In Bollywood, much like in Hollywood back in the day, the actors and actresses of the industry are treated much like a modern aristocracy within India, a notion they live up to with their clans and many actors literally born into the business.
Here is an incomplete list of noteworthy actors and actresses. Because commenters on youtube and other places have a tendency to get nasty about the private lives of Bollywood celebrities, there has been an attempt to include (in a fairly dispassionate way) the major scandals and controversies surrounding these people, to give tropers who are new to Bollywood some idea of what is being said about these screen personalities.
- John Abraham
- Dev Anand
- Abhishek Bachchan
- Amitabh Bachchan
- Bipasha Basu
- Jaya Bhaduri
- Alia Bhatt
- Juhi Chawla
- Priyanka Chopra
- Ajay Devgn
- Dharmendra
- Madhuri Dixit
- Sanjay Dutt
- Bobby Deol
- Sunny Deol
- Sunil Dutt
- Ali Fazal
- Katrina Kaif
- Kajol
- Dimple Kapadia
- Anil Kapoor
- Kareena Kapoor
- Karisma Kapoor
- Raj Kapoor
- Ranbir Kapoor *
- Rishi Kapoor
- Shammi Kapoor
- Shashi Kapoor
- Aamir Khan
- Saif Ali Khan
- Salman Khan
- Shah Rukh Khan
- Akshaye Khanna
- Rajesh Khanna
- Vinod Khanna
- Anupam Kher
- Akshay Kumar
- Dilip Kumar
- Sanjeev Kumar
- Sunny Leone
- Hema Malini
- Rani Mukherji
- Nargis
- Amrish Puri
- Aishwarya Rai
- Dalip Singh Rana
- Hrithik Roshan
- Mallika Sherawat
- Jackie Shroff
- Sridevi
- Sharmila Tagore
