This is a list of notable people who belong to the Hindu

Brahmin Brahmin (; sa, ब्राह्मण, brāhmaṇa) is a varna as well as a caste within Hindu society. The Brahmins are designated as the priestly class as they serve as priests (purohit, pandit, or pujari) and religious teachers (gur ...

caste.

Artist

* Kattingeri Krishna Hebbar, artist who received

Padma Shri Padma Shri ( IAST: ''padma śrī''), also spelled Padma Shree, is the fourth-highest civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is conf ...

and

Padma Bhushan The Padma Bhushan is the third-highest civilian award in the Republic of India, preceded by the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan and followed by the Padma Shri. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is given for "distinguished service ...

K. G. Subramanyan Kalpathi Ganpathi "K.G." Subramanyan (1924 29 June 2016) was an Indian artist. He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan in 2012. Life Subramanyan was born in Tamil Brahmin family on 1924 in Kuthuparamba in Kerala, India, and initially studied econ ...

, Indian artist who received

and

Padma Vibhushan The Padma Vibhushan ("Lotus Decoration") is the second-highest civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is given for "exceptional and distinguished service". All persons without ...

Laxman Pai Laxman Pai (21 January 1926 – 14 March 2021) was an Indian artist and painter. He was a principal of the Goa College of Art, a post he held from 1977 to 1987. Pai was a recipient of several awards including India's third highest civilian hono ...

, Indian artist and Painter who received

and

* M. V. Dhurandhar, Indian artist known for his Post card arts *

N. S. Bendre Narayan Shridhar Bendre (21 August 1910 – 19 February 1992), was a 20th-century Indian artist and one of the founder members of Baroda Group Narayan Shridhar Bendre was born in Indore. He made a name for himself as a landscape artist. ...

, Indian artist who founded Baroda Group. He received

and

Ravishankar Raval Ravishankar Raval (1892–1977) was a painter, art teacher, art critic, journalist and essayist from Gujarat, India. He worked for the magazine ''Vismi Sadi'' until it closed in 1921, and then founded the cultural magazine '' Kumar''. Life Ravi ...

, Indian artist who received

* S.Rajam, Indian artist and Carnatic musician. He is the older brother of Tamil film director and musician

S. Balachander Sundaram Balachander (18 January 1927 – 13 April 1990) was an Indian veena player and filmmaker. He directed, produced, and also composed music for a few of his films. Balachander was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1982. He died of a hear ...

and actress S. Jayalakshmi * Y.G. Srimati, Indian artist whose painting figures were Hindu mythology and her style was influenced by Nandalal Bose & frescoes of the Ajanta Caves

Bureaucrats

Benegal Rama Rau Sir Benegal Rama Rau CIE, ICS (1 July 1889 – 13 December 1969) was the fourth Governor of the Reserve Bank of India from 1 July 1949 to 14 January 1957. Early life and family He was born in a Konkani-speaking Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmin fa ...

Indian civil servant Indian civil servants includes five principal sub-categories of officials: *Administrators of the native states of India *Administrators of British India who came as servants of the East India Company before the formation of the ICS in 1853 *Membe ...

who was the 4th

governor of the Reserve Bank of India The Governor of the Reserve Bank of India is the chief executive officer of India's central bank and the ''ex-officio'' chair of its Central Board of Directors. Indian Rupee currency notes, issued by the Reserve Bank of India, bear the governor ...

& Ambassador of India to both Japan and

USA The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territori ...

Brajesh Mishra Brajesh Chandra Mishra (29 September 1928 – 28 September 2012) was an Indian diplomat from the Indian Foreign Service and politician, best known for serving as Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's principal secretary and National Security ...

, India's first

National Security advisor A national security advisor serves as the chief advisor to a national government on matters of security. The advisor is not usually a member of the government's cabinet but is usually a member of various military or security councils. National sec ...

, Indian diplomat for

Indian Foreign Service The Indian Foreign Service (IFS) is the diplomatic service and a central civil service of the Government of India under the Ministry of External Affairs. The Foreign Secretary is the head of the service. Vinay Mohan Kwatra is the 34th and the ...

and Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's

principal secretary The Principal Secretary is a senior government official in various Commonwealth countries. * Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of Pakistan * Principal Secretary to the President of Pakistan * Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of Ind ...

* Dhanvanthi Rama Rau, founder and former president of Family Planning Association India *

Durga Prasad Dhar Durga Prasad Dhar, commonly known as D. P. Dhar (1918–1975), was a Kashmiri politician and an Indian diplomat, who is a considered a chief architect of the Indian intervention in the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. Dhar was a close adviser an ...

, Indian diplomat who was the Ambassador of India to the Soviet Union, minister in Government of J&K and

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

Hemant Karkare Hemant Karkare AC () (12 December 1954 – 27 November 2008) was the chief of the Mumbai Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS). He was killed in action during the 2008 Mumbai attacks. In 2009, he was posthumously given the Ashoka Chakra, India's highest p ...

Indian Police Service The Indian Police Service ( IPS) is a civil service under the All India Services. It replaced the Indian Imperial Police in 1948, a year after India became independent from the British Raj. Along with the Indian Administrative Service (I ...

who was the chief of Mumbai Anti-Terrorist Squad. He received

Ashoka Chakra Ashoka (, ; also ''Asoka''; 304 – 232 BCE), popularly known as Ashoka the Great, was the third emperor of the Maurya Empire of Indian subcontinent during to 232 BCE. His empire covered a large part of the Indian subcontinent, s ...

* Mannem Nageswara Rao, former-interim director officer Central Bureau of Investigation *

Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya (15 September 1861 – 12/14 April 1962), also referred to by his initials, MV, was an Indian civil engineer, administrator, and statesman, who served as the 19th Diwan of Mysore from 1912 to 1918. Visvesvaraya i ...

, Indian civil engineer and

Diwan of Mysore The diwan of Mysore, also spelled dewan of Mysore, synonymously the prime minister of Mysore, was the ''de-facto'' chief executive officer of the government of the Kingdom of Mysore and the prime minister and royal adviser to the Maharaja of M ...

.He was the chief

engineer Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the limit ...

Krishna Raja Sagara Krishna Raja Sagara, also popularly known as KRS, is a lake and the dam that creates it. They are close to the settlement of Krishna Raja Sagara in the Indian State of Karnataka. The gravity dam made of ''surki'' mortar is below the confluence o ...

dam. He is considered "Father of Indian Civil Engineering" & received

Bharat Ratna The Bharat Ratna (; ''Jewel of India'') is the highest civilian award of the Republic of India. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is conferred in recognition of "exceptional service/performance of the highest order", without distinctio ...

P. N. Dhar Prithvi Nath Dhar (P.N. Dhar, 1 March 1919 – 19 July 2012) was an Indian economist and the head of Indira Gandhi's secretariat and one of her closest advisers. Early life and career P. N. Dhar was born into a Kashmiri Pandit family on 1919 ...

, Indian economist who was the head of Indira Gandhi's secretariat and one of her closest advisers. He was awarded

* P. N. Haksar, first

Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India The Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India (PS to the PM) is the senior-most bureaucrat in, and the administrative head of, the Prime Minister's Office. The officeholder is generally a civil servant, commonly from the Indian Adminis ...

(1971–1973) and deputy chairman of the Planning Commission (1975–1977). He was the first-ever chancellor of

Jawaharlal Nehru University Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) is a public major research university located in New Delhi, India. It was established in 1969 and named after Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister. The university is known for leading faculties and r ...

P. V. Gopalan Painganadu Venkataraman Gopalan (1911 – February 1998) was an Indian career civil servant, a member of Central Secretariat Service who served as Director of Relief Measures and Refugees in the government of Zambia, especially the exodus of re ...

, Indian bureaucrat who served as director of relief measures & refugees in the

government of Zambia The politics of Zambia takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the president of Zambia is head of state, head of government and leader of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by th ...

, advisor to 1st president of Zambia

Kenneth Kaunda Kenneth David Kaunda (28 April 1924 – 17 June 2021), also known as KK, was a Zambian politician who served as the first President of Zambia from 1964 to 1991. He was at the forefront of the struggle for independence from British rule. Diss ...

and as

Joint Secretary to the Government of India Joint Secretary to Government of India (often abbreviated as JS, GoI or Union Joint Secretary or Joint Secretary to Union of India) is a post under the Central Staffing Scheme and the third highest non-political executive rank in Government of I ...

. He is the grandfather of

Kamala Harris Kamala Devi Harris ( ; born October 20, 1964) is an American politician and attorney who is the 49th vice president of the United States. She is the first female vice president and the highest-ranking female official in U.S. history, as well ...

* Ravindra Kaushik, Spy &

RAW Raw is an adjective usually describing: * Raw materials, basic materials from which products are manufactured or made * Raw food, uncooked food Raw or RAW may also refer to: Computing and electronics * .RAW, a proprietary mass spectrometry dat ...

operative famously known as Black Tiger, He is regarded as

's greatest spy to be engaged in

Undercover operation To go "undercover" (that is, to go on an undercover operation) is to avoid detection by the object of one's observation, and especially to disguise one's own identity (or use an assumed identity) for the purposes of gaining the trust of an ind ...

Pakistan armed forces The Pakistan Armed Forces (; ) are the military forces of Pakistan. It is the world's sixth-largest military measured by active military personnel and consist of three formally uniformed services—the Army, Navy, and the Air Force, which are ...

. * R. N. Kao, Indian spymaster and the first founder chief of India's external intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing. *

Satyendra Dubey Satyendra Dubey (1973–2003) was an Indian Engineering Service (IES) officer. He was the Project Director in the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) at Koderma, Jharkhand. He was murdered in Gaya, Bihar, allegedly for his anti-cor ...

, IES officer and was the project director in the

National Highways Authority of India The National Highways Authority of India or NHAI (Hindi: भारतीय राष्ट्रीय राजमार्ग प्राधिकरण) is an autonomous agency of the Government of India, set up in 1995 (Act 1988) and i ...

Koderma Kodarma (also spelled as Koderma) is a city and a notified area in the Koderma subdivision of the Koderma district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Demographics As per 2011 Census of India, Kodarma Nagar Parishad had a total population of 2 ...

* Sukumar Sen, Indian civil servant who was the first

Chief Election Commissioner of India The Chief Election Commissioner of India heads the Election Commission of India, a body constitutionally empowered to conduct free and fair elections to the national and state legislatures and of President and Vice-President. This power of th ...

& first Chief Election Commissioner in Sudan.He received

* Suresh Tendulkar, Indian economist and former chief of the

National Statistical Commission The National Statistical Commission (NSC) of India is an autonomous body which formed in June 2005 under the recommendation of Rangarajan commission. The NSC is currently headed by Prof. Rajeeva Laxman Karandikar who was appointed as Chairperson ...

. He was a member of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's

Economic Advisory Council Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India (PMEAC) is a non-constitutional, non-permanent and independent body constituted to give economic advice to the Government of India, specifically the Prime Minister. The council serves t ...

* T. N. Seshan, Indian bureaucrat who was the 10th

& 18th

Cabinet Secretary of India The Cabinet Secretary is the top-most executive official and senior-most civil servant of the Government of India. The Cabinet Secretary is the ''ex-officio'' head of the Civil Services Board, the Cabinet Secretariat, the Indian Administrativ ...

. He received Ramon Magsaysay Award * Triloki Nath Kaul, Indian diplomat who was two times Foreign Secretary of India * Vijay Lakshmi Pandit, Indian diplomat who was the first female

governor of Maharashtra The governor of Maharashtra is the ceremonial head of the state of Maharashtra. The Constitution of India confers the executive powers of the state to the governor, however the de facto executive powers lie with the Council of Ministers. Bhagat ...

and first female president of the

United Nations General Assembly The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA or GA; french: link=no, Assemblée générale, AG) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN), serving as the main deliberative, policymaking, and representative organ of the UN. Curr ...

* V. K. R. V. Rao, Indian economist and Educator who founded the Delhi school of Economics. He also received

Business

Buisness is not much common thing among Brahmins although, their are many exceptions in history. But in the modern world new Brahmin generation preferred buisness as the future need. *

Jaiprakash Gaur Jaiprakash Gaur (born 1930) is an Indian entrepreneur. He founded and, until his retirement in 2010, was the chairman of Jaypee Group, a conglomerate with a heavy emphasis on engineering and construction (particularly for infrastructure and pow ...

from

Gaur Brahmin Gaur Brahmins (spelling variations: Gor or Gour), also Gauda Brahmins (spelling variations: Gaud, or God), also known as Adi Gauda/Gaur, is a group of Brahmin communities in India. The Gauda Brahmins are one of the five Pancha Gauda Brahmin commu ...

community (born 1930) is an Indian entrepreneur. He founded and, until his retirement in 2010, was the chairman of

Jaypee Group Jaiprakash Associates Limited, commonly known as Jaypee Group, is an Indian conglomerate company based in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India. It has business interests in engineering, construction, power, cement, real estate, hospitality, IT, spor ...

Dwarkanath Tagore Dwarkanath Tagore ( bn, দ্বারকানাথ ঠাকুর, ''Darokanath Ţhakur''; 1794–1846) was one of the first Indian industrialists to form an enterprise with British partners. He was the son of Ramlochon Tagore, the founder ...

, first Indian industrialists to form an enterprise with British partners. He is the founder of

Carr, Tagore and Company Carr, Tagore and Company (also written as Carr, Tagore & Co.) was the first equal partnership between European and Indian businessmen and the initiator of the managing agency system in India. The company was launched in 1834 by Dwarakanath Tagore ...

. * Deven Sharma, born 1956 in Jharkhand) is an Indian businessmanSharma serves on the boards of

CRISIL CRISIL (formerly ''Credit Rating Information Services of India Limited'') is an Indian analytical company providing ratings, research, and risk and policy advisory services and is a subsidiary of American company S&P Global. CRISIL, was the f ...

, The US-China Business Council *

Vijay Shekhar Sharma Vijay Shekhar Sharma (born July 15, 1978) is an Indian technology entrepreneur and billionaire businessman. He is the Chairman, Managing Director and CEO of One97 Communications and its consumer brand Paytm. He founded Paytm in 2010. In Januar ...

born July 15, 1978) is an Indian technology entrepreneur and billionaire businessman. He is the Chairman, Managing Director and CEO of

One97 Communications One97 Communications (OCL) is the parent entity of leading Indian mobile payments and financial services company Paytm , headquartered in Noida, India. It was founded in 2000 by Vijay Shekhar Sharma. In July 2021, the company filed the offer docu ...

and its consumer brand

Paytm Paytm (acronym for "pay through mobile") is an Indian digital payments and financial services company, based in Noida. It was founded in 2010 by Vijay Shekhar Sharma under One97 Communications. The company offers mobile payment services to c ...

. He founded Paytm in 2010. *

Dilip Dandekar Dilip Dandekar was the chairman and managing director of Kokuyo Camlin Ltd., taking office from June 1, 2002. He joined Camlin Ltd. as a management trainee under his father, D. P. Dandekar and uncle, G. P. Dandekar, who were the founders of the ...

was the chairman and

managing director A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especially ...

Kokuyo Camlin Kokuyo Camlin Ltd., formerly known as "Camlin Ltd.", is an Indian Multinational stationery manufacturing company based in Mumbai. The company shares profits with of Japan, which holds around 51% stake in Kokuyo Camlin after buying it in 201 ...

Ltd., taking office from June 1, 2002. *

Sridhar Vembu Sridhar Vembu (born 1968) is an Indian billionaire business magnate and the founder and CEO of Zoho Corporation. According to ''Forbes'', he is the 55th richest person in India with a net worth of $3.75 billion, as of 2021. He was awarded India' ...

(born 1968) is an Indian billionaire business magnate and the founder and CEO of

Zoho Corporation Zoho Corporation is an Indian multinational technology company that makes computer software and web-based business tools. It is best known for the online office suite offering Zoho Office Suite. The company was founded in 1996 by Sridhar Ve ...

. *

Abhi Talwalkar Abhi Talwalkar was president and CEO of LSI Corporation, a company that designed chips and software for datacenters and other applications. Early life and education Talwalkar was born in Pune, India in 1964. Talwalkar received his bachelor's ...

was president and CEO of

LSI Corporation LSI Logic Corporation, an American company founded in Milpitas, California, was a pioneer in the ASIC and EDA industries. It evolved over time to design and sell semiconductors and software that accelerated storage and networking in data center ...

, a company that designed chips and software for datacenters and other applications. *

Manoj Bhargava Manoj Bhargava (born 1953) is an Indian American billionaire businessman and philanthropist. He is the founder and CEO of Innovations Ventures LLC ( dba Living Essentials LLC), the company known for producing the 5-hour Energy drink. By 2012 ...

(born 1953) is an Indian American billionaire businessman and philanthropist. He is the founder and CEO of Innovations Ventures LLC ( dba Living Essentials LLC), the company known for producing the 5-hour Energy drink. By 2012 the brand had grown to do an estimated $1 billion in sales. * Vikrant Bhargava (विक्रान्त भार्गव; born 14 December 1972) is an Indian-born British businessman, and the co-founder and former marketing director of online casino operator PartyGaming. *

Indra Nooyi Indra Nooyi (née Krishnamurthy; born October 28, 1955) is an Indian-American business executive and former chief executive officer and chairperson of PepsiCo. She has consistently ranked among the world's 100 most powerful women. In 2014, sh ...

, Indian-American business executive and former CEO of PepsiCo * Chikki Pandey (born 13 November 1966), better known as Chikki Pandey, is an Indian businessperson based in

Mumbai Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' fin ...

. He, along with Ranjeet Deshmukh, co-founded the 'Akshara Foundation of Arts & Learning' which works towards providing education to under privileged children. *

(born 1968) is an Indian billionaire business magnate and the founder and CEO of

. *

Piyush Pandey Piyush Pandey is an advertising professional and the Chief Creative Officer Worldwide (2019) and Executive Chairman India of Ogilvy (agency). He is the recipient of the Padma Shri award (2016). Pandey is also credited with shaping a distinct ind ...

is an advertising professional and the Chief Creative Officer Worldwide (2019) and Executive Chairman India of

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. He is the recipient of the

award (2016). *

Sheela Gautam Sheela Gautam (15 November 1931 – 8 June 2019) was an Indian billionaire politician and businesswoman. She was the founder and owner of Sheela Foam Limited, run by her son Rahul Gautam, which sells mattresses under the Sleepwell brand among ...

, founder and owner of Sheela Foam Limited. She was the

Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members o ...

(June 1991 – May 2004). *

S. Kasturi Ranga Iyengar S. Kasturi Ranga Iyengar (15 December 1859 – 12 December 1923) was an Indian lawyer, Indian independence activist, politician and journalist who served as the managing director of ''The Hindu'' from 1 April 1905 till his death. Ancestry an ...

was a lawyer, Indian Independence activist and managing director of

The Hindu ''The Hindu'' is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It began as a weekly in 1878 and became a daily in 1889. It is one of the Indian newspapers of record and the secon ...

* S. L. Kirloskar, chairman of

Kirloskar Group Kirloskar Group is an Indian conglomerate, headquartered in Pune. The group exports to over 70 countries over most of Africa, Southeast Asia and Europe. The flagship and holding company, Kirloskar Brothers Ltd, established in 1888, is India's l ...

who is the son of

Laxmanrao Kirloskar Laxmanrao Kashinath Kirloskar (20 June 1869 – 26 September 1956) was an Indian businessman. He was the founder of the Kirloskar Group. Biography Laxmanrao was born on 20 June 1869, in a Maharashtrian family in Gurlahosur, a village in Belga ...

who founded

* Rakesh Shukla (animal welfare activist), is a

Bangalore Bangalore (), List of renamed places in India, officially Bengaluru (), is the Capital city, capital and largest city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of more than and a metropolitan area, metropolitan population of a ...

