List of British people in India
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There exist about 1 million of small but recognisable British people living in India who are mostly the ones who stayed after the partition, having British ancestry, foreign students, businessmen, workers, etc.
Notable people[edit]
- Augustus De Morgan
- Engelbert Humperdinck (singer)
- Diana Rigg
- Derek Prince
- Hugh Bignell, cricketer
- Annie Besant
- William Makepeace Thackeray
- Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
- Charles James Napier
- Barry Hay, vocalist of Golden Earring
- Cliff Richard, (born Harry Rodger Webb), singer
- Guy Douglas Arthur Fleetwood Wilson, administrator
- Rudyard Kipling, poet
- Norval Mitchell, author
- George Orwell or Eric Arthur Blair, novelist
- John Harvey-Jones
- George Adam Smith
- Vivien Leigh, actress
- Julie Christie, actress
- Merle Oberon, actress
- Gabrielle Drake, actress
- Joanna Lumley
- Richard Llewellyn
- Spike Milligan
- John Masters
- Mark Tully
- Jim Corbett
- George Thomas (soldier)
- Eyre Coote (East India Company officer) (1726–1783), soldier and Commander-in-chief of India
- Eyre Coote (British Army officer) (1760–1823), his nephew, Governor-General of India
- Colin Cowdrey
- Freddie Mercury
- Paddy Ashdown
- Kenneth Kendall
- Ronald Ross
- Neale Cooper, footballer
- Percy Brandt, actor
- Francis Younghusband, Explorer
- Torin Thatcher, actor
- Antony Legard, cricketer
- Joseph Sullivan (cricketer)
- William Horton (cricketer)
- Charles Barton (cricketer)
- Maxmillian Wood, cricketer
- Edward Frederick, cricketer
- John Higgins (cricketer)
- Richard Ashley, cricketer
- Edward Hamilton Aitken, author
- Flora Annie Steel, author
- Monier Monier-Williams, linguist
- Reginald Dyer
- Roshan Seth, actor
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