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This list is definitely not exhaustive, so If youve any important personalities in news. Please share them in comments below!
Indian: Diaspora Abroad Indian Men Indian Women International: Head of State/Institutes etc International : Other Sportsmen

Indian: Diaspora Abroad

Kamla Prasad Bissessar Hargobind Khorana Ravinder Singh Prime Minister of Trinidad & Tobago. Indian-American biochemist who won the 1968 Nobel Prize for medicine, dead first Sikh in more than 30 years to be appointed as the army chief of Singapore

Prof.Sachchidanand Noted writer from Combodia, won Pravasi Bhartiya Samman 2012 Sahai Dr. Victor Shahed Smetacek Sunita Williams Preet Bharara Bobby Jindal Nikki Haley Kal Penn German scientist. Won same prize as above. second space journey to the International Space Station (ISS). She will stay at the ISS for four months. Indian American origin Attorny. made it to the cover page of Time magazine for his anti-corruption crusade against financial frauds in Wallstreet. Governor of Louisiana State, US Governor of South Carolina State, US Kalpen Modi, Hollywood actor. Served in White House Office of Public Engagement.He campaigns for Obama in Presidential elections 2012, among the Indian American voters.

Indian Men
Lt. Gen. Bikram Singh Norman Anil Kumar Browne D.K. Joshi V.S. Sampath Altamas Kabir Satyanandan Mishra MArkendeya Katju U.K. Sinha Ashok Chawla D. Subbarao Prakash Baksh Pradeep Kumar Jehangir Sabavala Mario Miranda Justice Dalveer Bhandari Ajit Pal Singh Ashoka sen Bhupen Hazarika Chief of Indian Army. Chief of Airforce. Chief of the Indian Navy. Chief Election Commissioner of India. CJI India, before him was Sarosh Homi Kapadia CIC Chairman of Press Council of India SEBI Competition Commission of India (CCI). RBI Governor NABARD Chief Vigilance Commissioner (CVC) of India. Painter, dead. cartoonist from Goa, dead elected as a judge of the International Court of Justice, based in The Hague, Netherlands. He had led India to their only Hockey world cup triumph in 1975. has been selected as the chef-de-mission of the Indian contingent at the London Olympics. (string theory, fundamental physics prize, yuri milner) Singer from Assam, Dada Saheb Phalke award winner, dead
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Sultan Khan Vempati Chinna Satyam

sarangi maestro, dead died in 2012 was an Indian dancer and a guru of the Kuchipudi dance form.

Indian Women
Major First woman officer of Indian army to get decorated with a gallantry medal for her bravery during the attack on guest Mitali house of Indian officials in Kabul, Afghanistan. Madhumita Dr Uma Raju Jyoti Amge Homai Vyarawala Sneha Shekhawat Capt. Lakshmi Sehgal Soumitra chatterji Indira goswami Bina Das Ila mitra Raj Kumari Gupta Tara Rani Srivastava Abadi Bano Begam commanded the Rani Jhansi Regiment of Netaji Subhash Chandra Boses Indian National Army (septuagenarian Bengali Actor; Dada sahab falke 2011) (aka mamoni raisom goswami; assamese poet, writer; shahitya akadmi 1983; Jnanipith 2001; died 2011) (1932, attempted to assassinate the Bengal Governor Stanley Jackson) aka Rani Ma ; Tebhaga movement; died 2002 crucial contribution to the Kakori dacoity. She supplied revolvers to those involved in the Kakori operation, apparently hid the firearms in her undergarment and set out in khadi clothes to deliver them. participated actively with her husband Phulendu Babu in the Quit India movement. She marched with the national flag straight towards the police station in Siwan, Bihar. freedom fighter from Lucknow, known by her honorific Bi Amman. She spoke in a public gathering, on behalf of her jailed son, she did so from behind her burqa in 1917. This was, perhaps, the first time a Muslim woman in purdah had addressed a political gathering. second woman in the history of Indian Air Force to be promoted to the rank of Air Vice Marshal. worlds shortest living woman by the Guinness World Records. Nagpur Indias first woman photo-journalist. first woman pilot to lead the Indian Air Force contingent at the Republic Day parade.

