- Frank Anthony
Frank Anthony (Born 1908-Died 1993) was a prominent leader of the Anglo-Indian community in India, and was till his death their nominated representative in India's Parliament. Frank Anthony managed to secure from prime minister Nehru the right for the Anglo-Indian community, as the only minority community in India, to have its own representatives nominated to the Lok Sabha (Lower House) in India's Parliament. - Naveen Andrews
Naveen William Sidney Andrews (born January 17, 1969) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated English actor, of Indian origin. He is known for his roles in "The English Patient" (1996) and as Sayid in the U.S.A. television series "Lost". - Ruskin Bond
Ruskin Bond was born on 19 May 1934, Kasauli, Himachal Pradesh is an Indian author of British descent. After growing up in Jamnagar (Gujarat), Mussoorie, Dehradun, and Shimla, he now lives in Landour, a picturesque Himalayan hill station contiguous with Mussoorie in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand. Ruskin Bond is an icon among Indian writers and children's authors. He was born in the dying days of the British Raj and had, by his own account, … - Merle Oberon
Merle Oberon (February 19, 1911 - November 23, 1979), born Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson, was an Academy Award-nominated Anglo-Indian film actress. - Russell Peters
Russell Dominic Peters (born 1970) is an Indian-Canadian stand-up comic from Brampton, Ontario, Canada. His parents are originally from Bombay and Kolkata in India. Russell Peters focuses primarily on various cultural backgrounds, including his own Indian background, as well as Caribbean, Chinese, Filipino, Korean, Vietnamese, Arab, African, Hispanic, Italian, British, and other South and Southeast Asian communities. - John Mayer
John Mayer (b. Calcutta, Bengal, British India, October 28, 1930; d. United Kingdom, March 9, 2004) was an Indian composer known primarily for his fusions of jazz with Indian music. He was born into an Anglo-Indian family and, after studying with Phillipe Sandre in Calcutta and Melhi Mehta in Bombay, he won a scholarship to London's Royal Academy of Music in 1952, where he studied comparative music and religion in eastern and western cultures. - Sir Ben Kingsley
Sir Ben Kingsley, CBE, (born December 31, 1943) is a British actor. Kingsley is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Mahatma Gandhi in Richard Attenborough's 1982 biopic, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor. - Leslie Claudius
Leslie Walter Claudius (born March 25 1927 in Bilaspur) was an Indian field hockey player, of Anglo-Indian descent. In 1971 he was awarded the Padma Shri. He is in the Guinness Book of World Records along with Udham Singh for having won the maximum number of Olympic medals in field hockey. - Engelbert Humperdinck
Engelbert Humperdinck (b. Arnold George Dorsey, May 2 1936, Madras, India) is a well-known Anglo-Indian pop singer who rose to international fame during the 1960s, after adopting the name of the famous German opera composer as his own stage name. - William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray was an Anglo-Indian novelist of the 19th century. He was famous for his satirical works, particularly "Vanity Fair", a panoramic portrait of English society. - Allan Sealy
Irwin Allan Sealy is a writer born in 1951 in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. His novel "The Everest Hotel: A Calendar" was shortlisted for the 1998 Booker prize. - John Holmes
John Holmes was an Anglo-Indian mercenary in Punjab. He served in the Sikh army during the final years of Punjab's independence, and rose to the rank of Colonel. He served with the Khalsa, the Sikh Army, during the First Anglo-Sikh War. John Holmes was an Anglo-Indian who had risen from a trumpeter to colonel. He joined Bengal Horse Artillery and in September 1829 resigned his post and moved to Punjab in search of a better future. He joined Maharaja Ranjit Singh's army. - Philip Meadows Taylor
Philip Meadows Taylor (September 25, 1808 - May 13, 1876), an Anglo-Indian administrator and novelist, was born in Liverpool, England. At the age of fifteen he was sent out to India to become a clerk to a Bombay merchant. On his arrival the house was in financial difficulties, and he was glad to accept in 1824 a commission in the service of his highness the Nizam, to which service he remained devotedly attached throughout his long career. - Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh, Lady Olivier (November 5 1913 - July 8 1967) was an English actress. She won two Academy Awards for playing "southern belles": Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone with the Wind" (1939) and Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951), a role she had also played in London's West End. She was a prolific stage performer, frequently in collaboration with her husband, Laurence Olivier, who directed her in several of her roles. - Diana Hayden
