- Jay Sean
Jay Sean, (born Kamaljit Singh Jhooti on March 26, 1981 in Harlesden, London, United Kingdom;, ') is a British Asian Indian R&B singer. - Dj Kayper
DJ Kayper is the stage name for Kay Bakrania, a DJ and Radio Presenter from the UK born in 1983. She is of Gujarati descent. She blends classic and current Hip-Hop, R&B, Reggae/Dancehall, 80's and Soul with Bhangra and Bollywood tracks. Kayper began playing in bars and clubs around South London in 1998 at the young age of 15. She has worked as a DJ all over Europe and in London, … - Gurinder Chadha
Gurinder Chadha (born 30 November 1959) OBE is a British film director of Indian origin. Her films explore the lives of Indians living in the UK. She is most famous for the hit "Bend it Like Beckham". - Meera Syal
Meera Syal MBE (born Feroza Syal 27 June 1961 in Essington, near Wolverhampton) is a British Indian comedienne, writer, playwright, singer, journalist and actress. Her Punjabi-born parents came to Britain from New Delhi, and she has risen to prominence as one of the most UK's best-known Indian personalities. She was awarded the MBE in the New Year's Honours List of 1997. - Dr Zeus
Dr Zeus aka Baljit Singh is a Punjabi Music Director. He gained stardom in India in late 2004 with his hit song "Kangna". Dr. Zeus launched his first album in India, also titled "Kangna", in late 2004 with HOM Records. "Gwandian Da Dhol" is another hit credited to Dr.Zeus. In UK he have three smashing albums to his credit High Life, Unda The Influence and Original Edit. - Rishi Rich
Rishi Rich is a British Asian Sikh music producer based in London, UK. He is internationally known for his bhangra tracks as well as hindi remixes. He has also produced remixes for various mainstream artists such as Madonna and Britney Spears, Mis-Teeq, Craig David and Aqua's Lene Nystrøm. In the past, he has produced many remix albums, for example Love 2 Love. Recently, he has produced two solo albums, including his latest album "The Project". - Nitin Sawhney
Nitin Sawhney is an English musician, producer and composer. His critically-acclaimed work combines Asian and other worldwide influences with elements of jazz and electronica and often presents themes such as multiculturalism, politics and spirituality. Sawhney is also active in the promotion of arts and cultural matters, and is a patron of numerous film festivals, venues, and educational institutions. - Salman Rushdie
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is a British-Indian novelist and essayist. He first achieved fame with his second novel, "Midnight's Children" (1981), which won the Booker Prize. Much of his early fiction is set at least partly on the Indian subcontinent. His style is often classified as magical realism, while a dominant theme of his work is the long, rich and often fraught story of the many connections, disruptions and migrations between the East and the West. - Nikki Bedi
Nikki Bedi is a Television and Radio Presenter, born "Nikki Moolgaoker" in Aylesbury on 9 September 1967 to an Indian father of Marathi Parsi origin and an English mother. She is proud of both her Indian and English roots and refers to herself as Indo-Anglian, although Indo-Anglian is a term used to denote English literature by Indian authors. - Juggy D
Juggy D (born Jagwinder Singh Dhaliwal on November 19) is a British Sikh bhangra singer from Southall in London, England. - Sanjeev Bhaskar
Sanjeev Bhaskar OBE (born 28 June 1964 in Essex, England) is a British Indian comedian and actor, best known for his work in the BBC2 comedy series, "Goodness Gracious Me" and as host of "The Kumars at No. 42". Bhaskar has starred in a number of United Kingdom produced films including "The Guru" and "Anita and Me". In 2003, he was listed in "The Observer" as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy. - Amir Khan
Amir Kahn (born December 8, 1986) is a British boxer from Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. He is the IBF inter-continental light welterweight champion, the current Commonwealth lightweight champion, and is ranked #10 in the WBO world lightweight rankings. He went to Devonshire Road Primary School, Smithills High School and Bolton Community College in Bolton. He was a hyperactive child and "a born fighter", according to his father, … - Adil Ray
Adil Ray is a British radio and television presenter born in Birmingham in England of Kenyan Pakistani parents. Graduated with a Degree in Marketing from the University of Huddersfield. - Hanif Kureishi
