People

These are reference profiles, written to answer the questions people actually type: who someone is, what they are known for, and where their career went.

The range is wider than most celebrity sections. Nollywood sits beside American country and pop – Genevieve Nnaji and Omotola Jalade Ekeinde alongside Carrie Underwood – and regional Indian artists who are rarely covered properly in English, such as the Gujarati singer Kinjal Dave, get the same treatment as international names. Indian television personalities make up a large share.

Two honest notes about reading them. Net worth figures anywhere on the internet are estimates assembled from public reporting, not audited accounts, and they should be read that way here too. And personal details are limited to what the subject or a credible outlet has made public; where something is not known, the profile says nothing rather than guessing.

Profiles are updated as careers move, which is the main reason to prefer one here to a copy of it elsewhere.

For the shows many of these names come from, see Culture.