The river, named Hamza after the discoverer, an Indian-born scientist Valiya Mannathal Hamza who is working with the National Observatory at Rio, makes it the first and geologically unusual instance of a twin-river system flowing at different levels of the earth's crust in Brazil.

The Ayatollah Khomeini's 1989 fatwa calling for the killing of Indian-born British citizen Salman Rushdie had international impact.

In the latter part of 2005, Beattie faced potentially his most serious political crisis: the revelations and inquiries into Queensland Health and the Bundaberg public hospital after Jayant Patel, an Indian-born surgeon who was struck off the register in the United States for malpractice, performed several botched operations in the hospital, some of which resulted in death, and then fled the country to the US.

Ashok Kumar ( 28 May 1956 – 15 March 2010 ) was an Indian-born British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland from 1997 until his death shortly before the 2010 general election.

51826 Kalpanachawla ( 2001 OB < sub > 34 </ sub >) is an asteroid named for Indian-born astronaut Kalpana Chawla, who was killed in the STS-107 ( Columbia ) space shuttle reentry disaster on February 1, 2003.

The most recent label, for Mouton's 2009 vintage, is the work of Indian-born British artist Anish Kapoor.

* Alfred McCune Home-1901 Main Street mansion for Indian-born railroad and mining businessman Alfred W. McCune.

Vikram Singh Solanki ( born 1 April 1976 ) is an Indian-born English cricketer, who plays county cricket for Worcestershire.

Ismail Merchant () ( 25 December 1936 – 25 May 2005 ) was an Indian-born film producer and director, best known for the results of his famously long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions which included director ( and Merchant's longtime professional and personal partner ) James Ivory as well as screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.

Deepa Mehta, LLD (; born 1 January 1950 ) is a Genie Award-winning Indian-born Canadian film director and screenwriter, most known for her Elements Trilogy, Fire ( 1996 ), Earth ( 1998 ), and Water ( 2005 ); among which Earth was submitted by the Indian government for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and " Water " was submitted by Canada for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, making it Canada's first non-French Canadian film to receive a nomination in that category.

James Francis Ivory ( born June 7, 1928 ) is an American film director, best known for the results of his long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, which included both Indian-born film producer Ismail Merchant, and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.

In 1961, Ivory created the film production company, Merchant Ivory Productions, with Indian-born producer Ismail Merchant and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, who served as the screenwriter for many of their productions.

Lieutenant General Sir Henry Marshman Havelock-Allan, 1st Baronet, VC, GCB, DL ( 6 August 1830 – 30 December 1897 ) was an Indian-born British soldier and politician.

An Indian-born writer living in Britain, Aroup Chatterjee, who had briefly worked in one of Mother Teresa's homes, began investigations into the finances and other practices of Teresa's order.

Noel Andrew Stephen Jones ( December 22, 1940 – November 21, 1995 ) was an Indian-born British diplomat, British ambassador to Kazakhstan from 1993 to 1995.

Anne, a West Indian-born elevator operator from Montserrat, and William December Williams, Sr., an African-American caretaker from Texas.

The SGI Altix platform was selected due to a positive experience with Kalpana, a single-node Altix 512-CPU system built and operated by NAS and SGI and named after Columbia astronaut Kalpana Chawla, the first Indian-born woman to fly in space, which was later integrated into the Columbia supercomputer system as the first node of twenty.

* 1963 – Sabu Dastagir, Indian-born American actor ( b. 1924 )

* 1953 – Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-born scholar and translator ( b. 1872 )

* 1885 – Syed Zafarul Hasan, Indian-born Pakistani philosopher ( d. 1949 )

* Naresh Sohal, British Indian-born composer.

* Param Vir, British Indian-born composer.

* Karishmeh Felfeli, Indian-born Irani pianist and radio broadcaster.

Lindsay Gordon Anderson ( 17 April 1923 – 30 August 1994 ) was an Indian-born, British feature film, theatre and documentary director, film critic, and leading light of the Free Cinema movement and the British New Wave.

* 1965 – Syedna Taher Saifuddin, Indian-born Bohra Spiritual Leader ( b. 1888 )

* 1910 – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1995 )

* October 6 – Bobby Farrell, West Indian-born dancer ( Boney M .) ( d. 2010 )

* October 19 – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-born American physicist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1995 )

* April 14 – Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-born Islamic scholar and translator ( d. 1953 )

* August 17 – V. S. Naipaul, West Indian-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate

** George Adamson, Indian-born conservationist ( assassinated ) ( b. 1906 )

* November 9 – Har Gobind Khorana, Indian-born American Nobel biochemist ( b. 1922 )

Rohinton Mistry ( born 3 July 1952 ) is an Indian-born Canadian writer in English.

Merle Oberon ( 19 February 1911-23 November 1979 ) was an Indian-born Anglo-Indian actress.

Chawla was the first Indian-born woman and the second Indian person to fly in space, following cosmonaut Rakesh Sharma who flew in 1984 in a spacecraft.

Adam Osborne ( March 6, 1939 – March 18, 2003 ) was an Indian-born British-American author, book and software publisher, and computer designer who founded several companies in the United States and elsewhere.

Vivek Paul ( born 1958 ) is an Indian-born businessman and founder of Akansa Capital, an India-focused Private Equity Fund.

Vinod Khosla ( Gurmukhi-ਵ ਿ ਨ ੋ ਦ ਖ ੋ ਸਲ ਾ) ( born 28 January 1955 ) is an Indian-born American businessman and venture capitalist.

In 1971 Professor Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty, then a scientist for General Electric, created a " genetically modified " microorganism that ate hazardous waste.

Because it is a living organism the patent was disputed and brought before the United States Supreme Court in the historic court case Diamond v. Chakrabarty which the inventor, Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty, won.

Genetic engineer Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty, working for General Electric, had developed a bacterium ( derived from the Pseudomonas genus ) capable of breaking down crude oil, which he proposed to use in treating oil spills.

( The genetically-modified bacteria are the real-life creations of Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty )