| Personalities |
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| Amartya Sen |
Indian economist who was
awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his
contributions to welfare economics and social choice
theory and for his interest in the problems of society’s poorest
members. Sen was best known for his work on the causes of famine, which
led to the development of practical solutions for preventing or limiting the
effects of real or perceived shortages of food. |
| V V Giri |
Varahagiri Venkata Giri: Commonly known as V. V.
Giri, was the fourth President of India from 24 August 1969 to 24 August
1974.As President, Giri was the only person to be elected as an independent
candidate.Giri was honoured by the Government of India with the Bharat Ratna
in 1975. |
| Gopal Krishna Gokhale |
indian freedom fighter
and social reformer who founded a sectarian organization to work for relief
of the underprivileged of India. He led the moderate nationalists in the
early years of the Indian independence movement. Mahathma gandhi called him
as his political guru. |
| Aurobindo Ghosh |
Aurobindo Ghosh
was an Indian philosopher, poet, nationalist, guru, yogi and
Maharishi.He joined the Indian movement for independence from British rule
and was one of its leading influential leaders and then became a spiritual
reformer, introducing his visions on human progress and spiritual
evolution.The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga, Savitri are his Literary
works |
| Sunderlal Bahuguna |
Sunderlal Bahuguna (born
9 January 1927) is a noted Indian environmentalist, Chipko movement leader
and a follower of Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy of Non-violence and Satyagraha |
| Bill Gates |
Entrepreneur
Bill Gates founded the world's largest software business, Microsoft, with
Paul Allen, and subsequently became one of the richest men in the world. |
| Medha Patkar |
Medha Patkar (born on 1
December 1954) is an Indian social activist working on various crucial
political and economical issues raised by Tribals, Dalits,Farmers, labourers
and Women facing injustice in India.Patkar is the founder member of the 32
years old people's movement called Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) in three
states: Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat. |
| Gregory Stephen Chappell |
Gregory Stephen Chappell MBE (born 7
August 1948) is a former cricketer who
represented Australia at international level in both Tests and
One-Day Internationals (ODI). |
| Rajendra Prasad |
Rajendra Prasad, (born
December 3, 1884, Zeradei, India—died February 28, 1963, Patna), Indian
politician, lawyer, and journalist who was the first president of the
Republic of India (1950–62). He also was a comrade of Mahatma Gandhi early in
the noncooperation movement for independence and was president of the Indian
National Congress (1934, 1939, and 1947). Author of book India devided |
| Zakir Husain ( politian) |
Dr. Zakir Husain Khan (8 February 1897 – 3 May
1969) was the third President of India, from 13 May 1967 until his death on 3
May 1969. An educationist and intellectual, Husain was the country's first
Muslim president |
| Zakir Hussain ( musician) |
Zakir Hussain (born 9
March 1951) is an Indian tabla player in Hindustani classical music, musical
producer, film actor and composer.He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1988, and
the Padma Bhushan in 2002, by the Government of India. |
| Sarojini Naidu |
Sarojini Naidu was an India political leader and
poet best known as the first female President of the India National Congress.
First female governor of an indian states . She also called as nightingale of
india |
| N R Narayana Murthy |
Nagavara
Ramarao Narayana Murthy, commonly referred to as Narayana Murthy, is an
Indian IT industrialist and the co-founder of Infosys, a multinational
corporation providing business consulting, technology, engineering, and
outsourcing services |
| R S Rathore |
Colonel
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore AVSM is an Indian politician and a former
professional shooter. As a shooter, competing in the double trap event, he
won a silver medal in the 2004 Olympic Games. Rathore was appointed as a
Cabinet minister with independent charge for Ministry of Youth Affairs and
Sports in 2017 |
| Sunita Pandya Williams |
Sunita Pandya Williams[1]
(born September 19, 1965) is an Indian-American astronaut. She formerly held
the records for total spacewalks by a woman (seven) and most spacewalk time
for a woman (50 hours, 40 minutes) |
| bob Woolmer |
Robert Andrew
Woolmer was an international cricketer, professional cricket coach and also a
professional commentator. He played in 19 Test matches and 6 One Day
Internationals for England and later coached South Africa, Warwickshire and
Pakistan |
| L.N. Mittal |
is an Indian steel
magnate,based in the United Kingdom. He is the chairman and CEO of
ArcelorMittal, the world's largest steelmaking company. Mittal owns 38% of
ArcelorMittal and holds an 11% stake in Queens Park Rangers F.C..In 2005,
Forbes ranked Mittal as the third-richest person in the world. |
| Fa-hien |
Faxian was a
Chinese Buddhist monk who travelled by foot from China to India, visiting
many sacred Buddhist sites in what are now Xinjiang, Pakistan, India, Nepal,
Bangladesh and Sri Lanka between 399-412 to acquire Buddhist texts. |
| Galileo |
Galileo
Galilei was an Italian polymath. Galileo is a central figure in the
transition from natural philosophy to modern science and in the
transformation of the scientific Renaissance into a scientific revolution |
| Dhyan Chand |
Dhyan Chand
was an Indian field hockey player, who is considered as the greatest field
hockey players in the history of the sport. |
| Walt Disney |
December 5,
1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American entrepreneur, animator,
