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BANGALORE
Most Famous People Born in Bangalore, India
- Notable people
- 607
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- Median birth year
- 1971
- Most distinctive
- Model 8.3×
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Bangalore during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Bangalore Is Known For
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Actor is Bangalore's biggest profession — 26% of all notables (160).
Bangalore over-indexes on model — 8.3× the global rate.
Bangalore under-produces politician — only 0.5× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Bangalore's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Film & TV
- Sports
- Politics & Law
- Writing
- Science
- Music
- Other
Rajinikanth
Born 1950
Lindsay Anderson
1923 - 1994
Guru Dutt
1925 - 1964
C. N. R. Rao
Born 1934
Feroz Khan (actor)
1939 - 2009
Tina Desai
Born 1987
Nayanthara
Born 1984
Dino Morea
Born 1975
Kuvempu
1904 - 1994
Derek Prince
1915 - 2003
Colin Cowdrey
1932 - 2000
Shakuntala Devi
1929 - 2013
Asha Parekh
Born 1942
Prakash Padukone
Born 1955
Ashwini Ponnappa
Born 1989
Vasundhara Das
Born 1977
Anil Kumble
Born 1970
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Born 1953
Rohan Bopanna
Born 1980
Ernest Swinton
1868 - 1951
Isla Blair
Born 1944
Nandan Nilekani
Born 1955
Nikki Galrani
Born 1992
Kiran Rao
Born 1973
Nicole Faria
Born 1990
Salil Shetty
Born 1961
Anthony Page
Born 1935
Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
Born 1955
D. R. Bendre
1896 - 1981
Sanjay Khan
Born 1941
Anjali Jay
Born 1975
Puttanna Kanagal
1933 - 1985
Mirza Ismail
1883 - 1959
Veeravalli S. Varadarajan
1937 - 2019
Kishan Shrikanth
Born 1996
Henry Spencer Palmer
1838 - 1893
Agha Shahi
1920 - 2006
Tambi Larsen
1914 - 2001
Algernon Kingscote
1888 - 1964
Ram Gopal (dancer)
1912 - 2003
Bangalore Venkata Raman
1912 - 1998
Mahesh Dattani
Born 1958
Edward William Barton-Wright
1860 - 1951
Ganesh (actor)
Born 1977
Nafisa Joseph
1978 - 2004
V. Ravichandran
Born 1961
T. S. Nagabharana
Born 1953
Vijay Seshadri
Born 1954
S. N. Balagangadhara
Born 1952
Pranitha Subhash
Born 1992
Kriti Kharbanda
Born 1988
Stuart Binny
Born 1984
Ibrahim Adil Shah II
1556 - 1627
K. L. Rahul
Born 1992
Gauri Lankesh
1962 - 2017
Charles Foulkes (British Army officer)
1875 - 1969
Rhea Chakraborty
Born 1992
Aditi Ashok
Born 1998
Ali Bongo
1929 - 2009
Roddam Narasimha
Born 1933
William Gill (explorer)
1843 - 1882
B. Lewis Rice
1837 - 1927
Gulshan Devaiah
Born 1978
Ragini Dwivedi
Born 1990
Lakshmi Menon (model)
Born 1982
Hanumappa Sudarshan
Born 1950
Venkatesh Prasad
Born 1969
B. G. L. Swamy
1918 - 1980
Alfred Thomson
1894 - 1979
Peeya Rai Chowdhary
-
Anup Sridhar
Born 1983
