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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Famous quotes containing the word india:
“There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.”
—Indira Gandhi (1917–1984)
“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)
“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)