- Aamir Khan
Aamir Hussain Khan (born March 14, 1965) in Mumbai, India, is a highly acclaimed and a National Film Award-winning Indian film actor and producer. - Kareena Kapoor
Kareena Kapoor nicknamed "Bebo" is a four-time Filmfare Award-winning Indian popular actress who appears in Bollywood movies. Since her debut in the 2000 film, "Refugee", she has acted in nearly 30 films, majority of them bringing her critical success rather than commercial success. Despite this fact, she has emerged today as one of the top and most versatile actresses from the industry. - Sachin Tendulkar
Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar सिचन तेंडुलकर; affectionately called 'the little master', born 24 April, 1973, is a current Indian cricketer who was rated by Wisden (2002) as the second greatest Test batsman ever after Sir Don Bradman. Wisden also rated him as the greatest ever ODI batsman. He holds multiple records such as the leading Test century scorer, Leading ODI century scorer and the most career ODI runs. - Hrithik Roshan
Hrithik Roshan (born Hrithik Roshanlal Nagrath on January 10, 1974), is a prominent Bollywood actor and five time Filmfare Award winner. - Abhishek Bachchan
Abhishek Bachchan (born 5 February 1976 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India) is an award-winning Indian actor. He is the son of Indian actors Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan. His wife is former Miss World and actress Aishwarya Rai. - Ayesha Takia
Ayesha Takia (born April 10, 1986 in Mumbai, India) is an Indian actress. - John Abraham
John Abraham (born December 17, 1972) is a former model turned Bollywood actor. He currently lives in Mumbai, India. - Madhuri Dixit
Madhuri Dixit (born as Madhuri Shankar Dixit to a Marathi Chitpavan Brahmin family on May 15, 1967) is an award winning Indian Bollywood actress. She is a native of Mumbai, India. Throughout the late 1980s and 1990s, she dominated Hindi cinema as a leading actress, appearing in many hit films. She is considered to be an icon of the Bollywood film industry. - Shahid Kapoor
Shahid Kapoor born February 25 1981 in Mumbai, India is a Bollywood actor and model. - Sunil Gavaskar
Sunil Manohar Gavaskar (Hindi (Devnagiri):सुनिल मनोहर गावसकर) (born July 10, 1949 in Mumbai, Maharashtra), nicknamed Sunny, was a cricket player during the 1970s and 1980s for Bombay and India. Widely regarded as one of the greatest opening batsmen in the Indian Test history, Gavaskar set world records during his career for the most runs and most centuries scored by any batsman. - 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. - Urmila Matondkar
Urmila Matondkar(Devnagri:उर्मिला मातोंडकर) (born on February 4, 1974 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India) is a well-known Indian Bollywood actress. She was earlier known for her bold image. She was India's sex symbol. Today, she is considered a serious actress with many critical acclaimed movies to her name. - Emraan Hashmi
Emraan Hashmi (born as Emran Anwar Hashmi on 23 March 1979 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India) is an Indian actor. - Karisma Kapoor
Karisma Kapoor, nicknamed "Lolo" (born 25 June 1974 in Mumbai, India) is an Award-winning popular Indian actress who has worked in many critically and commercially successful Bollywood movies. - Amit Varma
Amit Varma is a writer based in Mumbai, India. He has worked in advertising, television and journalism, and has written for such publications as "The Guardian", "The Wall Street Journal" and "Wisden Cricketers' Almanack". He is best known for his blog, India Uncut, which won the "Best Indiblog Award" at the Indibloggies in 2005 and was one of the nominees in 2006. - Hansika Motwani
Hansika Motwani, born August 9, 1987, in Mangaluru, India is an Indian actress and a former child artiste. - Murli Deora
Murli Deora is the Indian Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas. He was born in Mumbai. He was president of the Mumbai Regional Congress Committee for 22 years from 1984 to 2006. His appointment in 2006 as Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas replacing Mani Shankar Aiyar was seen by some observers as taking place at the behest of pro-American and pro-business lobbies. His son Milind Deora, a Lok Sabha member from Mumbai. - Raveena Tandon
Raveena Tandon (born October 26 1970 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India) is a National Film Award winning, Indian Bollywood actress and former model, who was a popular star in the 90's. - Kajol
Kajol Devgan, née Mukherjee, born August 5, 1975 in Mumbai, India, popularly known as Kajol, is six-time Filmfare Award-winning popular Bollywood actress and is one of India's most successful actresses. - Dilip D'Souza
Dilip D'Souza (b 1960) is a Mumbai based writer and journalist. He writes about social and political causes (with a left-centrist prespective) as well as some travel and current affairs articles. His columns have appeared in The Sunday Observer, Rediff.com, Outlook and Mid-Day. A column by him has provided the inspiration for a key segment of the 2004 movie Swades directed by Ashutosh Gowariker. - Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English author and poet, born in India, and best known today for his children's books, including "The Jungle Book" (1894), "The Second Jungle Book" (1895), "Just So Stories" (1902), and "Puck of Pook's Hill" (1906); his novel, "Kim" (1901); his poems, including "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), and "If—" (1910); and his many short stories, … - Tulip Joshi
