List of NRIs
Encyclopedia
Non Resident Indians (NRIs) are people who hold an Indian citizenship legally, but do not live in India. Therefore, this list does not include individuals of Indian origin who are legal citizens of a foreign or their current resident country through naturalization
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Naturalization
Naturalization is the acquisition of citizenship and nationality by somebody who was not a citizen of that country at the time of birth....
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Business and Industry
- K. MuraleedharanK. MuraleedharanK. Muraleedharan is an Indian politician from Kerala. He was elected as member of the Lok Sabha thrice from the Kozhikode constituency, representing the Indian National Congress, subsequently leaving the party in 2005.-Personal life:K. Muraleedharan was born to K...
- SFC Group, U.A.E & Muralya Group, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala - A.K.Chandran - I.M.I Group
- M A Yousuf AliM A Yousuf AliM. A. Yousuf Ali is a Non-resident Indian businessman hailing from Nattika in Thrissur district of Kerala. He is the Managing Director of Abu Dhabi-headquartered EMKE Group of Companies which owns the LuLu Hypermarket chain in Middle East...
- Managing director - Lulu Hypermarket Group - Micky JagtianiMicky JagtianiMicky 'Mukesh' Jagtiani is an Indian businessman who owns the Dubai-based Landmark retail-stores group, with over 600 stores in the Gulf, India, Pakistan, China and Spain.-Early life and education:...
- Landmark Group - Sunny VarkeySunny VarkeySunny Varkey began the Varkey Group in 1980 with 'Our Own English High School'. Since 1980, the organisation has since evolved to include a number of schools internationally...
- GEMS Group
Arts & Entertainment
- Deepa MehtaDeepa MehtaDeepa Mehta, LLD is a Genie Award-winning Indian-born Canadian film director and screenwriter, most known for her Elements Trilogy, Fire , Earth , and Water , among which Earth was submitted by Indian government for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film...
- film director (Bollywood/HollywoodBollywood/HollywoodBollywood/Hollywood is a 2002 film by Indo-Canadian director Deepa Mehta. It is lighthearted, humorous, and family-oriented in nature, as opposed to Mehta's other films , which feature very serious themes and focus on social issues.The film pokes fun at traditional Indian stereotypes, as well as at...
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- Lisa RayLisa RayLisa Ray , born 4 April 1972, is a Canadian actress and former model.-Early life:Lisa Ray was born in Toronto to a Bengali Indian father and a Polish mother and grew up in the suburb of Etobicoke...
- BollywoodBollywoodBollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...
actress (Bollywood/HollywoodBollywood/HollywoodBollywood/Hollywood is a 2002 film by Indo-Canadian director Deepa Mehta. It is lighthearted, humorous, and family-oriented in nature, as opposed to Mehta's other films , which feature very serious themes and focus on social issues.The film pokes fun at traditional Indian stereotypes, as well as at...
, Water) - Russell PetersRussell PetersRussell Dominic Peters is an Indo-Canadian comedian, actor and disc jockey. He began performing in Toronto in 1989 and has been nominated for four Gemini Awards.-Early life :...
- Stand-up Comedian - RaghavRaghavRaghav Mathur , known professionally as Raghav, is a Canadian singer currently signed to Cordova Bay Records. He is best known for his single "Angel Eyes" which peaked at number 7 in the UK in 2005...
R&B/desi singer - Ashwin SoodAshwin SoodAshwin Sood is a Canadian musician. Sood plays drums, percussion, keyboards, and sings.Sood was Sarah McLachlan's drummer, and was also married to McLachlan, although they are now separated....
- drummer for (and husband of) Sarah McLachlanSarah McLachlanSarah Ann McLachlan, OC, OBC is a Canadian musician, singer and songwriter. Known for her emotional ballads and mezzo-soprano vocal range, as of 2006, she has sold over 40 million albums worldwide. McLachlan's best-selling album to date is Surfacing, for which she won two Grammy Awards and four... - Ruby BhatiaRuby Bhatia-Introduction:Ruby Bhatia is a popular Indian television personality from Ajax, ON. She won the Miss India Canada contest in 1993. Ruby was a VJ in for Channel [V] and hosted BPL Oye! and was known for her hilarious pranks she played on unsuspecting commoners...
- VJ and television host* Sanjay Mishra - Guitarist recording of note Blue Incantation with Jerry Garcia - Sunny leone - Porn star of indian origin from canada
Art - Architecture - Design - Engineering
- Anish KapoorAnish KapoorAnish Kapoor CBE RA is a British sculptor of Indian birth. Born in Mumbai , Kapoor has lived and worked in London since the early 1970s when he moved to study art, first at the Hornsey College of Art and later at the Chelsea School of Art and Design.He represented Britain in the XLIV Venice...
- Artist - Sam PitrodaSam PitrodaSatyanarayan Gangaram Pitroda popularly known as Sam Pitroda is an inventor, entrepreneur and policymaker. Currently Advisor to the Prime Minister of India on Public Information Infrastructure & Innovations, he is also widely considered to have been responsible for India’s communications revolution...
- Inventor - Policymaker - Satyendra PakhaleSatyendra PakhaleSatyendra Pakhale , Industrial designer. Popularly known as “Satyen Pakhale”.-Early life:Pakhalé studied Mechanical engineering at VNIT, Nagpur...
- Industrial Designer - Amar BoseAmar BoseAmar Gopal Bose is an Bengali American electrical engineer, sound engineer and billionaire entrepreneur. He is the founder and chairman of Bose Corporation...
- Sound Engineer - S mukherjee, Electrical Engineer
Literature & Media
- Anita Rau BadamiAnita Rau BadamiAnita Rau Badami is an Indian-Canadian novelist. Born in Rourkela, Orissa, India, she was educated at the University of Madras and Sophia College in Bombay. She emigrated to Canada in 1991, and earned an M.A. at the University of Calgary...
- novelist - Shauna Singh BaldwinShauna Singh BaldwinShauna Singh Baldwin is a Canadian-American novelist of Indian descent. Her 2000 novel What the Body Remembers won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize , and her 2004 novel The Tiger Claw was nominated for the Giller Prize. She currently lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin...
- novelist - Monika DeolMonika DeolMonika Deol is a Canadian television personality. She began as a reporter for Citytv in Toronto, and later became a VJ for MuchMusic, hosting and co-producing Electric Circus from 1988 to 1996...
- former MuchMusicMuchMusicMuchMusic is a Canadian English language Category A specialty channel owned by Bell Media. MuchMusic is dedicated to music-related programs, pop and youth culture.-History:...
host and CIVT news anchor - Tara Singh HayerTara Singh HayerTara Singh Hayer, OBC was a Sikh Canadian newspaper publisher who was murdered.Hayer was born in Paddi Jagir, a small village in Punjab, India...
- newspaper publisher - Rohinton MistryRohinton MistryRohinton Mistry is an Indian-born Canadian writer in English. Residing in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, Mistry is of Indian origin, originally from Mumbai, Zoroastrian and belongs to the Parsi community. Mistry is a Neustadt International Prize for Literature laureate .-Biography:Rohinton Mistry was...
- novelist - Ajmer RodeAjmer RodeAjmer Rode is a Canadian author writing in Punjabi as well as in English. His first work was non-fiction Vishva Di Nuhar on Einstein's Relativity in dialogue form inspired by Plato's Republic. Published by the Punjabi University in 1966, the book initiated a series of university publications on...
- poet and playwright - Haroon SiddiquiHaroon SiddiquiHaroon Siddiqui, CM, O.Ont is an Indo-Canadian newspaper journalist, columnist and a former editor.-Early life and career:...
- reporter, editor and columnist - Priscilla UppalPriscilla UppalPriscila Uppal is a Canadian poet and novelist. She graduated from Hillcrest High School in 1993. She teaches literature and creative writing at York University in Toronto...
- novelist and poet - M.G. Vassanji - novelist (of Indian descent, although born and raised in KenyaKenyaKenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...
) - Sarika SehgalSarika SehgalSarika Sehgal is a Canadian broadcast journalist. Sehgal's broadcasting career began in Toronto as a producer for a national morning show. From there, she served as an anchor and reporter for CICI in Sudbury. Similar duties soon followed at CKEM in Edmonton where she was a key part of the special...
- CBCCanadian Broadcasting CorporationThe Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly known as CBC and officially as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian crown corporation that serves as the national public radio and television broadcaster...
Canadian broadcast journalist
Politics
- Bharat AgnihotriBharat AgnihotriBharat Agnihotri is a Canadian politician and a former member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. He represented the constituency of Edmonton Ellerslie, sitting as a Liberal...
- AlbertaAlbertaAlberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...
Liberal MLALegislative Assembly of AlbertaThe Legislative Assembly of Alberta is one of two components of the Legislature of Alberta, the other being the Queen, represented by the Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta. The Alberta legislature meets in the Alberta Legislature Building in the provincial capital, Edmonton... - Bidhu JhaBidhu JhaBidhu Shekhar Jha is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He has been a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba since 2003, representing the Winnipeg division of Radisson as a member of the New Democratic Party.-Private life and career:...
- Manitoba NDPNew Democratic Party of ManitobaThe New Democratic Party of Manitoba is a social-democratic political party in Manitoba, Canada. It is the provincial wing of the federal New Democratic Party, and is a successor to the Manitoba Co-operative Commonwealth Federation...
MLA - Deepak ObhraiDeepak ObhraiDeepak Obhrai is a Canadian politician, representing the riding of Calgary East for the Conservative Party of Canada. He is currently serving as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs....
- Alberta Conservative MP - Gulzar Singh CheemaGulzar Singh CheemaGulzar Singh Cheema is an Indian-born doctor and a Canadian politician. Dr. Cheema was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1988 to 1993, and a member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 2001 to 2004, making him one of only a few Canadian politicians to sit in two...
- ManitobaManitobaManitoba is a Canadian prairie province with an area of . The province has over 110,000 lakes and has a largely continental climate because of its flat topography. Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy; other...
and British ColumbiaBritish ColumbiaBritish Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...
MLA - Gurbax Singh Malhi - Liberal MP
- Gurmant GrewalGurmant GrewalGurmant Singh Grewal, is a Canadian politician and former Conservative Party of Canada Member of Parliament. Gurmant and his wife, Nina Grewal, were the first married couple to serve in the Canadian House of Commons at the same time...
- former Conservative MP, half (with Nina, listed below) of the first married couple to serve as MPs in the same session of Parliament - Hardial BainsHardial BainsHardial Bains was the founder of the Communist Party of Canada and its leader until his death...
- founder and leader of the Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada from 1970–1997 - Harinder TakharHarinder TakharHarinder Jeet Singh Takhar is a politician in Ontario, Canada. Takhar was born to a Sikh family in the Indian state of Punjab, with a background in farming and civil service work. He moved to Canada in 1974, and arrived in Mississauga, Ontario in 1977...
- Ontario Liberal MPP and Minister of Transportation - Harry BainsHarry BainsHarry Bains is the current MLA for Surrey-Newton in the Canadian province of British Columbia. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly in the 2005 election as a member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party.- Career :...
- British ColumbiaBritish ColumbiaBritish Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...
New DemocraticNew Democratic Party of British ColumbiaThe New Democratic Party of British Columbia is a social-democratic political party in British Columbia, Canada. The party currently forms the official opposition to the governing British Columbia Liberal Party following the 2009 provincial election in British Columbia.The BC NDP is the provincial...
MLALegislative Assembly of British ColumbiaThe Legislative Assembly of British Columbia is one of two components of the Parliament of British Columbia, the provincial parliament .... - Harry LaliHarry LaliHarry Lali is the current MLA for Fraser-Nicola in the Canadian province of British Columbia. In the 1991 election he was elected to the Legislative Assembly as MLA for Yale-Lillooet, and was re-elected in 1996. Lali served as the Minister of Transportation from 1998 to 2001. For the 2001 election,...
- BC NDP MLA - Herb DhaliwalHerb DhaliwalHarbance Singh Dhaliwal, PC is a Canadian politician.Born to a Sikh family in Punjab, India, Dhaliwal's family immigrated to Vancouver when he was six. He attended John Oliver Secondary School, graduating in 1972...
- Liberal MP and the first Indo-Canadian cabinet minister - Jaggi SinghJaggi SinghJaggi Singh is one of Canada's most high-profile anti-globalization and social justice activists. He is an anarchist. Singh lives in Montreal where he works with groups such as Solidarity Across Borders and the No One Is Illegal collective, among others. Singh graduated from St...
- anti-globalizationAnti-globalizationCriticism of globalization is skepticism of the claimed benefits of the globalization of capitalism. Many of these views are held by the anti-globalization movement however other groups also are critical of the policies of globalization....
activist - Kuldip Singh Kular - Ontario Liberal MPP
- Moe SihotaMoe SihotaMunmohan Singh "Moe" Sihota is a former Canadian broadcaster and politician.He was born in Duncan, British Columbia and attended St. George's Boys School, Vancouver, on scholarship...
- former British Columbia NDP MLA and television host - Murad VelshiMurad VelshiMurad Velshi is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He is an Indian Muslim who lived in Kenya and migrated to Canada. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1987 to 1990.-Background:...
- former Ontario Liberal MPP - Navdeep BainsNavdeep BainsNavdeep Singh Bains, PC is a Canadian politician from Ontario, Canada. He is the former Liberal Member of Parliament for the riding of Mississauga—Brampton South.-Early life:...
- LiberalLiberal Party of CanadaThe Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...
Member of Parliament - Nina GrewalNina GrewalNarinder Kaur Grewal, MP , is a Canadian politician of the Conservative Party. She was elected in the general election of June 2004 to represent the constituency of Fleetwood—Port Kells, British Columbia....
- Conservative MP, half (with Gurmant) of the first married couple to serve as MPs in the same session of Parliament - Raj ChouhanRaj ChouhanRaj Chouhan is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as the MLA for Burnaby-Edmonds in the 2005 provincial election. He served as Opposition Critic for Mental Health; Human Rights, Immigration and Multiculturism. He was re-elected in 2009...
- British Columbia NDP MLA - Raj PannuRaj PannuRaj Pannu is a Canadian educator and politician, who led the Alberta New Democratic Party from 2000 to 2004.Pannu was born in Punjab, India completing an undergraduate degree before immigrating to Canada in 1962...
- former leader of the Alberta New Democrats, the first Indo-Canadian leader of a political party - Raminder GillRaminder GillRaminder Singh Gill is a Canadian politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1999 to 2003, and has unsuccessfully sought election to the Canadian House of Commons on three separate occasions. He currently serves as a citizenship judge. Gill was born...
- former Ontario Progressive ConservativeProgressive Conservative Party of OntarioThe Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario , is a right-of-centre political party in Ontario, Canada. The party was known for many years as "Ontario's natural governing party." It has ruled the province for 80 of the years since Confederation, including an uninterrupted run from 1943 to 1985...
