November 2024
Name of the Person | Field |
Chairman of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council | |
Rohit Bal | Renowned fashion designer |
Sharda Sinha | "Bihar's Nightingale" |
Polo player and Arjuna Awardee | |
Legendary Sarangi Player | |
Former Member of Parliament | |
Veteran Tamil Actor | |
Freedom fighter and member of the Mewar Praja Mandal | |
Mridangam Scholar | |
Japan's oldest royal family member | |
Former Deputy Prime Minister of the UK | |
Former Supreme Court Judge | |
World's oldest man | |
Renowned Economic Historian | |
Chairman and co-founder of Essar Group | |
Renowned South African poet, writer, and anti-apartheid activist |
October 2024
Name of the Person | Field |
Veteran Malayalam actor | |
Ratan Tata | Former chairman of Tata Sons |
Former Director of AIIMS | |
Radio presenter from Akashvani Darbhanga | |
Veteran Marathi Actor | |
Sanskrit Scholar | |
Former First Minister of Scotland | |
Veteran tribal leader and former Rajya Sabha MP | |
Renowned physicist and advocate for women in science | |
Former judge of the Karnataka High Court | |
Padma Shri awardee and Gussadi dance Master |
September 2024
Name of the Person |
Field |
Lawyer and Scholar |
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Legendary Chilean Tennis Player |
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English Scholar and Sahitya Akademi Awardee |
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Pioneering Film Scholar |
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Prominent Indian Politician and leader of the Communist Party of India |
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President of Peru |
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Dronacharya Award-winning table Tennis Coach |
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Renowned poet and former IPS officer | |
Iconic Actress known for her roles in Harry Potter and Downton Abbey | |
Italian Striker |
August 2024
Name of Person | Field of work |
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Former Indian cricketer | |
Distinguished lawyer and scholar | |
Former Chief Minister of West Bengal | |
Nobel Prize-winning physicist known for his discovery of parity | |
Legendary Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi dancer | |
Social worker and Padma Bhushan awardee | |
Former Vice-Chairman of the University Grants Commission | |
Distinguished scholar and writer | |
Former Indian Foreign Minister | |
Former CEO of YouTube | |
Former President of the Confederation of African Football | |
“Father of Agni Missiles,” | |
Indian Coast Guard Director | |
World’s oldest person | |
Former Chief of Army Staff (COAS) of India | |
Former CSIR Director | |
Former Meghalaya Chief Minister | |
Former Swedish tennis player and coach of Roger Federer | |
National Award-winning filmmaker | |
Former Lebanese Prime Minister | |
Film producer and owner of Magna Publishing | |
New Zealand’s Māori King |
July 2024
Name of Person | Field of work |
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Former Lok Sabha MP from Sikkim |
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Former Indian midfielder |
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Albanian novelist and poet |
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Oscar-winning screenwriter |
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veteran actor |
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The Oscar-winning producer |
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founder of Dal Khalsa |
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Prominent Indian businessman |
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Kannada actress |
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Iconic stationery brand Camlin |
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Vietnam’s long-serving leader |
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Cardiac surgeon and founder of the (SCTIMST) |
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Padma Shri awardee |
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Economist and former professor at Madras Christian College |
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Vasai-based Catholic priest |
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Former Indonesian Vice President |
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Political leader of Hamas |
June 2024
Name of Person | Field of work |
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Maguni Charan Kuanr | Renowned puppeteer and Padma Shri Awardee |
Asir Jawahar Thomas Johnsingh | Renowned Indian conservation biologist |
Ramoji Rao | Founder of Ramoji Film City and a media baron |
Amol Kale | Honorary President of the Mumbai Cricket Association |
Harpal Singh Bedi | Renowned sports journalist |
Pandit Rajeev Taranath | Renowned Sarod player |
Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare | Former Odisha Governor |
Srinivas Hegde | Mission director of Chandrayaan-1 |
Donald Sutherland | The Canadian actor |
C. V. Chandrasekhar | Bharatanatyam dancer |
David Johnson | Former Indian cricketer |
Frank Duckworth | Duckworth-Lewis-Stern |
Pahalwan Subba | Former Lok Sabha MP from Sikkim |
May 2024
Name of Person | Field of work |
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Renowned Tamil Playback Singer | |
Renowned actor in Titanic and The Lord of the Rings | |
Former CEO of Boeing and part-owner of the Seattle Mariners | |
Renowned filmmaker in Malayalam and Hindi cinema | |
Renowned Urdu litterateur and Academician | |
Moosa Raza | Former bureaucrat and Padma Bhushan Awardee |
Renowned Punjabi poet and Padma Shri awardee | |
Supervisor for the State Transportation Department | |
Sushil Kumar Modi | Former Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar and senior BJP leader |
Roger Corman | Legendary Hollywood Producer and Director |
Varugeese Koshy | Kerala’s first International Master and a Renowned chess trainer |
Birubala Rabha | Tireless activism against witch-hunting in India |
Alice Munro | Nobel Prize-winning Canadian Author known as ‘The Master Of Short Stories’ |
Kamla Beniwal | Veteran Congress leader and former governor of Gujarat |
Malti Joshi | Renowned Hindi writer and Padma Shri Recipient |
Colonel Waibhav Anil Kale | Retired Indian Army Officer |
Narayanan Vaghul | Former Chairman of ICICI Bank and a Padma Bhushan Awardee |
Ebrahim Raisi and Hossein Amirabdollahian | Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister |
Fred Roos | Oscar-winning American film Producer |
Jan A.P. Kaczmarek | Oscar-winning Polish Composer |
Richard M. Sherman, | Oscar-winning American songwriter known for Disney classics |
Albert S. Ruddy | Oscar-winning producer known for iconic films such as “The Godfather” and “Million Dollar Baby” |
April 2024
Name of Person | Field of work |
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known for roles in ‘It Came from Outer Space’ and ‘Peyton Place’ | |
World’s oldest verified living man | |
Tamil actor | |
Veteran cinematographer | |
Former Irish footballer and coach of the Indian national team | |
Tamil Nadu politics | |
The physicist | |
O.J. Simpson | Former NFL star |
Former New Zealand legspinner | |
Former chairman of Cricket Australia | |
Legendary English cricketer | |
Bernd Hölzenbein | Former German footballer |
Raman Subba Row | Former England Test batsman |
Durai | National Award-winning Tamil director |
Sudhir Kakar | Indian psychoanalyst, author, and cultural critic |
Subrahmanya Dhareshwar | Yakshagana, a traditional theatre form of Karnataka |
March 2024
Name of Person |
Field of work |
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18th Prime Minister of Canada |
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leader of the Congress party and former Governor of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Mizoram |
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archaeologist |
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the creator of the influential manga Dragon Ball |
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artisan and Padma Shri awardee |
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man in the iron lung |
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former Chief of Naval Staff of the Indian Navy |
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Renowned Rabindra Sangeet singer |
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prominent tribal leader and Buddhist monk from Ladakh |
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Dutch-American primatologist and author |
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Oscar-winning British screenwriter |
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Tamil actor |
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Writer and former chairman of the Karnataka Sahithya Academy | |
Daniel Kahneman | Nobel laureate and pioneer in behavioral economics |
Louis Gossett Jr | American actor |
Tim McGovern | Oscar-winning known for films like ‘Total Recall’ and ‘TRON’, |
February 2024
Name of Person | Field of work |
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Harmohan Dhawan | Former Union Minister and AAP leader |
Kiowa author and poet | |
Sadhu Meher | Veteran Odia actor and director |
Carl Weathers | Playing Apollo Creed in the Rocky movies |
Farooq Nazki | Kashmiri poet and broadcaster |
Sebastián Piñera | Former Chilean President |
Baroness Shreela Flather | Prominent British-Indian peer, |
A. Ramachandran | Renowned artist |
Dr. Usha Kiran Khan | Renowned Hindi and Maithili |
Kelvin Kiptum | World marathon record holder |
Dattajirao Gaekwad | India’s oldest living Test cricketer |
Padma Shri Prof. I.C. Verma | Renowned geneticist and advisor |
Chef Imtiaz Qureshi | Dum Pukht cooking technique |
Kavita Chaudhary | TV show in ‘Udaan’ |
Suhani Bhatnagar | Role in ‘Dangal’ |
Vidyasagar Maharaj | Jain monk Acharya |
Alexey Navalny | Russian opposition leader |
Fali Sam Narima | Constitutional lawyer and senior advocate of the Supreme Court of India |
Ameen Sayani | Iconic voice behind ‘Binaca Geetmala’ |
Manohar Joshi | Former Maharashtra Chief Minister and Lok Sabha Speaker |
Germany’s Andreas Brehme | 1990 World Cup Winning Goal Scorer |
K Hoysala | Former Karnataka cricketer |
Kumar Shahani | Renowned Indian filmmaker |
Pankaj Udhas | Legendary ghazal singer |
Raja Venkatappa Naik | Member of Congress MLA |
Shafiqur Rahman Barq | Senior Samajwadi Party leader and Member of Parliament |
January 2024
Name of Person |
Field of work |
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Former Indian defender |
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prominent Indian-American legal scholar |
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German footballer |
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Brazilian football |
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Indian classical vocalist |
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Hindi and Bhojpuri poet, lyricist and litterateur |
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German actor |
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Urdu poet |
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Hindustani vocalist |
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Singapore’s oldest Olympian and a former national hockey player of Indian |
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The Canadian pole vault record holder |
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Prolific filmmaker and producer |
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Italy’s all-time top goalscorer |
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first Indian and Asian to head a global bank |
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Chandigarh’s first hockey Olympian |
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India’s first oral contraceptive pill ‘Saheli’ |
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president of the Indian History Congress and a professor in the Centre |
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Former Union Minister and AAP leader |
December 2023
Name of person |
Field of work |
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Former U.S. Secretary of State and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate |
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Former Supreme Court Justice |
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Actor and musician |
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Ruler of Kuwait |
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Women’s rights activist and former chairperson of the National Commission for Women |
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Economist and Nobel laureate |
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Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK) and a popular actor |
