Guest list of the White House state dinner in honor of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh

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List of White House state dinner guests

The list of expected guests for President Barack Obama’s first White House state dinner in honor of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, as provided by the White House.

Obama and first lady Michelle Obama

Singh and his wife, Gursharan Kaur

Rep. Gary Ackerman, D-N.Y., and Sant Singh Chatwal

Montek Singh Ahluwalia, deputy chairman of India’s Planning Commission

Mukesh D. Ambani

Tim Dutta, spouse of Pia Awal

David Axelrod, White House senior adviser, and Susan Axelrod

Preeta Bansal, general counsel for the Office of Management and Budget

Melody Barnes, White House domestic policy director, and Marland E. Buckner

Rep. Howard Berman, D-Calif., and Jane Berman

Om Prakash Bhatt

Hunter Biden and Kathleen Biden

Vice President Joe Biden and Jill Biden

Robert O. Blake Jr., the assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asian Affairs, and Sofia Blake

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Diana Taylor

John Brennan, assistant to the president for homeland security and deputy national security adviser for counterterrorism, and Katherine Brennan

Lisa Brown, White House staff secretary, and Kevin Cullen

Donald Browne and Maria Junqera

Carol Browner, White House adviser on energy and climate, and Tom Downey

William Burns, undersecretary of state for political affairs, and Lisa Carty

Gen. James E. Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Sandee Cartwright

Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., and Terese Casey

Rajiv Chandrasekaran and Julie Chandrasekaran

I.S. Chaturvedi, personal secretary to India’s prime minister

Minnesota state Sen. Satveer Chaudhry and Col. Ravi Chaudhry

Rohini Chopra

Deepak Chopra and Rita Chopra

Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Jean Chu

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton

Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., and Emily Clyburn

Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., and Lucy Calutti

David Cote

Katie Couric of CBS and Brooks L. Perlin

Greg Craig, White House counsel, and Margaret D. Craig

Paula Crown and Jim Crown

Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., and Maya Rockeymoore

Iowa Sen. Swati Dandekar and Arvind Dandekar

Rajesh De, deputy assistant attorney general at the Justice Department

Nancy-Ann DeParle, director of the White House Office of Health Reform, and Jason P. DeParle

Bhairavi Desai and Javaid Tariq

Vishakha N. Desai and Robert Oxman

Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., and Jackie Clegg Dodd

John Doerr

Thomas Donilon, assistant to the president and deputy national security adviser, and Cathy Russell

Anita Dunn, White House communications director, and Bob Bauer

Ari Emanuel and Sarah Emanuel

Rahm Emanuel, White House chief of staff, and Amy Rule

Jon Favreau, assistant to the president and director of speechwriting

Sarah Feinberg, of the Office of the Chief of Staff

District of Columbia Mayor Adrian Fenty and Michelle Fenty

Michelle Flournoy

Thomas Friedman and Ann Friedman

Mike Froman, deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security adviser for international economic affairs

Ashok S. Ganguly

Patrick Gaspard, White House political director and Raina Washington

Defense Secretary Robert Gates

Charlene Gaynor and Richard Heiss

David Geffen and Jeremy Lingvall

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Carole Sonnenfeld

Robert Gibbs, White House press secretary

Anish Goel, acting senior director of South Asia affairs for the National Security Council

Senapathy Gopalakrishnan

Mark Gorenberg and Wendy Wanderman

John Gorman and Tamra Gorman

Ohio state Rep. Jay Goyal and Kiran Goyal

Kansas state Rep. Raj Goyle and Monica Arora

Gov. Jennifer Granholm, D-Mich., and Daniel Mulhern

Earl G. Graves and Barbara Graves

Geeta Rao Gupta and Arvind Gupta

Raj Gupta

Rajat Gupta and Anita M. Gupta

Sanjay Gupta and Rebecca Olson Gupta

Lee Hamilton and Nancy Hamilton

Kamala Harris and Maya Harris

Kamil Hassan and Talat Hassan

George Haywood and Cheryl J. Haywood

Fred Hochberg, chairman and president of the Export-Import Bank, and Thomas P. Healy

Rep. Paul Hodes, D-N.H., and Margaret Hodes

Attorney General Eric Holder and Sharon Malone

John P. Holdren and Cheryl E. Holdren

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., and John Norton

Robert D. Hormats, undersecretary of state for economic, energy and agricultural affairs, and Camille Massey

Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., and Kathleen May

Chris Hughes and Sean S. Eldridge

Jeff Immelt

Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, and Irene Hirano

Deepa Iyer, Parag Khandhar and Vasudeva Iyer

Lisa Jackson, Environmental Protection Agency administrator, and Kenneth Jackson

Valerie Jarrett, White House senior adviser

Gov. Bobby Jindal, R-La., and Supriya Jindal

James Jones, national security adviser, and Diane Jones

Vernon Jordan, former adviser to President Bill Clinton, and Ann Jordan

Anil Kakani

Farooq Kathwari and Farida Kathwari

Neal Katyal, deputy solicitor general

Jeffrey Katzenberg and Marilyn Katzenberg

Maneesha Kelkar and Vinay Vaishampayan

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.

Harish Khare, media adviser to Indian prime minister

Bradley Kiley, of the Office of Management and Administration, and James Coley, Jr.

