Famous Personalities in India

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Famous In India brings to you personalities who have made a difference to India in the fields of Politics, Dance and Music, Literature, Science, Religion, Industry, Cinema etc and contributed a lot to India's Culture and Spirit. Each one of them has contributed towards the progress of India in their own way. You can have a look at the profiles of these great personalities who make you feel proud to be an Indian. With Famous In India, you can get to know these personalities in a better way.

Personality of the Week A R Rahman (Music Director)

Beauty Queens : . Aishwarya Rai . Diana Hayden . Lara Dutta . Madhu Sapre . Mumtaz Mahal . Priyanka Chopra . Sushmita Sen . Yukta Mookhey

Businessman : . Azim Premji . Adi Godrej . Amar Bose . Anil Ambani . B.M. Munjal . Bhai Mohan Singh . Dr.K. Anji Reddy . Indra Nooyi . Dhirubhai Ambani . G. D. Birla . Kumar Mangalam Birla . Lalit Suri . Laxmi Mittal . M.S.Oberoi . Mukesh Ambani . Rahul Bajaj . Ramalinga Raju . Narayan Murthy . Ratan Tata . Sunil Mittal . Raunaq Singh . Shiv Nadar . Shobhana Bhartia . Subroto Roy . Sulajja Firodia Motwani . Tulsi Tanti . Vijay Mallya . Vinod Khosla

Dancers : . Birju Maharaj . Mallika Sarabhai . Sanjukta Panigrahi . Shovana Narayan . Sitara Devi . Sonal Mansingh . Yamini Krishnamurthy

Famous Persons : . Akbar . Ashoka . Anjolie Ela Meno . Arun Sarin . Dr. Pratap Reddy . Ekta Kapoor . K.P. Singh . Baiju Bawra . Gautama Buddha . Guru Arjan Dev . E. Sreedharan . Indra Nooyi . Kalpana Chawla . MS Oberoi . Guru Gobind Singh . Guru Nanak Dev . Guru Tegh Bahadur . Kalidasa . Lord Mahavir . Rakesh Sharma . Romesh Chandra Dutt . Shakuntala Devi . Shivinder Singh Sidhu . Kiran Mazumdar Shaw . Mallika Srinivasan . Naina Lal Kidwai . Nandan Nilekani . Mirza Ghalib . Rana Pratap . Rani Lakshmi Bai . Shah Jahan . Wajid Ali Shah . Sir Mokshagundam   Visvesvaraya . Sister Nivedita . Sunita Williams . Naresh Goyal . Shahnaz Hussain . Subhash Chandra . Swathi Thirunal . Vinod Dham

Film Personalities : . Amitabh Bachchan . Aamir Khan . Ajay Devgan . Ashok Kumar . B.R.Chopra . Basu Bhattacharya . Dada Kondke . Dadasaheb Phalke . Deepa Mehta . Dev Anand . Devika Rani . Dharmendra . Dimple Kapadia . Guru Dutt . Hrithik Roshan . Jaya Bachchan . Jitendra . Karan Johar . Sri Devi . Dilip Kumar . Girish Karnad . Hema Malini . Kamal Amrohi . Kamal Hasan . Madhu Bala . Mani Ratnam . Manmohan Desai . Meera Nair . R. Madhavan . Madhuri Dixit . Mammootty . Manoj Kumar . Manoj Night Shyamalan . Mithun Chakraborty . Mohanlal . Subhash Ghai . Sunil Dutt . Smita Patil . Naseeruddin Shah . Raj Kapoor . Rajendra Kumar . Ritu Beri . Satyajit Ray . Shabana Azmi . Shivaji Ganeshan . Shyam Benegal . Uttam Kumar . V. Shantaram . Yash Chopra . Nana Patekar . Nargis . Rajinikanth . Rekha . Salman Khan . Sanjay Dutt . Sharmila Tagore . Shahrukh Khan

Freedom Fighters : . Annie Besant . Aruna Asaf Ali . Ajmal Khan . Bal Gangadhar Tilak . Bipin Chandra Pal . Bhagat Singh . Bahadur Shah Zafar . Begum Hazrat Mahal . Bishnu Ram Medhi . Govind Ballabh Pant . Shahu Chhatrapati . Kasturba Gandhi . Madam Cama . Mangal Pandey . Chandra Shekhar Azad . Dr. B R Ambedkar . Jawaharlal Nehru . Lakshmibai . Lala Lajpat Rai . Jyotiba Phule . Vinoba Bhave . Chakravarthi   Rajagopalachari . Chittaranjan Das . Dadabhai Naoroji . Gopal Krishna Gokhale . Maulana Abul Kalam Azad . Motilal Nehru . Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan . Mahatma Gandhi . Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel . Subash Chandra Bose . 'Veer' Savarkar . Mridula Sarabhai . Pattabhi Sitaramayya . Rani Gaidinliu . S.Srinivasa Iyengar . Sucheta Kriplani

Musicians : . A. R. Rahman . Ali Akbar Khan . Alla Rakha . Amir Khusro . Amjad Ali Khan . Allauddin Khan . Ananda Shankar . Begum Akhtar . Anand Bakshi . Anand Milind . Bappi Lahiri . Tyagaraja . Gulzar . Jasraj Pandit . Majrooh Sultanpuri . Naushad Ali . Pandit Bhimsen Joshi . Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia . Laxmi Kant Pyarelal . Madan Mohan . Nadeem Shravan . Annapurna Devi . L. Subramaniam . MS Subbulakshmi . Muthuswami Dikshitar . Pandit Ravi Shankar . Tansen . Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan . Ustad Bismillah Khan . Zakir Hussain . Rajesh Roshan . S D Burman . Shankar Ehsaan Loy . Shankar Jaikishan . Shubha Mudgal . Pandit Debu Chaudhuri . RD Burman . Shiv Kumar Sharma . Sri Lalgudi Jayarama Iyer

