Inilah daftar tokoh-tokoh India.
Seniman
- Amrita Sher-Gil, pelukis
- Birju Maharaj, penari
- Jatin Das, pelukis
- Kelucharan Mohapatra, penari Odissi
- Mallika Sarabhai, penari
- M.F. Husain, pelukis
- Protima Bedi, penari
- Raja dan Radha Reddy, penari Kuchipudi
- Raja Ravi Varma, pelukis
- P.C. Sorcar, pesulap
- P.C. Sorcar, Jr., pesulap
- Manick Sorcar, animator/sutradara
- Sudha Chandran, penari
- BV. Karanth, musikus
- Girish Karnad, dramawan
Pebisnis dan Industriwan
- Peeyush Pandit,
- Ajay Piramal, pimpinan Piramal Enterprises Limited
- Amar Bose, pendiri Bose Corporation
- Arjun Malhotra, salah satu pendiri, HCL Technologies
- Azim Premji, pimpinan, Wipro
- Dewang Mehta, kepala NASSCOM
- J.R.D. Tata, Industriwan, Tata Groups
- GD. Birla, Industriwan, Birla Group
- Sohrab Pirojsha Godrej, Godrej Industries
- Jamnalal Bajaj
- Lakshmi Narayan Mittal
- Mukesh Ambani
- N.R. Narayana Murthy, salah satu pendiri Infosys
- Sabeer Bhatia, salah satu pendiri Hotmail
- Sanjiv Sidhu, pendiri i2 Technologies
- Shantanurao Laxmanrao Kirloskar, Kirloskar Group
- Subrata Roy, Sahara India Parivar
- Verghese Kurien, pendiri Operation Flood
- Bobby Kishore, DirUt Microsoft Corporation
- Vinod Khosla, salah satu pendiri Sun Microsystems
- Vivek Paul, CEO of Wipro
Kartunis
- Abu Abraham, di The Guardian
- Ajit Ninan, di India Today
- Bal Thackeray
- Jug Suraiya
- Kesav, di The Hindu
- Mario Miranda
- Ranga
- R. K. Laxman, di Times of India
- Shanker, di mingguan ilustasi India, The Hindustan Times
- Yesudasan, di The Week
Model
- Dino Morea, model dan aktor
- John Abraham, model dan aktor
- Madhu Sapre
- Manish Malhotra, desainer
- Milind Soman, model dan aktor
- Nafisa Joseph, model dan VJ
- Ritu Beri, desainer
- Rohit Bal, desainer
Sastrawan
- Allama Iqbal, penyair berbahasa Urdu
- Arundhati Roy – pemenang Booker Prize pada The God of Small Things
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Dom Moraes, pengarang, penyair
- Harivansh Rai Bachchan, penyair berbahasa Hindi
- Jayakanthan, Tamil penulis.
- Jhumpa Lahiri - pemenang Pulitzer Prize melalui "Interpreter of Maladies"
- Kabir
- Kaifi Azmi, penyair
- Kalhana
- Kalidasa, dramawan, pencipta Shakuntalam
- Kamala Markandaya, penyair
- Khushwant Singh, novelis
- Manil Suri, novelis
- Mahadevi Verma, penyair berbahasa Hindi
- Mirza Ghalib, penyair berbahasa Urdu
- Mulk Raj Anand
- Munshi Premchand, novelis berbahasa Hindi
- Nissim Ezekiel - penyair, kritikus seni
- Rabindranath Tagore – pemenang Hadiah Nobel Sastra, komponis lagu kebangsaan India dan Bangladesh
- R.K. Narayan, penulis cerpen berbahasa Inggris
- Salman Rushdie – pemenang Booker Prize untuk Midnight's Children
- Shashi Tharoor - pemenang The Great Indian Novel di samping buku lain
- Subhash Kak, penulis
- Sumitranandan Pant, penyair berbahasa Hindi
