List of British Asian people

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This is a list of British Asian people, namely people in the United Kingdom whose ethnic origin lies in South Asia (for the purposes of the list including Burma). Those with an East Asian ("Oriental") background are not listed; in British English, "Asian" tends to refer to the South (Indian subcontinent) rather than the East of the continent.

Contents 1 Business and Industry 2 Entertainment 3 Journalism and Media 4 Literature 5 Music 6 Politics 7 Sport 8 Other 9 See Also

[edit] Business and Industry

• Shami Ahmed, Founder Joe Bloggs.
• Waheed Alli, co-Founder Planet 24.
• Vikrant Bhargava , co-founder PartyGaming
• Karan Bilimoria, Founder Cobra Beer.
• Dinesh Dhamija, Founder Ebookers
• Anurag Dikshit, co-founder PartyGaming
• Hinduja brothers.
• Firoz Kassam, former owner of Oxford United F.C.
• Gulu Lalvani, Founder Binatone.
• Avtar Lit, Founder Sunrise Radio.
• Lakshmi Mittal, steel magnate.
• Tahir Mohsan, founder Time Computers.
• Arun Sarin, Chief Executive Vodafone.
• Tom Singh, Founder New Look
• Nasir Jamal, Founder mel-jol
• Gulam Noon, Businessman
• Pathak Brothers, Pickle Industry

[edit] Entertainment

• Simon Nagra, actor.
• Naveen Andrews, actor.
• Mina Anwar, actor.
• Sanjeev Bhaskar, comedian and actor.
• Gurinder Chadha, movie director.
• Ameet Chana, actor.
• Ladda Clarke, singer, dancer and comedian.
• Omid Djalili, actor, comedian.
• Kulvinder Ghir, actor.
• Shobna Gulati, actor.
• Konnie Huq, television presenter.
• Tom Hosack, gay perfomer and partner of N'Sync member Lance Bass.
• Konnie Huq, television presenter.
• Waris Hussein, film and television director.
• Indira Joshi, actor.
• Raghav Joshi, comedian
• Rani Khanijau, television presenter.
• Ben Kingsley, actor - born Krishna Bhanji, father - from Zanzibar of a Gujarati family, mother European Jewish.
• Akbar Kurtha, actor
• Annabella Lwin, singer.
• Ismail Merchant, James Ivory's producer.
• Rhona Mitra (1976 - ) actress and model; father from Calcutta^[1]
• Shazia Mirza, comedian.
• Jimi Mistry, actor.
• Parminder Nagra, actor.
• Bobby Friction, Radio DJ.
• Archie Panjabi, actor.
• Ray Panthaki, actor.
• Om Puri, actor.
• Laila Rouass, actor.
• Sunetra Sarker, actor.
• Pooja Shah, actor.
• Meera Syal, author, comedian and actor.
• Indira Varma, actor.
• Nina Wadia, comedian and actor.

[edit] Journalism and Media

• Harminder Thind, Editor DesiDesi.com
• Sameera Ahmed, Television Journalist.
• George Alagiah, Television journalist.
• Waheed Alli, Television producer.
• Fareena Alam, Editor Q-News.
• Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Columnist.
• Martin Bashir, Broadcaster
• Reeta Chakrabarti, BBC politial correspondent
• Sonia Deol, Presenter and Reporter.
• Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Television journalist.
• Krishna Guha, Editorial leader writer for the Financial Times.
• Sunny Hundal, a journalist and a political blogger.
• Nina Hussain, British TV Newsreader.
• Nimisha Kashyap, choreographer.
• Saira Khan, Presenter.
• Adil Ray, Presenter and Reporter.
• Anita Rani, Presenter and Reporter.
• Varun Sharma, Television journalist.
• Ashanti OMkar, Journalist, poet and radio presenter
• Hardeep Singh Kohli, Writer, Presenter and Reporter.
• Martin Bashir, Television journalist

[edit] Literature

• Monica Ali, author - Bengali father and English mother.
• Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti, playwright.
• Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, author and columnist.
• Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal, author.
• Kia Abdullah, author.
• Hanif Kureishi, author.
• Hari Kunzru, author.
• V.S. Naipaul, author (from Indian community in Trinidad).
• Salman Rushdie, author.
• Vikram Seth, author.
• Simon Singh, author of scientific and mathematical interest.
• Meera Syal, author of Anita & Me and a few other books as well, also an actress, comedian and director.

