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This is a list of notable documentary filmmakers from India arranged in alphabetical order.^[1][2]

Main page: Category:Indian documentary filmmakers

• A. K. Chettiar
• Aarti Shrivastava
• Akanksha Damini Joshi
• Amudhan R P
• Anand Patwardhan
• Anwar Jamal
• Aparna Sanyal
• Arun Chadha
• Ashvin Kumar
• Shah Alam (filmmaker)

• Biju Toppo
• Bharat Bala

• C. S. Venkiteswaran
• Chalam Bennurkar

• Debalina Majumder
• Deepika Narayan Bhardwaj
• Dinanath Gopal Tendulkar
• Dinesh D'Souza
• [Divya Bharathi]

• Ezra Mir

• Faiza Ahmad Khan
• Farha Khatun

• Gauhar Raza
• Goutam Ghose
• Sonali Gulati

• Harjant Gill

• Jagat Murari

• K P SASI
• K. Bikram Singh
• K. M. Chaitanya
• Kabir Khan
• KARTHICK.G

• Lalit Vachani
• Leena Manimekalai
• Lubna Yusuf^[3]

• M. F. Husain
• Maga.Tamizh Prabhagaran
• Mainak Bhaumik
• Mazhar Kamran
• Mike Pandey
• Mira Nair
• Mrinmoy Bhowmick
• Meghnath
• Mujibar Rahaman

• Nakul Singh Sawhney
• Nandan Saxena
• Nisha Pahuja
• Nishtha Jain
• Nirmal Baby Varghese

• Pan Nalin
• Pankaj Butalia
• Paromita Vohra
• Prakash Jha
• Parvez Sharma
• Pavel (film director)
• Poorva Dinesh^[4]

• Qaushiq Mukherjee

• Raja Sen
• Rajesh S. Jala
• Rajesh Touchriver
• Rakesh Sharma (filmmaker)
• Ritu Sarin
• Ramon Chibb
• Rituparno Ghosh
• Ritwik Ghatak
• Renu Negi

• Shiny Benjamin
• Saba Dewan
• Sanjay Kak
• Sathish Kalathil
• Satyaprakash Upadhyay
• Shashwati Talukdar
• Shriprakash Prakash
• Sonali Gulati
• Sridhar Rangayan
• Stalin K
• Shyam Benegal

• Tarun Majumdar

• Vidhu Vinod Chopra
• Vijaya Mulay
• Vinay Shukla
• Varrun Sukhraj

• The Best Film Directors of Indian Cinema
• Women documentary filmmakers

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (January 2018)