1. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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Full name: Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam
born October 15, 1931
eleventh President of India, serving from 2002 to 2007
Before his term as India's president, he worked as an aeronautical engineer with DRDO and ISRO. He is popularly known as the Missile Man of India
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2. Amitabh Bachchan
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Full name: Amitabh Harivansh Bachchan
born on October 11, 1942
Also called Big B, Angry Young Man and Shahenshah in Bollywood.
He is one of the one of the most prominent figures in the history of Indian cinema.
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3. Asha Bhosle
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Born on September 8, 1933
She has done playback singing for over 1100 Bollywood movies and sold many records.
She is the sister of the equally accomplished Lata Mangeshkar.
Asha Bhosle is considered one of the most versatile South Asian singers — her range of songs includes film music, pop, ghazals, bhajans, traditional Indian Classical music, folk songs, qawwalis, Rabindra Sangeets and Nazrul Geetis. She has sung in over 14 languages including Assamese, Hindi, Urdu, Telugu, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi, Tamil, English, Russian, Czech, Nepali, Malay and Malayalam.
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4. Baba Amte
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Full name: Murlidhar Devidas Amte
From December 26, 1914 to February 9, 2008
was an Indian social activist who is particularly known for his work for leprosy patients.
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5. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
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From 23 July 1856 to 1 August 1920
was an Indian nationalist, teacher, social reformer and independence fighter who was the first popular leader of the Indian Independence Movement.
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6. Bipin Chandra Pal
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From November 7, 1858 to May 20, 1932
was an Indian nationalist. He was among the triumvirate of Lal Bal Pal.
He was a teacher, journalist, orator, writer and librarian,
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7. C.K. Nayudu
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From 31 October 1895 to 14 November 1967
He was India's first Test captain (Cricket)
He was the first cricketer to be honoured with the Padma Bhushan.
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8. Chandu Borde
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Full Name: Chandrakant Gulabrao "Chandu" Borde
born July 21, 1934 in Poona, now Pune
He is a cricketer who was a member of the Indian team between 1958 and 1970.
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9. Dr. Amartya Sen
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Full Name: Amartya Kumar Sen
born 3 November 1933
He is an Indian born Nobel Prize-winning economist.
He is known "for his contributions to welfare economics" for his work on famine, human development theory, welfare economics, the underlying mechanisms of poverty, gender inequality, and political liberalism. He is an Indian citizen and a distinguished economist-philosopher who won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in the year 1998.
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10. Dr. B.R Ambedkar
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Full Name: Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
From April 14, 1891 to December 6, 1956
He is also known as Babasaheb,
was an Indian nationalist, jurist, Dalit, political leader, activist, philosopher, thinker, anthropologist, historian, orator, prolific writer, economist, scholar, editor, revolutionary and the revivalist of Buddhism in India.
He was also the chief architect of the Indian Constitution. Born into a poor Untouchable family, Ambedkar spent his whole life fighting against social discrimination, the system of Chaturvarna — the Hindu categorization of human society into four varnas — and the Indian caste system. He is also credited with having sparked the Dalit Buddhist movement. Ambedkar has been honoured with the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award.
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11. Dr. Manmohan Singh
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born 26 September 1932
He is the 14th and current Prime Minister of the Republic of India.
He is the first person of Sikh faith to hold the office. An economist by profession, Singh was the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India from 1982 to 1985, the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission of India from 1985 to 1987 and the Finance Minister of India from 1991 to 1996.
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12. Indira Gandhi
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Full Name: Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi
From 19 November 1917 to 31 October 1984
She was the Prime Minister of the Republic of India for three consecutive terms from 1966 to 1977 and for a fourth term from 1980 until her assassination in 1984, a total of fifteen years. She was India's first and, to date, only female Prime Minister.
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13. J.R.D. Tata
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Full Name: Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata
He was a pioneer aviator and important businessman of India. He was awarded India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna in 1992
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14. Jawaharlal Nehru
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From 14 November 1889 to 27 May 1964
He was the first, and has been the longest-serving prime minister of India so far, having served from 1947 to 1964.
A leading figure in the Indian independence movement, Nehru was elected by the Congress party to assume office as independent India's first Prime Minister, and later when the Congress won India's first general election in 1952. As one of the founders of the Non-aligned Movement, he was also an important figure in the international politics of the post-war era.
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15. Jayaprakash Narayan
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From October 11, 1902 to October 8, 1979
He is widely known as JP,
He was an Indian freedom fighter and political leader, remembered especially for leading the opposition to Indira Gandhi in the 1970s and for giving a call for peaceful Total Revolution. His biography, Jayaprakash, was written by his nationalist friend and an eminent writer of Hindi literature, Ramavriksha Benipuri. In 1998, he was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award, in recognition of his social work. Other awards include the Magsaysay award for Public Service in 1965.
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16. Kapil Dev
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Full name: Kapil Dev Ramlal Nikhanj
born 6 January 1959, Chandigarh
Better known as Kapil Dev, is a former Indian cricketer regarded as one of the greatest all-rounders of all time.
He was captain when India won the world cup in 1983. Kapil Dev was named by Wisden as the Indian Cricketer of the Century in 2002. Kapil Dev had a rather prosaic stint as India's national cricket coach for 10 months between October 1999 and August 2000.