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Former President of the European Commission |
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Shaun Davis |
Former Mr. Universe bodybuilder |
Naeem Sayyed |
Indian actor, singer, Marathi film director, and producer |
Benjamin Zephaniah |
Poet and ‘Peaky Blinders’ Actor |
Joe Solomon |
Former West Indies batter |
Leelavathi |
Veteran Kannada Actor |
Dr. Gao Yaojie |
Renowed AIDS Activist |
Andre Braugher |
Emmy-winning actor |
Lee Sun-kyun |
South Korean actor |
November 2023
Name of the Personality | Field |
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Dr. Leela Omchery | Musician, art researcher |
Maheshwar Mohanty | Former speaker and minister of Odisha |
Dhruba Narayan Ghosh | Former speaker and minister of Odisha |
Chandra Mohan | Veteran Telugu actor |
Subrata Roy | Indian businessman |
Prithviraj Singh “Biki” Oberoi | Indian hotelier |
Bikanervala chairman Kedarnath Aggarwal | Chairman of Bikanerwala |
N. Sankaraiah | Indian Communist Party politician |
Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya | Former Governor of Nagaland |
S. Venkitaramanan | Former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India |
Brijinder Nath Goswamy | Eminent art historian |
Dame Antonia Susan Byatt | British novelist |
Dr. S.S. Badrinath | Founder of Sankara Nethralaya |
Justice M. Fathima Beevi | First woman Judge of the Supreme Court |
Nongthombam Maipak | Former Mr. India and a bodybuilding legend |
Rajkumar Kohli | Filmmaker |
B. Sasikumar | Indian violinist and Carnatic musician |
Marty Krofft | Canadian TV producer |
C K Gopinathan | Director of Kerala-based Dhanlaxmi Bank |
D B Chandregowda | Former Karnataka assembly speaker |
Gieve Patel | Indian Poet |
October 2023
Name of the Personality | Field |
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Dr. Dahyabhai Karunashankar Shastri | Indian Sanskrit scholar and founder of Brahmarshi Sanskrit |
Dr. Manohar Singh Gill | Former Chief Election Commissioner of India |
Martti Ahtisaari | Former President of Finland |
Louise Glück | American poet and essayist |
Bangaru Adigalar | Spiritual leader |
Sir Bobby Charlton | Greatest Footballers |
Bishan Singh Bedi | Legendary Indian spinner |
Prof. Birendranath Datta | Scholar, writer, and cultural activist |
Li Keqiang | Former premier of China |
Professor Saleemul Huq | Climate change expert and director of the Dhaka |
Babanrao Dhakne | Former Union Minister |
Matthew Perry | Portrayal of Chandler Bing |
September 2023
Name of the Personality | Field |
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Heath Streak | Former Zimbabwe Cricket Captain |
Professor Sir Ian Wilmut | British Scientist |
Dennis Austin | Co-Creator of PowerPoint |
N. S. Srinivasan | Director of National Transportation Planning and Research Centre (NATPAC) |
N. Neela | Renowned flautist |
Gita Mehta | Renowned Author and Documentary Filmmaker |
Malini Rajurkar | Hindustani Classical Vocalist |
Saroja Vaidyanathan | Exponent of Bharatanatyam |
Giorgio Napolitano | Former Italian President |
KG George | Renowned Malayalam filmmaker |
M.S. Swaminathan | Agricultural scientist and a key Architect of India’s 'Green Revolution’. |
Ashwin Suryakant Dani | Co-founder and Non-Executive Director of Asian Paints |
August 2023
Name of the Personality | Field |
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Vakkom Purushothaman | Veteran Congress leader and former Kerala Speaker,Governor of Mizoram |
Namdeo Dhondo Mahanor | Marathi poet and lyricist |
N Vittal | Indian civil servant and Padma Bhushan award |
William Friedkin | Oscar-winning director of ‘The French Connection’ and ‘The Exorcist |
P Jayarama Bhat | Chairman of Karnataka Bank |
Professor Bikash Sinha | Physicist and Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics |
Prof. M.R. Satyanarayana Rao | President of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research and a Padma Shri recipient |
Bindeshwar Pathak | Founder of Sulabh International |
Mohammed Habib | Legendary Indian football player |
Dr. Vallampadugai Srinivasa Raghavan Arunachalam | Director General of Defence Research and Development Organisation |
John Devitt | Australian Olympic swimming gold medallist |
Ron Cephas Jones | Emmy-winning actor |
Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao | Pioneer in the field of statistics and mathematician |
Jayanta Mahapatra | Eminent Indian English poet |
July 2023
Name of the Personality | Field |
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Alan Arkin | Oscar-winning actor and Academy Award |
Artist K M Vasudevan Namboothiri | Artist Namboothiri and literary illustrations and sculptures |
Nirmala Buch | Chief Secretary of Madhya Pradesh |
Nikki McCray-Penson | Basketball star and Olympic gold medal winner |
Mangala Narlikar | Eminent mathematician |
Oommen Chandy | Chief Minister of Kerala and a senior Congress leader |
Tony Bennett | Legendary pop, jazz and big-band vocalist |
Milan Kundera | Czech-French author |
June 2023
Name of the Personality | Field |
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Vellayani Arjunan | Malayalam Writer and Sahitya Akademi Awardee |
Ved Kumari Ghai | Sanskrit Scholar and Sahitya Akademi Awardee |
Ama Ata Aidoo | Ghanian author, poet and playwriter |
Mele Siu’ilikutapu Kalaniuvalu Fotofili | Princess of Tonga and Politician |
Jim Hines | Former American Track and Field Athlete and National Football league player |
Sulochana Latkar | Veteran Actress and Sahitya Akademi Awardee |
Manoj Misra | Former IFS Officer and Environmental Activist |
Gitanjali Aiyar | India’s first English News presenter and Doordarshan Anchor |
Glenda Jackson | Oscar Winning Actress and UK’s Former Politician |
Silvio Berlusconi | Former Prime Minister of Italy |
John Bannister Goodenough | American Co-inventor of Lithium-ion Batteries |
Hardwar Dubey | Rajya Sabha MP from Uttar Pradesh |
Cormac McCarthy | Pulitzer Prize Winning American Writer |
May 2023
Name of the Personality | Field |
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Arun Manilal Gandhi | Grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, Author and Socio-Political Activist |
Tori Bowie | American track and Field Athlete |
Samaresh Majumdar | Sahitya Akademi Awardee & Bengali Writer |
S.P. Hinduja | Chairman of Hinduja Group |
Rattan Lal Kataria | MP of Ambala and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Member |
Owen Davidson | Australian Tennis Player |
Chow Tewa Mein | Former Environment and Forest Department Minister of Arunachal Pradesh |
Robert E Jr Lucas | American Economist and Winner of 1995 Nobel Prize in Economics |
Kalyani Kazi | Eminent Singer from West Bengal |
Antonio Carbajal | Mexican Football Player |
Padma Desai | Indian-American Economist and Padma Bhushan winner |
Balubhau Dhanorkar | MP of Chandrapur and Indian National Congress Member |
Govindaray H Nayak | Kannada Writer and Sahitya Akademi Awardee |
K Vishwanath Reddy | Telugu Writer and Sahitya Akademi Awardee |
Martin Louis Amis | Renowned British Novelist |
April 2023
Name of the Personality | Field |
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Sarah Thomas | Malayalam Writer and Sahitya Akademi Awardee |
Ryuichi Sakamoto | Oscar Winning Japanese Composer and Pop Singer |
Salim Aziz Durrani | Former Indian Cricker |
Jagarnath Mahto | Minister of Education in Jharkhand |
Thottathil Bhaskaran Nair Radhakrishnan | Former Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court |
Uttara Baokar | National Award Winning Theatre Artist |
Keshub Mahindra | Former Chairman of Mahindra and Mahindra Group |
Naresh Gupta | Former Tamil Nadu Chief Electoral Officer |
Virginia Tower Norwood | American Aerospace Engineer, inventor and physicist known as Mother of Landsat |
Trilochan Kanungo | Former MP of Bhubaneswar and Member of Biju Janata Dal (BJD) |
Tarek Fatah | Pakistan Born Canadian columnist and Journalist |
Parkash Singh Badal | Five-time Chief Minister of Punjab |
Himangshu Mohan Choudhury | Former IAS Officer and first Padma Shri from Tripura |
Kaur Singh | Veteran Heavyweight Boxer and Arjuna Awardee |
Dr N Gopalakrishnan | Retired Scientist and orator from Kerala |
March 2023
Name of the Personality | Field |
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Chandrashekhar Dasgupta | Indian diplomat and a Padma Bhushan recipient |
Aziz Mushabber Ahmadi | Former Chief Justice of India |
Pat McCormik | 4-time Olympic Diving Champion |
Sasthipada Chattopadhyay | Bengali Novelist and Short Story Writer |
Sameer khakkar | Veteran actor |
Richard Douglas Fosbury | American High jumper & Olympic Gold Medalist |
Patrick French | British author |
Kenzaburo | Japanese writer and Nobel prize winner in literature |
Sasthipada Chattopadhyay | Renowned Bengali litterateur |
Satish Kaushik | Veteran Actor-director |
Pradeep Sarkar | Director |
Gordon Moore | Intel Cofounder |
Innocent Vareed Thekkethala | Malayalam’s comedy king |
February 2023
Name of the Personality | Field |
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Shanti Bhushan | Distinguished jurist and former minister of law |
Parimal Dey | Former Indian football player |
Kasinadhuni Vishwanath (K Viswanath) | Renowned Telugu actor and filmmaker who received the Padma Shri and Dadasaheb Phalke awards, |
Vani Jairam | Renowned and experienced vocalist |
Pervez Musharraf | Retired general and former president of Pakistan |
K.V. Tirumalesh | Renowned Kannada author and recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award |
Burt Bacharach | American composer |
B.K.S. Verma | Artist |
Elena Fanchini | World Cup Skiing Medallist |
Javed Khan Amrohi | Veteran actor |
Lalitha Lajmi | Eminent Indian painter |
Tulsidas Balaram | Indian football legend |
Shahnawaz Pradhan | Featuring in series Mirzapur |
Yakshagana Bhagavat Balipa Narayana Bhagavatha | Singer and Screenwriter |
Nandamuri Taraka Ratna | Telugu actor and politician |
Om Prakash Kohli | Former Gujarat governor |
Subi Suresh | Malayalam Anchor-Actor |
Ramanujam | Tax Chief Commissioner |
Kanak Rele | Classical dance legend |
January 2023
Name of the Personality | Field |
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Heeraben Modi | Mother of Prime Minister Narendra Modi |
Arata Isozaki | Japanese Architect who won the Pritzker Prize |
Krishna Kumar | Former Director of Tata Sons and a Veteran of the Tata group |
Anita Marie Pointer | Grammy-winning American singer-songwriter and founding member of the Pointer Sisters |
Siddeshwar Swami | Renowned for his learned Lectures and compelling Oratory |
Shyamal Ghosh | Former Indian Football player |
Janaki Ballabh | Renowned Indian translator and author who worked on numerous Hindi Translations of Chinese Masterpieces |
Keshari Nath Tripathi | Three-time speaker of the Uttar Pradesh (UP) Assembly and a former governor of West Bengal |
Dr. Tehemton Erach Udwadia | Padma Prize Recipient The 'father of laparoscopic surgery in India Indian surgeon and gastroenterologist |
Abdur Rehman Rahi | Famous Kashmiri poet, translator, and critic Professor |
Constantine II | Country's last monarch before it became a republic in 1974 |
MP Chaudhary Santokh Singh | Indian politician from Jalandhar who served as a Cabinet Minister for Punjab (Lok Sabha constituency) |
Sharad Yadav | Former Union minister and one of the country's most well-known socialist figures |
Dr. A. D. Damodaran | Prominent scientist and former director of the National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) |
Mukarram Jah | Titular Nizam VIII of Hyderabad |
Ronald Eaton Asher (R E Asher) | Well-known British linguist |
Lucile Randon | French supercentenarian |
Badara Alieu | Republic of the Gambia's Vice-President (VP) |
Prabhaben Sobhaghchand Shah | Social worker from the UTs of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman, and Diu who received the Padma Shri award |
Nilmani Phookan | Prominent Assamese poet and Jnanpith Award and Padma Shri Awardee |
Sabir Ali | Decathlon gold medal at the Asian Athletics Championships in Tokyo in 1981 |
December 2022
Name of the Personality | Field |
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Nagnath Kotapalle | Eminent litterateur, educationist, and critic, |
Jiang Zemin | The former President of the People's Republic of China (PRC) |
Vikram Kirloskar | Eminent industrialist and the Vice-Chairperson of Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM) |
Nagnath Kotapalle | Eminent Litterateur, Educationist, and Critic |
Justice MK Mehrotra | Former Lokayukta of Uttar Pradesh (UP) |
K Muralidharan | Renowned film producer |
KS Prem Kumar | Veteran Malayalam actor |
Jharana Das | Renowned Odia actress and Jaydev Puraskar awardee |
Nick Bollettieri | Veteran Tennis Legend |
Dominique Lapierre | French author and Padma Bhushan awardee |
Kirstie Alley | Emmy and Golden Globe awardee |
Yoginder K Alagh | Renowned economist and former Union minister |
