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Top 100 Academics in India

The most publicly visible academics in India.

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The most famous academics in India right now — ranked by the public attention they command across search, news, Wikipedia, and social.

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#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	—	B. R. Ambedkar	India	Academics	78.3	1.3
#2	—	Swami Vivekananda	India	Academics	74.1	0.0
#3	—	Srinivasa Ramanujan	India	Academics	73.2	6.2
#4	—	B Brahmagupta	India	Academics	71.8	1.6
#5	—	Ramakrishna	India	Academics	68.4	0.0
#6	—	Jiddu Krishnamurti	India	Academics	67.5	0.0
#7	—	Vandana Shiva	India	Academics	67.4	0.0
#8	—	Amartya Sen	India	Academics	67.2	0.0
#9	—	Adi Shankara	India	Academics	65.2	0.0
#10	—	Paramahansa Yogananda	India	Academics	61.0	0.0
#11	—	Mahmood Mamdani	India	Academics	60.7	5.4
#12	—	Ramana Maharshi	India	Academics	60.2	1.5
#13	—	Shakuntala Devi	India	Academics	59.8	18.2
#14	—	Aravind Srinivas	India	Academics	58.4	0.0
#15	—	Ram Mohan Roy	India	Academics	58.3	2.6
#16	—	Maharishi Mahesh Yogi	India	Academics	57.9	0.8
#17	—	Raghuram Rajan	India	Academics	57.2	3.4
#18	—	Syed Ahmad Khan	India	Academics	56.8	2.8
#19	—	Kanada	India	Academics	56.6	10.9
#20	—	Augustus De Morgan	India	Academics	56.5	3.6
#21	—	Bhāskara II	India	Academics	56.5	1.2
#22	—	AK Ajita Kesakambali	India	Academics	55.8	10.0
#23	—	Sariputta	India	Academics	55.6	3.0
#24	—	D. R. Kaprekar	India	Academics	55.6	15.0
#25	—	Sanjeev Sanyal	India	Academics	55.1	10.0
#26	—	Anandamayi Ma	India	Academics	55.1	0.0
#27	—	Sivananda Saraswati	India	Academics	54.8	1.1
#28	—	Dayananda Saraswati	India	Academics	54.6	0.0
#29	—	Madhvacharya	India	Academics	54.5	1.9
#30	—	Raj Reddy	India	Academics	54.3	5.5
#31	—	Tirumalai Krishnamacharya	India	Academics	54.3	16.3
#32	—	MU Mahbub ul Haq	India	Academics	54.0	15.8
#33	—	Mohan Agashe	India	Academics	53.9	17.3
#34	—	Subhash Kak	India	Academics	53.9	6.7
#35	—	Homi K. Bhabha	India	Academics	53.8	0.0
#36	—	Prakash Karat	India	Academics	53.7	15.0
#37	—	Subramanian Swamy	India	Academics	53.6	0.0
#38	—	Vallabha	India	Academics	53.5	2.7
#39	—	Vinoba Bhave	India	Academics	53.4	0.0
#40	—	Aswath Damodaran	India	Academics	53.3	20.4
#41	—	Manindra Agrawal	India	Academics	53.2	10.0
#42	—	Meghnad Saha	India	Academics	53.1	0.0
#43	—	S. R. Ranganathan	India	Academics	52.6	1.1
#44	—	Harish-Chandra	India	Academics	52.5	2.2
#45	—	Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao	India	Academics	52.3	0.3
#46	—	Rajendra K. Pachauri	India	Academics	52.0	0.0
#47	—	Jagdish Bhagwati	India	Academics	51.9	0.0
#48	—	Akka Mahadevi	India	Academics	51.9	0.0
#49	—	U. G. Krishnamurti	India	Academics	51.8	0.4
#50	—	P Pingala	India	Academics	51.5	0.2
#51	—	SR Shereen Ratnagar	India	Academics	51.4	10.0
#52	—	Vinod Rai	India	Academics	51.4	10.0
#53	—	Candrakīrti	India	Academics	51.4	0.0
#54	—	Sathamangalam Ranga Iyengar Srinivasa Varadhan	India	Academics	51.3	0.1
#55	—	C. Rangarajan	India	Academics	51.3	10.0
#56	—	Wahiduddin Khan	India	Academics	50.9	0.0
#57	—	NS Nilakantha Somayaji	India	Academics	50.8	0.5
#58	—	Jairam Ramesh	India	Academics	50.8	0.0
#59	—	Rajeev Motwani	India	Academics	50.6	3.4
#60	—	Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar	India	Academics	50.6	0.0
#61	—	Nanabhoy Palkhivala	India	Academics	50.6	9.8
#62	—	Irawati Karve	India	Academics	50.5	4.2
#63	—	Chandra Talpade Mohanty	India	Academics	50.5	6.8
#64	—	Montek Singh Ahluwalia	India	Academics	50.4	2.0
#65	—	Abid Hussain	India	Academics	50.3	8.5
#66	—	Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi	India	Academics	50.3	1.9
#67	—	Kaushik Basu	India	Academics	50.3	6.0
#68	—	RN R. N. Malhotra	India	Academics	50.0	7.0
#69	—	Arvind Subramanian	India	Academics	50.0	8.5
#70	—	C. K. Prahalad	India	Academics	49.9	7.0
#71	—	M. N. Srinivas	India	Academics	49.8	5.3
#72	—	Mooji	India	Academics	49.6	0.0
#73	—	MH Muhammad Hamidullah	India	Academics	49.4	0.4
#74	—	Divya Dwivedi	India	Academics	49.3	9.2
#75	—	Duvvuri Subbarao	India	Academics	49.2	2.2
#76	—	Amit Mitra	India	Academics	49.2	0.0
#77	—	Satyatma Tirtha	India	Academics	49.0	9.2
#78	—	Birbal Sahni	India	Academics	49.0	0.4
#79	—	Sugata Mitra	India	Academics	49.0	0.8
#80	—	Ernest Dunlop Swinton	India	Academics	48.7	9.8
#81	—	PK Purana Kassapa	India	Academics	48.7	17.1
#82	—	Ramchandra Gandhi	India	Academics	48.7	0.0
#83	—	Sendhil Mullainathan	India	Academics	48.5	16.2
#84	—	Pandurang Shastri Athavale	India	Academics	48.5	0.0
#85	—	Vidyasagar	India	Academics	48.4	1.0
#86	—	Thomas Isaac	India	Academics	48.3	4.8
#87	—	A Anandavardhana	India	Academics	48.2	6.2
#88	—	Gopinath Kaviraj	India	Academics	48.2	12.7
#89	—	Arogyaswami Paulraj	India	Academics	48.2	4.4
#90	—	Nitasha Kaul	India	Academics	48.2	9.5
#91	—	Madhu Sudan	India	Academics	48.2	15.0
#92	—	Avinash Dixit	India	Academics	48.1	0.0
#93	—	Mangala Narlikar	India	Academics	48.0	6.7
#94	—	Umaswati	India	Academics	48.0	8.4
#95	—	Dhirendra Brahmachari	India	Academics	48.0	0.0
#96	—	Bina Agarwal	India	Academics	47.9	1.0
#97	—	J. C. Kumarappa	India	Academics	47.8	8.9
#98	—	John Mathai	India	Academics	47.7	0.0
#99	—	NK Narendra Karmarkar	India	Academics	47.6	0.0
#100	—	Y. Venugopal Reddy	India	Academics	47.5	2.4

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