100 Under 30 2020

Better known as ‘Ammy Virk’ is an Indian singer, actor and producer owning his production house under name Villagers Film Studio and a distribution company In House Group. 

Guru is an Indian singer, songwriter and music composer associated with Punjabi, Bhangra, Indi-pop and Bollywood music.

Better known as Sidhu Moose Wala is an Indian singer, lyricist, rapper and actor associated with Punjabi music and Punjabi cinema. 

Sonam studied at Delhi University and moved to Mumbai in 2012 where she became an air hostess and pursued a career in acting. 

Jass is known predominantly for his songs like ‘Prada’, ‘Suit Punjabi’, ‘Lehanga’, ‘Viah’ and ‘Boss’. His single ‘Lehanga’ has featured in UK Asian Music Chart.

Jasmine is an Indian-American playback singer, television personality, performer and songwriter who mainly sing’s Punjabi songs.

Baljinder aka ‘Kaur B’ is a Punjabi singer from India. She participated in Awaz Punjab Di’s Season 3 and in the Voice of Punjab in 2011. 

Nimrat is an Indian singer, actress and playback singer known for her work in Punjabi music and films.

Karan is an Indian singer, lyricist and rapper known for his work in Punjabi music. He is best known for the songs ‘Don’t Look’, ‘Hint’, ‘Don’t Worry’, and ‘Chitta Kurta’. 

Simi is an Indian film actress from Ambala who works in Punjabi films. She first stepped into the entertainment industry in 2014 where she appeared in some Punjabi music videos. 

Amrit is an Indian singer, lyricist and actor associated with Punjabi films and music. He started his career in 2014 as a songwriter. 

Gurnam is an Indian singer and actor associated with Punjabi music and films. He is best known for his single ‘Diamond’ released in 2018. 

With the Blessings of Dhan Sant Baba Teja Singh Ji Maharaj Rara Sahib Ji, Bhai Arshnoor Singh become able to share messages from Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji since 2009. 

Bhai Parampreet Singh from Nanaksar. His talent and spirit has been noticed worldwide and 1000’s attend his Kirtan Diwans. 

Rupinder know as ‘Rupi Kaur’ is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of two collections of poetry.

USA

Harmanjit aka ‘Mickey Singh’ is an American-Indian singer, songwriter, producer, dancer, model and actor. 

Sarpreet is a New Zealand professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Bayern Munich II and the New Zealand national team. 

Nimrit is an Indian actress, lawyer, theatre artist and model. She is primarily known for her work in small screen industry. 

Harmeet Singh is a Norwegian international footballer who plays professionally as a defensive midfielder. 

Manpreet Singh aka ‘Singga’ is a post-graduate of history. He is an Indian Singer, Songwriter, Lyricist, Musician and Model who is known for his work in Punjabi cinema.

Navjot Kaur is an Indian field hockey player. She was part of the Indian Women’s Hockey team in the 2016 Summer Olympics. 

Manpreet is an actor, known for Raabta (2017) and her collaboration with Garry Sandhu: Like U (Tere Jaisi) (2019). 

Khusbir is an Indian athlete, a 20-kilometre race walker. She first came into the limelight after winning bronze in the 10,000-metre walk race at the 2012 Asian Junior Athletics Championships.

Jasleen is an Indian singer and songwriter who sing’s in Punjabi, Hindi, Gujarati and English. She won the award for Best Indie Song at the MTV Video Music Awards India 2013. 

USA

Amar is an American born Punjabi singer, songwriter, music composer and producer. He is best known for his unique Punjabi-English fusion sound and his 2015 Album ‘New Era’.

UK

Jarnail Singh the twin brother of Jabarjang Singh aka the ‘twin stallions’. Both started learning Muay Thai Boxing in the late 2014 under the guidance of Kru Master Jompop from Kiatphontip Gym.

UK

Jabarjang Singh the twin brother of Jarnail Singh aka the ‘twin stallions’. Both started learning Muay Thai Boxing in the late 2014 under the guidance of Kru Master Jompop from Kiatphontip Gym.

Harmanpreet is an Indian field hockey player who plays as a defender for the Indian national team. He was named in the Indian squad for the 2016 Summer Olympics.

UK

Neelam is a British fashion model. She is known for her work with Burberry, Abercrombie and Fitch and appearing in Vogue.

Arshdeep Singh is a well known young wildlife photographer. His work has been showcased in international publications such as Lonely Planet UK, Lonely Planet Germany.

Gurjit is an Indian female field hockey player. She plays the position of a defender and is also the Indian team’s designated drag flicker. 

UK

Harnaam is a British model, anti-bullying activist, body positive activist, life coach and motivational speaker from London, UK. 

