Famous Indian Personalities

1. Bimrao Ramji Ambedkar: 

           Dr. Bimrao Ramji Ambedkar

popularly known as Babasaheb Ambedkar was born on 14th April 1891 in Madhya Pradesh. His Birth Date is celebrated as National Holiday in India. He was the 14th & last child of  Ramji Maloji Sakpal, an Army Officer at Mhow Cantonment. B.R.Ambedkar was an Indian Jurist, economist, politician and social reformer and conpaigned against social discrimination towards touchables and also supported the rights of women and labour. He was the first Law & Justice minister of Independent India. He is popularly known for drafting constitution of India and founding father of the Republic of India. Ambedkar was founder of Independent Labour Party in 1936 who contested the 1937 Bombay election to the Central Legislative Assembly for the 13 reserved & 4 general seats. He published his book Annihilation of Caste on 15th May 1936. He became twice the member of Parliament of India representing the Bombay state in Rajya Sabha, the upper House of Indian Parliament. He was appointed as chairman of constitution Drafting committee and is recognised as "Father of Indian Constitution." He studied constitution of about 60 countries before drafting constitution of India. He opposed Article 370 of the Constitution of India. Ambedkar was post humously awarded Bhatt Ratna in 1990, the Highest civilian award of the country. He died on 6th December 1956

2. Dr. A.P.J.Abdul Kalaam:

 

Dr. APJ Abdul Kalaam

Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalaam was born in 15th October 1931. He was an aerospace scientist who later became the 11th president of India. He served as president of India from 2002 to 2007. He was a scientist who worked as science administrator at Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). He was popularly known as Missile man of India for his work on the development of Ballistic missile & launch vehicle technology. He also played an important role in Pokhran II nuclear test in 1998. He was recipient of many prestigious awards including Bharat Ratna, India's highest Civilian Honour. At an early age, Kalam used to sold newspaper to supplement his family's income. Kalam received 7 honory doctorates from 40 universities. He was honoured with Padma Bhushan & Padma Vibhushan for his work in ISRO & DRDO. He was also the recipient of  Von Broun Award from the National space society "to recognise excellence in management & leadership of a space related project. Kalam was ranked no. 2 in Outlook India's poll of Greatest Indian in 2012. Ignited Minds, wings of fire, India 2020, Indomitable Spirit, Transcendence: My spiritual experience with Pramukh Swamiji were some books written by APJ Abdul Kalam. He died of certain cardiac arrest while delivering a lecture on " creating a liveable planet Earth" on 27th July 2015 in Shillong, Meghalaya at an age of 83 yrs.

3. Vallabhbhai Patel: 

                              Vallabhbhai Patel

An Indian politician popularly known as Sardar Patel was born on 31 October, 1875. He was an Indian barrister, a senior leader of Indian National Congress and a founding father of  Republic of India. Patel played a key role in country's struggle for independence and it's integration into an United independent nation. He also served as first deputy Prime Minister of India. He is remarked as "Iron man of India" for playing a key role in the integration of princely states into the Indian federation. He is also remembered as "patriont Saint of India's civil servants". He is also called the "unifer of India". The world's tallest statue known as statue of unity, approximately 82 mtrs was dedicated to him on 31 October 2018. Patel died of massive Heart Attack on 15th December 1950 at Birla House in Bombay. Patel was posthumously awarded "Bharat Ratna" in 1991. His birthday 31 October was announced in 2014 as annual national celebration known as Rashtriya Ekta Diwas (National Unity Day). Patel was ranked 3rd in 2012 Outlook India's poll of Greatest Indians.

4. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi:

Mahatma Gandhi 
2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948

Reliably, his birthday is applauded as Gandhi Jayanti, a national event in India, and moreover observed as the International Day of Nonviolence. Mahatma Gandhi, as he is most for the most part implied, was instrumental in liberating India from the grip of the British. With his sporadic yet stunning political instruments of Satyagraha and serenity, he breathed life into a couple of other political pioneers wherever all through the world including any similarity to Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr and Aung San Suu Kyi. Gandhi, beside helping India triumph in its fight for opportunity against the English, in like manner drove an essential and commendable life, for which he is routinely adored. Gandhi's underlying life was basically standard, and he transformed into an exceptional man over a staggering range. This is one of the rule reasons why Gandhi is trailed by millions, for he exhibited that one can transform into a staggering soul over an amazing range, should they have the will to do all things considered.

5. Mother Teresa (1910–1997)

       Mother Teresa

was a Roman Catholic cloister adherent who gave her life to serving poor people and penniless around the globe. She spent numerous years in Calcutta, India where she established the Missionaries of Charity, a strict gathering gave to aiding those in extraordinary need. In 1979, Mother Teresa was granted the Nobel Peace Prize and turned into an image of altruistic, caring work. In 2016, Mother Teresa was consecrated by the Roman Catholic Church as Saint Teresa. 

"It isn't the amount we do,but how much love we put in the doing.It isn't the amount we give, be that as it may, how much love we put in the giving." 

Mother Teresa was conceived in 1910 in Skopje, the capital of the Republic of Macedonia. Little is thought about her initial life, yet at a youthful age, she felt a calling to be a cloister adherent and serve through helping poor people. At 18 years old, she was offered authorization to join a gathering of nuns in Ireland. Following a couple of long periods of preparing, with the Sisters of Loreto, she was then offered authorization to make a trip to India. She took her proper strict promises in 1931 and was named after st Therese of Lisieux – the supporter holy person of missionaries.On her appearance in India, she started by filling in as an instructor; in any case, the far reaching neediness of Calcutta established a profound connection on her, and this prompted her beginning another request called "The Missionaries of Charity". The essential goal of this strategic to take care of individuals, who no one else was set up to take care of. Mother Teresa felt that serving others was a key rule of the lessons of Jesus Christ.She frequently referenced the platitude of Jesus, "Whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do it to me."

6. Sachin Tendulkar:  

                   Sachin Tendulkar

conceived on 24 April 1973 in Mumbai. He is viewed as one of the world's best batsmen.He had an effect in cricket from an early age, showing an immense ability. By the age of 15, he had made his top of the line debut. He made his test debut against Pakistan, matured just 16. Tendulkar has frequently been known as 'The Little ace' – or even God of Cricket. In India, Sachin Tendulkar is one of the most renowned people in the nation. He gets a huge measure of praise and consideration. Tendulkar is the main player to score more than 30,000 keeps running in global cricket. He scored an aggregate of 34,357 keeps running in 664 universal cricket matches. He is additionally the main player to score one hundred worldwide hundreds and the primary player to score a twofold hundred in constrained overs cricket. After his retirement from the game in 2013, he was granted Bharat Ratna, India's most elevated non military personnel grant – the most youthful individual to get this award.He is viewed as one of the world's best batsmen. In 2012 he was given Honory Member of the Order of Australia by Australian Govt. and Honorary Life Membership of Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG). In 2013 – Indian Postal Service discharged a stamp of Tendulkar and he turned into the second Indian after Mother Teresa to have such stamp discharged in their lifetime

