1550 in India

• Afonso de Noronha becomes viceroy of India (until 1554)^[1]

• Achyuta Pisharati, Sanskrit grammarian, astrologer, astronomer and mathematician (died 1621)
• Vijnanabhiksu, philosopher (died 1600)
• Chand Bibi, warrior and acting Regent of Bijapur (1580–90) and regent of Ahmednagar (1596–99) (died 1599)^[2]
• Rodolfo Acquaviva, Italian Jesuit missionary at the court of Akbar is born (dies 1583)
• Ralph Fitch, merchant, early European traveller to India and the court of Akbar and consultant to the East India Company is born (dies 1611)^[3]

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• Timeline of Indian history