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17. Lata Mangeshkar
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born September 28, 1929
She is one of the best-known playback singers in the Hindi film industry. Mangeshkar's career started in 1942 and has spanned over six and a half decades. She sang in over 980 Bollywood movies and has sung songs in over twenty regional Indian languages, but primarily in Hindi. She is the elder sister of the equally accomplished singer Asha Bhosle and lesser-known singers, brother Hridayanath Mangeshkar and sisters Usha Mangeshkar and Meena Mangeshkar.
Lata is the second vocalist ever to have received the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour.
Mangeshkar was featured in the Guinness Book of World Records from 1974 to 1991 for having made the most recordings in the world. The claim was that she has recorded no less than 25,000 solo, duet, and chorus-backed songs in 20 Indian languages between 1948 to 1974 (30,000 songs between 1948 and 1987, according to 1987 edition). Over the years, while several sources have supported this claim, others have raised concerns over its veracity, claiming that this number was highly exaggerated and that Mangeshkar's sister, Asha Bhosle, had more song recordings than she had.Lata Mangeshkar’s Autograph:
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18. M.F. Husain
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Full name: Maqbool Fida Husain
born 1915, Pandharpur, Maharashtra
He is one of India's best known artists and his work over a career of over seven decades has been prolific. One of the most highly rated artists in the world today, his work sells at astonishing prices and are grabbed almost instantly by international art collectors.
According to Forbes magazine, he has been called the "Picasso of India".After a long, successful career his work suddenly became controversial in 1996, when he was 81 years old, following the publication of an article about nude images of Hindu deities painted in the 1970s.
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19. Mahatma Gandhi
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Full Name: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
From 2 October 1869 to 30 January 1948
He was the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement.
He was the pioneer of satyagraha—resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, firmly founded upon ahimsa or total non-violence—which led India to independence and has inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Gandhi is commonly known around the world as Mahatma Gandhi and in India also as Bapu.
He is officially honoured in India as the Father of the Nation.
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20. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
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Full Name: Maulana Abul Kalam Muhiyuddin Ahmed
From 11 November 1888 to 22 February 1958
He was a Muslim scholar and a senior political leader of the Indian independence movement.
He was one of the most prominent Muslim leaders to support Hindu-Muslim unity, opposing the partition of India on communal lines.
Following India's independence, he became the first Minister of Education in the Indian government. He is commonly remembered as Maulana Azad; he had adopted Azad (Free) as his pen name.
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21. Morarji Desai
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Full Name: Morarji Ranchhodji Desai
From 29 February 1896 to 10 April 1995
was an Indian independence activist and the Prime Minister of India from 1977-79. He was the first Indian Prime Minister who did not belong to the Indian National Congress. He is the only Indian to receive the highest civilian awards from both India and Pakistan, the Bharat Ratna and Nishaan-e-Pakistan.
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22. Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia
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born July 1, 1938
He is a Indian classical instrumentalist. He is a player of the bansuri, the North Indian bamboo flute.
Chaurasia is a classicist who has made a conscious effort to reach out and expand the audience for classical music.
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23. Sachin Tendulkar
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Full Name: Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar
born April 24, 1973 in Mumbai
He is an Indian cricketer widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket.
In 2002, Wisden ranked him the second greatest Test batsman of all time, next to Donald Bradman, and the second greatest one day international (ODI) batsman of all time, next to Viv Richards.
In September 2007, the Australian leg spinner Shane Warne rated Tendulkar as the greatest player he has played with or against. Tendulkar was the only player of the current generation to be included in Bradman's Eleven, the dream team of Donald Bradman, published in his biography. He is sometimes referred to as Little Master or Master Blaster
Tendulkar is the highest run scorer in both Test matches and ODIs, and also the batsman with the most centuries in either form of the game. The first player to score fifty centuries in all international cricket combined, he now has more than eighty international centuries.
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24. Sunil Gavaskar
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Full Name: Sunil Manohar "Sunny" Gavaskar
born 10 July 1949 in Mumbai, Maharashtra
He was a cricketer during the 1970s and 1980s for Bombay and India.
Widely regarded as one of the greatest opening batsmen in test match history, Gavaskar set world records during his career for the most runs and most centuries scored by any batsman. He held the record of 34 Test centuries for almost two decades before it was broken by Sachin Tendulkar in December 2005.
He was widely admired for his technique against fast bowling, with a particularly high average of 65.45 against the West Indies, who possessed a four-pronged fast bowling attack regarded as the most vicious in Test history.
His captaincy of the Indian team, however, was less successful. The team at one stage went 31 Test matches without a victory. There were incidents like crowd displeasure at Eden Gardens in Calcutta leading to multiple matches being disrupted, in response to the poor performance of the Indian team.
Turbulent performances of the team lead to multiple exchanges of captaincy between Gavaskar and Kapil Dev, with one of Gavaskar's sackings coming just six months before Kapil led India to victory at the 1983 Cricket World Cup.
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25. Sunita Williams
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born September 19, 1965
She is a United States Naval officer and a NASA astronaut.
She was assigned to the International Space Station as a member of Expedition 14 and then joined Expedition 15. She holds the record of the longest spaceflight (195 days) for female space travelers. As NASA's official public spokesperson, she was selected to appear on the Colbert Report to announce the name for Node 3 of the ISS.
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26. Ustad Bismillah Khan
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From March 21, 1916 to August 21, 2006
He was an Indian shehnai maestro. He was the third classical musician to be awarded the Bharat Ratna (in 2001), the highest civilian honour in India.
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