Akbar Khan (director)
Born 1949
Divya Spandana
Born 1982
Lakshmi Gopalaswamy
Born 1970
Huccha Venkat
Born 1983
Nataraja Guru
1895 - 1973
Tanmay Bhat
Born 1987
Javare Gowda
1915 - 2016
Gordon MacMillan (British Army officer)
1897 - 1986
Edward Jenkins (MP)
1838 - 1910
Sudha Ragunathan
Born 1968
M. J. Thirumalachar
1914 - 1999
Nithya Menen
Born 1987
Amulya
Born 1993
Richa Pallod
Born 1980
T. P. Kailasam
1884 - 1946
Nidhhi Agerwal
Born 1993
S. R. Ramaswamy
Born 1937
Roger Binny
Born 1955
Maya Rao
1928 - 2014
David Lake (writer)
1929 - 2016
Ahmed Khan (footballer)
1926 - 2017
Manisha Yadav
Born 1992
Abhimanyu Mithun
Born 1989
Suman Ranganathan
Born 1974
H. V. Sheshadri
1926 - 2005
B. Jayashree
Born 1950
Arjun Maini
Born 1997
Ananth Kumar
1959 - 2018
Ranina Reddy
-
Sriimurali
Born 1981
Geethapriya
1932 - 2016
Kalanidhi Narayanan
1928 - 2016
Jayanth C. Paranjee
-
Sunitha Krishnan
Born 1972
C. K. Jaffer Sharief
Died 2018
Sindhu Menon
Born 1985
Samyuktha Hegde
Born 1998
Kavitha Lankesh
Born 1974
Mahaakshay Chakraborty
Born 1984
Jyotsna Srikanth
-
Ranjani Shettar
Born 1977
B. Saroja Devi
Born 1938
Achyuth Kumar
-
Prakash Nanjappa
Born 1976
Mayank Agarwal
Born 1991
Jayanthi (actress)
Born 1945
Shreyas Gopal
Born 1993
Sripadaraja
1404 - 1502
V. Harikrishna
Born 1974
E. A. S. Prasanna
Born 1940
Lester Fernandez
Born 1986
L. K. Doraiswamy
1927 - 2012
Prakash Belawadi
-
Nandita Swetha
Born 1986
Indrajit Lankesh
Born 1976
Dodda Ganesh
Born 1973
Kumble R. Subbaswamy
-
Biddu
Born 1944
Sundaram Ravi
Born 1966
Suhas Gopinath
Born 1986
Sudha Rani
Born 1974
Malavika
Born 1979
Shringar Nagaraj
1939 - 2013
Meghana Raj
Born 1990
Rajeev Taranath
Born 1932
Rajesh Krishnan
Born 1973
Sanjjanaa
Born 1983
Sonu (actress)
Born 1990
Richard Crasta
Born 1952
Mohan Joshi
Born 1945
Prema (actress)
Born 1977
Malathi Krishnamurthy Holla
Born 1958
Malashri
Born 1973
Varun Agarwal
Born 1986
Murali (Tamil actor)
1964 - 2010
Anaitha Nair
Born 1984
Dhanya Balakrishna
Born 1991
Sujith Somasunder
Born 1972
Kausalya (actress)
Born 1979
Rakshita
Born 1984
Vijay Raghavendra
Born 1979
Apurva Asrani
Born 1978
Sreenath Aravind
Born 1984
Saru Maini
Born 1988
Chaya Singh
Born 1976
A. K. Shiva Kumar
Born 1956
Chaitra H. G.
Born 1984
B. V. Radha
1948 - 2017
P. S. Ayyaswamy
Born 1942
Nagin Cox
Born 1965
Mohan (actor)
Born 1956
Anasuya Sengupta
Born 1974
Devaraj
Born 1960
William Fitzjames Oldham
1854 - 1937
Hemanth (singer)
-
Roopal Tyagi
Born 1989
Bhavya
Born 1966
Rukmini Vijayakumar
-
Mamatha Maben
Born 1970
Rockline Venkatesh
Born 1963
Carlton Chapman
1971 - 2020
Akhila Kishore
Born 1990
Saalumarada Thimmakka
-
Archibald Standish Hartrick
1864 - 1950
Paul Wilson (footballer, born 1950)
1950 - 2017
Kalyan Kumar
1929 - 1999
Sarangapani Raman
Born 1920
Pushpamala N.