- Tulsidas, penyair, pengarang Ramayana dalam bahasa Hindi
- Vikram Seth, novelis berbahasa Inggris, penyair
- Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul – pemenang Hadiah Nobel 2001 (kelahiran Trinidad, cucu dari seorang India, bukan warga negara India)
- Vaikom Muhammad Basheer – novelis berbahasa Malayalam
- Vayalar Ramavarma – penyair berbahasa Malayalam
Media Massa
- Aniruddha Bahal, penulis dan wartawan Tehelka
- Deepak Chaurasia
- Khushwant Singh
- M. J. Akbar, editor kepala, Asian Age
- Prannoy Roy, pemilik NDTV
- Arun Shourie, wartawan
- Pritish Nandy
- Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, koordinator penelitian, Doordarshan
- Saeed Naqvi
- Sanjay Pugalia, direktur, STAR News
- Sanjay Gupta
- Vir Sanghvi, editor, Hindustan Times
- Vinod Mehta, editor Outlook
- Monita Rajpal
Film
Sutradara
- Adoor Gopalakrishnan
- Bimal Roy
- Boney Kapoor
- David Dhawan
- Dev Anand
- Farah Khan
- Farhan Akhtar
- Gulzar
- Gurinder Chadha
- Guru Dutt
- Hrishikesh Mukherjee
- Ismail Merchant
- KC. Bokadia
- Kaizad Gustad
- Kamal Amrohi
- Karan Johar
- Mani Ratnam
- Manoj Night Shyamalan (kelahiran India, warga negara AS)
- Mira Nair
- Mrinal Sen
- Nazir Hussain
- Raj Kapoor
- Rajkumar Santoshi
- Ram Gopal Varma
- Ritwik Ghatak
- Sai Paranjpe
- Satish Kaushik
- Satyajit Ray
- Shekhar Kapoor
- Shyam Benegal
- Subhash Ghai
- Shakti Samanta
- Vishal Bharadwaj
- Yash Chopra
Produser
- Amitabh Bachchan, Amitabh Bachchan Corporation Ltd. (ABCL)
- Aziz Mirza, Dreamz Unlimited
- Boney Kapoor, Narsimha Enterprises
- Dev Anand, Navketan Films
- Gulshan Rai, Trimurti Films
- Juhi Chawla, Dreamz Unlimited
- KC. Bokadia
- K.T. Kunjumon, Gentleman Films
- Mira Nair, Mirabai Films
- Mohanlal, Pranavam Arts
- Mukesh Bhatt, Vishesh Films
- Pooja Bhatt, mulanya Pooja Bhatt Productions, Fish Eye Network
- Raj Kapoor, R.K. Films
- Ram Gopal Varma, Varma Corporation Ltd.
- Shahrukh Khan, Dreamz Unlimited
- Sooraj Barjatya, Rajshri Films
- Subhash Ghai, Mukta Arts
- Sunil Dutt, Ajanta Arts
- Yash Chopra, Yashraj Films
- Yash Johar, Dharma Productions
- Bobby Bedi, Kaleidoscope Entertainment
Aktor
A-F
- Aamir Khan
- Abhishek Bachchan
- Aftab Shivdasani
- Amrish Puri
- Amitabh Bachchan
- Amjad Khan
- Ajay Devgan
- Akshay Khanna
- Akshay Kumar
- Amol Palekar
- Anil Kapoor
- Annu Kapoor
- Aman Verma
- Anupam Kher
- Ashok Kumar
- Balraj Sahni
- Biswajit
- Bobby Deol
- Chandrachur Singh
- Dev Anand
- Dharmendra (kelahiran 1935)
- Dilip Kumar
- Dino Morea
- Fardeen Khan
- Feroze Khan
G-P
- Govinda
- Guru Dutt
- Hrithik Roshan
- Jackie Shroff
- Jeetendra
- John Abraham
- Johnny Walker, nama aslinya Badruddin Qazi
- Jimmy Shergill
- Kadar Khan
- Kamal Haasan
- Madhavan
- Mammootty, aktor Malayalam
- Manoj Bajpai
- Manoj Kumar
- Mehmood
- Mithun Chakraborty
- Mohanlal, film berbahasa Malayalam
- Naseeruddin Shah
- Navin Nischol