International: Head of State/Institutes etc

Mostly for GK based MCQs. Some persons may be outdated. Martin Shultz Sheikh Hasina Wajed Yingluck Shinawatra Lee Myung Bak Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono Kamla Prasad Bissessar Mohamed Nasheed Hu Jintao Wen Jiabao U Thein Sain Lobsang Sangay President of European Union. Prime minister of Bangladesh. Prime Minister of Thailand.Chief guest in 26th Jan. parade 2012. Korean President, chief guest in 26th Jan 2010 parade. Indonesian President, chief guest in 26th Jan 2011 parade. Prime Minister of Trinidad & Tobago. Maldives. China President China Premier President of Myanmar. Prime Minister of Tibetan government-in-exile (which operates from Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh).

Jigme Khesar Mangyel King of Bhutan. Wangchuck Dilma Rouseff Dmitry Medvedev
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Brazil President (first female) Russia PM (earlier he was the President) Russia President (earlier he was the PM)
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Vladimir Putin Jacob Zuma Mitt Romney Obama Nakosazana Dlamini Zuma Jim Yong Kong Christine Lagarde Mohamed Waheed Bashar al-Assad Lakhdar Brahimi Omar Al Bashir Salva Kiir Mayardit Mohamed Morsy Raja Parvaiz Ashraf Hosni Mubarak Pranab Enrique Pene Nieto Jean marc ayrualt Franois Hollande Lee Hsein Loong David Cameroon Nick Clegg Angela Markel

Russia President (earlier he was the PM) South Africa President US Presidential candidate of Republican party. 44th President of US. Belongs to Democractic Party. His VP =Joe Biden.And Hillary Clinton is United States Secretary of State.(Before her Condoleezza Rice) African Union Commission chairperson 2012; first woman to lead the organisation) World Bank President IMF President (earlier Dominique Strauss Kahn) Maldives (after Nasheed) Syrian President Veteran Algerian diplomat; to replace Kofi Annan as the international mediator on Syria. North Sudan President, has ICC warrant against him. South Sudan President. first freely-elected Egypt. (after Hosni Mubarak was thrown out) Prime minister of Pakistan (after Gilani was thrown out) Ex-Egypt, sentenced to life in prison. 13th President India. President Mexico France PM France President (after Nicolas Sarkozy). Prime Minister of Singapore. PM UK (Conservative Party). Before Cameroon>> Gorgon Brown >>Tony Blair. And Margarate Thatcher was the first lady PM of UK. Deputy PM Of UK. Chancellor Germany.

International : Other
Liu Yang Gina Rineheart Marissa Mayer Sergei Brin Mark Zuckerberg Gore vidal Nakosazana Dlamini Zuma Chinas first woman astronaut worlds richest woman in world. (ref link) Yahoo CEO, got the job despite being pregnant. Earlier she was served as the first female engineer in Google company. Google Co-founder (other guy is Larry Page).He was in news because of his conference on the Project Glass. Facebook. Was in news because of the IPO. American writer. Dead. Famous for satirical novel myra breckinridge. African Union Commission chairperson 2012, first woman to lead this organisation.

Sportsmen
Indian Winners in Olympic 2012 Name Gagan Narang Vijay Kumar Saina Nehwal Mary Kom Sushil Kumar Event (Olympics 2012) Shooting (Air rifle) Shooting (Pistol) Badminton Boxing (flyweight) Wrestling (66 kg freestye) medal Bronze Silver Bronze Bronze Bronze Silver Girisha Hosanagara Nagarajegowda Silver in the mens high jump @ Paralympics 2012 (London). Hes the only Indian physically challenged athlete who won medal in this event.
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Oscar Pistorius (Bladerunner) first amputee runner to compete at an Olympic Game 2012 hes from S.Africa. Events: 400m and 400 replay did not win medals. (Olympic Game 2012) But he won gold medal in Paralympics 2012 Courtesy competitionmaster.com + inputs from a regular reader Dark Knight. +Women Freedom fight from Thehindu