Hanif Kureishi (born December 5, 1954) is a Pakistani-British playwright, screenwriter, and novelist and short story writer on topics of race, nationalism, immigration, and sexuality. - Bally Sagoo
Bally Sagoo (born Baljit Singh Sagoo) is a British Asian Sikh musician and DJ who was born in Ranjit Nagar, Delhi, India but grew up in Birmingham, England, in a predominantly Black neighbourhood, influenced by disco, rap and Motown music. He gained success as a DJ in the club scene and broke into music by revamping old Bollywood hits and fusing them with hip hop. He is widely credited as one of the original pioneers of what is now modern Indian music, … - Keith Vaz
Nigel Keith Anthony Standish Vaz, known simply as Keith Vaz (born November 26 1956), is a British Labour party politician and Member of Parliament for Leicester East. - Apache Indian
Apache Indian is the stage name of the reggae dee jay/toaster, Steven Kapur (born 11 May 1967, Handsworth, Birmingham). - Parminder Nagra
Parminder Kaur Nagra (born October 5, 1975 in Leicester, England) is an English actress of Indian descent. - Lakshmi Mittal
Lakshmi Nivas Mittal is a London-based Indian billionaire industrialist, born in Sadulpur Village, in the Churu district of Rajasthan, India, and residing in Kensington, London. He is the fifth richest person in the world, with a fortune of US$32 billion according to "Forbes". The "Financial Times" named Mittal its 2006 Person of the Year. In May 2007, he was named one of the "100 most influential people" by "Time" magazine. - Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown (born Yasmin Damji on 10 December 1949) is a Uganda-born journalist, based in London; she hyphenated her surname only after her second marriage in 1990. - Hari Kunzru
Hari Mohan Nath Kunzru (born 1969) is a British novelist and journalist, author of the novels "The Impressionist", "Transmission" and "My Revolutions". Of mixed English and Kashmiri Pandit ancestry, he grew up in Essex. He studied English at Wadham College, Oxford University, then gained an MA in Philosophy and Literature from Warwick University. His work has been translated into twenty languages. He lives in East London. - Sunny Hundal
Sunny Hundal is a British Asian journalist. He was born in London in 1977 to Sikh parents of Indian origin. He has a degree in Economics from Brunel University and has written for leading British newspapers including The Financial Times, and The Independent. He has been interviewed by ITV News, Sky News, and Channel 4 News. Sunny Hundal is the founder and editor of "Asians in Media" magazine. He also runs the progressive "Pickled Politics" weblog, … - Ameet Chana
Ameet Chana (born 9 December 1975 in Epsom, Surrey, England) is a British Asian actor. His most notable role is Adi Ferreira in EastEnders. In May 2006 he took over presenting the Breakdown Show (Bhangra Music) on BBC Asian Network (a National Radio Station). Currently filming British independent feature film Cash And Curry co-starring Bend It Like Beckham and Eastenders co-star Pooja Shah. He is married to barrister/actress Shikha Varma of 5 King's Bench Walk Chambers. - Sonia Deol
Born on 8 February 1973 in Birmingham, England to Sikh parents from the Punjab (her father originally came to the UK when he was 10), Sonia Deol is a British radio and television presenter notably presenting the new Sonia Deol show which replaced the Breakfast Programme from 24 April 2006 running from 06:00 to 09:00 on Weekdays, it is considered by the BBC Asian Network to be their Flagship Programme. - Nina Wadia
Nina Wadia (born 1969 in Bombay, India) is a comedy actress of Parsi descent. - Anish Kapoor
Anish Kapoor (born 1954) is a Turner Prize winning sculptor. Born in Bombay (Mumbai), India, Kapoor attended the Doon School, located in Dehra Dun, India. He moved to England in 1972, where he has lived since. He studied art, first at the Hornsey College of Art and later at the Chelsea School of Art Design. He currently works in London, although he frequently visits India and has acknowledged that his art is inspired by both Western and Eastern cultures. - Ismail Merchant
Ismail 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 and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Their films won six Academy Awards. Ivory was Merchant's long-term life partner - Monty Panesar