- Om Prakash
- Om Puri
- Pran
- Prem Nazir, film berbahasa Malayalam
R
- Rajini Kanth
- Raj Kapoor (Aktor dan sutradara)
- Rajendra Kumar
- Raaj Kumar (aktor Hindi)
- Rajeev Kapoor
- Rajesh Khanna
- Dr. Rajkumar (aktor Kannada)
- Rakesh Roshan
- Randhir Kapoor
- Rishi Kapoor
- Roshan Seth
S-V
- Saif Ali Khan
- Salman Khan
- Sanjay Dutt
- Sanjay Kapoor
- Sanjay Khan
- Sanjeev Kumar (aktor) – aktor Bollywood
- Sanjeev Kumar (insinyur) - CTO dari PortalPlayer
- Shahrukh Khan
- Shakti Kapoor
- Shammi Kapoor
- Shashi Kapoor
- Shatrughan Sinha
- Sivaji Ganesan
- Sunil Dutt
- Sunil Shetty
- Sunny Deol
- Suresh Gopi
- Tusshar Kapoor
- Utpal Dutt
- Uttam Kumar
- Vinod Khanna
- Vinod Mehra
- Vivek Oberoi
Musik
- Abhijeet, penyanyi
- Alka Yagnik, penyanyi
- Amjad Ali Khan
- A.R. Rahman - komponis
- Asha Bhosle, penyanyi
- Babul Supriyo
- Geeta Dutt, penyanyi
- Hemant Kumar, komponis dan penyanyi
- Hridaynath Mangeshkar, komponis
- Ilayaraja, komponis
- Kartik Seshadri, sitaris
- Kavita Krishnamurthy
- Kay Kay, penyanyi
- Khayyam
- Kishore Kumar, penyanyi, aktor
- Lata Mangeshkar, penyanyi
- Lucky Ali, penyanyi
- Mahendra Kapoor, penyanyi
- Manna Dey, penyanyi
- MS. Subbulakshmi, penyanyi klasik (Karnatakka)
- Mohammad Rafi, penyanyi
- Mukesh, penyanyi
- Nitin Sawhney, komponis
- Naushad, komponis
- Noor Jehan, penyanyi
- O.P. Nayyar, komponis
- Rahul Dev Burman, komponis
- Ravi, komponis
- Ravi Shankar, maestro sitar
- S.D. Burman, komponis
- Sadhana Sargam
- Salil Chowdhury, komponis
- Shamshad Begum
- Sultan Khan
- Suraiya, penyanyi
- Talat Mahmood, penyanyi
- Talvin Singh, komponis
- Trilok Gurtu, pemain perkusi
- Yesudas, penyanyi, penyanyi kebaktian dan film, eksponen musik Karnatakka
- Zakir Hussain, maestro Tabla
- Zubin Mehta, dirigen
Gangster
Politikus
A-L
- Abdul Kalam
- Amarsinh Chaudhary, (1941-2004) Ketua Menteri Gujarat
- Arjun Singh
- Arun Gandhi
- Arun Gawli
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee
- Bal Gangadhar Tilak
- Bal Thackeray
- Chakravarti Rajagopalachari
- Charu Majumdar
- Dasarath Deb
- E.K. Nayanar
- Feroze Gandhi
- Ghulam Nabi Azad
- Indira Gandhi
- J. Jayalalithaa, Ketua Menteri Tamil Nadu
- Jayaprakash Narayan
- Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964)
- Lal Krishna Advani
- Laloo Prasad Yadav
M-P
- M. Karunanidhi, Ketua Menteri Tamil Nadu
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
- Mani Shankar Aiyar
- Manik Sarkar
- Manmohan Singh – Perdana Menteri
- Manohar Parrikar, Ketua Menteri Goa
- Mayawati
- M.G. Ramachandran, terkenal sebagai MGR, Ketua Menteri Tamil Nadu
- Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, Ketua Menteri Jammu dan Kashmir
- Mulayam Singh Yadav, Ketua Menteri Uttar Pradesh
- Narendra Modi, Ketua Menteri Gujarat
- Natwar Singh
- Nripen Chakroborthy
- P. Chidambaram
- P.K. Vasudevan Nair
- P.V. Narasimha Rao
