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Famous Personalities in India

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.

Dr Manmohan Singh, Personality of the Week

Personality of the Week

Dr Manmohan Singh
(Hon'able Prime Minister, India)

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
. 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
. Giani Zail Singh
. Atal Bihari Vajpayee
. Indira Gandhi
. Kocheril Raman Narayanan
. B D Jatti
. Muhammad Hidayatull

. Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
. Chandra Shekhar
. Gulzarilal Nan
. Rajiv Gandhi
. R.Venkataraman
. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
. Shankar Dayal Sharma
. Varahagiri Venkata Giri
. Shrimati Pratibha Devisingh Patil
. V.V. Giri

Prime Minister :

. Choudhary Charan Singh
. Dr Manmohan Singh
. Inder Kumar Gujral

. Morarji Desai
. 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
. 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