voice actor and film producer. A pioneer of American animation industry, he
introduced several developments in the production of cartoons. As a film
producer, Disney holds the record for most Academy Awards earned by
an individual, having won 22 Oscars from 59 nominations. He was presented
with two Golden Globe Special Achievement Awards and an Emmy
Award, among other honors. Several of his films are included in
the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress. |
| M.F. Hussain |
Indian artist known for executing
bold, vibrantly coloured narrative paintings in a
modified Cubist style. He was one of the most celebrated and
internationally recognized Indian artists of the 20th century |
| Ratan Tata |
is an
Indian industrialist, investor, philanthropist, and former
chairman of Tata Sons. He was the former chairman of Tata Group |
| Stephen Hawking |
was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist,
and author, who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical
Cosmology at the University of Cambridge at the time of his death. Brief
History of time is his work. |
| Madhavacharya |
also known as Purna
Prajña and Ananda Teertha, was a Hindu philosopher and the chief proponent of
the Dvaita (dualism) school of Vedanta. Madhva called his philosophy
Tatvavaada meaning "arguments from a realist viewpoint |
| Lee Lacocca |
Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca born October
15, 1924) is an American automobile executive best known for spearheading the
development of Ford Mustang and Pinto cars, while at the Ford Motor Company
in the 1960s |
| Vikram Sarabhai |
Vikram Ambalal
Sarabhai was an Indian scientist and innovator widely regarded as the father
of India's space programme. Sarabhai received the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar
Medal in 1962 . He also reviced Padhma buhan and Padhma vishushan |
| Ban ki-moon |
Ban Ki-moon is
a South Korean diplomat who was the eighth Secretary-General of the United
Nations from January 2007 to December 2016. |
| Ms Park Geun-hye |
is a former South Korean politician who
served as the 11th President of South Korea from 2013 to 2017. Park was the
first woman to be President of South Korea[3] and also the first female
president popularly elected as head of state in East Asia. |
| Cyrus P. Mistry |
Cyrus Pallonji Mistry (born 4 July 1966) is an
Irish businessman of Indian origin who was the chairman of Tata Group, an
Indian business conglomerate, between 2012 and 2016.He was the sixth chairman
of the group, and only the second (after Nowroji Saklatwala) to not bear the
surname Tata. |
| Elattuvalapil Sreedharan |
Elattuvalapil Sreedharan
is an Indian civil engineer and a retired Indian Engineering Service (IES)
officer popularly known as the "Metro Man". He is credited for
changing the face of public transport in India with his leadership in
building the Konkan Railway and the Delhi Metro while he served as the
managing director of Delhi Metro between 1995 and 2012.He was awarded the
Padma Shri by the Government of India in 2001,the Padma Vibhushan in 2008 |
| Ms Pratibha Roy |
ward-winning
Oriya writer Partibha Roy has been selected for the Amrita Keerti Puraskar
for her meritorious contributio |
| Mira Nair |
Mira Nair (born 15
October 1957) is an Indian-American filmmaker based in New York City.Her
production company, Mirabai Films, specializes in films for international
audiences on Indian society, whether in the economic, social or cultural
spheres. Among her best known films are Mississippi Masala, The Namesake, the
Golden Lion-winning Monsoon Wedding and Salaam Bombay!, which was nominated
for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. |
| Sam Pitroda |
Satyanarayan Gangaram Pitroda popularly known as
Sam Pitroda (born 4 May 1942) is a telecom engineer, inventor, entrepreneur
and policymaker.He spent nearly a decade with Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi as
leader of an effort to build an Indian information industry.The task was to
extend digital telecommunications to every corner of the country, including
remote villages, like the one of his birth. Pitroda launched the Center for
the Development of Telematics (C-DOT), and served as Advisor to the Prime
Minister on Technology Missions related to water, literacy, immunization, oil
seeds, telecom, and dairy. He is also the founding Chairman of India’s
Telecom Commission |
| Vishwanath Anand |
Viswanathan
"Vishy" Anand is an Indian chess grandmaster, a former World Chess
Champion, and the current World Rapid Chess Champion. Anand became India's
first grandmaster in 1988 |
| Rakesh Sharma |
Rakesh Sharma,
AC, Hero of the Soviet Union, is a former Indian Air Force pilot who flew
aboard Soyuz T-11, launched 2 April 1984, as part of the Intercosmos
programme. Sharma is the only Indian citizen to travel in space |
| Copernicus Nicolas |
was a Renaissance-era
mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that
placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe, likely
independently of Aristarchus of Samos, who had formulated such a model some
eighteen centuries earlier |
| Satish Dhawan |
Satish Dhawan
was an Indian mathematician and aerospace engineer, widely regarded as the
father of experimental fluid dynamics research in India. Born in Srinagar,
Dhawan was educated in India and further on in the United States. |
| Venkartaman Ramkrishna |
Venkatraman
"Venki" Ramakrishnan (born 1952)is an American and British
structural biologist of Indian origin. He is the current President of the
Royal Society, having held the position since November 2015.In 2009 he shared
the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada Yonath, "for
studies of the structure and function of the ribosome" |
| Meghnad Saha |
Meghnad Saha FRS (6 October 1893 – 16 February
1956) was an Indian astrophysicist best known for his development of the Saha
ionization equation, used to describe chemical and physical conditions in
