This is an alphabetical list of notable Indian male film actors.

Given below is a list that includes actors from different time periods—from early pioneers of silent cinema and the golden age of Indian films to contemporary performers who have achieved critical and commercial success. Actresses listed here may have worked in more than one regional industry, and many have also appeared in international projects. Indian cinema is composed of multilingual and multi-ethnic film art. In 2022, Hindi cinema represented 33% of box office revenue, followed by Telugu representing 20%, Tamil representing 16%, Kannada representing 8%, and Malayalam representing 6%. Other prominent film industries are Bengali, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Gujarati, Assamese and Bhojpuri cinema. This list comprises actors from all these industries across India.

A

Aadhi Pinisetty Aadi Saikumar Aamir Khan Aanjjan Srivastav Abbas Abhay Deol Abhijith Abhishek Bachchan Abhishek Banerjee Abhishek Chatterjee Abhimanyu Dassani Abhimanyu Singh Abijeet Duddala Abir Chatterjee Achyuth Kumar Adhyayan Suman Adil Hussain Aditya Babu Aditya Pancholi Aditya Lakhia Aditya Roy Kapur Aditya Seal Adoor Bhasi Aftab Shivdasani Ahuti Prasad Ajay Ajay Devgn Ajay Ghosh Ajay Rao Ajaz Khan Ajinkya Deo Ajit Khan Ajith Kumar Ajmal Ameer Aju Varghese A. K. Hangal Akkineni Akhil Akhilendra Mishra Akshay Anand Akshay Kumar Akshaye Khanna Akshay Oberoi Akul Balaji Ali Basha Ali Fazal Ali Zafar Allari Naresh Allu Arjun Allu Sirish Alok Nath Amar Talwar Ambareesh Amitabh Bachchan Amit Sadh Amit Sial Amjad Khan Ammy Virk Amol Palekar Amrish Puri Anand Tiwari Anant Nag Angad Bedi Anil Kapoor Aniruddha Jatkar Ankith Koyya Ankush Chaudhari Ankush Hazra Annu Kapoor Anoop Kumar Anoop Menon Anshuman Jha Anubhav Mohanty Anuj Gurwara Anupam Kher Anupam Sharma Anup Soni Anurag Kashyap Anwar Hussain Aparshakti Khurana Apurva Agnihotri Aravind Akash Arbaaz Khan Arif Zakaria Arjan Bajwa Arjun Kapoor Arjun Mathur Arjun Rampal Arjun Sarja Arshad Warsi Arun Sarnaik Arun Vijay Arunoday Singh Arvind Krishna Arvind Swamy Arya Babbar Arya Cethirakath Ashish Chaudhary Ashish Vidyarthi Ashok Ashok Kumar Asif Ali Asif Basra Asrani Ashok Saraf Ashok Selvan Ashutosh Rana Atharvaa Attakathi Dinesh Atul Agnihotri Atul Kulkarni Atul Parchure Auditya Avinash Tiwary Avinash Ayushmann Khurrana

B

B. C. Patil B. R. Panthulu Baburaj Babu Antony Balakrishna Balakrishna Nandamuri Balakrishna Valluri Balan K. Nair Balaraj Balraj Sahni Bank Janardhan Barun Sobti Benjamin Gilani Bhagwan Dada Bhanu Chander Bharat Bhushan Bharat Jadhav Bharath Gopi Bharath Srinivasan Bharathiraja Bank Janardhan Bijay Mohanty Bijon Bhattacharya Biju Menon Biju Phukan Biswajit Chatterjee Biswaroop Roy Chowdhury Bob Christo Bobby Deol Bobby Kottarakkara Bobby Simha Bonny Sengupta Boman Irani Brahmanandam Brijendra Kala Bullet Prakash

C

C. R. Simha Chandra Mohan (Hindi actor) Chandra Mohan (Telugu actor) Chandrachur Singh Chandrashekhar (actor) Charan Raj Charlie Charu Haasan Chetan Chandra Chetan Kumar Chetan Maddineni Chhabi Biswas Chi. Guru Dutt Chinni Jayanth Chikkanna Chiranjeevi Konidala Chiranjeevi Sarja Chunky Pandey Crazy Mohan Cyrus Broacha Cyrus Sahukar