Diana Hayden (born 1973) is a model from Hyderabad, India. She first came to attention when she represented India at the 1997 Miss World pageant. She became a known face when at 24 she won the crown. She became the third Indian woman to win the Miss World pageant. Like the second Indian winner of the crown, Aishwarya Rai, she followed up her win by launching an acting career in the Indian film industry and internationally. - Boris Karloff
Boris Karloff (born William Henry Pratt) (London, November 23, 1887 - February 2, 1969) was an English actor, who immigrated to Canada in the 1910s, best known for his roles in horror films and the creation of Frankenstein's monster in 1931's "Frankenstein". His popularity following "Frankenstein" in the early 1930s was such that for a brief time he was billed simply as "Karloff" or, on some movie posters, "Karloff the Uncanny". - James Skinner
James Skinner CB (1778 - December 4, 1841) was a Anglo-Indian military adventurer in India. Skinner was born in India, son of Lieutenant-Colonel Hercules Skinner and a Rajput lady. At the age of eighteen he entered the Mahratta army under Benoît de Boigne, where he soon showed military talent. He remained in the same service under Pierre Cuillier-Perron until 1803, when, on the outbreak of the second Anglo-Maratha War, he refused to serve against his countrymen. - Henry Gidney
Sir Henry Albert John Gidney (9 July 1873 - 1942; Igatpuri, Maharashtra, India). He received his education in Bangalore, Kolkata, and Allahabad. At 16 he joined Calcutta medical college, graduating first class gold medal winner. At 36 years old he was already an FRCS, DPH, MRCP, D.O., a research scholar and a lecturer in ophthalmology at Oxford and a Fellow of the Royal Society. - George Robert Aberigh-Mackay
George Robert Aberigh-Mackay (July 25, 1848-1881), Anglo-Indian writer, son of a Bengal chaplain, was educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford and Cambridge University. Entering the Indian education department in 1870, he became professor of English literature in Delhi College in 1873, tutor to the Raja of Rutlam in 1876, and principal of the Rajkumar College at Indore in 1877. He is best known for his book "Twenty-one Days in India" (1878-1879), … - Roger Binny
Roger Michael Humphrey Binny is an Indian former cricket all-rounder who is best known for his impressive bowling performance in the 1983 Cricket World Cup where he was the highest wicket-taker (18 wickets), and in the 1985 World Series Cricket Championship in Australia where he repeated this feat (17 wickets). Binny started his international career on his home ground, the KSCA Stadium in Bangalore in the first Test of the 1979 home series against Pakistan. - Melanie Sykes
Melanie Sykes (born 7 August 1970 in Mossley, Lancashire) is an English television presenter and sometime model. She first came to public attention as the bikini-clad girl in the Boddingtons Beer adverts with the broad Northern accent. Amongst other work during the nineties she also modelled for Berlei Lingerie. She was born of an Anglo-Burmese/Anglo-Indian mother. - 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. - Cukoo
Cukoo (also credited as Cuckoo)) (circa 1929 - 1981) was an Anglo-Indian dancer and actress in Indian cinema. Cukoo was one of the major song and dance performers in Bollywood films from the late 1940s and 1950s. However she never achieved the stardom of the other successful actresses in her era like Nargis, Madhubala and Nadira. - Anthony de Mello
Anthony Stanislaus de Mello (11 October 1900, Karachi, Sind - 24 May 1961, Delhi) was an Indian cricket administrator and one of the founders of the Board of Control for Cricket in India. De Mello belonged to the Anglo-Indian community. Born in Karachi, he was educated in St. Patricks, Sind College and Downing College in Cambridge. He started his career in the services of the businessman R. E. Grant Govan in Delhi, and with whom he collaborated in founding the BCCI. - Anna Leonowens
Anna Leonowens is chiefly famous for being the British governess portrayed in the book and film "Anna and the King of Siam" and in the musical adapted from it, "The King and I". The musical play, based on adaptations of her factually controversial memoirs, provides a fictionalised look at her life in the royal court of Siam (present-day Thailand). - Jimi Mistry
