenous people of the Americas}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Dynamic list}} {{Americans}} [[Indian Americans]] are citizens or residents of the [[United States of America]] who trace their family descent to [[India]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/ronakdesai/2018/04/25/a-growing-number-of-indian-americans-are-leading-americas-best-business-schools/#79c4bd1f6f63|title=A Growing Number of Indian Americans Are Leading America's Best Business Schools|website=Forbes.com|access-date=28 April 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://newdelhi.usembassy.gov/acsdualnation.html|title=Dual Nationality - New Delhi, India - Embassy of the United States|access-date=8 May 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160317051738/http://newdelhi.usembassy.gov/acsdualnation.html|archive-date=17 March 2016}}</ref> Notable Indian Americans include: ==Academics== <!--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.---> ===Nobel Prize recipients=== [[File:Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.gif|upright=0.5|thumb|[[Subramanyan Chandrasekhar]], [[Nobel Prize for Physics]], 1983]] * [[Har Gobind Khorana]] (1922–2011), [[Nobel Prize in Medicine]], 1968 * [[Subramanyan Chandrasekhar]] (1910–1995), [[Nobel Prize for Physics]], 1983 * [[Venkatraman Ramakrishnan]] (b. 1952), [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]], 2009; Former [[President of the Royal Society]], (2015–2020) * [[Abhijit Banerjee]] (b. 1961), [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences]], 2019; Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Short Bio {{!}} MIT Economics |url=https://economics.mit.edu/people/faculty/abhijit-banerjee/short-bio |access-date=2025-03-27 |website=economics.mit.edu}}</ref> ===Deans and presidents=== <!--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.---> * [[Rakesh Khurana]] (born 1967), dean of [[Harvard College]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dean Rakesh Khurana {{!}} Harvard |url=https://college.harvard.edu/about/dean-rakesh-khurana |access-date=2025-03-27 |website=college.harvard.edu |language=en}}</ref> * [[Neeli Bendapudi]] (born 1962), president of [[University of Louisville]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Home - Dr. Neeli Bendapudi — Office of the President |url=https://louisville.edu/president/Home-Neeli/ |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20210922213501/https://louisville.edu/president/Home-Neeli/ |archive-date=2021-09-22 |access-date=2025-03-27 |website=louisville.edu |language=en}}</ref> * [[Jamshed Bharucha]] (born 1956), former president of [[Cooper Union]], (2011–2015); former dean of arts & sciences at [[Dartmouth College]] and former provost at [[Tufts University]] * [[Vijay K. Dhir]] (born 1943), former dean of the [[UCLA]] [[Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science]], (2003–2016) * [[Ravi V. Bellamkonda]] (born 1968), Vinik Dean of Engineering at [[Duke University]] [[Edmund T. Pratt Jr. School of Engineering]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dean's Welcome |url=https://pratt.duke.edu/about/welcome/ |access-date=2025-03-27 |website=Duke Pratt School of Engineering |language=en-US}}</ref> * [[Dinesh D'Souza]] (born 1961), former president of [[The King's College (New York)|The King's College, New York]], (2010–2012) * [[Anjli Jain]] (born 1981), executive director of [[Campus Consortium]] * [[Dipak C. Jain]] (born 1957), former dean of [[INSEAD]], (2011–2013); former dean of the [[Kellogg School of Management]] at [[Northwestern University]], (2001–2009) * [[Vistasp Karbhari]], former president of the [[University of Texas at Arlington]], (2013–2020) * [[Pramod Khargonekar]] (born 1956), control theorist; vice chancellor of research at [[University of California, Irvine]];<ref>{{Cite web |title=BioSketch - Pramod Khargonekar |url=https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/khargonekar/biographical-sketch/ |access-date=2025-03-27 |website=faculty.sites.uci.edu}}</ref> former dean, College of Engineering at [[University of Florida]], Gainesville, (2001–2009) * [[Renu Khator]] (born 1958), chancellor of the [[University of Houston System]] and president of the [[University of Houston]];<ref>{{Cite web |title=About Renu Khator |url=https://www.uh.edu/president/about/ |access-date=2025-03-27 |website=www.uh.edu |language=en}}</ref> former provost and senior vice president, [[University of South Florida]] * [[Pradeep Khosla]] (born 1957), chancellor of the [[University of California, San Diego]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=About the Chancellor's Office |url=https://chancellor.ucsd.edu/about/about-chancellors-office/index.html |access-date=2025-03-27 |website=chancellor.ucsd.edu}}</ref> * [[Sunil Kumar (academic administrator)]], president of [[Tufts University]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Office of the President {{!}} Tufts University |url=https://www.tufts.edu/president |access-date=2025-03-27 |website=www.tufts.edu |language=en}}</ref> * [[Vijay Kumar (roboticist)|Vijay Kumar]] (born 1962), dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the [[University of Pennsylvania]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dr. Vijay Kumar : Vijay Kumar Lab |url=https://www.kumarrobotics.org/dr-vijay-kumar/ |access-date=2025-03-27 |language=en-US}}</ref> * [[Saira Rao]], former Colorado congressional candidate and activist <ref>{{Cite web |title=Saira Rao {{!}} Penguin Random House |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2242083/saira-rao/ |access-date=2025-03-27 |website=PenguinRandomhouse.com |language=en-US}}</ref> * [[Geeta Menon]], dean emeritus of the undergraduate college at [[New York University Stern School of Business]]<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |last2= |first2= |last3= |first3= |last4= |first4= |title=NYU Stern - Geeta Menon - Abraham Krasnoff Professor of Global Business & Professor of Marketing |url=https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/geeta-menon |access-date=2025-03-27 |website=www.stern.nyu.edu |language=en}}</ref> * [[Nitin Nohria]] (born 1962), former dean of [[Harvard Business School]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nitin Nohria - Faculty & Research - Harvard Business School |url=https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=6523 |access-date=2025-03-27 |website=www.hbs.edu |language=en}}</ref> (2010–2020) * [[Sethuraman Panchanathan]], director of [[National Science Foundation]] and former executive vice president and chief research and innovation officer at [[Arizona State University]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sethuraman Panchanathan {{!}} ASU Search |url=https://search.asu.edu/profile/88253 |access-date=2025-03-27 |website=search.asu.edu}}</ref> * [[Michael Rao]], president of [[Virginia Commonwealth University]] * [[S. Narasinga Rao]], former dean of Jackson College of Graduate Studies and Research at the [[University of Central Oklahoma]] * [[Beheruz Sethna]], president of the [[University of West Georgia]] * [[Paul Shrivastava]], chief sustainability officer and director, Sustainability Institute, [[Pennsylvania State 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]] * [[Sundaraja Sitharama Iyengar]], Ryder Professor of Computer Science and director of the School of Computing and Information Sciences at [[Florida International University]], Miami * [[S. Shankar Sastry]], former dean of the [[UC Berkeley College of Engineering]] * [[Bala V. Balachandran]] (born 1937), professor emeritus at [[Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University]]; founder, dean and chairman of [[Great Lakes Institute of Management]] and executive professor & strategy adviser to the dean of the [[Bauer College of Business]] at [[University of Houston]]<ref>https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/directory/balachandran_bala.aspx Northwestern University's Kellog School of Management's Faculty. Retrieved 19 June 2021</ref><ref>https://www.greatlakes.edu.in/chennai/faculty/dr-bala-v-balachandran Great Lakes Institute of Management's Faculty. Retrieved 19 June 2021</ref> * [[Nagi Naganathan]], president of [[Oregon Institute of Technology]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Biography {{!}} Oregon Tech |url=https://www.oit.edu/president/biography |access-date=2025-03-27 |website=www.oit.edu}}</ref> and former president and dean of the College of Engineering at the [[University of Toledo]], (2001–2016) * [[Sri Zaheer]], dean of [[Carlson School of Management]] at the [[University of Minnesota]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sri Zaheer |url=https://carlsonschool.umn.edu/faculty/sri-zaheer |access-date=2025-03-27 |website=Carlson School of Management |language=en}}</ref> * [[Vallabh Sambamurthy]], Dean of the [[Wisconsin School of Business]] at the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]] ===Mathematicians=== * [[Raj Chandra Bose]] (1901–1987), mathematician * [[Shamit Kachru]] (b. 1970), Mathematical Physicist, professor at [[Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics]] * [[Akshay Venkatesh]] (b. 1981), Fields Medal laureate, mathematician * [[Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar]] (1930–2012), mathematician, singularity theory and [[Abhyankar's conjecture]] of finite group theory * [[Raghu Raj Bahadur]] (1924–1997), [[Statistics|statistician]] * [[Manjul Bhargava]] (b. 1974), professor of mathematics at [[Princeton University]] and winner of [[Fields Medal]], 2014 * [[Rahul Pandharipande]] (b. 1969), joined as Professor of Mathematics at [[Princeton University]] in 2002, he accepted a Professorship at [[ETH Zürich]] * [[Sarvadaman Chowla]] (1907–1995), mathematician specializing in [[number theory]] * [[Harish-Chandra]] (1923–1983), mathematician, IBM Von Neumann Professor at [[Institute for Advanced Study]], Princeton * [[Narendra Karmarkar]] (b. 1955), mathematician, inventor of [[Karmarkar algorithm]] * [[Chandrashekhar Khare]] (b. 1968), professor of