Jan Nowicki | Veteran Polish actor |
Manohar Devadoss | Eminent writer, musician, and Padma Shri awardee |
Krishna G Rao | Veteran actor of the Kannada cinema |
Nuwan Gunawardana | Popular Sri Lankan playback singer |
Pattukotai T Sivanarayanamoorthy | Veteran actor of the Tamil cinema |
Sulochana Chavan | Renowned Marathi Lavani and Bollywood playback singer |
Kenneth Powell | Former Indian Olympian and the 1970 Asian Games 4x100m relay bronze-winning team member |
Grant Wahl | Renowned American football journalist |
Ranjit Singh Brahmpura | Veteran politician and Akali leader |
DJ Stephen tWitch Boss | Popular dancer and actor |
Gen Miroslaw Hermaszewski | Polish cosmonaut |
Sinisa Mihajlovic | Legendary Serbian football player |
Steve Smoger | American Boxing Referee |
Terry Hall | British Pop Singer |
H.R. Keshava Murthy | Gamaka Artist, Padma Shri Awardee |
Kaikala Satyanarayana | Veteran Telugu Actor |
Abigail Kawānanakoa | Hawaii’s Last Princess |
Lance Naik Bhairon Singh Rathore | BSF veteran and hero of the 1971 India-Pakistan War |
George Cohen | England 1966 World Cup winner |
November 2022
Name of the Personality | Field |
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Abasar Beuria | Former Indian ambassador and Chairman of Institute of Odia Studies & Research, Noted Odiya Literateur |
Daljeet Kaur | Veteran Actress of the Punjabi Industry |
Tabassum Govil | Veteran Actress and TV Host |
Babu Mani | Former Indian Football Captain |
Areez Pirojshaw Khambatta | The Founder of the Famous Drink Rasna |
Vikram Gokhale | Veteran Film, TV, and Stage Actor |
Albert Pyun | Eminent Filmmaker |
David Murray | Former West Indies Wicket-Keeper |
Suresh Jindal | Eminent Filmmaker and Producer |
Clarence Alfred Gilyard Jr. | Veteran American Professor, Actor, and Author |
Gulam Abbas Moontasir | The former India Basketball Captain and Arjuna Awardee |
Kevin Conroy | Actor and Voice Artist |
Mehran Karimi Nasseri | Iranian Man who lived for 18 years in Paris’s Charles de Gaulle Airport and inspired the Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks film "The Terminal" |
Dr. RL Kashyap | Padma Shree Awardee and an Eminent Mathematician |
Siddhaanth Surryavanshi | Renowned TV Actor |
Sir David Butler | Eminent Political Scientist and Psephologist |
Shyam Singh Negi | The First Voter of Independent India |
Vijayakumar Menon | Veteran Fine Arts Scholar and Critic, Recipient of the Prestigious, Kerala Lalithakala Akademi Prize. |
Jambey Tashi | MLA in Arunachal Pradesh from the Lumla Assembly in Tawang District |
Goverdhana Sundara Varadachari | Eminent Editor and Journalist |
Ela Bhatt | Padma Bhushan Awardee, the Ramon Magsaysay Awardee, the Gandhi Peace Prize Recipient |
Neel Pawan Baruah | The eminent artist of Assam |
Jamshed J Irani | “Steel Man of India” |
October 2022
Name of the Personality | Field |
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Jerry Lee Lewis | Nicknamed “the killer”, the Rock ’n’ Roll Original |
Esmayeel Shroff | Film Director |
Nipon Goswami | Veteran Assamese Actor |
Pierre Soulages | Famous French Painter |
Amou Haji | “Dirtiest Man in the World” |
Pinaki Chaudhary | National Award-Winning Bengali Director |
Dietrich Mateschitz | Founder and Owner of the Red Bull Formula One Racing Team |
Sujit Patwardhan | Founder of the civil society organization, Parisar |
Dr. Dilip Mahalanobis | Inventor of Oral Rehydration Solutions |
Robbie Coltrane | Comic Performer who played ‘Hagrid’ in Harry Potter Movies |
Naga writer Temsula Ao | Sahitya Akademi and Padma Shri Awardee |
Kavignar Subbu Arumugam | Padma Shri Awardee |
Tulsi Tanti | Wind Energy Firm Suzlon Energy |
September 2022
Name of the Personality | Field |
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Mikhail Gorbachev | Former USSR President |
Mary Roy | Educator and women’s rights activist |
T.V. Sankaranarayanan | Padma Bhushan Awardee, Carnatic vocalist |
S. Parasuraman | Scholar and humanitarian |
Cyrus Mistry | Former Chairperson of the Tata Sons |
B Sheik Ali | Eminent Historian |
Ramchandra Manjhi | Padma Shri awardee |
Businessman Atulya Mafatlal | Yogindra Mafatlal Group |
Queen Elizabeth II | Longest serving monarch of Britain |
Amrut Palan | Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Ratnakar Bank Limited (RBL) |
Prof. Braj Basi Lal | Padma Vibhushan Awardee, former Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) |
Prof. B. Gangadhara Murthy | Thinker and Dalit Movement leader |
Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati | Dwarkapeeth Shankaracharya |
Uppalapati Venkata Krishnam Raju | Veteran Tollywood actor and former Union Minister |
Prof. NM Joseph | Kerala's former Forest Minister and Janta Dal (S) politician |
Elias Theodorou | Former UFC fighter |
Jean-Luc Godard | Legendary French filmmaker |
Naresh Kumar | Former Davis Cup captain |
Chhatrapati Shivajiraje Bhosale | Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj's descendent |
Asad Rauf | Former ICC elite panel umpire |
Jesse Powell | American Rhythm & Blues (R&B) star |
Tun Dr. S. Samy Vellu | Former Cabinet Minister of Malaysia |
Kishan Dev Shorey | Filmmaker |
Manikrao Gavit | Former Union Minister and Indian National Congress (INC) leader |
Acharya Swami Dharmendra Maharaj | Shri Panchkhand Peethadheeshwar |
Bishnu Charan Sethi | BJP leader of Odisha |
Marva Hicks | Actor and Singer |
Raju Srivastava | One of India’s best comedians |
N. Jayachandran | Artist and illustrator |
Sedapatti R Muthiah | Former Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker and ex-union minister |
Uttam Singh | Legendary racehorse-trainer and winner of 19 Classics |
Valery Vladimirovich Polyakov | Russian Cosmonaut |
P.P.A. Kareem | Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) leader |
Louise Fletcher | Oscar-winning actress |
Mohammed Rahimuddin Ansari | Religious leader and former Telangana State Urdu Academy Chairman |
Jayanti Pattnaik | Former MP from Odisha and the first Chairperson of the National Commission for Women (NCW) |
August 2022
Name of the Personality | Field |
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T Mohandas M Pai | Founder of Kannada Daily 'Udayavani' |
Fidel Valdez Ramos | Former Philippine President |
Nirmala Mishra | Renowned Bengali Singer |
Johnny Famechon | Former boxing World Champion |
Rudi Koertzen | Former International Cricket Umpire |
K. Maya Thevar | Former Member of Parliament and senior All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) politician |
Rakesh Jhunjhunwala | Veteran Stock Market Investor |
Wolfgang Petersen | Noted Hollywood Director |
Amitabh Choudhary | Veteran Cricket Administrator Former Secretary of BCCI |
Narayan | Kerala’s first tribal novelist and short story writer |
Samar ‘Badru’ Banerjee | Former Indian football team captain |
Syed Sibte Razi | Senior Congress leader and former Jharkhand and Assam governor |
Abdul Gaffar Nadiadwala | Veteran Filmmaker |
Saawan Kumar Tak | Filmmaker |
Abhijit Sen | Economist and former Planning Commission member |
Fidel Valdez Ramos | Former Philippine President |
Uma Pemmaraju | Indian American Journalist |
Ralph Eggleston | Oscar-winning Pixar animator |
July 2022
Name of the Personality | Field |
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Varinder Singh | Indian Hockey Player |
Ambika Rao | Malayalam Actor and Assistant Director |
Tarun Majumdar | Veteran Film Director |
EN Sudhir | Former India international football goalkeeper |
Peter Brook | One of the world’s most innovative theatre directors |
Mohammed Barkindo | Secretary-General of the OPEC |
Shinzo Abe | Japan’s Former Prime Minister |
José Eduardo dos Santos | Angola's Former President |
Brijendra K Syngal | Former Chairman of Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd (VSNL) |
Monty Norman | British composer known for the James Bond theme |
Batter Barry Sinclair | Former New Zealand cricket captain |
Nirmal Singh Kahlon | Former Punjab Speaker and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader |
Bhupinder Singh | Renowned Ghazal singer |
Achuthan Kudallur | Renowned abstract artist |
Dr. Ajay Kumar Parida | Noted scientist and director of the Institute of Life Sciences (ILS) |
David Warner | Titanic and the Omen fame Emmy-winning actor |
Anant Yashwant Khare | Renowned Marathi writer |
US actor Paul Sorvino | Best known for playing Paulie Cicero in the 1990 mobster classic Goodfellas |
Atulananda Goswami | Sahitya Akademi Award-winning litterateur |
Balwinder Safri | Popular UK-based Punjabi singer |
Padma Shri Sushovan Banerjee | Known as ‘One Rupee Doctor' |
June 2022
Name of the Personality | Field |
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Chief BHIM Singh | Founder and chief patron of the Jammu & Kashmir National Panthers Party |
Krishnakumar Kunnath (KK) | Famous Bollywood Singer |
Bhajan Sopori | Santoor maestro and Padma Shri awardee |
Anajalai Ponnusamy | Freedom Fighter |
Nobuyuki Idei | Sony ex-CEO |
Hari Chand | Two-time Olympian, and a double Asian Games gold medallist |
Gopi Chand Narang | Renowned Urdu scholar, linguist, theorist, literary critic, and former Chairperson of Sahitya Akademi Professor |
Pallonji Mistry | Shapoorji Pallonji group chairman and billionaire industrialist |
Dr. V Krishnamurthy | Former Chairman of public sector undertakings such as Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), and Steel Authority of India (SAIL) |
John Visentin | Xerox Holding CEO |
R. Raveendran | Veteran Photojournalist |
Chowallor Krishnakutty | Noted lyricist, Author and Journalist |
Varinder Singh | Olympic Medallist and Hockey World Cup winner |
May 2022
Name of the Personality | Field |
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Stanislav Sushkevich | First President of Belarus |
Pandit Shiv Kr Sharma | Indian Music Composer and Santoor Player |
Shireen Abu Akleh | Veteran Al Jazeera Journalist |
Bob Lanier | American Former Professional Basketball player & NBA Basket Ball hall of Fame |
Pandit Sukh Ram | Member of Parliament from Mandi, Himachal Pradesh Lok Sabha Constituency & Ex-Telecom minister from 1993 to 1996 |
Leonid Kravchuk | First President of Independent Ukraine |
Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed | UAE President and Ruler of Abu Dhabi |
Dr.Ramakant Shuklar | Eminent Sanskrit & Hindi Scholar |
Bhagirath Prasad Tripathi | Sanskrit Scholar |
Andrew Symonds | Former Australia Cricketer |
Sultana Begum | Renowned Punjabi Writer |
Sidhu Moose Wala | Punjabi Singer |
Bujar Nishani | Former Albania President |
Tony Brooks | Formula One Grand Prix in the 1950s |
Rajat Kumar Kar | Padma Shri Odia Writer |
Yuri Averbakh | World’s Oldest Chess Grandmaster |
Shivaji Patnaik | Veteran Communist Leader |
April 2022
Name of the Personality | Field |
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Manju Singh | Veteran Actor and Producer |
Vishwa Deendalayan | National Table Tennis champion |
Prafulla Kar | Famous Odia Singer |
Kenneth Tsang | Veteran HongKong Actor |
Richard Howard | Pulitzer Prize winning American poet |
Shiv Kumar Subramaniam | Actor-screenwriter |
Binapani Mohanty | Padma Shri Writer |
Mwai Kibaki | Former President of Kenya |
M. Vijayan | Padma Shri Structural biologist |
Elvera Britto | Former Indian women’s hockey team captain |
J D Rymbai | Former CM of Meghalaya |
Salim Ghouse | Film and TV actor |
March 2022
Name of the Personality | Field |
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Sonny Ramadhin | West Indian Cricketer |
Alan Walbridge Ladd Jr. | American Film Industry Executive and Producer |
Shane Warne | Legendary Australia Spinner |
General S F Rodrigues | Chief of the Indian Army from 1990 to 1993 and Governor of Punjab from 2004 to 2010 |
Rodney William Marsh | Former Australia Cricketer (wicketkeeper) |
Shri RC Lahoti | Former Chief Justice of India |
Jaiprakash Chouksey | Noted Film Critic and Writer |
Rafiq Tarar | Former Supreme Court Judge and President of Pakistan |
Rupiah Banda | Former President of Zambia |
Scott Hall | WWE Hall of Famer |
Kumudben Manishankar Joshi | Former Governor of Andhra Pradesh |
Eugene Newman Parker | American Astrophysicist |
Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga | Former Prime Minister of Mali |
Shahabuddin Ahmed | Former President of Bangladesh |
Ramesh Chandra Lahoti | Former Chief Justice of India |
Stephen Wilhite | Creator of the Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) |
Miguel Van Damme | Veteran Belgian Footballer |
Bhim Bahadur Gurung | 3rd Chief Minister of Sikkim |
February 2022
Name of the Personality | Field |
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Iqbal Singh Kingra | Indian socio-spiritual leader of the Sikh community and an educationalist |
Rupinder Singh Suri | Senior advocate and Additional Solicitor General (ASG) |
Amitabh Dayal | Actor and Filmmaker |
Ramesh Deo | Indian film and television actor |
Lata Mangeshkar | Legendary singer |
