10 Famous Americans You Didn't Know Were Indian

By siliconindia   |   Thursday, 12 July 2012, 23:59 IST
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Aziz Ansari

Aziz Ansari, an Indian-origin American writer and stand-up comedian has huge fan following him, which goes up to more than 1.7 million on Twitter. Ansari, who holds a graduation in marketing from Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University, started his career performing stand-up comedy. He got a place in the "Hot List" of Rolling Stone in the year 2005 and was also honoured with the Jury Award for "Best Standup" at HBO’s U.S Comedy Arts Festival in the year 2006.He was born in South Carolina to Indian immigrants from Tamil Nadu.