mathematics at the [[University of California Los Angeles]] * [[G. S. Maddala]] (1933–1999), mathematician and economist best known for work in the field of [[econometrics]] * [[Anil Nerode]] (b. 1932), mathematician, proved the [[Myhill-Nerode Theorem]] * [[Ria Persad]] (b. 1974), mathematician, classical musician, and model * [[K. C. Sreedharan Pillai]] (1920–1985), mathematician * [[Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao]] (1920–2023), professor at [[Penn State University]] and research professor at the University of Buffalo * [[S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan]] (b. 1940), [[NYU]] mathematician who specialised in probability; winner of the [[Abel Prize]] and [[Steele Prize]] * [[DJ Patil]] (b. 1974), mathematician & Data scientist * [[Sucharit Sarkar]] (b. 1983), mathematician and topologist * [[Sourav Chatterjee]] (b. 1979), statistician, mathematician and professor at Stanford * [[Kannan Soundararajan]] (b. 1973), mathematician, professor at Stanford and IMO medalist. * [[Subhash Khot]] (b. 1978), mathematician, theoretical computer scientist famous for [[Unique games conjecture]]. * [[Sanjeev Arora]] (b. 1968), mathematician, theoretical computer scientist and [[Gödel Prize]] winner. * [[Kiran Kedlaya]] (b. 1974), mathematician ===Economists=== [[File:Abhijit Banerjee FT Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2011 (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright|[[Abhijit Banerjee]], Professor of Economics at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]], [[Nobel Prize]] winner in Economic Sciences in 2019.]] * [[Abhijit Banerjee]] (b. 1961), [[Ford Foundation]] international professor of economics at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]], and Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences 2019. * [[Pranab Bardhan]] (b. 1939), professor emeritus of Economics [[University of California, Berkeley]] * [[Kaushik Basu]] (b. 1952), C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics [[Cornell University]] * [[Jagdish Natwarlal Bhagwati]] (b. 1934), professor of economics at [[Columbia University]] * [[Alok Bhargava]] (b. 1954), professor of economics at the [[University of Maryland School of Public Policy]] * [[V. V. Chari]] (b. 1952), professor of economics at the [[University of Minnesota]] * [[Raj Chetty]] (b. 1979), professor of economics at [[Harvard University]] * [[Srikant Datar]], The 11th Dean of [[Harvard Business School]], took charge from January 1, 2021 * [[Avinash Kamalakar Dixit]] (b. 1944), professor of economics at [[Princeton University]] * [[Gita Gopinath]] (b. 1971), chief economist at the [[International Monetary Fund]] and Economic Adviser to the Chief Minister of Kerala * [[Reema Harrysingh-Carmona]] (b. 1970), economist and the 5th [[First Lady of Trinidad and Tobago]] * [[Sendhil Mullainathan]] (b. 1973), professor of economics, Harvard University * [[Arvind Panagariya]] (b. 1952), professor of economics at Columbia University * [[Debraj Ray (economist)|Debraj Ray]] (b. 1957), Silver Professor of Economics, [[New York University]] * [[Ruchir Sharma]], chief global strategist of [[asset management]] and [[emerging markets]] [[equity (finance)|equity]], [[Morgan Stanley and Company Inc.|Morgan Stanley]] Investment Management * [[Arvind Subramanian]] (b. 1959), Chief Economic Advisor Government of India and formerly an economist at the [[International Monetary Fund]] === Professors and scholars in computer science or engineering and electrical engineering === <!-- 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. ---> * [[Amit Sahai]] (b.1974), professor of computer science at [[University of California, Los Angeles]], fellow of [[Association for Computing Machinery]], * [[Amit Sheth]], computer scientist at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cse.wright.edu/person/amit-sheth|title=Amit Sheth - people.wright.edu - Wright State University|access-date=8 May 2016}}</ref> * [[Anant Agarwal]], professor of electrical engineering and director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at [[MIT]] * [[Aravind Joshi]] (1929–2017), professor of computer and cognitive science at the [[University of Pennsylvania]] * [[Arvind (computer scientist)|Arvind]], Johnson Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] * [[Arogyaswami Paulraj]] (b. 1944), professor of electrical engineering at [[Stanford University]] * [[Ashwin Ram]] (b. 1960), head of artificial intelligence [[Amazon Alexa]] * [[Avinash Kak]] (b. 1944), professor of electrical and computer engineering at [[Purdue University]] * [[B. Jayant Baliga]] (b. 1948), inventor of the [[Insulated-gate bipolar transistor]] * [[Bhubaneswar Mishra]] (b. 1961), professor of computer science, engineering & mathematics at [[Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences]] of [[New York University]] and visiting scholar at [[Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory]]. * [[Chandra Kintala]] (1948–2009), former Vice President [[Bell Labs]] * [[Gopal H. Gaonkar]] (b. 1936), a professor of engineering at [[Florida Atlantic University]] * [[Hari Balakrishnan]], Fujitsu Chair Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] * [[K. Mani Chandy]], professor of computer science at the [[California Institute of Technology]] * [[Krishna Saraswat]], professor of electrical engineering at [[Stanford University]] * [[Madhu Sudan]], professor of computer science at [[Harvard University]] * [[Prabhat Mishra]], professor of computer science and engineering at [[University of Florida]] * [[Raj Jain]], professor of computer science and engineering at [[Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science]] * [[Rangasami L. Kashyap]] (b. 1938), professor of electrical engineering at [[Purdue University]] * [[Ricky J. Sethi]], professor of computer science at [[Fitchburg State University]]; director of Research at [[MadSci Network|The Madsci Network]] * [[Saraju Mohanty]], professor of computer science and engineering at the [[University of North Texas]] * [[Shree K. Nayar]], professor of computer science at [[Columbia University]] * [[Shrikanth Narayanan]], award-winning researcher, inventor and educator at [[University of Southern California]] * [[Shwetak Patel]], professor of computer science and electrical engineering at the [[University of Washington]] * [[Supriyo Datta]], Thomas Duncan Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the [[Purdue University]] * [[Thomas Kailath]], professor of engineering at [[Stanford University]] * [[Vijay Vazirani]] (b. 1957), professor of computer science at [[University of California, Irvine]] * [[Suman Datta]] (b. 1973), professor of electrical engineering at the [[University of Notre Dame]], Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Stinson Professor of Nanotechnology at the University of Notre Dame <!-- 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. ---> === Professors and scholars in other disciplines === * [[Avantika Bawa]], Professor of Fine Art, [[Washington State University]], Vancouver, Washington. * [[Arun Rai]], Regents' Professor of the University System of Georgia and Howard S. Starks Distinguished Chair, [[Georgia State University]] * [[Amishi Jha]], American neuroscientist and professor of psychology * [[Kuzhikalail M. Abraham]], professor at [[Northeastern University]], electrochemistry; materials science; lithium, lithium ion, and lithium air batteries * [[Mrinal Kanti Sen|Mrinal K. Sen]], John A. and Katherine G. Jackson Chair in Applied Seismology at Jackson School of Geosciences, [[University of Texas at Austin]]. * [[Nita Ahuja]], Chief of Surgical Oncology at [[Johns Hopkins Hospital]], surgeon-scientist, first women ever to lead this department at Johns Hopkins Hospital. * [[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 and Director of the Institute for Gravitational Physics and Geometry at [[Pennsylvania State University]] * [[Satya N. Atluri]], Presidential Chair and University Distinguished Professor [[Texas Tech University]], Recipient, Padma Bhushan in Science and Engineering in 2013 from the President of India * [[P.S. Ayyaswamy]], professor of dynamical engineering at the [[University of Pennsylvania]] * [[Homi K. Bhabha]], Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature and Language, and the Director of the Mahindra Humanities Center at [[Harvard University]] * [[Mahzarin Banaji]], professor at [[Harvard University]], best known for exploring implicit racial and gender biases * [[Sugata Bose]], professor of history at Harvard University * [[Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty]], professor of microbiology at [[University of Illinois at Chicago]] * [[Arup Chakraborty]], Robert T. Haslam Professor focusing in biophysics, computational modeling and infectious disease at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] * [[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 of civil and environmental engineering at the [[University of California, Berkeley]] * [[Rajit Gadh]], professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at [[University of California, Los Angeles]] * [[Akhilesh K. Gaharwar]], professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at [[Texas A&M University]] * [[Atul Gawande]], professor in the Department of Health Policy & Management at [[Harvard School of Public Health|Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health]] * [[Swapan K. Gayen]], professor of physics at the [[City University of New York]] * [[Anirvan Ghosh]], professor at the [[University of California, San Diego]] * [[Radhika Govindrajan]], associate professor of anthropology at [[University of Washington]] * [[Vijay Govindarajan]], Coxe Distinguished Professor at [[Dartmouth College|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]] * [[Ashish Jha]], Dean of [[Brown University School of Public Health]] * [[Ravi Jagannathan]], professor at the [[Kellogg School of Management]] * [[Jainendra K. Jain]], professor of physics at [[Pennsylvania State University]] * [[Piyare Jain]], professor emeritus at [[University at Buffalo]] * [[Rakesh Jain]], professor of tumor biology at [[Massachusetts General Hospital]] in the [[Harvard Medical School]] * [[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]] * [[Yogesh Jaluria]], Board of Governors Professor and Distinguished Professor at [[Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey]], in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. * [[M. A. Muqtedar Khan]], Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the [[University of Delaware]] * [[Ravindra Khattree]], professor of [[statistics]] at [[Oakland University]] * [[Satish Nagarajaiah]], professor of [[civil engineering]] and of [[mechanical engineering]] at [[Rice University]]. * [[Rajeev Kohli]], Ira Leon Professor of Business at [[Columbia Business School]] * [[S. P. Kothari]], Gordon Y Billard Professor of Management at [[MIT Sloan School of Management]] * [[Shrinivas Kulkarni]], professor of astrophysics and planetary science at [[Caltech]] * [[Vijay Mahajan (academic)]], John P. Harbin Centennial Chair in Business and Professor of Marketing at [[University of Texas at Austin]] * [[Raj Mittra]], electrical engineering professor at [[Pennsylvania State University]] * [[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]] * [[V. Parmeswaran Nair]], Physicist, currently a Distinguished Professor at [[City University of New York]]. * [[Shrikanth Narayanan]], award-winning researcher, inventor and educator at [[University of Southern California]] * [[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 (Connecticut)|Trinity College]] * [[Vilayanur S. Ramachandran]], behavioral neurologist and psychophysicist; Professor with the Psychology and Neurosciences [[University of California, San Diego]] * [[A. Hari Reddi]], distinguished professor and [[Larry Ellison|Lawrence J. Ellison]] Endowed Chair in Musculoskeletal Molecular Biology at the [[University of California, Davis]] * [[J. N. Reddy (engineer)|J. N. Reddy]], professor and holder of the [[Oscar S. Wyatt]] Endowed Chair in Mechanical Engineering at [[Texas A&M University]] * [[Anantanand Rambachan]], professor of religion at [[St. Olaf College]], [[Minnesota]], [[United States]] * [[K. R. Rao]], professor at [[University of Texas at Arlington]] * [[Subrata Roy (scientist)|Subrata Roy]], professor of aerospace engineering at the [[University of Florida]] * [[Subir Sachdev]], Herchel Smith Professor of Physics at [[Harvard University]]; [[Dirac Medal (ICTP)|Dirac Medal]] and [[National Academy of Sciences]] * [[Nitin Samarth]], Head and Professor of Physics, Pennsylvania State University * [[B.S. Sathyaprakash]], Bert Elsbach Professor of Physics, Pennsylvania State University * [[Jagdish Sheth]], professor of marketing at [[Goizueta Business School]] of Emory University<ref>{{cite web|url=http://goizueta.emory.edu/faculty/academic_areas/marketing/sheth_jagdish.html|title=Jagdish Sheth|work=Emory University's Goizueta Business School|access-date=8 May 2016}}</ref> * [[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 [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] * [[Medha Yodh]], scholar of classical Indian dance at UCLA * [[Venkatesh Shankar]], Ford Chair in Marketing and E-Commerce, [[Texas A&M University]] <!--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.---> ==Activism and philanthropy== <!-- 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. ---> * [[Rajiv Malhotra]], Hindutva activist for promoting Indic cultures, author of ''[[Breaking India]]'' and the founder of Infinity Foundation * [[Maya Ajmera]], founder of [[The Global Fund for Children]] and author of more than 20 books for children<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.globalfundforchildren.org/index.php/Who-we-are/Founder-s-Story.html |title=The Global Fund for Children - Founder's Story |access-date=2011-11-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111122184008/http://www.globalfundforchildren.org/index.php/Who-we-are/Founder-s-Story.html |archive-date=2011-11-22 }}</ref> * [[Kala Bagai]], immigrant advocate and one of the first South Asian women in the United States * [[Vaishno Das Bagai]], Ghadar party member, associated with the struggle for U.S. citizenship * [[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)|Breakthrough]] human rights organization * [[Vijaya Lakshmi Emani]] (1958–2009), social activist * [[Arun Manilal Gandhi]], fifth grandson of [[Mohandas Gandhi]] * [[Meera Gandhi]], founder and CEO of The Giving Back Foundation * [[Abraham George]], philanthropist humanitarian, founder of The George Foundation (TGF) * [[Gitanjali S. Gutierrez]], lawyer who is defending Guantanamo prisoners * [[Maya Harris]], of half Indian descent, executive director of the ACLU of Northern California and sister of [[Kamala Harris]] * [[Prerna Lal]], immigrant rights advocate and attorney * [[Hemant Mehta]] - atheist activist, YouTuber and writer * [[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 * [[Dinesh Sharma (academic)|Dinesh Sharma]], leader, CRO and Director at Steam Works Studio and author in human development, human rights and global education, and professor at Fordham, NYU, and Walden University * [[Inder Singh (community leader)|Inder Singh]], chairman of the Global Organization of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO) * [[Bhagat Singh Thind]], civil rights activist who defended the right of Indian immigrants to gain United States citizenship in ''[[United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind]]'' * [[Urvashi Vaid]], gay rights activist * [[Thomas Abraham]] (b. 1948), founder president of the Global Organization of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO) as well as the National Federation of Indian American Associations (NFIA) * [[Sakharam Ganesh Pandit]] (1875–1959), lawyer who argued against government efforts to revoke American citizenship for Indian emigrants ==Arts and entertainment== <!--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.---> <!-- Deleted image removed: [[File:Kovid Gupta 2017.jpg|right|thumb|130px|[[Kovid Gupta]], listed on the 2017 Forbes 30 under 30 list]] --> [[File:M. Night Shyamalan 2008 - still 40580 crop.jpg|right|thumb|125px|[[M. Night Shyamalan]], Hollywood director]] [[File:MN main.jpg|right|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Mira Nair]], director and producer]] [[File:Sharad Devarajan.jpg|right|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Sharad Devarajan]], superhero creator and producer]] [[File:Rohit Gupta at Symbiosis International University (cropped).jpg|right|thumb|130px|[[Rohit Gupta]], director, producer]] [[File:2014 Miss America Nina Davuluri (cropped).jpg|right|thumb|140px|[[Nina Davuluri]], [[Miss America 2014]]]] * [[Ashok Amritraj]], Hollywood [[film producer]] * [[Salma Arastu]], artist * [[San Banarje]], independent filmmaker * [[Rina Banerjee]], artist * [[Prashant Bhargava]], director * [[Niala Boodhoo]], journalist, host, and executive producer * [[Lesley-Ann Brandt]], actress * [[Jay Chandrasekhar]], director, actor, comedian, and writer * [[Shanthi Chandrasekar]], visual artist * [[Aneesh Chaganty]], film director, screenwriter * [[Sabu Dastagir]], actor * [[Nina Davuluri]], [[Miss America 2014]] * [[India de Beaufort]], actress * [[Sharad Devarajan]], superhero creator, producer, writer * [[Param Gill]], director, screenwriter and producer * [[Kovid Gupta]], bestselling author and screenwriter * [[Reef Karim]], actor, director, writer, and producer * [[Neeraj Khemlani]], producer for [[CBS News]]' ''[[60 Minutes]]'' * [[Bharti Kirchner]], writer * [[Shirish Korde]], artist * [[Adam Bhala Lough]], director, screenwriter * [[Tirlok Malik]], filmmaker and actor * [[Dhar Mann|Dharminder Mann]], entrepreneur, film producer and YouTuber. * [[Benny Mathews]], film and music video director * [[Faris McReynolds]], painter and musician * [[Mira Nair]], director and producer * [[Sunil Nayar]], TV writer and producer; producer of ''[[CSI: Miami]]'' * [[Oopali Operajita]], choreographer and Odissi and Bharatanatyam artiste; Distinguished Fellow, [[Carnegie Mellon University]] * [[Yatin Patel]], photographer and artist * [[Mythili Prakash]], [[Bharatanatyam]] dancer and choreographer * [[Asha Puthli]], singer-songwriter, producer and actress * [[Sarayu Rao]], actor and director * [[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 * [[Rohit Gupta]], director, producer * [[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 * [[Prashanth Venkataramanujam]], television writer, actor, and producer ===Actors and actresses=== <!--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.---> [[File:Kal Penn.jpg|thumb|125px|[[Kal Penn]], actor]] [[File:Mindy Kaling at PaleyFest 2013 (cropped).jpg|thumb|125px|[[Mindy Kaling]], actress]] [[File:Sendhil Ramamurthy at Comic-Con 2011 cropped.jpg|thumb|upright=0.5|[[Sendhil Ramamurthy]], actor]] [[File:Danny Pudi 2012.jpg|thumb|125px|[[Danny Pudi]], actor]] * [[Karan Soni]], actor * [[Utkarsh Ambudkar]], actor * [[Simran Judge]], actor * [[Ravi Patel (actor)|Ravi Patel]], actor * [[Devika Bhise]], actress * [[Tatyana Ali]], actress * [[Waris Ahluwalia]], fashion designer * [[Aziz Ansari]], actor and comedian * [[Gabrielle Anwar]], actress * [[Erick Avari]], actor * [[Sunkrish Bala]], actor * [[Firdous Bamji]], actor * [[Purva Bedi]], actress * [[Summer Bishil]], actress * [[Karan Brar]], film and TV actor * [[Samrat Chakrabarti]], actor * [[Melanie Chandra]], actress * [[Michelle Khare]], actress, YouTuber, and television host * [[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 * [[Anu Emmanuel]], actress * [[Poorna Jagannathan]], actress and producer * [[Avan Jogia]], actor * [[Avantika Vandanapu]], actress and dancer. Known for her role in 2021 film, [[Spin (2021 film)|Spin]] * [[Mindy Kaling]], actress, writer, producer, comedian * [[Ravi Kapoor]], actor * [[Rahul Kohli]], actor * [[Deep Katdare]], actor * [[Nivedita Kulkarni]], actress * [[Shishir Kurup]], actor * [[Nakul Dev Mahajan]], [[Bollywood]] dancer and choreographer * [[Sunny Leone]], actor and former pornographic actress * [[Tirlok Malik]], actor * [[Shelley Malil]], film and TV actor * [[Rizwan Manji]], actor * [[Aasif Mandvi]], actor * [[Sunita Mani]], actress * [[Ajay Mehta]], TV actor * [[Ajay Naidu]], actor * [[Anjul Nigam]], actor <!