D

Dada Kondke Dalip Tahil Danny Denzongpa Dara Singh Darshan (Kannada actor) Darshan (Tamil actor) Darsheel Safary Dattatreya David Deepak Dobriyal Deepak Tijori Dev (Bengali actor) Dev (Tamil actor) Dev Anand Dev Gill Devan Devaraj Deven Verma Dharmavarapu Subramanyam Dharmendra Dhanush Dheerendra Gopal Dhruva Sarja Diganta Hazarika Diganth Dinesh Dingri Nagaraj Dino Morea Dileep Diljit Dosanjh Dilip Kumar Dilip Prabhavalkar Dinesh Lal Yadav Divyang Thakkar Divyendu Sharma Doddanna Dulquer Salmaan Duniya Vijay Dwarakish

E

Emraan Hashmi Erick Avari

F

Fahadh Faasil Faisal Khan Fardeen Khan Farhan Akhtar Farooq Sheikh Faruk Kabir Fawad Khan Feroz Khan Fish Venkat

G

G. K. Govinda Rao G. V. Iyer Gajendra Chauhan Ganesh Ganesh Venkatraman Gangadhar Gaurav Chanana Gautham Karthik Gautham Vasudev Menon Gavie Chahal Gemini Ganesan Gippy Grewal Gireesh Sahedev Giri Babu Girish Karnad Girish Kumar Taurani Gopichand Lagadapati Gufi Paintal Gurmeet Choudhary Gopal Datt Goundamani Govinda Gubbi Veeranna Gulshan Devaiah Gulshan Grover Gummadi Gurdas Maan Guru Dutt Gurukiran Guruprasad

H

Hamsavardhan Harbhajan Mann Hardy Sandhu Harikrishna Nandamuri Harinam Singh Harish Kumar Harish Raj Harsh Mayar Harshad Chopda Harsh Varrdhan Kapoor Harshvardhan Rane Harisree Ashokan Harman Baweja Himansh Kohli Hiran Chatterjee Hiten Paintal Hiten Tejwani Hrithik Roshan Himesh Reshammiya Honnappa Bhagavathar Honnavalli Krishna Hunsur Krishnamurthy

I

I. S. Johar Iftekar Imaad Shah Imran Abbas Naqvi Imran Hasnee Imran Khan Inder Kumar Indrajith Sukumaran Indrans Inderpal Singh Innocent Vincent Irrfan Khan Inaamulhaq Ishaan Khattar Ivan Rodriguez

J

J. P. Chandrababu J. V. Somayajulu Jaaved Jaffrey Jackie Shroff Jackky Bhagnani Jagadish Jagapati Babu Jagathy Sreekumar Jagdeep Jagdish Raj Jaggesh Jai Jaideep Ahlawat Jaishankar Jai Akash Jai Jagadish Jameel Khan Jaspal Bhatti Jatin Bora Javed Sheikh Jaya Prakash Reddy Jayadev Mohan Jayam Ravi Jayan Jayant Jayaram Jayram Karthik Jayasurya Jeet Jeetendra Jeeva Jeevan Jiiva Jim Sarbh Jimmy Shergill Jisshu Sengupta Jitendra Kumar Jithan Ramesh Joe Simon John Abraham Johnny Lever Johnny Walker Vijay (actor) Joy Mukherjee Jugal Hansraj

K

K. Bhagyaraj K. L. Saigal K. N. Singh K. S. Ashwath Kabir Bedi Kader Khan Kaikala Satyanarayana Kalabhavan Mani Kalyan Kumar Kalyan Ram Kamaal Rashid Khan Kamal Haasan Kapil Bora Kapil Sharma Karan Karan Johar Karan Kapoor Karan Kundra Karan Nath Karan Singh Grover Karan Wahi Karibasavaiah Karthi Karthik Kartik Aaryan Kartikeya Gummakonda Karunas Kashinath Kashinath Ghanekar Kay Kay Menon Kayoze Irani Keerthiraj Kemparaj Urs Keshto Mukherjee Khayyum Basha Khesari Lal Yadav Kiku Sharda Kiran Kumar Kishan Shrikanth Kishore Kishore Kumar Komal Kumar Kona Venkat Kota Srinivasa Rao Krishna (Kannada actor) Krishna (Telugu actor) Krishnam Raju Krishnudu Krushna Abhishek Kulbhushan Kharbanda Kumar Bangarappa Kumar Gaurav Kumar Govind Kumud Mishra Kunaal Roy Kapur Kunal Singh Kunal Kapoor (born 1959) Kunal Kapoor (born 1977) Kunal Khemu Kunchacko Boban Kunigal Nagabhushan Kuthiravattam Pappu

L

Lavrenti Lopes Lawrence Raghavendra Laxmikant Berde Lekh Tandon Lohithaswa Lokesh Loknath Lucky Ali Luv Sinha

M

Manav Kaul M. B. Shetty M. G. Ramachandran M. G. Soman M. K. Raina M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar M. N. Nambiar M. P. Shankar M. S. Narayana M. V. Vasudeva Rao Mac Mohan Madan Puri Madhu Mahendra Sandhu Mahesh Babu Mahesh Manjrekar Mahesh Kothare Makrand Deshpande Malaysia Vasudevan Mammootty Mamik Singh Mandeep Roy Manish Chaudhary Mani Damodara Chakyar Mani Madhava Chakyar Manikuttan Manish Raisinghani Manivannan Manjot Singh Manna Dey Manish Paul Manoj Bajpai Manoj Joshi Manoj K. Jayan Manoj Kumar Manoj Manchu Manoj Tiger Manoj Tiwari Master Hirannaiah Master Manjunath Master Vinayak Mehar Mittal Mehmood Meiyang Chang Michael Madhu Milind Soman Mimoh Chakraborty Mithun Chakraborty Mithun Tejaswi Mohammed Zeeshan Ayub Khan Mohan Agashe Mohan Babu Mohanlal Mohan Joshi Mohan Rao Mohan Shankar Mohit Madaan Mohit Raina Mohnish Behl Motilal Mukesh Mukesh Khanna Mukesh Tiwari Mukkamala Mukri Mukhyamantri Chandru Mukul Dev Murali Krishna Murali Mohan Murali Siddalingaiah Mysore Lokesh

N

N. S. Krishnan N. T. Rama Rao N. T. Rama Rao Jr. Nandish Sandhu Naga Chaitanya Naga Kiran Nagarjuna Akkineni Nagesh Nagendra Babu Nagendra Prasad Nageswara Rao Akkineni Nagayya V. Nagineedu Nakul Roshan Sahdev Namit Das Namit Shah Nana Patekar Nani Narain Narasimharaju Narasimharaju Narendra Prasad Naresh Naseeruddin Shah Nassar Navdeep Naveen Kasturia Naveen Polishetty Navin Prabhakar Nawazuddin Siddiqui Nazir Hussain Nedumudi Venu Neeraj Kabi Negro Johnny Neil Bhatt Neil Nitin Mukesh Nikhil Gowda Nikhil Siddharth Nikitin Dheer Nilu Phule Ninad Kamat Nipon Goswami Nithin Nivin Pauly

O

Omkar Kapoor Oduvil Unnikrishnan Om Prakash Om Puri Om Shivpuri Omi Vaidya

P

Pankaj Dheer Pankaj Kapoor Pankaj Tripathi Parambrata Chatterjee Paresh Rawal Parikshit Sahni Parmeet Sethi Parvin Dabas Parzan Dastur Pasupathy Pawan Kalyan Pawan Singh Pinchoo Kapoor Piyush Mishra Prabal Panjabi Prabhas Prabhu Deva Prabhu Pradeep Kumar Pradeep Pandey Pradeep Rawat Prajwal Devaraj Prakash Raj Pran Pranav Mohanlal Prasadbabu Prasanna Prasenjit Chatterjee Prashant Damle Prashanta Nanda Prashanth Thyagarajan Prateik Babbar Prathap Prem Prem Chopra Prem Kumar Prem Nath Prem Nazir Prithviraj Ballireddy Prithviraj Kapoor Prithviraj Sukumaran Priyanshu Painyuli Pu La Deshpande Pulkit Samrat Puneet Issar Puneet Rajkumar Puri Jagannadh

