List of people from Ahmedabad

There are a number of distinguished citizens of Ahmedabad who have been awarded with the highest civilian awards of the country.

Bharat Ratna[]

Dr. Vikram Sarabhai - Padma Bhushan in 1966, Padma Vibhushan awarded posthumously in 1972

Alisha Chinai, an Indian pop singer known for her Indi-pop albums as well as playback singing in Hindi cinema.
Sakharam Ganesh Pandit, an Indian-American lawyer and civil rights activist^[1]
Darshan Raval, an Indian singer & composer.
Disha Vakani, Actor and Worked in The Show Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah
Dr. Vikran I. Shah, an Indian orthopedic surgeon, based in Ahmedabad. Shah established Shalby Hospitals in 1994.
Ali Sher Bengali, 16th-century Sufi saint of the Shattari order

^ Coulson, Doug (2017). Race, nation, and refuge : the rhetoric of race in Asian American citizenship cases. Albany: SUNY Press. pp. 76–82. ISBN 978-1-4384-6662-0. OCLC 962141092.