MPP and federal ConservativeConservative Party of CanadaThe Conservative Party of Canada , is a political party in Canada which was formed by the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in 2003. It is positioned on the right of the Canadian political spectrum...
candidate - Rob NijjarRob NijjarRob Nijjar is a Canadian Liberal politician. He has lived all his life on Vancouver's East side. He attended school in southeast Vancouver and Langara College before attending Simon Fraser University, where he earned a Bachelors Degree in General Studies in 1992. After graduation and before...
- former BC Liberal MLA - Ruby DhallaRuby DhallaRuby Dhalla is a Canadian politician. She represented the riding of Brampton—Springdale in the Canadian House of Commons from 2004 to 2011 as a member of the Liberal Party...
- Liberal MP - Shiraz ShariffShiraz Shariff-Political career:Shariff was elected to his first term in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in a hotly contested by-election in Calgary McCall on April 20, 1995 defeating Liberal Jeet Shergill and future New Democratic Party president Anne McGrath by just a few hundred votes.He won his second...
- Alberta Progressive ConservativeProgressive Conservative Association of AlbertaThe Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta is a provincial centre-right party in the Canadian province of Alberta...
MLA - Ujjal DosanjhUjjal DosanjhUjjal Dev Singh Dosanjh, PC, QC, is a Sikh Canadian lawyer and politician. He served as 33rd Premier of British Columbia from 2000 to 2001 and as a Liberal Party of Canada Member of Parliament from 2004 to 2011 including a stint as Minister of Health from 2004 until 2006 when the party lost...
- former Premier of British ColumbiaPremier of British ColumbiaThe Premier of British Columbia is the first minister, head of government, and de facto chief executive for the Canadian province of British Columbia. Until the early 1970s the title Prime Minister of British Columbia was often used...
, the first Indo-Canadian premier, former federal Minister of HealthMinister of Health (Canada)The Minister of Health is the Minister of the Crown in the Canadian Cabinet who is responsible for overseeing the federal government's health department and the enforcing the Public Health Agency of Canada, Canada Health Act, the law governing Medicare...
, and current National Defence Critic - Vic DhillonVic DhillonVic Dhillon is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the constituency of Brampton West for the Ontario Liberal Party. Dhillon is one of the three Sikh Members of the Legislature, all of whom are members of the Liberal Party.-Early...
- OntarioOntarioOntario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
Liberal MPP
Sports
- Ashish PatelAshish PatelAshish Patel is a Canadian cricketer. A medium-pacer, he took his place in the team given the absence of several players for the 2001/02 Americas Cup, followed by a strong performance in the ICC 6 Nations Challenge in Namibia....
cricketer - Brandon ChillarBrandon Chillar-St. Louis Rams:Chillar joined the St. Louis Rams as a fourth-round draft pick in the 2004 NFL Draft. On July 26, 2004, Chillar signed a four-year $2.1 million contract with the Rams. Having a father, Ram Chillar, of East Indian descent, Chillar became one of the handful of Indian Americans in the...
- Emanuel SandhuEmanuel SandhuEmanuel Sandhu is a Canadian figure skater and dancer. He is a three-time Canadian national champion and the 2004 Grand Prix champion.-Personal life:...
- figure skater - Jitendra PatelJitendra PatelJitendra Motibhai Patel is a Ugandan-born former cricketer for Canada. He played three One Day Internationals in the 1979 World Cup, as well as appearing for the country in the 1979 ICC Trophy tournament.-External links:...
cricketer - Joseph HarrisJoseph HarrisJoseph Vikram "Joe" Harris is an Indian-born Canadian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-hand off-break bowler....
cricketer - Manny MalhotraManny MalhotraEmmanuel Noveen Malhotra is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre currently playing for the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League , serving as an alternate captain. During his NHL career he has additionally played for the Dallas Stars, Columbus Blue Jackets, San Jose Sharks and New...
- Plays for the Vancouver Canucks in the NHL
Academics & Researchers
- Ram Murty, Professor and Head of Department, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Queen's UniversityQueen's UniversityQueen's University, , is a public research university located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Founded on 16 October 1841, the university pre-dates the founding of Canada by 26 years. Queen's holds more more than of land throughout Ontario as well as Herstmonceux Castle in East Sussex, England...
- C. R. RaoC. R. RaoCalyampudi Radhakrishna Rao FRS known as C R Rao is an Indian statistician. He is currently professor emeritus at Penn State University and Research Professor at the University at Buffalo. Rao has been honored by numerous colloquia, honorary degrees, and festschrifts and was awarded the US...
, Eberly Professor Emeritus, Penn State University, winner of National medal of science, USA, FRS (UK). - Ravindra KhattreeRavindra KhattreeRavindra Khattree is an Indian born statistician and professor of statistics at Oakland University. His contribution to the Fountain-Khattree-Peddada Theorem in Pitman measure of closeness is one of the important results of his work. Khattree is the coauthor of two books and has coedited two...
, Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Oakland UniversityOakland UniversityOakland University is a public university co-founded by Matilda Dodge Wilson and John A. Hannah whose campus is located in central Oakland County, Michigan, United States in the cities of Auburn Hills and Rochester Hills. It is the only major research university in Oakland County, from which OU...
, internationally known statistician, Elected fellow of American Statistical AssociationAmerican Statistical AssociationThe American Statistical Association , is the main professional US organization for statisticians and related professions. It was founded in Boston, Massachusetts on November 27, 1839, and is the second oldest, continuously operating professional society in the United States...
, elected member of International Statistical InstituteInternational Statistical InstituteThe International Statistical Institute is a professional association of statisticians. The Institut International de Statistique or International Statistical Institute was founded in 1885 although there had been international congresses from 1853.. The Institute publishes a variety of books and...
, winner of Young Statistician Award of International Indian Statisticial Association.
Others
- Sudi DevanesenSudi DevanesenSudarshan Devanesen, CM , is an Indian-Canadian family physician and educator, public health activist, and member of the Order of Canada....
- physician and member of the Order of CanadaOrder of CanadaThe Order of Canada is a Canadian national order, admission into which is, within the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada, the second highest honour for merit... - John DossetorJohn DossetorJohn Beamish Dossetor, OC is a Canadian physician and bioethicist who is notable for co–coordinating the first kidney transplant in Canada and the Commonwealth....
- physician and bioethicist, member of the Order of CanadaOrder of CanadaThe Order of Canada is a Canadian national order, admission into which is, within the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada, the second highest honour for merit... - Shuman GhosemajumderShuman GhosemajumderShuman Ghosemajumder is a Canadian technologist, entrepreneur, and author. He is the former click fraud czar at Google, the author of works on digital distribution including the Open Music Model, and co-founder of TeachAIDS.-Early life:...
- businessman and computer scientist
Merchant Navy, Arts & Entertainment
- Naveen AndrewsNaveen AndrewsNaveen William Sidney Andrews is a British American actor. He is best known for portraying Kip in the movie The English Patient and Sayid Jarrah on the American television series Lost.-Early life:...
, actor. - Mina AnwarMina AnwarMina Anwar is a British actress.-Early life:Anwar was educated at Accrington Moorhead Sports College, and gained an A level in Theatre in Performance at the Accrington and Rossendale College in 1988 before training at the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in London.-Acting career:She played Police...
, actor. - Sanjeev BhaskarSanjeev BhaskarSanjeev Bhaskar, OBE is a British Indian comedian, actor and broadcaster, best known for his work in the BBC Two comedy series Goodness Gracious Me and as host of The Kumars at No. 42...
, comedianComedianA comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience, primarily by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy...
. - Gurinder ChadhaGurinder ChadhaGurinder Chadha , OBE, is a British film director of Indian origin. Most of her films explore the lives of Indians living in the United Kingdom. She is best known for the hit films Bhaji on the Beach , Bend It Like Beckham , Bride and Prejudice and Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging...
, movie director. - Ameet ChanaAmeet ChanaAmeet Chana is a British Indian actor. His most notable role is Adi Ferreira in EastEnders....
, actor. - Kulvinder GhirKulvinder GhirKulvinder Ghir, born in Nairobi, Kenya, is a British actor, comedian and writer of South Asian ancestry, best known for his roles in Rita, Sue & Bob Too, Blood & Peaches, Bend It Like Beckham and the sketch show Goodness Gracious Me...
, actor. - Shobna GulatiShobna GulatiShobna Gulati is an English actress, writer, and dancer of Indian origin, best known for playing Anita in Victoria Wood's Dinnerladies, and Sunita Alahan in the long-running soap opera Coronation Street from 2001 to 2006, a role to which she returned at the end of 2009...
, actor. - Waris HusseinWaris HusseinWaris Hussein is a British-Indian television director and film director best known for his many productions for British television....
, film and television director. - Indira JoshiIndira JoshiIndira Joshi is a British actress of Indian ethnicity. She has appeared in episodes of many well-known British dramas, including Holby City, Doctors, All About Me, The Bill and Coronation Street. However, she is probably best known for her role as Madhuri Kumar in the spoof chat show The Kumars at...
, actor. - Saira KhanSaira KhanSaira Khan is a British television personality and was the runner-up on the first UK series of reality TV show The Apprentice in 2005.-Television career:...
, Presenter. - Rani KhanijauRani KhanijauRani Price, born Rani Khanijau is a children's television presenter who has presented a variety of children's shows for CBBC Channel, Disney, Channel 5 and Nickelodeon.-Children's television:...
, television presenter. - Ben KingsleyBen KingsleySir Ben Kingsley, CBE is a British actor. He has won an Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards in his career. He is known for starring as Mohandas Gandhi in the film Gandhi in 1982, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor...
, actor. - Ismail MerchantIsmail MerchantIsmail Merchant was an Indian-born film producer, best known for the results of his famously long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions which included director James Ivory as well as screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala...
, James IvoryJames Ivory (director)James Francis Ivory is an American film director, best known for the results of his long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, which included both Indian-born film producer Ismail Merchant, and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala...
's producerFilm producerA film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...
. - Rhona MitraRhona MitraRhona Natasha Mitra , sometimes credited as Rona Mitra, is an English actress, model and singer.-Early life:Mitra was born in Paddington, London, England, the daughter of Anthony Mitra, a cosmetic surgeon, and Nora Downey...
(1976 - ) actress and model - Shazia MirzaShazia MirzaShazia Mirza is a British comedian and columnist from Birmingham, England.-Background:Shazia was born as the eldest daughter in Birmigham to Pakistani parents, Mohammed and Sarwat Mirza...
, comedian. - Jimi MistryJimi Mistry-Early life:Mistry, was born in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England to an Indian Hindu father and an Irish Roman Catholic mother. He was brought up a Roman Catholic and attended St. James' Catholic High in Cheadle Hulme before his family moved to Cardiff where he attended Radyr Comprehensive School...
, actor. - Parminder NagraParminder NagraParminder Kaur Nagra is an English actress of Indian descent. She came to international prominence in 2002 after starring in Bend It Like Beckham. She starred as Dr. Neela Rasgotra in the Emmy Award-winning American medical drama series ER for six years until the series ended on 2 April 2009...
, actor. - Archie Panjabi, actor.
- Ray PanthakiRay PanthakiRay Panthaki is a British-born actor, film producer and writer.Born in London, Panthaki is best known for the roles he played on BBC soap opera EastEnders as Ronny Ferreira and as 'Hassan B' the nemesis to Sacha Baron Cohen's Ali G in Ali G Indahouse...
, actor. - Om PuriOm PuriOm Puri is an Indian actor who has appeared in both mainstream Indian films and art films. His credits also include appearances in British and American films. He has received an honorary OBE.-Early life:...
, actor. - Anita RaniAnita RaniAnita Rani is an English born ethnic Indian radio and television presenter and journalist.-Early life:Rani was born and raised in Bradford in Yorkshire, to a mother of Sikh origins, and Hindu father...
, television and radio presenter - Laila RouassLaila RouassLaila Abdesselam Rouass is a British actress. She is best known for her role as Amber Gates in the British television drama Footballers' Wives and as Sarah Page in the third season of Primeval .-Career:...
, actor. - Sunetra SarkerSunetra SarkerSunetra Sarker is an English actress, most notable for her role as Dr Zoe Hanna on Casualty.Sarker has a degree in Information Systems for Business with French from Brunel University....
, actor.
- Pooja ShahPooja ShahPooja Shah is a British Asian actress and model of Kenyan-Asian descent. Her grandparents migrated to Kenya from Gujarat in Western India and so her ancestral roots are there....
, actor. - Meera SyalMeera SyalMeera Syal MBE is a British comedienne, writer, playwright, singer, journalist, producer and actress. She rose to prominence as one of the team that created Goodness Gracious Me and became one of the UK's best-known Indian personalities portraying Sanjeev's grandmother, Ummi, in The Kumars at No...
, comedian. - Indira VarmaIndira VarmaIndira Varma is an English actress. Her first major role was in Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love. She has gone on to appear in the television series Rome and Human Target.-Early life and background:...
, actor. - Nina WadiaNina Wadia-Television and film:Wadia first came to prominence in BBC sketch show Goodness Gracious Me, playing characters such as Mrs "I can make it at home for nothing!" and one half of The Competitive Mothers...
, comedian. - Bobby FrictionBobby FrictionParamdeep Singh Sehdev , better known as Bobby Friction, is a DJ, television presenter and radio presenter from west London.He studied Contemporary Arts at The Nottingham Trent University....
and NihalDJ NihalDJ Nihal is an English radio and TV presenter, as well as club night promoter and DJ, currently broadcasting on BBC Radio 1, BBC Asian Network and since August 6, 2010 BBC Radio 5 Live...
, radio presenters - Rajinder Rai, aka Panjabi MCPanjabi MCRajinder Singh Rai , better known by his stage name Panjabi MC is a British Indian musician.-Career:...
, dance musicDance musicDance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement...
ian. - Freddie MercuryFreddie MercuryFreddie Mercury was a British musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Queen. As a performer, he was known for his flamboyant stage persona and powerful vocals over a four-octave range...
, lead singer of QueenQueen (band)Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1971, originally consisting of Freddie Mercury , Brian May , John Deacon , and Roger Taylor... - Nitin SawhneyNitin SawhneyNitin Sawhney is an Indian-British musician, producer and composer. His critically acclaimed work combines Asian and other worldwide influences with elements of jazz and electronica and often explores themes such as multiculturalism, politics and spirituality...
, dance musician. - Talvin SinghTalvin SinghTalvin Singh Matharoo , is a producer and composer and tabla player, known for creating an innovative fusion of Indian classical music and drum and bass...
, dance musician. - Tjinder Singh, lead singer of CornershopCornershopCornershop are a British indie rock band formed in 1991 by Wolverhampton-born Tjinder Singh , his brother Avtar Singh , David Chambers and Ben Ayres , the first three having previously been members of Preston-based band General Havoc, who released one single in 1991...
. - Jay Sean, R'n'B singer
- Swami (musical band), Rap/Rock Band
- Juggy DJuggy DJagwinder Singh Dhaliwal, better known by his stage name, Juggy D, is a British Indian singer from Southall, London, England.-Music:...
