- Rahul Dravid
Rahul Sharad Dravid (born 11 January, 1973 in Indore, Madhya Pradesh) is an Indian cricketer, and the current captain of the Indian national cricket team. He grew up in Bangalore, Karnataka. He started his international cricket career in 1996. He is, at present, ranked among the 10 best Test batsmen by the ICC in world cricket and has the highest Test batting average of any Indian batsman in history.
- Anil Kumble
Anil Kumble(Kannada:ಅನಿಲ್ ಕುಂಬ್ಳೆ) (born 17 October, 1970 in Bangalore, Karnataka) is an Indian cricketer who has been a member of the Indian cricket team since 1990. He is currently the highest wicket-taker for India in both One-Day International and Test matches, having taken over 545 Test wickets and 330 ODI wickets. He is one of only two bowlers ever to have taken all 10 wickets in a test innings, the other being Jim Laker.
- Harbhajan Singh
Harbhajan Singh (born: 3 July, 1980 in Jalandhar, Punjab, India) is an Indian cricketer and India's most successful off spin bowler. Harbhajan made his Test and One-Day International (ODI) debuts in early 1998. His career was initially beset by investigations into the legality of his bowling action and disciplinary incidents that raised the ire of cricket authorities. However in 2001, with leading leg spinner Anil Kumble injured, …
- Zaheer Khan
Zaheer Khan (born October 7, 1978, Srirampur town in Ahmednagar district, Maharashtra), is an Indian cricketer who has been a member of the Indian cricket team since 2000. A left arm pace bowler, Zaheer is known for his ability to swing the ball both ways, and as batsman also holds the record for the highest Test score by a No. 11. After leading the Indian pace attack for much of the early 2000s, recurring hamstring injuries in 2003 and 2004 forced him out of the team, …
- Azim Premji
Azim Hashim Premji (born July 24, 1945) is the Chairman & CEO of Wipro Technologies, which today is one of the largest software companies in India. It has its headquarters in the Indian Silicon City Bangalore. He was rated the richest person in the country from 1999 to 2005 by Forbes. His wealth today is estimated at 58,451 crores INR which places him as the fourth richest Indian; behind DLF Chairman Kushal Pal Singh and ahead of Sterlite Chairman [Anil Agarwal].
- H. D. Kumaraswamy
Haradanahalli Deve Gowda Kumaraswamy (born December 16, 1959) is the present Chief Minister of the state of Karnataka, India. He is one of the sons of former Prime Minister of India H. D. Deve Gowda. Popularly known as "KumarAnna" (Kumar, the name and anna in Kannada means elder brother) among his friends and followers, was a noted film producer, distributor and exhibitor in the Kannada film industry. He owns a cinema theater at his home town Holenarasipura.
- S. M. Krishna
Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna, generally referred to as S M Krishna (born 1932) is the Governor of the Indian state of Maharashtra. He was also the chief minister of the southern state of Karnataka from October 1999 to May 2004. S.M. Krishna is the son of S.C. Mallaiah. He completed his Bachelor's in Arts from Maharaja's College, Mysore and obtained a Law degree from Government Law College, Bangalore.
- Gautam Gambhir
Gautam Gambhir (born 14 October 1981, in Delhi) is an Indian opening batsman. He has been a member of the Indian national cricket team since 2003 (ODIs) and 2004 (Tests). Gambhir had been a prolific run-scorer in domestic cricket with an average of over 50 but his two successive double-hundreds in 2002 (one of them against the visiting Zimbabweans) made him a strong contender for India's opening slot.
- Mahesh Bhupathi
Mahesh Shrinivas Bhupathi (born June 7, 1974, Chennai, India) is a professional tennis player from India. He turned professional in 1995. In 2001, he was awarded the Padma Shri. He currently resides in Bangalore and is among the best doubles tennis players in the world with 10 grand slam titles to his credit including mixed doubles. In 1997, he became the first Indian to win a Grand Slam tournament (with Rika Hiraki in Mixed Doubles).
