20th-century Indian designers

Indian author, interior designer

Indian costume designer and painter (1929–2020)

Indian independence activist (1876–1963)

Winner of the Miss India contest, actress, film producer and film distributor (1916–2006)

Indian artist, known for building the Rock Garden of Chandigarh (1924-2015)

Indian actress

Indian architect

theatre director (1925–2020)

Indian fashion designer

Swiss-Indian designer, best known for designing the Param Vir Chakra

Indian costume designer

Indian architect

Indian actress

Indian actress and costume designer

Indian artist (1925-2020)

Indian screenplay writer, costume designer, art director, theatre person, art critic, and documentary film maker

film director

Indian academic and designer

Fashion stylist, costume designer

Bharathan Parameshwara Menon Palissery (14 November 1946 – 30 July 1998), known mononymously as Bharathan, was an Indian film maker, artist, and art director. Bharathan is noted for being the founder of a new school of film making in Malayalam cinema, along with Padmarajan and K. G. George, in the 1980s, which created films that were widely received while also being critically acclaimed. A train of directors, and screenwriters followed this school onto the 1990s including Sibi Malayil, Kamal, Lohithadas and Jayaraj.

Indian designer and educator

Indian art director

Indian actress (1952–2010)

Indian architect, designer and a design pedagogue

Indian art director and production designer

Indian actor and artist (1935-2017)

Saudi theater director residing in India

Indian theatre director

art director, production designer

film director (1921–1999)

weaver and textile designer, based in Mumbai, India

Indian artist

Indian fashoin designer

K. Surendran (born 16 March 1956), better known by his stage name Indrans, is an Indian actor and former costume designer, who appears in Malayalam films. He started his film career as a costume designer and actor in 1981 and got a breakthrough in 1994 with the comedy movie CID Unnikrishnan B.A., B.Ed. Indrans was popular for his comedy roles in the 1990s and 2000s.

Indian filmmaker

Indian businessman

Indian art director

Indian architect and designer

Indian painter

Indian theatre designer

Indian film director (1944–2018)

Film director and screenwriter

Indian industrial designer, technocrat, architect (born 1967)