, singer - Veronica MehtaVeronica MehtaVeronica is an Indian R&B singer based in London, UK, who sings in Hindi, Urdu, English and Punjabi.-Biography:Aged 16, Mehta successfully auditioned for the part of female vocalist for the 2Kool album 2Kool Flavor...
, singer - Rishi RichRishi RichRishpal Singh Rekhi better known by his stage name Rishi Rich is a British Indian music producer born in Croydon, England and based in London...
, music producer - Cosmic Singh, actor
Business and Industry
- Lakshmi MittalLakshmi MittalLakshmi Narayan Mittal is an Indian steel magnate. He is the chairman and chief executive officer of ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest steelmaking company....
, steelSteelSteel is an alloy that consists mostly of iron and has a carbon content between 0.2% and 2.1% by weight, depending on the grade. Carbon is the most common alloying material for iron, but various other alloying elements are used, such as manganese, chromium, vanadium, and tungsten...
magnate. - Kanwal RekhiKanwal RekhiKanwal Rekhi is an Indian-American engineer, businessman and millionaire philanthropist.Kanwal was born in Rawalpindi . After the partition of India, his family settled in Kanpur, India...
, InternetInternetThe Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
Serial entrepreneur and mentor. - Arun SarinArun SarinArun Sarin was the CEO of Britain's Vodafone Group plc. On June 29, 2008, he announced his resignation as CEO of Vodafone Group. He is a senior adviser at the private equity firm KKR. He serves on the board of directors of Cisco Systems and Safeway, Inc...
, Chief Executive VodafoneVodafoneVodafone Group Plc is a global telecommunications company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the world's largest mobile telecommunications company measured by revenues and the world's second-largest measured by subscribers , with around 341 million proportionate subscribers as of...
. - Tom SinghTom SinghTom Singh OBE is the founder of the New Look chain of high street fashion stores in the United Kingdom. He is the eldest brother of author and broadcaster Dr Simon Singh. He is a graduate of the University of Wales....
, Founder New Look - Avtar LitAvtar LitAvtar Lit is the owner and chairman of Sunrise Radio Group, and was listed by AIM magazine as one of the "20 most powerful Asians in British media" in 2005, and said to have amassed a big personal fortune...
, Founder Sunrise RadioSunrise RadioSunrise Radio is the United Kingdom's first Independent Local Radio station to cater specifically for the Asian community. Dr Avtar Lit is the chairman and chief executive of this media group which also operates kismat radio,buzz asia,punjabi radio as well as sunrise tv-Transmission:It initially...
. - Karan Bilimoria, Founder Cobra Beer.
- Gulu LalvaniGulu LalvaniGulu Lalvani founder and chairman of Binatone, the world’s second largest manufacturer of digital cordless phones.Lalvani, born in Karachi and raised in Bombay, came to Britain as a student. He was born to Marwari Jain family. He founded Binatone in 1958 with his brothers Katar and Partap to...
, Founder BinatoneBinatoneBinatone is a private company owned by brothers Partap and Gulu Lalvani. Binatone was started in the United Kingdom in 1958 to import and distribute consumer electronics...
. - Anurag DikshitAnurag DikshitAnurag Dikshit , is an Indian businessman and philanthropist. Previously the richest man in Gibraltar and the 701st richest man in the world Anurag has given away the vast majority of his wealth through his charitable organisation The Kusuma Trust...
, co-founder PartyGamingPartyGamingbwin.Party Digital Entertainment Plc is an online gambling company, formed by the March 2011 merger of PartyGaming plc and bwin. The world's largest publicly traded online gambling firm, it is best known for its online poker room PartyPoker.com and its sports betting brand Bwin. It is... - Vikrant BhargavaVikrant BhargavaVikrant Bhargava is an entrepreneur of Indian origin, based in Gibraltar and the former Group Marketing Director of online casino operator PartyGaming...
, co-founder PartyGamingPartyGamingbwin.Party Digital Entertainment Plc is an online gambling company, formed by the March 2011 merger of PartyGaming plc and bwin. The world's largest publicly traded online gambling firm, it is best known for its online poker room PartyPoker.com and its sports betting brand Bwin. It is... - Hinduja brothers
- Firoz KassamFiroz KassamFiroz Kassam is a Tanzanian-born, businessman. He is the former owner of Oxford United F.C.He was born in Tanzania ofPakistani parents and came to Britain as a student during the 1970s....
, former owner of Oxford United F.C.Oxford United F.C.Oxford United Football Club is an English association football club based in Oxford, Oxfordshire. The club play in League Two, following promotion from the Conference National in May 2010. The club had been a non-League side since their relegation from the Football League in the 2005–06 season. The... - Anshu Jain, Head of Global Markets, Deutsche Bank AG
Literature and Media
- George AlagiahGeorge AlagiahGeorge Maxwell Alagiah OBE is a British newsreader, journalist and television news presenter.Since 3 December 2007, he has been the sole presenter of the BBC News at Six and has also been the main presenter of GMT on BBC World News since its launch on 1 February 2010...
, TelevisionTelevisionTelevision is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
journalist. - Monica AliMonica AliMonica Ali is a British writer of Bangladeshi origin. She is the author of Brick Lane, her debut novel, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2003...
, authorAuthorAn author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...
. - Lord Waheed Alli, Television producer.
- Yasmin Alibhai-BrownYasmin Alibhai-BrownYasmin Alibhai-Brown MBE is a Ugandan-born British journalist and author, who describes herself as a "leftie liberal, anti-racist, feminist, Muslim, part-Pakistani...a very responsible person"...
, Columnist. - Anu GargAnu GargAnu Garg , an Indian-American author and speaker, is best known as the founder of Wordsmith.org, an online community comprising word lovers from an estimated 200 countries. His books explore the joy of words...
, author, speaker, computer engineer - Krishnan Guru-MurthyKrishnan Guru-MurthyKrishnan Guru-Murthy , is a British television presenter and journalist employed by Channel 4. He presents the Channel 4 Evening News and the foreign affairs programme Unreported World.-Education:...
, Television journalist. - Sunny HundalSunny HundalSunny Hundal is a British blogger.He was born in London to Sikh parents of Indian origin. He describes himself as a vegetarian and a strong environmentalist. He has a degree in Economics from Brunel University and has written articles for leading British newspapers including The Financial Times...
, a journalist and a political blogger. - Gurpreet Kaur BhattiGurpreet Kaur BhattiGurpreet Kaur Bhatti is a British Sikh writer. She has written extensively for stage, screen and radio.-Life:Bhatti studied modern languages at Bristol University and has worked as a journalist and an actress....
, playwrightPlaywrightA playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...
. - V.S. Naipaul, authorAuthorAn author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...
(from IndiaIndiaIndia , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
n community in TrinidadTrinidadTrinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands and numerous landforms which make up the island nation of Trinidad and Tobago. It is the southernmost island in the Caribbean and lies just off the northeastern coast of Venezuela. With an area of it is also the fifth largest in...
). - Salman Rushdie, authorAuthorAn author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...
. - Vikram SethVikram SethVikram Seth is an Indian poet, novelist, travel writer, librettist, children's writer, biographer and memoirist.-Early life:Vikram Seth was born on 20 June 1952 to Leila and Prem Seth in Calcutta...
, author. - Satyabrata Rai ChowdhuriSatyabrata Rai ChowdhuriSatyabrata Rai Chowdhuri, FRAS is a Political Scientist, Political Historian and International Relations expert.He is presently a Senior Research Fellow in International Relations at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, U.K., and an Emeritus Professor of Political Science...
, author. - Simon SinghSimon SinghSimon Lehna Singh, MBE is a British author who has specialised in writing about mathematical and scientific topics in an accessible manner....
, author of scientific and mathematical interest.
Medicine
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Politics
- See also British Asians in politics of the United KingdomBritish Asians in politics of the United KingdomBritish Asians have played a large role in the recent politics of the United Kingdom. People from the Indian subcontinent have had a role in the politics of the United Kingdom, starting from the British educated Indians who struggled for independence as well as Indians who became Members of...
- Mancherjee BhownagreeMancherjee BhownagreeSir Mancherjee Merwanjee Bhownagree, KCIE, was a British Conservative Party politician of Indian Parsi heritage...
, Conservative (Second Indian MP in British Parliament). - Parmjit DhandaParmjit DhandaParmjit Singh Dhanda is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Gloucester from 2001 to 2010, succeeding Tess Kingham as the Labour MP for the seat...
, Labour MP. - Nirj DevaNirj DevaNiranjan Joseph "Nirj" De Silva Deva-Aditya FRSA DL is a politician from the United Kingdom. A member of the Conservative Party, he has been a Member of the European Parliament representing South East England since 1999...
, Conservate MEP. - Piara KhabraPiara KhabraPiara Singh Khabra was a British politician who served as the Labour Member of Parliament for Ealing Southall from 1992 until his death. He was the fifth Asian, and the first Sikh, to become a British MP...
, Labour MP (deceased). - Sadiq KhanSadiq KhanSadiq Aman Khan is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Tooting since 2005, succeeding Tom Cox as the Labour MP for the seat...
, Labour MP. - Ashok KumarAshok KumarAshok Kumar also fondly called Dadamoni was an Indian film actor. Born Kumudlal Ganguly in Bhagalpur, Bengal Presidency he attained iconic status in Indian cinema...
, Labour MP. - Claude MoraesClaude MoraesClaude Moraes is a Member of the European Parliament for the Labour Party. Claude Moraes is the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party in Europe one of eight MEPs representing London.-Background:...
, Labour MEP. - Dadabhai NaorojiDadabhai NaorojiDadabhai Naoroji , known as the Grand Old Man of India, was a Parsi intellectual, educator, cotton trader, and an early Indian political leader. His book Poverty and Un-British Rule in India brought attention to the draining of India's wealth into Britain...
,Liberal Party (First Indian MP in British Parliament). - Shapurji SaklatvalaShapurji SaklatvalaShapurji Saklatvala was a British politician of Indian Parsi heritage. He was the third Indian Member of Parliament in the Parliament of the United Kingdom after fellow Parsis Dadabhai Naoroji and Mancherjee Bhownagree....
, Communist MP. - Marsha SinghMarsha SinghMarsha Singh is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Bradford West since 1997....
, Labour MP. - Parmjit Singh GillParmjit Singh GillParmjit Singh Gill is a British Liberal Democrat politician. As Member of Parliament for Leicester South from 2004 to 2005, he is the only ever ethnic-minority Liberal Democrat MP....
, Liberal Democrats. - Shailesh Vara, Conservative MP.
- Keith VazKeith VazNigel Keith Anthony Standish Vaz, known as Keith Vaz, was born 26 November 1956 in Aden, Yemen.Keith Vaz is a British Labour Party politician and a Member of Parliament for Leicester East, He is the longest serving Asian MP and has been the Chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee since July...
, Labour MP. - Virendra SharmaVirendra SharmaVirendra Kumar Sharma is a British Labour Party politician and the Member of Parliament for Ealing Southall since 2007.-Parliamentary career:...
- Labour MP and councillor in Ealing.
- Mancherjee Bhownagree
Sports
- Kabir AliKabir AliKabir Ali is an English cricketer who currently plays for Hampshire in the English County Championship. A right-arm seam bowler and useful lower-order right-handed batsman, outside cricket he works as a model...
, cricketCricketCricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
er. - Kadeer AliKadeer AliAbdul-Kadeer Ali is an English cricketer of Pakistani descent. Kadeer is currently at minor counties side Staffordshire. He has played for Worcestershire and Gloucestershire, as well as appearing for England A. He was capped by Gloucestershire in 2005...
, cricketCricketCricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
er. - Michael ChopraMichael ChopraRocky Michael Chopra is an English footballer who plays for Football League Championship side Ipswich Town. He is of mixed Indian and British descent....
, footballFootball (soccer)Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
er, Newcastle United - Nasser HussainNasser HussainNasser Hussain OBE is a former Essex and England cricketer.Beginning his career in a strong Essex side in the late 1980s, he was an outstanding fielder and a stylish but inconsistent batsman. In first-class cricket from 1987 to 2004 Hussain scored 20,698 runs in 334 matches at an average of 42.06,...
, cricketCricketCricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
er, former England captain - Ronnie IraniRonnie IraniRonald Charles "Ronnie" Irani is a former England cricketer who spent most of his career at Essex County Cricket Club, latterly as captain. He is of Irani descent, the Iranis being a community of Persian Zoroastrians who immigrated to India during the British Raj...
, cricketCricketCricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
er. - Monty PanesarMonty PanesarMudhsuden Singh Panesar, known as Monty Panesar , is an English cricketer who currently plays for Sussex. A left-arm spinner, Panesar played Test and one-day cricket for England until 2009. In English county cricket he played for Northamptonshire until 2009...
, cricketCricketCricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
er. - Mark RamprakashMark RamprakashMark Ravin Ramprakash is an English cricketer, playing for Surrey and England. A right-handed batsman, he initially made his name playing for Middlesex, and was selected for England aged 21...
, cricketCricketCricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
er. - Bilal ShafayatBilal ShafayatBilal Mustapha Shafayat is an English cricketer. He is a middle-order batsman, fast bowler and wicket-keeper. Shafayat was a former captain of the England under-19 side....
, cricketCricketCricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
er. - Harpal SinghHarpal SinghHarpal Singh , more commonly known as Pala , is an Sikh Hockeysportsman. He is currently in Indian Hockeyteam.He is a Sabat Sikh as appears in the sikhism articles.-Career:...
, footballFootball (soccer)Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
er, Leeds United AFC - Vikram SolankiVikram SolankiVikram Singh Solanki is an Indian-born English cricketer, who plays county cricket for Worcestershire. In 2007, he became the 24th Worcestershire batsman to pass 10,000 career runs for the county. He also captained Worcestershire from 2005 to 2010, before resigning mid-season...
, cricketCricketCricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
er. - Atanu Maity, Chelsea FC footballer.
Others
- George EdaljiGeorge EdaljiGeorge Ernest Thompson Edalji was a solicitor from the West Midlands who became world-famous in 1907 when Sir Arthur Conan Doyle campaigned to have him declared innocent of maliciously wounding a pony in 1903....
, barrister falsely accused of horse killing, defended by Arthur Conan DoyleArthur Conan DoyleSir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle DL was a Scottish physician and writer, most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, generally considered a milestone in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger...
. - Merle OberonMerle OberonMerle Oberon was an Indian-born British actress best known for her screen performances in The Scarlet Pimpernel and The Cowboy and the Lady . She began her film career in British films as Anne Boleyn in The Private Life of Henry VIII . She travelled to the United States to make films for Samuel...
, British actress of mixed BritishUnited KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
, SinhaleseSinhalese peopleThe Sinhalese are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group,forming the majority of Sri Lanka,constituting 74% of the Sri Lankan population.They number approximately 15 million worldwide.The Sinhalese identity is based on language, heritage and religion. The Sinhalese speak Sinhala, an Indo-Aryan language and the...
