Samsara...

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Bobby Jindal--Governer of Louisiana

Har Gobind Khorana (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and late Subrahmanyan Chandrashekhar (University of Chicago) - Nobel Prize, in medicine and physics respectively.
NASA's premier X-ray observatory was named the Chandra X-ray Observatory

Dr. Kalpana Chawla--Astronaut

--How about Kal Penn, an actor (Harold and Kumar, The Namesake, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle) ?  :)

--By the way Rakesh is no more with US Airways.