Name |
Field |
Comments |
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel | Politics | Indian Freedom Fighter, First Home Minister Of India, Loh purush (Iron man of India) |
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi | politician, writer, philosopher, lawyer | Independence activist and Father of the Nation of India |
Indulal Kanaiyalal Yagnik | politician, writer, editor | Independence activist and founder of Gujarat state |
Muhammad Ali Jinnah | lawyer, politician | Father of the Nation of Pakistan, first Governor-General of Pakistan |
Vikram Sarabhai | Science | father of India's space program |
Azim Premji | Industrialist | Chairman of Wipro |
Sunita Williams | Astronaut | NASA, Her paternal ancestry is from Jhulasan, Mehsana district in Gujarat, India. |
Praful Bhavsar | Science | Director, Space Applications Center, ISRO |
Bhargav Gajjar | Aerospace Robotics | NASA, Kennedy Space Center, MIT Media Lab, MIT |
C. Kumar N. Patel | Electrical engineering | IEEE Medal of Honor |
Narendra Modi | Politics | Prime Minister of India & Former Chief Minister of Gujarat |
Dhirubhai Ambani | Business | Reliance Industries |
Mukesh Ambani | Business | Reliance Industries Ltd. |
Anil Ambani | Business | Reliance Industries (ADAG Group) |
Uday Kotak | Business | Kotak Mahindra Bank |
Pranav Mistry | Science | inventor and computer scientist |
Falgun Rathod | Science | Ethical Hacker, Cyber Security |
P. N. Bhagwati | justice | chief justice of India |
Sam Manekshaw | Military | Chief of Army Staff, and India's first Indian Field Marshal |
Gulzarilal Nanda | Politics | Bharat Ratna for his contribution in the field of Public Affairs |
Morarji Ranchhodji Desai | Politics | Bharat Ratna for his contribution in Public Affairs |
Hanif Mohammad | Cricketer | Born in Junagadh, First Triple Century by a Pakistani, First Pakistani First Class Cricketer to make a quadruple century |
Homai Vyarawalla | Photojournalist | Padma Vibhushan |
Dashrath Patel | Designer | established National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad, Padma Bhushan |
Mallika Sarabhai | Dancer, activist | Padma Bhushan |
Umashankar Joshi | Literature or philosophy | |
Gulabdas Broker | Literature or philosophy | Padma Shri |
Zaverchand Meghani | Literature or philosophy | |
Thakkar Bapa | Misc -Social Worker | |
Abbas Tyabji | Politics | |
Ahmed Patel | Politics | |
Chimanbhai Patel | Politics | |
H. M. Patel | Politics | |
K. M. Munshi | Politics | |
Karan Bilimoria | Politics | |
Kasturba Gandhi | Politics | |
Mahadev Desai | Politics | |
Meghnad Desai | Politics | |
Morarji Desai | Politics | Indian Prime Minister who got highest civilization award (Bharat Ratna, Nishan-e-Pakistan from India and Pakistan respectively). |
Savjibhai Korat | Politics | |
Shyamji Krishna Varma | Politics | |
Suresh Mehta | Politics | |
Vithalbhai Patel | Politics | |
Swami Dayananda Saraswati | Religion | Founder of the Arya Samaj |
Zain Bhikha | Religion | |
Ahmed Deedat | Religion | |
Swaminarayan | Religion | |
Morari Bapu | Religion | |
Pramukh Swami Maharaj | Religion | PRAMUKH OF BAPS SWAMINARAYAN SANSTHA |
Ajay Jadeja | Sports | Cricketer, All-rounder |
Irfan Pathan | Sports | Cricketer, All-rounder |
Munaf Patel | Sports | Cricket, Bowler |
Nari Contractor | Sports | Cricket, Bowler |
Nayan Mongia | Sports | Cricket, Wicket Keeper |
Parthiv Patel | Sports | Cricket, Wicket Keeper |
Ravindra Jadeja | Sports | Cricket, Bowler, All-rounder |
Vinoo Mankad | Sports | Cricket, Allrounder |
Yusuf Pathan | Sports | Cricket, Allrounder |
Cheteshwar Pujara | Sports | Cricket, Batsman |
Jaydev Unadkat | Sports | Cricket, Bowler |
Rajesh Chauhan | Sports | Cricket, Bowler |
Cowasji Shavaksha Dinshaw (Adenwalla) | entrepreneur | founder of the modern port of Aden |
Byram Dinshawji Avari | hotelier | founder and chairman of the Avari Group of companies. |
