October 2025
Name of the Person | Field |
| Senior Socialist and Freedom Fighter | |
| Pandit Chhannulal Mishra | Legendary Hindustani Classical Vocalist |
| Varinder Singh Ghuman | Punjabi Actor and Bodybuilder |
| Chairman Emeritus of TTK Prestige | |
| Oscar-winning Actress | |
| Veteran Actor Iconic role as Karna in B.R. Chopra’s Mahabharat | |
| Renowned singer and actress | |
| Former Kenyan Prime Minister | |
| Goa Agriculture Minister and former Chief Minister | |
| Cinema and BJP MLA from Vijayawada East | |
| Last surviving member of the historic 1953 Mount Everest expedition | |
| Japan’s former Prime Minister | |
| Veteran Bollywood Actor | |
| Popularly known as Faqeer | |
| Padma Shri Awardee and Legendary Adman | |
| Former Union Minister and Senior Congress Leader | |
| Padma Bhushan Awardee and Veteran Space Scientist | |
| Thailand’s Queen | |
| Eminent Surgeon | |
| Role as Sybil Fawlty |
September 2025
Name of the Person | Field |
| Italian Fashion Legend | |
| Sankarshan Thakur | Senior Journalist |
| Robert Redford | Iconic American Actor, Director, and Environmentalist |
| Singer Known as the “Voice of Assam”, | |
| Legendary English Umpire | |
| Myanmar’s Acting President | |
| Renowned Kannada Novelist | |
| Former Meghalaya CM | |
| Renowned Bharatanatyam exponent and Kalakshetra |
August 2025
Name of the Person | Field |
| Former VC of Manonmaniam Sundaranar University | |
| Kalabhavan Navas | Malayalam actor and mimicry artiste |
| Shibu Soren | Iconic tribal leader and founder of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha |
| Former Governor of Jammu & Kashmir | |
| Japanese Boxer | |
| Myanmar’s Acting President | |
| Munich Olympic hockey bronze medallist and father of Leander Paes | |
| Dravidian linguistics pioneer | |
| Politics and Governance | |
| Former Australian captain and coach | |
| Legendary English actor best known as General Zod in Superman (1978, 1980) | |
| Indian film actor | |
| Famed as the “Nicest Judge in the World, | |
| Veteran Punjabi Comedian | |
| NRI industrialist philanthropist | |
| Veteran Communist Party of India leader and former Member of Parliament |
July 2025
Name of the Person | Field |
| Renowned Hypnotist and Psychologist | |
| Shekhar Dutt | Governor of Chhattisgarh and ex-Defence Secretary |
| Julian McMahon | Roles in Fantastic Four, Nip/Tuck, and Charmed |
| Nigerian Football Legend | |
| Asia's Oldest Elephant | |
| Afghan Cricket Umpire | |
| Former MP and UP minister | |
| Former UK Cabinet Minister | |
| Ex-Chairman of Karnataka Legislative Council | |
| Cinema and BJP MLA from Vijayawada East | |
| Veteran spinner | |
| Former Nigerian President | |
| Legendary 114-year-old Marathon Runner | |
| Poetry and Performance Artist | |
| Famed for his 2012 supersonic space jump | |
| Former Kerala CM | |
| Legendary Lyricist known for timeless classics like “The Way We Were” and “The Windmills of Your Mind,” | |
| Padma Shri awardee and pioneer of the Theatre of Roots Movement | |
| Legendary WWE Wrestler | |
| Renowned Satirist and Mathematician | |
| Padma Shri Awardee and Former IDBI Chairman | |
| Veteran Actor & Role As Padavalam Kuttanpillai in the sitcom Uppum Mulakum | |
| Economist and Author | |
| Germany’s Double Olympic Biathlon Champion | |
| Former chief of Rashtra Sevika Samiti |
June 2025
Name of the Person | Field |
| Tamil director, known for Madha Yaanai Koottam | |
| Daji Panshikar | Renowned scholar of Indian Epics |
| Edgar Lungu | Former Zambian President |
| Canada’s first astronaut and former Foreign Minister | |
| Senior Congress Leader | |
| Former Gujarat Chief Minister | |
| Apple’s graphical User Interfaces | |
| ISRO scientist and Tamil author | |
| Renowned Kathak Artist | |
| Padma Shri Awardee | |
| Veteran spinner | |
| Founder of FedEx | |
| 2000s hit “Kaanta Laga” |
May 2025
Name of the Person | Field |
| Kerala’s literacy crusader | |
| Sant Baba Shivanand | Padma Shri Yoga |
| Girija Vyas | Former Union Minister |