--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 clearly notable.---> * [[Maulik Pancholy]], actor * [[Devika Parikh]], actress * [[Kal Penn]], actor * [[Danny Pudi]], actor * [[Ritesh Rajan]], actor * [[Sendhil Ramamurthy]], actor * [[Dileep Rao]], actor * [[Navi Rawat]], actress * [[Sonal Shah (actor)|Sonal Shah]], actress * [[Sheetal Sheth]], actress * [[Zenobia Shroff]], Indian-American actress and comedienne * [[Tiya Sircar]], actress * [[Errol Sitahal]], actor * [[Kapil Talwalkar]], actor * [[Omi Vaidya]], actor * [[Sugith Varughese]], Indian-born Canadian actor with American citizenship * [[Naren Weiss]], actor and playwright * [[Annet Mahendru]], actress * [[Nitya Vidyasagar]], actress * [[Nandana Sen]], actress * [[Pooja Batra]], actress * [[Monica Dogra]], actress * [[Deepti Naval]], actress ===Comedians=== [[File:Aziz Ansari 2012 Shankbone.JPG|thumb|upright=0.5|[[Aziz Ansari]], comedian and actor]] [[File:Hasan Minhaj on Neal Brennan uploaded James Tamim (cropped).png|thumb|upright=0.5|[[Hasan Minhaj]], comedian]] [[File:Hari Kondabolu.png|thumb|upright=0.5|[[Hari Kondabolu]], comedian]] * [[Aziz Ansari]] * [[Aman Ali (comedian)|Aman Ali]] * [[Arj Barker]] * [[Gerry Bednob]] * [[Aasif Mandvi]] * [[Jay Chandrasekhar]] * [[Hari Kondabolu]] * [[Hasan Minhaj]] * [[Nimesh Patel]] * [[Adam Mamawala]] * [[Rajiv Satyal]] * [[Akaash Singh]] * [[Anish Shah]] * [[Paul Varghese]], appeared on ''[[Last Comic Standing]]'' * [[Aparna Nancherla]] * [[Zarna Garg]], comedian and lawyer ===[[Culinary art]]s=== [[File:Padma Lakshmi with Malcolm Smith (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.5|[[Padma Lakshmi]]]] * [[Ashok Bajaj]], restaurateur * [[Vishwesh Bhatt]], chef * [[Maneet Chauhan]], celebrity chef, restaurateur, author * [[H. Jay Dinshah]], founded the American [[Vegan]] Society * [[Raghavan Iyer (chef)|Raghavan Iyer]], chef, author, culinary educator * [[Vikas Khanna]], Michelin starred celebrity chef, restaurateur, author, filmmaker, and TV host * [[Jehangir Mehta]], celebrity chef, restaurateur, author * [[Rajat Parr]], sommelier * [[Suvir Saran]], Michelin starred chef and author * [[Aarti Sequeira]] (b. 1978), TV host on [[Food Network]] * [[Vikram Sunderam]] (b. 1967), chef and author * [[Padma Lakshmi]] ===Fashion=== * [[Naeem Khan]] * [[Vashtie Kola]], of half Indian descent * [[Bibhu Mohapatra]] * [[Rachel Roy]] * [[Sachin & Babi]] * [[Inez and Vinoodh|Vinoodh Matadin]] ===Models=== * [[Anchal Joseph]], contestant on Cycle 7 of ''[[America's Next Top Model, Cycle 7|America's Next Top Model]]'' * [[Pooja Kumar (model)|Pooja Kumar]], model * [[Akshay Kapoor]], model, actor ===Media=== <!--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.---> [[File:Fareed zakaria 2007.jpg|right|thumb|150px|[[Fareed Zakaria]], journalist]] [[File:Lilly Singh by Gage Skidmore.jpg|right|thumb|150px|[[Lilly Singh]], actress and YouTuber]] * [[Manu Raju]] (b. 1980), [[CNN]] journalist anchor, reporter * [[Deepak Ananthapadmanabha]], online journalist * [[Sanjay Gupta]], journalist, medical correspondent, neurosurgeon * [[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]] * [[Dinesh D'Souza]], political commentator, author and filmmaker. Former president of [[The King's College (New York)|The King's College, New York]] * [[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)|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]] * [[Seema Mody]], news reporter/anchor for [[CNBC]] * [[Mish Michaels]], meteorologist for the [[WBZ-TV]] Weather Team * [[Vinita Nair]], anchor of ''[[World News Now]]'' and ''[[America This Morning]]'' on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] * [[Kevin Negandhi]], sports anchor for [[ESPN SportsCenter]] * [[Reena Ninan]], Middle East correspondent for [[Fox News Channel]] * [[Asra Nomani]], journalist * [[Safiya Nygaard]], [[YouTube]] beauty creator * [[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]], first Indian-American presidential speechwriter under President [[Barack Obama]], former [[CNN]] Middle East correspondent * [[Alpana Singh]], television personality * [[Lakshmi Singh]], [[NPR]]'s national midday newscaster * [[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 * [[Rohit Vyas]], first and longest serving Indian American broadcast journalist * [[Fareed Zakaria]], columnist for ''[[Time Magazine|Time]]'' magazine and host of ''[[Fareed Zakaria GPS]]'' on CNN * [[Lilly Singh]], [[YouTuber]] of Indian descent widely known as IISuperwomanII, ranked tenth on the ''[[Forbes]]'' list of the world's highest paid YouTube stars, ranked first on 2017 [[Forbes]] Top Influencers List in the entertainment category * [[Liza Koshy]], actress, [[YouTube]] comedian and television host * [[Ambreen Tariq]], author, activist and founder of @BrownPeopleCamping ===Musicians=== <!--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.---> [[File:NorahJones Parque Independencia 2010.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Norah Jones]], singer and winner of multiple [[Grammy Awards]]]] [[File:Zubin Mehta 1.jpg|thumb|125px|[[Zubin Mehta]], musician and receiver of a star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]]]] * [[Rick Parashar]] (1963–2014), producer * [[Sandeep Das]] (b. 1971), won the Grammy award for Best World Music Album, at the [[59th Grammy Awards]], 2017 * [[Sonika Vaid]], singer * [[Bamboo Shoots]], dance-rock band * [[6ix (record producer)|6ix]], record producer * [[Rajiv Dhall]], singer * [[Sid Sriram]], singer * [[Jeff Bhasker]], producer * [[Nicki Minaj]], rapper and singer-songwriter of half Indian descent<ref>{{cite web|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/nicki-minaj-india-birthday-hey-mama-music-rapper-lifest/1/829785.html|title=Birthday girl Nicki Minaj has a very interesting Indian connection you didn't know about!|website=IndiaToday|date=August 30, 2017}}</ref> * [[Sameer Bhattacharya]], one of two guitarists in the Texas alternative rock band [[Flyleaf (band)|Flyleaf]] * [[Das Racist]], alternative hip hop group; two of the three members are Indian * [[Anoop Desai]], finalist on the [[American Idol (season 8)|eighth season]] of ''[[American Idol]]'' * [[Falu]], singer and songwriter * [[Sameer Gadhia]], lead vocalist in [[Young the Giant]] * [[Terry Gajraj|Terry Vivkeanand Gajraj]], [[chutney-soca]] singer * [[Heems]], rapper * [[Ravi Hutheesing]], singer-songwriter, guitarist * [[iLoveMakonnen]], rapper * [[Daya (singer)|Daya]], singer * [[Sandeep Khurana]], new age music and world music composer * [[Raja Kumari]], singer and songwriter * [[Vijay Iyer]], jazz musician and composer * [[Sunny Jain]], dhol player, drummer, and composer * [[Norah Jones]], singer, songwriter and actress; winner of multiple [[Grammy Awards]] * [[Rajan Somasundaram]], Music Composer, Songwriter and multi instrumentalist * [[Karsh Kale]], producer, composer and musician * [[Tony Kanal]], two-time [[Grammy Award]] winner, bass player for [[No Doubt]] * [[Ashok Kondabolu]], rapper (also known as Dapwell) * [[Savan Kotecha]], songwriter * [[KSHMR]], electronic musician, record producer * [[Arun Luthra]], jazz musician * [[Sanjaya Malakar]], finalist on the [[American Idol (season 6)|sixth season]] of ''[[American Idol]]'' * [[Mathai (singer)|Mathai]], finalist on season 2 of ''[[The Voice (U.S. season 2)|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 (musician)|Sanjay Mishra]], guitarist and composer * [[Thara Prashad]], R&B singer and model of half Indian descent * [[Vidya Vox]], [[YouTube]] musician * [[Vasant Rai]], performer of Indian music * [[Katseye|Lara Raj]], singer, dancer, and member of girl group [[Katseye]] * [[Rhea Raj]], singer and songwriter * [[Paul Sabu]], producer * [[Amar Sandhu]], singer * [[Shaheen Sheik]], songwriter * [[Bikram Singh (musician)|Bikram Singh]], singer * [[Mickey Singh]], singer from [[Detroit, MI]] * [[Justine Skye]], singer * [[Ramesh Srivastava]], singer * [[Ambi Subramaniam]], violinist and composer * [[Bindu Subramaniam]], singer-songwriter * [[Kim Thayil]], named among 100th greatest guitarists of all time by ''Rolling Stone'' * [[Rozonda Thomas]], singer * [[Zoya (singer)|Zoya]], California-based singer and guitarist * [[Sanjay Patel]], animator and director and also illustrator of [[Pixar]] * [[Shirish Korde]] (b. 1945), composer * [[Raveena Aurora]], alternative singer and songwriter * [[Olivia (singer)|Olivia]], singer * [[Lisa Mishra]], singer and actress ==Business== <!