-based

entrepreneur Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value. With this definition, entrepreneurship is viewed as change, generally entailing risk beyond what is normally encountered in starting a business, which may include other values t ...

, motivational speaker, and animal welfare activist who runs a home for over 700 rescued dogs. *

S. S. Vasan Subramaniam Srinivasan (4 January 1904 – 26 August 1969), popularly known by his screen name S. S. Vasan, was an Indian journalist, writer, advertiser, film producer, director and business tycoon. He is the founder of the Tamil-language maga ...

, founder of the Tamil-language magazine ''

Ananda Vikatan ''Ananda Vikatan'' is a Tamil-language weekly magazine published from Chennai, India. History and profile ''Ananda Vikatan'' was started by Late Pudhoor Vaidyanadhaiyar in February 1926 as a monthly publication. The issue for December 1927 wa ...

'' and the film production company

Gemini Studios Gemini Studios was an Indian film studio based in Madras, Tamil Nadu. It was launched when S. S. Vasan, a businessman of many ventures (including the ownership of Ananda Vikatan) bought Motion Picture Producers' Combines from Krishnaswamy Sub ...

* Sudha Murthy, chairperson of the

Infosys Infosys Limited is an Indian multinational information technology company that provides business consulting, information technology and outsourcing services. The company was founded in Pune and is headquartered in Bangalore. Infosys is the s ...

limited and member of the public health care initiatives of the

Gates Foundation The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), a merging of the William H. Gates Foundation and the Gates Learning Foundation, is an American private foundation founded by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates. Based in Seattle, Washington, it was ...

. She received

. * T. T. Krishnamachari, founder of

TTK group The TTK Group is an Indian business conglomerate with a presence across several segments of industry including consumer durables, pharmaceuticals and supplements, bio-medical devices, maps and atlases, consular visa services, virtual assis ...

and

Prestige Prestige refers to a good reputation or high esteem; in earlier usage, ''prestige'' meant "showiness". (19th c.) Prestige may also refer to: Arts, entertainment and media Films * ''Prestige'' (film), a 1932 American film directed by Tay Garnet ...

. He also served as finance minister (1956–1966) and founded NCAER. *

T. M. A. Pai Tonse Madhava Ananth Pai (30 April 1898 – 29 May 1979), was an Indian physician, educationist, banker and philanthropist, most well-known for building the university town of Manipal, India. He was the first to start a private, self-fina ...

, He, along with his brother Upendra Ananth Pai, also established Syndicate Bank originally in Udupi, Karnataka, which has its headquarters now in Manipal and Bangalore. He was responsible for its popular Pigmy Deposit Scheme. *

Ammembal Subba Rao Pai Ammembal Subba Rao Pai (19 November 1852 – 25 July 1909) was a leading lawyer of Mangalore, India. He was the founder of Canara Bank, now one of India's leading banks, and Canara High School in Mangalore. Though he was a lawyer and a banker ...

(19 November 1852 – 25 July 1909) was a leading lawyer of Mangalore, India. He was the founder of Canara Bank, now one of India's leading banks. * T. V. Ramasubbaiyer, Indian philanthropist & Founder of the popular Tamil daily newspaper '' Dinamalar'' *

T. V. Sundaram Iyengar Thirukkurungudi Vengaram Sundram Iyengar (22 March 1877 – 28 April 1955) was an Indian industrialist and automobile pioneer. In 1911, he founded T. V. Sundram Iyengar & Sons, a bus company which later diversified into automobile production and ...

, founder of TVS Co *

Vittal Mallya Vittal Mallya (8 February 1924 – 13 October 1983) was an Indian entrepreneur, best known as the former chair of the India-based United Breweries Group. Mallya is the father of an Indian businessman Vijay Mallya. Early life and education Vit ...

, former chairman of

United Breweries Group United Breweries Holdings Limited (UBHL), also called UB Group, is an Indian conglomerate headquartered in UB City, Bangalore, Karnataka. Its core business includes beverages and investments in various sectors. The company markets beer un ...

. He is the father of

Vijay Mallya Vijay Vittal Mallya (born 18 December 1955) is an Indian businessman, former politician and fugitive. He is the subject of an extradition effort by the Indian Government to return him from the UK to face charges of financial crimes in India. T ...

. * Ravi Pandit is an Indian businessman and the co-founder and chairman of

KPIT Technologies KPIT Technologies Limited (formerly KPIT Cummins Infosystems Ltd) is an Indian multinational corporation which provides embedded software and product engineering services to automotive companies. Popularly known as KPIT, the company is head ...

. * Amit Bhardwaj (17 January 1983 – 15 January 2022) was an Indian businessman who founded Amaze Mining and Blockchain Research Limited which ran GB ainbitcoinMiners among other bitcoin-related businesses and projects, these have been described as various types of Ponzi schemes.

Ravi Pandit

Dancers

Mrinalini Sarabhai Mrinalini Vikram Sarabhai (11 May 1918 – 21 January 2016) was an Indian classical dancer, choreographer and instructor. She was the founder and director of the Darpana Academy of Performing Arts, an institute for imparting training in dance, ...

, Indian Classical dancer who founded

Darpana Academy of Performing Arts Darpana Academy of Performing Arts is a school for performing arts in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, established by Mrinalini Sarabhai and Vikram Sarabhai in 1949, it has been directed by their daughter Mallika Sarabhai for the last three decades. The sc ...

. She received

Rekha Raju Rekha Raju is an Indian classical dance performer and teacher from Bangalore, Karnataka. She specialises in the Bharatnatyam and Mohiniyattam dance forms. Early life and education Rekha was born in brahmin family at Palakkad district, Kerala ...

, Indian dancer who was specialised in both

Bharatnatyam Bharatanatyam () is a major form of Indian classical dance that originated in Tamil Nadu. It is one of the eight widely recognized Indian classical dance forms, and expresses South Indian religious themes and spiritual ideas, particularly of ...

and

Mohiniyattam Mohiniyattam, ( ml, മോഹിനിയാട്ടം), is an Indian classical dance form that developed and remained popular in the state of Kerala. Kathakali is another classical dance form of Kerala. Mohiniyattam dance gets its name fr ...

* Rukmini Devi, Indian Classical Dancer who catalyzed the renaissance of

Bharatanatyam Bharatanatyam () is a major form of Indian classical dance that originated in Tamil Nadu. It is one of the eight widely recognized Indian classical dance forms, and expresses South Indian religious themes and spiritual ideas, particularly of ...

dance. She was the first woman in Indian to be nominated as member of the

Rajya Sabha The Rajya Sabha, constitutionally the Council of States, is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of India. , it has a maximum membership of 245, of which 233 are elected by the legislatures of the states and union territories using si ...

. She received

Sanjukta Panigrahi Sanjukta Panigrahi (24 August 1944 – 24 June 1997) was a dancer from India, who was the foremost exponent of Indian classical dance Odissi. Sanjukta was the first Odia woman to embrace this ancient classical dance at an early age and ensure ...

, Indian Classical dancer who was first Odia woman to embrace ancient classical dance at an early age. She received

Sitara Devi Sitara Devi (named Dhanlakshm; 8 November 1920 – 25 November 2014) was an Indian dancer of the classical Kathak style of dancing, a singer, and an actress. She was the recipient of several awards and accolades, and performed at several pres ...

, eminent Indian dancer of classical

Kathak Kathak ( hi, कथक; ur, کتھک) is one of the eight major forms of Indian classical dance. It is the classical dance from of Uttar Pradesh. The origin of Kathak is traditionally attributed to the traveling bards in ancient northern Ind ...

style. She received

Uday Shankar Uday Shankar (8 December 1900 – 26 September 1977) was an Indian dancer and choreographer, best known for creating a fusion style of dance, adapting European theatrical techniques to Indian classical dance, imbued with elements of Indian cl ...

, Indian dancer who is considered as Pioneer of Modern Dance in India. He received

Vempati Chinna Satyam Vempati Chinna Satyam (15 October 1929 – 29 July 2012) was an Indian dancer and a guru of the Kuchipudi dance form. Chinna Satyam was born in a brahmin family at Kuchipudi, Andhra Pradesh. He was taught by Vedantam Lakshmi Narayana Sastry ...

, Indian dancer who was the guru of the Kuchipudi dance form. He received

Film industry

Actors

Arjun Rampal Arjun Rampal (born 26 November 1972) is an Indian actor, model, film producer and television personality who works in Hindi films. He made his acting debut in Rajiv Rai's romance film '' Pyaar Ishq Aur Mohabbat'' (2001) and has since gone on t ...

, Indian actor * Anupam Kher, Indian actor who received

and

. He was the chairman of CBFC, FTII and

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Crazy Mohan Mohan Rangachari (16 October 1952 – 10 June 2019) known professionally as Crazy Mohan, was an Indian actor, comedian, screenwriter and playwright. An engineer by profession, Mohan started writing plays and established his own drama troupe calle ...

, Indian actor and comedian * Dharmavarapu Subramanyam, Indian actor and comedian *

Gemini Ganesan Ramasamy Ganesan (17 November 1920 – 22 March 2005), better known by his stage name Gemini Ganesan, was an Indian actor who worked mainly in Tamil cinema. He was referred to as the ''Kaadhal Mannan'' (King of Romance) for his romantic roles ...

, Indian actor called "King of Romance" who received

Gollapudi Maruti Rao Gollapudi Maruti Rao (14 April 1939 – 12 December 2019) was an Indian actor, screenwriter, dramatist, playwright, columnist and dialogue writer known for his works in Telugu cinema, Telugu theatre and Telugu Literature. Rao acted in over 250 ...

Jayaram Jayaram Subramaniam, (born 10 December 1965) known mononymously as Jayaram, is an Indian actor who predominantly appears in Malayalam,Tamil films, along with a few Telugu films. He is also a chenda percussionist, mimicry artist, and occasional ...

, Indian actor who received

* Jeevan * Kamal Haasan, 60 years in

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and still counting. Received Ordre des Arts et des Lettres,

and

. He is the Highest Filmfare achiever and Highest

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Submission from India * Major Sundarrajan *

Manoj Bajpayee Manoj Bajpayee (born 23 April 1969), also transliterated as Manoj Bajpai, is an Indian actor who predominantly works in Hindi cinema and has also done Telugu and Tamil language films. Regarded as one of the finest actors of Hindi cinema, he i ...

, Indian actor who received

Mohit Raina Mohit Raina (born 14 August 1982) is an Indian actor who appears in Hindi films and television. He started his acting career with a science fiction show ''Antariksh'' (2004) and later went on to play a role in '' Don Muthu Swami'' (2008). He ...

* Paresh Rawal, Indian actor *

Raaj Kumar Raaj Kumar (born Kulbhushan Pandit; 8 October 1926 3 July 1996) was an Indian actor who worked in Hindi films. He appeared in the Oscar-nominated 1957 film '' Mother India'' and starred in over 70 Hindi films in a career that spanned over fo ...

, Indian film actor who acted in

nominated movie

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. *

Sanjeev Kumar Sanjeev Kumar (born Harihar Jethalal Jariwala; 9 July 1938 – 6 November 1985) was an Indian actor. He is well remembered for his versatility and genuine portrayal of his characters. He acted in genres ranging from romantic dramas to thrille ...

, Indian actor who is the seventh greatest actor of Indian cinema of all-time in a poll conducted by

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Sharman Joshi Sharman Joshi (born 28 April 1979) is an Indian actor and television presenter who predominantly works in Hindi movies, known for his roles in films like ''Rang De Basanti'' (2006), '' Golmaal'' (2006), '' Dhol'' (2007) and ''3 Idiots'' (2009). ...

Shankar Nag Shankar Nagarakatte (9 November 1954 – 30 September 1990) was an Indian actor, screenwriter, director, and producer known for his work in Kannada-language films and television. A popular cultural icon of Karnataka, Nag is often referred to as ...

Sidharth Shukla Sidharth Shukla (12 December 1980 – 2 September 2021) was an Indian actor, host and model who appeared in Hindi television and films. He was known for his roles in ''Balika Vadhu'', '' Broken But Beautiful 3'' and ''Dil Se Dil Tak''.. He em ...

Uday Kiran Uday Kiran (26 June 1980 – 5 January 2014) was an Indian actor who primarily worked in Telugu cinema. His first three films, ''Chitram'' (2000), ''Nuvvu Nenu'' (2001), and '' Manasantha Nuvve'' (2001) were successful at the box office, earnin ...

Unnikrishnan Namboothiri Korom Pulleri Vadhayarillathu Unnikrishnan Namboothiri (19 October 1923 20 January 2021) was an Indian actor in Malayalam movies. He mainly handled comedy roles and grandfather roles. His role as Dileep's grand father in the Malayalam movie K ...

* Y.V Rao

Directors, Cinematographers and producers

* Basu Bhattacharyya, film director *

B. V. Karanth Babukodi Venkataramana Karanth (Kannada: ಬಾಬುಕೋಡಿ ವೆಂಕಟರಮಣ ಕಾರಂತ) (19 September 1929 – 1 September 2002) widely known as B. V. Karanth was an Indian film director, playwright, actor, screenwriter, co ...

, film director who received

Padma shri Padma Shri ( IAST: ''padma śrī''), also spelled Padma Shree, is the fourth-highest civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is conf ...

Dadasaheb Phalke Dhundiraj Govind Phalke (Pronunciation: ̪ʱuɳɖiɾaːd͡ʒ pʰaːɭke, popularly known as Dadasaheb Phalke () (30 April 1870 – 16 February 1944), was an Indian producer-director-screenwriter, known as "the Father of Indian cinema". His de ...

, producer and Father of Indian Cinema.

Dadasaheb Phalke Award The Dadasaheb Phalke Award is India's highest award in the field of cinema. It is presented annually at the National Film Awards ceremony by the Directorate of Film Festivals, an organisation set up by the Ministry of Information and Broad ...

named after him for lifetime contribution to cinema and is the highest official recognition for film personalities in the country *

Girish Karnad Girish Karnad (19 May 1938 – 10 June 2019) was an Indian actor, film director, Kannada writer, playwright and a Jnanpith awardee, who predominantly worked in South Indian cinema and Bollywood. His rise as a playwright in the 1960s marked the ...

, film director who received India's top literary prize, the

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in 1974 and

in 1992 * Guru dutt, Indian film director and actor. He was included among

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's "Top 25 Asian Actors" in 2012 *

G. V. Iyer Ganapathi Venkataramana Iyer (3 September 1917 – 21 December 2003) was a well-known Indian film director and actor. He was nicknamed "Kannada Bheeshma", and was the only person who made films in Sanskrit. His film ''Adi Shankaracharya'' (1983 ...

, Indian film director called "Kannada

Bheeshma Bhishma (Sanskrit: भीष्‍म, , ), also known as Pitamaha, Gangaputra, and Devavrata, played an integral role in Mahabharata. He was the supreme commander of the Kaurava forces during the Kurukshetra War mentioned in the Hindu epic M ...

" who was the only person who made films in

Sanskrit Sanskrit (; attributively , ; nominally , , ) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in South Asia after its predecessor languages had diffused there from the northwest in the late ...

Hrishikesh Mukherjee Hrishikesh Mukherjee (30 September 1922 – 27 August 2006) was an Indian film director, editor and writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of Indian cinema. Popularly known as ''Hrishi-da'', he directed 42 films during his ca ...

, film director who received

Golden Bear The Golden Bear (german: Goldener Bär) is the highest prize awarded for the best film at the Berlin International Film Festival. The bear is the heraldic animal of Berlin, featured on both the coat of arms and flag of Berlin. History The win ...

NTR National Award The NTR National Award is an annual award presented by the Government of Andhra Pradesh to recognize people for their lifetime achievements and contributions to the Cinema of India. The NTR National Award is an honorary Nandi Award in the honour ...

and

DadaSaheb Phalke Award The Dadasaheb Phalke Award is India's highest award in the field of cinema. It is presented annually at the National Film Awards ceremony by the Directorate of Film Festivals, an organisation set up by the Ministry of Information and Broad ...

. Chairman of the CBFC and NFDC *

K. Balachander Kailasam Balachander (9 July 1930 – 23 December 2014) was an Indian film maker and playwright who worked mainly in the Tamil cinema. He was well known for his distinct film-making style, and the Indian film industry knew him as a master of un ...

, filmmaker who is called Iyakkunar Sigaram (Director Paramount). He received

and

Kidar Sharma Kidar Nath Sharma, also Kedar Sharma (12 April 1910 – 29 April 1999), was an Indian film director, producer, screenwriter, and Lyricist of Hindi films. While he had great success as a director of such movies as '' Neel Kamal'' (1947), ''Bawre N ...

, Indian film director * K. Subramanyam, Indian film director * Nanabhai Bhatt, film director and producer who was the first to feature twins in

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& Patriarch of Bhatt Film Family. *

Puttanna Kanagal Shubraveshti Ramaswamiah Seetharama Sharma (1 December 1933 – 5 June 1985), known popularly as S. R. Puttanna Kanagal, was an Indian filmmaker known for his work in Kannada cinema. He is often considered one of Kannada cinema's most influent ...

, Kannada film director. Puttanna Kanangal Award was named after his contribution *

Vivek Agnihotri Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri (born 10 November 1973) is an Indian film director, film producer, screenwriter and author who works in Hindi cinema. , he is a member of the board of India's Central Board of Film Certification and a cultural repr ...

, film director * V. K. Murthy, first cinematographer to be chosen for the

Actress

Adah Sharma Adah Sharma (born 11 May 1992), is an Indian actress who mainly appears in Hindi and Telugu-language films. Sharma, after finishing her schooling, made her acting debut with a leading role in the 2008 Hindi language horror film ''1920'', a box ...

* Aditi Sharma *

Deepika Padukone Deepika Padukone ( or ; born 5 January 1986) is an Indian actress who works in Hindi films. She is one of the highest-paid actresses in India, and her accolades include three Filmfare Awards. She features in listings of the nation's most po ...

Divyanka Tripathi Divyanka Tripathi Dahiya ( Tripathi; born 14 December 1984) is an Indian television actress. She is known for playing Vidya Pratap Singh in Zee TV's ''Banoo Main Teri Dulhann'' and Dr. Ishita Iyer Bhalla in StarPlus, Star Plus's ''Yeh Hai Moh ...

, Indian television actress *

Dr. Sharmila Dr. Sharmila is a doctor, actress, social activist and YouTuber from Tamil Nadu, India. She debuted in a STAR Vijay show, ''Puthira Punithama?'' along with N. Mathrubootham, which made her popular. She went on to act in various television se ...

, Indian television and Film actress * Durga bai Kamat, the first female actor in Indian cinema. She is known for being India's first heroine *

Durga Khote Durga Khote (14 January 1905 − 22 September 1991) was an Indian actress, beginning as one of the foremost leading ladies of her times, she remained active in Hindi and Marathi cinema, as well as theatre, for over 50 years, starring in around ...

, Indian actress who received

and

. *

Gayathri Raguram Gayathri Raguram is an Indian politician and former actress who has worked in the South Indian film industry. Gayathri began her career as an actress in the 2001 Telugu film ''Repallelo Radha'' and after a career break, she began working as a ...

, Indian actress and choreographer *

Hema Malini Hema Malini (born 16 October 1948) is an Indian actress, director, producer, and politician. She is primarily known for her work in Hindi films. Known for starring in both comic and dramatic roles, she is one of the most popular and successful ...

