| Mahatma Gandhi | Proponent of non-violence and civil disobedience; influenced Martin Luther King, Jr.
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| Ravi Shankar | Musician/Sitarist; Influenced the Beatles and several Western musicians
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| Gautama Buddha | Founder of Buddhism in 300 BC
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| Indira Gandhi | Woman Prime Minister of the world's largest democracy.
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| S. Ramanujan | One of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century
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| Satyajit Ray | Film-maker; Academy Award winner for life-time achievement in Cinema
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Some noted Indian Americans
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| Zubin Mehta | A leading conductor (Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, New York Philharmonic Orchestra)
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| Har Govind Khorana | Nobel Prize-winning geneticist
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| S. Chandra Shekhar | Renowned Astro-physicist
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| Ved Mehta | Famous novelist and contributing editor of The New Yorker magazine (Blind since childhood)
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