List of British Indians

This is a list of notable British people of Indian descent (British Indians).

List

Arts and entertainment

• Naveen Andrews, actor
• Gabrielle Anwar, actress (father and grandfather had Indian ancestry)
• Mina Anwar, actor
• Samir Bhamra, theatre director
• Jas Binag, acto
• Gurinder Chadha, movie director
• Ameet Chana, actor
• Charli XCX, pop singer
• Sarita Choudhury, actress
• Bobby Friction, radio presenter
• Tripet Garielle, singer
• Kulvinder Ghir, actor
• Neelam Gill, model
• Shobna Gulati, actor
• Waris Hussein, film and television director
• Indira Joshi, actor
• Juggy D, singer
• Kamaal Khan, Bollywood singer and actor
• Rani Khanijau, television presenter
• Ben Kingsley, actor
• Veronica Mehta, singer
• Ismail Merchant, producer
• Freddie Mercury, lead singer in the band Queen
• Jimi Mistry, actor
• Rhona Mitra (1976–), actress and model
• Parminder Nagra, actor
• Nihal, radio presenter
• Archie Panjabi, actor
• Panjabi MC, real name Rajinder Rai, dance musician
• Anita Rani, television and radio presenter
• Rishi Rich, music producer
• Laila Rouass, actor
• Sunetra Sarker, actor
• Nitin Sawhney, dance musician
• Jay Sean, R'n'B singer
• Pooja Shah, actor
• Talvin Singh, dance musician
• Tjinder Singh, lead singer of Cornershop
• Swami, rap/rock band
• Meera Syal, comedian
• Indira Varma, actor
• Nina Wadia, comedian

Business and industry

• Vikrant Bhargava, co-founder of PartyGaming
• Karan Bilimoria, founder of Cobra Beer
• Nina Bracewell-Smith, non-executive director of Arsenal F.C.
• Anurag Dikshit, co-founder of PartyGaming
• Hinduja brothers
• Anshu Jain, Head of Global Markets, Deutsche Bank AG
• Firoz Kassam, former owner of Oxford United F.C.
• Gulu Lalvani, founder of Binatone
• Avtar Lit, founder of Sunrise Radio
• Lakshmi Mittal, billionaire, founder of Mittal Steel^[1]
• Tom Singh, founder of New Look

Literature and media

• Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, columnist
• Lord Waheed Alli, television producer
• Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti, playwright
• Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri, author
• Rana Dasgupta, author
• Vish Dhamija, author
• Krishnan Guru-Murthy, television journalist
• Sunny Hundal, journalist, political blogger
• V.S. Naipaul, author (from Indian community in Trinidad)
• Rahul Potluri, author of scientific and medical research
• Salman Rushdie, writer
• Sasthi Brata, writer
• Vikram Seth, author
• Simon Singh, author of scientific and mathematical interest

Politics

• Mancherjee Bhownagree, former Conservative, second Indian MP in British Parliament
• Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai
• Nirj Deva, Conservative MEP
• Parmjit Dhanda, former Labour MP
• Parmjit Singh Gill, Liberal Democrat
• Piara Khabra, former Labour MP (deceased)
• Tarsem King, Baron King of West Bromwich
• Ashok Kumar, former Labour MP
• Seema Malhotra
• Claude Moraes, Labour MEP
• Dadabhai Naoroji, former Liberal Party MP, first Indian MP in British Parliament
• Bhikhu Parekh, Baron Parekh
• Adam Patel, Baron Patel of Blackburn
• Priti Patel, Employment Minister in David Cameron's Cabinet
• Dolar Popat, Baron Popat
• Diljit Rana, Baron Rana, MP at the House of Lords
• Shapurji Saklatvala, former Communist MP
• Virendra Sharma, Labour MP and councillor in Ealing
• Marsha Singh, former Labour MP
• Shailesh Vara, Conservative MP
• Keith Vaz, Labour MP

Sports

• Naiktha Bains, tennis player
• Ravi Bopara, cricketer
• Michael Chopra, footballer, Newcastle United
• Nasser Hussain, cricketer, former England captain
• Ronnie Irani, cricketer
• Monty Panesar, cricketer
• Mark Ramprakash, cricketer
• Harpal Singh, footballer, Leeds United AFC
• Vikram Solanki, cricketer
• Neil Taylor, Welsh footballer

Others

• George Edalji, barrister falsely accused of horse killing, defended by Arthur Conan Doyle
• Buck Ruxton, 1930s murderer, born a Parsi
• Saira Shah, journalist, daughter of Idries Shah
• Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2009; current President of the Royal Society (as of November 2015)

See also

• British Indian
• Immigration to the United Kingdom
• Indian diaspora
• List of Indian Americans
• List of Indo-Canadians
• Indian (disambiguation)

References