List of Indian Americans

Indian Americans are citizens or residents of the United States of America who trace their family descent to India.

[1][2] Notable Indian Americans include:

Subramanyan Chandrasekhar , Nobel Prize for Physics , 1983
Abhijit Banerjee , Professor of Economics at MIT , Nobel Prize winner in Economic Sciences in 2019.
M. Night Shyamalan , Hollywood director
Mira Nair , director and producer
Sharad Devarajan , superhero creator and producer
Rohit Gupta , director, producer
Nina Davuluri , Miss America 2014
Kal Penn , actor
Mindy Kaling , actress
Sendhil Ramamurthy , actor
Danny Pudi , actor
Aziz Ansari , comedian and actor
Hasan Minhaj , comedian
Hari Kondabolu , comedian
Padma Lakshmi
Fareed Zakaria , journalist
Lilly Singh , actress and YouTuber
Norah Jones , singer and winner of multiple Grammy Awards
Zubin Mehta , musician and receiver of a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Kiran Desai , winner of the 2006 Man Booker Prize
Siddhartha Mukherjee , physician and 2011 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
Aruna Miller , 10th Lieutenant Governor of Maryland
Ravinder Bhalla , elected the first turban-wearing Sikh U.S. mayor, of Hoboken , New Jersey
Dalip Singh Saund , first Indian American to be elected to Congress
Kamala Harris , Vice President of the United States .
Nikki Haley , United States Ambassador to the United Nations
Dr. Subbarow Yellapragada
Kalpana Chawla , NASA astronaut, On February 1, 2003, Kalpana Chawla died on the Space Shuttle Columbia
Sunita Williams , NASA astronaut
Vivek Murthy , Surgeon General of U.S. ; former vice admiral of U.S. Health Corps
Mohini Bhardwaj , 2004 Summer Olympics medalist in gymnastics