Indo-Canadian Lilly Singh has over 5.7 million subscribers

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Indo-Canadian Lilly Singh has over 5.7 million subscribers on YouTube Channel Superwoman. She was born in Ontario, Canada and grew up as a tomboy before turning into a YouTube star. Singh also sells clothes under her brand name Unicorn Island. (Getty Images)

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American-Indian Kal Penn is an actor-turned-civil servant, who is a member of Obama's National Arts Policy Committee. He is also visiting faculty at the University of Pennsylvania. Penn has acted in several movies and television series before joining politics. (Getty Images)

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Vidia Naipaul known as V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad, his family believed to be descendants of Hindu Brahmins. Naipaul was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1990. (Getty Images)

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Delhi-born Vinod Khosla has based his business in Menlo Park, California. He has invested in an Indian SKS Microfinance that lends small loans to poor women in rural India. Khosla was the guest-editor of The Economic Times’s special issue. (Getty Images)

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India-born American banker Vikram Pandit from Nagpur is a former chief executive of Citigroup. He is a member of the boards of Columbia University, Columbia Business School, the Indian School of Business and Trinity School. Pandit has collaborated with Freakonomics book series to help companies improve their cultures and use of technology. He was also awarded Padma Bhushan for Trade and Industry in 2008. (Getty Images)

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Indian-born American and British citizen Venkatraman Ramakrishnan is a structural biologist at MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England. He was awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry alongside Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath in 2009. (Getty Images)

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Swati Dandekar graduated from Nagpur University in 1971. After resigning as a member from Iowa Utilities Board, she became the Democratic candidate for the United States House of Representatives in the 2014 elections.

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American astronaut and Navy officer Sunita Williams spent 195 days in a space flight and seven spacewalks totalling upto 50 hours and 40 minutes. During her visit to India, she met former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and was awarded the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Vishwa Pratibha Award by World Gujarati Society. (Getty Images)

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American economist and public official Sonal Shah served as the Director of the Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation in the White House. She was born in Mumbai and grew up in Houston, Texas.

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Indian-American businessman Sant Singh Chatwal was listed as 19th most powerful, influential and contemporary Sikh in the world by The Economic Times in 2013. Chatwal was also awarded Padma Bhushan in 2010 by former Indian President Pratibha Patil for his role in the historic India-US civilian nuclear deal. Although, he has been sentenced to three years trial for breaking polls laws. (Getty Images)

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