, and IrishIrish peopleThe Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...
descent. - Buck RuxtonBuck RuxtonDr Buck Ruxton , also known as Buktyar Rustomji Ratanji Hakim, was a Parsi doctor and murderer, involved in one of the United Kingdom's most publicised murder cases of the 1930s, which gripped the nation at the time...
, 1930's murderer, born a Parsi. - Saira ShahSaira ShahSaira Shah is an author, reporter and documentary filmmaker. She produces, writes and narrates current affairs films.- Life and work :...
, journalist, daughter of Idries ShahIdries ShahIdries Shah , also known as Idris Shah, né Sayed Idries el-Hashimi , was an author and teacher in the Sufi tradition who wrote over three dozen critically acclaimed books on topics ranging from psychology and spirituality to travelogues and culture studies.Born in India, the descendant of a... - Sudeep Arun KumarSudeep Arun KumarSudeep Arun Kumar is a UK based NRI and a prominent figure in Bihar government development program in India....
,IT professional ,son of Arun Kumar and Kanak Lata
Politics
- The late CV Devan Nair, Singapore's third President (1981–1985), father of the modern trades union movement in Singapore.
- Sellapan Ramanathan, President of Singapore since 1999, former head of Singapore's intelligence unit and Ambassador to the United States, amongst other senior positions in the civil service.
- S Rajaratnam, former Senior Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Labour and Culture. Co-founder of the Peoples Action Party and Association of South East Asian Nations. Author of the Singapore Pledge. Seen as a founding father of modern Singapore.
- S Jayakumar, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Law and co-ordinating Minister for Security. Former Foreign Minister and ambassador to the United Nations, and Dean of the Law School in Singapore.
- S DhanabalanS DhanabalanSuppiah Dhanabalan was a high-profile political leader in Singapore in the 1980s. He was appointed to several heavyweight cabinet positions in the 1980s and early 1990s under Prime Ministers Lee Kuan Yew and Goh Chok Tong....
, Chairman of Temasek Holdings and DBS Bank, former Minister of National Development, Trade and Industry and Foreign Affairs. Tipped by Singapore's first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew as one of the four men he considered as a possible successor. - Tharman ShanmugaratnamTharman ShanmugaratnamTharman Shanmugaratnam is a politician from Singapore. A member of the governing People's Action Party , he is currently the country's Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Finance and Minister for Manpower. He previously served as the Minister for Education from 2003 to 2008...
, Minister of Education and former head of Singapore's defacto central bank. - Vivian BalakrishnanVivian BalakrishnanVivian Balakrishnan is a politician from Singapore. A member of the governing People's Action Party , he is currently the Minister for the Environment and Water Resources....
, Minister of Community Development, Youth and Sports. Former CEO of Singapore General Hospital. - Dr.Balaji Sadasivan, Junior Minister.
- J. B. Jeyaretnam, former opposition leader, and the first person to break the PAP monopoly in parliament in 1984. A former magistrate.
- James GomezJames GomezDr. James Gomez is an academic from Singapore and he manages an online consultancy – The GOMEZ Centre. A prominent public intellectual in the country, he is currently the Executive Director of Singaporeans for Democracy and a member of the Singapore Democratic Party .-Biography:Gomez was born in...
, senior leader in the main opposition party (the Workers Party) and founder of 'Think Centre', a political NGO.
Entertainment
- Gurmit SinghGurmit SinghGurmit Ottawan Singh Gurmit Ottawan Singh Gurmit Ottawan Singh (born March 24, 1965; is a popular Singaporean actor, host and comedy performer. He is best known for his role in Phua Chu Kang Pte Ltd, and is one of the leading artistes in MediaCorp.-Life:...
, leading actor and media personality - Kumar, leading drag superstar
Sports
- V. SundramoorthyV. SundramoorthyV. Sundramoorthy is a retired Singaporean footballer in the 1980s and 1990s, and widely touted as one of the country's most skillful and talented footballers ever.-Playing Career:...
, National footballer, team manager - Terry PathmanathanTerry PathmanathanTerry Pathmanathan is a former football player for the Singapore national football team.He played generally in the role of sweeper, as the last man in defence. He was renowned for his poise on the ball and impecabble reading of the game...
, National footballer
Arts and Literature
- Villayil Raman Gopala PillaiVillayil Raman Gopala PillaiVR Gopala Pillai was a Singaporean novelist writing in Malayalam under the nom de plume G.P. Njekkad, after his natal village in Kerala.- Background :Married to Bhargavi Pillai, he migrated to Singapore from Kerala, India in 1947...
, Singaporean Malayalam novelist - Edwin ThumbooEdwin ThumbooEdwin Nadason Thumboo is an award-winning Singaporean poet and academic who is regarded as one of the pioneers of English literature in Singapore....
, award winning poet - Chandran NairChandran NairChandran Nair is a Singaporean poet and retired Director and Mediator of UNESCO in Paris.-Background:Nair was born in Kerala, India in 1945. He left India for Singapore at the age of seven...
, Singaporean poet writing in English
Professionals
- Vara Kumar GudaGudaGuda was a 12th century nun and illuminator. She created a self-portrait in an initial letter in a Homeliary...
, former IT professional of DBS BankDBS BankDBS Bank Ltd is a bank incorporated in Singapore. It was previously known as The Development Bank of Singapore Limited, before the present name was adopted in July 2003 to reflect its changing role as a regional bank....
, SingaporeSingaporeSingapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
, and working now in RHB Bank as IT manager
Business and Industry
- Dileep NairDileep NairDileep Nair was the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Internal Oversight Services and head of the United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services. In that capacity, he oversaw investigations of wrong doings related to the United Nations in a range of countries including within the...
, Former managing director of DBS BankDBS BankDBS Bank Ltd is a bank incorporated in Singapore. It was previously known as The Development Bank of Singapore Limited, before the present name was adopted in July 2003 to reflect its changing role as a regional bank....
, SingaporeSingaporeSingapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
, and Under-Secretary General for the United Nations Office of Internal Oversight ServicesUnited Nations Office of Internal Oversight ServicesThe United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services is a United Nations organ whose primary purpose is to perform world-wide audit, investigation, inspection, programme monitoring, evaluation and consulting services to the United Nations Secretariat and the rest of the United Nations...
Arts and Entertainment
- AlleycatsAlleycatsThe Alleycats is a Malaysian band which was formed in 1969, and gained popularity in the late 1970s. They consist of musicians from Penang, and gained popularity in their home state earlier on in their career.-Band members:Members include:...
, famous 80s band and frontman, Loganathan ArumugamLoganathan ArumugamLoganathan Arumugam or also better known as Loga is a Malaysian singer who is one of the founding members of the band called Alleycats. Loga, the co-lead singer for Alleycats after his elder brother David, died from lung cancer at the Mount Miriam Hospital on the 4th of June, 2007. He left behind... - KamahlKamahlKamahl is the stage name of Kandiah Kamalesvaran , an Australian singer and recording artist, perhaps best known for "The Elephant Song", and his repertoire of popular music.-Early life:...
cabaret/easy listening singer and recording artist, famous for The Elephant Song, currently based in AustraliaAustraliaAustralia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. - Poetic AmmoPoetic AmmoPoetic Ammo was a Malaysian rap/hip-hop group. The group consisted of Yogeswaran Veerasingam , Chandrakumar Balakrishnan , Nicholas Ong , and Sashi Kumar Balakrishnan Poetic Ammo (previously known as PMO or Poetic Ammunition) was a Malaysian rap/hip-hop group. The group consisted of Yogeswaran...
, hip hop band - Jaclyn VictorJaclyn VictorJaclyn Joshua Thanaraj Victor is a singer and actress, popularly known as Jac, who won the inaugural Malaysian Idol and Ikon Malaysia. For being the winner of Malaysian Idol, she won a recording contract under Sony BMG Entertainment. She is under the management of The 8 Unit. She represented...
, winner of the first Malaysian Idol - Guy SebastianGuy SebastianGuy Theodore Sebastian is an Australian pop, R&B, and soul singer-songwriter who was the first winner of Australian Idol in 2003. He is currently a judge on the Australian version of The X Factor. Sebastian has released six top ten platinum/multi platinum albums, including a number-one and...
, winner of Australian Idol 2003 - Ronnie PereiraRonnie PereiraRonnie Pereira was the lead guitarist and singer of the 1970s band Revolvers. He was popularly known as the Malaysian Carlos Santana for the way he emulated Santana in playing the guitar.- Musical career :...
, lead guitarist and singer of the popular 70s band Revolvers, also known as the Malaysian Carlos Santana - Asha GillAsha GillAsha Anand Gill is a Malaysia-based model, television host, deejay, veejay, writer, producer, film director, and women's rights activist...
, TV personality, DJ and women's rights activist - Kavita SidhuKavita SidhuKavita Sidhu is a Malaysian actress and former beauty queen. She is of Indian Punjabi ancestry.She won the Miss Charm International title in 1990. She has been listed in the Malaysia Book of Records as the first Malaysian to have won an international beauty pageant title.On television, she has...
, actress and former beauty queen - V. NagarajV. NagarajV. Nagaraj is a prominent Malaysian director.Naga, as his friends call him, has been in the local cinema field since 1984. He has created such popular Malay language films such as Ghazal untuk Rabiah, Getaran Iskandar and Siapa Tak Sayang Bini....
, director - Ash NairAsh NairAshvin Kumar Nair, fondly known as Ash, is a Malaysian alternative musician and former contestant of season 2 of Malaysian Idol, where he first became widely known to the public.-Malaysian Idol:...
, singer - ReshmonuReshmonuHiresh Haridas , better known by his stage name Reshmonu, is a singer-songwriter from Malaysia who does mostly English songs. He is known for songs such as "Walk Away", "Cintaku Pergi", "Hey Waley" and "Superfine", as well as for his hairstyles...
, singer - Hans IsaacHans IsaacGerald Hans Isaac or more popularly known as Hans Isaac is a Malaysian actor, producer, director and a former model. He is of Indian, Filipino, Spanish and Eurasian parentage, his mother is of Filipino and Spanish descent and his father is Indian Malaysian.Born on August 20, 1971, he received his...
, actor, producer, director and former model. - Huzir SulaimanHuzir SulaimanHuzir Sulaiman is a Malaysian actor, director and writer. One of Malaysia's leading dramatists, acclaimed for his vibrant, inventive use of language and incisive insight into human behavior in general and the Asian psyche in particular...
, theatre personality, actor, director and writer. - Syed ThajudeenSyed ThajudeenSyed Thajudeen Shaik Abu Talib was born in 1943 in Alagan Kulam, a village not too far from the temple city of Madurai, South India, where his Malaysian-born parents lived during the Second World War...
, artist - Indi NadarajahIndi NadarajahIndi Nadarajah is an actor/comedian/singer based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He regularly performs on the Malaysian stage for both public and private shows. At present, he works with his partner Allan Perera in a comedy duo called Comedy Court...
, stage actor, comedian - Deborah Priya Henry, Miss Malaysia World 2007
- Rani MoorthyRani MoorthyRani Moorthy is a Malaysian-born playwright, actress, and artistic director of Rasa Productions. Following the race riots of 1969 her family tried to emigrate to Singapore, but were unsuccessful for a time. When they eventually made it, Moorthy began her acting career, appearing in theatre and...
, playwright and actress - Harikrish MenonHarikrish MenonSinger/songwriter HAZE is known for his work in the dance music genre, with hit singles such as Changes and Freak.- Career :...
, singer and songwriter
Literature and Media
- Munshi AbdullahAbdullah bin Abdul KadirAbdullah bin Abdul Kadir , also known as Munshi Abdullah, was a Malayan writer of Indian origin. He was a famous Malacca-born Indian munshi of Singapore and died in Jeddah, then part of the Ottoman Empire ....
, early Malayan historian - Rani ManickaRani ManickaRani Manicka is a novelist, born and educated in Malaysia; she grew up in Terengganu and attended the University of Malaysia, where she received a business degree. After traveling, she settled in Surrey, England, frequently visiting her family, currently living in Petaling Jaya...
, writer - K. S. ManiamK. S. ManiamK. S. Maniam is an Indian Malaysian academic and novelist.K. S. Maniam was born in Bedong, Malaysia, of Indian immigrant parents. His first schooling was conducted in Tamil until he pestered his father into sending him to an English medium school...
, novelist and academician - Rehman RashidRehman RashidRehman Rashid is a prominent Malaysian journalist and writer.-Personal life and career:Born in Taiping, Perak, Rehman's father is of Arab-Indian stock while his mother is Tamil-Eurasian parentage . He studied in the Malay College Kuala Kangsar, before pursuing a degree in Marine Biology at...
, journalist
Academics and Research
- Jomo Kwame SundaramJomo Kwame SundaramJomo Kwame Sundaram , known as Jomo, is a prominent Malaysian economist, who has served as the United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development in the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs since 2005...
, prominent economist, who is currently serving as the United Nations Assistant Secretary General for Economic Development in the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) - Prof Sittampalam ShanmugaratnamShan RatnamEmeritus Professor Sittampalam Shanmugaratnam was the professor and head of the department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the National University Hospital of Singapore specializing in human reproduction research. His work on contraception contributed to Singapore's success in population control...
- Professor and researcher
Government Officers, Army and Judiciary
- Tan Sri Dr Ramon NavaratnamRamon NavaratnamTan Sri Dr Ramon Navaratnam is a prominent Malaysian economist. He is the former Transport Ministry Secretary-General and current Sunway Group corporate advisor. He is of Sri Lankan Tamil descent....
, prominent Malaysian economist - B.C. ShekharB.C. ShekharTan Sri Dr B.C. Sekhar revolutionised and modernised Malaysia’s natural rubber industry and put the crop on the world map. He was fondly known as Mr Natural Rubber. He was also involved in the development of the nation's palm oil industry. Sekhar is of ethnic Indian origin.-Personal history:Sekhar...
, Malaysia's Mr Natural Rubber that revolutionised Malaysia's rubber industry - Datuk Mahadev ShankarMahadev ShankarDatuk Mahadev Shankar is a prominent Malaysian lawyer and former Malaysian Court of Appeal Judge.He is currently serving as a member of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Lingam Video Clip to investigate into an allegation of illegal intervention into the judicial appointment process of...
, prominent lawyer and former Court of Appeal Judge - Justice Datuk K.P. Gengadharan NairGengadharan NairJustice Datuk K.P. Gengadharan Nair is a Malaysian High Court judge and prior to that a prominent lawyer specializing in industrial law.-Early life:...
, High Court Judge - Tan Sri G. Rama IyerG. Rama IyerTan Sri G.K. Rama Iyer is the former Secretary-General of the Primary Industries Ministry. He did much for the civil service in the years following independence.Born in 1932 in Penang, his father is V.K. Ganapathy Iyer, a teacher at Penang Free School...