Gayle King, close friend of Oprah Winfrey

U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk and Matrice Ellis-Kirk

Ron Klain, the vice president’s chief of staff

Chanda Kochhar

S.M. Krishna, Indian minister of External Affairs

Gaitri Kumar, joint secretary for the Americas, Ministry of External Affairs of India

Vivek Kundra, federal chief information officer at the White House

Jhumpa Lahiri, author, and Alberto Vourvoulias

Marc Lasry, co-founder of hedge fund Avenue Capital Group, and Cathy Lasry

Jacob Lew, the deputy secretary of state for management and resources

Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, and Mona Locke

Christopher Lu, Cabinet secretary, and Kathryn Thomson

Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., and Char Lugar

Michael Lynton, chairman and chief executive of Sony Pictures Entertainment, and Elizabeth Jamie Alter

Surinder Malhotra

Capricia Marshall, chief of protocol at the State Department

Alyssa Mastromonaco, of the White House Office of Scheduling

Brian Mathis and Tracey Kemble

Kiran Mazumda-Shaw

Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., and Joseph Shepard

Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., and Therese Marie Hansen

Zarin Mehta and Carmen Lasky

Jim Messina, Obama’s deputy chief of staff

Judd Miner and Linda Miner

Newt Minow and Josephine Minow

Sunil Bharti Mittal

Kalpen Modi, associate director in the Office of Public Liaison

Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Deborah Mullen

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano

Indian National Security Adviser M. K. Narayanan

Shantanu Narayen and Reni Narayen

Raju Narisetti and Durga Raghunath

Martin Nesbitt, Obama’s friend, and Anita Blanchard

Maya Soetoro-Ng, Obama’s half-sister, and Konrad Ng

Indra Nooyi, chairman and CEO of PepsiCo.

Rep. David Obey, D-Wis., and Joan Obey

Peter Orszag, White House budget director

Jim Owens and Katie Owens

Deepak Parekh

Eboo Patel and Shehnez Mansuri

Gov. Deval Patrick, D-Mass., and Diane Patrick

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Paul Pelosi

Dan Pfeiffer, White House communications director

Sam Pitroda and Anjana Pitroda

Colin Powell, former Secretary of State, and Alma Powell

Rachakonda Prabhu and Lata Shete Prabhu

Penny Pritzker and Brian Traubert

Kavita Ramdas

Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao

Preetha Reddy

Gov. Ed Rendell, D-Pa., and Marjorie Rendell

Ben Rhodes, deputy national security adviser for strategic communications

Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and Ian Cameron

Gov. Bill Richardson, D-N.M., and Barbara Richardson

Robin Roberts of ABC News

Marian Robinson, the first lady’s mother

Timothy Roemer, U.S. ambassador to India, and Mary Johnston

Desiree Rogers, White House social secretary

John Rogers

Christina Romer, chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers

Dennis Ross, of the National Security Council

Rep. Edward Royce, R-Calif., and Marie Therese Royce

Michael Sacks and Cari Sacks

Rep. Linda Sanchez, D-Calif., and James Sullivan

Pankaj Saran, joint secretary to Indian prime minister

Shyam Saran, special envoy to Indian prime minister

Jaideep Sarkar, personal secretary to Indian prime minister

Parag Saxena

Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., and Robert Creamer

Phil Schiliro, assistant to the president for legislative affairs, and Jody Schiliro

Annetta Seecharran and Seema Agnani

Stuart Seldowitz, acting director for South Asia at the National Security Council

Amartya Sen and Emma Georgina Rothschild

Rajiv J. Shah, undersecretary of agriculture for research, education and economics

Sonal Shah, deputy assistant to the president and director of the White House Domestic Policy Council’s Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation

Vinod Shah

Meera Shankar, India’s ambassador in Washington

Susan Sher, assistant to the president and chief of staff to the first lady, and Neil Cohen

M. Night Shyamalan, movie director, and Bhavna Shyamalan

Amrit Singh and Analjit Singh

Arun K. Singh, deputy chief of mission for the Indian Embassy

Balvinder Singh and Mohinder Singh

Lakhwinder Singh and Sukhbir Kaur

Upinder Singh

Steven Spielberg, movie director

Sri Srinivasan and Carla Garrett

Srinija Srinivasan

Jim Steinberg, deputy secretary of state, and Sherburne Bradstreet

Semonti Stephens, deputy press secretary for the first lady

Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union, and Anna Burger, Change to Win chairwoman

Jane Stetson and Bill Stetson

Larry Summers, director of the National Economic Council, and Elisa New

Mona Sutphen, White House deputy chief of staff, and Clyde Williams

Ratan Tata

Tina Tchen, director of the White House Office of Public Engagement

Vinai Thummalapally, U.S. ambassador to Belize, and Barbara Thummalapally

Jim Torrey and Rose P. Lynch

Richard Trumka and Paul H. Lemmon

Urvashi Vaid and Kate Clinton

Kirk Wagar and Crystal Connor

Eric E. Whitaker and Cheryl Whitaker

Brian Williams of NBC News and Jane Williams

Wellington Wilson and Mrs. Wilson (first name was not given)

Neal Wolin, deputy treasury secretary

Alfre Woodard, actress, and Blair E. Underwood, actor

Fareed Zakaria and Paula Throckmorton Zakaria