Aishwarya Pissay (ಐಶ್ವರ್ಯ ಪಿಸ್ಸಾಯ್) is an Indian professional motorcycle racer and entrepreneur born on 14 August 1995 in Bengaluru, Karnataka. Her mother's name is Deepika Rao; her parents separated when she was nine. She attended Mahila Seva Samaja Senior Secondary School, Bengaluru, and graduated from Surana College, Bengaluru. She failed her Class XII exams, after which her father asked her to leave the house - a defining moment after which she moved in with her mother and began weekend motorcycle trips with friends, discovering her passion for biking at 18. She began racing seriously in 2015 after enrolling at Apex Racing Academy, Coimbatore, and then attended the California Superbike School in 2017. TVS Racing signed her as a factory racer in 2017. In the same year, she won the Indian National Rally Championship (2-wheeler) and the Indian National Road Racing Championship - her first two national titles. In 2018 she became the first Indian woman to race at the Baja Aragón World Rally in Spain, before rupturing her pancreas in an accident that year. By 2019 she had recovered to compete in the FIM Bajas World Cup, winning the women's category in Varpalota, Hungary - making her the first-ever Indian athlete to win a FIM world title in motorsports. She ultimately accumulated 4 World Championship titles, 7 FMSCI National titles, and 11 National Road Racing & Rally Championships. She has won the FMSCI Outstanding Women in Motorsport Award, the TiE Young Achiever Award, and multiple Sports Woman of the Year recognitions. She is the founder of Paddock Media House and is working toward the Dakar Rally 2027. Her first major television appearance was in MTV's Chase the Monsoon (2014). In September 2022, she entered Bigg Boss Kannada Season 9 as the thirteenth housemate to be introduced. She was nominated and evicted in Week 1 (Day 6), becoming the first contestant eliminated from Season 9 and finishing eighteenth and last overall.

Becoming the first-ever Indian motorsports athlete to win a world title by winning the FIM Bajas World Cup 2019 (women's category, Varpalota, Hungary); 4x World Champion and 7 FMSCI National titles (including 6 consecutive Indian National Rally Championships 2017-2022); first Indian woman to compete at Baja Aragon World Rally (2018); founding Paddock Media House; MTV Chase the Monsoon (2014); finishing last (18th) on Bigg Boss Kannada Season 9 in Week 1 (2022).

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