, former Secretary-General of the Primary Industries Ministry - Rear Admiral (rtd) Datuk K. ThanabalasingamK. ThanabalasingamRear Admiral Tan Sri Dato' Seri K. Thanabalasingam is the third chief of the Royal Malaysian Navy and the first Malaysian to be appointed to the post....
, first Malaysian chief of the Royal Malayan Navy
Business and Industry
- Raja MudaliarRaja MudaliarRaja Mudaliar or sometimes spelt Raja Mendeliar was the richest trader in Malacca during the early 16th century CE. He belonged to the Chitty community.-External links:* Samuel S. Dhoraisingam. 2006. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies...
, 16th century MalaccaMalaccaMalacca , dubbed The Historic State or Negeri Bersejarah among locals) is the third smallest Malaysian state, after Perlis and Penang. It is located in the southern region of the Malay Peninsula, on the Straits of Malacca. It borders Negeri Sembilan to the north and the state of Johor to the south...
trader - K. Thamboosamy PillayK. ThamboosamyK. Thamboosamy Pillay was a prominent Malaysian of Tamil origin during the pre-independence years. He was considered the leader of the Tamil community...
, pre-independence prominent businessman and community leader - Tan Sri Ananda KrishnanAnanda KrishnanTatparanandam Ananda Krishnan is a Malaysian businessman and philanthropist of Tamil origin. Nicknamed A-K, he is estimated to have a net worth of US$9.6 billion according to Forbes' latest annual list of wealthiest people, making him the second wealthiest in Southeast Asia behind Robert Kuok,...
, one of Malaysia's richest men, runs a media empire that includes Maxis CommunicationsMaxis CommunicationsMaxis Communications Berhad is a Malaysian cellular operator company headquartered at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It was started in the year 1993. It uses the dialing pref ix identifier of "012" , "017" and “0142”. Their mobile services are provided over the 900 & 1800 MHz GSM band and as July 2005,... - Datuk Tony FernandesTony FernandesTan Sri Anthony Francis Fernandes CBE is a Malaysian entrepreneur and the founder of Tune Air Sdn. Bhd., who introduced the first budget no-frills airline, AirAsia, to Malaysians with the tagline "Now everyone can fly"...
, the man who introduced no-frills, low-cost airlines (AirAsiaAirAsiaAirAsia Berhad is a Malaysian-based low-cost airline. AirAsia is Asia's largest low-fare, no-frills airline and a pioneer of low-cost travel in Asia. AirAsia group operates scheduled domestic and international flights to over 400 destinations spanning 25 countries. Its main hub is the Low-Cost...
) to Malaysia and Asia - Shoba PurushothamanShoba PurushothamanShoba Purushothaman , from Malaysia, iscurrently Chairman of , a company created when TheNewsMarket, a digital news video platform co-founded by Shoba Purushothaman and her business partner Anthony Hayward, acquired NASDAQ-listed Medialink in 2009....
, businesswoman - Bastianpillai Paul NicholasBastianpillai Paul NicholasBastianpillai Paul Nicholas or simply known as B.P. Nicholas was the founder of the Oriental Bank of Malaya and was the first Asian banker in the history of British colonial Malaya. He was also the only ethnic Ceylonese ever to acquire a banking license in Malaya.-Background:B.P...
, Malaysia's first Asian banker - Tan Sri G. GnanalingamG. GnanalingamTan Sri Datuk G. Gnanalingam is a prominent Malaysian businessman. He is the current executive chairman of Westports Malaysia Sdn Bhd, one of Malaysia's leading port operators...
, executive chairman of Westport - Vinod ShekarVinod ShekarDatuk Vinod Balachandra Sekhar is president and group chief executive of Petra Group and Chairman of the Sekhar Foundation, based in Kuala Lumpur. He is also the CEO of Green Rubber. He was named by Forbes Magazine as Malaysia's 16th richest man for 2008....
, businessman, President and Group Chief Executive Putra Group. - Datuk K.L. Palaniappan, architect and businessman, executive director MK Land.
- Tan Sri Kishu TirathraiKishu TirathraiTan Sri Kishu Tirathrai is a prominent Malaysian businessman of Indian descent. He more best known for his textile business as the chairman and managing director of the famous Globe Silk Store....
- Doraisingam PillaiDoraisingam PillaiDatuk Doraisingam Pillai is the CEO of the Lotus chain of restaurants and companies, which include music shops and cineplexes. He was awarded the Malaysian Indian Entrepreneur of 2005 by Malaysian Associated Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry's ....
, CEO of Lotus chain of restaurants and companies
Government
- Tun V.T. SambanthanV. T. SambanthanTun Thirunyanasambanthan Thevar s/o Veerasamy Thevar, better known as Tun V.T. Sambanthan Thevar, was the fifth President of Malaysian Indian Congress and one of the Founding Fathers of Malaysia along with Tunku Abdul Rahman and Tan Cheng Lock...
, one of the founding fathers of independent Malaya - Datuk Seri Samy VelluSamy VelluDato' Seri Samy Vellu Sangalimuthu is an Indian Malaysian politician. He is the longest serving President of the Malaysian Indian Congress , a component party of the Barisan Nasional coalition, holding the position since 1979, for 11 consecutive terms...
, president of the Malaysian Indian Congress and former Works Minister - Tan Sri V. ManickavasagamV. ManickavasagamTan Sri Dato' Seri V. Manickavasagam is the sixth president of the Malaysian Indian Congress from 1973–1978. He was also the former Minister for Communication in the Malaysian cabinet.-President of MIC:...
, sixth president of the Malaysian Indian Congress and former Minster of Communication in the Malaysian cabinet - Datuk K. PathmanabanK. PathmanabanDatuk Roto K. Pathmanaban is a former Malaysian deputy minister, vice-president of Malaysian Indian Congress and founder of Melaka Manipal Medical College.-Early life:...
, former deputy minister and founder of Melaka Manipal Medical CollegeMelaka Manipal Medical CollegeMelaka Manipal Medical College is a Malaysian private medical college which offers 2 twinning undergraduate degrees, the Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery degree and also the Bachelor of Dental Surgery degree... - D.R. Seenivasagam, founder of PPPPeople's Progressive Party (Malaysia)The People's Progressive Party is a political party in Malaysia.The party is one of the constituent members of the ruling National Front and is a multiracial party.-History:...
and politician - Datuk M. KayveasM. KayveasDatuk Seri Dr. M. Kayveas is a Malaysian politician and president of the People's Progressive Party . He was formerly a Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department....
, president of PPPPeople's Progressive Party (Malaysia)The People's Progressive Party is a political party in Malaysia.The party is one of the constituent members of the ruling National Front and is a multiracial party.-History:...
and former deputy minister - Tan Sri G. VadivelooG. VadivelooTan Sri G. Vadiveloo is a former President of the Malaysian Senate, serving from 13 April 1992 to 12 June 1995. He is also a former Secretary-General of the Malaysian Indian Congress.-References:...
, former Speaker of the Senate - K.S. Nijhar, former Member of Parliament
- Datuk K. SivalingamK. SivalingamDatuk K. Sivalingam was a Malaysian politician of Indian descent. He was aligned to the Malaysian Indian Congress , a major component party of the incumbent Barisan Nasional coalition, and was the Selangor state MIC deputy chairman.Prior to entering politics, Sivalingam was involved in journalism...
, former member of the state executive council of SelangorSelangorSelangor also known by its Arabic honorific, Darul Ehsan, or "Abode of Sincerity") is one of the 13 states of Malaysia. It is on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia and is bordered by Perak to the north, Pahang to the east, Negeri Sembilan to the south and the Strait of Malacca to the west... - K. ParthibanK. ParthibanK. Parthiban is a Malaysian politician of Indian descent. He is a member of the Malaysian Indian Congress , a component party of the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition, and has been the party's Tanjung Karang division secretary since 2002...
, former state assemblyman for IjokIjokIjok is an estate town in the state of Selangor, Malaysia. It is located along Federal route . Located about 60 km from Petaling Jaya, Ijok is a popular transit town for travellers heading towards Kuala Selangor and Teluk Intan via the Selangor north coastal road... - S. SothinathanS. SothinathanYang Berbahagia Dato' Sothinathan s/o Sinna Goundar is a Malaysian Politician of Indian Tamil origin. He was also vice-president of the Malaysian Indian Congress, a component party of the Barisan Nasional ruling coalition...
, former deputy minister - Tan Sri Devaki KrishnanDevaki KrishnanTan Sri Dr Devaki Krishnan is a Malaysian politician. She became the first woman be elected to public office in Malaysia when she won a seat on the Municipal Council in Kuala Lumpur in 1952. She is currently a life member of the Malaysian Indian Congress .-Early life:Of Sri Lankan Tamil descent,...
, the first Malaysian Indian woman to become a municipal councillor. - Datuk Dr Subramaniam SathasivamSubramaniam SathasivamDatuk Dr. Subramaniam s/o. K.V. Sathasivam is a Malaysian politician of Indian origin and the current Human Resource Minister in the Malaysian federal cabinet. He is the Deputy President of the Malaysian Indian Congress , a major component party of the ruling Barisan Nasional...
, Human Resource Minister in the Malaysian cabinetCabinet of MalaysiaThe Cabinet of Malaysia is the executive branch of Malaysia's government. Led by the Prime Minister, the cabinet is a council of ministers who are accountable collectively to the Parliament. According to the Article 43 of the Constitution, members of the Cabinet can only be selected from members...
Opposition
- Karpal SinghKarpal SinghKarpal Singh is a Malaysian lawyer and politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for the neighbourhood of Bukit Gelugor in the state of Penang since 2004...
, chairman of opposition Democratic Action PartyDemocratic Action PartyThe Democratic Action Party, or DAP is a secular, multi-racial, social democratic Malaysian political party.The DAP is one of the three major opposition parties in Malaysia, along with the PKR and PAS, that are seen as electable alternatives to the Barisan Nasional coalition of parties...
and member of parliament - Sivarasa RasiahSivarasa RasiahSivarasa Rasiah ,or also known as R.Sivarasa is a prominent Malaysian politician, lawyer and human rights activist. He is co-founder of Suara Rakyat Malaysia or Suaram and vice-president of the opposition Parti Keadilan Rakyat...
, a human rights lawyer and vice-president of the opposition Parti Keadilan RakyatParti Keadilan RakyatThe People's Justice Party , often known simply as KeADILan) is a centrist political party in Malaysia formed in 2003 by a merger of the National Justice Party and the older Malaysian People's Party...
(People's Justice Party) - David V.David V.David V. was a Malaysian unionist and former opposition politician. He won a seat in the Malaysian parliament twice representing the constituencies of Bangsar and Damansara. While in parliament, he was known to be fearless and vocal in raising issues concerning the Indian community in Malaysia...
, politician - Kula Segaran, MP for IpohIpohIpoh is the capital city of Perak state, Malaysia. It is approximately 200 km north of Kuala Lumpur on the North-South Expressway....
Barat and DAP National Vice Chairman. - Gobind Singh DeoGobind Singh DeoGobind Singh Deo is a prominent Malaysian lawyer and politician and is the current Member of Parliament representing Puchong. He is also the national legal bureau secretary of the Democratic Action Party...
, opposition politician - Kumutha RahmanKumutha RahmanKumutha Rahman is a Malaysian politician who is a member of the PAS Supporters Club, a club started by the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party for its non-Muslim supporters. PAS, by virtue of the party's constitution, admits only Muslims as its members...
- V. SivakumarV. SivakumarSivakumar Varatharaju Naidu better known as V. Sivakumar is a Malaysian politician from Perak, and the current Speaker of the Perak State Assembly...
, Speaker of the Perak State Assembly - Dr M.K. RajakumarM.K. RajakumarDr M.K. Rajakumar was a veteran socialist leader and medical practitioner, regarded as a founding father of the discipline of family medicine by general practitioners and family physicians....
, socialist politician
Others
- E. E. C. ThuraisinghamE. E. C. ThuraisinghamDato' Sir Ernest Emmanuel Clough Thuraisingham or E.E.C. Thuraisingham was the first local Member for Education in the Communities Liaison Committee formed to build communal fraternity in British-ruled Malaya, from 1951–1955...
, a politician of pre-Independence MalayaFederation of MalayaThe Federation of Malaya is the name given to a federation of 11 states that existed from 31 January 1948 until 16 September 1963. The Federation became independent on 31 August 1957... - John ThivyJohn ThivyJohn Aloysius Thivy was a prominent Malayan Indian nationalist and the founding president of the Malayan Indian Congress. He was a lawyer by occupation....
, freedom fighter and founding president of the Malayan Indian Congress - K.L. Devaser, fourth president of the Malaysian Indian Congress
- K.S. Nallakarupan, politician
- Tan Sri M.G. PandithanM. G. PandithanTan Sri M.G. Pandithan was a Malaysian Indian politician and the founder president of the Indian Progressive Front....
, president of the Indian Progressive Front (IPF)
Activists
- MGG PillaiMGG PillaiMGG Pillai was a Malaysian journalist and political activist. He was one of the country's pioneers in Internet-based journalism and activism. His parents were immigrants from Kerala, India. His great maternal uncle, Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai was a celebrated Malayalam novelist...
(1939–2006), Malaysian journalist and political activist - Rasammah BhupalanRasammah BhupalanRasammah Bhupalan , also known as Rasammah Naomi Navarednam or Mrs F.R. Bhupalan, is a renowned Malaysian freedom fighter and social activist...
, social activist - Bishan Singh Ram SinghBishan Singh Ram SinghBishan Singh Ram Singh was a Malaysian social activist and environmentalist.-Background:Born in Nibong Tebal, Penang, Bishan Singh had a Masters in Development Management from the Asian Institute of Management, Manila....
, social activist and environmentalist - Irene XavierIrene XavierIrene Xavier is a Malaysian women's rights activist. She is a prominent member of the Women's Aid Organisation - a women's rights NGO. She is also a key activist of Suaram, Malaysia's leading human rights organisation....
, women's rights activist - Waytha Moorthy PonnusamyWaytha Moorthy PonnusamyWaytha Moorthy Ponnusamy sometimes spelt Waythamoorthy is a Malaysian lawyer of Tamil origin who is currently a member of the HINDRAF campaign to fight discrimination against Malaysian Hindus.-Early life:...
, HINDRAFHINDRAFHINDRAF or Hindu Rights Action Force ; Chinese:兴权 with its slogan of People's Power மக்கள் சக்தி ) began as a coalition of 30 Hindu non-governmental organizations committed to the preservation of Hindu community rights and heritage in a multiracial Malaysia...
activist - P. UthayakumarP. UthayakumarUthayakumar s/o Ponnusamy is a Malaysian lawyer of Tamil origin. He is the older brother of P. Waytha Moorthy, the Hindu Rights Action Force lawyer who headed a team of lawyers to file a class action suit against the United Kingdom for "abandoning minority Indians to the mercy of majoritarian...
