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At 16.4% of the Asian population, Indian Americans make up the third largest Asian-American ethnic group, following Chinese Americans and Filipino Americans. [ 95 ] [ 96 ] [ 97 ] A joint Duke University-UC Berkeley study revealed that Indian immigrants have founded more engineering and technology companies from 1995 to 2005 than immigrants from ...
Nimi McConigley, first Indian American women to serve in any American State legislature served in the Wyoming State Legislature from 1994 until 1996 (Republican) Aruna Miller, 10th Lt. Governor of Maryland and the first South Asian woman elected lieutenant governor in the United States, [27] (Democratic)
In 1985, a group was formed in Tennessee, the Mid-south Indemnity Association, which then grew nationwide and changed its name to the Indo American Hospitality Association. [4] Another group of Indian hoteliers was created in Atlanta in 1989 to address discrimination issues and increase awareness of Asian Americans working in the hospitality ...
This list comprises the largest companies currently in the United States by revenue as of 2024, according to the Fortune 500 tally of companies and Forbes.. The Fortune 500 list of companies includes only publicly traded companies, also including tax inversion companies.
Indonesian Americans are migrants from the multiethnic country of Indonesia to the United States, and their U.S.-born descendants. [4] In both the 2000 and 2010 United States census , they were the 15th largest group of Asian Americans recorded in the United States as well as one of the fastest growing.
The United States India Political Action Committee is a political action committee based in Washington, D.C. [1] Since its founding in 2002 by businessman Sanjay Puri, USINPAC has described its goal as "working closely with other Indian-American organizations to promote fair and balanced policies, and create a platform to enable the entry of Indian Americans in the political process."
Manmohan Attavar ( 12 July 1932 - 12 December 2017) was an Indian horticulturist, plant breeder, writer and the founder of Indo American Hybrid Seeds (IAHS), an organization engaged in scientific plant breeding and horticulture. [1]
Elihu Yale: British-American colonial administrator, and philanthropist, clerk for the East India Company at Fort St. George (now Madras) Elihu Yale (1649–1721) was an American-born merchant and official of the British East India Company , best known for his philanthropic contributions that led to the establishment of Yale University .