- Kafeel Ahmed
Kafeel Ahmed, aka Khalid Ahmed and Khaled Ahmad, (b. Jan 1 1979) is an Indian Muslim and was born and raised in Bangalore, India He is an engineer who was studying for a PhD in computational fluid dynamics. He is often mistakenly referred to as a medical doctor. He was arrested in Great Britain in the aftermath of the 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack. He is held hospitalized at Royal Alexandra Hospital in critical condition, …
- Murali Kartik
Murali Kartik (born September 11, 1976 in Madras - now Chennai) is an Indian cricketer who sporadically represented the Indian cricket team since 2000 but has not been selected since early 2006. He is a specialist slow left arm orthodox bowler known for his loopy trajectory and ability to spin and bounce, but has found international selection blocked by the presence of Anil Kumble and Harbhajan Singh.
- Satish Kumar
Satish Kumar is an Indian, currently living in England, who has been a Jain monk and a nuclear disarmament advocate, and is current editor of "Resurgence", founder and Director of Programmes of the Schumacher College international centre for ecological studies and of The Small School. He was born on August 9, 1936 in Sri Dungargarh, a town in the state of Rajasthan. At the age of 9 he left his family and became a monk and disciple of Acharya Tulsi.
- M. Chinnaswamy
Mangalam Chinnaswamy (born on March 29, 1900 - died on November 8, 1991) was a prominent Indian cricket administrator. Chinnaswamy was the President of Board of Control for Cricket in India from 1977 to 1980 and Secretary from 1960 to 1965. He also served as the vice president and joint secretary for long terms. He represented India in the International Cricket Council in 1965, 1973 and 1977 - 1980. A lawyer by profession, he actively practiced from 1925 till 1975.
- Vittal Mallya
Vittal Mallya (b. 1925 - d. 1983) was an Indian entrepreneur best known as the former Chairman of the India-based United Breweries Group. Youngest of the three children of an army doctor Lt Col Bantwal Ganapathi Mallya, Vittal Mallya capped an academic career with two of India's most prestigious educational institutions (Doon School and Presidency College) and traveled abroad for over two years to gain first-hand, …
- Joginder Sharma
Joginder Sharma (born October 23, 1983 in Rohtak, Haryana, India) is an Indian cricketer who has made sporadic appearances for the Indian cricket team. A bowling all rounder, he is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler and captains his state, Haryana. He had often been compared to fellow Haryanan Kapil Dev, India's greatest all rounder, due to his similar aggressive batting style and fast bowling.
- Ramesh Powar
Ramesh Rajaram Powar (born May 20, 1978 in Bombay - now Mumbai, Maharashtra, India) is an Indian cricketer. He is a useful lower order batsman and off spinner who plays in the ODI Indian cricket team. Of stocky build, he lacks agility and has a fondness for bright red framed sunglasses and large gold chain necklace when fielding. Powar was selected in 2000 for the first intake of the National Cricket Academy in Bangalore.
- Venkatesh Prasad
Bapu Krishnarao Venkatesh Prasad(Kannada:ಬಾಪು ಕೃಷ್ಣರಾವ್ ವೆಂಕಟೇಶ್ ಪ್ರಸಾದ್) (born August 5, 1969 in Bangalore, Karnataka) is an Indian cricketer, now retired. He made his debut for the Indian national team in 1996. Prasad, opened the Indian bowling with his Karantaka team-mate, Javagal Srinath. Prasad, being tall and bony, was ideally suited for medium pace bowling.
- Dino Morea
Dino Morea is an Indian model and actor.