stars. Saha was the first scientist to relate a star's spectrum to its
temperature, developing thermal ionization equations that have been
foundational in the fields of astrophysics and astrochemistry. He was
repeatedly and unsuccessfully nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics. Saha
was also politically active and was elected in 1952 to India's parliament. |
| Marconi Gugilerine |
Guglielmo Marconi, 25
April 1874 – 20 July 1937) was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer
known for his pioneering work on long-distance radio transmission and for his
development of Marconi's law and a radio telegraph system. He is credited as
the inventor of radio, and he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with
Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the
development of wireless telegraphy". |
| Mahesh Bhupati |
is a retired Indian professional tennis player. In
1997, he became the first Indian to win a Grand Slam tournament (with Rika
Hiraki).[a] With his win at the Australian Open mixed doubles in 2006, he
joined the elite group of eight tennis players who have achieved a career
Grand Slam in mixed doubles. He is also the founder of International Premier
Tennis League. |
| K.Radhakrishnan |
Koppillil Radhakrishnan
(born 29 August 1949) is an Indian scientist. He is the chairman of the
Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, having taken
the position in December 2014, and is chairman for the Indian Institute of
Space Science and Technology.Radhakrishnan previously served as chairman of
the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) between 2009 and 2014. He is a
life fellow of the Indian Geophysical Union and is also an accomplished
vocalist (Carnatic music) and Kathakali artist. |
| S.N.Subba Rao |
Salem
Nanjundaiah Subba Rao is an Indian social worker who founded the National
Youth Project |
| Arundhati Roy |
Suzanna
Arundhati Roy is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small
Things, which won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the
biggest-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author |
| Muhammad Yunus |
born 28 June 1940) is a Bangladeshi social
entrepreneur, banker, economist, and civil society leader who was awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts
of microcredit and microfinance. |
| Abdul Gaffar khan |
was a Pashtun independence activist against
the rule of the British Raj. He was a political and spiritual leader known
for his nonviolent opposition, and a lifelong pacifist and devout Muslim.[1]
A close friend of Mohandas Gandhi, Bacha Khan was nicknamed the
"Frontier Gandhi" He awarded Bharathrathna |
| W C Bannerjee |
Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee was an Indian barrister
and was the first president of Indian National Congress. He was the first
Indian to contest the election for the British House of Commons although he
lost the election. |
| James Watt |
was a Scottish inventor,
mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712
Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1781, which was
fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his
native Great Britain and the rest of the world. |
| Sania Mirza |
is an Indian
professional tennis player who was formerly ranked No. 1 in the women's
doubles rankings. From 2003 until her retirement from singles in 2013, she
was ranked by the WTA as India's No. 1 doubles player. Throughout her career,
Mirza has established herself as the most successful female Indian tennis
player ever and one of the highest-paid and high-profile athletes in the
country. |
| Rattan Tata |
is an
Indian industrialist, investor, philanthropist, and former
chairman of Tata Sons. He was the former chairman of Tata Group |
| Uma Bharati |
Uma Bharti is
an Indian politician who currently serves as the Cabinet Minister for
Drinking Water and Sanitation in the Union Government of India. |
| Kailash Satyarthi |
Kailash
Satyarthi is an Indian children's rights activist. He is a Nobel Peace Prize
recipient and founder of Bachpan Bachao Andolan, the Kailash Satyarthi
Children’s Foundation, Global March Against Child Labour, and GoodWeave
International. |
| Smriti Irani |
Smriti Zubin
Irani is an Indian politician, former model, television actress and producer.
Irani is a Member of Parliament, being elected to the Rajya Sabha from the
state of Gujarat. She is the current Textiles Minister in the Government of
India. |
| Shanti S Bhatnagar |
was an Indian scientist and a professor of
chemistry for over 19 years. He was the first director-general of the Council
of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), and he is revered as the
"father of research laboratories". He was also the first Chairman
of the University Grants Commission(India) (UGC). |
| Narain Karthikeyan |
is a racing driver who was the first Formula One
driver from India. Awarded padhmashri |
| Mira Nair |
Mira Nair (born 15
October 1957) is an Indian-American filmmaker based in New York City.Her
production company, Mirabai Films, specializes in films for international
audiences on Indian society, whether in the economic, social or cultural
spheres. Among her best known films are Mississippi Masala, The Namesake, the
Golden Lion-winning Monsoon Wedding and Salaam Bombay!, which was nominated
for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. |
| Vinod Khosla |
Vinod Khosla is an American
entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is the founder of the
firm Khosla Ventures, which he established in 2004. Khosla ranks among
the richest Americans and he is one of the most influential people in the
Silicon Valley. |
| Bhim Sen Joshi |
was an Indian singer from
Maharashtra in the Hindustani classical tradition. He is known for the khayal
form of singing, as well as for his popular renditions of devotional music |
