list of Indian scientists spanning from Ancient to Modern India, who have had a major impact in the field of science and technology.
Indian physicists and engineers
Lagadha , astronomer, author of one of the oldest known treatises on astrology (around late 2nd millennium BCE and early 1st millennium BCE)Baudhayana , mathematician, author of oldest surviving texts of Indian mathematics (around 1st millennium BCE)Jivaka , physician, widely regarded as a model healer in the Eastern world during ancient times (5th century BCE)Sushruta , father of plastic surgery, author of Sushruta Samhita which is one of the most important ancient medical treatise (600–500 BCE)Panini , father of linguistics (600–400 BCE)Charaka , physician (400–300 BCE)Kanada , natural scientist and philosopher who founded the Vaisheshika school of Indian philosophy which talks about atomism.(Unclear; 600–200 BCE)Shalihotra , veterinarian (3rd century BCE)
Pingala , mathematician and linguist (3rd–2nd century BCE)Chanakya , polymath (375–283 BCE)
Varahamihira , astronomer (5th–6th century CE)Vagbhata , physician (6th century CE)Brahmagupta , mathematician and astronomer (598–688 CE)Bhaskara I , mathematician and astronomer (600–680 CE)Haridatta , astronomer (6th century CE)Lalla , astronomer and astrologer (720–790 CE)Madhava-kara , physician (7th–8th century CE)Gautama Siddha , astrologer, astronomer and compiler in Tang Dynasty, introduced 0 and Indian numerals in China (8th century CE)Shankaranarayana , astronomer and astrologist (840–900 CE)Mahavira , mathematician (9th century CE)Halayudha , mathematician (10th century CE)Aryabhata II , mathematician and astronomer (920–1000 CE)Manjula , astronomer (Born 932 CE)Utpala , astronomer (9th–10th CE)Vijayanandi , astronomer (940–1010 CE)
Sripati , astronomer, astrologer and mathematician (1019–1066 CE)Brahmadeva , mathematician and astronomer (1060–1130 CE)Satananda , astronomer (1068–1099 CE)Bhaskara II , mathematician and astronomer (1114–1185 CE)Suryadeva Yajvan , astronomer and astrologer (1191– at least 1248 CE)Govinda Bhattathiri , astronomer and astrologer (1237–1295 CE)Madhava of Sangamagrama , mathematician and astronomer, founded Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics (1340–1425 CE)Mahendra Suri , astronomer, wrote the Yantraraja, the first Indian treatise on the astrolabe (1340–1400 CE)Parameshvara Nambudiri , astronomer (1380–1460 CE)Nilakantha Somayaji , astronomer (1444–1544 CE)Damodara , astronomer (15th century CE)Keshava of Nandigrama , astrologer and astronomer (1496–1507)
Jyesthadeva , astronomer (1500–1575 CE)Paarangot Jyeshtadevan Namboodiri , mathematician and astronomer (1500–1610 CE)Shankara Variyar , astronomer and mathematician (1500–1560 CE)Achyutha Pisharadi , Sanskrit linguist, astronomer, astrologer and mathematician (1550–1621 CE)Nilakantha Daivajna , astronomer and astrologer (6th century CE)Kamalakara , astronomer and mathematician (1616–1700 CE)Puthumana Somayaji , astronomer and mathematician (1660–1740 CE)Jagannatha Samrat , astronomer and mathematician (1652–1744 CE)Sawai Jai Singh , ruler and astronomer, commissioned Jantar Mantar observatory (1688–1743 CE)Sankara Varman , astronomer and mathematician (1774–1839 CE)
