List of Indian scientists

* Aryabhata
* Baudhayana
* Bhāskara I
* Brahmadeva
* Brahmagupta
* Chanakya
* Charaka
* Halayudha
* Jayadeva
* Nagarjuna
* Pingala
* Sushruta
* Vyasa

[edit] Modern Era Scientists

* Animesh Chakravorty
* Anil Kakodkar
* APJ Abdul Kalam-Missile man of India.He was the architect of Agni series of nuclear missiles.An eminent scientist and an inspirer of youth.He is one of the most loved Presidents of India
* Arun Netravali - Chief Scientist & former CEO of Bell Labs.
* Arun Majumdar
* Ashok Gadgil - Inventor of UV-disinfection method
* Ashoke Sen - Known for research in String Theory
* Birbal Sahni
* CNR Rao
* Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis Founder of Indian Statistical Institute, known for Mahalanobis distance
* C R Rao- Best of Statistician ever in world, known for Rao–Blackwell theorem, Cramér–Rao bound
* CV Raman-Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman or C.V Raman is one of the internationally acknowledged Indian Scientist. He formulated the Raman effect
* D. R. Kaprekar - Mathematician. Famous for his work on Number Theory
* Dr. Jayant Narlikar - Prominent Astrophysicist His work on conformal gravity theory with Sir Fred Hoyle, called Hoyle-Narlikar theory, demonstrated a synthesis can be achieved between Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity and Mach's principle.
* Vinod Johri
* G Madhavan Nair
* G. N. Ramachandran
* Gajendra Pal Singh Raghava Bioinformatician: Famous for developing software and webservers for biological problems
* Ganapathi Thanikaimoni
* Gopalasamudram Narayana Iyer Ramachandran
* Govindarajan Padmanabhan
* Har Gobind Khorana
* Harish Chandra
* Homi Bhabha
* Jagdish Chandra Bose Original inventor of wireless(not credited). Inventor of Crescograph and the first scientist to observe that plants behave like living things.
* Jagmohan Lal Razdan, pioneer of radiology in India
* K. Radhakrishnan
* K. R. Ramanathan
* Kailas Nath Kaul, botanist and world authority on palms
* Kotcherlakota Rangadhama Rao
* Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan
* Lalji Singh
* M. G. K. Menon
* M. S. Swaminathan
* Manchanahalli Rangaswamy Satyanarayana Rao
* Manindra Agrawal - Computer scientist, noted for co-developing the AKS primality testing algorithm.
* Manilal Bhaumik laser therapy
* Man Mohan Sharma
* Meghnad Saha
* ML Madan
* Narendra Karmarkar - Mathematician. Renowned for developing Karmarkar's algorithm
* Nitya Anand
* Niyaz Ahmed
* Obaid Siddiqi
* P. Somasundaran
* Padmanabhan Balaram
* Pandurang Sadashiv Khankhoje
* Patcha Ramachandra Rao
* Prof. Prem Chand Pandey- Oceanographer, Meteorologist(SAC/ISRO), Physicist, and Founder Director NCAOR-Indian Antarctic Program, Goa.
* Prof. Abhay Ashtekar- known for 'Ashtekar Variables'. He is also regarded as a founder of the theory of Loop quantum gravity
* Raghunath Anant Mashelkar
* Atul Kumar- Medicinal Chemist/Drug design. He has invented new antiosteoporosis drug candidate.
* Rajeev Motwani
* Ranajit Chakraborty
* Roddam Narasimha
* S. Bhagavantam
* S. Ramaseshan
* Salim Ali
* Samir K. Brahmachari
* Satish Dhawan
* Satyendra Nath Bose
* Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar
* Subramanian V - Quantum Chemist - Known for his contributions to the Development of descriptors
* Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar - Mathematician. Known for his contributions to singularity theory and Abhyankar's conjecture
* Sir M. Visvesvaraya
* Srinivasa Ramanujan
* Subramanyan Chandrasekhar
* Sujoy K. Guha
* Rajeev Kumar Varshney
* Sunder Lal Hora
* Tej P Singh
* Udipi Ramachandra Rao
* Vainu Bappu
* Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
* Vijay P. Bhatkar
* Vikram Sarabhai
* William Stephen Atkinson
* Yellapragada Subbarao