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Reply to this comment Tulsi Gabbard is a Hindu American, who has won the Democratic party primary for the US Congress from Hawaii. Her victory in the November Congressional elections is said to be a certain, which will make her the first Hindu American to be a a member of the US House of Representatives. Gabbards victory was cheered by the Hindu community. Jin-Yong Cai, with over 20 years of experience in the financial services industry and development, will be the new Executive Vice President and CEO of IFC. Prior to this appointment, Jin-Yong had served as the Participating Managing Director in Goldman Sachs Group. Wing Commander V K Singh is an Indian Air Force (IAF) pilot who flew his helicopter through a hail of bullets fired by Naxals and safely landed the damaged aircraft while evacuating security forces from a deeply forested area in Chhattisgarh. He has been awarded Sharuya Chakra. Rohullah Nikpai is Afghanistans only Olympic medallist (Taekwondo), who won his countrys first-ever Olympic medal at the Beijing Games a bronze in the 58-kg category, repeated the feat with a bronze in the 68-kg category in London. Raj Kumari Gupta Born about a century ago in the little-known Banda zilla of Kanpur, Raj Kumari Gupta and her husband worked closely with Mahatma Gandhi and Chandrashekhar Azad. Her crucial contribution to the Kakori dacoity case barely figures in the narratives of freedom. Raj Kumari, who was given the charge of supplying revolvers to those involved in the Kakori operation, apparently hid the firearms in her undergarment and set out in khadi clothes to deliver them, with her three-year-old son in tow. On being arrested, she was disowned by her husbands family and thrown out of her marital home. Tara Rani Srivastava was born in Saran near Patna and participated actively with her husband Phulendu Babu in the Quit India movement. On Gandhijis call, Phulendu assembled a massive crowd of men and women in front of the Siwan police station to hoist the national flag on its roof. The just-married couple stood in front of the crowd and raised slogans. Phulendu soon fell to police bullets but Tara Rani was not deterred. Demonstrating exemplary courage, she bandaged his wounds and marched with the national flag straight towards the police station. By the time she returned, her husband had died. Rao Papineni is a nanotechnology scientist from Hyderabad India who recently got his cancer treatment research patented in United States. He along with his colleagues has invented a system in which a nano-particle carries the payload of anti-cancer drug and releases it only in the cancerous cell, thus protecting healthy cells around. Currently working as chief scientist and senior principal investigator in medical applications of nanotechnology at Carestream Health, Inc USA, he filed for the patent in 2009. The title of the patent is High Capacity Non-Viral Vectors. The non-viral vectors are nano-particles. Aditi Mukherjee is the recipient of first Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application, endowed by the Rockefeller Foundation in 2012. She is a senior researcher with the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in New Delhi. Mukherjis work on groundwater resources in agriculture led to major policy changes that benefited thousands of farmers in West Bengal. Mukherji worked closely with the farmers, and took her research data directly to the government, meeting with representatives of the Planning Commission, the West Bengal secretary of water resources, and secretaries of agriculture, finance and rural development departments. K.G.Subryamnyam is a contemporary Indian painter who was awarded the Padma Vibhushan in 2012 by GOI for his painting legacy. Subramanyan is as revered as an artist as he is as a theoretician and art historian. His chief contribution as a theorist has been the rigorous re-contextualization of Western theories and practices in the Indian or Oriental context, as well pointing out the fundamental differences between the Western and Indian social realities, namely the problem of art/craft division of the Indian artistic traditions. Richard Stallman is the champion of the Free software movement.One of his most famous interventions in free software was the GNU general Public Licence(GPL), which he devised around 1985 as a general licence applicable to any program.The licence codifies the concept of copyleft, the central idea of which gives everyone permission to run the program, copy the program, modify the program and distribute modified versions, but not permission to add restrictions of their own. Hassan Sheikh Mohamud won the presidential elections of Somalia. Coalitions were formed between the Prime Minister Abdiweli Ali and Hassan Sheikh. Balu Sankaran who recently passed away on June 20, was a professor, scientist and recipient of the Padma Shri and Padma Vibushan awards. He helped establish an artificial limbs manufacturing corporation and a rehabilitation institute.He was one of the medical greats who, together with doctors like V. Ramalingaswami (former director-general of the Indian Council for Medical Research), B.B. Dikshit (first director of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, AIIMS) and C. Gopalan (former director, National Institute of Nutrition), laid the foundations of medical education, medical research and healthcare in the country. He was a former director general of health services, and director of the World Health Organisation in Geneva. Anish Kapoor is the Padma Bhushan awarded of 2011. He is an India born British sculptor, making nes because he was the sculptor behind the ArcelorMittal Orbit, commissioned as a permanent artwork for the Olympic Park and completed in 2012. Kamal Bawa, is an Indian-born professor of biology at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is the 2012 winner of the Gunnerus Sustainability Award, the worlds first major international award for work on sustainability. Bawa, also a faculty fellow at the Centre for Governance and Sustainability, home of the Global Environmental Governance Project, is known for his research on population biology in rainforest areas. His span of work includes biological discoveries made in Central America, the Western Ghats, and the Himalayas in India. Vandana Shiva Indian environmental philosopher and activist Vandana Shiva has been chosen for 2012 Fukuoka Prize, a prestigious award being bestowed by Fukuoka city government in Japan on people who contribute to academia, arts, and culture in Asia.