Chandupatla Janga Reddy | Veteran Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and a former MLA in Andhra Pradesh |
Praveen Kumar Sobti | Actor and an athlete |
Luc Montagnier | French virologist |
Rahul Bajaj | Noted industrialist and former chairman of Bajaj Auto |
Bappi Lahiri | Veteran singer and music composer |
Sandhya Mukherjee | Legendary Bengali singer |
Channaveera Kanavi | Poet and writer in the Kannada language |
Ravish Tiwari | Senior journalist and national bureau chief of Indian Express |
Surajit Sengupta | Former Football player in India |
Shakuntala Choudhary | Freedom Fighter and Gandhian Social Worker |
Maheshwari Amma | Malayalam Actress awarded with National Award and was well known as KPAC Lalitha |
January 2022
Name of the Personality | Field |
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Vijay Galani | Bollywood Film Producer |
Richard Leakey | Kenyan politician, conservationist, and fossil hunter |
Chandrashekhar Patil | Kannada writer |
Deon Lendore | Olympic athlete |
Pandit Birju Maharaj | Legendary Kathak dancer |
Shanti Devi | Odisha’s social worker and Padma Shri awardee |
Narayan Debnath | Legendary Bengali comics artist, writer, and illustrator |
Prof M K Prasad | Noted environmentalist & ‘Save Silent Valley’ campaigner |
Subhas Bhowmick | Indian Footballer and coach by profession |
Ramachandran Nagaswamy | Noted Indian historian, archaeologist, and epigraphist from Tamil Nadu |
Szilveszter Csollany | Gymnast from Hungary |
Anil Awachat | Marathi author and social activist |
Milena Salvini | Veteran Kathakali Artist |
Charanjit Singh | India’s Hockey player |
December 2021
Name of the Personality | Field |
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Shiva Shankar Master | Indian dance choreographer |
‘Sirivennela’ Chembolu Seetharama Sastry | Telugu film lyricist and Padma Shri awardee |
Konijeti Rosaiah | Former Governor of Tamil Nadu and former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh |
Vinod Dua | Veteran Journalist |
Dr. Mamballaikalathil Sarada Menon | India’s 1st woman Psychiatrist |
General Bipin Rawat | Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) |
Nanda Kishore Prusty (Nanda Sir) | Well-known teacher from Odisha |
Dr. Suresh Jadhav | Serum Institute of India’s Executive Director |
RL Jalappa | Former Union Minister of Textiles |
Richard Rogers | Pritzker Prize-Winning British-Italian Architect |
KS Sethumadhavan | Legendary Malayalam filmmaker |
Mahendra Prasad | Rajya Sabha MP |
Ray Illingworth | Former England Captain |
Archbishop Desmond Tutu | South African Anglican bishop, theologian, and human rights, activist |
Mark Taylor | Artist and toy designer for the He-Man |
E.O. Wilson | Former Harvard University biologist and Pulitzer Prize winner |
November 2021
Name of the Personality | Field |
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Prabhakar Jog | Prominent violinist and musician |
Tarak Sinha | Eminent Cricket Coach and Dronacharya Awardee |
Koneru Ramakrishna Rao | Educationist, teacher, and philosopher |
FW (Frederik Willem) de Klerk | South Africa’s former President |
Padma Vibhushan Babasaheb Purandare | Historian, Author, and Theatre Personality |
Anand Shankar Pandya | Former Vice President of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and author |
Mannu Bhandari | Renowned author |
Wilbur Smith | Zambian-born South African novelist |
Novy Kapadia | Veteran author, football journalist, and sports commentator |
Gurmeet Bawa | Punjabi folk singer |
Chun Doo-hwan | Former President of South Korea |
Sananta Tanty | Eminent Assamese Poet |
Stephen Joshua Sondheim | Veteran composer and lyricist |
October 2021
Name of the Personality | Field |
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Roger Hunt | England’s Football Team |
Ghanashyam Nayak | Veteran Television and Film Actor |
Arvind Trivedi | Veteran television actor and was best known for his iconic role of Raavan in Ramanand Sagar’s TV serial Ramayan |
Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan | ‘Father of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb’ |
Abolhassan Banisadr | Iran’s First President |
Nedumudi Venu | National Award-winning Actor |
Balvinder Singh Nakai | IFFCO’s Chairman |
Yogendra Mohan Gupta | Chairman of Jagran Group of Publications |
Bandula Warnapura | Sri Lankan cricketer and captain of the Sri Lankan cricket team |
Saranjeet Singh | Former hockey international Player from India |
Puneeth Rajkumar | Indian actor, playback singer, television presenter, and producer |
Dr. Madhavan Krishnan Nair | Eminent Oncologist and the founding director of the Regional Cancer Centre (RCC) |
September 2021
Name of the Personality | Field |
---|---|
Vasoo Paranjape | Former Indian cricketer and coach |
Sidharth Shukla | Indian Actor, Host |
Syed Ali Shah Geelani | Veteran Kashmiri separatist leader and former chief of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) |
Chandan Mitra | Senior journalist and Former Rajya Sabha MP |
Jacques Rogge | Former President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) |
Jean-Pierre Adams | Former France footballer |
Rajni Kaul | First News Broadcaster for BBC Hindi |
Keshav Desiraju | Former Union health secretary |
Oscar Fernandes | Former Union Minister and Congress Leader |
Dr. Abdul Aziz Parrey | Eminent Kashmiri writer, poet, and Sahitya Akademi, winner |
Bhabani Roy | Former Indian footballer and Mohun Bagan captain |
Casimir Oye Mba | Former Prime Minister of Gabon |
Thanu Padmanabhan | Indian theoretical physicist and cosmologist |
Jimmy Greaves | Former England, Football player |
Mahant Narendra Giri | President of the Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad |
Manorama Mohapatra | Odia litterateur, social worker, and journalist |
Kamla Bhasin | Women’s rights Activist and an Author |
August 2021
Name of the Personality | Field |
---|---|
Sardarni Man Kaur | Indian track-and-field athlete |
Padma Sachdev | Noted author and first modern woman poet of the Dogri language |
Shankar Subramaniam, “Babu” Nayaran | Olympian Footballer |
P.S. Banarji | Kerala Cartoonist, sculptor and folk singer |
Anupam Shyam | Indian film and television actor |
Commodore Kasargod Patnashetti Gopal Rao | War hero and was honoured with Mahavir Chakra and Veer Seva Medal |
Saranya Sasi | Malayalam film and television actor |
Dr Balaji Tambe | Ayurveda doctor, spiritual leader and proponent of Yoga |
Gerd Muller | German professional footballer |
Chinmoy Chatterjee | Former Indian footballer |
Maki Kaji | Creator of a puzzle named ‘Sudoku’ |
Anandha Kannan | Tamil star and a TV host |
Kalyan Singh | Former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh |
Syed Shahid Hakim | Indian Footballer |
Sean Lock | British Comedian |
Ted Dexter | England international cricketer |
Buddhadeb Guha | Eminent Bengali writer |
July 2021
Name of the Personality | Field |
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K V Sampath Kumar | Editor of ‘Sudharma’ Sanskrit Daily |
Sivan | Mooywood’s Veteran Cinematographer and Director |
Prasannan | Former Indian Footballer |
Dilip Kumar | Legendary Bollywood Actor |
Richard Donner | Filmmaker |
Keshav Datt | 2 time Olympics Gold Medal Winning Indian Hockey Team member |
Virbhadra Singh | Former Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister |
Dr PK Warrier | Renowned Ayurvedic physician and managing trustee of Kottakkal Arya Vaidya Sala (AVS) |
Yashpal Sharma | Former Indian Cricketer |
Paul Orndorff | Renowned American Professional Wrestler |
Surekha Sikri | Three-Time National Award-Winning Actress |
Mamnoon Hussain | Former President of Pakistan |
Gautam Benegal | Animation Filmmaker and Cartoonist |
Urmil Kumar Thapliyal | Theatre Personality and Litterateur |
‘Kalaimaamani’ Sikkil Shri R Bhaskaran | Carnatic Classical Violinist |
Gira Sarabhai | Co-founder of the National Institute of Design |
Satish Kalsekar | Marathi literature and a Sahitya Akademi, Award Winner |
Jayanthi | Actress |
Nandu Natekar | Legendary Indian Badminton Player |
Mike Hendrick | English Cricketer |
June 2021
Name of the Personality | Field |
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Poul Schlueter | Former PM of Denmark |
T M Kaliannan Gounder | Former Member of the Indian Constituent Assembly |
Sir Anerood Jugnauth | Former PM and President of Mauritius |
Dr Lakshmi Nandan Bora | Assamese Litterateur |
Dingko Singh | Asian games Gold Winning Boxing Player |
Buddhadeb Dasgupta | National Award Winning Bengali Film Director |
Surat Singh Mathur | Olympian |
Ukhnaa Khurelsukh | Former Mongolian Prime Minister |
Siddalingaiah | Noted Kannada poet, playwright and Dalit activist |
Prof Radhamohan Ji | Economist and Environmentalist |
Sanchari Vijay | Kannada Film Actor |
Nirmal Milkha Kaur | Former Indian Volleyball Captain |
Gottfried Bohm | First German Architect and the winner of the Pritzker Prize |
Milkha Singh | Indian track and Field Sprinter |
Kenneth Kunda | First President of Zambia |
Guruprasad Mohapatra | Secretary in DPIIT (Department of Industry and Internal Trade) |
John McAfee | Founder of McAfee Antivirus Software |
Parassala B Ponnammal | Legendary Carnatic Singer |
Sivasankaran Nair | Malayalam Cinematographer and Director |
May 2021
Name of the Personality | Field |
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Michael Collins | American Astronaut-Pilot |
Rohit Sardana | TV Journalist and News Anchor |
Pandit Devabrata Chaudhuri | Sitar Maestro |
Bikramjeet Kanwarpal | Film and TV Actor |
Kanupriya | Doordarshan Channel Anchor |
Manas Bihari Verma | Indian Aeronautical Scientist |
Chandro Tomar | Shooter and was famously known as ‘Shooter Dadi’ |
Parul Dabi Das | Assam’s first female IAS officer |
Jagmohan Malhotra | Former Governor of J&K |
Chaudhary Ajit Singh | Former Union Minister and Chief of Rashtriya Lok Dal |
V Kalyanam | Personal Secretary to Mahatma Gandhi |
Abhilasha Patil | Actress by profession |
Shesh Narayan Singh | Senior Journalist |
Vanraj Bhatia | Veteran Music Composer |
Raghunath Mohapatra | Eminent Sculptor, Architect, and Member of the Rajya Sabha |
Ravinder Pal Singh | Olympic Medalist Hockey Player |
Venugopal Chandrasekhar | Arjuna Awardee former Table Tennis Player |
Homan Borgohain | Assamese literature and Journalist |
Indu Jain | Philanthropist and Chairperson of Times Group |
Anup Bhattacharya | Freedom Fighter and Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra Musician |
MS Narasimhan | Famous Mathematician |
K Ragothaman | Former CBI Officer |
Rajeev Satav | Senior Congress MP |
Rajendrasinh Jadeja | Former Saurashtra pacer and BCCI referee |
Chaman Lal Gupta | Former Union Minister and Senior BJP Leader |
Ki. Rajanarayanan | Tamil Folklorist and Writer |
Dr KK Aggarwal | Renowned Cardiologist and former national president of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) |
Jagannath Pahadia | Former CM of Rajasthan and Former Governor of Haryana and Bihar |
Laxman | Music director and famous for the duo composers ‘Raam-Laxman’ |
Sunderlal Bahuguna | Environmentalist and Gandhian |
Dr Srikumar Banerjee | Former Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India |
O P Bhardwaj | India’s Boxing 1st Dronacharya Awardee Coach |
Max Mosley | Former head of Formula One’s governing body |
Yuan Longping | Chinese Scientist and was known for developing hybrid rice strain |
BabagoudaPatil | Ex Union Minister and the Former Leader |
HS Doreswamy | Freedom Fighter |
Colonel Panjab Singh | Hero of the Battle of Poonch which took place in the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War |
Alka Raghuvanshi | Author and Art Curator |
April 2021
Name of the Personality | Field |
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Beverly Cleary | Author |
Didier Ratsiraka | Former President of Madagascar |
Isamu Akasaki | Japan’s Physicist |
Shashikala Om Prakash Saigal | Film and TV Actress |
Digvijaysinh Zala | Former Union Minister and MLA from Gujarat |
P. Balachandran | Malayalam Screenwriter, Filmmaker, Dramatist and Actor |
Radheshyam Khemka | President of Gita Press |
Chandra Naidu | India’s first female cricket commentator |
Fatima Rafiq Zakaria | Padma Shri Awardee, Journalist, Academician and Chairman of Maulana Azad Educational Trust and Khairul Islam Trust Mumbai |
Prince Philip | Husband of Queen Elizabeth II |
Sanjay Chakravarty | Shooting Coach |
Satish Kaul | Actor |
Balbir Singh Junior | Hockey Player |
Yogesh Praveen | Historian |
Dr Kakala Subba Rao | Radiologist |
Ranjit Sinha | Former CBI Chief |
GVG Krishnamurthy | Former Election Commissioner |
Charles Geschke | American Computer Scientist, Co-founder of Adobe and PDF Developer |
Ahmed Hussain Lala | Football Player |
Bachi Singh Rawat | Former Union Minister |
Sumitra Bhave | National Award-winning Marathi filmmaker |
Ganjam Venkatasubbiah | Kannada Writer |
Maidavolu Narasimham | Former RBI Governor |
Sankha Ghosh | Bengali Poet |
Farid Sabri | Renowned Qawwali Singer |