Mudhsuden Singh Panesar (born 25 April, 1982 in Luton, Bedfordshire), popularly known as Monty Panesar, is an English cricketer. A left-arm spinner with a classical action, Panesar plays Test and ODI cricket for England, and county cricket for Northamptonshire. He is the 631st capped player for England, with the number 46 on his ODI shirt. Born to Indian Punjabi parents, he is the first Sikh to represent a nation other than India in Test cricket. - Dj Swami
DJ Swami, born Diamond Jyoti Duggal, grew up in the Handsworth district of Birmingham, England in a melting pot of second-generation Indian and Jamaican multi-culturalism. By the age of 12, this musical prodigy was already playing guitar in local reggae and rock bands. While learning the craft of music through listening to records by Jimi Hendrix, Ravi Shankar, Kraftwerk, Laxmikant Pyarelal and local Birmingham artists Steel Pulse and UB40, … - Kulvinder Ghir
Kulvinder Ghir, born in Nairobi, Kenya, is a British actor and comedian of South Asian ancestry, best known for his roles in the sketch show "Goodness Gracious Me", in particular "Chunky Lafunga", a sexy Bollywood star, superhero Bhangra Man, and one half of the "Bhangramuffins" duo (the other half being Sanjeev Bhaskar). He speaks English, Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu and Swahili fluently. - Nasser Hussain
Nasser Hussain (born March 28 1968, Madras (now Chennai, India) is a former Essex and England cricketer. He was born of an Indian father, Jawad (also known as "Joe"), and an English mother, Patricia, who changed her name to Shireen on conversion to Islam. He became the first captain of England to be of mixed ethnicity. Hussain was the captain of the England team for 45 Test matches from 1999 to 2003, more than any player other than Michael Atherton. - Saira Khan
Saira Khan (born 1970, Long Eaton, Derbyshire, England) was the runner-up on the first series of The Apprentice in Great Britain. She is now a TV presenter on BBC's Temper Your Temper and Desi DNA while hosting her own programme Beat the Boss. Saira has also appeared on TV show Ready Steady Cook and runs her own baby-products business. She is a columnist for the Daily Mirror, … - Mark Ramprakash
Mark Ravin Ramprakash (born 5 September 1969) is an English cricketer. A right-handed batsman, he first made his name playing for Middlesex, and was selected for England aged 21. While he is a major force in domestic cricket (he has been notably prolific since he moved to Surrey in 2001), in international cricket he failed to live up to his early promise; he never secured a place as a fixture in the England team. - Michael Chopra
Michael Chopra (born 23 December 1983 in Newcastle upon Tyne) is an English footballer playing professionally for the Premier League side Sunderland. A striker, he has previously played for Newcatle United and Cardiff City and has spent loan spells at Watford, Nottingham Forest and Barnsley. He has represented England at the Under-15, Under-16, Under-17, Under-18, Under-19, Under-20 and Under-21 levels. The son of an English mother and an Indian father, … - Niraj Chag
Niraj Chag is a London-based musical artist and composer. He is known for his musical style which mixes Indian classical influences with contemporary stylings and layered, complex beats. Niraj's tracks were initially released on the Outcaste record label, which also featured Nitin Sawhney and other British Asian artists such as Badmarsh and Shri in the late 1990's. - Shashi Tharoor
Shashi Tharoor , Former United Nations Under-Secretary General for Communications and Public Information, and Author, India: From Midnight to the Millennium and Beyond - Konnie Huq
Konnie Huq is an English television presenter who is best known for being a presenter of "Blue Peter" since 1997. - Sheila Chandra
Sheila Chandra (b. March 14, 1965) is an English pop singer of Indian descent. - Raman Mundair
Raman Mundair is a British poet, writer, artist and playwright. She was born in Ludhiana, India and came to live in the UK at the age of five. Her poetry has been featured in Acumen, Poetry Scotland, Kavya Bharati and widely anthologized. She is the author of two volumes of poetry, ‘A Choreographer’s Cartography’ and ‘Lovers, Liars, Conjurers and Thieves’ – both published by Peepal Tree Press. - Pooja Shah
Pooja Shah (born 8 August 1979 in London, England) 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. Shah has trained as an Indian Classical Dancer. She attended the University of Brighton, graduating in 2001 with a BA Hons Degree in Theatre With Visual Practice.
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