Painters : Personalities in Abroad : . M. F. Hussain . Rameshwar Broota . Satish Gujral . Amitava Ghosh . Sabeer Bhatia . Mira Nair . Salman Rushdie . Swraj Paul

Politicians : . Ananth Kumar . Ananthasayanam   Ayyangar . Arjun Singh . B. C. Khanduri . Balram Jakhar . Bhupinder Singh Hooda . Biju Patnaik . Ghulam Nabi Azad . K.R Gowri Amma . E. S. L. Narasimhan . Gegong Apang . Sanjay Gandhi . Gopal Krishna Gandhi . Gopinath Bordoloi . H. D. Kumaraswamy . J Dringwell Rymbai . James Michael Lyngdoh . Jaswant Singh . Jyoti Basu . Kailas Nath Katju . Khushwant Singh . Lachit Borphukan . Lal Krishna Advani . Lalu Prasad Yadav . P. Chidambaram . Pramod Mahajan . Shri Balasaheb   Gangadhar Kher . T.N. Seshan . Yashwant Sinha . K Kamaraj . Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

President of India : . Dr. Rajendra Prasad . Dr. Zakir Husain . Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed . Kocheril Raman Narayanan . B D Jatti . Muhammad Hidayatull . Neelam Sanjiva Reddy . R.Venkataraman . Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan . Shankar Dayal Sharma . Dr. A.P.J.Abdul Kalam . Varahagiri Venkata Giri . Shrimati Pratibha Devisingh Patil

Prime Minister : . Choudhary Charan Singh . Giani Zail Singh . Atal Bihari Vajpayee . Indira Gandhi . Dr Manmohan Singh . Inder Kumar Gujral . Morarji Desai . Chandra Shekhar . Gulzarilal Nanda . Rajiv Gandhi . Lal Bahadur Shastri . P.V. Narasimha Rao . Vishwanath Pratap Singh

Poet : . Amrita Pritam . Bankim Chandra   Chattarjee . Firaq Gorakhpuri . Kabir . Girish Chandra Ghosh . Sri Aurobindo . Mahadevi Verma . Maithili Sharan Gupt . Mohammad Iqbal . Rabindra Nath Tagore . Maithili Sharan Gupt . Michael Madhusudan Dutt . Subhadra Kumari   Chauhan . Ramdhari Singh “Dinkar” . Sumitranandan Pant . Suryakant Tripathi . Waris Shah . Padmakar . Subramanya Bharathi . Nagarjun

Religious Thinkers : . Ramakrishna Paramahansa . Osho . Acharya Narendra Deo . Dayanand Saraswati . Sri Satya Sai Baba . Swami Vivekanand . Adi Sankaracharya . Mirabai

Scholars : . A.K. Ramanujan . Amartya Sen . Dr. S Radhakrishnan . M G Ranade . Meghnad Saha . Vishnu Sharma . Srinivasa Ramanujan

Scientists : . Dr. A.P.J.Abdul Kalam . Dr.H.J.Bhabha . Dr. H. Khorana . Anil Kakodkar . Birbal Sahni . Dr. S. Chandrasekhar . C.V.Raman . Jagdish Chandra Bose . Dr Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar . Vikram.A.Sarabhai . M Visvesvaraya . Satyendra Nath Bose . Shantha Sinha

Singers : . Asha Bhonsle . Kishore Kumar . Kundan Lal Saigal . Alisha Chinai . Alka Yagnik . Hemlata . Lata Mangeshkar . Mohammed Rafi . Amit Kumar . Anwar . Jagjit Singh . Sukhwiner Singh . Kumar Sanu . Manna Dey . Mukesh . Nitin Mukesh . Sonu Nigam . Suresh Wadekar . Udit Narayan

Social Activists : . Arundhati Roy . Dr. Verghese Kurien . Kiran Bedi . Baba Amte . Mother Teresa . Raja Ram Mohan Roy . Sarojini Naidu . Medha Patkar . Abdul Ghaffar Khan . Karsanbhai Patel . Rajkumari Amrit Kaur

Sport Persons : . Dhyan Chand . Gama Pehalwan . Jahnu Barua . Kapil Dev . Karnam Malleswari . Leander Paes . Mahesh Bhupathi . Mihir Sen . Narain karthikeyan . P.T.Usha . Prakash Padukone . Ravi Shastri . Rahul Dravid . Sachin Tendulkar . Sania Mirza . Sourav Ganguly . Sunil Gavaskar . Vishwanathan Anand

Writer : . Anita Desai . Ananthmurthy, N. R . Bana Bhatta . Jhumpa Lahiri . Mohan Rakesh . Hazari Prasad Dwivedi . Jai Shankar Prasad . Kamala Das . Raja Rao . Kiran Desai . Mahasweta Devi . Mulk Raj Anand . Premchand . R.K.Narayan . U.R. Ananthamurthy . Kamleshwar . Manik Bandopadhyay . Mohan Rakesh . Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay . Nirad C Chaudhuri . Shashi Deshpande . Shashi Tharoor . Valmiki . Vikram Seth . Vishnu Prabhakar . Vyasa . Nissim Ezekeil . Phanishwar Nath Renu . Vikram Chandra . Shobha De . V.S.Naipaul