, Indian actress who received

Indraja Rajathi, better known by her stage name Indraja, is an Indian actress known for her work in Telugu and Malayalam films. She has also appeared in a few Tamil and Kannada films, in addition to television shows. Early life Indraja was born as ...

Kavita Kaushik Kavita Kaushik (born 15 February 1981) is an Indian actress who primarily works in Hindi television. She made her debut with Ekta Kapoor's ''Kutumb''. Kaushik is well known for her portrayal of Chandramukhi Chautala in SAB TV's sitcom ''F.I.R.' ...

* Krishna Kumari *

Lakshmy Ramakrishnan Lakshmy Ramakrishnan is an Indian actress, director and philanthropist. She made her debut in the Malayalam film ''Chakkara Muthu'' (2006), and has since appeared primarily in supporting roles in Tamil films. Personal life Lakshmy was born an ...

Lavanya Tripathi Lavanya Tripathi (born 15 December 1990) is an Indian actress who predominantly works in Telugu films along with Tamil films. She made her acting debut with the Hindi television show ''Pyaar Ka Bandhan'' (2009) and made her film debut with ''An ...

Leela Chitnis Leela Chitnis (''née'' Nagarkar; 9 September 1909 – 14 July 2003) was an Indian actress in the Indian film industry, active from 1930s to 1980s. In her early years she starred as a romantic lead, but she is best remembered for her later role ...

Madhuri Dixit Madhuri Dixit Nene (née Dixit; born 15 May 1967) is an Indian actress who primarily works in Hindi films. A leading actress of Indian cinema, she has appeared in over 70 films. Noted by critics for her beauty, dancing skills, and characters ...

, Indian actress who received

* Madhuvanti Arun *

Mamta Kulkarni Mamta Kulkarni is a former Indian actress and model known for her work in Hindi cinema. She has appeared in commercial successful Hindi films such as ''Aashiq Awara'' (1993), ''Waqt Hamara Hai'' (1993), '' Krantiveer'' (1994), ''Karan Arjun'' (1 ...

Pallavi Sharda Pallavi Sharda (born 5 March 1990) is an Australian actress of Indian descent, and a classical Indian Bharathanatyam dancer. Her film credits include Oscar nominated film '' Lion'' (2016), Bollywood films '' Begum Jaan'' (2017) and ''Hawaizaad ...

, Indian Australian Actress *

Rashmi Gautam Rashmi Gautam is an Indian actress and television presenter who appears in Telugu-language films and TV. She hosts the Telugu television comedy show ''Extra Jabardasth'' and is a conceptual team leader in reality dance show ''Dhee''. Early ...

Rasika Joshi Rasika Joshi (12 September 1972 – 7 July 2011) was a Marathi and Hindi film actress. A Marathi theatre and Indian television actress, she was known for '' Maharashtrian'' roleplays in Bollywood films. Personal life Rasika was born in a Mara ...

Shanta Apte Shanta Apte (1916–1964) was an Indian actress-singer who worked in Marathi and Hindi cinema. Renowned for her roles in films like ''Duniya Na Mane/Kunku'' (1937) and '' Amar Jyoti'' (1936) under the Prabhat Films banner, she was active in In ...

Shruti Haasan Shruti Haasan (born 28 January 1986) is an Indian actress and playback singer who works predominantly in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi films. Born in the Haasan family, she is the daughter of actor-filmmaker Kamal Haasan and actress Sarika Thakur. ...

* Sobhita Dhulipala *

Soundarya K. S. Sowmya (18 July 1972 – 17 April 2004), better known by her stage name Soundarya, was an Indian actress who worked predominantly in Telugu films and has also worked in Kannada, Tamil, Hindi and Malayalam films. She was regarded as one o ...

* Soundarya Sharma * Suchitra Sen, Indian actress who received

* Sumitra Devi *

Trisha Trisha is a unisex given name, usually derived from the female Latin given name Patricia. Notable people and characters with the name include: People *Trisha (actress), Indian film actress Trisha Krishnan (born 1983) * Trisha Baptie (born 197 ...

Vasundhara Das Vasundhara Das (born 18 August 1977) is an Indian singer, musician and actress. Vasundhara's films include ''Hey Ram'' (Tamil/Hindi), ''Monsoon Wedding'' (English), ''Citizen (film), Citizen'' (Tamil), ''Ravana Prabhu'' (Malayalam), ''Lankesh ...

Vidya Balan Vidya Balan (pronounced ; born 1 January 1979) is an Indian actress. Known for pioneering a change in the portrayal of women in Hindi cinema with her roles in female-led films, she is the recipient of several awards, including a National Fi ...

, Indian actress who received

Yami Gautam Yami Gautam Dhar (born 28 November 1988) is an Indian actress known predominantly for her work in Hindi films. She sprang into prominence after doing some commercials for Glow & Lovely and began her acting career in television shows, followed ...

Fashion models and designers

Bhanu Athaiya Bhanu Athaiya (née Rajopadhye; 28 April 192915 October 2020) was an Indian costume designer and painter. She was the only woman member of the Bombay Progressive Artists' Group and the first Indian to win an Academy Award. Alongside being Bolly ...

, costume designer who was the first Indian to win

Oscar award The Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international film industry. The awards are regarded by many as the most prestigious, significant awards in the entertainment ind ...

Kalpana Iyer Kalpana Iyer (born 26 July 1956) is a former Indian actress, singer, and model, who is best known for her works in Hindi cinema throughout the 1980s and 1990s. She appeared in over 100 films, and is accredited for her performances in many popula ...

, model and actress who became runner-up at

Miss India Miss India may refer to: * Femina Miss India, the most prestigious and oldest surviving national beauty pageant in India that started in 1964. It sends its winner to Miss World. * Miss Diva, the national beauty pageant that sends its winners to Miss ...

1978 and Miss World 1978 beauty pageant where she was a top 15 semi-finalist. *

Nethra Raghuraman Nethra Raghuraman is an Indian actress and model. She has been selected as Look Of The Year contest winner for Femina magazine in 1997. She also won the Best Female Newcomer title at Star Screen Awards in 2000. Her most notable films include ' ...

, Indian model who won Femina Magazine Look of the Year contest 1997. * Poonam Pandey, erotic model was one of the top 8 contestants of

Gladrags ''Gladrags'' is an Indian magazine, published biweekly featuring modeling and related events. History and profile Gladrags was established in 1959. The first issue appeared in July 1959. The magazine is owned by Maureen Wadia. It is primaril ...

2010 and Kingfisher Calendar Girl Hunt 2011.

Historians and scholars

Pandurang Vaman Kane 2022 stamp of India

Datto Vaman Potdar Dattatray Vaman Potdar (5 August 1890 – 6 October 1979), better known as Datto Vaman Potdar, was an Indian historian, writer, and orator. He was the Vice-Chancellor of University of Pune during 1961 - 1964. The British colonial Government of ...

, Indian historian and orator who was the

vice-chancellor A chancellor is a leader of a college or university, usually either the executive or ceremonial head of the university or of a university campus within a university system. In most Commonwealth and former Commonwealth nations, the chancellor ...

University of Pune Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU), formerly the University of Poona, is a collegiate public state university located in the city of Pune, India. It was established in 1949, and is spread over a campus in the neighbourhood of Ganeshk ...

. He received

and said to be '' Dr. Johnson of Maharashtra'' or ''a living encyclopedia'' *

K.A. Nilakanta Sastri Kallidaikurichi Aiyah Nilakanta Sastri (12 August 1892 – 15 June 1975) was an Indian historian who wrote on South Indian history. Many of his books form the standard reference works on the subject. Sastri was acclaimed for his scholarship and ...

, Indian historian known for his works on South Indian history. He also received

. * Komarraju Venkata Lakshmana Rao, Indian historian *

Madan Mohan Malaviya Madan Mohan Malaviya ( (25 December 1861 — 12 November 1946) was an Indian scholar, educational reformer and politician notable for his role in the Indian independence movement. He was president of the Indian National Congress four times and ...

, Indian scholar and educational reformer. He also received

Natesa Sastri S. M. Natesa Sastri (1859–1906) was a polyglot, scholar in eighteen languages and authored many books in Tamil, Sanskrit and English. His scholarliness over Tamil and Sanskrit languages got him the title "Pandit'. Life Natesa Sastri was bor ...

, polyglot, scholar in eighteen languages and authored many books in Tamil, Sanskrit and English *

Pandurang Vaman Kane Pandurang Vaman Kane (pronounced ''Kaa-nay'') (7 May 1880 – 18 April 1972) was a notable Indologist and Sanskrit scholar. He received India's highest civilian award Bharat Ratna in 1963 for his scholarly work that spanned more than 40 years ...

, Indologist and Sanskrit scholar.He received India's highest civilian award

* Ramachandra Guha, Indian historian and writer * S. Krishnaswami Aiyangar, Indian historian, academician and

Dravidologist Dravidian studies (also Dravidology) is the academic field devoted to the Dravidian languages, literature, and Dravidian culture, culture. It is a superset of Tamil studies and a subset of South Asian studies. Early missionaries The 16th to 18t ...

who earned the title "

Dewan Bahadur Dewan Bahadur or Diwan Bahadur was a title of honour awarded during British Raj, British rule in India. It was awarded to individuals who had performed faithful service or acts of public welfare to the nation. From 1911 the title was accompanied by ...

" * U. V. Swaminatha Iyer, Tamil Scholar called ''Tamil Thatha'' (literally, "Tamil grandfather")

Historical figures

Charaka Charaka was one of the principal contributors to Ayurveda, a system of medicine and lifestyle developed in Ancient India. He is known as an editor of the medical treatise entitled ''Charaka Samhita'', one of the foundational texts of classical ...

an ancient

physician was one of the principal contributors to

Ayurveda Ayurveda () is an alternative medicine system with historical roots in the Indian subcontinent. The theory and practice of Ayurveda is pseudoscientific. Ayurveda is heavily practiced in India and Nepal, where around 80% of the population rep ...

, a system of medicine and lifestyle developed in

Ancient India According to consensus in modern genetics, anatomically modern humans first arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa between 73,000 and 55,000 years ago. Quote: "Y-Chromosome and Mt-DNA data support the colonization of South Asia by m ...

. * Sushrut was an

ancient India According to consensus in modern genetics, anatomically modern humans first arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa between 73,000 and 55,000 years ago. Quote: "Y-Chromosome and Mt-DNA data support the colonization of South Asia by m ...

n physician. The '' Sushruta Samhita'' (''Sushruta's Compendium''), a treatise ascribed to him, is one of the most important surviving ancient treatises on medicine and is considered a foundational text of Ayurveda. *

Vagbhata Vāgbhaṭa (वाग्भट) is one of the most influential writers, Scientist, Doctor and advisor of ayurveda. Several works are associated with his name as author, principally the Ashtāṅgasaṅgraha (अष्टाङ्गसंग� ...

-Kashmiri Brahmin one of the most influential writers, Scientist, Doctor and advisor of

ayurveda Ayurveda () is an alternative medicine system with historical roots in the Indian subcontinent. The theory and practice of Ayurveda is pseudoscientific. Ayurveda is heavily practiced in India and Nepal, where around 80% of the population rep ...

. Several works are associated with his name as author, principally the

Ashtāṅgasaṅgraha The Aṣṭāṅgasaṅgraha is a Sanskrit text thought to be authored by the ancient Indian scholar Vagbhata. As a part of the Brhat Trayi, it is one of the principal texts of Ayurveda, which is an indigenous medicine system of India. See Also ...

(अष्टाङ्गसंग्रह) and the Ashtāngahridayasaṃhitā. *

Aryabhata Aryabhata ( ISO: ) or Aryabhata I (476–550 CE) was an Indian mathematician and astronomer of the classical age of Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy. He flourished in the Gupta Era and produced works such as the ''Aryabhatiya'' (which ...

(

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: ) or Aryabhata I *

Pāṇini , era = ;;6th–5th century BCE , region = Indian philosophy , main_interests = Grammar, linguistics , notable_works = ' ( Classical Sanskrit) , influenced= , notable_ideas=Descriptive linguistics (Devanaga ...

Since the discovery and publication of his work by European scholars in the nineteenth century, Pāṇini has been considered the "first descriptive linguist", 1and even labelled as “the father of linguistics. * Varahamihira, a mathematician born around 505 CE and died 587 CE, who was also known for innovation with Pascal's triangle.Varāha or Mihira, was an ancient Indian astrologer, astronomer, and polymath who lived in

Ujjain Ujjain (, Hindustani pronunciation: �d͡ːʒɛːn is a city in Ujjain district of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. It is the fifth-largest city in Madhya Pradesh by population and is the administrative centre of Ujjain district and Ujjain ...

(Madhya Pradesh, India). He was born at Kapitba in a

family, *

Basava Basaveshwara, colloquially known as Basavanna, was a 12th-century CE Indian statesman, philosopher, poet, Lingayat social reformer in the Shiva-focussed bhakti movement, and a Hindu Shaivite social reformer during the reign of the Kalyani Cha ...

,12th-century Indian statesman, philosopher, poet, social reformer and

Lingayat Lingayatism or Veera Saivism is a Hindu denomination based on Shaivism. Initially known as ''Veerashaivas'', since the 12th-century adherents of this faith are known as ''Lingayats''. The terms ''Lingayatism'' and ''Veerashaivism'' have been ...

saint. Basava Jayanthi is celebrated after him *

Bhattadeva Bhattadeva (1558–1638)( অসমীয়া: বৈকুণ্ঠনাথ ভাগৱত ভট্টাচাৰ্য), (Baikunthanatha Bhagavata Bhattacharya) is acknowledged as the father of Assamese prose. Though ''Bhaktiratnakar-kat ...

(1558–1638), acknowledged as the father of Assamese prose and known for Katha Bhagavat and Katha Gita *

Bhai Mati Das Bhai Mati Das ( Punjabi: ਭਾਈ ਮਤੀ ਦਾਸ; died 1675) along with his younger brother Bhai Sati Das were martyrs of early Sikh history. Bhai Mati Das, Bhai Dayala, and Bhai Sati Das were executed at a ''kotwali'' (police-station) in ...

, martyr in Sikh history *

Bhai Sati Das Bhai Sati Das ( Punjabi: ਭਾਈ ਸਤੀ ਦਾਸ; died 1675) along with his elder brother Bhai Mati Das were martyrs of early Sikh history. Bhai Sati Das, Bhai Mati Das and Bhai Dyal Das were all executed at ''kotwali'' (police-station) ...

, was martyred with his brother

Chanakya Chanakya (Sanskrit: चाणक्य; IAST: ', ; 375–283 BCE) was an ancient Indian polymath who was active as a teacher, author, strategist, philosopher, economist, jurist, and royal advisor. He is traditionally identified as Kauṭil ...

, teacher of Chandragupta Maurya and also an ancient Indian philosopher, economist, jurist and royal advisor of the Maurya Empire. * Kaundiya, earliest disciple and follower of

Gautama Buddha Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha, was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism. According to Buddhist tradition, he was born in Lu ...

. He was the first to become an

Arhat In Buddhism, an ''arhat'' (Sanskrit: अर्हत्) or ''arahant'' (Pali: अरहन्त्, 𑀅𑀭𑀳𑀦𑁆𑀢𑁆) is one who has gained insight into the true nature of existence and has achieved ''Nirvana'' and liberated ...

. Koundiny Asana was named after him *

Kumārila Bhaṭṭa Kumārila Bhaṭṭa (fl. roughly 700) was a Hindu philosopher and a scholar of Mimamsa school of philosophy from early medieval India. He is famous for many of his various theses on Mimamsa, such as ''Mimamsaslokavarttika''. Bhaṭṭa was a ...

, was a Hindu philosopher and a scholar of Mimamsa school of philosophy from Kamarupa (present-day Assam) *

Mohan Lal Kashmiri Mohan Lal Zutshi KLS (popularly known as Mohan Lal Kashmiri; 1812 – 1877) was an Indian traveler, diplomat, and author. He deserves to be credited as being an important player in the so-called Great Game—possibly the first notable Ind ...

, Indian diplomat who played a central role in the

First Anglo-Afghan War The First Anglo-Afghan War ( fa, جنگ اول افغان و انگلیس) was fought between the British Empire and the Emirate of Kabul from 1838 to 1842. The British initially successfully invaded the country taking sides in a succession d ...

of 1838–1842 *

Nana Fadnavis Nana Fadnavis (Pronunciation: aːna pʰəɖɳəʋiːs, fəɖ- also Phadnavis and Furnuwees and abbreviated as Phadnis) (February 12, 1742 – March 13, 1800), born Balaji Janardan Bhanu, was an influential minister and statesman of the Marath ...

, Influential minister and Statesman of the

Maratha Empire The Maratha Empire, also referred to as the Maratha Confederacy, was an early modern Indian confederation that came to dominate much of the Indian subcontinent in the 18th century. Maratha rule formally began in 1674 with the coronation of Sh ...

during the

Peshwa The Peshwa (Pronunciation: e(ː)ʃʋaː was the appointed (later becoming hereditary) prime minister of the Maratha Empire of the Indian subcontinent. Originally, the Peshwas served as subordinates to the Chhatrapati (the Maratha king); later ...

administration. *

Samarth Ramdas Samarth Ramdas (c. 1608 - c. 1681), also known as Sant Ramdas or Ramdas Swami, was an Indian Hindu saint, philosopher, poet, writer and spiritual master. He was a devotee of the Hindu deities Rama and Hanuman. Early life Ramdas or previously N ...

, Indian Hindu saint, philosopher, poet, writer and spiritual master. * Sariputra, main

disciple A disciple is a follower and student of a mentor, teacher, or other figure. It can refer to: Religion * Disciple (Christianity), a student of Jesus Christ * Twelve Apostles of Jesus, sometimes called the Twelve Disciples * Seventy disciples in t ...

and First of the Buddha's two chief disciples. *

T. Madhava Rao Raja Sir Tanjore Madhava Rao, KCSI (20 November 18284 April 1891), also known as Sir Madhava Rao Thanjavurkar or simply as Madhavarao Tanjorkar, was an Indian statesman, civil servant, administrator and politician who served as the Diwan of ...

, Diwan of Baroda

Indore Indore () is the largest and most populous city in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. It serves as the headquarters of both Indore District and Indore Division. It is also considered as an education hub of the state and is the only city to ...

and

Travancore The Kingdom of Travancore ( /ˈtrævənkɔːr/), also known as the Kingdom of Thiruvithamkoor, was an Indian kingdom from c. 1729 until 1949. It was ruled by the Travancore Royal Family from Padmanabhapuram, and later Thiruvananthapuram. At ...

Rulers & Warriors

Vasudeva Kanva Vasudeva Kanva () was the founder of the Kanva dynasty. He was originally an Amatya (minister) of last Shunga ruler Devabhuti. Vasudeva killed the last Shunga ruler and established Kanva dynasty. Bana's Harshacharita informs us that he came to p ...

– founder of the Brahmin

Kanva dynasty The Kanva dynasty or Kanvayana that overthrew the Shunga dynasty in parts of eastern and central India, and ruled from 73 BCE to 28 BCE. Although the Puranic literature indicates that the Kanva Dynasty ruled from the former capital of the Sh ...

. * Vindhyashakti – founder of the

Vakataka dynasty The Vakataka dynasty () was an ancient Indian dynasty that originated from the Deccan in the mid-3rd century CE. Their state is believed to have extended from the southern edges of Malwa and Gujarat in the north to the Tungabhadra River in the ...