7. Indira Gandhi: 

                     Indira Gandhi

She was an Indian legislator and the main female Prime Minister of the nation. Conceived in the well known Nehru family, she was maybe bound for a famous political vocation. She filled in as Prime Minister from 1966 to 1977 and from 1980 until her death in 1984. As Prime Minister, Indira was known for centralisation of intensity and political mercilessness. Her political vocation was covered with discussions just as charges of overbearing, defilement and nepotism. She clasped a highly sensitive situation in India from 1975 to 1977. She was likewise scrutinized for doing the Operation Blue-Star in Punjab that in the end scripted her death on 31 October 1984. Indira Gandhi abandoned her an enduring political heritage and her family ended up one of the most conspicuous political names in India. Following the destruction of Lal Bahadur Shastri on 11 January 1966, in Tashkent, the race to the pined for regal situation of the Prime Minister began. After much idea, Indira was lifted as the Prime Ministerial up-and-comer by the Congress focal authority only in light of the fact that they expected that she could be viably controlled. She tested and rose fruitful during the between time arrangement of 1966. Post-political race, Mrs. Gandhi exhibited remarkable political capacity and elbowed the Congress stalwarts out of power. Without a doubt the most noticeable achievements of her stretch as PM were suggestions for the cancellation of Privy Purse to past pioneers of the Princely states and the 1969 nationalization of the fourteen greatest banks in India close by four premium oil associations. She made beneficial steps towards sustenance absence of the country and drove the country into the nuclear age with its first underground blast in 1974. In September 1981, a Sikh aggressor gathering requesting "Khalistan" went into the premises of the Golden Temple, Amritsar. In spite of the nearness of thousands of regular people in the Temple complex, Indira Gandhi requested the Army to jump into the sacred place of worship to complete Operation Blue Star. The military depended on substantial big guns including tanks and guns which in spite of the fact that prompted repressing of the activist danger, additionally guaranteed lives of guiltless regular citizens. The demonstration was seen as an unmatched catastrophe in the Indian political history. The effect of the invasion expanded the collective pressures in the nation. Numerous Sikhs left the furnished and common authoritative office and furthermore restored their administration grants in dissent. Indira Gandhi's political picture was discolored intensely. On 31 October 1984, Indira Gandhi's protectors, Satwant Singh and Beant Singh shot an aggregate of 31 slugs on Indira Gandhi from their administration weapons as a retribution of the Golden Temple ambush at her living arrangement - 1, Safdarjung Road in New Delhi and she capitulated to her wounds..

8. Atal Bihari Vajpayee 

                Atal Bihari Vajpayee 

came to earth on December 25, 1924 in Gwalior (Madhya Pradesh) to Krishna Bihari Vajpayee and Krishna Devi. He was taught at Victoria (legitimately Laxmi Bai) College, Gwalior and DAV College, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. He holds a M.A degree in Political Science and has different shrewd and inventive achievements incredibly. Vajpayee is viewed as probably the best specialist in Hindi. His stanza mirrors his altogether fragile character, his taking off energy, his uneasiness for the condition of the regular inhabitants, his commitment to law based feelings and, most importantly, his lowliness. His accumulating of works, Meri Ikkyavan Kavitayen, changed into a blockbuster. A noteworthy bundle of his stanzas have been sung by India's prestigious specialists, for example, Lata Mangeshkar and Jagjit Singh. A created writer, he balanced Rashtradharma (a Hindi month to month), Panchajanya (a Hindi bit by bit) and the dailies Swadesh and Veer Arjun. His works  "Sankalp Kaal","Meri Sansadiya Yatra" 'Shakti-se-Shanti', '4 Decades in Parliament' , 'Lok Sabha mein Atalji' ; 'Mrityu Ya Hatya', 'Amar Balidan', 'Kaidi Kaviraj Ki Kundalian' (a collection of songs of devotion written in prison during the Emergency); 'New Dimensions of India's Foreign Policy' (a party of talks passed on as India's External Affairs Minister during 1977-79); 'Jan Sangh Aur Mussalman'; 'Sansad Mein Teen Dashak' (Hindi; talks in Parliament - 1957-1992 - three volumes); and 'Amar Aag Hai' (a get-together of pieces, 1994). Atal Bihari Vajpayee was a Member of the National Integration Council for a long time. In 1992, Vajpayee was awarded Padma Vibhushan in assertion of his associations to the country. He was likewise shown the Lokmanya Tilak Puraskar and the Bharat Ratna, Best Parliamentarian, in 1994. Prior, the Kanpur University respected him with a doctorate honoris causa in 1993. Doubtlessly understood and regarded for his wonderful inventive limits as a poet,whose hold back draws out a fantastically delicate individual for whom human qualities are predominant and human relationship of head criticalness, Vajpayee is commonly called a ravenous peruser. He is in like way slanted toward Indian music and move.