-- 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. Please keep the list sorted alphabetically by surname. ---> * [[Parag Agrawal]], former CEO of Twitter * [[Anu Aiyengar]], managing director of North American mergers and acquisitions of [[JPMorgan Chase & Co]] * [[Ankur Jain]] founder of [[Kairos HQ]] & VP of Product at [[Tinder (app)]] * [[Nikesh Arora]] (b. 1968), CEO, [[Palo Alto Networks]], former Google executive and COO, [[Softbank]] * [[Samir Arora]], former CEO of [[Mode Media]] * [[Ramani Ayer]], former chairman and CEO of [[The Hartford Financial Services Group]] * [[Sunny Balwani]], former president and Chief Operating Officer of [[Theranos]] * [[Prith Banerjee]], managing director of Global Technology R&D at [[Accenture]] * [[Steve Banerjee]], co-founder of [[Chippendales]] * [[Apoorva Mehta]], Founder of [[Instacart]] * [[Ajay Banga]], president and CEO of [[MasterCard]] * [[Ben Ali (businessman)|Mahaboob Ben Ali]] (1927–2009), co-founder of [[Ben's Chili Bowl]] * [[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]] * [[Jagjeet (Jeet) S. Bindra]], director of [[Edison International]], [[Southern California Edison]] * [[Sanjit Biswas]], co-founder of [[Cisco Meraki]] and [[Samsara (company)]] * [[Amar Bose]], founder and chairman of [[Bose Corporation]] * [[Vanu Bose]], American electrical engineer, founder of Vanu Inc, son of [[Amar Bose]] * [[Sant Singh Chatwal]], owner of the Bombay Palace chain of restaurants and Hampshire Hotels & Resorts * [[Jay Chaudhry]], co-founder of [[Zscaler]] * [[Manu Daftary]], money manager * [[Bharat Desai]], co-founder and chairman of [[Syntel]] * [[Gururaj Deshpande]], founder of [[Sycamore Networks]] * [[Francis deSouza]], CEO of [[Illumina (company)|Illumina]] * [[Vinod Dham]], designed the Intel Pentium Chip Processor; the "father of the Pentium Chip" * [[Rono Dutta]], former president of [[United Airlines]], chairman of [[Air Sahara]] * [[Rhona Fox]], founder of [[Fox Fuse]] * [[Amrapali Gan]], marketing executive and former CEO of [[OnlyFans]] * [[Rakesh Gangwal]], former CEO and chairman of [[US Airways Group]] * [[Asim Ghosh]], president and chief executive officer at [[Husky Energy]] * [[Ajit Gupta]], founder and CEO of [[Speedera Networks]], [[Aryaka Networks]] * [[Rajat Gupta]], former managing director of [[McKinsey & Company]] * [[Rajiv Gupta (technocrat)|Rajiv Gupta]], CEO of SkyHigh Networks, former general manager of [[Hewlett-Packard]] * [[Umang Gupta]], former CEO of Keynote Systems, Inc. * [[Ajit Jain]], president of [[Berkshire Hathaway]] Reinsurance Group * [[Anjli Jain]], founder and [[Managing Partner]] of EVC Ventures * [[Anshu Jain]], President of [[Cantor Fitzgerald]] and former co-CEO of [[Deutsche Bank]] * [[Sanjay Jha (businessman)|Sanjay Jha]], CEO of [[Global Foundries]] and former CEO of [[Motorola Mobile Devices]] * [[Vyomesh Joshi]], former executive vice president of Imaging and Printing Group, [[Hewlett-Packard]] * [[John Kapoor]], founder and executive chairman of [[Insys Therapeutics]] * [[Vinod Khosla]], founder of [[Khosla Ventures]], co-founder of [[Sun Microsystems]] * [[Jay Vijayan]], founder of Tekion Corp., former CIO of [[Tesla Inc|Tesla]] * [[Arvind Krishna]], CEO of [[IBM]] * [[Anil Kumar]], former senior partner and chairman, Asia Center of [[McKinsey & Company]] * [[Sanjay Kumar (business executive)|Sanjay Kumar]], former CEO of Computer Associates International * [[Thomas Kurian]], CEO of Google Cloud, former President of product development at [[Oracle Corporation]] * [[Sachin Lawande]], president and CEO of [[Visteon]] * [[Krishna Maharaj]], businessman convicted of murder * [[Sonny Mehta]], Chairman/Editor in chief of [[Alfred A. Knopf]] * [[Victor Menezes]], chairman of Clearing House Association, former [[chairman]] and [[CEO]] of [[Citibank]] * [[Satya Nadella]], CEO of [[Microsoft]] * [[Lakshmi Narayanan]], vice chairman and former CEO of [[Cognizant]] Corporation * [[Shantanu Narayen]], CEO of [[Adobe Systems]] * [[Indra Nooyi]], former chairman and CEO of [[PepsiCo]] * [[Dinesh Paliwal]], chairman and CEO of [[Harman International]] * [[Dev Pragad]], President and CEO of [[Newsweek]] * [[Vikram Pandit]], former CEO of [[Citigroup]] * [[Sankaet Pathak]], founder of [[Synapse Financial Technologies]] and Foundation robotics * [[Suhas Patil]], entrepreneur, venture capitalist & Founder of [[Cirrus Logic]] * [[Sundar Pichai]], CEO of [[Google]], [[Alphabet Inc]] * [[Stanley Praimnath]], bank executive and survivor of the [[September 11 attacks]] * [[Prakash Puram]], president and CEO of iXmatch * [[Vivek Ramaswamy]], founder of [[Roivant Sciences]], candidate in the [[2024 Republican Party presidential primaries]] * [[Vivek Ranadivé]], former CEO of [[TIBCO Software]] * [[Naval Ravikant]], co-founder, chairman and former CEO of [[AngelList]], investor, and entrepreneur * [[Sashi Reddi]], serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist, angel investor, technologist, and philanthropist * [[Kanwal Rekhi]], former EVP and CTO of [[Novell]] * [[Ashutosh Saxena]], Founder & CEO of Caspar.AI, prolific author in the area of [[AI]], and former professor of Computer Science at Cornell University. * [[Abbas Sadriwala]], chairman and CEO of the [[Fort Lauderdale]]-based Wireless Logix Group * [[Arun Sarin]], former president of [[Vodafone]] * [[Arjun Sethi (entrepreneur)|Arjun Sethi]], founder of [[Tribe Capital]] and CEO of [[Kraken (cryptocurrency exchange)|Kraken]] * [[Niraj Shah]], CEO and co-founder of Wayfair * [[Deven Sharma]], former president of [[Standard & Poor's]] * [[Ram Shriram]], venture fund capitalist and one of the first investors in [[Google]] * [[Pradeep Sindhu]], founder and CTO of [[Juniper Networks]] * [[K. R. Sridhar]], founder and CEO of [[Bloom Energy]] * [[Rajeev Suri]], CEO of [[Nokia]] * [[Balaji Srinivasan]], co-founder of [[Counsyl]], former CTO of [[Coinbase]], and former [[general partner]] at [[Andreessen Horowitz]] * [[Abhi Talwalkar]], president and CEO of [[LSI Corporation]] * [[Thiru Vikram]], CEO of [[Buffalo Automation]] * [[Romesh Wadhwani]], founder, chairman and CEO of [[Symphony Technology Group]] * [[Padmasree Warrior]], former CEO of [[Nio (car company)]] USA ==Crime== <!--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.---> * [[Steve Banerjee]], convicted arsonist, racketeer, and murderer * [[Sant Singh Chatwal]], pled guilty to giving illegal campaign contributions for the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] * [[Gurmeet Singh Dhinsa]], convicted murderer, racketeer, and kidnapper * [[Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai]], convicted of [[espionage]] for [[Pakistan]] * [[Rajat Gupta]], convicted financial fraudster who participated in the [[Galleon Group|Galleon scandal]] * [[Noshir Gowadia]], convicted of espionage for [[China]] * [[Anand Jon]], convicted rapist * [[John Kapoor]], convicted financial fraudster * [[Subhash Kapoor (art dealer)|Subhash Kapoor]], convicted of [[art theft]] and [[grand larceny]] * [[Anil Kumar]], convicted financial fraudster * [[Shelley Malil]], convicted of attempted premeditated murder and assault * [[Nirav Modi]], fugitive charged with corruption, fraud, and money laundering * [[Jayant Patel]], convicted of fraud and manslaughter * [[Purvi Patel]], convicted and later acquitted of [[feticide]] * [[Lakireddy Bali Reddy]], convicted human trafficker and immigration fraudster * [[Prakashanand Saraswati]], fugitive and convicted child molester * [[Ravi Singh (businessman)|Ravi Singh]], convicted of four felony counts for illegally influencing the [[San Diego]] mayoral election * [[Sabrina De Sousa]], convicted kidnapper * [[Sneha Anne Philip]], missing person * [[Dinesh D'Souza]] Political criminal, campaign finance violations ==Literature== <!--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.---> [[File:Kiran Desai 2015.jpg|right|thumb|130px|[[Kiran Desai]], winner of the 2006 [[Man Booker Prize]]]] [[File:Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee 2011.jpg|right|thumb|130px|[[Siddhartha Mukherjee]], physician and 2011 winner of the [[Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction]]]] * [[Abraham Verghese]], doctor and author; wrote ''In My Own Country'' and ''My Tennis Partner'' * [[Agha Shahid Ali]], poet * [[Aimee Nezhukumatathil]], poet * [[Alka Joshi]], author * [[Amitav Ghosh]], [[Indo-nostalgic]] writer and winner of [[Prix Médicis étranger]] * [[Anita Desai]], novelist; shortlisted for the [[Booker Prize]] three times; mother of [[Kiran Desai]] * [[Anjum Hasan|Anju Hasan]], author, of Neti, Neti * [[Anu Garg]], author, speaker, and computer engineer * [[Arnold Rampersad]], biographer and literary critic * [[Bhaskar Sunkara]], political writer, founding editor and publisher of ''[[Jacobin (magazine)|Jacobin]]'' and current publisher of London's ''[[Tribune (magazine)|Tribune]]'' * [[Bharati Mukherjee]], author, professor * [[Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni]], author * [[Davan Maharaj]], journalist and former [[editor-in-chief]] and [[publisher]] of the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' * [[Dhan Gopal Mukerji]], first successful Indian [[man of letters]] in the US; winner of the [[Newbery Medal]], 1928 * [[Gaiutra Bahadur]], author * [[Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla]], author * [[Gita Mehta]], author * [[Harischandra Khemraj]], writer * [[Indira Ganesan]], novelist * [[Indira Viswanathan Peterson]], literary critic * [[Indu Sundaresan]], author * [[Ismat Chughtai]], author * [[Ismith Khan]], author and educator * [[Jhumpa Lahiri]], [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning author * [[Kaavya Viswanathan]], novelist * [[Kiran Desai]], winner of the 2006 [[Man Booker Prize]] * [[Parag Khanna]], author * [[Paul Kalanithi]], author * [[Rajiv Joseph]], playwright * [[Rajiv Mohabir]], poet * [[Ramya Ramana]], poet * [[Ravi Batra]], bestselling author and economist * [[Ravi Shankar (poet)|Ravi Shankar]], poet * [[Rishi Reddi]], author * [[Roshani Chokshi]] novelist * [[Rupi Kaur]], poet * [[S. T. Joshi]], literary critic * [[Salman Rushdie]], novelist and essayist * [[Saumitra Saxena]], Hindi poet, [[Bharatiya Jnanpith]] Navlekhana Award winner * [[Shauna Singh Baldwin]], novelist, winner of the [[Commonwealth Writers' Prize]] * [[Siddharth Katragadda]], author, filmmaker, artist * [[Siddhartha Mukherjee]], physician, scientist and writer, 2011 winner of the [[Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction]] * [[Susham Bedi]], author * [[Thrity Umrigar]], author of ''Bombay Time'' * [[Tulika Mehrotra]], author, journalist * [[Usha Haley]], author * [[Vijay Prashad]], Marxist writer, director for [[Tricontinental]], Chief editor for [[LeftWord Books]], written 30 books * [[Vijay Seshadri]], Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and essayist * [[Vikram Seth]], poet, novelist, travel writer, librettist, children's writer, biographer and memoirist ==Military== * [[Uday Singh Taunque]], first [[Indian American]] to die in [[Iraq War|Operation Iraqi Freedom]]; posthumously awarded [[Bronze Star]] and [[Purple Heart]] gallantry awards * [[Sunita Williams]] (b. 1965), astronaut and former Navy officer * [[Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan]], [[United States Army]] [[Specialist (rank)|specialist]] who was killed during Operation Iraqi Freedom<ref name=Photo>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.newyorker.com/online/2008/09/29/slideshow_080929_platon?slide=16|title=Service|magazine=The New Yorker|date=2008-09-29|author=Platon|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080930231933/http://www.newyorker.com/online/2008/09/29/slideshow_080929_platon?slide=16|archive-date=2008-09-30}}</ref> and a recipient of the [[Bronze Star Medal|Bronze Star]] and [[Purple Heart]] for his service ==Politics and government== ===Elected officials=== <!