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India ranks 991st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Anyang, Gyeonggi, Iwate Prefecture, and Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Memorable people born in India include Kālidāsa, Patanjali, and Ānanda. Memorable people who died in India include Fatma Begum, Gulab Bai, and Evelyn Colyer. India has been the birth place of many writers, and actors and the death place of many writers, and actors. India is located in India.

India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area; the most populous country since 2023; and, since its independence in 1947, the world's most populous democracy. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is near Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia. Read more on Wikipedia

People

Between 600 BC and 1993, India was the birth place of 14 globally memorable people, including Kālidāsa, Patanjali, and Ānanda. Additionaly, 11 globally memorable people have passed away in India including Fatma Begum, Gulab Bai, and Evelyn Colyer.

People Born in India

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Occupations

Most individuals born in present day India were writers (5), actors (2), linguists (1), religious figures (1), and philosophers (1),  while most who died were writers (3), actors (2), philosophers (2), tennis players (1), and social activists (1).

Over the past 100 years, actors have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in India, including Anupam Kher, and Alia Bhatt. Whereas, throughout history, writers have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day India, including Kālidāsa, Valmiki, and Vātsyāyana.

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Overlapping Lives

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 2 globally memorable people born in India since 1700.