Radhanath Sikdar , mathematician, calculated height of Mt. Everest (1813–1870 CE)Gode Venkata Juggarow , astronomer (1817–1856 CE)Pathani Samanta , astronomer (1835–1904 CE)Jagdish Chandra Bose , polymath, father of radio science (1858–1937 CE)Sir M. Visvesvaraya , civil engineer and statesman (1861–1962 CE)Prafulla Chandra Ray , chemist (1861–1944 CE)Shankar Abaji Bhise , invented type setting machine (1867–1935 CE)Indumadhab Mallick , polymath, inventor of icmic cooker (1869–1917 CE)Upendranath Brahmachari , physician (1873–1946 CE) synthesised urea-stibamine (carbostibamide) for the treatment of Kala-azar visceral leishmaniasis Shiv Ram Kashyap , botanist (1882–1934 CE)Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia , geologist (1883–1969 CE)Pandurang Sadashiv Khankhoje , scholar and agronomist (1884–1967 CE)M. O. P. Iyengar , botanist and phycologist (1886–1963 CE)Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (C. V. Raman) , physicist (1888–1970 CE)Srinivasa Ramanujan , mathematician (1887–1920 CE)Satya Churn Law , naturalist and ornithologist (1888–1984 CE)Sisir Kumar Mitra , radio and atmospheric physicist (1890–1963 CE)Birbal Sahni , paleobotanist (1891–1949 CE)K. R. Ramanathan , physicist and meteorologist (1893–1984 CE)K. Ananda Rau , mathematician (1893–1966 CE)Meghnad Saha , astrophysicist (1893–1956 CE)Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis , statistician (1893–1972 CE)Jnan Chandra Ghosh , chemist (1894–1959 CE)Satyendra Nath Bose , theoretical physicist, father of God Particle (1894–1974 CE)Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar , colloid chemist (1894–1955 CE)Yellapragada Subbarow , biochemist (1895–1948 CE)Sunder Lal Hora , ichthyologist (1896–1955 CE)Salim Ali , ornithologist and naturalist (1896–1987 CE)Janaki Ammal , botanist (1897–1984 CE)K.S. Krishnan , physicist (1898–1961 CE)M. S. Krishnan , geologist (1898–1970 CE)Kotcherlakota Rangadhama Rao , physicist (1898–1972 CE)
Kedareswar Banerjee , crystallographer (1900–1975 CE)L. A. Ramdas , physicist and meteorologist (1900–1979 CE)Raj Chandra Bose , mathematician (1901-1987 CE)Subbayya Sivasankaranarayana Pillai , mathematician (1901–1950 CE)Panchanan Maheshwari , botanist, invented test-tube fertilisation technique of Angiosperms (1904–1966 CE)Kailas Nath Kaul , agronomist (1905–1983 CE)Benjamin Peary Pal , agronomist (1906–1989 CE)Daulat Singh Kothari , physicist (1906–1993 CE)Vishnu Vasudev Narlikar , physicist (1908–1991 CE)Homi Jehangir Bhabha , nuclear physicist, father of Indian nuclear programme (1909–1966 CE)Nautam Bhatt , physicist (1909–2005 CE)P.R. Pisharoty , physicist and meteorologist (1909–2002 CE)Suri Bhagavantam , physicist (1909–1989 CE)Subramanyan Chandrasekhar , theoretical physicist, known for Chandrasekhar Limit (1910–1995 CE)Kamala Sohonie , biochemist (1911–1998 CE)A. S. Rao , physicist (1914–2003 CE)Sambhu Nath De , pathlogist (1915–1985 CE)Asima Chatterjee , chemist (1917–2006 CE)M. S. Balakrishnan , phycologist (1917–1990 CE)Waman Dattatreya Patwardhan , nuclear chemist (1917–2007 CE)Anna Mani , physicist and meteorologist (1918–2001 CE)Prahalad Chunnilal Vaidya , physicist and mathematician (1918–2010 CE)Shya Chitaley , paleobotanist (1918–2013 CE)V. S. Huzurbazar , statistician (1919–1991 CE)Vikram Sarabhai , physicist and astronomer, established