- Pranab Mukherjee
- Pratapsinh Rane, Ketua Menteri Goa
R-Y
- R.R. Patil, Wakil Ketua Menteri Maharashtra
- Rabri Devi (lahir 1959)
- Rahul Gandhi, Polisi Militer dari Amethi
- Rajendra Prasad
- Rajiv Gandhi (1944-1991)
- Rajiv Pratap Rudy
- Ram Vilas Paswan (lahir 1946)
- Ravi Shankar Prasad
- S.M. Krishna
- Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (1875-1950)
- Sharad Pawar (lahir 1940)
- Shibu Soren (lahir 1944)
- Shivraj Patil
- Somnath Chatterjee
- Sonia Gandhi (lahir 1946)
- Subhash Chandra Bose (1897-1945)
- Suresh Kalmadi (lahir 1944)
- Sushilkumar Shinde (lahir 1941)
- T. Nagi Reddy (pemimpin revolusioner komunis Andhra Pradesh)
- Venkaiah Naidu
- Vilasrao Deshmukh
- Vinay Katiyar
- Yashwant Sinha (lahir 1937)
Agamawan dan Filsuf
- Fajar Firdaus Muslim
- Zakir Naik
- Ahmed Deedat
- Adi Sankara
- Amir Khusrau
- Mata Amritanandamayi
- Sri Aurobindo
- Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
- Farid
- Gautama Buddha – pendiri agama Buddha
- Mirzan Ghaluman Ahmad - pendiri ahmadiyah
- Hazrat Makhdum Bukhari Jahanian Jahangasht
- Hazrat Mueen-ud-Din Chishti Ajmeri Khwajah
- Hazrat Sirhindi
- Hazrat Usmaan Pir Harooni
- J. Krishnamurti
- Jayendra Saraswathi, Shankaracharya dari Kanchi
- Kabir
- Lord Mahavir
- Meera
- Narayana Guru
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
- Nizaam-ud-Din Auliya
- Osho Shree Rajneesh
- Prabhupada A.C. Bhaktivedanta
- Prem Rawat
- Ramakrishna Paramhansa
- Sai Baba dari Shirdi
- Sathya Sai Baba
- Samartha Ramdas Swami
- Sant Tukaram
- Sant Namdeo
- Swami Vivekananda
- Tulsidas, penyair, penulis Ramayana dalam bahasa Hindi
- Sepuluh Guru Sikh, pemimpin aliran Sikh:
- Akshapada Gotama
- Badarayana
- Maharishi Debendranath Tagore
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Kanada
- Kapila
- Madhva
- Ramanuja
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
- Shankara
- Tiruvalluvar
- Vallabha
Kerabat Kerajaan
- Akbar yang Agung
- Ashoka
- Aurangzeb
- Babur
- Bindusara
- Chandragupta Maurya
- Chandragupta II (Chandragupta Vikramaditya)
- Jahanara Begum, putri Shah Jahan
- Jahangir
- Lakshmi bai, Rani dari Jhansi
- Mumtaz Mahal
- Rajendra Chola
- Raja Ravi Varma
- Samudragupta
- Shah Jahan
- Sher Shah Suri
- Shivaji
- Tipu Sultan
Ilmuwan
- Zakir Naik
- Abdul Kalam
- Acharya P.C. Roy
- Aryabhata
- Ashoke Sen, fisikawan teoretis
- Bhaskaracharya
- Birbal Sahni
- Brahmagupta
- C.N.R. Rao
- C.V. Raman
- Satish Dhawan
- George Sudarshan
- Har Gobind Khorana
- Harish Chandra
- Homi Jehangir Bhabha
- Jagadish Chandra Bose
- J.J. Rawal, astrofisikawan
- Jayant Narlikar
- Ashoka Prasad also Ashoka Johnubiprasad
- Kollagunta Gopalaiyer Ramanathan
- Gurdev Singh Khush
- Lagadha
- M.G.K.Menon
- Madhava
- Madhu Sudan
- G. Balakrish Nair
- Meghnad Saha
- Vandana Shiva
- Nilakantha Somayaji
- Panini
- Pingala
- Raja Ramannann