Kishore Nanadlaskar | Actor |
Amit Mistry | Gujarati and Hindi Film and TV actor |
Shravan Rathod | Music Composer |
Justice MM Shantanagoudar | Supreme Court Judge |
Pandit Rajan Mishra | Indian Classical Singer |
Krishnamurthy Santhanam | Nuclear Scientist |
Dadudan Pratapdan Gadhvi | Veteran Gujarati Poet and Folk Singer |
Manzoor Ahthesham | Hindi Writer |
Manoj Das | Odia Writer |
March 2021
Name of the Personality | Field |
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Nandkumar Singh Chauhan | Lok Sabha MP |
M G George Muthoot | Chairman of Muthoot Group |
Anshuman Singh | Former Governor of Rajasthan and Gujarat |
Ishar Singh Deol | Athlete |
Lakshminarayana Bhatta | Kannada Poet, critic and translators |
Shrikant Moghe | Marathi Actor |
Hamed Bakayoko | Prime Minister of Ivory Coast |
Laxman Pai | Padma Bhushan Awarded Painter and Artist |
‘Marvelous’ Marvin Hagler | Boxing player |
Chemancheri Kunhiraman Nair | Kathakali dancer |
Lou Ottens | Inventor of Audio Cassette tapes |
Moudud Ahmed | Former PM of Bangladesh |
Dilip Gandhi | Former Union Minister |
John Magufuli | President of Tanzania |
GV Ramakrishna | Former SEBI Chairman |
Nawal Saadawi | Egyptian feminist, psychiatrist and novelist |
Adam Zagajewski | Polish Poet |
Laxmipriya Mohapatra | Odissi dancer |
KC Chakrabarty | Former RBI Deputy Governor |
Anil Dharker | Journalist and Author |
February 2021
Name of the Personality | Field |
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Cicely Tyson | US Actress |
Tony Trabert | American Tennis Player |
Christopher Plummer | Canadian Actor |
Akhtar Ali | India’s Tennis player |
Rajiv Kapoor | Actor |
Bansi Kaul | Founder of Rang Vidushak |
Carlos Menem | Argentina’s Former President |
Justice M Rama Jois | Former governor of Bihar and Jharkhand |
Satish Sharma | Congress Leader and Member of Parliament |
Rahul Khullar | Former Chairman of TRAI (Telecomm Regulatory Authority of India) |
Vishnu Narayanan Namboothiri | Malayalam Poet |
January 2021
Name of the Personality | Field |
---|---|
Indira Joseph Venniyoor | Veteran Broadcaster, All India Radio veteran and first English news announcer of Travancore Radio |
John Fulton Reid | New Zealand Cricket Player |
Shantanu Mohapatra | Music Director by Profession |
Buta Singh | Union Minister and Rajasthan’s Congress Leader |
Colonel Narendra ‘Bull’ Kumar | Mountaineer |
Vilas Patil Undalkar | Former Maharashtra Cabinet Minister and Congress MLA |
Anil Panachooran | Malayalam Poet and Lyricist |
Michael Kindo | Hockey Player |
Chitra Ghosh | Academician by Profession |
Satya Paul | Fashion Designer |
Alan Burgess | Cricket Player |
Madhavsinh Solanki | Former CM of Gujarat |
Neil Sheehan | American Journalist and Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author |
Turlapati Kutumba Rao | Telugu Journalist |
Prof. Shashikumar M Chitre | Astrophysicist and Mathematician |
Ved Mehta | Indian-American Writer |
D Prakash Rao | Social Activist |
Kamal Morarka | Former Union Minister and Industrialist |
Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan | Indian Classical Musician |
Dr V Shanta | Oncologist by Profession |
Mata Prasad | Former Governor of Arunachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh |
Unnikrishnan Namboothiri | Malayalam Actor |
Lary King | American Radio and Television host and a spokesperson |
Narendra Chanchal | Indian Bhajan Singer |
Narendra Luther | Historian, Author, Poet and Bureaucrat by Profession |
Prasanta Dora | Former Indian National Football Team Goalkeeper |
Cloris Leachman | American Actress |
Paul Crutzen | Noble Prize Winner in Chemistry |
Dr Shaibal Guptaa | Economist |
December 2020
Name of the Personality | Field |
---|---|
Papa Bouba Diop | Senegal’s Football Player |
Dharampal Gulati | Owner of MDH Masala |
Abhay Bharadwaj | Member of Parliament of Rajya Sabha |
Rafer Johnson | Athlete and Film Actor by Profession |
Valery Giscard d’Estaing | Former President of France |
Zafarullah Khan Jameli | Former Prime Minister of Pakistan |
Dineshwar Sharam | Administrator of Lakshadweep |
Ravi Patwardhan | Marathi Actor |
Manu Mukherjee | Bengali Actor |
Narinder Singh Kapany | Indian born American Physicist |
Madhukar Gangadhar | Writer by Profession |
Manglesh Dabral | Journalist and Hindi Poet |
Astad Deboo | Indian Dancer |
Paolo Rossi | Italy’s Football Player |
Vidyavachaspati B Govindaachrya | Renowned Sanskrit Scholar |
Ambrose Dlamini | Prime Minister of Eswatini |
Sripati Khanchanale | Indian Wrestler |
Roddam Narasimha | Eminent Aerospace Scientist |
Eric Freeman | Australian Test Cricket Player |
MG Vaidya | First Official RSS Spokesperson and a Veteran Journalist |
Motilal Vora | Veteran Congress Leader |
Sugathakumari | Malayalam Poet |
John Edrich | England’s Cricket Player |
Robin David Jackman | England’s cricket player and Commentator |
Shamsur Rahman Faruqi | Urdu Poet and Critic |
Sunil Kothari | Dance Historian and Critic |
Kadambur MR Janardhanan | Former Union Minister |
Jon Kuber | WWE Wrestler and was popularly known as ‘Luke Harper’ |
November 2020
Name of the Personality | Field |
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Keshubhai Savdasbhai Patel | Former Chief Minister of Gujarat |
Sir Thomas Sean Connery | Scottish Actor |
Ashish Kakkad | Actor, Filmmaker and Voiceover Artist |
Satish Prasad Singh | Former CM and Socialist of Bihar |
T N Krishnan | Veteran violin player and Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan Awardee |
Sudarshan Rattan | Bollywood filmmaker |
Ken Spears | American Television Editor, Writer and Producer |
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa | Prime Minister of Bahrain |
Carlos Gonzalez Valles | Author and Gujarati Columnist |
Asif Basra | Bollywood Actor |
Sanchaman Limboo | Former CM of Sikkim |
Arun Prajapati | Renowned Sculpture Artist |
Jerry John Rawlings | Former President of Ghana |
Soumitra Chatterjee | Bengali Film Actor |
Ravi Belagere | Journalist and Writer by profession |
Masatoshi Koshiba | Japan’s Physicist by profession |
Chandrawati | Former Lt Governor of Pondicherry |
Mridula Sinha | Former Governor of Goa |
Bhanwarlal Meghwal | Minister from Rajasthan |
Shaik Khaja Hussain | Telgu Poet, Scriptwriter, Journalist by profession |
Tarun Gogoi | Former CM of Assam |
Ashiesh Roy | Television Actor by Profession |
Ahmed Patel | Senior Congress Party Leader |
Diego Maradona | Footballer by Profession |
Faqir Chand Kohli | Founder of TCS and was well-known as Father of Indian IT Industry |
James Wolfensohn | Former World Bank President and was Australian- American lawyer, economist and an investment banker by profession |
David Prowse | British Actor |
October 2020
Name of the Personality | Field |
---|---|
Dr. G S Amur | Writer and Critic by profession |
Pushpa Bhave | Social Activist |
Mulayam Singh Yadav | Veteran Samajwadi Party leader |
Mishti Mukherjee | Bollywood Actress |
Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah | King of Kuwait |
Najeeb Tarakai | Afghanistan’s Cricket player |
Nasseb Pathan | Congress Party leader from Uttar Pradesh |
Vishal Anand | Veteran Bollywood Actor |
Ashwani Kumar | Former CBI Director |
Ram Vilas Paswan | Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution |
Mario Molina | Noble Prize winning Scientist |
Justice KK Usha | Former Chief Justice of Kerala HC |
Avinash Kharshikar | Marathi Film Actor |
Carlton Chapman | Former India’s Football Team Captain |
B Vijaya Reddy | Filmmaker by profession |
C M Chang | Nagaland’s Environment Minister |
Vinod Kumar Singh | Minister from Bihar |
John R Reid | Former Cricket Player of New Zealand |
Shobha Naidu | Kuchipudi Dancer |
Bhanu Athaiya | First Indian to win Oscar |
Kishore Bhimani | Cricket Journalist and Commentator |
Kaumudi Mushi | Singer by profession |
Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri | Malayalam Poet |
Kapil Deo Kamat | Bihar Panchayati Raj Minister |
P S Narayanaswamy | Renowned Carnatic Vocalist |
Zarina Roshan Khan | Indian TV Actress |
Dr Jayanta Madhab | Renowned Economist |
Wing Commander (retd) Dr.Vijayalakshmi Ramanan | First Women Officer of Indian Air Force |
K J Mohammed Babu | Playback Singer and Actor by profession |
Lee Kun-Hee | Chairman of Samsung Group |
Mahesh Kanodia | Veteran Gujarati Musician and former Member of Parliament |
Naresh Kanodia | Actor and Politician |
Mesut Yilmaz | Former Prime Minister of Turkey |
Daniel Menaker | Author and an Editor by profession |
September 2020
Name of the Personality | Field |
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Former President Pranab Mukherjee | Former India’s President |
Joe Ruby | Animator, writer, editor, producer by profession |
KS Bajpai | Former Indian Ambassador to US, Pakistan, China |
Dr S Padmavati | India’s First Female Cardiologist |
David Capel | Former England team’s Cricket Player |
Jiri Menzel | Oscar Winner and Czech Film Director |
Govind Swarup | Father of India’s Radio Astronomy |
Johnny Bakshi | Filmmaker |
Jaya Prakash Reddy | Telgu Film Actor |
Diana Rigg | British Actress |
Raghuvansh Prasad | Former Union Minister |
Chanesh Ram Rathiya | Former Chhattisgarh Minister |
Kapila Vatsyayan | Indian Classical Dancer |
Swami Ahnivesh | Social Activist |
Sadashiv Patil | Former Cricket player of Maharashtra |
Amitabha Ghosh | Former shortest-serving RBI Governor |
Ashok Gasti | Rajya Sabha MP from Karnataka state |
Moussa Traore | Former President of Mali |
PR Krishnakumar | Prominent Indian Ayurveda Physician |
Babu Sivan | Tamil Film Director |
Winston Groom | American Novelist and Journalist |
Ang Rita Sherpa | Nepal based Mountaineer |
Bibhuranjan Choudhury | Assam Music Composer |
Ashalata Wabgaonkar | Marathi Film Actress |
John Turner | Former Prime Minister of Canada |
Bhupesh Pandya | Bollywood Film Actor |
Suresh Angadi | Union Minister of State for Railways |
Dean Jones | Former Australian Cricketer |
S P Balasubrahmanyam | Indian musician, singer and music director |
Sekhar Basu | Padmashri awardee, veteran atomic scientist and former chairman of Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) |
Jaswant Singh | Former Union Minister |
Dr Isher Judge Ahluwalia | Economist |
Syeda Anwara Taimur | Assam’s first and only Chief Minister |
Abhilash | Songwriter |
August 2020
Name of the Personality | Field |
---|---|
Anil Murali | Malayalam Actor |
Lee Teng Hiu | Former Taiwan President |
Everton Weekes | Former West Indies Cricketer |
Amar Singh | Rajya Sabha MP and Former Samajwadi Party leader |
Kamal Rani | Uttar Pradesh Cabinet Minister |
P Manikyala Rao | Minister from Andhra Pradesh |
Ebrahim Alkazi | Theater Director and Drama Teacher |
John Hume | Northern Island Politician and Nobel Peace Prize, Winner |
William Kirk English | American Computer Engineer |
Ram Pradhan | Former Governor of Arunachal Pradesh |
Shivajirao Patil | Former Chief Minister of Maharashtra |
Sameer Sharma | Hindi Television Actor |
Sadia Dehlvi | Writer and Activist |
Mukund Lath | Cultural Historian |
Nandi Yellaiah | Minister by Profession |
Manitombi Singh | Former Indian Football Player |
James ‘Kamala’ Haris | Wrestler by Profession |
Rahat Indori | Renowned Urdu Poet |
PK Muthuswamy | Tamil Film Songwriter |
GK Menon | Sports Journalist |
Chunakkara Ramankutty | Malayalam Poet and Lyricist |
Chetan Chauhan | Former Cricket Player and Uttar Pradesh Minister |
Pandit Jasraj | Indian Classical Vocalist |
Nishikant Kamat | Director and Actor |
Russel Kirsch | Computer Scientist |
Angela Buxton | British Tennis Player |
Bhaskar Maity | Former Indian Goalkeeper |
Gopalswamy Kasturirangan | Former Indian Cricketer |
Pascal Lissouba | Former President of the Republic of Congo |
Arnold Meyer Spielberg | Computer Designer and an Engineer |
Chandwick Boseman | Actor by Profession |
A.R. Lakshmanan | Former Supreme Court Judge |
Archana Mahanta | Folk singer of Assam |
Purishotham Rai | Athletics Coach |
July 2020
Name of the Personality | Field |
---|---|
Carl Reiner | Writer, Comedian, Director and Actor |
Saroj Khan | Dance Choreographer |
Everton Weekes | Former West Indies Cricketer |
Upa Rokamlova | Former Mizoram Assembly Speaker |
Susheel Gowda | Kannada Actor and a Fitness Trainer |
Jagdeep | Bollywood Actor and Comedian |
Jack Charlton | England Football Player |
Avad Bin Hassna | Cartoonist by Profession |
Nagindas Sanghvi | Renowned Journalist |
Jyotsna Bhatt | Renowned Ceramic Artist |
Wim Suurbier | Football Player of Dutch |
Brahm Vasudeva | Chairman of Hawkins Cooker (Businessman) |
Ramesh Tikaram | Para-Athlete and Para-Badminton Player |
Neela Satyanarayanan | First Women Election Commissioner of Maharashtra |
Cordy Tindell Vivian | American Minister |
C S Seshadri | Mathematician |
Rajat Mukherjee | Indian Film Maker |
Lalji Tandon | Governor of Madhya Pradesh |
Barry Jarman | Former Australian Cricket Player |
Bijay Mohanty | Odia Actor |
Juan Marse | Novelist from Spain |
Viktor Chizhikov | Creator of 1980 Moscow Summer Olympic Masscot |