Physical Research Laboratory (1919–1971 CE)K. S. Chandrasekharan , mathematician (1920–2017 CE)Satish Dhawan , aerospace engineer (1920–2002 CE)Siva Brata Bhattacherjee , X-ray crystallographer (1921–2003 CE)Vasudeva Krishnamurthy , algologist (1921–2014 CE)G. N. Ramachandran , biophysicist (1922–2001 CE)Har Gobind Khorana , biochemist (1922–2011 CE)Yelavarthy Nayudamma , chemical engineer (1922–1985 CE)Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri , theoretical physicist (1923–2005 CE)B. V. Sreekantan , astrophysicist (1923–2019 CE)Homi Sethna , nuclear physicist and chemist (1923–2010 CE)Harish-Chandra , mathematician and physicist (1923–1983 CE)Ranjan Roy Daniel , physicist (1923–2005 CE)M. S. Swaminathan , agronomist (1925–2023 CE)Nitya Anand , medicinal chemist (1925–2024 CE)Raja Ramanna , nuclear physicist (1925–2004 CE)Narinder Singh Kapany , physicist (1926–2020 CE)Syed Zahoor Qasim , marine biologist (1926–2015 CE)Samarendra Nath Biswas , theoretical physicist (1926–2005 CE)Yash Pal , space scientist (1926–2017 CE)Gopinath Kartha , crystallographer (1927–1984 CE)Purnima Sinha , physicist (1927–2015 CE)Tanjore Ramachandra Anantharaman , metallurgist (1927–2009 CE)Vainu Bappu , astronomer (1927–1982 CE)M. G. K. Menon , physicist (1928–2016 CE)U. Aswathanarayana , geologist (1928–2016 CE)Asoke Nath Mitra , theoretical physicist (1929–2022 CE)Arvind Joshi , computational linguist (1929–2017 CE)Amar Bose , electrical engineer (1929–2013 CE)Govind Swarup , radioastronomer (1929–2020 CE)Kookal Ramunni Krishnan , physician (1929–1999 CE)Krityunjai Prasad Sinha , theoretical physicist (1929–2023 CE)Shrinivas Kulkarni , mathematician (1930–2012 CE)A. P. J. Abdul Kalam , aerospace engineer, missile man of India (1931–2015 CE)E. C. George Sudarshan , theoretical physicist (1931–2018 CE)Manilal Bhaumik , physicist (1931–present CE)Nilamber Pant , space scientist (1931–present CE)P. K. Iyengar , nuclear physicist (1931–2011 CE)Surindar Kumar Trehan , mathematician (1931–2004 CE)C. S. Seshadri , mathematician (1932–2020 CE)Ganeshan Venkataraman , condensed matter physicist (1932–present CE)M. S. Narasimhan , mathematician (1932–2021 CE)Obaid Siddiqi , biologist (1932–2013 CE)Ratan Lal Brahmachary , biochemist (1932–2018 CE)Udipi Ramachandra Rao , space scientist (1932–2017 CE)Daya-Nand Verma , mathematician (1933–2012 CE)Amartya Sen , economist and philosopher (1933–present CE)Vasant Ranchhod Gowarikar , meteorologist (1933–2015 CE)Roddam Narasimha , aerospace scientist and fluid dynamicist (1934–2020 CE)Ajoy Ghose , mining engineer (1934–2019 CE)C. N. R. Rao , chemist (1934–present CE)Gandikota V. Rao , atmospheric scientist (1934–2004 CE)Subramania Ranganathan , bioorganic chemist (1934–2016 CE)S. Pancharatnam , optical physicist (1934–1969 CE)Animesh Chakravorty , chemist (1935–present CE)Vinod Johri , astrophycisist (1935–2015 CE)E. S. Raja Gopal , condensed matter physicist (1936–2018 CE)Jasbir Singh Bajaj , physician and diabetologist (1936–2019 CE)Rajagopala Chidambaram , nuclear physicist (1936–present CE)Yusuf Hamied , pharmaceutical scientist, (1936–present CE)Dronamraju Krishna Rao , geneticist (1937–2020 CE)B. L. K. Somayajulu , geochemist (1937–2016 CE)Jogesh Pati , theoretical physicist (1937–present CE)Raj Reddy , computer