- Satish Dhawan
Satish Dhawan (25 September 1920-3 January 2002) was an Indian rocket scientist who was born in Srinagar, India and educated in India and the United States. He is considered by the Indian scientific community to be the father of experimental fluid dynamics research in India and one of the most eminent researchers in the field of turbulence and boundary layers. He succeeded Vikram Sarabhai, the founder of the Indian space programme, …
- Anita Nair
Anita Nair is a popular Indian-English writer. She was born at Mundakottakurissi, near Shornur in Kerala State. She was working as the creative director of an advertising agency in Bangalore when she wrote her first book, a collection of short stories called "Satyr of the Subway", which she sold it to Har-Anand Press. The book won her a fellowship from the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. Her second book was published by Penguin India, …
- Viv Richards
Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards, (born St John's, Antigua on 7 March 1952) is a former West Indian cricketer. He is better known by his second name, Vivian or, more popularly, simply as Viv Richards. Richards, also known as the "Master Blaster", was a forceful right-hand batsman with an attacking style, a good fielder, a handy off-spin bowler and a successful captain. His impressive style of play, and relaxed but determined demeanour, …
- Sudha Murthy
Sudha Murthy is an Indian social worker and accomplished author. She is known for her philanthropic work through the Infosys Foundation. Among other things, she has initiated a move to provide all government schools in Karnataka with computer and library facilities. She also teaches computer science and writes fiction. "Dollar Bahu" ("Dollar daughter-in-law"), a book she wrote, was adapted to a television serial in 2001. She completed her M.Tech.
- 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.
- Pankaj Advani
Pankaj Advani is a professional snooker player from India. He won his maiden IBSF World Billiards Championship in 2005 when he defeated compatriot Devendra Joshi at Qawra, Malta. The win, after his 2003 IBSF World Snooker Championship title in China, made him only the second cueist after Malta's Paul Mifsud to have won both the billiards and snooker amateur world titles.
- Prakash Padukone
Prakash Padukone is a famous badminton player from Karnataka, India.
- Brijesh Patel
Brijesh Patel (born 1952-11-24 in Baroda, Gujarat) grew up in Bangalore is an Indian cricketer who played for the Indian national cricket team as a right-handed batsman from 1974 until 1979. B.P. Patel played in 21 Test matches from 1974 to 1977, and sustained a batting average of 29.45. He was also a bowler, but was never asked to deliver his right-arm off breaks for his national team. His highest Test score was 115 not out.
- Mamta Mohandas
Mamta Mohandas (born 1985 in Bahrain) is a popular Malaylam actress. She attended the Indian School, Bahrain till 2002. Mamta, who originally hails from Kozhikode, Kerala, grew up in Bahrain and is currently undertaking a degree at Mount Carmel, Bangalore. Before films, Mamta was modelling for quite some time, doing both print ads for such names as IBM and Kalyan Kendra and on the ramp for the Mysore Maharajah and Raymonds. Mamta is trained in Karnatic and Hindustani music.
- Mohammed Kaif
Mohammed Kaif (born December 1, 1980 in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India) is an Indian cricketer, more specifically a middle-order batsman. He is a tall and thinly-built cricketer who made it to the national team on the strength of his performances at the Under-19 level, where he captained the Indian team to victory in the Under-19 World Cup in 2000. He can be both defensive and aggressive, as variable strike rates in Test and ODI cricket suggest.
- Arshad Khan
Arshad Khan (Urdu: ارشد خان is a Pakistani cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off break bowler. Arshad was first picked to play against the West Indies during the 1997-98 season, and the following year, was part of the team which won the Asian Test Championship at Dhaka against Sri Lanka. He was a regular inclusion in the Pakistani side until 2001, at which point the selectors dropped him and he went back to domestic cricket.
- Yoginder Sikand
Yoginder Sikand (born 1967) is an intellectual from India and the author of several books about Islam and allied issues. He is the editor and primary writer of "Qalandar", a monthly electronic publication covering relations between Muslims and followers of other religions. Yogi Sikand is describes himself as agnostic). Sikand holds a Master's Degree in sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, and a PhD in history from the University of London.
