15. Sant Singh Chatwal

Chatwal is a famous hotelier and businessman, who is the owner of the Bombay Palace chain of restaurants and $750 million hotel chain Hampshire Hotels & Resorts. Even though he has been a resident of America for more than 25 years, he says that ‘my tastes remain the same and I feel strongly rooted to my land of birth’. He was honoured with the Padma Bhushan in the year 2010 by Pratibha Patil.

16. Sanjay Gupta

Sanjay Gupta the chief medical correspondent for CNN is best known to the media world as the multiple Emmy-award winner. Apart from playing a vital role in CNN’s reporting on health and medical news, Gupta is a practicing neurosurgeon. The journalistic world has full praise for this talented guy for his extraordinary skill to combine medicine, journalism and fiction-writing with maximum dedication and hard work