, HINDRAFHINDRAFHINDRAF or Hindu Rights Action Force ; Chinese:兴权 with its slogan of People's Power மக்கள் சக்தி ) began as a coalition of 30 Hindu non-governmental organizations committed to the preservation of Hindu community rights and heritage in a multiracial Malaysia...
activist - M. ManoharanM. ManoharanManoharan s/o Malayalam more commonly known as M. Manoharan is a prominent Malaysian lawyer and currently the State Assemblyman for Kota Alam Shah in the Selangor State Assembly. He is a member of the Democratic Action Party....
, HINDRAFHINDRAFHINDRAF or Hindu Rights Action Force ; Chinese:兴权 with its slogan of People's Power மக்கள் சக்தி ) began as a coalition of 30 Hindu non-governmental organizations committed to the preservation of Hindu community rights and heritage in a multiracial Malaysia...
activist
Football
- R. Arumugam, national football player (goalkeeper)
- Santokh SinghSantokh SinghSantokh Singh was a Malaysian national football player from Selangor. He played alongside the late Mokhtar Dahari, Soh Chin Aun and R. Arumugam. He participated in the 1972 Munich Olympic Games and one of qualifying team to the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games. His partnership with Soh Chin Aun was the...
, national footballer - Thirumurugan s/o VeeranThirumurugan s/o VeeranThirumurugan a/l Veeran also known as V. Thirumurugan is a Malaysian footballer who is a defender for Kedah FA. He is a member of the Malaysia national football team....
, national footballer - Shebby SinghShebby SinghSerbgeth Singh is a football coach, television commentator, and former international football player from Malaysia.-Playing career:...
,national footballer
Cricket
- Mahadevan SathasivamMahadevan SathasivamMahadevan Sathasivam , or Satha as he was known, was the Sri Lankan cricketer whom Garry Sobers called "the greatest batsman ever on earth," and Frank Worrell called him "the best batsman he had ever seen.". Sathasivam played cricket in the 1940s through the 1960s...
, former captain of the Malaysian cricket team - Lall SinghLall SinghLall Singh was an early Indian Test cricketer.Lall Singh's fame rests on his brilliant fielding which he displayed in India's first Test tour of England in 1932. He played in the only Test of the series and ran out Frank Woolley...
, Former IndianIndian cricket teamThe Indian cricket team is the national cricket team of India. Governed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India , it is a full member of the International Cricket Council with Test and One Day International status....
Test cricketTest cricketTest cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...
er - Suresh NavaratnamSuresh NavaratnamSuresh Navaratnam is a Malaysian cricketer. A right-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler, he has played more than 100 times for the Malaysia national cricket team since making his debut in 1993, scoring more runs and taking more wickets than any other player for Malaysia.-Early...
, captain of the Malaysian cricket team - Jeevandran NairJeevandran NairS Jeevandran Nair is a Malaysian cricketer. A right-handed batsman and off spin bowler, he played for the Malaysia national cricket team between 1996 and 2002.-Biography:...
, cricketer - Marimuthu MuniandyMarimuthu MuniandyMarimuthu A Muniandy is a Malaysian former cricketer. A right-handed batsman and right-arm fast-medium bowler, he played for the Malaysia national cricket team between 1990 and 2005.-Early career:...
, cricketer - Rakesh MadhavanRakesh MadhavanRakesh Madhavan is a Malaysian cricketer. A left-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler, he has played for the Malaysia national cricket team since 1997.-Biography:...
, cricketer - Ramesh MenonRamesh Menon (cricketer)Ramesh Menon is a Malaysian former cricketer. A right-handed batsman and right-arm off spin bowler, he played for the Malaysia national cricket team between 1993 and 2001.-Biography:...
, cricketer - Arul SuppiahArul SuppiahArul Vivasvan Suppiah is an English/Malaysian cricketer. A right-handed batsman and left-arm orthodox spin bowler, he has played for the Malaysia national cricket team since 1999, and currently plays county cricket in England for Somerset....
, cricketer - Rohan SuppiahRohan SuppiahRohan Vishnu Suppiah is a Malaysian cricketer. A right-handed batsman and off spin bowler, he has played for the Malaysia national cricket team since 1997...
, cricketer - David ThalallaDavid ThalallaDavid Thalalla is a Malaysian former cricketer. A right-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler, he played for the Malaysia national cricket team between 1994 and 1998.-Biography:...
, cricketer - Santhara VelloSanthara VelloSanthara Segeran Vello is a Malaysian cricketer. A right-handed batsman, he played for the Malaysia national cricket team between 1994 and 1998.-Biography:...
, cricketer - Kunjiraman RamadasKunjiraman RamadasKunjiraman Ramadas is a former Malaysian cricketer. A right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper, he played for the Malaysia national cricket team between 1990 and 2001.-Biography:...
, cricketer - Rohan SelvaratnamRohan SelvaratnamRohan Mark Selvaratnam is a Malaysian cricketer. A right-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler, he has played for the Malaysia national cricket team since 1993.-Early career:...
, cricketer
Other Sports Personalities
- Datuk Dr Mani JegathesanMani JegathesanTan Sri Dr Mani Jegathesan, fondly called the Flying Doctor for blazing the tracks around Asia despite being a doctor, was an icon in the 1960s, regarded as the "Golden Era" of Malaysian athletics...
, 1960s athletics champion and known as the Flying Doctor - Nicol DavidNicol DavidDatuk Nicol Ann David is a Malaysian female professional squash player. She is currently ranked world number 1 in women's squash, and is the first Asian woman to achieve this...
, World Number 1 in women's squash - Thamby RajahThamby RajahThamby Rajah is a Malaysian Aikido teacher and is often called 'the Father of Malaysian aikido'. He also founded the Shudokan Institute of Aikido in Seremban, Malaysia....
, father of Malaysian aikido - Murugayan KumaresanMurugayan KumaresanMurugayan Kumaresan is a retired track cyclist from Malaysia, who represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988 .-References:* *...
, former national cyclist - Govindasamy SaravananGovindasamy SaravananGovindasamy Saravanan is a Malaysian race walker. He won the gold medal at the 1998 Commonwealth Games staged in his home country.-Achievements:-References:...
, national walker (athlete) - Karamjit SinghKaramjit SinghKaramjit Singh , also known as the Flying Sikh, is a Malaysian professional race driver in rallying, and was the first Asian driver to win the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile Production Car World Championship for Drivers, doing so on his first try. He has been rallying professionally...
, professional rally driver - Nandakumar PuspanathanNandakumar PuspanathanNandakumar Puspanathan , is a Malaysian rally driver.He began his rally career in the Malaysian Rally Championship 2001, driving a privately entered Proton Satria 1600...
, rally driver
Others
- Tan Sri K.R. SomasundramK. R. SomasundramTan Sri Dato K.R. Somasundram is a prominent Malaysian Indian.Born in Teluk Intan, Malaysia in 1930, he was the son of a grocer who gained prominence by heading the National Land Finance Co-Operative for the last two and a half decades....
, freedom fighter, businessman and philanthropist - Toh Puan Uma SambanthanUma SambanthanToh Puan Umasundari Sambanthan née Subramaniam is the wife of the late Tun V.T. Sambanthan, former Malayan Labour Minister, president of the Malaysian Indian Congress and regarded as one of the founding fathers of Malaysia. She is an activist, social worker and leading figure of the cooperative...
- R. ThampipillayR. ThampipillayR. Thampipillay was born in Ceylon and joined the Victoria Institution , Kuala Lumpur as a pupil in 1895 on his arrival in Malaya....
, educationist - Datuk Bernard ChandranBernard ChandranDato Bernard Chandran is a Malaysian fashion designer. His talents have earned him many faithful clients among Malaysia's elite most notably the Royal families of Malaysia and Brunei as well as two former Miss Universe...
, fashion designer - Janaky Athi NahappanJanaky Athi NahappanPuan Sri Janaki Athi Nahappan, also known as Janaky Devar, is a founder member of the Malaysian Indian Congress and one of the earliest women involved in the fight for Malaysian independence....
, freedom fighter - Maniam MoorthyManiam MoorthyManiam Moorthy, also known as Mohammad Abdullah, was a corporal in the Malaysian Army and a member of the first group of Malaysians to successfully climb Mount Everest...
, army personnel who was part of the Malaysian team to scale Mount Everest - Murphy Pakiam, Roman Catholic archbishopArchbishopAn archbishop is a bishop of higher rank, but not of higher sacramental order above that of the three orders of deacon, priest , and bishop...
of the Archdiocese of Kuala LumpurRoman Catholic Archdiocese of Kuala LumpurThe Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kuala Lumpur is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Malaysia. It was erected as the Diocese of Kuala Lumpur by Pope Pius XII on February 25, 1955, and was elevated to the rank of a Metropolitan Archdiocese on...
Indonesia
- Raam PunjabiRaam PunjabiRaam Jethmal Punjabi is an Indian Indonesian media magnate and president of Multivision Plus. In 2001, due to his production of soap operas, he was referred to as "Indonesia's own soap king".-Early life:...
, leading TV producer, media tycoon. - Gurnam SinghGurnam SinghSee also Indonesian Athlete Gurnam Singh Justice Gurnam Singh was an Indian politician and the Chief Minister of Punjab from March 8, 1967 to November 25, 1967, and again between February 17, 1969 to March 27, 1970...
, Athlete, 3 Gold medal winner at 1962 Asian Games1962 Asian GamesThe 4th Asian Games were held from August 24, 1962 to September 4, 1962 in Jakarta, Indonesia. Most notable is the exclusion of Israel and the Republic of China from the Games.... - H. S. DillonH. S. DillonDr. Harbrinderjit Singh Dillon, more commonly known as H. S. Dillon, is an Indonesian Indian who has occupied a variety of positions in Indonesian political life, including assistant to the Minister of Agriculture, and Commissioner of the National Commission on Human Rights...
, politician, various portfolios.
Australia
- KamahlKamahlKamahl is the stage name of Kandiah Kamalesvaran , an Australian singer and recording artist, perhaps best known for "The Elephant Song", and his repertoire of popular music.-Early life:...
, cabaret/easy listening singer and recording artist, famous for The Elephant Song - Indira NaidooIndira NaidooIndira Naidoo is an Australian author, journalist and television presenter.-Education:Naidoo was educated in England, Zimbabwe and Australia, where she attended Launceston Church Grammar School in Tasmania before matriculating as School Dux from Naracoorte High School in South...
,television presenter and celebrity speaker - Ashok KumarAshok KumarAshok Kumar also fondly called Dadamoni was an Indian film actor. Born Kumudlal Ganguly in Bhagalpur, Bengal Presidency he attained iconic status in Indian cinema...
,barrister in Sydney - Dinesh Rajgopal(Sunny),Online Marketing Professional in Adelaide
New Zealand
- Anand SatyanandAnand SatyanandSir Anand Satyanand, GNZM, QSO, KStJ was the 19th Governor-General of New Zealand. He previously worked as a lawyer, judge and ombudsman.-Early life and family:...
, First Governor General of Asian descent - Dipak PatelDipak PatelDipak Narshibhai Patel played 37 Tests and 75 One Day Internationals for the New Zealand cricket team....
, cricketer New Zealand Cricket Team - Jeetan PatelJeetan PatelJeetan Shashi Patel is a New Zealand cricketer of Indian descent. Patel is a right arm off spin bowler. He plays domestic cricket for the Wellington Firebirds and has represented the New Zealand Black Caps in One Day Internationals, Twenty20 matches, and Test cricket.Patel was earmarked as a...
, cricketer New Zealand Cricket Team
Academic
- Rajesh ChandraRajesh ChandraRajesh Chandra is a Fijian academic of Indian descent. In February 2005 he was appointed the first Vice-Chancellor of the newly founded University of Fiji. He is at present Vice-Chancellor of the University of the South Pacific....
, Vice-Chancellor of the University of FijiUniversity of FijiThe University of Fiji is a university based in Saweni, Lautoka, Fiji. It was established in December 2004 under academic leadership of the Fiji Institute of Applied Studies and financial sponsorship of the Arya Pratinidhi Sabha of Fiji, a Hindu religious organization dedicated to education...
. - Brij LalBrij LalBrij V. Lal is a Indo-Fijian historian . He was born in Labasa, on the northern island of Vanua Levu. He was educated at the University of South Pacific, the University of British Columbia and the Australian National University.- Academic career :...
, historian. - Sarojini PillaySarojini PillaySarojini Pillay is a Fijian academic of Indian descent. In the second week of February 2006, Pillay, a former Registrar of the University of the South Pacific , was appointed as the first Registrar of the newly founded University of Fiji...
, Registrar of the University of Fiji.
Business & Industry
- Niranjan, SangeetaSangeeta NiranjanSangeeta Niranjan is an Indo-Fijian businesswoman. She is the co-founder of Kenns Motors, the President of the Fiji Motor Traders Association, and a former President of the Fiji Employers Federation, a position to which she was elected on 3 September 2005. She resigned from this position on 30...
- Businesswoman. - Hari PunjaHari PunjaMr. Hari Punja is a businessman and Chairman of Hari Punja Group of Companies. Hari Punja and Sons Limited is a very diversified company in Fiji.-Biography:...
- Business tycoon. - Anare JaleAnare JaleAnare Jale is a Fijian civil servant, who was the Chief Executive Officer of the Public Service Commission from May 2005 to 7 December 2006, when he was dismissed from office by the military junta which had seized power on 5 December...
, Chief Executive Officer of the Fiji Public Services Commission.
Politics
- Mahendra ChaudhryMahendra ChaudhryMahendra Pal Chaudhry is a Fijian politician and the leader of the Fiji Labour Party...
, first Indo-Fijian Prime Minister (1999–2000) - Ahmed AliAhmed Ali (politician)Dr. Ahmed Ali was a Fijian academic and politician who held Cabinet office several times from the late 1970s onwards. Unlike the majority of his fellow Indo-Fijians, he was aligned with the Alliance Party of Prime Minister Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara in the 1970s and 1980s, and with the United Fiji...
(1938–2005), several times a cabinet ministerCabinet (Fiji)Fiji has the Westminster system - executive authority is vested nominally in a President, but exercised in practice by a Cabinet of Ministers, presided over by the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister is formally appointed, but not chosen, by the President: the President must appoint as Prime...
. - George Shiu RajGeorge Shiu RajGeorge Shiu Raj is a Indo-Fijian politician, who served as Minister for Multi-Ethnic Affairs from 2001 to 30 September 2004, when he resigned amid accusations of misuse of funds. At the time, he was the only Indo-Fijian minister in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase...
, Cabinet Minister. - Anand SinghAnand SinghAnand Kumar Singh is a Fijian lawyer and politician of Indian descent. He was born on 8 August 1948 in Bombay, when his family had temporarily moved to India. The family returned from India in 1951 to live at the birthplace of his father, Parmanand Singh, in Yalalevu, Ba...
, Fiji Labour PartyFiji Labour PartyThe Fiji Labour Party is a political party in Fiji, which holds observer status with the Socialist International. Most of its support at present comes from the Indo-Fijian community, although it is officially multiracial and its first leader was an indigenous Fijian, Dr. Timoci Bavadra. It is...