scientist (1937–present CE)Raghavan Narasimhan , mathematician, solved Levi problem for complex manifolds (1937–2015 CE)Subhash Mukhopadhyay , physician (1937–1981 CE)Ganapathi Thanikaimoni , palynologist (1938–1986 CE)A. P. Balachandran , theoretical physicist (1938–present CE)Chanchal Kumar Majumdar , condensed matter physicist (1938–2000 CE)Govindarajan Padmanabhan , biochemist and biotechnologist (1938–present CE)Jayant Narlikar , astrophysicist (1938–present CE)Shipra Guha-Mukherjee , botanist (1938–2007 CE)Ajoy Ghatak , physicist (1939–present CE)Dadaji Ramaji Khobragade , agronomist (1939–2018 CE)V. K. Aatre , electrical engineer (1939–present CE)K. R. K. Easwaran , molecular biophysicist (1939–present CE)M. L. Madan , biotechnologist (1939–present CE)Narasimhaiengar Mukunda , theoretical physicist (1939–present CE)Surendra Nath Pandeya , medicinal and organic chemist (1939–2012 CE)Ramamurti Rajaraman , theoretical physicist (1939–present CE)Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan , space scientist (1940–present CE)Sujoy K. Guha , biomedical engineer (1940–present CE)Darshan Ranganathan , organic chemist (1941–2001 CE)M. S. Raghunathan , mathematician (1941–present CE)Nambi Narayanan , aerospace engineer (1941–present CE)T. V. Ramakrishnan , theoretical physicist (1941–present CE)Madhav Gadgil , ecologist (1942–present CE)Patcha Ramachandra Rao , metallurgist (1942–2010 CE)Probir Roy , particle physicist (1942–present CE)Ravindra Shripad Kulkarni , mathematician, known for Kulkarni-Nomizu product (1942–present CE)Shivram Bhoje , nuclear physicist (1942–present CE)Subhendu Guha , photovoltaicist (1942–present CE)Sam Pitroda , telecommunication engineer (1942–present CE)Aditi Pant , oceanographer (1943–present CE)G Madhavan Nair , space scientist (1943–present CE)Anil Kakodkar , nuclear physicist (1943–present CE)Raghunath Anant Mashelkar , chemical engineer (1943–present CE)V. Balakrishnan , theoretical physicist (1943–present CE)Abhay Bhushan , computer scientist (1944–present CE)Avinash Kak , computer scientist (1944–present CE)Jagdish Shukla , meteorologist (1944–present CE)Naresh Dadhich , theoretical physicist (1944–present CE)Phoolan Prasad , mathematician (1944–present CE)S. A. Hussain , ornitholohist (1944–2009 CE)Tej P Singh , biophysicist (1944–present CE)Vijay Kumar Kapahi , astrophysicist (1944–1999 CE)K. N. Shankara , space scientist (1945–2017 CE)Prem Chand Pandey , planetary scientist (1945–present CE)Subhash Chandra Lakhotia , cytogeneticst (1945–present CE)Ranajit Chakraborty , geneticist (1946–2018 CE)Srikumar Banerjee , metallurgical engineer (1946–2021 CE)Sudipta Sengupta , structural geologist (1946–present CE)Vijay P. Bhatkar , computer scientist (1946–present CE)A. Sivathanu Pillai , aerospace engineer (1947–present CE)Dattatreyudu Nori , radiation oncologist (1947–present CE)Mathukumalli Vidyasagar , control theorist (1947–present CE)Prem Shanker Goel , space scientist (1947–present CE)Sushanta Kumar Dattagupta , condensed matter physicist (1947–present CE)Archana Bhattacharyya , physicist (1948–present CE)K. S. R. Krishna Raju , ornithologist (1948–2002 CE)M. R. S. Rao , biologist (1948–2023 CE)Predhiman Krishan Kaw , plasma physicist (1948–2017 CE)Thirumalachari Ramasami , leather scientist (1948–present CE)Abhay Ashtekar , theoritical physicist (1949–present CE)Jyeshtharaj Joshi , chemist and nuclear physicist (1949–present CE)K. Radhakrishnan , space scientist (1949–present CE)Sulabha K. Kulkarni , nanotechnologist (1949–present CE)V. K. Saraswat , aeronautic engineer (1949–present CE)Lilabati Bhattacharjee , mineralogist and crystallographer (unknown)Ram Chet Chaudhary , agronomist (unknown)Radha Balakrishnan , theoretical physicist (unknown)