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hmm.. dude thanx for extra info

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Reply to this comment Hi mrunal, Your work is commendable, but mani have copy pasted from a comprehensive list of other person line by line , which i think is wrong.OtherWise from ur side their is no problem

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Reply to this comment 1.Jean Dujardin :- oscar+cannes+BAFTA (the first French actor ever to win for Best Actor) in the movie The Artist(Silent film) as George Valentin.The Artist became the most awarded French film in history. 2.Meryl Streep:-oscar+BAFTA(best Actress)for playing the role of Margaret Thatcher in the movie The Iron Lady 3.Alfred Hitchcock:-Director.Known as master of suspense.In 2012 his movie Vertigo got most polls for the greatest film of all time(by Sight & Sound(a magazine) poll by the British Film Institute (BFI)).The Sight & Sound accolade has come to be regarded as one of the most important of the greatest ever film polls. It is conducted every 10 years.It replaced the movie Citizen Kane-a five time winner i.e 1962-2002

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Reply to this comment Paul Ryan US Vice Presidential election candidate of Republican party Mark Thompson Ex- BBC Chief to head New York Times. First one from non-print background Fareed Zakaria Indian Origin writer. Plagiarism case in Times Magazine Raghuram Rajan Newly appointed Chief Economic Advisor Meles Zenawi Ethopian president. Died recently. Well renowned in Africa Kaushik Basu Appointed as Chief Economist in World Bank Salman Rushdie His new book Joseph Anton Jeet Thayil Short listed for Man Booker prize for his novel Narcopolis. Four years ago it was Arvind Adiga who won the prize

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Reply to this comment mrunal, ur doin an excellent job.u r providing knowledge abt all the sub. can u plz. provide some articles & strategy regarding mechanical engineering

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Reply to this comment Soumitra Chatterjee or Soumitra Chattopadhyay born 19 January 1935 is an iconic Bengali actor from India. He is listed above under indian woman list. so please correct it. thanx for great work.

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Reply to this comment gr8 piece of work at d right tym few name correctionsnamgyel not mangyel in bhutan jim yong kim not kong amadou toumani tourre in mali i can add a few mohan dharia- indira gandhi national integration award 10. seasoned politician and freedom fighter vaclav havel- dead,czech velvet revolution against soviet c.s.verma- sail chief ceo of d yr
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c.s.verma- sail chief ceo of d yr usain bolt and sally pearson- athletes of d yr shrilal shukla- dead, jnanpith for raag darbari deven sharma- s&p chief, resigned after us rating downgrade messi and homara sawa -ballon dor shamim ahmed khan- dead,sitar maestro ramadarsh mishra-21st vyas samman for aam k patte sharmila tagore- unicef int goodwill ambassador i think this will do for the moment

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Reply to this comment Additions: 1. Anders Fogh Rasmussen- NATO sec gen. 2. Marwan Borghouti: imprisoned Palestenian opposition leader 3. Brahmdutt Sharma: ?? mediator of tribles??, ex-ST commissioner, VC of North East Hill University, Gandhian, works for tribal rights, Book_ unbroken history of broken promises 4. Hermann Muller- Father of Radiation Genetics 5. WTO DG: Pascal Lamy 6. Verghese Kurein- Father of white revolution, set up AMUL, IRMA, NDDB, GCMMF, NATIONAL CO OPERATIVE DAIRY FEDERATION OF INDIA. 7. Brigadier J P Dalvi: taken prisoner in 1962 India-China war. 8. Dr. K B Hedgewar: started RSS in 1925 9. Mohan Bhagwat: present chief- RSS 10. Indra Nooyi: pepsi co. 11. Bimal gurung: GJM chief 12. Abdul Halim Muazam: king of Malayasia 13. Ruchir Sharma: Head of emerging economies at Morgan Stanley Investment Management 14. N R N Murthy: founder INFOSYS