Sahibnoor is a YouTuber and social media influencer with a vast outreach. He is the youngest Sikh YouTuber from Dehradun, Uttarakhand.

Navjyot is a master of making people and businesses famous with his digital marketing and promotional skills, with his client database of over 500 companies he is constantly expanding.

Rupan is a Canadian-Indian YouTuber, actor, director and comedian. He made his film debut as the main actor in the Punjabi the film Haani.

USA

Amrit Kaur is an actress who appeared as Cadet ‘Thira Sidhu’ in the Star Trek Short Treks episode ‘Ask Not’.

USA

Gursoch is the first turban-wearing Sikh woman in the New York Police Department. There less than 2000 Sikh police officers in the NYPD, of them 10 are women but only one, Gursoch, wears a turban.

Mandeep is an Indian cricketer. He plays for Punjab in the top-flight of Indian cricket. An attacking right-hand batsman who also occasionally bowls right arm medium pace.

Gurmehar is an Indian student activist and author. She currently pursuing her Master’s from Somerville College, Oxford University.

UK

Harleen is the WMKF World Champion Silver Medallist and is known as a competent martial arts competitor, training for nearly 10 years she is now 2nd Dan Black belt.

Sukhjit is a first generation Australian Sikh spoken word artist, educator, performer and human rights reformer based in Melbourne, Australia.

UK

Karenjeet is heading to the World Classic Power Lifting Championships in Sweden in June. She is the first Sikh woman to compete for Britain at the event.

Commonly known as Kiran, she is a Malaysian model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Universe Malaysia 2016.

Harnam is the Sikh student who broke strict religious protocol to save a boy’s life. He is known for removing his turban to put underneath the head of six year old Daejon Pahia.

Sim Bhullar is a Canadian professional basketball player. He played college basketball for New Mexico State University and is the first player of Indian descent to play in the NBA. 

Satnam is an Indian professional basketball player for the St. John’s Edge of the National Basketball League of Canada (NBL). 

Onkar is the only child from Jammu to achieve multiple youngest world records worldwide in the field of literature and information technology.

Ashbeer is India’s number one junior golfer. He is the nephew of Baljit Singh Saini, who is an Olympian and Asian Games gold medallist for India in field hockey.

Manit received a gold medal from King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun in 2016, in recognition of his excellent performance at university.

Jasprit is an Indian cricketer who plays for the Indian national cricket team in all formats of the game.

UK

Munsimar was told “no you can’t play, because you’re a terrorist” by a group of teenagers in a park. She shared her ordeal in a heartbreaking video on her dad’s Instagram account. 

Jujhar is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre for the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League (NHL). 

Kabir is the youngest Indian and Sikh serving as a PTE in the Territorial Forces-Infantry Regiment in the New Zealand Army. 

Harnoor is the founder of the Peace Welcome Club, he lives in Georgetown, Ontario with his family and he is a high school student.

UK

Harpz Kaur is a radio host, disc jockey, event host and dancer. She flawlessly plays different roles in her professional life.

Amrinder joined Mumbai City FC for the Hero ISL 2016 after previously representing ATK, Bengaluru FC and Pune FC at different stages in his career. 

UK

Jasmin is a British Indian television personality, singer, songwriter, actress and businesswoman. She first came into limelight with the British reality television show The Only Way Is Essex. 

UK

Gurlaine is known for her work on EastEnders (1985), Holby City (1999) and Doctors (2000). She is a talented young actress whose credits include BBC One’s Eastenders, Doctors and Holby.

USA

Karan is an American actor. He portrayed Chirag Gupta in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid film franchise and Ravi Ross on the Disney Channel Original Series Jessie.

Sonia was born in Oslo, Norway. She is an Indian-Norwegian model and was crowned Miss India Norway and she represented Norway at Miss India Worldwide 2015.

USA

Serene is a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford completing her postgraduate studies in Public Policy. 

Gurpreet began his professional football journey with East Bengal in 2012. He then joined Norway based Stabaek Football in 2014.

USA

Naureen currently works as a Community Organizer with the Asian Pacific Development Center and the Policy Director of Colorado Sikhs.

Simran Singh from Perth has received his licence for solo piloting at the domestic airport Jundakot’s Royal Aero Club. 

Prabhsukhan, currently 18 years old, had a stellar domestic season in the Hero I-League 2018-19 for the Indian Arrows.

Germanpreet is a graduate of the Tata Football Academy. He was picked up in the draft leading up to Hero ISL 2017 by Chennaiyin FC.

Aman is an Indian visual artist. He uniquely paints portraits on almonds. He learnt to paint from his mother Bhavna Kaur Gulati. 

Jahan, has broken the glass ceiling. She is one of the few, and was definitely the youngest, female dhol player.