Gomatam Ravi , quantum physicist (1950–present CE)Jitendra Nath Goswami , astrophysicist (1950–present CE)Kamanio Chattopadhyay , materials engineer (1950–present CE)Sankar K. Pal , computer scientist (1950–present CE)Chitra Mandal , biologist (1951–present CE)Daya Shankar Kulshreshtha , theoretical physicist (1951–present CE)H. R. Krishnamurthy , theoretical physicist (1951–present CE)Himmatrao Bawaskar , physician (1951–present CE)Indrani Bose , theoretical physicist (1951–present CE)Swapan Chattopadhyay , physicist (1951–present CE)Amitava Raychaudhuri , particle physicist (1952–present CE)G. R. Desiraju , structural chemist (1952–present CE)A. S. Kiran Kumar , space scientist (1952–present CE)Bikas Chakrabarti , physicist (1952–present CE)Rohini Godbole , physicist (1952–2024 CE)Salim Yusuf , physician (1952–present CE)Samir K. Brahmachari , biophysicist (1952–present CE)Venkatraman Ramakrishnan , structural biologist (1952–present CE)Vidya Arankalle , virologist (1952–present CE)Amar Gupta , computer scientist (1953–present CE)Ghanshyam Swarup , molecular biologist (1953–present CE)Michael Lobo , genealogist (1953–present CE)S. K. Shivakumar , space communications engineer (1953–2019 CE)Shobhona Sharma , molecular biologist (1953–present CE)Veena Parnaik , cell biologist (1953–present CE)Biman Bagchi , chemist (1954–present CE)C. K. Raju , polymath (1954–present CE)Ravindra Kumar Sinha , biologist (1954–present CE)Harsh Vardhan Batra , biotechnologist (1955–present CE)Ashoke Sen , theoretical physicist (1956–present CE)Gaiti Hasan , molecular biologist (1956–present CE)Narendra Karmarkar , mathematician, developed Karmakar algorithm (1956–present CE)Shrinivas Kulkarni , astronomer (1956–present CE)Sunil Mukhi , theoretical physicist (1956–present CE)Varun Sahni , theoretical physicist (1956–present CE)K. Sivan , aerospace engineer (1957–present CE)Thanu Padmanabhan , theoretical physicist (1957–2021 CE)Mylswamy Annadurai , aerospace engineer (1958–present CE)Nagendra Kumar Singh , agronomist (1958–present CE)Pamposh Bhat , environmentalist (1958–present CE)Santanu Bhattacharya , chemical biologist (1958–present CE)Vinod K. Singh , chemist (1959–present CE)Debasish Ghose , robotics engineer (1960–present CE)Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya , high-energy physicist (1960–present CE)Ram Rajasekharan , biologist (1960–present CE)Madan Rao , condensed matter and biological physicist (1960–present CE)Bharat Ratra , cosmologist and astroparticle physicist (1960–present CE)K. Sridhar , physicist (1961–present CE)Lov Grover , computer scientist (1961–present CE)P. Kunhikrishnan , space scientist (1961–present CE)Tapan Misra , digital hardware engineer (1961–present CE)Kalpana Chawla , astronaut and aerospace engineer (1962–2003 CE)Rajeev Motwani , theoretical