- C. N. R. Rao
Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra (CNR) Rao (born June 30, 1934, Bangalore, India) is an Indian chemist.
- Shiamak Davar
Shiamak Davar is an Indian choreographer. He has choreographed many Bollywood movies like Dil to Pagal Hai,Taal, Kisna, Bunty Aur Babli, I See you the latest being Dhoom 2. He also choreographed many stage shows and Indian Movie Awards Nites like IIFA, Stardust, Filmfare Awards and represented India at world events including the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Closing Ceremony of the Commonwealth Games Melbourne 2006, …
- Lawrence Liang
Lawrence Liang is an Indian legal researcher and lawyer of Chinese descent, based in the city of Bangalore, who is known for his legal campaigns on issues of public concern. He is a founder of the Alternative Law Forum, and, as of 2006, has emerged as a prominent spokesperson against concepts like "intellectual property".
- Raja Ramanna
Raja Ramanna (1925 - September 23, 2004) born in Tumkur, Karnataka, was an Indian nuclear scientist and was associated with the country's first nuclear test in 1974. He died in Mumbai in 2004. Beginning his studies at Bishop Cotton Boys School, Bangalore, Raja Ramanna obtained Ph.D. and L.R.S.M. from London. He specialised in nuclear physics, reactor physics and design, European music and philosophy. Dr. Ramanna was also a noted pianist. Dr.
- Yusuf Arakkal
Yusuf Arakkal - Malayali painter based in Bangalore. Yusuf Arakkal was born in 1945 at Kottakkal, Kerala. His mother belonged to the royal family of Arakkal, the only Muslim royal family to have ruled Kerala and his father to Keyees, the well known business family based at Kozhikode and Thalassery. Yusuf lost both his parents at an early age. Leaving the comforts of his house behind, the boy Yusuf left for Bangalore, lonely but with a passion to become a painter.
- Dodda Ganesh
Doddanarasiah Ganesh (born June 30, 1973, Bangalore, Karnataka) is an Indian cricketer who played in 4 Tests and one ODI in 1997. Ganesh failed to make an impression in his limited Test opportunities, picking up just five wickets at an average of 57.4. In first-class cricket, he has 365 wickets from 104 matches, all for Karnataka.
- Shakuntala Devi
Shakuntala Devi is a calculating prodigy who was born on November 4, 1939 in Bangalore, India. Her father worked in a circus as a trapeze and tightrope performer, and later as a human cannonball. Her calculating gifts first demonstrated themselves while she was doing card tricks with her father when she was three. They report she "beat" them by memorization of cards rather than by sleight of hand.
- Lalit Suri
Lalit Suri (15 April 1947 - 10 October 2006) was the 'uncrowned hotel king' of India and a member of the Rajya Sabha (the Upper House of India's Parliament). Born on April 15, 1947 in Rawalpindi (Pakistan), Lalit Suri was elected to the Rajya Sabha as an Independent from Uttar Pradesh in 2002. He joined the family-run Delhi Automobile Ltd in 1971 but he struck gold when the group diversified into hospitality business in 1982 with Suri as its Joint Managing Director.
- Vijay Bharadwaj
Raghvendrarao Vijay Bharadwaj (born August 15, 1975 in Bangalore) is an Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm offbreak bowler. Vijay Bharadwaj was first called up to the Indian national team in the 1999-2000 season after an impressive season in Indian domestic cricket in which he scored more than 1000 runs. He made his ODI debut in the LG Cup in Nairobi and initially impressed with his bowling in particular.
- Sandeep Chowta
Sandeep Chowta is an Indian Bollywood music director. He has also sung some of his songs. Sandeep Chowta is from Mangalore. He started his Bollywood career with the movie Mast. He also sang the title track for the album. He has also done the music for Popcorn entertainment's movie Rakht, an indianized version of The Gift. Apart from Bollywood films, he has given music for about 5 Kannada movies as well. His recent album "Mallika I hate you" was successful.