. *

Kaundinya I Kaundinya I ( km, កៅណ្ឌិន្យ, Odia: କୌଣ୍ଡିନ୍ୟ, sa, कौण्डिन्य, ), also known as Hùntián (混塡) and Preah Thong ( Khmer: ព្រះថោង), was the second monarch of Funan (reigned c. 1 ...

founder of

Funan Funan (; km, ហ៊្វូណន, ; vi, Phù Nam, Chữ Hán: ) was the name given by Chinese cartographers, geographers and writers to an ancient Indianized state—or, rather a loose network of states ''(Mandala)''—located in mainla ...

Tarumanagara Tarumanagara or Taruma Kingdom or just Taruma is an early Sundanese Indianised kingdom, located in western Java, whose 5th-century ruler, Purnawarman, produced the earliest known inscriptions in Java, which are estimated to date from arou ...

kingdom established by Telugu brahmin royal priest name Maharshi Rajadirajaguru Jayasingawarman warman title is adopted after rotality. * Bhabani – Rani/Queen of

Natore Natore district is a district of Rajshahi Division located in northern Bangladesh. It borders the metropolitan city of Rajshahi, and used to be part of Rajshahi district. History Natore was the District Headquarters of Rajshahi from 1769 to 182 ...

Bhavashankari Bhavashankari ( bn, মহারানী ভবশঙ্করী, Bhavaśaṅkarī) was a ruler of Bhurishreshtha kingdom of Bengal, who resisted the Lohani Pathan sultans of South Bengal and established hindu sovereignty in her kingdom. ...

– Rani/Queen of

Bhurishrestha Bhurshut ( bn, ভুরশুট, Bhurśut) or Bhurishreshtha ( bn, ভূরিশ্রেষ্ঠ, Bhūriśreṣṭha) was a medieval Hindu kingdom spread across what is now Howrah and Hooghly districts in the Indian state of West Bengal ...

Singai Pararasasegaram Singai Pararasasegaram ( ta, சிங்கைப் பரராசசேகரன்) (died 1519), was one of the most well known kings of the later Aryacakravarti kings of the Jaffna kingdom. He was the father of Cankili I. Biography Singai P ...

most powerful and well known king of

Aryacakravarti dynasty The Arya Chakravarti dynasty ( ta, ஆரியச் சக்கரவர்த்திகள் வம்சம், Sinhalese: ආර්ය චක්‍රවර්තී රාජවංශය) were kings of the Jaffna Kingdom in Sri Lank ...

. *

Cankili II Cankili II ( ta, சங்கிலி குமாரன், translit=Caṅkili Kumāraṉ; died 1619) was the last king of the Jaffna kingdom and was a usurper who came to throne with a palace massacre of the royal prince and the regent Ara ...

– the self-proclaimed last king of the Jaffna kingdom * Chach of Alor –

Hindu Hindus (; ) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism. Jeffery D. Long (2007), A Vision for Hinduism, IB Tauris, , pages 35–37 Historically, the term has also been used as a geographical, cultural, and later religious identifier for ...

king of Sindh and was the founder of Brahman dynasty. *

Hemu Hemu (; also known as Hemu Vikramaditya and Hemchandra Vikramaditya; died 5 November 1556) was an Indian emperor who previously served as a general and Wazir of Adil Shah Suri of Sur Empire during a period in Indian history when Mughals and A ...

– Indian king who fought Afghan rebels and Mughal forces of

Humayun Nasir-ud-Din Muhammad ( fa, ) (; 6 March 1508 – 27 January 1556), better known by his regnal name, Humāyūn; (), was the second emperor of the Mughal Empire, who ruled over territory in what is now Eastern Afghanistan, Pakistan, Northe ...

and Akbar *

Devabhuti Devabhuti (), also known as Devbhomi', was the last king of the Shunga Empire in ancient India. He was assassinated by his minister Vasudeva Kanva. Following his death, the Shunga dynasty was then replaced by the subsequent Kanvas. Reign The lat ...

– last ruler of Shunga empire * Maharaja Gangadhar Rao, 5th

Maharaja Mahārāja (; also spelled Maharajah, Maharaj) is a Sanskrit title for a "great ruler", "great king" or " high king". A few ruled states informally called empires, including ruler raja Sri Gupta, founder of the ancient Indian Gupta Empire, a ...

Jhansi Jhansi (; Hindi: झांसी, Urdu: ) is a historic city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It lies in the region of Bundelkhand on the banks of the Pahuj River, in the extreme south of Uttar Pradesh. Jhansi is the administrative head ...

and

Newalkar Newalkar dynasty were Marathi Karhade Brahmins, who were the Maharajas of Jhansi from 1769 to 1858. Their family deity was goddess Mahalakshmi. The Newalkars were sardars under Peshwa Madhavrao I, and later became Maharajas of Jhansi in Central ...

dynasty *

Gangu Gangu County () is a county in the southeast of Gansu province, the People's Republic of China. It is under the administration of Tianshui City and is the most populous county in Gansu. Its postal code is 741200, and in 1999 its population was 570, ...

– Brahmin ruler of the

Deccan The large Deccan Plateau in southern India is located between the Western Ghats and the Eastern Ghats, and is loosely defined as the peninsular region between these ranges that is south of the Narmada river. To the north, it is bounded by the ...

. *

Gautamiputra Satakarni Gautamiputra Satakarni (Brahmi: 𑀕𑁄𑀢𑀫𑀺𑀧𑀼𑀢 𑀲𑀸𑀢𑀓𑀡𑀺, ''Gotamiputa Sātakaṇi'', IAST: ) was a ruler of the Satavahana Empire in present-day Deccan region of India. He was mentioned as the important an ...

– most successful ruler of Brahmin

Satavahana dynasty The Satavahanas (''Sādavāhana'' or ''Sātavāhana'', IAST: ), also referred to as the Andhras in the Puranas, were an ancient Indian dynasty based in the Deccan region. Most modern scholars believe that the Satavahana rule began in the la ...

use the title Eka-brahmana. *

Kulasekara Cinkaiariyan Kulasekara Cinkaiariyan (died 1284) is considered to be the first of the Aryacakravarti dynasty kings to establish his rule over the Jaffna Kingdom in modern Sri Lanka. According to a Sinhalese primary source Mahavamsa, a warlord named Aryacak ...

– the first of the

kings. * Lakshmibai – Rani/Queen of

* Maharaja Dahir – last Brahmin king of Sindh who sacrificed his life fighting for

Hindustan ''Hindūstān'' ( , from '' Hindū'' and ''-stān''), also sometimes spelt as Hindōstān ( ''Indo-land''), along with its shortened form ''Hind'' (), is the Persian-language name for the Indian subcontinent that later became commonly used by ...

against

Arab invasion The spread of Islam spans about 1,400 years. Muslim conquests following Muhammad's death led to the creation of the caliphates, occupying a vast geographical area; conversion to Islam was boosted by Arab Muslim forces conquering vast territories ...

Mayurasharma Mayurasharma or Mayuravarma (reigned 345–365 C.E.), a native of Talagunda (in modern Shimoga district), was the founder of the Kadamba Kingdom of Banavasi, the earliest native kingdom to rule over what is today the modern state of Karnataka, ...

– founder of the Kadamba dynasty. * Pushyamitra Shunga – founder and first ruler of the Shunga Empire. *

Raja Ganesha Raja Ganesha ( bn, রাজা গণেশ) was a Hindu Brahmin zamindar ruler of Bengal, who took advantage of the weakness of the first Ilyas Shahi dynasty and seized power in Bengal. Contemporary historians of the medieval period consider ...

– founder of

Ganesha dynasty The House of Ganesha ( bn, বনী গণেশ, Banī Gaṇesh, fa, ) was the second royal house of the late medieval Sultanate of Bengal. It is named after its founder Raja Ganesha, a wealthy Hindu nobleman, who succeeded the former Ilyas ...

. He ended the first

Ilyas Shahi Dynasty The Ilyas Shahi dynasty ( bn, ইলিয়াস শাহী খান্দান, fa, الیاس شاهی خاندان) was the first independent dynasty to set the foundations of the late medieval Sunni Muslim Sultanate of Bengal. Hailin ...

and started Hindu Empire in

Bengal Bengal ( ; bn, বাংলা/বঙ্গ, translit=Bānglā/Bôngô, ) is a geopolitical, cultural and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal, predom ...

Rudranarayan Rudranarayan Raymukhuty ( bn, মহারাজা রুদ্রনারায়ণ রায়মুখুটি) was the Maharaja of Bhurishrestha in Bengal. He started rivalry with the Lohani Pathan sultans of Bengal Sultanate. Earl ...

– Maharaja of

Shashanka Shashanka ( IAST: Śaśāṃka) was the first independent king of a unified polity in the Bengal region, called the Gauda Kingdom and is a major figure in Bengali history. He reigned in the 7th century, some historians place his rule between cir ...

– Sovereign

Emperor An emperor (from la, imperator, via fro, empereor) is a monarch, and usually the sovereignty, sovereign ruler of an empire or another type of imperial realm. Empress, the female equivalent, may indicate an emperor's wife (empress consort), ...

of a unified polity in the

region, called the

Gauda Kingdom The Gauḍa Kingdom (Gāuṛ Rājya) or Shashankas, was a classic kingdom during the Classical period on the Indian subcontinent, which originated in the region of Bengal (modern-day West Bengal and Bangladesh) in 4th century CE or possibly ...

Rao Nandlal Chaudhary Rao Nandlal Chaudhary (or Nandlal Mandloi) was the srigaur Brahmin chief of the Zamindars of Kampel, Indore. Under the suzerainty of the Mughals, he controlled Indore and some of its surrounding area. He accepted the suzerainty of the Marathas ...

real founder of Indore * Skanda (general) – Commander of prithviraj III army famous for killing Turushkas. *Rauta pape – Deputy commander or chief under King

Trailokyavarman Trailokya-Varman (reigned c. 1203–1245 CE) was a king of the Chandela dynasty of central India. He ruled the Jejakabhukti, Kanyakubja, Tripuri and Chedi regions in present-day Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh). Chandela inscriptions suggest ...

Chandella. *Vishnu Mohapatra – Commander-in-chief of King

Anangabhima III Anangabhima Deva III was an Eastern Ganga monarch who ruled an early medieval Odisha centered empire in eastern India from the year 1211 CE to 1238 CE. He was successful in maintaining a large extent of territory that stretched from the river Gan ...

defeated khiljis of bengal. *

Rajpurohit Rajpurohit (Sanskrit:राजपुरोहित) is a Brahmin sub caste residing in South Asia natively in western Rajasthan of India. They maintain traditions that are similar to both Brahmins and Rajputs. They are historically engaged into ...

are a

community, who as a rule, did not provide Brahminical services as expected with the caste duties of

s Their ancestors are Brahmins of different sub castes * Gopana – was the General of Kumara Kampana II who was the son of

Bukka Raya Bukka Raya I (reigned 1356–1377 CE) was an emperor of the Vijayanagara Empire from the Sangama Dynasty.Phrof A V Narasimha MurthyRare Royal Brothers: Hakka and Bukka He was a son of Bhavana Sangama(Unofficial). Background The early life of Bu ...

the founder of

Vijayanagara Empire The Vijayanagara Empire, also called the Karnata Kingdom, was a Hindu empire based in the region of South India, which consisted the modern states of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Goa and some parts of Telangana and Mahar ...

Timmarusu Saluva Timmarusu or Saluva Nayaka or simply Timmarasu was the Prime Minister (Mahapradhana) and military commander of Krishna Deva Raya. He is also known as "Appaji". He had also served as Prime Minister under Viranarasimha Raya and Tuluva Nar ...

– Minister and general to King Krishnadevaraya the greatest of

Vijayanagar Empire The Vijayanagara Empire, also called the Karnata Kingdom, was a Hindu empire based in the region of South India, which consisted the modern states of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Goa and some parts of Telangana and ...

monarch. An excellent military strategist and combatant in battles. * Dadoji Konddeo - administrator of Shahaji's fiefdom and mentor to Shivaji. * Moropant Pingle – Pingle was the ''Peshwe'' in

Shivaji Shivaji Bhonsale I (; 19 February 1630 – 3 April 1680), also referred to as Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, was an Indian ruler and a member of the Bhonsle Maratha clan. Shivaji carved out his own independent kingdom from the declining Adil ...

Maharaj reign excellent warrior and architect accompanied him in many campaigns. * Peshwa Bajirao I – Peshwa of Maratha Empire. * Bhatt Kirat – Poet and warrior general of Guru Hargovind singh ji of sikh empire. *

Misr Diwan Chand Misr Diwan Chand was a notable officer and a powerful general of Maharaja Ranjit Singh's reign. He rose from petty clerk to the Chief of Artillery and Commander-in-chief of the armies that conquered Multan and Kashmir and also served as the Comm ...

– A famous general in

Khalsa Army The Sikh Khalsa Army (), also known as Khalsaji or simply Sikh Army, was the military force of the Sikh Empire. With its roots in the Khalsa founded by Guru Gobind Singh, the army was later modernised on Franco-British principles by Maharaja Ran ...

Maharaja Ranjit Singh Ranjit Singh (13 November 1780 – 27 June 1839), popularly known as Sher-e-Punjab or "Lion of Punjab", was the first Maharaja of the Sikh Empire, which ruled the northwest Indian subcontinent in the early half of the 19th century. He s ...

. *

Mahan Singh Mirpuri Sardar Raja Mahan Singh Mirpuri Bali (born in Mirpur, Kashmir) was a famous general in the Sikh Khalsa Army, and was the second-in-command general to General Sardar Hari Singh Nalwa.The history of the Muhiyals: The militant Brahman race of India ...

– Raja Mahan Singh Mirpuri Bali (born in Mirpur,Kashmir) was a famous general in the Sikh Khalsa Army, and was the second-in-command general to General Sardar Hari Singh Nalwa. *

Ramayyan Dalawa Ramayyan (died January 1756) was the Dewan of Travancore state, India, during 1737 and 1756 and was responsible for the consolidation and expansion of that kingdom after the defeat of the Dutch at the 1741 Battle of Colachel during the reign of ...

-Dewan of Travancore state, India, during 1737 and 1756. *

Caṇḍeśvara Ṭhakkura Caṇḍeśvara Thakkura was a Maithili-language political theorist and warrior during the 14th century. He served as minister for peace and war and chief judge in the court of Harisimhadeva who was the last King of the Karnat dynasty of Mithila i ...

Minister and commander served under

Karnat dynasty Karnat or Karnata dynasty was a Maithil dynasty established in 1097 CE. The dynasty had two capitals which were Simraungadh in Bara District of Nepal and Darbhanga, Bihar which became the second capital during the reign of Gangadeva. The kingdom ...

of Mithila region in

bihar Bihar (; ) is a state in eastern India. It is the 2nd largest state by population in 2019, 12th largest by area of , and 14th largest by GDP in 2021. Bihar borders Uttar Pradesh to its west, Nepal to the north, the northern part of West ...

. *

Safipur Safipur is a town and nagar panchayat in Unnao district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Located 27 km northwest of the city of Unnao, Safipur serves as a tehsil headquarters and is well-connected by roads to nearby towns. Founded in t ...

was originally founded in the 1300s by a Warrior

named Sai Sukul, who was a subject of the Raja of Ugu. The town was formerly called Saipur in Sai Sukul's honour; *Mandhata Chaube sardar of

Chhatrasal Chhatrasal Bundela (4 May 1649 – 20 December 1731) was an Indian warrior and ruler from the Bundela Rajput clan, who fought against the Mughal Empire, and established his own kingdom in Bundelkhand during the 17th-18th centuries. Early l ...

and Killedar of

Kalinjar Kalinjar ( hi, कालिंजर) is a fortress-city in Bundelkhand, in Banda District of Uttar Pradesh, in India. It was ruled by several dynasties including the Guptas, the Vardhana Dynasty, the Chandelas, Solankis of Rewa, Mughal an ...

fort. Chiefs of

Chaube Jagirs The Chaube Jagirs, also known as 'Kalinjar Chaubes', jagir states were a group of five feudatory states of Central India during the period of the British Raj. They were a British protectorate from 1823 to 1947 and belonged to the Bagelkhand Agen ...

descended from him.

Indian independence movement

Chandrasekhar azad (Tewari) with his gun statue at Bangarpet

Vasudev Balwant Phadke Vasudev Balwant Phadke (4 November 1845 – 17 February 1883) also known as the ‘Father Of Indian Armed Rebellion’ was an Indian independence activist and revolutionary who sought India's independence from colonial rule. Phadke was moved by ...

(4 November 1845 – 17 February 1883) also known as the ‘Father Of Indian Armed Rebellion’ was an Indian independence activist and revolutionary who sought India's independence from colonial rule. * Pradyot Kumar Bhattacharya 3 November 1913 – 12 January 1933) was a Bengali revolutionary and activist of the Indian freedom movement. He was hanged in Midnapore Central jail. *

Bagha Jatin Bagha Jatin (; ) or Baghajatin, born Jatindranath Mukherjee (); 7 December 1879 – 10 September 1915) was an Indian independence activist. He was the principal leader of the Jugantar party that was the central association of revolutionary i ...

, Indian independence activist strong man killed a tiger once and British officers many times * Yogendra Shukla, Indian freedom fighter and revolutionary.He served in the Cellular Jail (Kalapani), and he was among the founders of Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA). *

Chandra Shekhar Azad Chandra Shekhar Tiwari ( (23 July 1906 – 27 February 1931), popularly known as Chandra Shekhar Azad, was an Indian revolutionary who reorganised the Hindustan Republican Association (HRA) under its new name of Hindustan Socialist Republican ...

, freedom fighter and an Indian revolutionary who reorganised the Hindustan Republican Association (HRA) *

Genda Lal Dixit Genda Lal Dixit (30 November 1888 – 21 December 1920) was an Indian revolutionary who worked as a schoolteacher at Auraiya in the district of Etawah, United Province, British India. He led a group of Indian freedom fighters (revolutionaries), ...

, was an Indian revolutionary who led a group of Indian freedom fighters (revolutionaries), known as the Shivaji Samiti, who engaged in subversive activities against the

British Raj The British Raj (; from Hindi ''rāj'': kingdom, realm, state, or empire) was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent; * * it is also called Crown rule in India, * * * * or Direct rule in India, * Quote: "Mill, who was him ...

. *

Chapekar brothers The Chapekar Brothers, Damodar Hari Chapekar (25 June 1869 – 18 April 1898), Balkrishna Hari Chapekar (1873 – 12 May 1899, also called Bapurao) and Vasudeo Hari Chapekar (1880 – 8 May 1899), also spelt Wasudeva or Wasudev, were Indian r ...

, Indian Revolutionaries who were involved in assassination of W.C. Rand * Pandit Kanshi Ram was an Indian revolutionary who, along with

Har Dayal Lala Har Dayal Mathur (Punjabi: ਲਾਲਾ ਹਰਦਿਆਲ; 14 October 1884 – 4 March 1939) was an Indian nationalist revolutionary and freedom fighter. He was a polymath who turned down a career in the Indian Civil Service. His simple ...

and

Sohan Singh Bhakna Baba Sohan Singh Bhakna (22 January 1870 – 21 December 1968) was a Sikh revolutionary , the founding president of the Ghadar Party, and a leading member of the party involved in the Ghadar Conspiracy of 1915. Tried at the Lahore Conspiracy ...

, was one of the three key members in founding the

Ghadar Party The Ghadar Movement was an early 20th century, international political movement founded by expatriate Indians to overthrow British rule in India. The early movement was created by conspirators who lived and worked on the West Coast of the Unite ...