computer scientist (1962–2009 CE)Shekhar C. Mande , computational biologist (1962–present CE)Uddhab Bharali , inventor, invented pomegrante de-seeder (1962–present CE)Gajendra Pal Singh Raghava , bioinformatician (1963–present CE)Sandip Trivedi , theoretical physicist (1963–present CE)VA Shiva Ayyadurai , systems biologist (1963–present CE)S. Somanath , aerospace engineer (1963–present CE)Upinder Singh Bhalla , computational neuroscientist (1963–present CE)Charusita Chakravarty , chemist (1964–2016 CE)Abhik Ghosh , inorganic chemist (1964–present CE)Usha Kulshreshtha , theoretical physicist (1964–present CE)Manjula Reddy , bacterial geneticist (1965–present CE)Arun K. Pati , quantum physicist (1966–present CE)Manindra Agrawal , computer scientist (1966–present CE)G. K. Ananthasuresh , quantum physicist (1967–present CE)Giridhar Madras , mechanical engineer (1967–present CE)Rajesh Gopakumar , theoretical physicist (1967–present CE)Shubha Tole , neuroscientist (1967–present CE)Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay , computational biologist (1968–present CE)Ramesh Raskar , computer scientist (1970–present CE)Hari Balakrishnan , computer scientist (1971–present CE)G. Naresh Patwari , chemist (1972–present CE)Shiraz Minwalla , theoretical physicist (1972–present CE)Subramanian Anantha Ramakrishna , optical and condensed matter physicist (1972–present CE)Aloke Paul , chemical engineer (1973–present CE)Ambarish Ghosh , materials scientist (1973–present CE)Kewal Krishan , forensic anthropologist (1973–present CE)Rajeev Kumar Varshney , agronomist and geneticist (1973–present CE)Manjul Bhargava , mathematician (1974–present CE)Yamuna Krishnan , organic chemist (1974–present CE)Ritu Karidhal , aerospace engineer (1975–present CE)Nishith Gupta , molecular biologist (1977–present CE)Pragya D. Yadav , virologist (1978–present CE)Akhilesh K. Gaharwar , biomedical engineer (1982–present CE)Pranav Mistry , computer scientist, invented Samsung's SixthSense (1984–present CE)Tathagat Avatar Tulsi , physicist (1987–present CE)Praveen Kumar Gorakavi , polymath (1989–present CE)Alex James , computer scientist (unknown)Bola Vithal Shetty , chemist (unknown)Dipan Ghosh , theoretical physicist (unknown)Gursaran Talwar , physician (unknown)Kavita Shah , biotechnologist (unknown)K. N. Ganeshaiah , agronomist (unknown)Anita Mahadevan-Jansen , biomedical engineer (unknown)Mirza Faizan , aerospace scientist (unknown)Maneesha S. Inamdar , biologist (unknown)Nandini Harinath , aerospace engineer (unknown)Padmanabhan Balaram , biochemist (unknown)Rashna Bhandari , biologist (unknown)Rama Govindarajan , fluid dynamicist (unknown)Rohini Balakrishnan , bioacousticist (unknown)Seema Bhatnagar , synthetic chemist (unknown)Shoba Sivasankar , geneticist (unknown)Siva S. Banda , aerospace engineer (unknown)Sivaram Murthy , computer scientist (unknown)Subhash Kak , computer scientist (unknown)Subrata Roy , fluid dynamicist (unknown)Somak Raychaudhury , astrophysicist (unknown)Sudhir Kumar Vempati , high-energy physicist (unknown)Suchitra Sebastian , condensed matter physicist (unknown)Ujjwal Maulik , computer scientist (1965–present CE)Uma Ramakrishnan , molecular ecologist (unknown)Umesh Waghmare , physicist (unknown)R.K. Kotnala , scientist (1982–present CE) 