--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.---> [[File:Aruna_Miller_Official_Portrait.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|[[Aruna Miller]], 10th [[Lieutenant Governor of Maryland]]]] [[File:12.19.17RaviBhallaByLuigiNovi3.jpg|right|thumb|[[Ravinder Bhalla]], elected the first [[turban|turban-wearing]] [[Sikh]] U.S. mayor, of [[Hoboken, New Jersey|Hoboken]], [[New Jersey]]]] * [[Niraj Antani]] - Ohio state senator (Republican) * [[Sara Gideon]] - former Speaker of the [[Maine House of Representatives]] (Democrat) * [[Ram Villivalam]]- State Senator, 8th District- Illinois (Democrat) * [[Aftab Pureval]], mayor of [[Cincinnati]] (Democrat) * [[John Abraham (mayor)|John Abraham]], former mayor of [[Teaneck, New Jersey]] (Republican) * [[Saqib Ali]], former member of the [[Maryland House of Delegates]] (Democratic) * [[Harvinder "Harry" Anand]], mayor of [[Laurel Hollow, New York]] (Republican) * [[Sam Arora]], former member of the [[Maryland House of Delegates]] (Democratic) * [[Kumar P. Barve]], former member of the [[Maryland House of Delegates]], former ([[majority leader]]) (Democratic), the first Indian American elected to a state legislature<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.india.com/the-indian-diaspora/maryland-legislator-kumar-p-barve-to-run-for-congress-in-2016-327665/ |title=Maryland Legislator Kumar P. Barve to Run for Congress in 2016 |publisher=india.com |access-date=16 November 2020}}</ref> * [[Ravinder Bhalla]], [[mayor]], [[Hoboken, New Jersey|Hoboken]], [[Hudson County, New Jersey|Hudson County]], [[New Jersey]] (Democratic), the first [[turban|turban-wearing]] [[Sikhism|Sikh American]] mayor in the United States to be elected by a municipality's residents, in November 2017<ref name=BhallaMayor>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/08/nyregion/hoboken-sikh-mayor-ravi-bhalla.html|title=In a City of Firsts, Hoboken Elects a Sikh as Mayor|first=Sharon|last=Otterman|newspaper=The New York Times|date=November 8, 2017|access-date=December 14, 2017}}</ref> * [[Satveer Chaudhary]], former [[Minnesota Senate|Minnesota State Senator]] (Democratic) * [[Upendra J. Chivukula]], member of the [[New Jersey General Assembly]] (Democratic) * [[Swati Dandekar]] (b. 1951), [[Iowa Senate|Iowa State Senator]] (Democratic) * [[Mervyn M. Dymally]], [[List of Lieutenant Governors of California|41st Lieutenant Governor of California]] (1975–1979); member of the [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. House of Representatives]] (1981–1993) (Democratic) * [[Kashmir Gill]], mayor of [[Yuba City, California]], first Indian-American mayor in CA and first Sikh mayor in the US (Republican) * [[Jay Goyal]], member of the [[Ohio House of Representatives|Ohio State Representative]] (Democratic) * [[Raj Goyle]], member of the [[Kansas House of Representatives|Kansas State Representative]] (Democratic) * [[Faz Husain]], first native of India to win elected office in Michigan (Democratic) * [[Bobby Jindal]], 55th [[governor of Louisiana]] (2008–2016) (Republican) * [[Sanjeev Manohar]], member of the [[New Hampshire House of Representatives]] (Democratic) * [[Nimi McConigley]], first Indian American women to serve in any American State legislature served in the [[Wyoming State Legislature]] from 1994 until 1996 (Republican) * [[Aruna Miller]], 10th Lt. Governor of [[Maryland]] and the first [[South Asian Americans|South Asian]] woman elected lieutenant governor in the [[United States]],<ref name="First South Asian">{{cite news |last1=Kaur |first1=Brahmjot |title=Aruna Miller makes history as first South Asian woman elected lieutenant governor in U.S. |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/aruna-miller-makes-history-1st-south-asian-woman-lieutenant-governor-u-rcna56468 |access-date=November 10, 2022 |work=[[NBC News]] |date=November 9, 2022}}</ref> (Democratic) * [[Ameya Pawar]], served as the [[alderman]] for the 47th Ward of the [[City of Chicago]] * [[Jenifer Rajkumar]], member of the [[New York State Assembly]] (Democratic), representing the [[New York's 38th State Assembly district|38th district]] in [[Queens]] * [[Kshama Sawant]], member of the [[Seattle City Council]]. * [[Balvir Singh]], first Indian American member, [[Board of Chosen Freeholders]], [[Burlington County, New Jersey]], first Sikh American to win a countywide election in New Jersey, in November 2017 (Democratic)<ref>Hefler, Jan. [http://www.philly.com/philly/news/new_jersey/race-baiting-ads-backfired-says-sikh-who-broke-barriers-in-south-jersey-freeholder-race-20171109.html "Race-baiting ads backfired, says Sikh who broke barriers in South Jersey freeholder race"], ''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]'', November 8, 2017. Accessed December 30, 2017.</ref> * [[Kannan Srinivasan]], member of the [[Virginia House of Delegates]] (Democratic) ===Federal elected officials=== [[File:Dalip Singh Saund.jpg|right|thumb|150px|[[Dalip Singh Saund]], first Indian American to be elected to [[United States Congress|Congress]]]] [[File:Kamala Harris Vice Presidential Portrait.jpg|right|thumb|150px|[[Kamala Harris]], [[Vice President of the United States]].]] * [[Kamala Harris]] (b. 1964), 49th [[Vice President of the United States]], former and [[List of Attorneys General of California|32nd]] [[California Attorney General|Attorney General]] of [[California]], former U.S. Senator from California * [[Ami Bera]], [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] for [[California's 6th congressional district]] * [[Shri Thanedar]], [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] for [[Michigan's 13th congressional district]] * [[Raja Krishnamoorthi]], [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] for [[Illinois's 8th congressional district]] * [[Ro Khanna]], [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] for [[California's 17th congressional district]] * [[Pramila Jayapal]], [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] for [[Washington's 7th congressional district]] * [[Suhas Subramanyam]], [[U.S. Representative]] for [[Virginia's 10th congressional district]] * [[Dalip Singh Saund]], first [[Asian people|Asian]] and Indian American member of the [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. House of Representatives]] from [[California]] === Civil servants === <!--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.---> [[File:Kash Patel (52588173144) (cropped).jpg|right|thumb|150px|[[Kash Patel]], 9th [[Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation]]]] [[File:Nikki Haley official photo.jpg|right|thumb|150px|[[Nikki Haley]], [[United States Ambassador to the United Nations]]]] * [[Arif Alikhan]] (b. 1968), 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 [[Los Angeles|City of Los Angeles]]; former senior adviser to Attorneys General [[John Ashcroft]] and [[Alberto Gonzales]] * [[Preeta D. Bansal]] (b. 1965), member and past chair of the [[United States Commission on International Religious Freedom]]; former [[New York Attorney General#Solicitor General|Solicitor General of New York]] * [[Cathy Bissoon]], judge for the [[United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania]] (Democratic) * [[Nisha Desai Biswal]], former [[Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs]] * [[Saikat Chakrabarti]], [[chief of staff]] to [[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez]], the [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. representative]] from [[New York's 14th congressional district]] representing parts of [[The Bronx]] and [[Queens]] in [[New York City]] * [[Joy Cherian]], first Asian head of the [[Equal Employment Opportunity Commission]] * [[Aneesh Chopra]], former (inaugural) Federal [[Chief Technology Officer]] of the U.S. * [[Har Dayal]], founder of the [[Ghadar Party]] * [[Sabrina De Sousa]], ex-CIA officer; is suing the US government for diplomatic immunity * [[Gurbir Grewal]], [[Bergen County, New Jersey#Indian American|Bergen County, New Jersey]] [[prosecutor]], first Sikh American county prosecutor in the U.S.,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.northjersey.com/story/news/bergen/2016/12/02/bergen-prosecutor-talks-computer-crimes-heroin-epidemic/94760088/|title=Bergen prosecutor talks computer crimes, heroin epidemic|first1=Allison|last1=Pries|first2=John|last2=Ensslin|publisher=NorthJersey.com, part of the USA TODAY network|date=December 2, 2016|access-date=December 14, 2017}}</ref> * [[Vanita Gupta]], Former Lawyer for [[ACLU]] and former [[United States Associate Attorney General]] * [[Nikki Haley]], former [[U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations]]; former [[Governor of South Carolina]] (Republican) * [[Rashad Hussain]], [[United States Special Envoy to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation|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]] (Republican) * [[Neal Katyal]], former acting [[United States Solicitor General|Solicitor General of the United States]] * [[Atul Keshap]], former U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka and Maldives * [[Gopal Khanna]], chief information officer of [[Minnesota]] * [[Narayana Kocherlakota]], president of [[Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis]] * [[Kris Kolluri]], [[New Jersey]] Commissioner of Transportation <!--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.