Annie Ross | Jazz Singer |
Amala Shankar | Eminent Choreographer |
Benjamin Mkapa | Former Tanzania’s Former President |
Olivia de Havilland | Oscar-Winning British-American Actress |
John Saxon | American Actor |
Achyuta Rao | Child Welfare activist |
Kumkum | Veteran Actress |
Sonam Tshering Lepcha | Padma Shri Awardee Folk Singer |
Parvez Khan | Action Director |
June 2020
Name of the Personality | Field |
---|---|
Wajid Khan | Singer and Music Composer |
P Namgyal | Former Minister and Social Worker |
Jayantilal Nanoma | Archery Coach |
Basu Chatterjee | Film Maker |
Riaz Sheikh | Former Pakistani Cricketer |
Anwar Sagar | Lyricist by Profession |
Rupert Hine | British Film Producer and Songwriter |
Hamza Koya | Former Football Santosh Trophy Player |
Kurt Thomas | Former World Gymnastic Champion |
Arjun Charan | Former Union Minister |
Jagesh Mukati | Television Actor |
Pritam Singh | Padmashri Awardee and Former Director of IIM Lucknow |
Pierre Nkurunziza | President of Republic of Burundi |
Tony Dunne | Footballer |
A. Vaidyanathan | Former Member of Planning Commission and was also a Professor |
Gulzar Dehlvi | Veteran Urdu Poet |
Sushant Singh Rajput | Bollywood Actor |
Vasant Raiji | India’s Oldest First-Class Cricketer |
Matt Poore | Former Cricketer of New Zealand |
Atul Srivastava | Director of Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) |
Madhavrao Patil | Former Lok Sabha MP and Founder of Janalaxmi Cooperative Bank |
Heera Singh Rana | Folk Singer from Uttarakhand |
Dinu Randive | Veteran Journalist and a Freedom Fighter |
Lt Gen Raj Mohan Vohra | Mahavir Chakra Awardee |
Achyut Usgaonkar | Former Minister from Goa |
KR Sachidanandan | Malayalam Film Director, Scriptwriter and Producer |
B P R Vithal | Veteran Economist |
Vidyaben Shah | Padmashri Awardee and a Social Worker |
Rajinder Goel | Former Cricket Player |
Steve Bing | Movie Producer and Philanthropist |
Major Gen Lachhman Singh Lehl | India’s Finest Military Man |
Vishwa Bandhu Gupta | Member of Parliament and Journalist |
Pournima Zanane | Former Indian Shooter |
K Raghunath | Former Karnataka Basketball Player |
Joel Schmacher | Hollywood Film Director |
Sqn.Ldr. Parvez Jamsaji | Vir Chakra Awardee for Gallantry during 1971 Indo-Pakistan War |
Geetha Nagabhusahn | Kannada Writer |
May 2020
Name of the Personality | Field |
---|---|
Hema Bharali | Freedom Fighter |
Chuni Goswami | Former Indian football Team Captain |
Denis Goldberg | Veteran South African anti-apartheid activist |
Justice Ajay Kumar Tripathi | Former Chief Justice of Chhattisgarh High Court |
RV Smith | Historian, Author and Columnist |
Peter Ebdon | Former World Snooker Champion |
K S Nisar | Famous Kannada Poet |
Rob Gibbs | Veteran Director, Story Artist, and Writer of Pixar Films |
Pandanda Kuttappa | Founder of the Kodava Family Hockey Tournament |
Hari Shankar Vasudevan | Historian |
Little Richard | American singer-songwriter and was the founder of Rock N Roll |
Raja Rangappa | Former Lok Sabha MP |
Manmeet Singh | Former Indian Table Tennis Player |
Jerry Stiller | US Comedian |
Shafique Ansari | Indian TV Actor |
Sai Gundewar | Film Actor, and Voiceover Artist |
Betty Wright | Grammy award-winning soul singer |
Debesh Roy | Bengali author and was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award |
Anisuzzanan | Professor and Educationist from Bangladesh |
Hossein Kazempour Ardebili | Iran’s Governor to the OPEC |
Ratnakar Matkari | Renowned Marathi Dramatist and Theatre Artist |
Balbir Singh | Former Indian Hockey Player |
Ashley Cooper | Australian Tennis Player |
Hana Kimura | Former Japanese Wrestler |
Gigi Simoni | Italian Football Player and Former Inter Head Coach |
Shyamala G Bhave | Classical Musician from Karnataka |
Mohit Baghel | Bollywood Film Actor |
Mujtaba Hussain | Urdu author, humorist and sitarist |
R Shanmugam | Former Tamil Nadu Footballer and Coach |
Ajit Jogi | First Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh |
M.P. Veerendra Kumar | Rajya Sabha Member and Former Union Minister |
Yogesh Gaur | Lyricist by profession of many Hindi movie songs |
April 2020
Name of the Personality | Field |
---|---|
Pape Diouf | Former President of French Football Club Olympique |
Ramkrishna Dwivedi | Former Leader and Congressmen |
Rudratej Singh | BMW Group President and CEO |
Michael Robinson | Professional Footballer |
Irrfan khan | Bollywood’s Most Beloved Star |
Rishi Kapoor | Veteran Bollywood Actor |
Maria Teresa | Spain’s Princess |
Philip Anderson | Nobel Prize-winning Physicist |
Tony Lewis | Cricketer and Mathematician |
Adam Schlesinger | Emmy Award-Winning Singer |
Geeta Ramji | Indian Origin South African Virologist |
Bill Withers | American Songwriter, Soulful Singer, and Guitarist |
MK Arjuna | Malayalam Music Composer |
Mahmoud Jibril | Former Libya Prime Minister |
Hazarilal Raghuwanshi | Former Madhya Pradesh Minister |
TV Babu | Secretary of Kerala based NDA ally BDJS |
John Prine | American Folk Singer and Song Writer |
Honor Blackman | James Bond Film Actress |
'Bullet’ Prakash | Kannada Film Actor |
Radomir Antic | Former Real Madrid, Atletico and Barcelona Coach |
Kalinga Sasi | Malayalam Film and Theatre Actor |
Brahm Kanchibotla | Indian American Journalist |
Peter Bonetti | Former England and Chelsea Goalkeeper |
Stirling Moss | Motor Racing Driver |
Tim Brooke | British Comedian |
Ashok Desai | Former India’s Attorney General and a Senior Advocate |
Rajasekharan | Former Union Minister |
Doug Sanders | Former Golf Player |
Rifat Chadirji | The Father of Modern Iraqi Architecture |
Roger Chappot | Swiss Ice Hockey Player |
Ranjit Chowdhry | Film, Television and Theatre Actor |
Willie Davis | Former American Footballer |
R V Bhuskute | Freedom Fighter |
Saharai Oram | Veteran Tribal Leader Former Odisha Minister |
Gene Deitch | Oscar-Winning Animator, Film Director, and Producer |
Laisenia Qarase | Former Fiji Prime Minister |
MP Basanta Das | Former Rajya Sabha Member from Odisha |
Usha Ganguly | Eminent Theatre Director, Actor as well as Activist |
Devanand Konwar | Former Politician and Governor of Bihar and Tripura and West Bengal |
Bijay Mishra | Noted Odia Dramatist and Play Writer |
James M Beggs | Sixth Administrator of NASA |
Troy Sneed | Singer |
March 2020
Name of the Personality | Field |
Joginder Singh Saini | Veteran Athletics Coach and Dronacharya Awardee |
Balbir Singh Kullar | Former India Hockey Player |
Sanghanayaka Suddhananda Mahathero | Bangladesh Bouddha Kristi Prachar Sangha |
Javier Perez de Cuellar | Former UN Chief |
Hans Raj Bhardwaj | Former Union Law Minister and Congress Veteran |
Max von Sydow | Swedish Actor |
Santu Mukhopadhyay | Veteran Bengali Actor |
Dana Zatopkova | Former Czechoslovak Olympic Javelin Champion |
Puthussery Ramachandran | Veteran Poet and Malayalam Scholar |
Patil Puttappa | Veteran Journalist and Former Rajya Sabha Member |
Imtiaz Khan | Bollywood Actor |
Jairam Kulkarni | Noted Marathi Actor |
Roger Mayweather | Former World Champion Boxer |
Kenny Rogers | American Music Singer |
PK Banerjee | Legendary Indian Footballer |
Meenakshisundaram Ramasamy Viswanathan | Veteran Tamil Director |
Abdul Latif | Former India Footballer |
Nimmi | Veteran Bollywood Actress |
Albert Uderzo | Co-Creator of the “Asterix and Obelix” Comics |
Nemai Ghosh | Veteran Photographer & Padma Shri Awardee |
Floyd Cardoz | Indian-Born International Chef |
Satish Gujral | Padma Vibhushan Award Winning Artist, Architect, Sculptor and Writer |
Rajyogini Dadi Janki | Chief of Brahmakumaris Sansthan |
Joseph Lowery | Veteran US Civil Rights Leader |
Chandan Singh Rathore | Retired Air Vice-Marshal |
Beni Prasad Verma | Former Union Minister |
Ken Shimura | Veteran Japanese Comedian |
Arjun Dev | Legendary Historian and Educationist |
Joe Diffie | Grammy Award American Music Singer |
Paravai Muniyamma | Tamil Folk Singer and Actress |
February 2020
Name of Personality | Field |
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Sudhakar Chaturvedi | Centenarian freedom fighter and Vedic scholar |
Katherine Johnson | NASA Mathematician |
Mohammed Hosni Mubarak | Former President of Egypt |
Krishna Bose | Former Lok Sabha MP |
Ashok Chatterjee | Former Indian footballer |
V L Dutt | Former FICCI president |
Larry Tesler | The computer scientist who introduced the cut, copy and paste commands. |
Harry Greg | Former Manchester United goalkeeper |
Mickey Wright | Legendary women golfer |
Tapas Pal | Former TMC MP and Veteran Bengali Actor |
Nikita Pearl Waligwa | Disney’s ‘Queen of Katwe’ child actress |
Lynn Cohen | American actress |
Sonam Sherpa | Founding member & lead-guitarist of music band Parikrama |
Rajendra Kumar Pachauri | Nobel Prize awardee & Former TERI, IPCC chief |
Wendell Rodricks | Padma Shri Awardee & Fashion Designer |
Nandu R Kulkarni | Famous journalist |
Giriraj Kishore | Padma Shri Awardee & Well-known Hindi Novelist |
P Parameswaran | Famous Philosophical Author & RSS veteran |
Roger Kahn | American Author |
Raju Bharatan | Famous cricket journalist & film historian |
Kirk Douglas | Famous Hollywood Actor |
D. Manjunath | Former Karnataka Minister |
Pranab Kumar Gogoi | Former Assam Speaker and sitting MLA |
Rabindranath Singh | Famous Odia poet |
Daniel Moi | Kenya’s longest-serving Ex-President |
Narayana Reddy | Former Nizamabad Lok Sabha MP |
Jaswant Singh | Punjabi Writer, Novelist and Sahitya Akademi Awardee |
Mary Higgins Clark | American author |
January 2020
Name of the Personality | Field |
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Vikho-o Yhoshu | Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) leader and Nagaland Assembly Speaker |
Ratna Ojha | Eminent Assamese Dramatist, Litterateur and Social Activist |
T N Chaturvedi | Former Governor of Karnataka |
Minati Mishra | Veteran Odissi Danseuse |
Oman Sultan Qaboos bin Said | Charismatic and Visionary Leader |
Manmohan Mohapatra | Veteran Odia Filmmaker |
Bapu Nadkarni | Former India Legendary All-Rounder |
Khagendra Thapa Magar | World’s Shortest Man |
Man Mohan Sood | Former Indian Test batsman and National Selector |
Kobe Bryant | National Basketball Association (NBA) Legend |
Sher Singh Kukkal | Noted Artist and Sculptor |
Golok Chandra Goswami | Eminent Assamese Linguist and Academician |
Jameela Malik | Veteran South Actress |
Sunita Chandra | Former Indian Women’s Hockey Team Captain |
Kobe Bryant | Famous Los Angeles Lakers star |
Vinay Sinha | Veteran Film Producer |
Gopinath Gajapati Narayan Deo | Former Parliamentarian |
Akbar Padamsee | Famous Artist |
Lieutenant General Prem Nath Hoon | Former Western Army Commander |
December 2019
Name of the Personalit | Field |
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Shelley Morrison | Former Hollywood Actress |
Baskar Menon | Veteran Journalist in the Press Trust of India (PTI) |
Bob Willis | Former England Captain |
George Joseph Laurer | Inventor of Universal Product Code(UPC) |
Braj Bihari Kumar | Chairman of Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) |
Paul Volcker | Former US Federal Reserve Chief |
Writer Gollapudi Maruti Rao | Former Nandi Award winner and Renowned Telugu Actor |
Peter Snell | New Zealand’s 3-times Olympic Middle-Distance Champion |
Danny Aiello | Veteran Film Actor |
Shriram Lagoo | Veteran actor |
Gita Siddharth Kak | Bollywood Actress |
ID Swami | Former Union Minister |
Thomas Chandy | Nationalist Congress Party’s Kerala State President and Former Minister |
L.S. Sheshagiri Rao | Kannada Writer and Critic |
Vidushi Savita Devi | Renowned Hindustani Classical Vocalist |
Ganga Prasad Vimal | Renowned Hindi Author |
Martin Peters | Former West Ham and Tottenham Midfielder |
Da Chen | ‘Colours of the Mountain’ Author |
Allee Willis | American Songwriter |
Tara Sinha | Founder of AD Agencies Clarion and Tara Sinha Associates |
Vikas Sabnis | Veteran Political Cartoonist |
Pejawar Mutt | Vishwesha Tirtha Swami |
Ishwar Dayal Swami | Former Union Minister |
November 2019
Name of the Personality | Field |
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Gurudas Dasgupta | Former Parliamentarian and veteran CPI leader |
Geetanjali | Popular Telugu Actress |
Champak Jain | Film Producer |
Krishnan Kumar Modi(K.K.Modi) | Former President of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and Chairman of Modi Enterprises |
Justice N.V. Balasubramanian | Retired Judge of Madras High Court |
Yvette Lundy | French Resistance legend & Nazi camps survivor |
Babasaheb Dhabekar | Former Maharashtra minister and senior Congress party leader |
Writer Nabaneeta Dev Sen | Sahitya Akademi Awardee |
TN Seshan | Former Chief Election Commissioner |
Ramakant Gundecha | Padma Shri-Awardee Dhrupad Vocalist |
Vashishtha Narayan Singh | Renowned Mathematician |
Tirunellai Narayana Iyer Seshan | Former Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) |
PS Krishnan | Former Union Secretary |
Shaukat Kaifi | Veteran actor |
