India
- Joseph Rabban, given copper plates of special grants from the Chera ruler Bhaskara Ravivarman II from Kerala in South India
- David Abraham Cheulkar, actor
- Nissim Ezekiel, poet
- J F R Jacob, former Governor of Punjab and Goa; the Chief of Staff of the Indian Army's Eastern Command
- Gerry Judah, artist and designer
- Anish Kapoor, sculptor (Baghdadi Jewish mother)
- Samson Kehimkar, musician
- Ezekiel Isaac Malekar, Bene Israel Rabbi
- Pearl Padamsee, theatre personality (part Jewish)
- David and Simon Reuben, businessmen
- Nadira, actress of the 1950s and 1960s.
- David Sassoon, businessman
- Albert Abdullah David Sassoon, British Indian merchant
- Sassoon David Sassoon philanthropist and benefactor of greater Indian Jewish community.
- Solomon Sopher, Jewish community leader
- Ellis Kadoorie and Elly Kadoorie, philanthropists
- Horace Kadoorie, philanthropist
- Ruby Myers, Bollywood actress of the 1920s, otherwise known as Sulochana
- Lalchanhima Sailo, rabbi
- Abraham Barak Salem, Cochin Jew Indian nationalist leader
- Bensiyon Songavkar, professional cricketer
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“India is an abstraction.... India is no more a political personality than Europe. India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.”
—Winston Churchill (1874–1965)
“India has 2,000,000 gods, and worships them all. In religion other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)