---> * [[Vivek Kundra]], Federal Chief Information Officer of the US * [[Arun Majumdar]], director of the [[U.S. Department of Energy]]'s [[ARPA-E|Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy]] * [[Raj Mukherji]] (b. 1984), Deputy Mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey; candidate for the New Jersey State Legislature * [[Ajit Pai]], former chairman of the [[Federal Communications Commission]] * [[Farah Pandith]], Special Representative to Muslim Communities for the [[United States Department of State]] * [[Rachel Paulose]], former [[United States District Court for the District of Minnesota|United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota]] * [https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajuhshah/ Raju Shah] [https://disa.mil/-/media/Files/DISA/News/Events/2020-Virtual-Experience/20201103-DISA-101_Mont.pdf CXO and Director of Engineering] ([[Defense Information Systems Agency|DISA]]) * [[Rajiv Shah]] (b. 1973), former [[Under Secretary of Agriculture for Research, Education, and Economics]]; former Administrator of [[USAID]]; President, [[Rockefeller Foundation]] * [[Sonal Shah (economist)|Sonal Shah]], member of the [[Presidential transition of Barack Obama|Obama-Biden Transition Project]] advisory board * [[Islam A. Siddiqui]], [[Chief Agricultural Negotiator]] in the [[Office of the United States Trade Representative]] * [[Daleep Singh]], former U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor; former Executive Vice President & Head of Markets at New York Fed * [[Sabita Singh]], first judge of Indian descent in Massachusetts history * [[Subra Suresh]], director of [[National Science Foundation]] * [[Vinai Thummalapally]] (b. 1954), served as [[U.S. Ambassador to Belize]] * [[Usha Vance]], [[Second ladies and gentlemen of the United States|Second Lady of the United States]] * [[Richard Verma]] (b. 1968), [[Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs|Assistant Secretary for Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs]], at the [[Department of State]] and Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources at the [[Department of State]] * [[Surya Yalamanchili]], 2010 US Congressional candidate * [[Lahori Ram]] - First Indo-American to be appointed as the Economic Development Commissioner of California.<ref>{{cite web |title=Bhog Akhand Path |url=https://www.ambedkartimes.com/Satguru%20Ravidass%20Societies.htm |website=ambedkartimes.com |access-date=13 June 2024}}</ref> ===Federal judges=== * [[Vince Girdhari Chhabria]], judge of the [[United States District Court for the Northern District of California]]<ref name="indiatimes.com"/> * [[Nicholas Ranjan]], District Judge, [[United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania]] * [[Neomi Rao]], judge of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit]] * [[Manish S. Shah]], judge of the [[United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois]]<ref name="indiatimes.com"/> * [[Indira Talwani]], judge of the [[United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts]]<ref name="indiatimes.com"/> * [[Amul Thapar]], judge of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit]]<ref name="indiatimes.com">{{cite web|url=http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2014-01-07/news/45955430_1_federal-judgeship-south-asian-article-vince-girdhari-chhabria|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160610134254/http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2014-01-07/news/45955430_1_federal-judgeship-south-asian-article-vince-girdhari-chhabria|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 10, 2016|title=Barack Obama re-nominates 3 Indian-Americans for federal judgeship|work=timesofindia-economictimes|access-date=8 May 2016}}</ref> * [[Cathy Bissoon]], judge of the [[United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania]]<ref name="Federal Judicial Center">{{cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1393816|title=Cathy Bissoon|access-date=9 March 2024}}</ref> * [[Satnam Rattu]] - Indian origin judge of the [[Superior Court of Sacramento County]] in [[California]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Many Congratulations |url=https://ww.ambedkartimes.com/AT-42-October%2019,%202022.pdf |access-date=13 June 2024 |issue=32 |publisher=Ambedkartimes |date=19 Oct 2022}}</ref> * [[Neetu Badhan Smith]] - First Sikh woman judge in the [[United States]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Neetu S Badhan Judge Supreme Courts of California Special Notes on Congratulations |url=https://www.ambedkartimes.com/AT-2019-1-2-3-March%2027,%202019.pdf |access-date=13 June 2024 |issue=1-3 |publisher=Ambedkartimes |date=27 March 2019}}</ref> * [[Amit Mehta]] - [[United States District Court for the District of Columbia]] * [[Sri Srinivasan]], [[United States federal judge|chief United States circuit judge]] of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit]] ==Religion and spirituality== <!--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.---> * [[Bikram Choudhury]] (b. 1944), yoga guru and founder of [[Bikram Yoga]] * [[Eknath Easwaran]], spiritual teacher, author, and translator of Indian religious texts such as the [[Bhagavad Gita]] and the [[Upanishads]] * [[Earl K. Fernandes]], [[Bishop-elect|Bishop-Elect]] of the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Columbus]] * [[Chitrabhanu|Chitrabhanu Jain]], founded the Jain Meditation International Center in Manhattan, New York City[[Harbhajan Singh Khalsa]], introduced Kundalini Yoga and Sikhism to the US * [[Padmanabh Jaini]], scholar of Jainism * [[Harbhajan Singh Khalsa]], introduced Kundalini Yoga and Sikhism to the US * [[Sushil Kumarji]], [[Jainism|Jain]] [[Acharya]] * [[Dipa Ma]], yoga teacher * [[Eboo Patel]], member of the New Faith Advisory Council * [[Anantanand Rambachan]], Hindu scholar, author, and professor of religion at [[St. Olaf College]] * [[Prem Rawat]], also known as Guru Maharaji Ji, head of the [[Divine Light Mission]] and later organizations * [[Muzammil Siddiqi|Muzammil Siddiqi, Ph.D.]], chairman, [[Fiqh Council of North America]] * [[Yasir Nadeem al Wajidi]], Chicago-based Muslim scholar, educationist and author * [[Paramahansa Yogananda]], yoga guru and founder of [[Self-Realization Fellowship]] * [[Ravi Zacharias]], [[Christians|Christian]] [[Evangelism|evangelist]] and [[apologist]] ==Science and technology== <!--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.---> [[File:Yellapragada Subbarow 1995 stamp of India bw.jpg|right|thumb|125px|[[Yellapragada Subbarow|Dr. Subbarow Yellapragada]]]] [[File:Kalpana Chawla, NASA photo portrait in orange suit.jpg|right|thumb|125px|[[Kalpana Chawla]], [[NASA]] astronaut, On February 1, 2003, [[Kalpana Chawla]] died on the Space Shuttle ''Columbia'']] [[File:Sunita Williams.jpg|right|thumb|125px|[[Sunita Williams]], [[NASA]] astronaut]] * [[Yellapragada Subbarow]] (1895–1948), pioneering biochemist who discovered ATP, the human body's energy molecule. * [[Ajay Bhatt]] (b. 1957), co-inventor of the USB; Chief Client Platform Architect at [[Intel]] * [[Ajit V. Pai]], chairman of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) * [[Ajit Varki]], physician-scientist * [[Amar Gopal Bose]], PhD in electrical engineering, founder and chairman of Bose Corporation * [[A. Hari Reddi]], distinguished professor and [[Larry Ellison|Lawrence J. Ellison]] Endowed Chair in Musculoskeletal Molecular Biology at the [[University of California, Davis]] * [[Bimal Kumar Bose]], pioneer in power electronics * [[Amit Goyal]], scientist and inventor * [[Amit Singhal]], Google Fellow, the designation the company reserves for its elite master engineers in the area of "ranking algorithm" * [[Amitabha Ghosh (planetary geologist)|Amitabha Ghosh]], the only Asian on NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission * [[Anil Dash]], blogger and technologist * [[Sharat Kumar Roy]], geologist and adventurer. A peak on [[Baffin Island]] as "Mount Sharat" is named after him by [[United States Coast and Geodetic Survey]] * [[Anirvan Ghosh]], neuroscientist * [[Govindjee]], biochemist * [[Arjun Makhijani]], electrical and nuclear engineer; president of the [[Institute for Energy and Environmental Research]] * [[Arun Netravali]], scientist; former president of [[Bell Labs]]; former CTO of [[Lucent]]; pioneer of digital technology, including [[HDTV]] and [[MPEG4]] * [[Arvind Rajaraman]], theoretical physicist and string theorist * [[Avtar Saini]], co-led the development of the Pentium processor [[Intel]]; holds seven patents related to microprocessor design * [[Bedabrata Pain]], co-inventor of the [[active pixel sensor]] * [[C. Kumar N. Patel]], developed the carbon dioxide laser, used as a cutting tool in surgery and industry * [[Deepak Pandya]], neuroanatomist * [[Arati Prabhakar]], director of [[DARPA]] * [[Dhairya Dand]], inventor and artist * [[DJ Patil]], Chief Data Scientist of the United States Office of Science and Technology Policy * [[George Sudarshan]], physicist, author; first to propose the existence of the [[tachyon]] * [[Jogesh Pati]], theoretical physicist at the [[University of Maryland, College Park]] * [[Kalpana Chawla]], [[NASA]] Space Shuttle astronaut, who died in the ''Columbia'' Space Shuttle disaster * [[Khem Shahani]], [[microbiologist]] who conducted pioneer research on [[probiotics]]; discovered the [[Probiotic#Strains|DDS-1]] strain of ''[[Lactobacillus acidophilus]]'' * [[Krishan Sabnani]], engineer and senior vice president of the Networking Research Laboratory at [[Alcatel-Lucent]] [[Bell Labs]] in New Jersey * [[Krishna Bharat]], principal scientist at [[Google]]; created [[Google News]] * [[Kuzhikalail M. Abraham]], pioneer in lithium and lithium-ion battery technologies, professor, [[Northeastern university]], Boston, Massachusetts and president, E-KEM Sciences, Needham, Massachusetts * [[Mahadev Satyanarayanan]], computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University; pioneer of research in mobile and pervasive computing * [[Mani Lal Bhaumik]], [[scientist]], contributor to [[excimer laser]] technology, [[Entrepreneurship|entrepreneur]] and [[philanthropist]] * [[Mathukumalli Vidyasagar]], control theorist * [[Narinder Singh Kapany]], physicist, the "father of [[fiber optics]]" * [[Nalini Nadkarni]], [[ecologist]] who pioneered the study of [[Costa Rica]]n [[rain forest]] [[canopy (biology)|canopies]] * [[Noshir