Kshiti Goswami | Former West Bengal Minister |
Kailash Joshi | Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister |
Clive James | Australian writer & broadcaster |
Sudhir Dar | Renowned cartoonist |
Bala Singh | Veteran Tamil Actor and Theatre Artist |
Brad Gobright | World-renowned Rock Climber, US National |
Yasuhiro Nakasone | Former Prime Minister of Japan |
Sushil Kumar | Former Navy Chief Admiral |
October 2019
Name of the Personality | Field |
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V Ganesan | Indian National Army (INA) veteran from Tamil Nadu |
Jose Jose | Legendary Mexican Singer |
Jessye Norman | Grammy-winning International Opera Star |
Eric Pleskow | Hollywood Tycoon |
Dr H L Trivedi | Kidney Transplant Surgeon and Padma Shri Recipient |
Farook Khan | Indian-origin journalist in South Africa |
Krishna Gopalkrishna Kadekodi | Centenarian Philatelist and Coin Collector |
Satyapriya Mohathero | Buddhist leader of Bangladesh |
Diahann Carroll | American Actress, Singer and Model |
Kadri Gopalnath | Legendary Saxophonist and the Padma Shri Awardee |
Sara Danius | First Female head of Nobel’s Literature Award Body |
Alexei Leonov | First Human to Walk in Space |
Kalidas Karmakar | Renowned Painter |
Alicia Alonso | Legendary Cuba Ballet Dancer |
Mark Hurd | Former Co-Chief Executive Officer(CEO) of Oracle |
K.B. Siddaiah | Writer and Philosopher |
Dadu Chougule | Wrestler and Recipient of Major Dhyanchand Award |
Marieke Vervoort | Belgian Paralympic Athlete |
Dilip Parikh | Former Gujarat Chief Minister |
Nanammal | Padma Shri Awardee & India’s Oldest Yoga Teacher |
Sadako Ogata | First Female UN Refugee Chief |
John Witherspoon | Actor and Comedian |
N. Venkatachala | Former Judge of the Supreme Court and Former Lokayukta of Karnataka |
September 2019
Name of the Personality | Field |
---|---|
Viju Khote (best known as Kalia from Sholay) | Actor |
KPS Menon (Junior) | Former Foreign Secretary |
Boman Rashid Kohinoor | Owner of Britannia & Co |
J. Michael Mendel | American television producer & a four-time Emmy Award winner |
Jacques Chirac | Former French President |
Venu Madhav | Telugu Actor |
S.K. Padmadevi | Veteran actor and multi-faceted artiste |
Robert S Boyd | Veteran American Journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner |
Fernando Ricksen | Former Dutch football player |
Shyam Ramsay | Filmmaker |
Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali | Former President of Tunisia |
Sathar | Veteran Malayalam Actor |
Kodela Siva Prasada Rao | Former speaker of Andhra Pradesh Assembly |
Sanjib Kumar Datta | Film Editor |
SivaramanCheriyanad | Renowned writer of Kerala |
B.N. Yugandhar | Former bureaucrat and Secretary to the PMO |
Akilisi Pohiva | Climate change campaigner of the South Pacific and Prime Minister of Tongan |
Rajasekar | Tamil actor, cinematographer and director |
Heeralal Sharma | Rajasthan born freedom fighter of India |
Ram Jethmalani | One of India’s finest lawyers and a former union minister |
Veeru Krishnan | Actor and Kathak dancer |
Abdul Qadir | Pakistan’s master leg-spinner |
Sukhdev Singh Libra | Veteran Congress leader and former MP |
Robert Mugabe | Former Zimbabwe President |
Kiran Nagarkar | Sahitya Akademi Award-winning writer |
V Ganesan | Indian National Army (INA) veteran |
Davo Karnica | Mountain skier |
Madhav Apte | Former Indian test cricketer |
Naramalli Shivprasad | Senior TDP leader |
Gyorgy Konrad | Famous writer and sociologist |
Jean Edward Smith | American historian |
Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie | Former Indonesian President |
Robert Frank | Documentary Photographer |
Kottakkal Chandrasekharan | Kathakali maestro |
KiranNagarkar | Mumbai born noted novelist and playwright |
August 2019
Name of the Personality | Field |
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Malcolm Nash | Former Cricketer |
Actor Russi Taylor | Disney’s Minnie Mouse |
Anant Setalvad | Cricket Commentator |
Kanti Bhatt | Veteran Gujarati journalist, author and columnist |
Sushma Swaraj | Former External Affairs Minister |
Toni Morrison | Nobel laureate and beloved author |
S. Jennifer Chandran | Former T.N. Minister |
Rajalakshmi Parthasarathy | Former Padma Shri award winner |
Harley Race | American Professional Wrestler |
J Om Prakash | Veteran director |
Dayanidhi Nayak | Freedom fighter |
Amarendra Sharan | Senior advocate and former Additional Solicitor General |
DJ Arafat | Music star |
Jose Luis Brown | Former Argentina footballer |
V.B. Chandrasekhar | Former India and Tamil Nadu cricketer |
Vidya Sinha | Veteran Bollywood actress |
Rizia Rahman | Renowned Bangladeshi Novelist |
Damodar Ganesh Bapat | Social Worker and Padma Shri Award Winner |
Neelum Sharma | Doordarshan Anchor and Nari Shakti Award Winner |
Jagannath Mishra | Former Bihar Chief Minister |
Mohammed Zahur Hashmi | Veteran Music Composer |
Niranjan Singh Tasneem | Eminent Punjabi Writer and Sahitya Akademi Winner |
Babulal Gaur | Former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh |
Arun Jaitley | Former Union Finance Minister and Senior BJP Leader |
Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya | India’s first woman Director General of Police (DGP) |
Commander Noel Kelman | Naval war hero and Kirti Chakra awardee |
Rajnish Kumar Babbi | Congress (MLA) from the Mukerian assembly |
Navnitbhai Shah | Socialist leader and former MLA of Palghar |
Nimu Bhowmik | Veteran Bengali Actor |
July 2019
Name of the Personality | Field |
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Carlin Dunne | Professional motorcycle racer |
Basant Kumar Birla | Veteran industrialist |
Lee Iacocca | US auto industry |
A. U. Celestine | Former India football goalkeeper |
Joao Gilberto | Brazilian musician and songwriter |
Soumendranath Kundu | Former Bengal and Railway leg-spinner |
C. Kapur | Former Billiards and Snooker Federation of India secretary |
H.M. Ershad | Bangladesh’s Former Military Dictator |
Pernell Whitaker | Former Olympic Boxing gold medalist and four-weight World Champion |
Lt Gen Joginder Singh Gharaya | 1971 Indo-Pak War Hero |
Fernando Corbato | American computer scientist |
Raja Dhale | Co-Founder of Dalit Panther |
Sheila Dixit | Three-time Delhi Chief Minister |
Ram Chandra Paswan | Lok Janshakti Party MP |
Yukiya Amano | IAEA Chief |
Peter McNamara | Australian tennis champion |
Li Peng | Former Chinese Premier |
Rutger Hauer | ‘Blade Runner’ Actor |
Beji Caid Essebsi | Tunisia’s First Democratically Elected President |
Donkupar Roy | Former Meghalaya Chief Minister |
S. Jaipal Reddy | Former Union Minister |
Vitthal Radadiya | Former Gujarat MP |
M. Mukesh Goud | Former Andhra Pradesh congress state Minister |
Subir Vithal Gokarn | Former RBI Deputy Governor |
June 2019
Name of the Personality | Field |
---|---|
Ruma Guha Thakurta | Actor-Singer |
Dinyar Contractor | Veteran Comedian, Film and Theatre Actor |
Lennart Johansson | Ex-UEFA Chief, Father of Champions League |
Dr John | Six-time Grammy-winning musician |
Girish Karnad | Noted Actor, Filmmaker and Playwright |
Crazy Mohan | Tamil writer, Comedian and Actor |
R V Janakiraman | Former Puducherry Chief Minister |
Pazhavila Ramesan | Poet, lyricist |
Rajnath Singh ‘Surya’ | Former BJP Rajya Sabha MP |
Mohamed Morsy | Former Egyptian President |
Mohan Ranade | Goa freedom fighter |
Vijaya Nirmala | Actor-director |
Shyam Sundar Mitra | Former Bengal cricketer |
Jharna Dhara Chowdhury | Eminent Social Activist |
Abburi Chaya Devi | Telugu story writer |
Babu Narayanan | Malayalam director |
Brij Mohan Khaitan | Veteran Industrialist |
Pazhavila Ramesan | Poet and lyricist |
Mohammed Baji | Oldest Freedom fighter |
Madan Lal Saini | BJP member from Rajasthan |
May 2019
Name of the Personality | Field |
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Master Hirannaiah | Indian film actor in Kannada Film Industry |
Shubhasan Reddy | Former High Court Chief Justice |
Peter Mayhew | Actor |
Derek Sippy | Billiards Player |
Baidyanath Mishra | Economist |
NR Madhava Menon | Lawyer ( Known as the father of legal modern education ) |
Prof. Kirpal Singh | Historian, Educationist, First chronicler of Partition |
YC Deveshwar | ITC Chairman and Entrepreneur |
Thoppil Mohamed Meeran | Tamil Writer |
Hiralal Yadav | Singer |
Rallapalli Venkata Narasimha Rao | Telugu Actor |
I M Pei | Architect |
Niki Lauda | Austrian Formula One Driver. Only driver in F1 history to have been champion for both Ferrari and McLaren |
Sammy Shore | Actor, Co-founder of Comedy Store |
Vijaya Mulay | Filmmaker, Director of Ek,Anek aur Ekta |
Veeru Devgan | Stuntman, Film Director, Father of Ajay Devgan |
Negasso Gidada | Former President of Ethiopia |
Maramraju Satyanarayan | Writer and academician |
Seymour Nurse | Cricketer |
Peggy Lipton | Actress |
BOB Hawke | Former Prime Minister of Australia |
M B Balakrishnan | Swimmer |
P P C Joshi | Veteran CPI Leader |
V Vishwanathan Menon | Former Kerala Finance Minister |
Clement von Franckenstein | Actor |
Doris Day | Actress |
April 2019
Name of the Personality | Field |
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J. Mahendran | Noted Tamil Film Director |
Kartik Chandra Rath | Eminent Dramatist, theatre organiser, and Economics teacher |
Sydney Brenner | 2002 Medicine Nobel Prize Winner |
Pradeep Choubey | Renowned Hindi Poet |
SK Shivakumar | Renowned Space Scientist |
Jerrie Cobb | America’s first female astronaut candidate of NASA |
Con de Lange | Scotland All-rounder |
Lorraine Warren | A Paranormal Investigator |
Amar Paul | Eminent Bengali Folk Singer |
S. Muthiah | Chennai’s famed chronicler, cartographer, and journalist |
Rama Sengupta Paul | Veteran Lady Mountaineer |
Terry Rawlings | British Film Editor |
Mark Medoff | An Acclaimed Author |
Pungam Kannan | Former Indian Footballer |
Negasso Gidada | Former Ethiopian President |
John Singleton | Youngest Best Director Oscar Nominee |
Alan Garcia | Peru's former president |
Damon J Keith | Famous US Judge and Civil Rights Icon |
March 2019
Name of the Personality | Field |
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Zhores Alferov | Russian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate |
Andre Previn | Legendary Composer And 4 Time Oscar Winner |
Luke Perry | American Actor |
Manohar Parrikar | Present Goa Chief Minister |
Alan Krueger | Famed Economist |
Anasuya Devi | Folk Artiste and Radio Commentator |
Scott Walker | Experimental Pop Hero |
Ashita | Malayalam writer and poet |
Valmiki J Mehta | Sitting Judge of Delhi HC |
Maate Mahadevi | Prominent Lingayat pontiff and Basava Dharma Peetha President |
M.N. Samant | India-Pakistan war hero, Captain |
Valery Bykovsky | Recipient of the Hero of the Soviet Union and Order of Lenin awards |
Prafulla Rajguru | Veteran journalist and academician |
February 2019
Name of the Personality | Field |
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Dr. R.B. Patil | Padma Shri |
Wallace Smith Broecker | Climate Scientist, Populariser of the term Global Warming |
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi | Former Afghan Interim President |
W.E.B. Griffin | American military veteran and novelist |
Raj Kumar Barjatya | Veteran Film Producer |
Namvar Singh | Noted Hindi Writer |
Bruno Ganz | Swiss Actor |
Andrea Levy | Best-selling British Author |
Gardon Banks | Legendary Goalkeeper Of England |
Manfred Eigen | Chemistry Nobel Prize Winner |
Mahesh Anand | Actor |
Albert Finney | Oscar-Nominated British Actor |
John Dingell | Longest-Serving US Congressman |
Ramesh Bhatkar | Veteran Marathi Actor |
Hiten Bhaya | Former IIMC Director |
Raj Kumar Barjatya | Filmmaker |
Naga Jhansi | Well known Television actress |
Syed Badr Ul Hasan Khan | Notable actor and dancer |
Howard Neil Hebert | US Army veteran |
January 2019
Name of the Personality | Field |
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CH Loknath | Veteran Kannada Actor |
Dibyendu Palit | Veteran Bengali Writer |
Sir Michael Atiyah | 1966 Fields Medalist (Nobel for Mathematics) |
Lenin Rajendran | Malayalam director and screenwriter |
Mary Oliver | Pulitzer Prize-winning poet |
Masazo Nonaka | World’s Oldest Man |
Atin Bandyopadhyay | Sahitya Akademi Award Winning Bengali Writer |
Russell Baker | Pulitzer Prize-Winning Columnist |
Michel Legrand | Oscar-Winning French Composer |
George Fernandes | Former Union Minister |
Krishna Sobti | Jnanpith Winning Hindi Writer |
Jaswinder Sandhu | Indian National Lok Dal (INLD)’s senior leader and MLA |
Ramakant Achrekar | Cricket coach and Padma Shri |
Kader Khan | Veteran actor-writer |
Raghbir Bhola | 1956 Olympics Gold Medallist |
Shivakumara Swami | Supercentenarian, humanitarian, spiritual leader and educator. |
Mathew Boodle | Teacher |
January 2018
Name of the Personality | Field |
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Anwar Jalalpuri | Urdu poet |
Radha Viswanathan | Carnatic singer, |
Peter Sutherland | Former World Trade Organization Director-General |
