During the history of politics and the Indian independence movement Mangal Pandey, Nana Sahib Peshwa, Rani Laxmibai Tatya Tope, Baikuntha Shukla, Chandrashekar Azad,and others were at the forefront of the struggle for freedom and later Indian politics. Shree Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India and Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, the first Vice President of India, were coming from Brahmins Community. Shree Indira Gandhi, Morarji Desai, P.V. Narasimha Rao and Atal Behari Vajpayee were also coming from Brahmin Community.

In sports,Sachin Tendulkar, Sunil Gavaskar, Ravi Shastri, Saurav Ganguly, Anil Kumble, Rohit Sharma,Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman, and many more the world chess champion Vishwanathan Anand.All are Brahmins.

Brahmin saints include Adi Shankaracharya, Dnyaneshwar, A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Ramakrishna Paramhansa, and Ramana Maharshi. Modern business leaders founder of Infosys, N.R.Narayana Murthy, Several notable names in Indian classical music belong to the Brahmin community, such as Bhimsen Joshi, Pandit Ravi Shankar, M. S. Subbulakshmi, Veena Doreswamy Iyengar, Mangalampalli Balamurali Krishna (popularly Dr. Balamurali Krishna), Pandit Jasraj, Shivkumar Sharma etc. All are Brahmins.