Notable social reformers in India included
- Subramanya Bharathiyaar
- Swami Vivekananda
- Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar
- Debendranath Tagore
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Dwarkanath Ganguly
- Gopal Ganesh Agarkar
- Ramabai Ranade
- Baba Amte
- Eknath
- Tarabai Shinde
- Javaid Rahi
- Pandurang Shastri Athavale[1]
- Basavanna
- Vinoba Bhave
- Gopal Hari Deshmukh
- Virchand Gandhi
- Narayana Guru
- Kazi Nazrul Islam
- Acharya Balshastri Jambhekar
- Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
- Dhondo Keshav Karve
- T. K. Madhavan
- Ramakrishna Paramhansa
- Jyotiba Phule
- Savitribai Phule
- Pandita Ramabai
- Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
- Kuriakose Elias Chavara
- Mahadev Govind Ranade
- Kirity Roy
- Raja Ram Mohan Roy
- Begum Rokeya
- BR Ambedkar
- Dayananda Saraswati
- Subhash Chandra Bose
- Anurag Chauhan[2]
- Sahajanand Saraswati
- Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar[3]
- Keshub Chandra Sen
- Shahu of Kolhapur
- Shishunala Sharif
- Vitthal Ramji Shinde
- Ramalinga Swamigal
- Kandukuri Veeresalingam
- Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
- Prabodhankar Thackeray
- Ramanuja