Saksham Yadav | Powerlifting world champion |
John Young | Legendary American astronaut |
Shrivallabh Vyas | Bollywood actor |
Baldev Raj | Atomic scientist and NIAS Director |
Gnani Sankaran | Veteran Tamil writer, journalist and theatre personality |
Raghunath Jha | Former Union minister of State for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprise |
Jo Jo white | American Basketball player |
Kashinath | Veteran Kannada actor |
Chandi Lahiri | Famous Cartoonist |
Major FKK Sircar | Longest living Indian Army veteran |
Hugh Masekela , | Legendary jazz musician and activist also known as ‘Father of South African jazz’, |
Ursula K Le Guin | Science fiction and fantasy author |
Supriya Devi | Famous actress from West Bengal |
Chandrashekhar known as ‘Edakallu Guddada Mele’ | Noted Kannada actor |
Feodor Ingvar Kamprad | Founder of IKEA (Swedish multinational group) |
Kalamandalam Geethanandan | Ottanthulal artist |
February 2018
Name of the Personality | Field |
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Chintaman Wanaga | Senior BJP MP and a member of the 11th and the 13th Lok Sabha |
Francisco Nunez Olivera | world’s oldest man |
Hukum Singh | Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Member of Parliament from Western Uttar Pradesh’s Kairana |
Madavoor Vasudevan Nair | Kathakali maestro |
Gali Muddu Krishnama Naidu. | presently member of Andhra Pradesh Legislative Council |
John Mahoney | Hollywood Actor |
Chandrasekhar Rath | The doyen of Odia literature |
Asma Jahangir | Pakistan’s well known human rights lawyer , social activist, co-founder and chaired the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. |
Johann Johannsson, | Icelandic composer and producer |
Didier Lockwood | French jazz violinist |
Gundu Hanumantha Rao | Telugu actor |
Ruud Lubbers | The youngest and longest-serving prime minister of the Netherlands, |
Billy Graham | Christian evangelist |
Dr BK Goyal | Eminent cardiologist |
Kunhiraman Panoor popularly known as K Panoor | Renowned writer and social activist |
M.S. Anantharaman, | Noted violinist |
Neelabh Mishra | Senior journalist and editor-in-chief of National Herald |
Sridevi | Veteran Bollywood actress |
TSR Subramanian | Former Cabinet secretary |
Kanakalata Mohanty | Noted Odia author |
March 2018
Name of the Personality | Field |
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Penny Vincenzi | British Novelist |
S Ratnavel Pandian | Former Supreme Court Judge |
Arabinda Muduli | Odia Bhajan singer |
Khagendra Jamatia | Tripura Fisheries Minister |
Prafulla Das | Veteran Literateur |
Davide Astori | Fiorentina captain and Italy international |
Javed Abidi | Noted Disability rights activist |
SaratMohanty | Odia actor |
Shammi | Veteran Bollywood actor |
Justice D Sreedevi | Former Kerala high court judge and chairperson of Kerala Women’s Commission, |
M K Bhargav | Former Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association (MPCA) chairman |
Patangrao Kadam | Former Maharashtra minister |
Stephen Hawking | World famous British scientist |
Narendra Jha | Actor |
M Sukumaran | Malayalam writer |
Kedarnath Singh | Veteran Hindi Poet |
Peter Peterson | Blackstone Co-Founder |
Les Payne | A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, columnist and editor of Newsday |
Bruno Boban | Footballer |
Pyarelal Wadali | Veteran Sufi Singer |
April 2018
Name of the Personality | Field |
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C.V. Rajendran | Tamil film director |
R K Dorendra Singh | Former Manipur Chief Minister |
S Nihal Singh | Veteran journalist |
Barbara Bush | Former US first lady |
Rajinder Sachar | Former Delhi High Court Chief Justice |
TVR Shenoy | Veteran journalist and columnist |
Bhimsain Khurana | Indian animation pioneer and multiple National Award winner |
Nabi Tajima | The world's oldest person, a 117-year-old Japanese woman named |
Efraín Ríos Montt | Guatemalan general and politician |
Ray Wilkins | English football player and coach |
E.N. Rammohan | Former BSF Director-General (DG) |
Niranjan Thomas Alva | the husband of former Rajasthan governor Margaret Alva |
Munin Barua | Indian film director in Assamese cinematography |
M S Ravi | Veteran journalist |
May 2018
Name of the Personality | Field |
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Ashok Mitra | The first Finance Minister in the Left Front government in West Bengal |
Ankit Chadha | Indian story-teller |
P P Lakshaman | Former AIFF President |
Kottayam Pushpanath | Popular Malayalam detective novelist |
Keyur Bhushan | Freedom fighter, writer |
Dave Michener | veteran Disney animator |
Dr Nirmal Hirawat | Former Madhya Pradesh minister and senior Congress leader |
Ravinder Sharma | Artist-Philosopher,called Guruji, the founder of Adilabad's Kala Ashram |
Tom Wolfe | best-selling author and journalist |
Yamunabai Waikar | Lavani singer and Padma Shri recipient |
Balakumaran | Indian Tamil writer, author |
Dr Bansidhar Panda | Odia industrialist |
Yaddanapudi Sulochana Rani | popular Indian Telugu novelist |
Arun Date | Marathi singer. |
Anne V. Coates | Oscar-Winning British film editor |
Balkavi Bairagi | Noted Lyricist, Poet, Politician |
Margot Kidder | Actor Who Played Lois Lane In Superman |
Yaddanapudi Sulochana Rani | Veteran writer, novelist |
Alan Bean | Former US astronaut, who was the fourth man to walk on the Moon |
Vinod Bhatt | Gujarati humour essayist and biographer |
June 2018
Name of the Personality | Field |
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Timothy Pereira | former football international who represented Tata FC. |
Narayan Prasad Singh | Odisha's most popular lyricist, also popularly known as 'Rasaraj'. |
Nerella Venumadhav | He was a Mimicry Artist. |
legend Peter Thomson | He was an Australian golfer and won five British Open titles. |
Charles Krauthammer | He was a political commentator and Pulitzer Prize winner. |
Donald Hall | He was an Award-winning American poet and writer. |
Laxman Patil–Bhosle | He was a Socialist leader. |
Senior Cong leader L P Shahi | Senior Congress Leader. |
Maria Bueno | He was a Legendary Brazilian tennis player. |
Shantaram Naik | He was a Veteran Goa Congress leader. |
Xavier Rutsa | He was a journalist. |
Bhaiyyu Maharaj | Spiritual guru |
Mulubha Jadeja | Former Saurashtra batsman |
Shahzahan Bachchu | Bangladeshi writer and publisher |
Mushtaq Ahmad Yousufi | He was a Renowned Urdu satirist and humour writer. |
Prabhakar Choubey | Veteran journalist |
July 2018
Name of the Personality | Field |
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Chiyo Miyako | 117 years old world's oldest Japanese woman, |
Ramapada Chowdhury, | Bengali writer, also conferred the Sahitya Academy award for 'Bari badle jay' |
Swapan Sarkar | Sports journalist of Ananda Bazaar Patrika (ABP) |
Jonathan Gold | Los Angeles Times and Pulitzer Prize-winning restaurant critic |
Ramchandra Singhdeo | Former and first Finance Minister of Chhattisgarh |
Gopal Das Neeraj | Hindi poet and His famous poetic works include Asawari, Lahar Pukare and Paran Geet. |
Rita Bhaduri | Actor |
M.N. Vyasa Rao |
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Dada Vaswani | Spiritual leader and was chief of Sadhu Vaswani Mission. Also her birthday (August 2), is celebrated as an International Forgiveness Day. |
Liliane Montevecchi | The Paris-born dancer, actor, and singer also Tony Award winner |
JG Nadkarni | Former chief of naval staff Admiral |
Kabutari Devi | Kumaoni folk singer |
J N Sadhu | Journalist worked with The Indian Express |
Kanu Gohain | Former Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) |
Kalpesh Yagnik | Senior journalist, and group editor of popular Hindi daily ‘Dainik Bhaskar’. |
M.N. Vyasa Rao | Kannada poet and film lyricist |
August 2018
Name of the Personality | Field |
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John McCain | US Senator, also a Republican presidential nominee in 2008. |
Kuldip Nayar | Indian writer and journalist. autobiography was "Beyond The Lines" |
Uri Avnery | Israeli journalist and peace activist |
Kofi Annan | Former United Nations Secretary-General, also awarded the Nobel Peace Prize along with the UN in 2001 "for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world" |
Aretha Franklin | US singer, also known as “Queen of Soul” and received the Grammy Award 18 times. |
Atal Bihari Vajpayee | Three times Prime Minister of India |
Ajit Wadekar | Former India cricket captain |
Balramji Das Tandon | Chhattisgarh Governor |
Somnath Chatterjee | Former Lok Sabha speaker |
V S Naipaul | Nobel Prize-winning British author, won the Nobel Literature Prize in 2001 |
Jarrod Lyle | Australian professional golfer |
Minister M. Karunanidhi | Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) chief and former Tamil Nadu Chief |
Krishna Shripadrao Deshpande | Library scientist Prof |
Rajinder Kumar Dhawan | Veteran Congress leader |
Mony K. Mathew | Former The Hindu BusinessLine journalist |
September 2018
NAME OF THE PERSONALITY | FIELD |
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Tarun Sagar | Jain Monk |
Arthur Pereira | Former Maharashtra Football Player |
Dr. Rita Jitendra | Writer |
Goura Chandra Mohapatra | Freedom Fighter |
Satya Prakash Malviya | Former Union Petroleum minister |
Dolagobind Pradhan | Former Odisha Minister |
Anna Rajam Malhotra | India’s First woman IAS officer post-independence |
Kondapalli Koteswaramma | A revolutionary leader, writer |
Tran Dai Quan | Vietnam President |
Randhir Singh | Former Air Marshal |
Kalpana Lajmi | Filmmaker |
BN Dutt | Former BCCI President |
Jasdev Singh | Sports Commentator |
Kavita Mahajan | Marathi Writer |
Manoharsinh Jadeja | Former Finance minister of Gujarat |
Tulsidas Borkar | Harmonium Player |
October 2018
Name of Personality | Field |
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Malti Sharma | Former Up Minister |
Montserrat Caballe | Spanish Opera Singer |
Natwar Thakkar | Prominent Gandhian(Also Called Gandhi Of Nagaland) |
Girish Patel | Human Rights Lawer , Gujrat |
Pradip Chowdhary | Senior Journalist |
Mn Paloor | Malayali Poet |
Sarvagya Katiyar | Former Kanpur University Vice-Chancellor |
Santosh Singh Jain | Film Trade Expert |
Kishore Giri | Assamese Singer |
Gd Aggarwal | Clean Ganga Activist |
Annapurna Devi | Hindustani Classical Musician |
Paul G.Allen | Microsoft Co-Founder |
Nd Tiwari | Former Up And Uttrakhand Chief Minister |
Siddalinga Swamiji | Karnataka’s Popular Lingayat Leader |
Osamu Shimomura | 2008 Nobel Prize Winner |
Na. Muthuswamy | Theatre Personality |
Pankaj Bandyopadhyay | Founder Member, Trinamool Congress |
Madan Lal Khurana | Former Delhi Chief Minister |
Qazi Abdusattar | Urdu Writer |
Ntozake Shange | African American Playwriter |
Yashwant Dev | Senior Composer And Lyricist |
November 2018
Name | Field |
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Vice Admiral Manohar Pralhad Avati | Veteran Of 1971 Indo Pak War |
V . Ratinam | Veteran Freedom Fighter |
K.P.S Srivastava | Veteran Journalist |
Vinod Aggarwal | Famous Devotional Singer |
Lalan Sarang | Marathi Actor |
Ananth Kumar | Parliamentary Affairs Minister |
T.N Srinivasan | Eminent Economist And Free Trade Advocate |
SN Phulkan | Former Supreme Court Judge |
Roshan Lal Sethi | Veteran Sports Journalist |
Chitta Jena | Odiya Singer |
Alyque Padamsee | Brand Father Of Indian Advertising |
Brigadier Kuldeep Singh Chandpuri | Army Veteran |
Banamalli Maharana | Odissi Musician |
T.S Kanaka | Asia’s First Women Neurosurgeon |
Narayan Das Maharaj | Padam Shri Awardee And Revered Saint |
William Goldman | Oscar-Winning Screenwriter |
Ustad Imrat Khan | Indian Classical Musician |
Fahmida Riaz | Pakistani Poet |
Baishnab Parida | Former Minister Of Parliament |
Sandeep Michael | Former Hockey Player |
Ck Jaffer Sharif | Former Railway Minister |
Mh Ambareesh | Kannada Actor , Former Minister |
Bernardo Bertolucci | Oscar Winning Director |
Iravatham Mahadevan | Leading Indus Valley Scholar |
Harry Leslie Smith | World War 2 Veteran |
December 2018
Name of the Personality | Field |
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Kader Khan | Legendary Actor |
George Herbert Walker Bush | Former US President |
Nirupam Sen | Veteran CPI (M) leader |
Mrinal Sen | Legendary filmmaker |
Pandit Arun Bhaduri | Famous Classical Singer |
Mushirul Hasan | Renowned historian and former vice-chancellor Jamia Millia of Islamia |
Nana Chudasama | Former Mumbai Mayor and Padma Shri |
Dipali Borthakur | Nightingale of Assam |
Jai Narain Prasad Nishad | Former Union Minister |
CN Balakrishnan | Politician |
Tulsi Ramsay | Indian film director |
Nancy Wilson | Grammy Award-winning jazz vocalist |
Penny Marshall | Actress, Producer, Director |
Ken Berry | Actor/dancer/singer |
Philip Bosco | Actor |
Peter Armitage | Actor (UK) |
Pete Shelley | Singer/songwriter (UK) |
Frank Adonis | Actor |
June Whitfield | Actress (UK) |
Ray Sawyer | Singer |