. * Rajnarayan Mishra was an Indian socialist and freedom fighter of

Indian Independence movement The Indian independence movement was a series of historic events with the ultimate aim of ending British Raj, British rule in India. It lasted from 1857 to 1947. The first nationalistic revolutionary movement for Indian independence emerged ...

. He gets the last execution of British rule in 1924 in memory of Sir Robert William Douglas Willoughby, Deputy Commissioner of Kheri who was assassinated on 26 August 1920 by Rajnarayan . * Bhai Balmukund (1889 – 11 May 1915) was an Indian revolutionary freedom fighter. He was sentenced to death and hanged by the

for his role in

Delhi conspiracy case The Delhi Conspiracy case, also known as the Delhi-Lahore Conspiracy, refers to an attempt made in 1912 to assassinate the then Viceroy of India, Lord Hardinge by throwing a local self-made bomb, on the occasion of transferring the capital of ...

. He was a cousin of another revolutionary

Bhai Parmanand Bhai Parmanand (4 November 1876 – 8 December 1947) was an Indian nationalist and a prominent leader of the Hindu Mahasabha. Early life Parmanand was born into a prominent family of the Punjab, Mohyal Brahmins. His father, Tara Chand Mohyal, ...

, who was a founder member of

. * Ram Rakha (1884–1919) was an Indian revolutionary and a member of the Ghadr party from Punjab. He was known primarily for his involvement in the Burma conspiracy case and as a victim of inhuman torture in Cellular Jail. *Bindee Tiwary hero of

Barrackpore mutiny of 1824 The Barrackpore mutiny was a rising of native Indian sepoys against their British officers in Barrackpore in November 1824. The incident occurred when the British East India Company was fighting the First Anglo-Burmese War (1824–1826) unde ...

. *

Nirupama Rath Nirupama Rath was an Indian freedom fighter, social activist and writer. Dr Rath was one of the founding fellows of the Indian Medical Association.She served as the State IMA's president for three straight years from 1987. She took a keen interest ...

was an Indian freedom fighter, social activist and writer. Dr Rath was one of the founding fellows of the

Indian Medical Association The Indian Medical Association (IMA) is a national voluntary organisation of physicians in India. It was established in 1928 as the All India Medical Association, and was renamed the Indian Medical Association in 1930. It is a society registered ...

. *

Mangal Pandey Mangal Pandey was an Indian soldier who played a key part in the events immediately preceding the outbreak of the Indian rebellion of 1857. He was a sepoy (infantryman) in the 34th Bengal Native Infantry (BNI) regiment of the British East I ...

, Hero of 1857 sepoy mutiny and started rebellion *

Durgawati Devi Durgavati Devi (7 October 1907 – 15 October 1999), popularly known as ''Durga Bhabhi'', was an Indian revolutionary and freedom fighter. She was one of the few women revolutionaries who actively participated in armed revolution against the ru ...

, Indian revolutionary and freedom fighter. She is best known for having accompanied

Bhagat Singh Bhagat Singh (27 September 1907 – 23 March 1931) was a charismatic Indian revolutionary* * who participated in the mistaken murder of a junior British police officer * * in what was to be retaliation for the death of an Indian national ...

on the train journey in which he made his escape in disguise after the Saunders killing *

Gopal Krishna Gokhale Gopal Krishna Gokhale ( �ɡoːpaːl ˈkrɪʂɳə ˈɡoːkʰleː9 May 1866 – 19 February 1915) was an Indian 'moderate' political leader and a social reformer during the Indian independence movement. Gokhale was a senior leader of the India ...

, political guru of

Mahatma Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (; ; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948), popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi, was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist Quote: "... marks Gandhi as a hybrid cosmopolitan figure who transformed ... anti- ...

Indulal Yagnik Indulal Kanaiyalal Yagnik (22 February 1892 – 17 July 1972) was an Indian independence activist, who purchased indian tri colour flag from Germany to India. He was a leader of the All India Kisan Sabha and one who led the Mahagujarat Movement, w ...

, Indian independence activist who was the leader of

All India Kisan Sabha All India Kisan Sabha ( AIKS; lit. ''All India Farmers Union'', also known as the Akhil Bharatiya Kisan Sabha), is the peasant or farmers' wing of the Communist Party of India, an important peasant movement formed by Sahajanand Saraswati in 1 ...

who lead the Mahagujarat movement *

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (3 April 1903 – 29 October 1988) was an Indian social reformer and freedom activist. She was most remembered for her contribution to the Indian independence movement; for being the driving force behind the renaissanc ...

, Indian

social reformer A reform movement or reformism is a type of social movement that aims to bring a social or also a political system closer to the community's ideal. A reform movement is distinguished from more radical social movements such as revolutionary move ...

and freedom activist. She received

and

UNESCO The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) aimed at promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture. It ...

honoured her with an award in 1977 for her contribution towards the promotion of handicrafts. * Krishna Nath Sharma, freedom fighter of

Assam Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...

who opened schools for Dailts. *

Anant Laxman Kanhere Anant Laxman Kanhere (7 January 1892, Aayani, India - 19 April 1910) was an Indian independence fighter. On 21 December 1909, he shot A. M. T. Jackson, Arthur Mason Tippetts Jackson, who was the district collector of Nashik in British India. Th ...

, was an Indian independence fighter. He was born in a Brahmin family. On 21 December 1909, he shot the Collector of

Nashik Nashik (, Marathi: aːʃik, also called as Nasik ) is a city in the northern region of the Indian state of Maharashtra. Situated on the banks of river Godavari, Nashik is the third largest city in Maharashtra, after Mumbai and Pune. Nashi ...

British India The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent. Collectively, they have been called British India. In one ...

. The murder of

Jackson Jackson may refer to: People and fictional characters * Jackson (name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the surname or given name Places Australia * Jackson, Queensland, a town in the Maranoa Region * Jackson North, Qu ...

was an important event in the history. * N. S. Hardikar, freedom fighter and founder of Rashtriya

Seva Dal The Seva Dal is the grassroots front organization of the Indian National Congress. The organization has a chapter in all the states of India. The members of the organization are known for wearing the Gandhi topi. It is headed by a Chief Organ ...

, a voluntary cadre based organisation. *

Pingali Venkayya Pingali Venkayya (2 August 1876/8 – 4 July 1963) was an Indian freedom fighter and a Gandhian. He was the designer of the flag on which the Indian National Flag was based. He was also as a lecturer, author, geologist, educationalist, agric ...

, Indian freedom fighter and who designed Indian first national flag *

Jiban Ghoshal Jiban Ghoshal alias Makhanlal (26 June 1912 — 1 September 1930) was an Indian independence activist and a member of the armed resistance movement led by ''Masterda'' Surya Sen, which carried out the Chittagong armoury raid in 1930. Revolutionar ...

was an

Indian independence activist The Indian independence movement consisted of efforts by individuals and organizations from a wide spectrum of society to obtain political independence from the British, French and Portuguese rule through the use of a many methods. This is a l ...

and a member of the armed resistance movement led by ''Masterda'' Surya Sen, which carried out the

Chittagong armoury raid The Chittagong armoury raid, also known as the Chittagong uprising, was an attempt on 18 April 1930 to raid the armoury of police and auxiliary forces from the Chittagong armoury in the Bengal Presidency of British India (now in Bangladesh) b ...

in 1930. *

Rajendra Lahiri Rajendra Nath Lahiri (29 June 1901 — 17 December 1927), known simply as Rajendra Lahiri, was an Indian revolutionary, who was a mastermind behind the Kakori conspiracy and Dakshineshwar bombing. He was active member of Hindustan Republican As ...

, Indian revolutionary who was the mastermind behind

Kakori conspiracy The Kakori Train robbery (''prapt'' of Kakori Conspiracy) was a train robbery that took place at Kakori, a village near Lucknow, on 9 August 1925, during the Indian Independence Movement against the British Raj. It was organised by Hindustan R ...

and

Dakshineshwar Dakshineswar is a locality in the North 24 Parganas under the jurisdiction of Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority and is very close to Kolkata. This place is historically famous for Dakshineswar Kali Temple, locally known as Maa Bhabata ...

bombing *Rao Dhansinghji, warrior and freedom fighter born in a Adi-gaur

family at Charkhi Dadri Haryana fought in the Battle of Nasibpur.Haryana Gazetteer
Revenue Dept of Haryana, Chapter-V. *

Shivaram Rajguru Shivaram Hari Rajguru (24 August 1907 – 23 March 1931) was an Indian revolutionary from Maharashtra (then Bombay State), known mainly for his involvement in the assassination of a British police officer named John Saunders. He was an active ...

, an Indian revolutionary from Maharashtra, known mainly for his involvement in the assassination of a British Raj police officer. *

Vanchinathan Vanchinatha Iyer (1886 – 17 June 1911), popularly known as Vanchinathan or Vanchi, was an Indian independence activist. He is best remembered for assassinating Robert Ashe, the Tax Collector of Thirunelveli who was instrumental in closing ...

, popularly known as Vanchinathan or Vanchi, was an Indian independence activist. He is best remembered for assassinating Robert Ashe, the Tax Collector of

Thirunelveli Tirunelveli (, ta, திருநெல்வேலி, translit=Tirunelveli) also known as Nellai ( ta, நெல்லை, translit=Nellai) and historically (during British rule) as Tinnevelly, is a major city in the Indian state of Tami ...

* Subramaniya Siva * Bapu Gokhale was army chief (Senapati) of the

Marathas The Marathi people ( Marathi: मराठी लोक) or Marathis are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group who are indigenous to Maharashtra in western India. They natively speak Marathi, an Indo-Aryan language. Maharashtra was formed as a ...

in the

Third Anglo-Maratha War The Third Anglo-Maratha War (1817–1819) was the final and decisive conflict between the English East India Company and the Maratha Empire in India. The war left the Company in control of most of India. It began with an invasion of Maratha ter ...

. * Tagadur Ramachandra Rao, Indian freedom fighter and social activist * Tatya Tope, a general in the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and one of its notable leaders. *

Jayi Rajaguru Jayakrushna Rajaguru Mohapatra (29 October 1739 – 6 December 1806) popularly known as Jayi Rajaguru was a prominent figure of the Indian independence movement in the state of Odisha. A princely-priest by profession at the court of the Khurda ...

was a prominent figure of the

Indian independence movement The Indian independence movement was a series of historic events with the ultimate aim of ending British Raj, British rule in India. It lasted from 1857 to 1947. The first nationalistic revolutionary movement for Indian independence emerged ...

in the state of

Odisha Odisha (English: , ), formerly Orissa ( the official name until 2011), is an Indian state located in Eastern India. It is the 8th largest state by area, and the 11th largest by population. The state has the third largest population of ...

Rajaguru. He was later sentenced to death and executed in Baghitota, Midnapore. * Chakhi Khuntia *

Vasukaka Joshi Vasudev Ganesh Joshi ( 28 April 1856 - 12 January 1944), popularly known as Vasukaka Joshi, was an Indian Freedom Fighter. Joshi was the owner of ''Chitrashala'' press after Vishnushastri Krushnashastri Chiplunkar. During the freedom strugg ...

Bhogilal Pandya Bhogilal Pandya (1904-1981) was a freedom fighter and social worker from Dungarpur in the Indian state of Rajasthan. On 3 April 1976, the Government of India awarded him the Padma Bhushan for his social services. The Padma Bhushan is the third-h ...

was a freedom fighter and social worker from

Dungarpur Dungarpur is a city in the southernmost part of Rajasthan, India. It is the administrative headquarters of Dungarpur District. It is the fastest developing town in the southern part of Rajasthan, alongside Aspur ''tehsil''. History Dungarpu ...

in the Indian state of

Rajasthan Rajasthan (; lit. 'Land of Kings') is a state in northern India. It covers or 10.4 per cent of India's total geographical area. It is the largest Indian state by area and the seventh largest by population. It is on India's northwestern s ...

. On 3 April 1976, the

Government of India The Government of India (ISO: ; often abbreviated as GoI), known as the Union Government or Central Government but often simply as the Centre, is the national government of the Republic of India, a federal democracy located in South Asia, ...

awarded him the

for his social services.

Journalism

* Balshastri Jambhekar, Indian Journalist considered to be Father of

Marathi Marathi may refer to: *Marathi people, an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group of Maharashtra, India *Marathi language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people *Palaiosouda, also known as Marathi, a small island in Greece See also * * ...

journalism for his efforts in starting first

marathi Marathi may refer to: *Marathi people, an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group of Maharashtra, India *Marathi language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people *Palaiosouda, also known as Marathi, a small island in Greece See also * * ...

newspaper Darpan * Bhagwatikumar Sharma, Indian Journalist and Gujarati author. * M. V. Kamath, Indian journalist who was the broadcasting executive and chairman of

Prasar Bharati Prasar Bharati (abbreviated as PB; Hindi: ''Praśar Bharati'', lit. Indian Broadcaster) is India's state-owned public broadcaster, headquartered in New Delhi. It is a statutory autonomous body set up by an Act of Parliament and comprises the ...

. He received

* Nidhi Razdan, Indian journalist who was the executive director of NDTV24*7 * Rahul Pandita, Indian journalist and author who was Special stories editor of

. He was also the co founder of Open Magazine *

Ramananda Chatterjee Ramananda Chatterjee ( bn, রামানন্দ চট্টোপাধ্যায়) (29 May 1865 – 30 September 1943) was founder, editor, and owner of the Calcutta based magazine, the '' Modern Review''. He has been described as th ...

, Indian journalist who founded the Modern Review. He is considered as Father of Indian Journalism * Vidya Krishnan, Indian investigate journalist * Rangaraj Pandey, Indian journalist who was the former

editor-in-chief An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...

Thanthi TV Thanthi TV is a 24-hour Tamil news satellite television channel based in Chennai, India. It is owned by Dina Thanthi. History NDTV Hindu was launched on 16 May 2009, owned by NDTV (51%) and The Hindu Group (49%). It was started as a Chennai ...

. He is also the founder of Chanakyaa YouTube Channel

Law

* B. N. Rau, Indian Judge of

International Court of Justice The International Court of Justice (ICJ; french: Cour internationale de justice, links=no; ), sometimes known as the World Court, is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN). It settles disputes between states in accordanc ...

. He played a key role in drafting the

Constitution of India The Constitution of India ( IAST: ) is the supreme law of India. The document lays down the framework that demarcates fundamental political code, structure, procedures, powers, and duties of government institutions and sets out fundamental ...

. He was also the president of the

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and Prime minister of Jammu & Kashmir *

C. P. Ramaswami Iyer Sir Chetput Pattabhiraman Ramaswami Iyer (12 November 1879 – 26 September 1966), popularly known as Sir C. P., was an Indian lawyer, administrator and politician who served as the Advocate-General of Madras Presidency from 1920 to 1923, Law m ...

, Advocate General of Madras Presidency &

Diwan of Travancore The Diwan of Travancore was the head of government of Travancore, a princely state in South India. Appointed by the Maharaja of Travancore, the office of Diwan existed from 1729 to 1948, when it gave way to the office of Prime Minister of Trava ...

(1936–1947) * V.R. Krishna Iyer, Judge * T. Muthuswamy Iyer, first Indian to become judge of the Madras High Court * Sambhunath Pandit, First Indian to become judge of Calcutta High Court in 1863 * Seshadri Srinivasa Iyengar, Indian lawyer who was the Advocate General of Madras Presidency * Madhukar Narhar Chandurkar, former Chief Justice of Bombay and Madras High Court * Mahadev Govind Ranade, Indian Judge of Bombay High court. He was one of the founder of

Indian national congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British E ...

& considered as "Father of Indian Economics". He received

Rao Bahadur __NOTOC__ Rao may refer to: Geography * Rao, West Sumatra, one of the districts of West Sumatra, Indonesia * Råö, a locality in Kungsbacka Municipality, Halland County, Sweden Transport * Dr. Leite Lopes–Ribeirão Preto State Airport , ...

award *

Ganesh Dutt Sir Ganesh Dutt(a) Singh (13 January 1868 – 26 September 1943) was an Indian lawyer, educationist and administrator during the British Raj. He did much to improve education and health services in the state of Bihar and Orissa before the ind ...

, Indian lawyer who made generous donations from his earnings & development of education in bihar * Bijan Kumar Mukherjea,4th Chief Justice of India *

P. B. Gajendragadkar Pralhad Balacharya Gajendragadkar (16 March 1901 – 12 June 1981) originally from Gajendra-Gad, a historic fort and town in southern India was the 7th Chief Justice of India, serving from February 1964 to March 1966. Career Prahlad Bal ...

, 7th Chief Justice of India *

Kailas Nath Wanchoo Kailas Nath Wanchoo (25 February 1903 – 1988) was the tenth Chief Justice of India. He was born in Allahabad into a Kashmiri Pandit family and was educated on primary at Nowgong, Madhya Pradesh and middle at Pandit Pirthi Nath High Schoo ...

, 10th Chief Justice of India * Y. V. Chandrachud,16th Chief Justice of India who is the longest-serving Chief Justice in India *

Ranganath Misra Ranganath Mishra (25 November 1926 – 13 September 2012) was the 21st Chief Justice of India, serving from 25 September 1990 to 24 November 1991. He was also the first chairman of the National Human Rights Commission of India. He also served as ...

, 21st Chief Justice of India and first chairman of the

National Human Rights Commission of India The National Human Rights Commission of India (abbreviated as NHRC) is a statutory public body constituted on 12 October 1993 under the Protection of Human Rights Ordinance of 28 September 1993. It was given a statutory basis by the Protection ...

Mathematicians

* A. A. Krishnaswami Ayyangar, Indian mathematician who wrote an article on the difference between

Chakravala method The ''chakravala'' method ( sa, चक्रवाल विधि) is a cyclic algorithm to solve indeterminate quadratic equations, including Pell's equation. It is commonly attributed to Bhāskara II, (c. 1114 – 1185 CE)Hoiberg & Ramchandani ...

and

Continued Fractions In mathematics, a continued fraction is an expression obtained through an iterative process of representing a number as the sum of its integer part and the reciprocal of another number, then writing this other number as the sum of its integer ...

. * Ashutosh Mukherjee, Indian mathematician, known for his proof of the 25th proposition of

Euclid Euclid (; grc-gre, Εὐκλείδης; BC) was an ancient Greek mathematician active as a geometer and logician. Considered the "father of geometry", he is chiefly known for the '' Elements'' treatise, which established the foundations of ...

's first book. * Bapudeva Sastri, Indian mathematician who translated the

Siddhānta Shiromani ''Siddhānta Śiromaṇi'' (Sanskrit: सिद्धान्त शिरोमणि for "Crown of treatises") is the major treatise of Indian mathematician Bhāskara II. He wrote the ''Siddhānta Śiromaṇi'' in 1150 when he was 36 years old ...

. * Bhāskara II, Indian mathematician and astronomer. *

C. S. Seshadri Conjeevaram Srirangachari Seshadri (29 February 1932 – 17 July 2020) was an Indian mathematician. He was the founder and director-emeritus of the Chennai Mathematical Institute, and is known for his work in algebraic geometry. The Seshadri ...

, Indian mathematician, known for his proof of the

Narasimhan–Seshadri theorem In mathematics, the Narasimhan–Seshadri theorem, proved by , says that a holomorphic vector bundle over a Riemann surface is stable if and only if it comes from an irreducible projective unitary representation of the fundamental group. The main ...

