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Indian Americans are citizens or residents of the United States of America who trace their family descent to India.[1][2] Notable Indian Americans include:

Academics

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Nobel Prize recipients

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Subramanyan Chandrasekhar, Nobel Prize for Physics, 1983

Deans and presidents

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Mathematicians

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Economists

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Abhijit Banerjee, Professor of Economics at MIT, Nobel Prize winner in Economic Sciences in 2019.

Professors and scholars in computer science or engineering and electrical engineering

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Professors and scholars in other disciplines

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Activism and philanthropy

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Arts and entertainment

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M. Night Shyamalan, Hollywood director
Mira Nair, director and producer
Sharad Devarajan, superhero creator and producer
Rohit Gupta, director, producer
Nina Davuluri, Miss America 2014

Actors and actresses

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Kal Penn, actor
Mindy Kaling, actress
Sendhil Ramamurthy, actor
Danny Pudi, actor

Comedians

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Aziz Ansari, comedian and actor
Hasan Minhaj, comedian
Hari Kondabolu, comedian
Padma Lakshmi

Fashion

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Models

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Media

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Fareed Zakaria, journalist
Lilly Singh, actress and YouTuber

Musicians

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Norah Jones, singer and winner of multiple Grammy Awards
Zubin Mehta, musician and receiver of a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Business

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Crime

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Literature

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Kiran Desai, winner of the 2006 Man Booker Prize
Siddhartha Mukherjee, physician and 2011 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction

Military

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Politics and government

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Elected officials

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Aruna Miller, 10th Lieutenant Governor of Maryland
Ravinder Bhalla, elected the first turban-wearing Sikh U.S. mayor, of Hoboken, New Jersey

Federal elected officials

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Dalip Singh Saund, first Indian American to be elected to Congress
Kamala Harris, Vice President of the United States.

Civil servants

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Nikki Haley, United States Ambassador to the United Nations

Federal judges

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Religion and spirituality

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Science and technology

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Dr. Subbarow Yellapragada
Kalpana Chawla, NASA astronaut, On February 1, 2003, Kalpana Chawla died on the Space Shuttle Columbia
Sunita Williams, NASA astronaut

Medicine

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Vivek Murthy, Surgeon General of U.S.; former vice admiral of U.S. Health Corps

Sports

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Mohini Bhardwaj, 2004 Summer Olympics medalist in gymnastics

See also

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References

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  2. ^ "Dual Nationality - New Delhi, India - Embassy of the United States". Archived from the original on 17 March 2016. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
  3. ^ https://economics.mit.edu/faculty/banerjee/short MIT's Department of Economics. Retrieved 29 May 2021
  4. ^ https://college.harvard.edu/about/dean-rakesh-khurana Harvard College's Dean Office. Retrieved 29 May 2021
  5. ^ https://louisville.edu/president/Home-Neeli/ University of Louisville's Office of the President. Retrieved 29 May 2021
  6. ^ https://pratt.duke.edu/about/welcome/meet-dean Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering's Dean's Office. Retrieved 29 May 2021
  7. ^ https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/khargonekar/biographical-sketch/ University of California, Irvine's Faculty. Retrieved 29 May 2021
  8. ^ https://www.uh.edu/president/about/ University of Houston's Office of President. Retrieved 29 May 2021
  9. ^ https://chancellor.ucsd.edu/chancellor-khosla University of California, San Diego's Office of Chancellor. Retrieved 29 May 2021
  10. ^ https://www.tufts.edu/president Office of the President, Tufts University. Retrieved 28 Aug 2023
  11. ^ https://www.kumarrobotics.org/dr-vijay-kumar/ University of Pennsylvania's School of Engineering and Applied Science's GRASP Lab. Retrieved 29 May 2021
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  13. ^ https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/geeta-menon New York University's Stern School of Business's Faculty & Research. Retrieved 19 June 2021
  14. ^ https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=6523 Harvard Business School's Faculty & Research. Retrieved 19 June 2021
  15. ^ https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/88253 Arizona State University's Faculty. Retrieved 19 June 2021
  16. ^ https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/directory/balachandran_bala.aspx Northwestern University's Kellog School of Management's Faculty. Retrieved 19 June 2021
  17. ^ https://www.greatlakes.edu.in/chennai/faculty/dr-bala-v-balachandran Great Lakes Institute of Management's Faculty. Retrieved 19 June 2021
  18. ^ https://www.oit.edu/president/biography Oregon Institute of Technology's Office of the President. Retrieved 19 June 2021
  19. ^ https://carlsonschool.umn.edu/faculty/sri-zaheer University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management's Dean's Office. Retrieved 19 June 2021
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  27. ^ Kaur, Brahmjot (November 9, 2022). "Aruna Miller makes history as first South Asian woman elected lieutenant governor in U.S." NBC News. Retrieved November 10, 2022.
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