Complete list of most searched Bollywood celebrities on Google

Superstar Salman Khan and actress Sunny Leone have topped the list of most searched Indian celebrities on Google, the company said in a press release on Friday.

The announcement about the most searched ‘Indian Cinema’ stars over the past decade comes in the wake of a concerted effort by the US search giant to provide better ‘results’ for Hindi films. In a country obsessed with Bollywood and 300 million internet users, actors and movies are often the most searched terms online.

Google’s list, apart from the top actor and actresses, also includes the most searched movies, directors, singers, classic actors and classic actresses.

India’s Most Searched:

Actors
1. Salman Khan
2. Shah Rukh Khan
3. Akshay Kumar
4. Amitabh Bachchan
5. Rajinikanth
6. Hrithik Roshan
7. Shahid Kapoor
8. Ranbir Kapoor
9. Aamir Khan
10. Emraan Hashmi

Actresses
1. Sunny Leone
2. Katrina Kaif
3. Kareena Kapoor
4. Kajal Agarwal
5. Deepika Padukone
6. Aishwarya Rai
7. Priyanka Chopra
8. Tamanna Bhatia
9. Alia Bhatt
10. Sonakshi Sinha

Movies
1. PK
2. Kahaani
3. Bahubali
4. Aashiqui 2
5. Dhoom 3
6. Kick
7. Bajrangi Bhaijaan
8. Happy New Year
9. Hero
10. Ek Villain

Directors
1. Prabhu Deva
2. Karan Johar
3. Farhan Akhtar
4. Raj Kapoor
5. Ram Gopal Varma
6. Farah Khan
7. Anurag Kashyap
8. Yash Chopra
9. Rohit Shetty
10. Rajkumar Hirani

Singers
1. Honey Singh
2. Atif Aslam
3. Arijit Singh
4. Lata Mangeshkar
5. Sonu Nigam
6. Kishore Kumar
7. Shreya Ghoshal
8. Kumar Sanu
9. Himesh Reshammiya
10. Sunidhi Chauhan

Classic Actors
1. Amitabh Bachchan
2. Kamal Hassan
3. Rajesh Khanna
4. Mithun Chakraborty
5. Rajkumar
6. Dharmendra
7. Dilip Kumar
8. Dev Anand
9. Raj Kapoor
10. Rishi Kapoor

Classic Actresses
1. Rekha
2. Sridevi
3. Madhubala
4. Hema Malini
5. Zeenat Aman
6. Dimple Kapadia
7. Mumtaz
8. Meena Kumari
9. Parveen Babi
10. Saira Banu

In the recent past, Google has ramped up its search results in order to provide more contextual information for searches related to Indian films.

“Indians have been turning to the web to find out more about their favourite stars for over a decade now and we have been evolving Google Search to give them richer, better answers,” said Sapna Chadha, Google India’s marketing head.

“With around 1 in 10 mobile searches in India related to Indian cinema, we recently launched a range of immersive search experiences that give film lovers an easy way to discover and explore everything they want to know about their favourite movies, stars, music, dialogues actors and more,” she added.