Ustad Zakir Hussain is an Indian tabla expert, composer, drummer, music producer, and film actor who was born on March 9, 1951. He is the eldest son of Ustad Allah Rakha, a tabla player. He received the Padma Shri in 1988 and the Padma Bhushan in 2002 from the Government of India, both of which were delivered by President Abdul Kalam. In 1990, he received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award from the Sangeet Natak Academy, India's National Academy of Music, Dance, and Drama. In 1999, he received the National Endowment for the Arts' National Heritage Fellowship, the highest prize granted to traditional artists and musicians in the United States.

Rani Karnavati, was a princess and temporary queen from Bundi, India. She died on March 8, 1534. She married Rana Sanga of Chittorgarh, the Mewar Kingdom's capital. She was the grandmother of the famed Maharana Pratap and the mother of the following two Ranas, Rana Vikramaditya and Rana Uday Singh. She was regent during her son's minority, from 1527 until 1533. She was as tenacious as her husband and defended Chittor with a tiny force until it fell to the Gujarat army, headed by Bahadur Shah of Gujarat. She refused to run and instead did Jauhar in order to maintain her honour.

Oscar Isaac, who was born on March 9, 1979, is a well-known American actor. In 2006, he played Saint Joseph, Mary's husband, in The Nativity Story. He also played José Ramos-Horta, former president of East Timor and laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1996, in the Australian film Balibo, for which he received the AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Body of Lies (2007), Robin Hood (2010), and W.E. (2011). Isaac won critical praise for his roles in Drive (2011), Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination, A Most Violent Year (2014), and Ex Machina (2015). (2015).

Devika Rani Chaudhuri, known as Devika Rani, was an Indian actress who worked in Hindi cinema throughout the 1930s and 1940s. She was born on March 30, 1908, and died on March 9, 1994. Devika Rani, often regarded as "First Lady of Indian Cinema", had a ten-year cinematic career. Devika Rani, who was born into an affluent, anglicised Indian family, was sent to boarding school in England at the age of nine and grew up there. In 1928, she met and married Himanshu Rai, an Indian film producer. Rai's experimental silent film A Throw of Dice required her assistance with costume design and art direction (1929).

Regina "Jenna" Fischer was born March 7, 1974, is an American actress best known for her role as Pam Beesly on the NBC comedy The Office (2005–2013), for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination in 2007 for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She also worked as a producer on the show's last season. Fischer has since acted in films such as Blades of Glory (2007), Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007), The Promotion (2008), Hall Pass (2011), and The Giant Mechanical Man (2012), which was directed by her husband, Lee Kirk. She also played Rhonda McNeil in the NBC comedy-drama You, Me, and the Apocalypse. 

Naveen Jindal, born March 9, 1970, is an Indian billionaire industrialist and former Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha representing Kurukshetra, Haryana in the 14th and 15th Lok Sabhas. He is now the Chairman of Jindal Steel and Power Limited as well as the Chancellor of O. P. Jindal Global University. He is an outspoken advocate for population control, women's empowerment, environmental preservation, health, and education. In 2011, the University of Texas at Dallas renamed its School of Management the Naveen Jindal School of Management in recognition of Jindal's contributions to his alma institution.

Shashi Tharoor (born 9 March 1956) is a former Indian international diplomat, politician, writer, and public intellectual who has served as a Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha, representing Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, since 2009. He previously served as Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and stood for Secretary-General in 2006. He is also the Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology and the President of the All India Professionals Congress. He formerly chaired the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs (2014 to 2019). Shashi Tharoor earned the Sahitya Academy Award in the non-fiction category in English for his book An Era of Darkness in 2019.

Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (March 9, 1934 – March 27, 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who became the first person to travel into space. Gagarin completed one orbit of Earth in the Vostok 1 spacecraft on April 12, 1961. He became an international fame after completing this key milestone in the Space Race, and he was awarded several medals and titles, including Hero of the Soviet Union, his country's highest honour. Gagarin was born in the Russian town of Klushino and worked as a foundryman at a steel company in Lyubertsy as a young worker.

Harmanpreet Kaur, who was born on March 8, 1989, is an Indian cricketer who now serves as the captain of the Indian side in Twenty20 Internationals. She is an all-rounder for the Indian women's cricket team and received the Arjuna Award for Cricket from the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports in 2017. She became India's first woman to strike a century in a Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) match in November 2018. During the series against South Africa in October 2019, she became the first Indian cricketer, male or female, to play in 100 international Twenty20 matches.

Fardeen Khan is a well-known Indian cinema actor. He won a Filmfare Award in 1999 and is the son of actor, director, and film producer Feroz Khan. Fardeen Khan was born in Mumbai on March 8, 1974. He is the son of Feroz Khan, a Bollywood actor, director, and producer. From his mother's side, he is Sindhi. Laila Khan is his sister. Khan is Sanjay Khan's and Akbar Khan's nephew. He is Suzanne Khan's cousin, as well as actor Zayed Khan. Khan came to India to seek a career in cinema after graduating from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst with a degree in business administration. He studied in acting at the Kishore Namit Kapoor Acting Institute.

Anupam Kher, born 7 March 1955, is a former Chairman of the Film and Television Institute of India. He has appeared in over 500 films, mostly in Hindi, as well as several plays.  He has two National Film Awards and eight Filmfare Awards.  For his performance in Saaransh, he received the Filmfare Award for Best Actor (1984). He is the only person to have won the Filmfare Award for Best Comedian five times, for Ram Lakhan (1989), Lamhe (1991), Khel (1992), Darr (1993), and Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge (1995). He received two National Film Awards for Special Mention for his performances in Daddy (1989) and Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara (2001). (2005).

Vasundhara Raje Scindia, born March 8, 1953, is an Indian politician who served as the chief minister of Rajasthan for two terms. She was formerly a minister in Atal Bihari Vajpayee's Union Cabinet and India's first Minister of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises. She is now one of the Bharatiya Janata Party's national vice presidents (BJP). She is a Scindia family member as well as the matriarch of the Dholpur Bamraulia family. Vasundhara Raje was born in Bombay on March 8, 1953. (now Mumbai). She is the daughter of Vijayaraje Scindia-Shinde, Maharaja of Gwalior, and Jivajirao Scindia-Shinde, a member of the renowned Scindia royal Maratha dynasty.

Joy Mukherjee was an Indian cinema actor and director who lived from February 24, 1939 until March 9, 2012. He was dubbed the "heart throb of the 1960s and 1970s." Joy Mukherjee was the son of Sashadhar and Sati Devi Mukherjee. His father was a well-known producer and co-founder of Filmalaya Studios. Subodh Mukherjee, Ashok Kumar, Anoop Kumar, and Kishore Kumar were his uncles. Joy Mukherjee attended Dehra Dun's Col. Brown Cambridge School and St. Xavier College. His wife's name is Neelam, and they have two boys named Monjoy and Sujoy, as well as a daughter named Simran.

Arnab Goswami (born 7 March 1973) is an Indian news presenter and journalist who serves as Republic Media Network's managing director and editor-in-chief. From 2006 until 2016, Goswami was the editor-in-chief and news anchor of Times Now and ET Now. He has previously worked for NDTV and The Telegraph. On Times Now, he hosted The Newshour, a live discussion at 9 p.m. (IST) weekdays that catapulted him to popularity. He also presented the television special Frankly Speaking with Arnab. Goswami resigned as Times Now's editor-in-chief in November 2016. Republic TV, his news station, debuted in May 2017.