Avabai Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy | philanthropist | builder of Mahim Causeway, connects two islands of Bombay and Salsette (north Bombay.) |
Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Sir | philanthropist | founder of B.J. Medical College, Pune. |
Jamsetji Jeejeebhoy, Sir | philanthropist | opened sea trade with China; J J Hospital, |
Cowasjee Jehangir, Sir | civil engineer | master constructor of Bombay |
Fardunjee Marzban | business | founded the first vernacular newspaper on the Indian subcontinent Bombay Samachar |
Hormusjee Naorojee Mody, Sir | business | financier and industrialist in Hong Kong |
Dinshaw Maneckji Petit, Sir | business | founded the first textile factories in India |
Cyrus Poonawalla | industrialist, pharmacologist | co-founder of the Serum Institute of India |
Cowasji Jehangir Readymoney Sir | 1st Baronet, philanthropist | including various academic buildings of the Bombay University. |
Jehangir Hormusjee Ruttonjee | industrialist | founded Hong Kong's first brewery; established the first anti-tuberculosis sanatorium in the far-east |
Nowroji Saklatwala | Industrialist | Chairman of Tata group |
Ratan Tata | Industrialist | Chairman of Tata group (1991–2012) |
Homi Nusserwanji Sethna Padma Vibhushan awardee | chemical engineer | guided the development of India's first nuclear explosive device. |
Ardeshir Darabshaw Shroff | economist | delegate at the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference; co-author of the Bombay Plan; founder-director of the Investment Corporation of India; first Indian chairman of the Bank of India |
Dorabji Tata, Sir | industrialist and philanthropist | Sir Dorab Tata Trust. |
Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata | industrialist | founder of the Tata group of companies, titled a "One-Man Planning Commission" by Jawaharlal Nehru |
Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy (J. R. D.) Tata | industrialist | founder of India's first commercial airline: Air India |
Lovji Nusserwanjee Wadia | shipwright and naval architect | builder of the first dry-dock in Asia |
Ness Wadia | business | joint-Managing Director of Bombay Dyeing |
Mahzarin Banaji | Professor of Psychology | Harvard University |
Jamshed Bharucha | President, Cooper Union | Formerly, Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences at Dartmouth College (first Indian American to serve as the dean of a school at an Ivy League institution). |
Homi K. Bhabha | cultural-studies theorist; Professor | Harvard University. |
Rusi Taleyarkhan | Professor of Nuclear Engineering | Purdue University. |
Ardeshir TaraporeLieutenant Colonel | Military | Indian Army, winner of the Param Vir Chakra, India's highest award for gallantry |
Aspy Engineer | Military | Former Chief of the Air Staff, Indian Air Force. |
Fali Homi Major | Military | Former Chief of the Air Staff of the Indian Air Force. |
Sam Manekshaw | Military | Former Indian Army chief and the Second Indian Field Marshal |
Jal Cursetji | Military | Former Chief of the Naval Staff, Indian Navy |
Adi M. Sethna | Military | Former Vice Chief of the Army Staff, Indian Army |
FN Billimoria | Military | Lieutenant General, father of Karan Bilimoria, Lord Bilimoria |
Behram "Busybee" Contractor | journalist and columnist | |
Nariman "Nari" Contractor | cricketer | coach at the CCI Academy. |
Ardeshir Cowasjee | investigative journalist and newspaper columnist | |
Nauheed Cyrusi | Arts and entertainment | model, film actress, television presenter |
Bejan Daruwalla | astrology | |
Maneckji Nusserwanji Dhalla | high priest and religious scholar | Zoroastrisms |
Diana Eduljee | cricketer | first captain of the Indian women’s Cricket team – from 1978 till 1993 |
Farokh Engineer | cricketer | |
Zerbanoo Gifford | human rights campaigner | |
Aban Marker Kabraji | Pakistani ecologist | Asian regional director of IUCN |
Rustom Khurshedji Karanjia | Journalist & editor | founder of India's first tabloid, Blitz. |