- Roddam Narasimha
- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
- Vulimiri Ramalingaswami
- Srinivasa Ramanujan
- Satyendra Nath Bose
- S. Bhagvantam
- Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar
- C.S.Seshadri
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- Vikram Sarabhai
- Yellapragada Subbarao
- Mriganka Sur
- Jamshed Rustom Tata
- Yajnavalkya
- Dr. Rajender Singh Sangwan
- Fajar Firdaus Muslim
Pekerja Sosial
- Anna Hazare
- Arundhati Roy, Narmada Bachao Andolan
- Baba Amte
- Jayaprakash Narayan
- Medha Patkar, Narmada Bachao Andolan
- Bunda Teresa, misionaris
- Sudha Murty, Yayasan Infosys
- Sunderlal Bahuguna, pergerakan Chipko
- Vinoba Bhave, pergerakan Sarvodaya dan Bhoodan
Olahragawan
- Anil Kumble, kriket
- Anju George, atlet
- Ashok Kumar, hoki
- Baichung Bhutia, sepak bola
- Chandu Borde, kriket
- Dhanraj Pillay, hoki
- Dhyan Chand, hoki
- Geet Sethi, snooker
- Gopichand, bulu tangkis
- Harbhajan Singh, kriket
- Javagal Srinath, kriket
- Jeev Milkha Singh, golf
- Jyoti Randhawa, golf
- Kapil Dev, kriket
- Karan Rastogi, tenis
- Karnam Malleswari, angkat besi
- Lakshmipathy Balaji, kriket
- Leander Paes, tenis
- Mahesh Bhupathi, tenis
- Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, kriket
- Milkha Singh, Atlet
- Mohammed Azharuddin, kriket
- Narain Karthikeyan, balap mobil
- P. Harikrishna, catur
- Pargat Singh, hoki
- Prakash Padukone, bulu tangkis
- Pravin Thipsay, grandmaster catur
- P. T. Usha, atletik, juara Asian Games
- Ramesh Krishnan, tenis
- Rahul Dravid, kriket
- Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, menembak
- Ranjitsinghji, kriket
- Sachin Tendulkar, kriket
- Sania Mirza, tenis
- Saurav Ganguly, kriket
- Sunil Gavaskar, kriket
- Vijay Amritraj, petenis lapangan rumput
- Viswanathan Anand, catur
Lainnya
- Amartya Sen, ekonom, penerima Penghargaan Nobel dalam Ilmu Ekonomi 1998
- Partha Dasgupta, ekonom
- Jaishree Odin, guru
- B.K.S. Iyengar, penyokong yoga
- Balbir Singh Sodhi, korban 11 September
- Basava Premanand, guru skeptis
- Bimal Jalan, Gubernur Reserve Bank of India
- Irfan Habib, sejarawan
- Lieutenant General Joginder Jaswant Singh
- Kalpana Chawla, wanita India astronaut pertama, berada dalam pesawat Columbia yang meledak pada tahun 2003
- Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Menteri Pendidikan pertama India
- Nain Singh
- Noor Inyat Khan, mata-mata selama PD II, terlahir dari ayah India dan keturunan Tipu Sultan
- Rajendra Singh Lodha, akuntan
- Rakesh Sharma, astronaut India pertama
- Romila Thapar, (lahir 1931), sejarawan
- Rumaisa Rahman, bayi yang lahir terkecil dalam sejarah, dan saudarinya Hima, seorang India-Amerika
- Ramesh Chandra Lahoti, (lahir 1940), Ketua Pengadilan India
- Shashindra Pal Tyagi, ketua AU India
- Sidhartha Basu, quiz master
- Dr V Mohan Reddy, ahli bedah jantung