Telugu Americans

Telugus now constitute of one of the largest groups of Indian Americans[1]. The majority of Telugu Americans live in New York City, Long Island, Central New Jersey, and Central and Southern California, with smaller but significant populations throughout the country in major metropolitan and micropolitan areas of almost every state.

The Telugu community in the United States is largely bilingual. Recent study by the US-based Centre for Immigration Studies shows Telugu as the fastest growing language in US which has grown by 86% in the last seven years.

Vast majority is Hindu with significant minorities like Christians and Muslims.

Due to the rapidly increasing number of students and workers from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana in America, Telugu Americans have disproportionately suffered from hate crimes in America. The most notable of these incidents was the 2017 Olathe, Kansas shooting, in which a white supremacist, Adam Purinton, harassed two Telugu immigrants, Srinivas Kuchibhotla and Alok Madasani, under the pretense that Kuchibhotla and Madasani were Iranians or illegal immigrants; later shooting them, killing Kuchibhotla and wounding Madasani as well as Ian Grillot, a white American who had come to the defense of Kuchibhotla and Madasani. Numerous other incidents have occurred where Telugu students and workers have been the victims of crimes, whether as a result of their background or not.[2]

• Yellapragada Subbarao - Indian biochemist who discovered the function of adenosine triphosphate as an energy source in the cell
• Satya Nadella - Microsoft CEO
• Shantanu Narayen - CEO of Adobe Systems
• Raj Reddy - Recipient of Turing Award
• Neeli Bendapudi - President of University of Louisville
• Ravi V. Bellamkonda - Vinik Dean of Engineering Duke University Edmund T. Pratt Jr. School of Engineering
• Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao professor emeritus at Pennsylvania State University and Research Professor at the University at Buffalo
• Dabeeru C. Rao - Director of the Division of Biostatistics at Washington University School of Medicine
• G. S. Maddala - Mathematician and Economist best known for work in the field of Econometrics
• J. N. Reddy - Professor and holder of the Oscar S. Wyatt Endowed Chair in Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University
• Satya N. Atluri - Professor of mechanical & aerospace engineering at University of California, Irvine
• Padmasree Warrior - Former Chief Executive Officer of NIO (car company)
• Vijaya Lakshmi Emani (1958-2009) - Social activist
• Sarayu Rao - Actress
• Aneesh Chaganty - Film Director
• Akash Vukoti - TV Personality
• Hari Kondabolu - Stand Up Comedian
• Sashi Reddi - Entrepreneur, venture capitalist and a philanthropist
• Rishi Reddi - Author
• V. Mohan Reddy - Paediatric cardiothoracic surgeon at Stanford
• Raja Kumari - singer
• Mathukumalli Vidyasagar - Control theorist
• E. Premkumar Reddy - Oncologist; director of Fels institute of cancer research and molecular biology at Temple University
• Laxmi Poruri - Tennis player
• Nina Davuluri - Miss America 2014
• Dattatreyudu Nori - Vice Chairman of the Radiation Oncologist Department at The New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City
• Aruna Miller - American politician and a former member of the Maryland House of Delegates representing District 15 in Montgomery County, Maryland