9.Amitabh Bachchan

Amitabh Bachchan

The 'Shehenshah' of Bollywood Amitabh Bachchan, has developed as one of the hugely perceived characters crosswise over India. He was conceived in Allahabad, India on eleventh October, 1942, to Teji Bachchan and Harivansh Rai Bachchan. He is perceived everywhere throughout the world and effectively took an interest in assisting social concerns and furthermore connections well with masses. His appearance in the most mainstream Television show 'Kaun Banega Crorepati', gave another occupancy to his profession and helped him in procuring more acclaim. He is regularly considered as a megastar of the Millennium.Perceived as the genuine 'Irate Young Man' of Indian film industry, Amitabh is a genuine quintessence to Bollywood.Amitabh Bachchan is the main Asian living character whose statue was displayed in London's Tussauds Wax Museum. The Indian government regarded Bachchan with Padma Shri grant in the year 1984, Padma Bhushan grant in the year 2001 and Padma Vibhushan grant in the year 2015 for his cooperations towards expressions. Bachchan is a lasting versatile on-screen character of Bollywood.

10.Narendra Damodardas Modi:

          Narendra Damodardas Modi

Born 17 September 1950 serving as the 14th & current Prime minister of India. The most followed politician on social media all over the world.Modi is an individual from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu patriot volunteer association. He is the primary leader outside of the Indian National Congress to win two back to back terms with a full dominant part and the second to finish five years in office after Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Modi was confirmed as the Prime Minister of India on 26 May 2014. Enlivened by the maxim of 'Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas', Shri Modi has introduced a change in perspective in administration that has prompted comprehensive, advancement arranged and defilement free administration. Shri Modi has worked with speed and scale to understand the point of Antyodaya, or guaranteeing last-mile conveyance of plans and administrations. Driving global offices have noticed that under the authority of PM Narendra Modi, India has been disposing of destitution at record pace. Shri Modi believe that no Indian should be destitute and to understand this vision, over 1.25 crore houses were worked somewhere in the range of 2014 and 2019. The pace of house development stays as speedy to satisfy the PM's vision of 'Lodging for All' by 2022.PM Modi propelled the 'Make in India' activity to transform India into a universal assembling powerhouse. This exertion has prompted transformative outcomes. For example, the quantity of versatile assembling units has ascended from 2 out of 2014 to 122 out of 2019. India has made critical walks in 'Simplicity of Doing Business', improving its positioning from 142 of every 2014 to 77 out of 2019. The Government of India revealed the GST during a memorable session of Parliament in 2017, which has understood the fantasy of 'One Nation, One Tax. PM Modi is profoundly energetic about natural causes. He has over and over called for moving of in to make a perfect and green planet. As Chief Minister of Gujarat, Shri Modi made a different Climate Change Department to make creative answers for environmental change. This soul was found in the 2015 COP21 Summit in Paris where PM Modi assumed a key job in the significant level considerations. Venturing out in front of environmental change, PM Modi has discussed atmosphere equity. In 2018, Heads of State and Government from a few countries came to India for the dispatch of the International Solar Alliance, a creative exertion to tackle sun oriented vitality for a superior planet. Perceiving his endeavors towards natural preservation, PM Modi was respected with the United Nations 'Heroes of the Earth Award.' PM Modi has been given different distinctions including the most noteworthy regular citizen respect of Saudi Arabia Sash of King Abdulaziz. Shri Modi has been likewise been given the top honors of Russia (The Order of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First), Palestine (Grand Collar of the State of Palestine), Afghanistan (Amir Amanullah Khan Award), UAE (Zayed Medal) and Maldives (Rule of Nishan Izzuddeen). In 2018, PM got the renowned Seoul Peace Prize for his commitment to harmony and improvement.