A list of notable or famous people of the past 100 years who are Hindu
- Baba Amte : Social reformer
- Pandurang Shastri Athavale : Social reformer
- Sri Aurobindo : Mystic and philosopher
- Annie Besant : Theosophist and president of the Congress Party
- Prabhupada A.C. Bhaktivedanta : ISKCON founder
- Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya : Philosopher
- Jagdish Chandra Bose : Scientist
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar : Scientist
- Swami Chinmayananda : Religious leader
- Ananda Coomaraswamy : Art historian
- Ram Dass : American spiritual leader
- Swami Dayananda : Religious leader
- Mohandas Gandhi : National leader
- George Harrison : Musician
- Aldous Huxley : Novelist
- Christopher Isherwood : Writer
- Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul : Novelist
- Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa : Mystic
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan : Philosopher
- Ramana Maharshi : Mystic
- Ram Mohan Roy : Reformer
- J.D. Salinger : Novelist
- Erwin Schrödinger : Physicist
- Sivaya Subramuniyaswami : Modern sage and Founder of Hinduism Today
- Rabindranath Tagore : Writer
- Balgangadhar Tilak : National leader
- Swami Vivekananda : Revolutionary monk
- Paramahansa Yogananda : Yogi
- Ralph Waldo Emerson : American Transcendentalist
- Arthur Schopenhauer : Philosopher
- Nikola Tesla : physicist, mathematician, inventor, and electrical engineer
- Henry David Thoreau : American Transcendentalist