Eruch Jessawala | Interpreter | Meher Baba's interpreter |
Jivanji Jamshedji Modi Sir | religion | Zoroastrian scholar, Ph.D from Heidelberg, Germany, recognition and awards, for scholarship, from Sweden, France, and Hungary. |
Cyrus Poncha | sports | Asian Squash Federation Junior Coach of the Year 2003-4. |
Pahlan Ratanji "Polly" Umrigar | sports | cricketer. |
Minocher Bhandara | politician | Pakistani parliamentarian and owner of Muree Brewery. |
Mancherjee Bhownagree | politician | second Asian to be elected to the House of Commons (Conservative). |
Jamsheed Marker | politician | Pakistani diplomat, ambassador to more countries than any other person; recipient of Hilal-i Imtiaz. |
Minoo Masani | politician | author, parliamentarian and a member of the Constituent Assembly. |
Frene Ginwala | politician | Is a member of the ANC and aided Nelson Mandela in abolishing apartheid in South Africa. Later served for 7 years as Speaker Of the House of Parliament in South Africa |
Jamshed Nusserwanjee Mehta | politician | former Mayor of Karachi for 12 consecutive years. |
Justice Dorab Patel | justice | Former Chief Justice of Sindh High Court, former Justice of Supreme Court of Pakistan and human rights campaigner. |
Cowasji Jehangir (Readymoney) | justice | J.P.; introduced income tax in India; first baronet of Bombay. |
Rustam S. Sidhwa | justice | judge on the Supreme Court of Pakistan as well as one of the original eleven judges of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. |
Shapurji Saklatvala | socialist workers | welfare activist, third Asian to be elected to the House of Commons (Communist, Labour). |
B. P. Wadia | Indian theosophist and labour activist | Pioneered the creation of workers unions in India. |
Bhikaiji Cama | politician | political activist, co-creator of the Indian nationalist flag. |
Feroze Gandhi | politician | journalist and politician; Indian MP under Jawaharlal Nehru; father of Rajiv Gandhi and grandfather of Rahul Gandhi. |
Pherozeshah Mehta, Sir | politician | political activist, co-founder and first President of the Indian National Congress, founder of the Bombay Municipal Corporation. |
Dadabhai Naoroji | economist, political activist | first Asian to be elected to the House of Commons (Liberal), first to publicly demand independence from Great Britain. |
Khurshed Framji Nariman | politician | social activist, Mayor of Bombay. Member of the Indian National Congress. |
Sam Piroj Bharucha | justice | Chief Justice of India. |
S. H. Kapadia- Current | justice | Chief Justice of India. |
Fali Sam Nariman | justice | jurist, recipient of the Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan. |
Nanabhoy ("Nani") Palkhivala | justice | prominent jurist and economist. |
Soli Jehangir Sorabjee | justice | former Attorney-General of India. |
Rattanbai Petit | justice | second wife of Muhammad Ali Jinnah |
Dossabhoy Muncherji Raja | justice | first Indian to be appointed appraiser of precious stones to British Indian customs. Awarded the title of Khan Sahib. |
Bukhtyar Rustomji | justice | Mumbai-born Lancaster doctor executed for murdering his wife and a maid |
Jehangir Sabavala | arts and entertainment | painter |
Keshubhai Patel | politician | Former Chief Minister of Gujarat |
Vithalbhai Patel | politician | Member of Parliament |
A. D. Patel | politician | Fiji politician |
Kamlesh Patel, Baron Patel of Bradford | politician | British politician |
S. B. Patel | politician | Indian politician |
Vithalbhai Patel | politician | Indian politician |
Praful Patel | politician | Indian politician |
Priti Patel | politician | British politician |
Lilian Patel | politician | Malawian politician |
R. D. Patel | politician | Indo-Fijian lawyer |
Eboo Patel | politician | American political consultant |
Haribhai M. Patel | politician | Indian politician |
Dinsha Patel | politician | Indian politician |
Dahyabhai Patel | politician | Indian freedom fighter, politician |
