This is an alphabetical list of notable Indian movie actresses.

A certain number of actresses of this list are also well-known because of their roles in television films and series, and are therefore included in both, this list and the list of television actresses.

See also: actor, List of male movie actors, List of male television actors and  List of female television actors.

A-B

• Salma Agha , also singer
• Rati Agnihotri
• Amala
• Zeenat Aman
• Shabana Azmi
• Parveen Babi
• Babita
• Jaya Bacchan (Jaya Bhaduri)
• Geeta Bali
• Yogeeta Bali
• Mahajabeen Bano known by her screen name Meena Kumari
• Saira Banu
• Bipasha Basu
• Pooja Batra, Miss India runner-up, 1993
• Mandira Bedi
• Pooja Bedi
• Sonali Bendre
• Bhanupriya
• Divya Bharati
• Pooja Bhatt

C-I

• Sudha Chandran
• Juhi Chawla
• Moushmi Chatterji
• Mahima Chaudhary
• Priyanka Chopra
• Nandita Das
• Esha Deol
• Devika Rani Roerich
• Poonam Dhillon
• Madhuri Dixit
• Lara Dutta
• Deepika (Gujarati actress)
• Farah
• Simi Garewal
• Gouthami
• Priya Gill
• Neena Gupta
• Yana Gupta
• Rohini Hattangadi
• Aruna Irani
• Smriti Irani (aka Smriti Malhotra)

J

• J. Jayalalithaa
• Jayapradha
• Ayesha Jhulka
• Pallavi Joshi
• Jyotika

K - L

• Dimple Kapadia (now Dimple Khanna)
• Kajol
• Ekta Kapoor
• Karishma Kapoor
• Kareena Kapoor
• Kimi Katkar
• Kamini Kaushal
• Kausalya
• Rinke Khanna
• Twinkle Khanna
• Durga Khote
• Khushboo
• Manisha Koirala
• Padmini Kolhapure
• Ishaa Koppikar
• Mamta Kulkarni
• Sonali Kulkarni
• Laxmi

M-N

• Madhoo
• Madhubala
• Hema Malini
• Mandakini
• Urmila Matondkar
• Meena
• Meena Kumari
• Diya Mirza
• Rhona Mitra, half-Indian, half-Irish
• Kajol Mukherjee known by her screen name Kajol)
• Rani Mukherjee
• Mumtaz
• Tina Munim (now Tina Ambani)
• Nadira
• monika
• Nanda
• Nargis
• Deepti Naval
• Neelam
• Nutan

P-R

• Padmini
• Asha Parekh
• Amisha Patel
• Supriya Pathak
• Smita Patil
• Bhagyashree Patwardhan
• Raakhi (now Raakhi Gulzar)
• Radha (actress)
• Aishwarya Rai, Miss World '94
• Rajshree
• Rambha
• Ranjitha (Telugu actress)
• Amrita Rao
• Lisa Ray
• Waheeda Rehman
• Rekha
• Revathy
• Devika Rani Roerich
• Roja (actress)
• Nirupa Roy
• Reena Roy

S

• Saarika
• Sadhana
• Aparna Sen
• Riya Sen
• Sushmita Sen, Miss Universe, 1994
• Meenakshi Seshadri
• Shilpa Shetty
• Namrata Shirodkar
• Shilpa Shirodkar
• Simran
• Amrita Singh
• Mala Sinha
• Shobhana (b. 1966)
• Sneha
• Sherin
• Soundarya (1973-2004)
• Sridevi

T-Z

• Tabassum
• Tabu
• Sharmila Tagore
• Raveena Tandon
• Tanuja
• Tuntun
• Divya Unni
• Mita Vashisht
• Samyukta Verma
• Vyjayantimala (now Vyjayantimala Bali)
• Manju Warrier
• Preity Zinta