SenatorSenate (Fiji)The Senate of Fiji is the upper chamber of Parliament. It is the less powerful of the two chambers; it may not initiate legislation, but may amend or veto it. The Senate's powers over financial bills are more restricted: it may veto them in their entirety, but may not amend them...
and former Attorney-GeneralAttorney-General (Fiji)Fiji's chief governmental legal officer is the Attorney General. According to the Constitution of Fiji, the Attorney-General is required to be a qualified lawyer and sits in the Cabinet. The office of the Attorney-General is the oldest surviving executive office in Fiji, having been established...
. - K. S. ReddyK. S. ReddyKrishna S. Reddy was a Fiji Indian school teacher, leader of a farmers' union and both a nominated and elected member of the Legislative Council. Although he started his political career as an ally of A. D. Patel , disputes over the leadership style of A. D...
, Member of Legislative Council of Fiji(1953–1956). - Vijay R. SinghVijay R. SinghSir Vijay Raghubar Singh, KBE was an Indo-Fijian lawyer and politician who held Cabinet office in the 1960s and 1970s. Vijay Singh served in Prime Minister Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara's government in a variety of positions, including Attorney-General, and was President of the Indian Alliance, a...
, former Cabinet Minister. - Sidiq KoyaSidiq KoyaSiddiq Moidin Koya was a Fijian Indian politician and Opposition leader. He succeeded to the leadership of the mostly Indo-Fijian National Federation Party on the death of the party's founder, A.D. Patel, in October 1969, remaining in this post until 1977...
, Leader of the OppositionLeader of the Opposition (Fiji)The post of Leader of the Opposition is a political office common in countries that are part of the Commonwealth of Nations. It did not originate in Fiji but has a long tradition; in British constitutional theory, the Leader of the Opposition must pose a formal alternative to the government, ready...
National Federation PartyNational Federation Party (Fiji)The National Federation Party is a Fijian political party founded by A.D. Patel in November 1968, as a merger of the Federation Party and the National Democratic Party... - A.D. PatelA.D. PatelAmbalal Dahyabhai Patel, better known as A.D. Patel, was a Fiji Indian politician, farmers' leader and founder and leader of the National Federation Party. Patel was uncompromisingly committed to a vision of an independent Fiji, with full racial integration...
(1905–1969), founder of the National Federation PartyNational Federation Party (Fiji)The National Federation Party is a Fijian political party founded by A.D. Patel in November 1968, as a merger of the Federation Party and the National Democratic Party... - Pramod RaePramod RaePramod Kumar Rae is a Fijian trade unionist and political organizer of Indian descent. He was born in Suva and completed a Bachelor of Arts degree and Post Graduate Certificate in Education from the University of the South Pacific....
, General Secretary of the National Federation PartyNational Federation Party (Fiji)The National Federation Party is a Fijian political party founded by A.D. Patel in November 1968, as a merger of the Federation Party and the National Democratic Party...
. - Jai Ram ReddyJai Ram ReddyJai Ram Reddy is an Indo-Fijian statesman, who has had a distinguished career in both the legislative and judicial branches of the Fijian government...
, Leader of the National Federation PartyNational Federation Party (Fiji)The National Federation Party is a Fijian political party founded by A.D. Patel in November 1968, as a merger of the Federation Party and the National Democratic Party...
(1977–1987; 1992–1999); Judge. - Prem SinghPrem SinghPrem Singh is a Fijian politician and a member of the National Federation Party . An Indo-Fijian, he won the Nadi Open constituency in the election of 2001, becoming the only candidate of his party to win a parliamentary seat...
, former NFPNational Federation Party (Fiji)The National Federation Party is a Fijian political party founded by A.D. Patel in November 1968, as a merger of the Federation Party and the National Democratic Party...
leader. - Raman Pratap SinghRaman Pratap SinghRaman Pratap Singh is a Fijian lawyer and politician of Indian descent. His father, Ram Jati Singh, was a member of the Legislative Council, elected on the National Federation Party ticket. Raman contested the 1994 election on the NFP ticket, winning the Bua Indian seat in the House of...
, National Federation PartyNational Federation Party (Fiji)The National Federation Party is a Fijian political party founded by A.D. Patel in November 1968, as a merger of the Federation Party and the National Democratic Party...
leader. - Amjad AliAmjad AliAmjad Ali is a Fiji Indian politician. In the House of Representatives he represented the Nadi Urban Indian Communal Constituency, one of 19 reserved for Indo-Fijians, from 1999 to 2006, having held the seat for the Fiji Labour Party in the general elections of 1999 and 2001...
, FLP politician. - Narendra ArjunNarendra ArjunNarendra Singh Arjun was a Fijian lawyer and politician of Indian descent. In the course of his career, he served as President of the Fiji Law Society and as a member of the Sugar Industry Tribunal....
, former NFPNational Federation Party (Fiji)The National Federation Party is a Fijian political party founded by A.D. Patel in November 1968, as a merger of the Federation Party and the National Democratic Party...
parliamentarianHouse of Representatives (Fiji)The House of Representatives is the lower chamber of Fiji's Parliament. It is the more powerful of the two chambers; it alone has the power to initiate legislation... - Kamlesh ReddyKamlesh ReddyKamlesh Reddy is a Fiji Indian politician who won the Labasa Indian Communal Constituency for the Labour Party in 2006 general election.- References :...
, FLP politician. - Kamlesh Kumar AryaKamlesh Kumar AryaKamlesh Kumar Arya is the president of the Arya Pratinidhi Sabha of Fiji, which is a national organization uniting all the Arya Samajs in Fiji. Initially, he chose teaching as a career and was active within the Fiji Teachers Union...
, FLP politician. - Anand BablaAnand BablaAnand Babla was a Fijian politician of Indian descent. He was a member of the National Farmers Union and Fiji Labour Party , holding the Tavua Indian Communal Constituency from 1992 to 2006. in the House of Representatives...
, FLP politician. - Pratap ChandPratap ChandPratap Chand is a former Fijian politician of Indian descent. In the House of Representatives he represented the Nasinu Indian Communal Constituency from 1999 to 2006. He held the seat, one of 19 reserved for Indo-Fijians, for the Fiji Labour Party in the general elections of 1999 and 2001.Pratap...
, FLP politician. - Ahmed Gaffar, FLP politician.
- Gunasagaran GounderGunasagaran GounderDr Gunasagaran Gounder is a Fiji Indian medical doctor who rose into prominence when he, as a Fiji Labour Party candidate, defeated the Leader of Opposition, Jai Ram Reddy of the National Federation Party, in the contest for the Yasawa Nawaka Open Constituency seat in the 1999 general election...
, FLP politician. - Hafiz KhanHafiz KhanHafizud Dean Khan is a Fijian businessman, Senator and president of the Muslim League. Appointed to the Senate on 13 July 2005 to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Dr Ahmed Ali, Khan became one of the 9 out of 32 Senators nominated by the Prime Minister...
, businessman and SenatorSenate (Fiji)The Senate of Fiji is the upper chamber of Parliament. It is the less powerful of the two chambers; it may not initiate legislation, but may amend or veto it. The Senate's powers over financial bills are more restricted: it may veto them in their entirety, but may not amend them...
. - James Shri KrishnaJames Shri KrishnaJames Shri Krishna is a former Fijian politician of Indian descent. He represented the Labasa Indian Communal Constituency, one of 19 reserved for Indo-Fijians, which he held for the Fiji Labour Party in the parliamentary elections of 2001....
, FLP politician. - Gopal Lakshman, FLP politician.
- Surendra LalSurendra LalSurendra Lal is a Fijian politician of Indian descent. In the House of Representatives he represented the Vanua Levu West Indian Communal Constituency, one of 19 reserved for Indo-Fijians, which he held for the Fiji Labour Party in the parliamentary elections of 2001 with more than 65 percent of...
, FLP politician. - Sanjeet Chand MaharajSanjeet Chand MaharajSanjeet Chand Maharaj is a Fijian politician of Indian descent. In the House of Representatives he represents the Viti Levu East Maritime Indian Communal Constituency, one of 19 reserved for Indo-Fijians, which he held for the Fiji Labour Party in the parliamentary elections of 2001 with more...
, FLP politician - Perumal MupnarPerumal MupnarPerumal Mupnar is a Fijian politician of Indian descent, who held the Yasawa Nawaka Open Constituency in the House of Representatives for the Fiji Labour Party in the parliamentary election of 2001...
, FLP Member of Parliament. - Damodran NairDamodran NairDamodran Nair is a Fijian politician of Indian descent, who held the Tavua Open Constituency in the House of Representatives for the Fiji Labour Party in a by election on 17 January 2004 following the death of the incumbent, Pravin Singh, in an automobile accident in late 2003...
, FLP Member of Parliament. - Gyani NandGyani NandGyani Nand was a Fijian politician of Indian descent. He was born in Tavua and taught in a number of primary and high schools then worked as a hansard reporter and later as a diplomat in Australia and England before starting his political career.In the House of Representatives he represented the...
, FLP politician. - Ragho NandRagho NandRagho Nand is a Fiji Indian politician who was also a Minister in the multi-party cabinet following the 2006 election.In the House of Representatives he represented the Tailevu Rewa Indian Communal Constituency, one of 19 reserved for Indo-Fijians, which he held for the Fiji Labour Party in the...
, FLP politician. - Udit NarayanUdit Narayan (politician)Udit Narayan is a Fijian politician of Indian descent. He represented the Lautoka Rural Indian Communal Constituency, one of 19 reserved for Indo-Fijians, which he held for the Fiji Labour Party in the parliamentary elections of 2001 with more than 71 percent of the vote.In 2003, Narayan was...
, FLP politician. - Krishna PrasadKrishna PrasadKrishna Prasad ,was a Fijian politician of Indian descent, who held the Nadi Open Constituency in the House of Representatives for the Fiji Labour Party in the parliamentary election of 2001...
], FLP Member of Parliament. - Ram SharanRam SharanRam Sharana politician of Indian descent. From 2001 to 2006 he represented the Macuata East Cakaudrove Indian Communal Constituency, one of 19 reserved for Indo-Fijians, which he held for the Fiji Labour Party in the parliamentary elections of 2001 with more than 75 percent of the vote.In 2003,...
], FLP politician. - Gyan SinghGyan SinghGyan Singh is a Fijian politician of Indian descent, who held the Magodro Open Constituency in the House of Representatives for the Fiji Labour Party in the parliamentary election of 2001, taking almost 57 percent of the votes cast.-References:...
], FLP Member of Parliament. - Pravin SinghPravin SinghPravin Singh was a Fijian politician of Indian descent, who won the Tavua Open Constituency in the House of Representatives for the Fiji Labour Party in the parliamentary elections of 1999 and 2001....
, FLP Member of Parliament - Satendra SinghSatendra SinghSatendra Singh is a former Fijian politician of Indian descent. He represented the Ba East Indian Communal Constituency, one of 19 reserved for Indo-Fijians, which he won for the Fiji Labour Party in the parliamentary elections of 2001. Prior to his election, he worked a farm advisor for the Fiji...
, FLP politician. - Lekh Ram VayeshnoiLekh Ram VayeshnoiLekh Ram Vayeshnoi, is a Fijian politician of Indian descent. He was one of the youngest members to be elected into Parliament in 1992. He has represented the Nadroga Indian Communal Constituency, which he won for the Fiji Labour Party in the parliamentary elections of 1992, 1994, 1999, 2001, and...
, Fiji Labour PartyFiji Labour PartyThe Fiji Labour Party is a political party in Fiji, which holds observer status with the Socialist International. Most of its support at present comes from the Indo-Fijian community, although it is officially multiracial and its first leader was an indigenous Fijian, Dr. Timoci Bavadra. It is...
parliamentarianHouse of Representatives (Fiji)The House of Representatives is the lower chamber of Fiji's Parliament. It is the more powerful of the two chambers; it alone has the power to initiate legislation...
. - Shivlal NagindasShivlal NagindasShivlal Nagindas is a Fijian businessman of Indian descent, who currently serves as President of the Labasa Chamber of Commerce. He has also held political office as a Senator, as a Labasa Town Councillor...
, LabasaLabasaLabasa is a town in Fiji with a population of 27,949 at the most recent census held in 2007.Labasa is located in Macuata Province, in the north-eastern part of the island of Vanua Levu, and is the largest town on the island. The town itself is located on a delta formed by three rivers - the...
businessman and former SenatorSenate (Fiji)The Senate of Fiji is the upper chamber of Parliament. It is the less powerful of the two chambers; it may not initiate legislation, but may amend or veto it. The Senate's powers over financial bills are more restricted: it may veto them in their entirety, but may not amend them...
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Others
- Singh, VijayVijay SinghVijay Singh, CF , nicknamed "The Big Fijian", is a Fijian professional golfer who was Number 1 in the Official World Golf Rankings for 32 weeks in 2004 and 2005. He has won three major championships and was the leading PGA Tour money winner in 2003, 2004 and 2008...
leading golfer, former World No.1 - Mishra, GhananandGhananand MishraGhananand Mishra was a Fijian lawyer and judge. He was an Indo-Fijian of Brahmin stock, whose ancestors hailed from the Indian state of Kashmiri....
, jurist (1916–2005). - Chaudhry, RajendraRajendra Chaudhry- Career :Chaudhry is best-known as the son of Mahendra Chaudhry, leader of the Fiji Labour Party who was deposed as Prime Minister in the Fiji coup of 2000...
, lawyer. - Khan, Iqbal, controversial FijiFijiFiji , officially the Republic of Fiji , is an island nation in Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean about northeast of New Zealand's North Island...
an lawyer. - Nand, NainendraNainendra NandNainendra Nand was the Solicitor-General of Fiji from 1997 to 2006. He had previously worked in the Office of the Attorney-General since 1983. He was dismissed from office on 7 December 2006 for refusing to cooperate with the military junta which seized power on 5 December.Nand was educated in the...
, Solicitor-GeneralSolicitor-General (Fiji)The Solicitor-General of Fiji is the Chief Executive Officer of the Attorney-General's Chambers, and as such assists the Attorney-General in advising the government on legal matters, and in performing legal work for the government...
of FijiFijiFiji , officially the Republic of Fiji , is an island nation in Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean about northeast of New Zealand's North Island...
. - Sharma, GabrielGabriel SharmaGabriel Sharma is an Anglican Bishop in Fiji. On 1 May 2005, he became the first Indo-Fijian to be consecrated as an Anglican Bishop, the first ethnic Indian Bishop in the Province of Aotearoa, of which Fiji forms a part, and the first Bishop specifically assigned to Fiji's Western Division, when...
, first Indo-Fijian AnglicanAnglican CommunionThe Anglican Communion is an international association of national and regional Anglican churches in full communion with the Church of England and specifically with its principal primate, the Archbishop of Canterbury...
BishopBishopA bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...