Gowadia]], design engineer * [[Om Malik]], technology journalist and blogger * [[Pran Nath (physicist)|Pran Nath]], theoretical physicist at [[Northeastern University]] * [[Pranav Mistry]], Sixth Sense Project * [[Raj Reddy]], founder of the Robotics Institute at [[Carnegie Mellon University]]; winner of the [[Turing Award]] * [[Raja Chari]], astronaut chosen for Artemis Moon mission * [[Rajeev Motwani]], professor, angel investor * [[Rajiv Dutta]], technology manager * [[Rajiv Joshi]], Inventor, VP of IEEE * [[Ramesh K. Agarwal]], aviation pioneer; William Palm Professor of Engineering at Washington University * [[Ramesh Raskar]], Femto-camera inventor, MIT Professor * [[Rangaswamy Srinivasan]], member of the Inventors' [[Hall of Fame]] for pioneering work on excimer laser surgery * [[Ruchi Sanghvi]], first female engineer of [[Facebook]]; former VP of Operations, [[Dropbox (service)|Dropbox]] * [[Sabeer Bhatia]], co-founder of [[Hotmail]] * [[Samir Mitragotri]], professor of chemical engineering and bioengineering at [[University of California, Santa Barbara]] * [[Sasikanth Manipatruni]], Pioneer in the area of Spintronics, Silicon Photonics, Optomechanics and In Memory Computing * [[Satya N. Atluri]], aerospace and mechanics, Excellence in Aviation Medal, [[FAA]], 1998; Recipient of [[Padma Bhushan]] in 2013 in Science & Engineering from the President of India, elected to membership to National Academies of Engineering, USA (1996) and India (1997) * [[Sal Khan|Salman Khan]], founder of [[Khan Academy]] * [[Sharmila Bhattacharya]], head of the Biomodel Performance and Behavior laboratory at [[NASA Ames Research Center]] * [[Shiva Ayyadurai|VA Shiva Ayyadurai]], inventor, scientist, former guest lecturer at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] * [[Siddhartha Mukherjee]], scientist, physician, winner of [[Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction]] * [[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]] * [[Subhash Kak]], head of the Computer Science department at Oklahoma State University * [[Subrah Iyar]], co-founder and CEO of [[WebEx|Webex Communications]] * [[Subrata Roy (scientist)|Subrata Roy]], plasma physicist, professor of aerospace engineering at [[University of Florida]], inventor of the [[Wingless Electromagnetic Air Vehicle]] * [[Sunita Williams]], [[NASA]] astronaut * [[Shya Chitaley]] - Paleo botanist * [[Swapan Chattopadhyay]], particle accelerator physicist * [[Swati Mohan]], NASA space engineer * [[Thomas Anantharaman]], computer statistician specializing in [[Bayesian inference]] * [[Thomas Zacharia]], computational scientist * [[V. Mohan Reddy]], pediatric cardiothoracic surgeon at Stanford * [[Vamsi Mootha]], physician-scientist and computational biologist * [[Suchir Balaji]], [[computer scientist]] turned [[whistleblower]] who worked for [[OpenAI]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Suchir Balaji: OpenAI whistleblower found dead in apartment |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd0el3r2nlko |access-date=2025-01-16 |website=www.bbc.com |language=en-GB}}</ref> * [[Vic Gundotra]], former senior vice president, Engineering for Google * [[Vijay Raghunath Pandharipande]], physicist * [[Vineeta Rastogi]], public health worker * [[Sirisha Bandla]], space engineer * [[Asim Duttaroy]], Medical Scientist ===Medicine=== <!--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.--> [[File:Vivek Murthy, Surgeon General (thumbnail).jpg|right|thumb|upright=0.6|[[Vivek Murthy]], [[Surgeon General of the United States|Surgeon General of U.S.]]; former vice admiral of U.S. Health Corps]] * [[Amit Patel]], cardiovascular surgeon and stem cell researcher; first person to inject stem cells directly into the heart * [[Anita Goel]], Harvard-MIT physicist, physician; expert in nanobiophysics and nanotechnology; chairman and CEO of Nanobiosym; inventor of Gene-RADAR technology * [[Ashutosh Tewari]], professor of urology at [[New York Presbyterian Hospital]]; [[prostate cancer]] surgeon * [[Atul Gawande]], general and endocrine surgeon, professor, medical author, and [[National Book Award]] finalist * [[Balamurali Ambati]], world's youngest doctor, at age 17 * [[Deepak Chopra]], alternative medicine advocate, author and public speaker * [[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 * [[Inder Verma]], Professor of Molecular Biology in the Laboratory of Genetics at [[Salk Institute for Biological Studies]] and [[University of California, San Diego]] * [[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 * [[Paul Antony]], MD, MPH, chief medical officer for the [[Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America]] (PhRMA) * [[Ragavendra R. Baliga]], FACC, FACP, FRCP (Edin), Professor of Medicine at; [[Ohio State University College of Medicine]] * [[Sangeeta Bhatia]], Harvard-MIT doctor and scientist; engineer of artificial liver cells * [[Sanjay Gupta]], neurosurgeon; CNN chief medical correspondent; * [[Vivek Murthy]] (b. 1977), 19th and former [[Surgeon General of the United States]]; former vice admiral of U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Officer Corps * [[Aseem Shukla]] (b. 1972), Professor of Surgery (Urology) at the [[Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania]], co-founder of [[Hindu American Foundation]] * [[Kiran C Patel]] (b. 1949), cardiologist, philanthropist, serial entrepreneur, and hotelier * [[Asim Duttaroy]], Medical Scientist * [[Deborah Persaud]] (b. 1960), virologist * [[Alok Kanojia]], psychiatrist and mental health coach <!--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.---> ==Sports== <!--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.---> [[File:Bhardwaj usn2001.jpg|right|thumb|upright=0.6|[[Mohini Bhardwaj]], [[2004 Summer Olympics]] medalist in gymnastics]] * [[Adeel Alam]], professional wrestler best known ring name Mustafa Ali (Indian mother) * [[Prakash Amritraj]] (b. 1983), tennis player (born in the US) * [[Stephen Amritraj]] (b. 1984), tennis player * [[Sanjay Beach]] (b. 1966), former [[National Football League|NFL]] wide receiver; played for the San Francisco 49ers and the Green Bay Packers * [[Mohini Bhardwaj]], second Indian American [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] medalist, [[2004 Summer Olympics]] [[silver medal]]ist in gymnastics * [[Vinay Bhat]], [[Grandmaster (chess)|chess grandmaster]] * [[Raj Bhavsar]], third Indian American Olympic medalist, [[2008 Summer Olympics]] [[bronze]] medalist in the team gymnastics competition * [[Shaun Bridgmohan]], jockey * [[Unmukt Chand]], cricketer * [[Ashish Chattha]], soccer player * [[Brandon Chillar]], NFL player, linebacker for the Green Bay Packers (father of Indian descent) * [[Carlos Cordeiro]], President of the [[United States Soccer Federation]] * [[Sean Desai]] (b. 1983), NFL coach and [[defensive coordinator]] for the [[Chicago Bears]] * [[Jignesh Desai]], cricketer * [[Sonjay Dutt]], [[Total Nonstop Action Wrestling|TNA]] pro wrestler * [[The Great Khali]], [[WWE]] pro wrestler * [[Alexi Grewal]], first Indian American to win an [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] medal, [[gold medal]]ist in [[1984 Summer Olympics]] in cycling * [[Sunil Gulati]], former President of the [[United States Soccer Federation]] * [[Nezam Hafiz]], cricketer and victim of the [[September 11 attacks]] * [[Amjad Khan (American cricketer)|Amjad Khan]], cricketer * [[Ibrahim Khaleel]], cricketer * [[Noshtush Kenjige]], cricketer * [[Thirunavukkarasu Kumaran]], cricketer * [[Iris Kyle]], professional bodybuilder * [[Anil Lashkari]], cricketer * [[Sanjay Lal]], wide receivers coach for the Dallas Cowboys * [[Manny Malhotra]], NHL hockey player * [[Rajiv Maragh]], jockey * [[Aditya Mishra]], cricketer * [[Mike Mohamed]], former NFL player of [[Punjabi Mexican Americans|Punjabi Mexican American]] descent * [[Sushil Nadkarni]], [[United States national cricket team|American cricketer]] * [[Arjun Nimmala]], baseball player * [[Ami Parekh]], figure skater * [[Japen Patel]], cricketer * [[Monank Patel]], USA cricket captain * [[Mrunal Patel]], cricketer * [[Raj Patel]], golfer * [[Sagar Patel]], cricketer * [[Smit Patel]], cricketer * [[Timil Patel]], cricketer * [[Laxmi Poruri]], tennis player * [[Tara Prasad]], figure skater * [[Abhimanyu Rajp]], cricketer * [[Rajeev Ram]], tennis player * [[Victor Ramdin|Annand Mahendra "Victor" Ramdin]], professional poker player and philanthropist * [[Sunitha Rao]], tennis player * [[Srini Santhanam]], cricketer * [[Jessy Singh]], cricketer * [[Saurabh Netravalkar]], USA cricket captain * [[Jaskaran Malhotra]], cricketer * [[Milind Kumar]], cricketer * [[Harmeet Singh (cricketer born 1992)|Harmeet Singh]], cricketer * [[Abhimanyu Mishra]], [[Grandmaster (chess)|chess grandmaster]] * [[Kanak Jha]], [[Table Tennis]] player * [[Akshay Bhatia]], golfer * [[Sahith Theegala]], golfer * [[Neha Uberoi]], tennis player * [[Shikha Uberoi]], tennis player * [[Shiva Vashishat]], cricketer ==See also== * [[Indo-Caribbean Americans#Notable people|List of Indo-Caribbean Americans]] * [[Gujarati Americans#Notable people|List of Gujarati Americans]] * [[Telugu Americans#Notable Telugu Americans|List of Telugu Americans]] * [[Tamil Americans#Notable people|List of Tamil Americans]] * [[Sindhi Americans#Indian-origin Sindhi American|List of Sindhi Americans]] * [[Bengali Americans#Notable people|List of Bengali Americans]] * [[Punjabi Americans#Notable Punjabi Americans|List of Punjabi Americans]] * [[Punjabi Mexican Americans#Notable people|List of Punjabi Mexican Americans]] * [[Non-resident Indian and person of Indian origin|Non-resident Indian and Person of Indian Origin]] * [[India–United States relations]] *[[Deportation of Indian nationals under Donald Trump]] == References == {{Reflist|2}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Indian Americans}} [[Category:Lists of American people of Asian descent]] [[Category:American people of Indian descent|*]] [[Category:Lists of people of Indian descent|American]] [[Category:Lists of Indian people|American]]
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