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Reply to this comment SRIKANTH SRI SRINIVASAN : Indian-American nominated by U.S. President to U.S. Court of appeal for American Capital nations second highest court Fatou Bensouda : Gambian lawyer , International Criminal Courts new chief prosecutor. First woman and the first African to head the team of prosecutors at the Tribunal, which is investigating 15 cases in seven countries, all of them African.

ramakrishna
Reply to this comment still carlos slim is the richest person?? clear it once.

james
Reply to this comment gina rine hart is wealthiest women( not wealthiest)currently belongs to Australia . She is mining tycoonplz correct it..

vi
Reply to this comment obaid chenoy her documentary on acid victims on pakistan .she wins first oscar for pak. vice admiral murali dharan new coast guard chief. abel prize 2012..andre

prashant choudhary
Reply to this comment one correction: Australias coal mining tycoon,Gina rinehart is not the richest person,shes the wealthiest person in Australia and worlds richest woman surpassing Christy walton

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Reply to this comment joseph kony -1st in the list of most wanted in interanational court of justice.the man who stepped up campaign aginst him was JASON RUSSEL,the author of invisible children.thought its(jason russel) imp coz obama too pitched up his voice for konys capture

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Tessy Thomas women behind agni 5 missile.

james
Reply to this comment day before yesteday got Lal bahadur shashtri national award.

vi
Reply to this comment obaid chenoy her documentary on acid victims on pakistan .she wins first oscar for pak. vice admiral murali dharan new coast guard chief.

Jitender
Reply to this comment Thanks a lot, Mrunal. It was much needed

tb
Reply to this comment mrinal gore:socialist nd rights activist jeet thayil:narcopolis,man booker prize joan dunlop: global leader for womens issues,died sumahendra: art expert nd painter,died fernando lugo:paraguay prez, removed in controversial impeachment (hindu had full editorial on that) ishita roy:bureaucrat,international sericulture commission head,lyon france liuyang: chinas frst woman in space wan xia yu: miss world 2012 shourya ray: indian origin prodigy, solved 350year old mathematical puzzle in germany, solved two fundamental particle dynamics theories (u need supercomputers for them!) charles taylor: former prez of liberia, jailed for arming rebels in return fr blood diamonds,only head f state to b convicted of war crimes by un backed crime court

genghis khan
Reply to this comment abe yaar!!!!!

shanthu
Reply to this comment Do anybody know when will be the Deputy central Intelligence officer 2012 exam will be conducted. Plz inform..