. *

Kannan Soundararajan Kannan Soundararajan (born December 27, 1973) is an India-born American mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University. Before moving to Stanford in 2006, he was a faculty member at University of Michigan where he pursued hi ...

Indian-American Indian Americans or Indo-Americans are citizens of the United States with ancestry from India. The United States Census Bureau uses the term Asian Indian to avoid confusion with Native Americans, who have also historically been referred to ...

mathematician, professor at Stanford. * Kiran Kedlaya, three-time Putnam Fellow mathematician, professor at

University of California, San Diego The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego is t ...

. * K. R. Parthasarathy, Indian mathematician, a pioneer of

quantum stochastic calculus Quantum stochastic calculus is a generalization of stochastic calculus to noncommuting variables. The tools provided by quantum stochastic calculus are of great use for modeling the random evolution of systems undergoing measurement, as in quantum ...

and professor emeritus at the

Indian Statistical Institute Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) is a higher education and research institute which is recognized as an Institute of National Importance by the 1959 act of the Indian parliament. It grew out of the Statistical Laboratory set up by Prasanta ...

. *

Madhava of Sangamagrama Iriññāttappiḷḷi Mādhavan known as Mādhava of Sangamagrāma () was an Indian mathematician and astronomer from the town believed to be present-day Kallettumkara, Aloor Panchayath, Irinjalakuda in Thrissur District, Kerala, India. He ...

, Indian mathematician known for discovery of power series Expansions of trigonometric Sine, Cosine and Arctangent functions Infinite series summation formulae for π. *

Nilakantha Somayaji Keļallur Nilakantha Somayaji (14 June 1444 – 1544), also referred to as Keļallur Comatiri, was a major mathematician and astronomer of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics. One of his most influential works was the comprehens ...

, Indian mathematician who discussed

infinite series In mathematics, a series is, roughly speaking, a description of the operation of adding infinitely many quantities, one after the other, to a given starting quantity. The study of series is a major part of calculus and its generalization, math ...

expansions of

trigonometric functions In mathematics, the trigonometric functions (also called circular functions, angle functions or goniometric functions) are real functions which relate an angle of a right-angled triangle to ratios of two side lengths. They are widely used in al ...

and problems of

algebra Algebra () is one of the broad areas of mathematics. Roughly speaking, algebra is the study of mathematical symbols and the rules for manipulating these symbols in formulas; it is a unifying thread of almost all of mathematics. Elementary ...

and spherical geometry. *

Parameshvara Nambudiri Vatasseri Parameshvara Nambudiri ( 1380–1460) was a major Indian mathematician and astronomer of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics founded by Madhava of Sangamagrama. He was also an astrologer. Parameshvara was a proponent of ob ...

, Indian mathematician and Astronomer who discovered

Drigganita Drigganita (ದೃಗ್ಗಣಿತ; IAST: dṛggaṇita, from dṛk-gaṇita, "sight-calculation"), also called the Drik system, is a system of astronomical computations followed by several traditional astronomers, astrologers and almanac makers ...

and Parameshvara circumradius formula. *

Rudranath Capildeo Rudranath Capildeo (; 2 February 1920 – 12 May 1970) was a Trinidadian and Tobagonian politician, mathematician and barrister. He was a member of the prominent Hindu Indo-Trinidadian Capildeo family. Capildeo was the leader of the Democrati ...

, mathematician and politician of Trinidad and Tobago. *

Shakuntala Devi Shakuntala Devi (4 November 1929 – 21 April 2013) was an Indian mental calculator and writer, popularly known as the "Human Computer". Her talent earned her a place in the 1982 edition of ''The Guinness Book of World Records''. However, ...

, Indian mathematician popularly known as the "

Human Computer The term "computer", in use from the early 17th century (the first known written reference dates from 1613), meant "one who computes": a person performing mathematical calculations, before electronic computers became commercially available. Ala ...

". *

Sissa The International School for Advanced Studies (Italian: ''Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati''; SISSA) is an international, state-supported, post-graduate-education and research institute in Trieste, Italy. SISSA is active in th ...

, Indian mathematician who invented Chaturanga, the Indian predecessor of

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to dist ...

. * Srinivasa Ramanujan, Greatest Indian mathematician who compiled Ramanujan prime, the

Ramanujan theta function In mathematics, particularly -analog theory, the Ramanujan theta function generalizes the form of the Jacobi theta functions, while capturing their general properties. In particular, the Jacobi triple product takes on a particularly elegant fo ...

partition Partition may refer to: Computing Hardware * Disk partitioning, the division of a hard disk drive * Memory partition, a subdivision of a computer's memory, usually for use by a single job Software * Partition (database), the division of a ...

formulae and

mock theta function In mathematics, a mock modular form is the holomorphic part of a harmonic weak Maass form, and a mock theta function is essentially a mock modular form of weight . The first examples of mock theta functions were described by Srinivasa Ramanu ...

s and made substantial contributions to

mathematical analysis Analysis is the branch of mathematics dealing with continuous functions, limit (mathematics), limits, and related theories, such as Derivative, differentiation, Integral, integration, measure (mathematics), measure, infinite sequences, series (m ...

number theory Number theory (or arithmetic or higher arithmetic in older usage) is a branch of pure mathematics devoted primarily to the study of the integers and integer-valued functions. German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) said, "Mat ...

, and

continued fraction In mathematics, a continued fraction is an expression obtained through an iterative process of representing a number as the sum of its integer part and the reciprocal of another number, then writing this other number as the sum of its integer ...

s. * S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, Indian-American mathematician who received Abel Prize for his fundamental contributions to

probability theory Probability theory is the branch of mathematics concerned with probability. Although there are several different probability interpretations, probability theory treats the concept in a rigorous mathematical manner by expressing it through a set ...

and in particular for creating a unified theory of large deviation. *

Varāhamihira Varāhamihira ( 505 – 587), also called Varāha or Mihira, was an ancient Indian astrologer, astronomer, and polymath who lived in Ujjain (Madhya Pradesh, India). He was born at Kapitba in a Brahmin family, in the Avanti region, roughly co ...

, Indian astronomer and mathematician who discovered a version of

Pascal's triangle In mathematics, Pascal's triangle is a triangular array of the binomial coefficients that arises in probability theory, combinatorics, and algebra. In much of the Western world, it is named after the French mathematician Blaise Pascal, although o ...

and worked on Magic squares.

Military

Bhandari Ram Bhandari Ram VC (24 July 191919 May 2002) was an Indian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Details Bhandari R ...

VC (24 July 1919 – 19 May 2002) was an Indian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy. * Somnath Sharma, first recipient of India's highest gallantry award

Param Vir Chakra The Param Vir Chakra (PVC) is India's highest military decoration, awarded for displaying distinguished acts of valour during wartime. Param Vir Chakra translates as the "Wheel of the Ultimate Brave", and the award is granted for "most conspicu ...

{{cite news , url=http://www.indiatvnews.com/news/india/india-s-first-param-vir-chakra-winner-major-som-nath-sharma-20267.html , title=India's first Param Vir Chakra winner Major Som Nath Sharma, the hero of 1947 war , first=Som nath , last=Sharma , work=India TV News , date=16 February 2013 * Captain Lakshmi Sahgal, Officer of the Indian National Army, and the Minister of Women's Affairs in the

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. She received

Padma Vibushan The Padma Vibhushan ("Lotus Decoration") is the second-highest civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is given for "exceptional and distinguished service". All persons without ...

Commodore Commodore may refer to: Ranks * Commodore (rank), a naval rank ** Commodore (Royal Navy), in the United Kingdom ** Commodore (United States) ** Commodore (Canada) ** Commodore (Finland) ** Commodore (Germany) or ''Kommodore'' * Air commodore ...

Kasargod Patnashetti Gopal Rao, Indian Navy officer who received

Maha Vir Chakra The Maha Vir Chakra (MVC) () is the second highest military decoration in India, after the Param Vir Chakra, and is awarded for acts of conspicuous gallantry in the presence of the enemy, whether on land, at sea or in the air. It replaced the B ...

Vishisht Seva Medal The Vishisht Seva Medal (VSM) is a decoration of the Indian Armed Forces. It is awarded to recognize "distinguished service of a high order" to all ranks of the Indian Armed Forces. From 1980, the Yudh Seva Medal was introduced to recognize exc ...

Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri General Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri (Bengali: জয়ন্তনাথ চৌধুরী; 10 June 1908 – 6 April 1983) was a General Officer in the Indian Army. He served as the 6th Chief of Army Staff from 1962 to 1966 and the Military Gove ...

, 5th

Chief of Army Staff of Indian Army The Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) (unofficially known as the Army Chief) is a statutory position in the Indian Army held usually by a four star general. As the highest ranking officer to serve solely in the Indian Army, the chief is the profess ...

(1962–1966). After his retirement he served as the Indian High Commissioner to Canada. He received

Gopal Gurunath Bewoor General Gopal Gurunath Bewoor PVSM PB (11 August 1916 – 24 October 1989), was a senior officer of the Indian Army who served as the 8th Chief of Army Staff, and later an Indian diplomat to Denmark. In a long service spanning four decades, G ...

, 8th Chief of Army Staff (1973–1975). He received

and

Param Vishisht Seva Medal Param Vishisht Seva Medal (PVSM) (IAST: ) is a military award of India. It was constituted in 1960 and since then it is awarded in recognition to peace-time service of the most exceptional order and may be awarded posthumously. All ranks of the ...

Tapishwar Narain Raina General Tapishwar Narain Raina (24 January 1921 – 19 May 1980), best known as T.N. Raina, was a senior army officer and a diplomat who served as the 9th Chief of the Army Staff of the Indian Army between 1975 and 1978. Upon retirement, ...

, 9th

Chief of the Army Staff of Indian Army The Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) (unofficially known as the Army Chief) is a statutory position in the Indian Army held usually by a four star general. As the highest ranking officer to serve solely in the Indian Army, the chief is the profess ...

(1975–1978). He received

and

* K. V. Krishna Rao, 11th

(1981–1983) and former governor of Jammu and Kahsmir,

Nagaland Nagaland () is a landlocked state in the northeastern region of India. It is bordered by the Indian states of Arunachal Pradesh to the north, Assam to the west, Manipur to the south and the Sagaing Region of Myanmar to the east. Its capital cit ...

Manipur Manipur () ( mni, Kangleipak) is a state in Northeast India, with the city of Imphal as its capital. It is bounded by the Indian states of Nagaland to the north, Mizoram to the south and Assam to the west. It also borders two regions of ...

amd

Tripura Tripura (, Bengali: ) is a state in Northeast India. The third-smallest state in the country, it covers ; and the seventh-least populous state with a population of 36.71 lakh ( 3.67 million). It is bordered by Assam and Mizoram to the ea ...

.He received

Krishnaswamy Sundarji General Krishnaswamy "Sundarji" Sundararajan, (28 April 1928 – 8 February 1999) was the Chief of the Army Staff of the Indian Army from 1986 to 1988. He was the last former British Indian Army officer to command the Indian Army. Dur ...

, 13th

(1986–1988) and last former British Indian Army officer to command the

Indian Army The Indian Army is the land-based branch and the largest component of the Indian Armed Forces. The President of India is the Supreme Commander of the Indian Army, and its professional head is the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), who is a four- ...

. He received

. * Vishwa Nath Sharma, 14th Chief of the Army Staff of the Indian Army (1988–1990). He received

& Ati Vishisht Seva Medal * Bipin Chandra Joshi, 16th Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army (1993–1994). He received

& Ati Vishisht Seva Medal

Musicians

Bharathwaj Ramani Bharathwaj known professionally as Bharadwaj is an Indian music director, composer, singer-songwriter, and music producer, predominantly known for his work in Tamil cinema. He is trained in Hindustani, Western and Carnatic music and is a ...

, composer *

Bhimsen Joshi Pandit Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi BR (; ; 4 February 1922 – 24 January 2011), also known by the honorific prefix Pandit, was one of the greatest Indian vocalists from Karnataka, in the Hindustani classical tradition. He is known for the '' khay ...

, singer * C. Ramchandra, Indian music director and playback singer * D. K. Pattammal, Indian Carnatic Musician who was the first woman to have performed

Ragam Thanam Pallavi Ragam Tanam Pallavi (RTP) is a form of singing in Carnatic music which allows the musicians to improvise to a great extent. It is one of the most complete aspects of Indian classical music, demonstrating the entire gamut of talents and the depth ...

(male stronghold) in concerts. She has received

and

Jasraj Pandit Jasraj (28 January 1930 – 17 August 2020) was an Indian classical vocalist, belonging to the '' Mewati gharana'' (musical apprenticeship lineage). His musical career spanned 75 years resulting in national and international fame ...

* Jitendra Abhisheki, Indian vocalist who received

Kalki Sadasivam Thiagaraja Sadasivam (4 September 1902 – 21 November 1997), better known as Kalki Sadasivam, was an Indian freedom fighter, singer, journalist and film producer who was one of the founders, along with Kalki Krishnamurthy of the Tamil magaz ...

, Indian singer and husband of

M. S. Subbulakshmi Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi (16 September 1916 – 11 December 2004) was an Indian Carnatic singer from Madurai, Tamil Nadu. She was the first musician ever to be awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour. She is ...

. * Kishore Kumar, Indian playback singer and actor * K. V. Narayanaswamy, Indian musician and carnatic vocalist who received

* M. Balamuralikrishna *

Nandikeshvara Nandikeshvara ( sa, नन्दिकेश्वर) (5th century-4th century BC) was a major theatrologist of ancient India. He was the author of the . Influence on Bharata Nandikeshvara seems to have preceded Bharata, according to Rama ...

,the author of the Abhinaya Darpana lit. 'The Mirror of Gesture'{{cite book, author1=Reginald Massey, author2=Jamila Massey, title=The Music Of India, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yySNDP9XVggC&pg=PA42, accessdate=23 July 2013, year= 1996, publisher=Abhinav Publications, isbn=978-81-7017-332-8, page=42 *

Palghat Mani Iyer Palghat T. S. Mani Iyer (1912–1981), born Thiruvilvamalai Ramaswamy was one of the leading mridangists in the field of Carnatic music. He, along with his contemporaries Palani Subramaniam Pillai and Ramanathapuram C. S. Murugabhoopathy, are ...

* Parassala B. Ponnammal, Indian Carnatic musician who was the first woman student at

Swathi Thirunal College of Music Swathi Thirunal College of Music is a music college in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. It was founded in 1939. It was first named as "The Music Academy". The name was renamed as Swathi Thirunal College of Music in 1962. The founder of this ...

. She has received

. *

Ravi Shankar Ravi Shankar (; born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury, sometimes spelled as Rabindra Shankar Chowdhury; 7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012) was an Indian sitarist and composer. A sitar virtuoso, he became the world's best-known export of North In ...

, Indian sitar virtuoso and a composer. He received 5 Grammy awards,

and

Shankar Mahadevan Shankar Mahadevan (born 3 March 1967) is an Indian singer and composer who is part of the Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy trio that writes music for Indian films. Personal life and early career Shankar Mahadevan was born in Chembur, Mumbai into a Tam ...

, singer * Śārṅgadeva was the 13th-century Indian musicologist who authored

Sangita Ratnakara The ''Sangita-Ratnakara'', सङ्गीतरत्नाकर, (IAST: Saṅgīta ratnākara), literally "Ocean of Music and Dance", is one of the most important musicological texts from India. Composed by Śārṅgadeva (शार्ङ� ...

S. P. Balasubrahmanyam Sripathi Panditaradhyula Balasubrahmanyam (4 June 1946 – 25 September 2020), also referred to as SPB or SP Balu or Balu, was an Indian playback singer, television presenter, actor, music composer, dubbing artist, and film producer. He is wi ...

, singer * Subbudu, Indian Music and dance critic *

Tansen Tansen ( – 26 April 1589), also referred to and commonly known as Sangeet Samrat () , was a Hindustani classical musician. Born in a Hindu Gaur Brahmin family, he learnt and perfected his art in the northwest region of modern Madhya Pr ...

, Indian musician and composer who was prominent in

Hindustani classical music Hindustani classical music is the classical music of northern regions of the Indian subcontinent. It may also be called North Indian classical music or, in Hindustani, ''shastriya sangeet'' (). It is played in instruments like the violin, si ...

Thyagaraja Thyagaraja (Telugu: త్యాగరాజ) (4 May 1767 – 6 January 1847), also known as Thyāgayya and in full as Kakarla Thyagabrahmam, was a composer and vocalist of Carnatic music, a form of Indian classical music. Tyagaraja and his ...

, composer *

T. M. Krishna Thodur Madabusi Krishna (born 22 January 1976) is an Indian Carnatic vocalist, writer, activist, author and Ramon Magsaysay awardee. As a vocalist, he has made a large number of innovations in both the style and substance of his concerts, ther ...

, Indian Carnatic vocalist, writer, activist and author *

Udit Narayan Udit is an Indian masculine given name that may refer to: * Udit Narayan, Bollywood playback singer * Udit Narayan (politician) (born 1960), Fijian politician of Indian descent * Udit Narayan Singh (1770–1835), Indian monarch * Udit Patel (born ...

, Indian playback singer who received

Order of Gorkha Dakshina Bahu The Most Puissant Order of the Gorkha Dakshina Bahu ( ne, गोरखा दक्षिण बाहु; Order of the Gurkha Right Arm ''or Hand'') was an order of knighthood of Nepal. It was one of the highest honors given traditionally by the ...

and

Upendra Kumar Upendra Kumar (18 July 1941 – 24 January 2002) was an Indian composer who predominantly worked in Kannada and Odia films. He was known for his strong association with Rajkumar and his family and scored some of his career best compositions for ...

, Kannada music director * Vaali, Indian lyricist and poet. He received

* V. Dakshinamoorthy, Carnatic musician, composer and music director *

Venkataramana Bhagavathar Venkataramana Bhagavathar (1781–1874) was a direct disciple of Saint Thyagaraja and a composer of Carnatic music. Bhagavathar composed his songs in Saurashtra language and has left behind a number of '' kritis''. Early life Bhagavathar was bo ...

, composer of

Carnatic music Carnatic music, known as or in the South Indian languages, is a system of music commonly associated with South India, including the modern Indian states of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Kerala and Tamil Nadu, and Sri Lanka. It is ...

Zubeen Garg Zubeen Garg (born Zubeen Borthakur; 18 November 1972) is an Indian singer, music director, composer, lyricist, music producer, actor, film director, film producer, script writer and philanthropist. He primarily works for and sings in the Assa ...

, singer

Nobel laureates

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Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore (; bn, রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He resh ...

Literature Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially prose fiction, drama, and poetry. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to include ...

, First Asian to win Nobel prize in

, "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West." , - , 1930 , Sir CV Raman

Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (; 7 November 188821 November 1970) was an Indian physicist known for his work in the field of light scattering. Using a spectrograph that he developed, he and his student K. S. Krishnan discovered that when ...

Physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which r ...

, , First Asian to win Nobel prize in

, "for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him." , - , 1983 ,

, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar ,

, Second Indian Nobel laureate in

, "for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars." , - , 2001 , VS Naipal 2016 Dhaka

V. S. Naipaul Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (; 17 August 1932 – 11 August 2018) was a Trinidadian-born British writer of works of fiction and nonfiction in English. He is known for his comic early novels set in Trinidad, his bleaker novels of alienati ...

, Second Indian Nobel laureate in

, “for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories”. , - , 2009 , Nobel Prize 2009-Press Conference KVA-08

Nobel Prize 2009-Press Conference KVA-08

Venki Ramakrishnan Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (born 1952) is an Indian-born British and American structural biologist who shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada Yonath, "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome" ...

