Personalities

Personalities
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