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South Africa
- Sewsunker "Papwa" Sewgolum - Legendary Indian golfer.
- Umar Hajee Ahmed JhaveriUmar Hajee Ahmed JhaveriUmar Hajee Ahmed Jhaveri was a Memon Indian-South African businessman. It was a court case concerning him that brought Mahatma Gandhi to South Africa. Hajee Ahmed assisted Gandhi in setting up the South African Indian Congress....
- Lawyer, assisted Gandhi in setting up the Natal Indian Congress. - Radhakrishna PadayachiRadhakrishna PadayachiRadhakrishna Lutchmana "Roy" Padayachie is the Minister of Communications of the Republic of South Africa.He Joined the African National Congress in and Served as Executive Member of the Natal Indian Congress...
, Deputy Minister for Communication. - Priya ReddyPriya ReddyWarcry is an environmentalist and anarchist activist, filmmaker, writer and political organizer living in New York City.- Life and work :As a child, Warcry emigrated with her parents from India to the United States in 1976...
- Spokesperson for the Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Helen Zille (2010). Former Radio Presenter on Good Hope FM (2004–2010)cape town,South Africa. - Dullah OmarDullah OmarAbdullah Mohamed Omar , better known as Dullah Omar, was a South African anti-Apartheid activist, lawyer, and a minister in the South African cabinet from 1994 till his death.-Early life and education:...
- Politician. - Yusuf DadooYusuf DadooYusuf Mohamed Dadoo was a Muslim Indian South African communist and anti-apartheid activist. In his life he was chair of both the South African Indian Congress and the South African Communist Party, as well as being a major proponent of cooperation between those organisations and the African...
- Doctor and politician. - Ahmed KathradaAhmed KathradaAhmed Mohamed Kathrada is a South African politician and former political prisoner and anti-apartheid activist....
- Political activist. - Karthy GovenderKarthy GovenderKarthy Govender is a commissioner for the South African Human Rights Commission. Karthy Govender, along with Commissioner Jody Kollapen are two Commissioners of minority South African Tamil ancestry. Karthy Govender is also an associate professor in the Law Faculty at the University of...
- Ronnie GovenderRonnie GovenderRonnie Govender is a South African playwright of Tamil descent. His book, At the Edge and other Cato Manor Stories, won the 1997 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, best first book, Africa....
- Jody KollapenJody KollapenJody Kollapen is a South African attorney, the commissioner of the South African Human Rights Commission. Prior to joining the Commission in 1996, Kollapen was a member of Lawyers for Human Rights for five years. He coordinated the "release political prisoners" program...
- George NaickerGeorge NaickerGeorg Naicker was prominent South African freedom fighter of Indian Tamil descent. He was one of six sons. His mother died while in prison on Robben Island.-Early days with Indian National Congress:...
- Monty NaickerMonty NaickerGagathura Mohambry Naicker was a medical doctor and a South African anti-apartheid activist of Indian Tamil descent.-Early Life:His father was a trader, exporting bananas....
- Amma NaidooAmma NaidooManonmoney Pillay Naidoo or Amma Naidoo was a South African freedom fighter.-Family and early life:...
- Indira NaidooIndira NaidooIndira Naidoo is an Australian author, journalist and television presenter.-Education:Naidoo was educated in England, Zimbabwe and Australia, where she attended Launceston Church Grammar School in Tasmania before matriculating as School Dux from Naracoorte High School in South...
- Naransamy Roy NaidooNaransamy Roy NaidooThambi Naransamy Naidoo or Roy Naidoo was a South African political activist and freedom fighter. He was of South African Indian Tamil descent. He is the son of an early collaborator of Mahatma Gandhi, Thambi Naidoo...
- Shanti NaidooShanti NaidooShanti Naidoo is South African anti-Apartheid activist and an early African National Congress member. She was placed in solitary confinement for her political activism along with Winnie Mandela. After leaving South Africa, she continued her political activism on behalf of ANC from ...
- Thambi NaidooThambi NaidooThambi Naidoo was an early collaborator of Mahatma Gandhi. From 1906 to 1913, he helped Gandhi in the South African Indian communities as they struggled against pre Apartheid racial repression by the local white and the colonial British authorities in Durban....
- Xavier NaidooXavier NaidooXavier Kurt Naidoo is a German singer-songwriter, record producer and occasional actor. Born and raised in Mannheim, Naidoo worked in several jobs in the gastronomy and the musical industry before relocating to the United States in the early 1990s, where he released his first full-length English...
- Thillaiaadi ValliammaiThillaiaadi ValliammaiThillaiyadi Valliammi was a South African Tamil woman who worked with Mahatma Gandhi in his early years when he developed his nonviolent methods in South Africa fighting its apartheid regime.-Biography:...
- Hashim AmlaHashim AmlaHashim Mahomed Amla is a South African cricketer. A right-handed upper order batsman and occasional medium-pace bowler, Amla bats at number 3 for South Africa in Test matches and has opened in limited overs contests. He is currently ranked as the No...
- Cricketer, South Africa Cricket Team
Politics
- Abdool Razack MohamedAbdool Razack MohamedSir Abdool Razack Mohamed Kt, MP is an Indian born former key Mauritian Minister in the pre and post-independence cabinet of Mauritius. He is celebrated as one of the fathers of the modern state of Mauritius, and he was the leader of the political party called the CAM...
, one of the three founding fathers of independent Mauritius. - Sookdeo BissoondoyalSookdeo BissoondoyalSookdeo Bissoondoyal was one of the major leaders who fought for the independence of Mauritius.-Career:...
, politician and one of the three founding fathers of independent Mauritius. - Sir Dayendranath BurrenchobayDayendranath BurrenchobaySir Dayendranath Burrenchobay KBE, CMG, CVO, GCSK, was born in Plaine Magnien, Mauritius and served as Governor-General of Mauritius....
, former Governor-General of Mauritius - Sir Anerood JugnauthAnerood JugnauthSir Anerood Jugnauth , KCMG, QC, GCSK, PC, LLB, GOLH, GOP, ORS is the President of Mauritius and all its dependencies...
, president - Navin RamgoolamNavin RamgoolamNavinchandra Ramgoolam, GCSK, FRCP, MP is the Prime Minister of Mauritius, Minister of Defence, Home Affairs & External Communications, as well as Leader of the National Assembly. Being the leader of the Mauritian Labour Party, he serves as Member of parliament for constituency No...
, prime minister - Sir Seewoosagur RamgoolamSeewoosagur RamgoolamSir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam KT,GCMG,KCMG,LRCP, MRCS is the first Chief Minister, Prime Minister and sixth Governor General of Mauritius....
, former prime minister and one of the three founding fathers of independent Mauritius - Veerasamy RingadooVeerasamy RingadooSir Veerasamy Ringadoo, GCMG, GCSK, QC, was the Governor General of Mauritius from 17 January 1986 to 12 March 1992, when it became a republic. Ringadoo then served as President until later in 1992, when he was replaced by the democratically elected Cassam Uteem. He is a Tamil by origin and a Hindu...
, former president - Cassam UteemCassam UteemCassam Uteem is a Mauritian political figure who served as President of Mauritius from 30 June 1992 to 15 February 2002 and is the longest serving President of Mauritius, having served for nine years....
, former president - Dev ManrajDev ManrajDharam Dev Manraj is a prominent figure of Mauritius. After becoming a fellow of the , he obtained a Post-Graduate Diploma at the International Institute for Management Development...
, former Financial Secretary - Jaya Krishna CuttareeJaya Krishna CuttareeDr. Jaya Krishna Cuttaree was the foreign minister of Mauritius from December 23, 2003 to July 5, 2005 and a member of the Mauritian parliament from Stanley since 1982. He is a descendant of Indian immigrants...
diplomat - Madun DullooMadun DullooMadan Murlidhar Dulloo, MP is a politician and diplomat from Mauritius. He is the leader of the Mauritian Militant Socialist Movement and served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2005 to 2008...
diplomat
Others
- Ariranga Govindasamy Pillay, Chief Justice of Mauritius
- Shirin Ameeruddy-CziffraShirin Ameeruddy-CziffraShirin Aumeeruddy-Cziffra is a politician and diplomat from Mauritius but not born in Mauritius– Ambassador - Paris, Rome, Madrid and Lisbon between 1992 to 1995. Aumeeruddy-Cziffra is a Former Minister of Mauritius for Women's Rights and the Family...
, human rights activist - Nathacha Devi AppanahNathacha Devi AppanahNathacha Devi Pathareddy Appanah is a Mauritian-French author. She comes from a traditional Indian family, specifically Telegu.She spent most of her teenage years in Mauritius and also worked as a journalist/columnist at Le Mauricien and Week-End Scope before emigrating to France.Since 1998,...
, author,journalist - Dev VirahsawmyDev VirahsawmyDev Virahsawmy , is a politician, playwright, poet and advocate of the Mauritian Creole language.-Early life:...
, writer, linguist - Vikash Dhorasoo, former French national soccer team player (born to Mauritian parents)
Sports
- Hitesh ModiHitesh ModiHitesh Subhash Modi is a former Kenyan cricketer. He was a left-handed batsman and a right-arm offbreak bowler....
cricketer - Ravindu ShahRavindu ShahRavindu Dhirajlal Shah, born 28 August 1972 in Nairobi, is a Kenyan cricketer. He is a right-handed batman. He was part of Kenya's 1999 World Cup squad...
cricketer - Dipak ChudasamaDipak ChudasamaDipak Nanalal Chudasama is a former Kenyan cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman. known as "The Doc", Chudasama was, as well as being a cricketer, a fully qualified orthodontist....
cricketer - Sandeep Gupta cricketer
- Aasif KarimAasif KarimAasif Yusuf Karim was a Kenyan cricketer. Of Indian ancestry, Karim made a reputation for himself as a useful lower-order batsman but predominantly as a left-arm spinner, frequently said to be one of the best outside the Test-playing nations...
cricketer - Tanmay MishraTanmay MishraTanmay Mishra is a Kenyan cricketer. He is a right-handed aggressive middle-order batsman and made his One Day International debut for Kenya in 2006 against Zimbabwe at Bulawayo. In 2007, Tanmay enrolled himself in an Indian University, and this prevented him from making any appearances for the...
cricketer - Brijal PatelBrijal PatelBrijal Jagdish Patel, born 14 November 1977 in Nairobi, is a Kenyan cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a part-time slow left-arm bowler, and has played in 31 One-Day International matches for Kenya, as well as first-class and List A cricket....
cricketer - Malhar PatelMalhar PatelMalhar L Patel is a Kenyan cricketer. A right-handed middle order batsman, he made his One Day International debut in the 2004 Champions Trophy match versus Pakistan at Edgbaston in Birmingham.-References:...
cricketer - Kalpesh PatelKalpesh PatelKalpesh Ashok Patel is a Kenyan cricketer who played two One Day Internationals for the national side, although he had no success in either.Patel's ODIs are the only List A games he played, but he appeared four times at first-class level...
cricketer - Ramesh SethiRamesh SethiRamesh Kumar Sethi is a former Kenyan cricketer who represented East Africa in one first-class match and three One-Day Internationals in the 1975 World Cup. He was in the combined East African team for every match the team played in the World Cup. Sethi was primarily selected as an all rounder...
cricketer - Harilal ShahHarilal ShahHarilal Raishi Shah was an East African cricketer. He played three One day Internationals in the 1975 World Cup.-References:...
cricketer - Jawahir ShahJawahir ShahJawahir Nathoo Shah was an East African cricketer. He played three One Day Internationals in the 1975 World Cup.-Notes:...
cricketer - Alpesh VadherAlpesh VadherAlpesh Vallabhdas Vadher , named after his dad is a former Kenyan cricketer of Indian origin. He is a right-handed batsman...
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- Makhan SinghMakhan SinghMakhan Singh was an Indian-born labour union leader who is credited with establishing the foundations of trade unionism in Kenya....
Freedom fighter - Yash Pal Ghai Chairman of the Constitution of Kenya Review Commission
- M.G. Vassanji Novelist, Commonwealth Writers Prize winner
- Zain VerjeeZain VerjeeZain Verjee is a Canadian journalist, who was born and raised in Kenya prior to immigrating to Canada. Verjee is co-anchor of CNN International's European daytime program World One. She also serves as the international correspondent for American Morning, the daily morning news program on CNN US...
CNNCNNCable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
TV Anchor - Vithalbhai PatelVithalbhai PatelVithalbhai Patel was an Indian legislator and political leader, and co-founder of the Swaraj Party.-Early life:Born in Nadiad, in the Indian state of Gujarat, Vithalbhai Jhaverbhai Patel was the third of five Patel brothers, four years elder to Vallabhbhai Patel, raised in the village of Karamsad...
Chairman and Founder of Laboratory and Allied Ltd. (Pharmaceuticals)
Seychelles
- Kantilal JivanKantilal JivanKantilal Jivan Shah , known simply as Kanti, is said to be the most written about Seychellois. Described as a Renaissance Man, he has been a guru, historian, natural history expert, palmist, vegetarian cook, photographer, artist and sculptor, agronomist and intellectual.He has been featured in over...
Well-known businessman, guru, naturalist, historian, photographer and vegetarian cook. - Nirmal ShahNirmal ShahNirmal Shah is a environmentalist, writer, fund raiser and civic leader from the Seychelles, and director of Nature Seychelles.Shah, who was educated in India and the United States, advocates for conservation of biodiversity, sustainable development and civil society participation through local and...
Environmental expert, writer, fund raiser and civic leader.
Germany
- Gujjula Ravindra ReddyGujjula Ravindra ReddyGujjula Ravindra Reddy member of the state parliament of Brandenburg and former mayor of Altlandsberg.Reddy visited areas devastated by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake...
- Three time Mayor of Altlandsberg, Germany,Member of state Parliament of BrandenburgBrandenburgBrandenburg is one of the sixteen federal-states of Germany. It lies in the east of the country and is one of the new federal states that were re-created in 1990 upon the reunification of the former West Germany and East Germany. The capital is Potsdam...
, GermanyGermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
. - Sebastian EdathySebastian EdathySebastian Edathy is a German politician.Edathy was born in Hanover, the son of an immigrant from Kerala, India, and is a trained sociologist. He has been an SPD member of the German parliament since 1998...
- Member of parliament and of Angela MerkelAngela MerkelAngela Dorothea Merkel is the current Chancellor of Germany . Merkel, elected to the Bundestag from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, has been the chairwoman of the Christian Democratic Union since 2000, and chairwoman of the CDU-CSU parliamentary coalition from 2002 to 2005.From 2005 to 2009 she led a...
´s grand coalition, social democrat - Mahirwan MamtaniMahirwan MamtaniMahirwan Mamtani is painter, graphic and multimedia artist.Mamtani grew up in India, studied there and moved 1966 to Germany, where he had been awarded a scholarship by DAAD to study painting at the Kunstakademie...
- Painter, graphic and multimedia artist. Living in Germany since 1966.