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Reply to this comment Acharya Lokesh Muni National communal harmony award 2010; chief ahimsa vishwa bharti Adam Nathaniel Yauch American rapper, songwriter, film director, and human rights activist;died 2012 Akkineni Nageswara Rao Padma vibhushna 2011;Kannada actor Alan Turing Turing machine;Captcha-> Reverse turing Amar Kant Jnanipith award 2009(inhin hatihyaron se) Andriy Shevchenko Ukrain; quit football; Join Politics Anish Kapoor Padma vibhushna 2011; arcelormittal orbit Ankita Das TT player Anto Peter Died 2012; Tamilcinema.com; Softview Balu Sankaran artificial limb manufacturing corp; padma vibhushan; Bandu Dhotre Wildlife activist; indefinite fast; Tiger; NGO ECO Pro Bharat Chhetri Goal keeper; captain; hockey Bidhan Chandra Roy Doctors day; Born 1 July 1882; Bharat Ratna awardee; EX-CM WB Binayak Sen International Peace award; Gandhi foundation; house of lord Bob dylan American musician and singer; pulitzer prize 2012; Bradley Wiggins. First British; winner Tour de france Bulu Imam International Peace award; Gandhi foundation; house of lord Chandrashekhara Kambara Janipith award 2009; Kannad Poet Charles Dickens Greatest novelist of victorian period 19 AD Chekrovolu Swuro Nagaland Archerer Chen Guangcheng Blind chinese human right activist; seek asylum USA; D S Hadow Estd 1912; First chief of police
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D S Hadow Estd 1912; First chief of police Dasrath Manjhi Satymav jayate; bihar labor; Donna Summer Disco queen; died 2012 Dr. Daniel Hillel 2012 World food prize; micro irrigation dry and arid region Ernest Borgnine American actor; died 2012 Eskinder Nega Ethiopian journalist and blogger;PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award in May 2012 Fatou Bensouda International court of Justice chief prosecutor; Gambian Gagan AP Ulalmath Karanatka swimmer; Universality quota(olympic) Herbert Baker Architect President house and parliamentary building ;Mr Lutyens Hyon Yong-chol North korea army chief Ivica Dai PM of serbia Joan Dunlop 2012 died; women right John Atta Mills died 2012; Ghana President Kamal Bawa 2012 Gennerus sustainable award Kapila Vatsyayan Padma vibhushna 2011; Indian scholar of dance, art & architecture Kazi Nazrul Islam Bangladesh Rebel Poet Kevin Carter 2010 Feature (Bang bang club) based+ 1994 Pulitzer award commit sucide L. Thanmawii Died 2012; first women MLA mizoram Lakshmi Chand Jain died 2010;Gandhian activist; padma vibhushna 2011 Leela Samson Chairman CBFC and sangeet natak akadmi Mario Miranda Padma vibhushna 2012; cartoonist Marissa Mayer President Yahoo corp; 37 Yrs; Youngest CEO; Forbes 500 Matt Stutzman Limbless archerer; silver medal paralympics 2012 Mrinal Gore aka Paniwali Bai Died 2012; Ex-MP; Malegaon Muhammad Yunus Grammen bank Mulk Raj Anand India-> Charles dicken N Valarmathi RISAT-1 prject director Nora Ephron Filmmaker died 2012 Panchen Lama -> Gyancain Norbu PK Iyenger Ex- Head BARC; Padma vibhushna 2011 Pope Shenouda III coptic orthodox church Ri Sol-ju wife kim-jong-un; N Korea Ri Yong Ho Ex North korea army chief Rta Meilutyt Gold medal; women breaststroke 100 mtr; 15 yrs; lithunia S K Shivakumar Direrctor ISAC(ISRO satellite centre) S.L.Bhyrappa Sarawati Samman; Mandra Sathyabhama Das Biju DU Proffesor; Identifies legless caecilians Sekhar Basu Director BARC Shailesh Gandhi First Chief Info Comm (2008-12) Sheryl Sandberg COO Facebook; Ex google.org Shrilal Shukla Former IAS; Jnanipith award 2009 Soumyajit Ghosh TT player Su. Venkatesan Kaval kootam; 60 year history madurai; sahitya akadmi award Sunil chettri Footballer Sunil Janah Died 2012 Photojournalist & documentary photgrapher Suresh Saraiya died 2011; cricket commentator; four decade career Swarn Singh Virk Indian rower T. Sudhindra life time ban for match fixing Vandana Shiva (Fukuoka Prize) Yi So-Yeon First south korean cosmonaut

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Narasimhan
Reply to this comment Akkineni nageshwar was a telugu actor, not kannada

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Reply to this comment Hadia Tajibassumed office as cultural minister of Norway is a pak origin woman.

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Reply to this comment shakeel afridi Pak doctor who helped in tracing Binladen. though its a old information, it was recently in news because of Pak tribals resistance for polio vaccination campPAIN countries..

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How about arvinn gadgil-the indian origin norweigan minister. He is the namesake of madhav gadgil

Tiru
Reply to this comment Pandit Ravi Shankar Indian Musician and Composer (Sitar), Grammy award winner, dead Hugo Chavez President of Venezuela, dead Pope Benedict XVI retired

Deepali
Reply to this comment Thanks Mrunal. Very useful for a quick review for a 50 day countdown.

vignesh
Reply to this comment Hi Mrunal, May i request you to change the name from Sunil Chhetri to Syed Rahim Nabi as AIFF player of the year. Correct me if i am wrong.

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