Gurkiran Kaur is an entrepreneur, businesswoman, fashion icon, Instagram-superstar and co-founder of jangiiro, a Punjabi clothing line.

Evan has that rare and coveted ability to turn original ideas into businesses that are both innovative and profitable.

Rohan is an Indian Singer who sings Punjabi Songs. He is famous due to his appearance in Rising Star season 2.

Considered as one of the most promising young forwards in the country, Manvir made his Hero ISL debut for FC Goa in 2017.

Gurtej, a defender for Hyderabad FC, started his professional career with the now-defunct JCT. After playing his trade with Pailan Arrows and Churchill Brothers, Gurtej signed for Bengaluru FC in 2013.

Arshdeep is promising goalkeeper who rose through the ranks at the AIFF Elite Academy, later joining Minerva Punjab in 2015.

Gursimrat was signed by Bengaluru FC in 2016. He was also a part of their 2017 AFC Cup squad. He was picked up in the draft leading up to Hero ISL 2017-18 by NorthEast United FC.

Simranjit plays as a midfielder for Delhi Dynamos in the Indian Super League. After graduating from Tata Football Academy he joined I-Leagues developmental side Pailan Arrows in 2013.

USA

Simranjeet is a social media star who has gained fame for his self-titled YouTube channel. He has risen to massive fame as the creator of Punjabi Carpool Karaoke.

USA

Raginder aka ‘Raaginder’ is a Union City, California based violinist, music producer and songwriter. His professional music career began in 2011 when he released his first mix tape ‘Take One’.

UAE

Hardeep Singh is a professional dancer, public relations officer, social worker and an entrepreneur. In 2011 he started ‘Pure Bhangra’ which is the first and longest running group in the Middle East.

UK

Arminder is the youngest person to win an investment on Dragons’ Den after securing £20,000 for a gadget that can clean muddy boots in minutes.

Manmeet is a post graduate in social sciences from Jinnah College for Women, Peshawar, Pakistan. She is Pakistan’s first Sikh news reporter for a TV channel.

Gurpreet is presently working as a Public Relationship Manager and Journalist at Akaal Channel and presenting various programs and news based on Sikh Issues.

Aashish’s sensitivity towards social causes came in at a young age and thus his journey to become a serial social entrepreneur started early.

Simarpreet is an Indian entrepreneur and an electrical engineer, MBA from SP Jain Mumbai. He has led his group of companies into one of India’s fastest growing conglomerates.

UK

Narayan aka ‘Kapre Bene’. In 2016 he started an Instagram fashion blog whilst working at the BBC. His content makes over 1 million impression on accounts from around the world.

Kuldeep runs a digital therapeutics company that utilises AI to aid patients with complex chronic conditions. 

UK

Rajvatan, moved to the UK in 2006 from Punjab. In 2017 he completed his Masters in the Science of International Politics from the University of London.

Gurleen aka ‘Glam by Gilly’, is a rising freelance HMUA based in Brampton, Ontario. Gurleen has over thousands of followers on Instagram and continues to grow her following every week.

From Punjab, Harsimran aged just 16, is one of the most exciting prospects in the entire country of India. 

Jessie is a young public speaker and mental health advocate. She has been sharing her story to help create change in the mental health space and also heads The Mental Health Spotlight.

Harjas Singh aka ‘Styled by Harj’ is a Toronto based Fashion Blogger, Stylist and Model. Styled By Harj showcases a unique and funky fashion sense to help others find creativity in their wardrobes.

Manvinder has a Masters in International Business from Coventry University in the UK. While studying, he felt there was a gap between the Indian food market and the rest of the world.

UK

Shuranjeet currently runs a campaign aimed at removing the stigma surrounding mental health in the Punjabi community. 

UK

Nisha aka ‘NSB’ by her fans is breaking down barriers as the first female Sikh DJ. Nisha hopes her foray into the world of DJing will empower other Sikh girls to follow suit.

USA

Arnav is a high school student at Neuqua Valley High School, Naperville, IL. At 15 he started his non-profit organisation.

UK

Joht is a public health registrar based at the University of Birmingham. He’s also a volunteer detective in the police child abuse unit.

UK

Gurbani has business interests in fashion, nutrition, hospitality, luxury lifestyle and philanthropy.

UK

Pavitar graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Media specialising in TV, Film and Photography in 2019.

UK

Ascharj has 10 GCSE’s ranging from 9-A** to 7-A, currently he attends The Perse School in Cambridge studying A-level Philosophy Mathematics and Economics. 

Manjot Singh studied at Guru Nanak Public Model High School, Nankana Sahib. He passed his matriculation examination achieving first division A grade.