Tulip Joshi, born 1979, is an Indian model and actress in Bollywood. She was born in Bombay, India, on September 11, 1979, is a Virgoan, and stands 5'6" tall. She has dark-hair, brown eyes, and measures 32.5-26-36. She has two sisters, Selphi and Monalisa. The latter is married to Bollywood actor, Rajat Bedi. She has a nephew, Vivann, and niece, Vera. - Arun Nayar
Arun Nayar (born December 1964 in Foxhill Court, Burmantofts, Leeds) is chairman, CEO and co-founder of Direction Software Solutions. He holds a B.Sc. degree in Physics from Oxford University and a Masters degree in Physics from Imperial College, London. He is much better known as the husband of British actress Elizabeth Hurley. - Salim Ali
Sálim Ali, born Sálim Moizuddin Abdul Ali, (November 12, 1896 - July 27, 1987), was an Indian ornithologist and naturalist. Known as the "Birdman of India", Salim Ali was among the first Indians to conduct systematic bird surveys in India and his books have contributed enormously to the development of professional and amateur ornithology in India. - Gayatri Joshi
Gayatri Joshi is a model turned Bollywood actress. Her first and only film, is the 2004 released, "Swades". - Fareed Zakaria
Fareed Zakaria (born January 20 1964, Mumbai, India) is a journalist, columnist, author, editor, commentator, and television host specializing in international relations and foreign affairs. He was named Editor of "Newsweek International" in October 2000. He writes a weekly foreign affairs column for "Newsweek", which appears fortnightly in the Washington Post. - Amol Muzumdar
Amol Anil Muzumdar (born 11 November 1974 in Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra, India) is an Indian cricketer who is primarily a right-handed batsman. He holds the world record for the highest-ever score by a player on his first-class debut. Muzumdar attended Sharadashram Vidyamandir School where he was a schoolmate of future cricketing star Sachin Tendulkar. Like Tendulkar, he was coached by Ramakant Achrekar. - Tanisha Mukherjee
Tanisha Mukherjee (born 1 January, 1978 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India), known as Tanisha, is a Bollywood actress. - Tom Alter
Tom Alter (born 1950) is an Indian actor of American origin. As a thespian and television actor, he is most prominently known for his work in Hindi language Indian cinema. A native of the small Uttarakhand city of Mussoorie, Tom Alter is the son of American missionaries and has lived for years between the metropolis of Mumbai and the Himalayan hill station of Landour. As a child, he studied Hindi and Urdu and, as a result, … - Annu Kapoor
Annu Kapoor (born 20 February 1945 is an Indian actor and television presenter. - Sarah-Jane Dias
Sarah-Jane Dias is a Mumbai-based Indian model and the winner of Pantaloons Femina Miss India World 2007 title. She is also a former Channel [V] VJ and actress. - Ranjit Hoskote
Ranjit Hoskote (born 29 March 1969) is a contemporary Indian poet, art critic, cultural theorist and independent curator. - Ramakant Achrekar
Ramakant Achrekar (born 1932) is an Indian cricket coach from Mumbai (formerly Bombay). He is most famous for coaching young cricketers at Shivaji Park in Dadar, Mumbai. He has been a selector for Mumbai cricket team. His most famous and successful pupil is Sachin Tendulkar who is India's most-capped player and leading run-scorer in both Test and ODI cricket as well as a former national captain. - Reita Faria
Dr. Reita Faria Powell (born Bombay, date unknown) was the first Indian woman to win the Miss World title of 1966, bringing much recognition to her home country. By winning the crown, she led the way for her successors. After her one year tenure, she refused modeling and films and instead concentrated on medical studies. She lives in Dublin, Ireland with her husband David Powell, and has two children and five grandchildren. - Ayesha Dharker
Ayesha Dharker (also credited as Ayesha Dharkar) (born in 1977 in Mumbai, India) is a British actress of Indian origin. Ayesha Dharker is the daughter of the poet Imtiaz Dharker. Her father, Anil Dharker, is a columnist and an ex-editor of Debonair. She was raised in Glasgow - Nagma
Nandita Morarji (Namratha Sadhana) better known as Nagma, is a somewhat controversial Indian actress, known primarily for her work in Bollywood and Kollywood. At her peak in the 1990s, she "dominated Tamil cinema," to quote The Hindu. Born of a Muslim mother and a Hindu father on Christmas Day, she began her acting career in Bollywood and acted in a few movies but shifted south where she met with greater success before returning to Mumbai. - Vipasha Agarwal
Vipasha Agarwal is an Indian actress from who made her debut in the movie I See You with Arjun Rampal. She isn't very active in the media but has a varied portfolio when it comes to print advertisements. She's worked with The Taj Group, Lakme, Thumbs up, and Ritu Kumar. - Nancy Adajania
Nancy Adajania (born Bombay, 15 December 1971) is a cultural theorist, art critic and independent curator based in India. - Thrity Umrigar
Thrity Umrigar is an Indian writer, who was born in Mumbai and immigrated to the United States when she was 21. She is a journalist and the author of the novels Bombay Time and The Space Between Us. She has written for the Washington Post, Cleveland Plain Dealer, among other newspapers, and regularly writes for The Boston Globe's book pages. - Neville Wadia
Neville Wadia (22 August1911-31 July1996) was a Christian-born Parsi businessman in Mumbai, India, who married Dina, the daughter of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan. Born in Liverpool, Neville Wadia was heavily involved in the real estate business in Mumbai, and the Bombay Dyeing company, which, after his retirement in 1977, has been headed by his son, Nusli Wadia. Neville Wadia died in Mumbai three weeks before his 85th birthday.
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