Born 1956
Vinay Rai
Born 1977
B. N. Srikrishna
Born 1941
Vani Harikrishna
-
Krishnappa Gowtham
Born 1988
Anu Prabhakar
Born 1974
Rajani (actress)
Born 1965
Bharath Sriraman
Born 1971
Aadarsh Balakrishna
Born 1984
Sindhu Tolani
Born 1983
H. Boniface Prabhu
Born 1972
Anna Carteret
Born 1942
Rekha Vedavyas
-
Daniel Balaji
-
Aditya Om
Born 1980
Vajramuni
1944 - 2006
Madhuri Bhattacharya
Born 1982
Mano Murthy
-
Ramesh Menon
Born 1955
Prashant Raj
Born 1982
S. Ramachandra
1948 - 2011
Uma Shivakumar
1941 - 2013
Sundar Raj
-
Sadanand Viswanath
Born 1962
P. C. Mohan
Born 1963
Vellaswamy Vanitha
Born 1990
Pramila Bhatt
Born 1969
Mariappa Kempaiah
1932 - 2008
Tulsidas Balaram
Born 1937
Pooja Ramachandran
Born 1984
Gautam Sharma
-
Sharmila Nicollet
Born 1991
Sharmiela Mandre
Born 1989
H. Y. Sharada Prasad
1924 - 2008
Dhruva Sarja
Born 1988
Aishwarya Devan
Born 1993
Nikhil Bernard
Born 1989
K. Hanumanthaiah
1908 - 1980
Sandesh Kadur
Born 1976
Akshara Gowda
Born 1989
B. S. Lokanath
1937 - 2011
A. M. R. Ramesh
Born 1970
B. C. Gowrishankar
1950 - 2004
Hakimuddin Habibulla
Born 1979
Edmund Knox (bishop of Manchester)
1847 - 1937
Friedrich Hübner
1911 - 1991
Mohammad Abdus Sattar
1925 - 2011
Tanya Hope
Born 1996
Leslie T. Peacocke
1869 - 1941
Om Prakash Rao
-
Sherin
Born 1985
Carolyn McCall
Born 1961
Shriram Krishnamurthi
-
Chiranjeevi Sarja
1984 - 2020
Rathi Arumugam
Born 1982
Prasidh Krishna
Born 1996
Allan Schofield
Born 1957
Vanitha Vasu
-
Karu Jain
Born 1985
Henry Rebello
1928 - 2013
Gayathrie
Born 1993
V. K. Aatre
Born 1939
M. R. Srinivasan
Born 1930
Yogesh (actor)
Born 1988
Janaki Sabesh
Born 1974
Tejaswini Prakash
Born 1987
Agha Hilaly
1911 - 2001
George Hill (chef)
Born 1942
V. M. Muddiah
1929 - 2009
Karunya Ram
Born 1992
Rajshri Ponnappa
-
Affan Khan
Born 2007
Sudhakar Chaturvedi
1897 - 2020
Ramaswami Balasubramaniam
Born 1965
Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar
Born 1992
Rajesh (Kannada actor)
Born 1935
Indu Malhotra
Born 1956
S. Krishna
Born 1975
N. Ahmed
Born 1940
Prateeksha Kashi
-
Bangalore Puttaiya Radhakrishna
1918 - 2012
C. M. Gautam
Born 1986
Harry Tuzo
1917 - 1998
Dwij Yadav
Born 1997
Kirthi Jayakumar
Born 1987
Bullet Prakash
1976 - 2020
Kalyan Varma
Born 1980
Vivek V. Mashru
Born 1983
Deepika Kamaiah
-
Vinita Bali
Born 1955
Ankur Betageri
Born 1983
Anuradha TK
Born 1961
Sanam Shetty
-
Vishal Kumar
Born 1992
Rishika Singh
-
Aniruddha Joshi
Born 1987
Santhosh Ananddram
Born 1987
Aditi Chengappa
-
Sara Corner
-
Duniya Vijay
Born 1974
Noyonita Lodh
Born 1993
J. Arunkumar
Born 1975
S. R. Nayak
Born 1945
Malur R. Narasimha Prasad
1923 - 1987
Anwar Hossain (cricketer)
Born 1983
Arthur Erskine Ellis
1902 - 1983
Shraddha Srinath
Born 1990
Sneha Kapoor
Born 1986
Bhargavi Narayan
Born 1938
Salman Yusuff Khan
Born 1985
Vikrant Shetty
Born 1983
Sharan (actor)
Born 1976
T. V. Mohandas Pai
-
H. K. Kesavan
1926 - 2014
Farman Basha
Born 1974
B.S.Madhava Rao
1900 - 1987
Smitha Harikrishna
Born 1973
T. Shanmugham
1920 - 2012
B. K. Hariprasad
Born 1954
Nivedita Jain
1979 - 1998
Ibrahim Jalees
1924 - 1977
Evangeline Anderson Rajkumar
Born 1963