R

R. Madhavan R. Nagendra Rao R. Nageshwara Rao Raaj Kumar Raghav Juyal Raghavan Raghavendra Rajkumar Raghu Babu Raghu Mukherjee Raghubir Yadav Raghuvaran Rahman Rahul Roy Rahul Bose Rahul Dev Raja Shankar Raj Babbar Raj Kapoor Rajanala Rajanand Rajesh Sharma, born 1971 Rajesh Sharma, born 1973 Rajkummar Rao Rajkumar Patra Rajat Barmecha Rajendra Gupta Rajendra Kumar Rajendra Nath Rajesh (Kala Thapaswi) Rajesh Khanna Rajesh Khattar Rajesh Krishnan Rajit Kapoor Rajinikanth Ram Kapoor Rajeev Verma Rajiv Kanakala Rajiv Kapoor Rajkumar Rajneesh Duggal Rajpal Yadav Raju Srivastav Rakesh Bedi Rakesh Roshan Ramakrishna Ramki Ram Charan Teja Ramesh Aravind Ramesh Babu Ramesh Bhat Ramesh Deo Ramesh Khanna Ram Kumar Ram Pothineni Rana Daggubati Ranbir Kapoor Randeep Hooda Randhir Kapoor Ranjeet Ranveer Singh Ranvir Shorey Ravi Babu Ravi Kishan Ravi Prakash Ravi Sarma Ravi Shankar Ravi Teja Ravichandran Ravichandran Veeraswamy Raza Murad Richard Rishi Rishi Kapoor Riteish Deshmukh Riyaz Khan Rockline Venkatesh Rocky Rupkumar Patra Rohit Roy Ronit Roy Roshan Seth

S

S. Narayan S Sathyendra S. J. Suryah S. P. Balasubrahmanyam S. P. B. Charan S. Shankar S. V. Ranga Rao Saandip Sachin Pilgaonkar Sachin Khedekar Sadhu Kokila Saeed Jaffrey Sahil Khan Sahil Shroff Sahil Vaid Sai Kumar Sai Kumar Saif Ali Khan Sai Dharam Tej Sajid Khan Sajjad Delafrooz Saleem Kumar Salim Khan Salman Khan Sameer Dattani Samir Kochhar Samir Soni Sampath Sampath Raj Sandeep Kulkarni Sanjay Dutt Sanjay Kapoor Sanjay Khan Sanjay Mishra Sanjay Suri Sanjeev Bhaskar Sanjeev Kumar Sanjeev Tyagi Sankaradi Sanketh Kashi Santhanam Sapru Saqib Saleem Sarath Babu Sarath Kumar Sarfaraz Khan Sarigama Viji Sathyaraj Sathyan Nadar Sathyan Sivakumar Satish Shah Sathish Ninasam Satyajeet Puri Sathyajith Saurabh Shukla Sayaji Shinde Sayak Chakraborty Senthil Shaad Randhawa Shaam Shaan Shabir Ahluwalia Shahid Kapoor Shah Rukh Khan Shammi Kapoor Shani Mahadevappa Shankar Shankar Nag Shanthanu Bhagyaraj Sharad Kelkar Sharad Talwalkar Sharman Joshi Sharat Saxena Sharath Babu Sharath Kumar Sharath Lohitashwa Sharman Joshi Shashank shende Shashi Kapoor Shashikumar Shatrughan Sinha Shehzad Khan Shekhar Suman Shiny Ahuja Shirish Kunder Shivkumar Subramaniam Shivam Patil Shivarajkumar Shobraj Shreela Ghosh Shreyas Talpade Shriram Lagoo Sibiraj Siddhant Chaturvedi Sidhant Gupta Sidharth Malhotra Sidharth Shukla Siddhanta Mahapatra Siddharth Koirala Siddharth Narayan Siddharth Nigam