Adil Ray

[edit] Music

• Bobby Friction and Nihal, Radio one presenters [and individually documentary presenters/writers/producers].
• Freddie Mercury, singer - born Farrokh Bulsara in Zanzibar to an Indian Parsee family, educated in India and England.
• Abdul Smooth (DJ and Music Producer), Director of [indian electronica]
• Rajinder Rai, aka Panjabi MC, dance musician.
• Raj Asia, Music Producer/Engineer/Composer/Lyricist/DJ/Dance Choreographer/Programmer(USING PRO-TOOLS)
• Rishi Rich, Bhangra Musician\Singer\Composer\Lyricist
• Bally Sagoo, DJ and Music Producer
• Nitin Sawhney, Dance Musician.
• Talvin Singh, Dance Musician.
• Tjinder Singh, lead singer of Cornershop.
• Swami (musical band), Rap/Rock Band
• Juggy D, Bhangra Singer and producer
• Mentor Kolektiv, Bhangra/Hip Hop Band
• Simon Nandhra, Music Producer
• Darius Battiwalla, Musician and Conductor, Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus and the Royal Northern College of Music

[edit] Politics

See also British Asians in politics of the United Kingdom

• Mike Banda (Michael Van Der Poorten), Trotskyist.
• Mancherjee Bhownagree, Conservative (Second Indian MP in British Parliament).
• Parmjit Dhanda, Labour MP.
• Nirj Deva, Conservate MEP.
• Parmjit Singh Gill, Liberal Democrats.
• Syed Kamall, Conservative MEP
• Piara Khabra, Labour MP.
• Sadiq Khan, Labour MP.
• Ashok Kumar, Labour MP.
• Khalid Mahmood , Labour MP.
• Shahid Malik , Labour MP.
• Claude Moraes, Labour MEP.
• Dadabhai Naoroji,Liberal Party (First Indian MP in British Parliament).
• Chai Patel
• Priti Patel, Conservative Party (former Press Secretary of William Hague's Press Office, Member of the A List and PPC for Nottingham North in 2005 General Election and Conservative PPC for Witham at the Next United Kingdom general election).
• Lord Swaraj Paul
• Shapurji Saklatvala, Communist MP.
• Mohammad Sarwar, Labour MP.
• Marsha Singh, Labour MP.
• Shailesh Vara, Conservative MP.
• Keith Vaz, Labour MP.
• Salma Yaqoob, Respect Party Vice Chair, Birmingham City
• Philip Jadidi

Councillor and former Respect Party PPC.

[edit] Sport

First flag indicates country of origin. Second flag indicates country representing.

• Usman Afzaal, cricketer.
• Adnan Ahmed, footballer
• Kabir Ali, cricketer.
• Kadeer Ali, cricketer.
• Moeen Ali, cricketer.
• Ravinder Bopara, cricketer.
• Michael Chopra, footballer.
• Majid Haq, cricketer.
• Nasser Hussain, cricketer.
• Omer Hussain, cricketer.
• Ronnie Irani, cricketer.
• Amir Khan, boxer.
• Adam Langley-Khan, A1 Grand Prix driver.
• Sajid Mahmood, cricketer.
• Monty Panesar, cricketer.
• Min Patel, cricketer.
• Mark Ramprakash, cricketer.
• Zesh Rehman, footballer
• Bilal Shafayat, cricketer.
• Owais Shah, cricketer.
• Harpal Singh, footballer
• Vikram Solanki, cricketer.

[edit] Other

Flag indicates country of origin.

• Maharaja Duleep Singh, Prince of Perthshire
• George Edalji, barrister falsely accused of horse killing, defended by Arthur Conan Doyle.
• Merle Oberon, British actress of mixed British, Sinhalese, and Irish descent.
• Buck Ruxton, 1930's murder, born a Parsi.
• Saira Shah, journalist, daughter of Idries Shah and a half Parsi woman.
• Shami Chakrabarti, Human rights activist and Director of civil rights organization Liberty.
• Michael Nazir-Ali, Bishop of Rochester

[edit] See Also

• List of British Asian Owned Businesses