Jimi Mistry (born 1973 in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England) is a British Asian actor. He first gained exposure playing a doctor on the British soap opera "EastEnders". He then starred in his first American film, "The Guru", where he played Ramu Gupta, an Indian dance teacher who moves to America to be a star. Mistry next starred in the British comedy "The Truth About Love". - Henry Louis Vivian Derozio
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (April 10, 1809 - December 23, 1831) was an appointed teacher of the Hindu College of Calcutta and a scholar, poet and academic of Eurasian and Portuguese descent. He considered himself to be an Indian. In his poem "To My Native Land" he wrote: <br/> - Rhona Mitra
Rhona Mitra (born August 9, 1976) is an English actress. She is sometimes credited as Rona Mitra. - Patience Cooper
Patience Cooper was an Indian film actress. An Anglo-Indian from Calcutta (in West Bengal), Cooper had a successful career in both silent and sound films. - Edward Hamilton Aitken
Edward Hamilton Aitken (born 16 August 1851 in Satara, India, died 25 April 1909 Edinburgh) was a humorist, naturalist and a writer especially on the wildlife of India. He was well known to Anglo-Indians by the pen-name of Eha. - Noel Jones
Noel Andrew Stephen Jones was an Indian-born British diplomat, British ambassador to Kazakhstan from 1993 to 1995. He was the first British ambassador to have come from an ethnic minority. His father, Ernest Walter Jones, was a domiciled European who worked in the Telegraph Department in India; his mother, Merlyn Edith Jones ("née" Jones), was an Anglo-Indian woman, daughter of a Postmaster of Madras. - Sarita Choudhury
Sarita Choudhury (birth name: Sarita Catherine Louise Choudhury) (born August 18, 1966 in London, England) is a British-born actress of half Indian (Bengali) and half English descent. Her parents, Prabhas Chandra Choudhury and Julia Patricia Spring, married in 1964 in Lucea, Jamaica. She is best known for her roles in the Mira Nair-directed feature films "Mississippi Masala" (1992), "The Perez Family" (1995) and "Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love" (1996). - Karan Kapoor
Karan Kapoor, Indian actor and model of the 1980s, is a member of the famous Kapoor Family (film), an influential film dynasty in India's Bollywood cinema. - Thomas Pitt
Thomas Pitt (July 5 1653 - April 28 1726), born at Blandford Forum, Dorset, to a rector and his wife, was a British merchant involved in trade with India. He at first came into conflict with the British East India Company, however this was settled and the company appointed him governor of Fort St. George, Madras. He is known as "Diamond" Pitt for his purchase of and profit from an extraordinary diamond. In 1674, Pitt went to India, where he worked as an "interloper", … - Kunal Kapoor
Kunal Kapoor is a former Indian actor. He comes from the legendary Kapoor family who have all been famous actors in the Bollywood industry for over six decades. He is of British and Indian descent. He is the elder son of Shashi Kapoor and the late British actress Jennifer Kendal. His younger brother Karan Kapoor and sister Sanjana Kapoor have also acted in some films but like him they were not very successful. - Daniel Kerr
Daniel Kerr (born May 16, 1983) is an Australian rules footballer. Kerr was recruited from East Fremantle Football Club and made his AFL debut in 2001 with the West Coast Eagles. He is a hard-running midfielder that is a vital part of the powerful midfield brigade at the Eagles, including Dean Cox, Chad Fletcher, Michael Braun, Ben Cousins and Chris Judd. Kerr is of Anglo-Indian descent. His father, Roger, played for East Fremantle in the WAFL. - Guy Sebastian
Guy Theodore Sebastian (born October 26, 1981) is an Australian singer-songwriter and winner of the first "Australian Idol" TV talent competition quest in 2003. Since winning the competition, he has released three top five albums and seven top twenty singles and has sold over a million albums and singles in Australia alone. He has also had substantial success overseas with number one hits in New Zealand, Malaysia, and Singapore. - 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. - Benjamin Walker
Benjamin Walker (November 25, 1913) is the truncated pen name of George Benjamin Walker, who also writes under the pseudonym Jivan Bhakar. He is a British citizen, and an Indian-born author on religion and philosophy, and an authority on esoterica in all its curious forms. He was born George Benjamin Walker, in Calcutta (Kolkata), the son of Dr Simeon Benjamin Walker, M.D., and Mary Emily Fordyce, both of Pune, (Poona), India. - 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, …
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