, Chemistry , First Indian Nobel laureate in Chemistry , "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome." , - , 2014 , Kailash Satyarthi March 2015

Kailash Satyarthi Kailash Satyarthi (born 11 January 1954) is an Indian social reformer who campaigned against child labor in India and advocated the universal right to education. In 2014, he was the co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, along with Malala Yo ...

Peace Peace is a concept of societal friendship and harmony in the absence of hostility and violence. In a social sense, peace is commonly used to mean a lack of conflict (such as war) and freedom from fear of violence between individuals or groups. ...

, First Indian Nobel laureate in

, "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education."

Poets

Tulsidas composing his famous Avadhi Ramcharitmanas

Agyeya Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan (7 March 1911 – 4 April 1987), popularly known by his pen name Agyeya (also transliterated Ajneya, meaning 'the unknowable'), was an Indian writer, poet, novelist, literary critic, journalist, translator ...

, Indian poet and writer who received

& Golden Wreath Award * Banabhatta wrote india's first novel and was a poet in King

Harsha Harshavardhana ( IAST Harṣa-vardhana; c. 590–647 CE) was a Pushyabhuti emperor who ruled northern India from 606 to 647 CE. He was the son of Prabhakaravardhana who had defeated the Alchon Huna invaders, and the younger brother of Rajy ...

's court *

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (also Chattopadhayay) CIE (26 or 27 June 1838 – 8 April 1894) was an Indian novelist, poet, Essayist and journalist.Staff writer"Bankim Chandra: The First Prominent Bengali Novelist" ''The Daily Star'', 30 June 2011 ...

, Indian Poet who wrote india's national song

Vande Matram ''Vande Mataram'' (Sanskrit: वन्दे मातरम् IAST: , also spelt ''Bande Mataram''; বন্দে মাতরম্, ''Bônde Mātôrôm''; ) is a poem written in sanskritised Bengali by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in the ...

{{cite book , last=Chattopadhyay , first=Sachishchandra , title=Bankim-Jibani , date=1952 , publisher=Pustak Bipani , page=9 * D. R. Bendre * Garimella Satyanarayana, Telugu poet and freedom fighter *

Gopalakrishna Adiga Mogeri Gopalakrishna Adiga (1918–1992) was a modern Kannada poet. He is known by some commentators as the "pioneer of New style" poetry. The Hindu - 26 September 2002 Biography He was born in an orthodox brahmin family in coastal village of ...

, Kannada poet who is known as "Pioneer of

New style Old Style (O.S.) and New Style (N.S.) indicate dating systems before and after a calendar change, respectively. Usually, this is the change from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar as enacted in various European countries between 158 ...

" poetry *

Goswami Tulsidas Tulsidas (; born Rambola Dubey; also known as Goswami Tulsidas; c.1511pp. 23–34.–1623) was a Ramanandi Vaishnava Hindu saint and poet, renowned for his devotion to the deity Rama. He wrote several popular works in Sanskrit and Awadhi, but ...

, the author of the epic poem ''

Ramcharitmanas ''Ramcharitmanas'' ( deva, श्रीरामचरितमानस, Rāmacaritamānasa), is an epic poem in the Awadhi language, based on the ''Ramayana'', and composed by the 16th-century Indian bhakti poet Tulsidas (c. 1532–1623). Thi ...

''. *

Jayadeva Jayadeva (; born ), also spelt Jaideva, was a Sanskrit poet during the 12th century. He is most known for his epic poem '' Gita Govinda'' which concentrates on Krishna's love with the '' gopi'', Radha, in a rite of spring. This poem, which pres ...

Kapilar Kapilar or Kabilar (Tamil: கபிலர்) was the most prolific Tamil poet of the Sangam period (c. 3rd century BCE to 3rd century CE). He alone contributed some 206 poems, or a little less than 10% of the entire Sangam-era classical corpus ...

, Tamil poet o

Sangam period The Sangam period or age (, ), particularly referring to the third Sangam period, is the period of the history of ancient Tamil Nadu, Kerala and parts of Sri Lanka (then known as Tamilakam) spanning from c. 6th century BCE to c. 3rd century CE. ...

who contributed 10% of

Sangam Era The Sangam period or age (, ), particularly referring to the third Sangam period, is the period of the history of ancient Tamil Nadu, Kerala and parts of Sri Lanka (then known as Tamilakam) spanning from c. 6th century BCE to c. 3rd century CE. ...

classical corpus *

Kavi Pradeep Kavi Pradeep (born Ramchandra Narayanji Dwivedi; 6 February 1915 – 11 December 1998), was an Indian poet and songwriter who is best known for his patriotic song "''Aye Mere Watan Ke Logo"'' written as a tribute to the soldiers who had died d ...

, Indian poet and songwriter who is best known for his patriotic song " Aye Mere Watan Ke Logo". He received

Dada Saheb Phalke Award The Dadasaheb Phalke Award is India's highest award in the field of cinema. It is presented annually at the National Film Awards ceremony by the Directorate of Film Festivals, an organisation set up by the Ministry of Information and Broadc ...

.{{Cite web, date=23 October 2011, title=Obituary: Kavi Pradeep, url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-kavi-pradeep-1191518.html, access-date=10 July 2021, website=The Independent, language=en * M. Govinda Pai, Kannada poet who received first Rashtrakavi title by the Madras Government *

Muthuswami Dikshitar Muthuswami Dikshitar (Mudduswamy Dikshitar)(, 24 March 1776 – 21 October 1835), mononymously Dikshitar, was a South Indian poet, singer and veena player, and a legendary composer of Indian classical music, who is considered one of the musical ...

, Indian poet and composer *

Narsinh Mehta Narsinh Mehta, also known as Narsinh Bhagat, was a 15th-century poet-saint of Gujarat, India, honored as the first poet, or ''Adi Kavi,'' of the Gujarati language. Narsinh Mehta is member of Nagar Brahman community. Narsinh became a devotee of K ...

, Gujarati Saint poet who is considered as Adi Kavi. His bhajan

Vaishnav Jan To "Vaishnava Jana To" ''(meaning:- Call those people Vaishnav or The devotee of Vishnu)'' is a Hindu bhajan, written in the 15th century by the poet Narsinh Mehta in the Gujarati language. The poem speaks about the life, ideals and mentality of a V ...

was

's favourite *

Poonthanam Nambudiri Poonthanam Nambudiri (1547–1640AD) was a famous poet and a devotee of Guruvayurappan, who lived in Keezhattoor in what is now Malappuram district, Kerala, India. He is remembered for his masterpiece, ''Jnanappana'' which means "the song o ...

, Malayalam poet who is remembered for Jnanappana which means "the song of divine wisdom" in Malayalam * Puttaparthi Narayanacharyulu, Telugu poet who received

Rajendra Bhandari Rajendra Bhandari (born 1956) is an Indian Nepali-language poet and academic at the Sikkim Government College in Gangtok.Web page title"Rajendra Bhandari"at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 25, 2010 Biography Born in brahmin f ...

, Indian Nepalese poet *

Sambandar Sambandar (Tamil: சம்பந்தர்), also referred to as Tirugnana Sambandar (lit. ''Holy Sage Sambandar''), Tirujnanasambanda, Campantar or Jñāṉacampantar, was a Shaiva poet-saint of Tamil Nadu who lived sometime in the 7th cen ...

, Tamil Shaiva Poet and who was one of the 63

Nayanars The Nayanars (or Nayanmars; ta, நாயன்மார், translit=Nāyaṉmār, translit-std=ISO, lit=hounds of Siva, and later 'teachers of Shiva ) were a group of 63 Tamil Hindu saints living during the 6th to 8th centuries CE who were d ...

who composed 16,000 hymns * Sri Sri, Indian poet who is known for his works in

Telugu Telugu may refer to: * Telugu language, a major Dravidian language of India *Telugu people, an ethno-linguistic group of India * Telugu script, used to write the Telugu language ** Telugu (Unicode block), a block of Telugu characters in Unicode S ...

literature and anthology Maha Prasthanam * Subramani Bharathi, Tamil poet popularly known as "Mahakavi Bharathi" ("Great Poet Bharathi"), he was a pioneer of modern

Tamil Tamil may refer to: * Tamils, an ethnic group native to India and some other parts of Asia **Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamil people native to Sri Lanka also called ilankai tamils **Tamil Malaysians, Tamil people native to Malaysia * Tamil language, nativ ...

poetry *

Suryakant Tripathi Suryakant Tripathi "Nirala" (21 February 1897 – 15 October 1961) was an Indian poet, novelist, essayist and story-writer who wrote in Hindi. He was also an artist, who drew many contemporary sketches. Biography Tripathi was born on 2 ...

, Indian poet, novelist, essayist and story-writer. *

Tikkana Tikkana (or Tikkana Somayaji) (1205–1288) was a 13th century Telugu poet. Born into a Telugu-speaking Niyogi Brahmin family during the golden age of the Kakatiya dynasty, he was the second poet of the "Trinity of Poets (Kavi Trayam)" that tra ...

, Telugu poet who was the second poet of the

Kavi Trayam Kavitrayam (Telugu: కవిత్రయం) is a Telugu expression for trinity of poets. Kavitrayam popularly refers to the poets who translated the great epic Mahabharata into Telugu. The group/trinity consists of Nannayya, Tikkana and Yerrapr ...

that translated

Mahabharata The ''Mahābhārata'' ( ; sa, महाभारतम्, ', ) is one of the two major Sanskrit literature, Sanskrit Indian epic poetry, epics of ancient India in Hinduism, the other being the ''Ramayana, Rāmāyaṇa''. It narrates the s ...

into

Veturi Veturi Sundararama Murthy (29 January 1936 – 22 May 2010), known mononymously by his surname Veturi, was an Indian poet, lyricist and journalist who is popular for writing Telugu songs. His career in the Telugu cinema spanned more than four de ...

, Indian poet and lyricist *

Vidyapati Vidyapati ( – 1460), also known by the sobriquet ''Maithil Kavi Kokil'' (the poet cuckoo of Maithili), was a Maithili and Sanskrit polymath-poet-saint, playwright, composer, biographer, philosopher, law-theorist, writer, courtier ...

, Maithili and

poet, composer, writer, courtier and royal priest{{cite book, author=Pankaj Jha, title=A Political History of Literature: Vidyapati and the Fifteenth Century, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8xl9DwAAQBAJ, date=20 November 2018, publisher=OUP India, isbn=978-0-19-909535-3, page=2 *

Viswanatha Satyanarayana Viswanatha Satyanarayana (10 September 1885 – 18 October 1976) was a 20th-century Telugu writer. His works included poetry, novels, dramatic play, short stories and speeches, covering a wide range of subjects such as analysis of his ...

, Telugu poet who has received

Yogmaya Neupane Yogmaya Neupane ( ne, योगमाया न्यौपाने) (1867–1941) was a religious leader, women's rights activist and poet based in Bhojpur district of Nepal. Yogmaya is considered to be among the pioneer female poets in Nepal ...

, Nepali poet considered pioneer of female Nepali poets

Politicians

Shyama Prasad Mukherjee portrait in Parliament

Political party founders

Dattopant Thengadi Dattopant Bapurao Thengadi, (Marathi: दत्तोपंत ठेंगडी, 1920–2004) was an Indian Hindu Ideologue, trade union leader and founder of the Swadeshi Jagaran Manch, Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh and the Bharatiya Kisan ...

, Indian Hindu Ideologue who founded Swadeshi Jagaran Manch, Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh & Bharatiya Kisan Sangh *Hargovind Pant, Indian politician who founded Kumaon Parishad political group and was also the Deputy Speaker of United Provinces (1937–1950), United Province *Kanu Sanyal, Indian politician who was the founding member of Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) * K. B. Hedgewar, founder of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) * Shripad Amrit Dange, co-founder of Communist Party of India. He was the Member of the Indian Parliament for Bombay Central and Central South * Surendranath Banerjee, Indian politician who was the 11th president of Indian National Congress, Indian congress. He founded Indian National Association, Indian National association and also co founded Indian National Congress, Indian National congress.He was the First Indian to qualify for Indian Civil Services Examination * Syama Prasad Mukherjee, mMinister of Industry and Supply, inister of industry and supply. He was the founder of Bharatiya Jana Sangh, Bharathiya Jana Sangh (predecessor of Bharatiya Janata Party, BJP) * Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee, co-founder and First List of presidents of the Indian National Congress, President of Indian National Congress. VD Savarkar

Ministers, MPs and MLAs

*Ananth Kumar, Cabinet minister of

(2014–2018) *Arindam Bhattacharya (politician), Member of Legislative Assembly(MLA) from the West Bengal Legislative Assembly and president of the West Bengal unit of All India Brahman Mahasabha founded by Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya in 1939 *Arun Jaitley, Indian politician and attorney, Minister of Finance (2014–2019). *Deendayal Upadhyaya, Indian politician who was the 10th President of Bharatiya Jana Sangh *Deepak Bharadwaj, Indian politician belonging to Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). Bhardwaj had contested for 15th Lok Sabha from the West Delhi Constituency *Girdhari Lal Bhargava, Indian politician who was the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly, Member of Legislative Assembly and

of Rajasthan *H. R. Bhardwaj, 27th Minister of Law and Justice (India), Minister of Law and Justice, former Governor of Karnataka and Governor of Kerala, Kerala *Jana Krishnamurthi, Indian politician who was the former Ministry of Law and Justice (India), Union Law minister and 6th president of Bharatiya Janata Party, Bharathiya Janata Party *Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi, Indian politician who was the 3rd Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare, Minister of Agriculture and 2nd List of governors of Uttar Pradesh, Governor of Uttar Pradesh. He is the Founder of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bharathiya Vidya Bhavan *K. S. Sudarshan was the Fifth Chief/Sarsanghachalak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh *Madhukar Dattatraya Deoras popularly known as Balasaheb Deoras, was the third Chief/Sarsanghchalak of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh *M. S. Golwalkar better known as Guruji was the second Chief/Sarsanghchalak of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh *P. Ramamurthi, Indian politician who was

and politburo member of Communist Party of India (Marxist) *Prakash Pant, Indian Politician who was the Member of the Legislative Assembly (India), MLA Speaker & Finance Minister of Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly, Uttarakhand Legislative assembly *Pramod Mahajan, minister in the government of Vajpayee *Prem Nath Dogra, Leader of Jammu and Kashmir (state), Jammu & Kashmir known as Sher-e-Duggar.He was also the president of Bharatiya Jana Sangh (1955) *Rahul Easwar, Indian right-wing activist, philosophy author and orator *Rahul Gandhi, Indian politician *Rajendra Trivedi, speaker of Gujarat Legislative Assembly *Sanjay Jha (politician), Sanjay Jha, former national spokesperson for the Indian National Congress *Satish Sharma, Indian politician who was the Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas (1993–1996) and Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha, MP of Uttar Pradesh (2010–2016) *Shreedhar Mahadev Joshi, Indian politician who was the

, and leader of Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti *Somnath Chatterjee, Indian politician who was the 14th Speaker of the Lok Sabha and

(1985–2009) *Subhas Chakraborty, Indian politician who was the Member of the Legislative Assembly (India), MLA, Third Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee ministry, Minister of Transport, Minister of Sports & Youth Affairs and Minister of Tourism Government of West Bengal *Subramanian Swamy, Indian politician, Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha *Uma Shankar Dikshit, Indian politician who was the 12th Governor of West Bengal,7th List of governors of Karnataka, Governor of Karnataka & 10th Minister of Home Affairs (India), Minister of Home Affairs. He received

*U. Srinivas Mallya, Indian politician who served as Member of parliament, Member of Parliament for an 18-year tenure from 1946 to 1965 *Vasant Sathe, former Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India), Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting and he initiated process which led to Television in India, Indian television moving into colour broadcasting for Asian Games 1982 and Hum Log (television series), Hum Log the first colour Indian soap-opera. *Vijay Mishra (politician), Vijay Mishra, represents the Gyanpur (Assembly constituency), Gyanpur constituency in the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh *Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian politician who played developed tbe Hindutva, Hindtuva Ideology. He was leading figure in Hindu Mahasabha

Chief ministers

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, Bhagwat Jha Azad, Bhagwat Jha , - , BG Kher 1989 stamp of India (cropped)

, B. G. Kher , rowspan="2" , Bombay State , - , Morarji Desai portrait

, Morarji Desai , - , Sushma Swaraj in 2014

, Sushma Swaraj , rowspan="2" , List of chief ministers of Delhi, Delhi , - , Sheila Dikshit Ji

, Sheila Dikshit , - , , Manohar Parrikar , List of chief ministers of Goa, Goa , - , , Hitendra Desai , rowspan="2" , List of chief ministers of Gujarat, Gujarat , - , , Ghanshyam Oza , - , Pt Bhagwat Dayal Sharma

, Bhagwat Dayal Sharma , List of chief ministers of Haryana, Haryana , - ,

, Shanta Kumar , List of chief ministers of Himachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh , - , Burgula Ramakrishna Rao, 1952

, Burgula Ramakrishna Rao , Hyderabad State (1948–1956), Hyderabad State , - , Gundurayaru

, R. Gundu Rao , rowspan="2" , List of chief ministers of Karnataka, Karnataka , - , , Ramakrishna Hegde , - ,

, E. M. S. Namboodiripad , List of chief ministers of Kerala, Kerala , - , , Liladhar Joshi{{cite book , last1=Jones , first1=Rodney W. , title=Urban Politics in India: Area, Power, and Policy in a Penetrated System , date=8 January 2021 , publisher=Univ of California Press , isbn=978-0-520-31916-5 , pages=82, 106, 121, url=https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Urban_Politics_in_India/NK_oDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1 , language=en , Madhya Bharat , - , RavishankarShukla

, Ravishankar Shukla , rowspan="7" , List of chief ministers of Madhya Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh , - , , Bhagwantrao Mandloi , - ,

, Kailash Nath Katju , - , , Dwarka Prasad Mishra , - , Shyama Charan Shukla 2012 stamp of India (cropped)

, Shyama Charan Shukla , - , Kailash Chandra Joshi (cropped)

, Kailash Chandra Joshi , - ,

, Motilal Vora , - , Manohar Joshi cropped

, Manohar Joshi , rowspan="2" , List of chief ministers of Maharashtra, Maharashtra , - , Devendra Fadnavis @Vidhan Sabha 04-03-2021

, Devendra Fadnavis , - , Sadasiva-Tripathy

, Sadashiva Tripathy{{Cite news , last=Khan , first=M. I. , date=14 February 2000 , title=rediff.com: The evil that envelopes Orissa , url=https://m.rediff.com/news/2000/feb/14oriss.htm , access-date=19 April 2022 , work=Rediff , rowspan="4" , List of chief ministers of Odisha, Odisha , - , Biswanath-Das

, Bishwanath Das , - ,

, Nandini Satpathy , - , Binayak Acharya, Former CM, Odisha

, Binayak Acharya , - ,

, Brish Bhan , PEPSU , - ,

, Gopi Chand Bhargava , List of chief ministers of Punjab (India), Punjab , - , Hiralal Shastri 1976 stamp of India

, Hiralal Shastri , rowspan="5" , List of chief ministers of Rajasthan, Rajasthan , - , , C. S. Venkatachar , - , Jai Narayan Vyas 1974 stamp of India

, Jai Narayan Vyas , - , , Tika Ram Paliwal , - , , Hari Dev Joshi , - , Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari

, C. Rajagopalachari , rowspan="3" , List of chief ministers of Tamil Nadu, Tamil Nadu , - , VNJanaki