Vinod Patel | politician | Fiji-Indian politician |
Sone Lal Patel | politician | Indian politician |
Navin Patel | politician | Fiji-Indian politician |
Somchandbhai Solanki | politician | Indian politician |
Somabhai Gandalal Koli Patel | politician | Indian politician |
Pasha Patel | politician | Indian politician |
Babubhai J. Patel | politician | Indian politician |
Kanjibhai Patel | politician | Indian politician |
Vinubhai Patel | politician | Fiji-Indian politician |
Dipak Patel (politician) | politician | Zambian politician |
Harilal Madhavjibhai Patel | politician | Indian politician |
Kishanbhai Vestabhai Patel | politician | Indian politician |
Patel Dahyabhai Vallabhbhai | politician | Indian politician |
Babubhai Jashbhai Patel | politician | Chief Minister, Gujarat |
R. K. Singh Patel | Agriculturist & Politician | |
Parthiv Patel | sports | Indian cricketer |
Mitesh Patel | sports | Indian hockey player |
Samit Patel | sports | English cricketer |
Jayant Patel | sports | Indian Doctor |
Min Patel | sports | Indian cricketer |
Brijesh Patel | sports | Indian cricketer |
Jasu Patel | sports | Indian cricketer |
Jyotsna Patel | sports | Indian cricketer |
Malhar Patel | sports | Kenyan cricketer |
Nandikishore Patel | sports | Ugandan cricketer |
Jitendra Patel | sports | Canadian cricketer |
Mohan Patel | sports | New Zealand hockey player |
Dinesh Patel | sports | American baseball player |
Rakep Patel | sports | Kenyan cricketer |
Brijal Patel | sports | Kenyan cricketer |
Kalpesh Patel | sports | Kenyan cricketer |
Ashish Patel | sports | Canadian cricketer |
Ashok Patel | sports | Indian cricketer |
Niraj Patel | sports | Indian cricketer |
Rakesh Patel | sports | Indian cricketer |
Dipak Patel (cricketer, born 1961) | sports | Indian cricketer |
Kalpesh Patel (Indian cricketer) | sports | Indian cricketer |
R. D. Patel (cricketer) | sports | Tanzanian cricketer |
C. D. Patel | sports | Tanzanian cricketer |
Ashok Sitaram Patel | sports | Kenyan cricketer |
Ramesh Patel | sports | New Zealand hockey player |
Narendra Patel, Baron Patel | sports | Tanzanian obstetrician |
I. G. Patel | economist | Indian economist |
Chimanbhai Patel | politician | Indian politician |
Manibehn Patel | politician | Indian freedom fighter |
Tribhuvandas Kishibhai Patel | politician | Indian freedom fighter, activist |
Amit Patel | doctor | American surgeon |
Kamal Patel | politician | Indian politician |
Vimla L. Patel | doctor | Canadian psychologist |
Ramanbhai Patel | doctor | Indian chemist |
Nisha Patel | police | British police officer |
Akhil Patel | sports | English cricketer |
Chai Patel | Doctor | British doctor and businessman |
Hemish Shah | business | British stock brocker |
Nand Kumar Patel | politician | Indian politician |
Rita Patel | sports | Indian cricketer |
Sameer Patel | sports | English cricketer |
Karsanbhai Patel | business | Indian industrialist |
Chetan Patel | sports | English cricketer |
A. K. Patel | politician | Indian politician |
V. G. Patel | economist | Indian author, economist |
Harilal Manilal Patel | judiciary | Fiji-Indian lawyer |
Patel Sudhakar Reddy | politician | Indian revolutionary |
Surendra Motilal Patel | politician | Indian politician |
Jivabhai Ambalal Patel | politician | Indian politician |
Apoorva D. Patel | doctor | Indian physicist |
Prahlad Singh Patel | politician | Indian politician |
Shiv Kumar Patel | judiciary | Indian outlaw |
Rustomji Dorabji Patel | politician | Indian community leader |
Framjee Nasarwanjee Patel | business | Indian merchant, philanthropist |
Chandrakant T. Patel | Science | |
Sheela Patel | politician | Indian activist |
Sam Pitroda | Telecommunications engineering | Padma Bhusan |
Ratilal Chandaria | Businessman and philanthropist | GujaratiLexicon founder |
Ranchhodlal Chhotalal | business | |
Ramesh Oza | Hindu preacher | Bhagwad Kathakar |
Morari Bapu | Hindu preacher | Ram Charit Manas Kathakar |