, V. N. Janaki , - , Jayalalitha in 2016

, J. Jayalalithaa , - , Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant

, Govind Ballabh Pant , rowspan="5" , List of chief ministers of Uttar Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh , - , , Kamalapati Tripathi , - , Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna 2018 stamp of India

Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna 2018 stamp of India

, Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna , - , Shri Narayan Dutt Tiwari

, N. D. Tiwari{{cite news , title=Congress veteran, four-time Chief Minister, controversial Governor and reluctant father , url=https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/national/congress-veteran-fourtime-chief-minister-controversial-governor-and-reluctant-father/article9488085.ece , access-date=17 April 2022 , work=Business Line , date=18 January 2017 , language=en , - , , Sripati Mishra , - , , Nityanand Swami (politician), Nityanand Swami , rowspan="2" , List of chief ministers of Uttarakhand, Uttarakhand , - , Shri Narayan Dutt Tiwari

, N. D. Tiwari , - , , S.N.Shukla , Vindhya Pradesh , - ,

, Ajoy Mukherjee , rowspan="2" , List of chief ministers of West Bengal, West Bengal , - , Mamata Banerjee - Kolkata 2011-12-08 7542 Cropped

, Mamata Banerjee

Presidents of India

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, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan , 5 September 1888 , 17 April 1975 , Niyogi Brahmin , Second President
{{small, (13 May 1962 – 13 May 1967) , - , VV Giri 1974 stamp of India

, V. V. Giri , 10 August 1894 , 24 June 1980 , Niyogi Brahmin , List of Presidents of India, fourth President of India, president {{Small, 24 August 1969 to 24 August 1974 , - , R Venkataraman

, Ramaswamy Venkataraman , 4 December 1910 , 27 January 2009 , Iyer

, List of Presidents of India, Eighth President of India, president {{Small, 25 July 1987 to 25 July 1992 , - , Shankar Dayal Sharma 36

, Shankar Dayal Sharma , 19 August 1918 , 26 December 1999 , Gaur

, Ninth President
{{small, (25 June 1992 – 25 July 1997) , - , Pranab Mukherjee Portrait

, Pranab Mukherjee , 11 December 1935 , 31 August 2020 , Kulin Brahmin, Kulin

, Thirteenth President
{{small, (25 July 2012 – 25 July 2017)

Prime Ministers of India

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, Jawaharlal Nehru , 14 November 1889 , 27 May 1964 , Saraswat Brahmin (Kashmiri Pandit) , First PM (15 August 1947 – 27 May 1964) , - , Indira Gandhi in 1967

, Indira Gandhi{{cite book , last1=Jayakar , first1=Pupul , title=Indira Gandhi: A Biography , date=27 November 1992 , publisher=Penguin Books India , isbn=978-0-14-011462-1 , url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gm5JGkb2rhkC&q=kashmiri+brahmin&pg=PR9 , access-date=16 September 2020 , language=en , 19 November 1917 , 31 October 1984 , Saraswat Brahmin (Kashmiri Pandit) , Third PM (24 January 1964 – 24 March 1977 and 14 January 1980 – 31 October 1984) , - , Morarji Desai (cropped)

, Morarji Desai , 29 February 1896 , 10 April 1995 , , Fourth PM
{{small, (24 March 1977 – 28 July 1979) , - , Rajiv Gandhi (1987)

, Rajiv Gandhi , 31 October 1984 , 2 December 1989 , , Sixth PM
{{small, (31 October 1984 – 2 December 1989) , - , Visit of Narasimha Rao, Indian Minister for Foreign Affairs, to the CEC (cropped)(2)

, P. V. Narasimha Rao{{cite book, last1=Reddy, first1=Narendra, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wAVuAAAAMAAJ&q=p+v+narasimha+rao+niyogi+brahmin, title=P.V. Narasimha Rao, years of power, date=1993, publisher=Har-Anand Publications, isbn=9788124101360, page=35, language=en, access-date=12 December 2019 , 28 June 1921 , 23 December 2004 , Niyogi Brahmin , Ninth Prime Minister
{{small, (21 June 1991 – 16 May 1996 ) , , - , Atal Bihari Vajpayee (cropped)

, Atal Bihari Vajpayee , 25 December 1924 , 16 August 2018 , , Tenth Prime Minister
{{small, (16 May 1996 – 1 June 1996 and 19 March 1998 – 22 May 2004)

Professionals

*Anant Pai (Uncle Pai), pioneer of Indian comics, Indian Comics whose famous work includes Amar Chitra Katha and Tinkle *Daya Nayak, Indian Police Inspector, police inspector and detective who is fame for being Encounter specialist. He has gunned down more than 80 criminals in Mumbai underworld, Mumbai Underworld. *Dhan Gopal Mukerji, Indian Man of letters, Man of Letters who was the first Indian in United States to win Newbery Medal in 1928 *Ganapati Chakraborty, Indian magician who is considered to be the pioneer of Bengal modern magic. He was the mentor of P. C. Sorcar & K Lal *Jagannath Shankarseth, Indian Philanthropy, philanthropist and educationalist *Kanaka Murthy, Indian sculptor who received Jakanachari Award *Neerja Bhanot, Indian flight attendant who died while saving passengers on Pan Am Flight 73. She received

& Nishan-e-Pakistan for her bravery *R. K. Laxman, Indian cartoonist who received

and Ramon Magsaysay Award *Samay Raina, Indian YouTuber and Stand-up comedy, Stand – Up Comedian *Shashi Kant, Indian Police Service, IPS officer and former Director general of police, DGP of Punjab, India, Punjab. He played a major role against Illegal drug trade

Rishi (Sages)

*Agastya, Rig Vedic SageIravatham Mahadevan (1986
''Agastya Legend and the Indus Civilization'' by கட்டுரையாளர் : ஐராவதம் மகாதேவன் கட்டுரையாளர் பணி : Retired I.A.S, his studies pertaining to the Indus Civilization கட்டுரைப் பிரிவு : Indus Valley Signs - சிந்துவெளி குறியீடுகள் ஆய்விதழ் எண் : 030 – December 1986 பக்கங்கள்
{{Webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728142006/http://www.ulakaththamizh.org/JOTSpdf/030024037.pdf, date=28 July 2011 pages 29 (see 24-37 for context), Journal of Tamil studies *Atri, Rig Vedic Sage *Bharadvaja, one of the Saptarishi, Saptrishi{{cite book, author=Roshen Dalal, title=Hinduism: An Alphabetical Guide, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DH0vmD8ghdMC , year=2010, publisher=Penguin Books, isbn=978-0-14-341421-6, pages=86–87 *Bharata Muni, Vedic Sage who wrote Natya Shastra, Natya shastra & regarded as the father of Indian theatrical art forms *Bhrigu, The first compiler of predictive astrology, and also the author of Bhrigu Samhita, the astrological classic. *Chandrashekarendra Saraswati known as the Sage of Kanchi or Mahaperiyava (meaning "The great elder') *Jaimini, Vedic Sage and founder of Mimamsa philosophy of hinduismJames Lochtefeld (2002)
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Vol. 1
Rosen Publishing, {{ISBN, 978-0823931798, pages 310, 438, 537-538 *Kashyapa, Rig vedic Sage *Marichi, Father of Maharishi Kashyap and the founder of Vedanta *Valmiki, Author of Ramayan *Vashishta, First rishi of Vedanta *Ved Vyas, Author of Mahabharat and Puranas

Science, technology, engineering

*Anandi Gopal Joshi, one of the first Indian female doctors who practiced with a degree in Western medicine *C. N. R. Rao, Indian chemist and material scientist, former director of the Indian Institute of Science, specialising in solid-state and structural chemistry. *Dwarkanath Kotnis (1910–1949), Indian physician and one of the five Indian physicians dispatched to China to provide medical assistance during the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1938. *G. N. Ramachandran, Indian physicist who created Ramachandran plot for understanding peptide structure. He was the first to propose a triple-helical model for the structure of collagen *Iravatham Mahadevan, Indian Epigraphy, epigraphist known for his decipherment of Tamil-Brahmi inscriptions and for his expertise of Indus Valley civilisation *Irawati Karve, First woman Anthropology, Anthropologist of India *Janaki Ammal, Indian botanist whose notable work involved studies on sugarcane and the eggplant. She received

*Kadambini Ganguly, one of the first Indian female doctors who practiced with a degree in Western medicine *K. S. Krishnan, Indian physicist who was the co-discoverer of Raman scattering and mentor of C. V. Raman. He also received

*Shyamala Gopalan, Indian American biomedical scientist and mother of vice president of United States

*Udupi Ramachandra Rao, former ISRO chairman and one of the pioneer of Indian satellite development programme (developed India's first satellite ''Aryabhata'') *Yellapragada Subbarow, Indian biochemist

Social sciences

*Agnivesh, Indian social activist and the founder of Arya Sabha *Arya Pallam, Social reformer, communist, feminist from Kerala who fought against the oppression of upper class (Brahman) women *Dhondo Keshav Karve, social reformer who built India's first school for widows and first university for women. He also received

. *Girish Prabhune, Indian social worker whose works included towards upliftment of the nomadic Pardhi community. He received

*G. S. Ghurye, Sociology Professor & considered Founder of Indian Sociology *Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Indian educator and social reformer considered the "father of Bengali prose". *Jaya Arunachalam, Indian social worker and the founder of Working Women's Forum. She received

. *Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher, speaker and writer *Jnanadanandini Devi, social reformer who influenced the earliest phase of women's empowerment in 19th century

*Laxmi Narayan Tripathi, Indian LGBT activist who was the first transgender person to represent Asia-Pacific, Asia Pacific in the United Nations, UN in 2008 and also the Acharya Mahamandaleshwar of *M. N. Srinivas, Indian sociologist and anthropologist who worked on the Caste system in India, Caste System and the concept of 'Dominant Caste'. He received Padma Bhushan, Padma Bhsushan. *Nanaji Deshmukh, social reformer and politician. He received

and

*Shiv Narayan Agnihotri, founder of Dev Samaj *Priyamvada Gopal, professor at University of Cambridge *Ram Mohan Roy, co-founder of the Brahmo Sabha and the precursor of the Brahmo Samaj, *R. S. Subbalakshmi (Sister Subbalakshmi) Indian Social Reformer who received

, founder of India's first private medical school Kasturba Medical College who established Manipal Institute of Technology. He received

*Traffic Ramaswamy *U. G. Krishnamurti, Indian speaker and spiritual writer

Spiritual gurus

*Adi Shankara *Abhinavagupta, Kashmiri shaiv philosopher *Anukulchandra Chakravarty, Indian Guru who was the founder Satsang (Deoghar) *Ashutosh (spiritual leader), Ashutosh *Brahmananda Saraswati *Chaitanya Mahaprabhu considered to be Avatar of Radha Krishna, Radhe Krishna.He founded Gaudiya Vaishnavism & composed Shikshashtakam *Dayanand Saraswati, founder of Arya Samaj *Eknath, according to legend *Dnyaneshwar, Dyaneshwar *Gopalanand Swami *Krishnananda Saraswati *Mandan Mishra, Mimansic philosopher who debated with adi shankara *Madhvacharya *Nagarjuna, one of the most important buddhist philosopher *Neem Karoli Baba *Nimbarkacharya, Vaishnav vedantic philosopher{{Cite encyclopedia, title=Nimbarka – Indian philosopher , url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nimbarka-Indian-philosopher , access-date=14 January 2022 , encyclopedia=Britannica *Raghavan N. Iyer * Ramakrishna *Ramananda,David Lorenzen, Who Invented Hinduism: Essays on Religion in History, {{ISBN, 978-8190227261, pages 104-106 founder of Ramanandi/Vairagi Samprada and prominent saint of Bhakti movement. *Ramanujacharya *Sarada Devi *Sitaramdas Omkarnath said to be Divine Incarnate/Avatar of Kali Yuga *Sri Chinmoy, Indian guru who established first meditation center in Queens, New York.He started the Peace Run movement *Swami Haridas, Vaishnav saint who established Bankey Bihari Temple, Bankey Bihari temple. *Swami Ramanand *Tibbetibaba *Upasni Maharaj *Vallabha Acharya, founder of Pushtimarg Samprada

Sports

Suresh Raina grace the 'Salaam Sachin' conclave

*Vijay Kumar (sport shooter)Captain, Honorary Captain Vijay Kumar Sharma, Ati Vishisht Seva Medal, AVSM, Sena Medal, SM (born 19 August 1985) is an Indian Shooting sports, sport shooter. He won the silver medal in the individual 25 metre rapid fire pistol event at the 2012 Summer Olympics. *Ajit Wadekar, Indian cricketer considered to be an aggressive batsman. He received Arjuna Award and

*Ashok Mankad *D. B. Deodhar, former Indian cricketer{{cite book , last=Kidambi , first=Prashant , title=Cricket Country: An Indian Odyssey in the Age of Empire , year=2019 , publisher=Oxford University Press , isbn=978-0-19-884313-9 , page=322 , edition=1st , url=https://books.google.com/books?id=50KjDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA322 , quote=... the ''The Bombay Chronicle, Bombay Chronicle'' carried a long article on Baloo by his erstwhile teammate D.B. Deodhar.³⁷ Ironically, a quarter of a century earlier, this Poona Brahmin had been one of the protagonists in the controversy over the captaincy of the Hindu side in the Bombay Quadrangular. *Dilip Sardesai, Indian Cricketer. He is the father of Journalist Rajdeep Sardesai, Rajdeep Saradesai *Ishant Sharma *Vishesh Bhriguvanshi born 13 November 1991) is an Indian professional basketball player who is the captain of the India men's national basketball team, Indian National Basketball Team and, most recently, a player with the Adelaide 36ers of the National Basketball League (Australia), National Basketball League (NBL). Bhriguvanshi was awarded the Arjuna Award by Govt. of India for the year 2020. *Josh Sharma *Kilvidi Seshachari, Indian wicket keeper who was the member of first Indian cricket team to tour England in 1911 *Kirti Azad, Indian Cricketer turned politician who was the Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha, Member of Parliament Lok Sabha *Lala Amarnath, first batsman ever to score a century for India in Test cricket. He received

*Madhav Apte, Indian Cricketer *Mihir Sen, first Indian swimmer to conquer English Channel and record in Guinness World Records, Guinness Book of Records as the "world's greatest long distance swimmer". He received

and

*Mukundrao Pai, Indian Cricketer and Captain on tour of England in 1911. He was the first Indian to score a century in First class debut *Prakash Padukone, Indian badminton player who was the World no.1 player during 1980. He received

and Arjuna Award, Arjuna award *Subramaniam Badrinath, Subramanian Badrinath *Anjum Moudgil born 5 January 1994) is an Indian Shooting sports, sport shooter. She is from Chandigarh and represents Punjab.{{cite web , url=http://indianexpress.com/article/sports/sport-others/with-bullets-and-paintbrush-shooter-anjum-moudgill-finds-her-range-and-canvas-5100564/ , title=With bullets and paintbrush, shooter Anjum Moudgil finds her range and canvas , publisher=Indian Express , work=Andrew Amsan , date=17 March 2018 , access-date=5 April 2018 She is supported by GoSports Foundation through the Rahul Dravid Athlete Mentorship Programme. *Suresh Raina, former Indian cricketer{{cite news , last=Misra , first=Itishree , title=Raina is a very caring husband, says wife Priyanka , url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/off-the-field/Raina-is-a-very-caring-husband-says-wife-Priyanka/articleshow/48739875.cms , access-date=2 March 2021 , work=The Times of India , date=31 August 2015 , archive-url=https://archive.today/20210302203705/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/off-the-field/Raina-is-a-very-caring-husband-says-wife-Priyanka/articleshow/48739875.cms , archive-date=2 March 2021 , quote=Raina says, " ... I'm a Kashmiri Brahmin. , url-status=live *Yogeshwar Dutt(born 2 November 1982) is an Indian Freestyle wrestling, freestyle wrestler. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he won the bronze medal in the Wrestling at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle 60 kg, 60 kg category. He was awarded the

by the

in 2013. He won gold medals at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, 2010 and the 2014 Commonwealth Games. He is one of only 5 male wrestlers in India to win an Olympic medal. *Manish Kaushik (boxer), Manish Kaushik born 11 January 1996) is an Indian Boxing, boxer who completes in the lightweight division. Manish won gold at the 2017 National Boxing Games. Manish Kaushik later went to represent India in 2018 Commonwealth Games, winning the silver medal.

Writers

*Abburi Chayadevi, Telugu fictional writer *Bharati Mukherjee, Bharathi Mukherjee, Indian American-Canadian writer who was the first naturalized citizen to win the National Book Critics Circle Award *C. K. Prahalad, Indian American Author who received Pravasi Bharatiya Samman and

*Gurajada Apparao, Indian playwright who was given title Kavisekhara and Abyudaya Kavitha Pithamahudu *Hazari Prasad Dwivedi – Hindi author, novelist, literary historian, essayist, critic and scholar. He received

*Kalhana, Indian author of Rajatarangini (River of Kings), an account of the History of Kashmir. *Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Indian writer who is considered Father of

Renaissance movement *Kalki Krishnamurthy, Indian writer whose notable works include Ponniyin Selvan and Sivagamiyin Sapatham, Sivagamiyin Sabadham *Lalithambika Antharjanam, Indian author and social reformer best known for her literary works in Malayalam language *Mahasweta Devi, Indian writer who received

, Ramon Magsaysay Award,

and

*Mamoni Raisom Goswami, Indian writer who received

and Prince Claus Fund *Manilal Dwivedi, Manilal Nabhubhai Dwivedi, Gujarati language, Gujarati-language writer, philosopher, and social thinker from

*Masti Venkatesha Iyengar *Padma Lakshmi, Indian American author and Television Host. *Parithimar Kalaignar, Tamil professor who was the first to campaign

as Classical language and first to use the term Kumari Kandam *P. N. Oak, Indian writer *Pralhad Keshav Atre, Indian writer popularly known as Acharya Atre *Rahul Sankrityayan, Indian author who spent 45 years of his life on travels away from home & considered "Father of Indian travelogue" He received

*Rajam Krishnan *R. K. Narayan, Indian writer who received Benson Medal,

and

*Seepersad Naipaul, Indo-Trinidadian writer * Shardha Ram Phillauri – Indian writer of the Hindu religious hymn "Om Jai Jagdish Hare" and ''Bhagyawati'', one of the first Hindi novels. *Shivaram Karanth, Indian pPolymath, olymath and novelist. He received

for Kannada *Somadeva, Indian writer who was the author of a famous compendium of Indian legends, fairy tales and folk tales – the ''Kathasaritsagara'' *Sushma Joshi, Nepalese fiction & non-fictional writer *U. R. Ananthamurthy, Indian writer who has received

and

. *Vijay Tendulkar, Indian playwright. He received

. *Vishnubhat Godse, Indian travelogue writer known for Maza Pravas

Yogi

*B. K. S. Iyengar, B.K.S. Iyengar , Indian Yoga guru who founded "Iyengar Yoga style".He received

*Chidananda Saraswati, Indian yogi who was president of the Divine Life Society *Dhirendra Brahmachari *K. Pattabhi Jois *Lahiri Mahasaya *Lokenath Brahmachari *Sivananda Saraswati *Swaminarayan *Swami Rama *Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, Indian yoga guru who is considered as "Father of Modern Yoga"{{Cite web, title=Tirumalai Krishnamacharya Biography, url=https://www.tititudorancea.com/z/tirumalai_krishnamacharya_biography.htm, access-date=23 August 2021, website=www.tititudorancea.com

References

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