| Former National Shooting Coach and Dronacharya Awardee | |
| Padma Shri folk artist and promoter of Rai dance | |
| Veteran Malayalam Actor | |
| FIFA World Cup-winning Defender | |
| Former F1 driver and Le Mans champion | |
| Former Director General of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research | |
| Former Indian footballer | |
| Former President of Uruguay | |
| Renowned filmmaker | |
| Renowned Makeup Artist | |
| Former Rajya Sabha MP and senior CPM leader | |
| Renowned Astrophysicist | |
| Renowned Nuclear Scientist | |
| Padma Bhushan (2007) and Padma Shri (1989) Awardee | |
| Veteran Akali leader | |
| Veteran Tamil Actor | |
| Inventor of the Abortion Pill | |
| Kannada poet and playwright | |
| Mumbai’s ‘BirdMan’ and veteran naturalist |
April 2025
Name of the Person | Field |
| Hollywood legend | |
| Manoj Kumar | Veteran actor,Known for his patriotic films |
| Ravikumar | Veteran actor, Known for his versatile performances in Tamil and Malayalam cinema |
| Renowned Malayalam linguist | |
| Padma Shri folk artist and promoter of Rai dance | |
| Spiritual head of the Brahma Kumaris | |
| "Tree Man of Telangana" | |
| Former President of Laos | |
| Legendary publicist and collaborator of Steven Spielberg | |
| Kathak legend | |
| Emmy-winning actress | |
| Renowned for works like The Time of the Hero and Feast of the Goat | |
| Former Indian basketball captain | |
| Former Malaysian Prime Minister | |
| Head of the Catholic Church | |
| Father of Angioplasty in India | |
| Former ISRO chairman | |
| Former Australian cricketer | |
| Perumals of Kerala, Chairman of the ICHR | |
| Former Deputy Army Chief | |
| Renowned Malayalam filmmaker | |
| Brazilian football legend and member of the 1962 FIFA World Cup | |
| Legendary Indian shooting coach |
March 2025
Name of the Person | Field |
| Renowned Marathi travel | |
| Fred Stolle | Australian tennis legend |
| Ananta Das | Former Odisha minister and senior BJD leader |
| Renowned Carnatic classical singer | |
| Former Indian cricketer | |
| Veteran actor-filmmaker | |
| legendary Rajput king Maharana Pratap and the 76th Custodian of the House of Mewar | |
| Veteran Tamil actor-comedian | |
| Renowned Odia poet | |
| Veteran BJP leader and former Union Minister | |
| Naga scientist and educator | |
| Tamil actor-director | |
| Legendary Actor |
February 2025
Name of the Person | Field |
| Former Chief Election Commissioner of India | |
| Horst Koehler | Former President of Germany and former Managing Director of the IMF |
| R. S. Venkatraman | Veteran Akashvani News Reader |
| Namibia's First Democratically Elected President | |
| Elder Brother of the Dalai Lama | |
| Renowned folk artist and Padma Shri awardee | |
| Noted Bengali vocalist | |
| Veteran Telugu actress and Producer | |
| Veteran space scientist and Padma Shri awardee | |
| Mumbai Cricket's Encyclopedia | |
| Renowned Odissi dancer | |
| Veteran Odia film star | |
| Renowned Gujarati poet and Sahitya Akademi Awardee | |
| Oscar-winning Actor | |
| Iconic Russian chess grandmaste | |
| Oldest Test cricketer |
January 2025
Name of the Person | Field |
| Renowned Botanist | |
| Costas Simitis | Former Greek Prime Minister |
| Dr. Rajagopala Chidambaram | Veteran Nuclear Scientist |
| Olympic champion and Holocaust survivor, | |
| Renowned Kannada novelist and writer | |
| Veteran journalist, filmmaker, poet, and former Rajya Sabha member | |
| Renowned playback singer | |
| Former Executive Director of Sundaram-Clayton and a key figure in the TVS group | |
| Havaldar (retd), War Veteran | |
| Senior Advocate, Former President of the Bombay Bar Association | |
| Legendary filmmaker | |
| Legendary Manchester United and Scotland footballer | |
| Founder and Director of CABS, Wing Commander (Retd) | |
| Former El Salvador President | |
| Renowned author and retired judge of the Bombay High Court | |
| Cardiac surgeon | |
| Renowned sculptor | |
| Olympic long jump champion | |
| Former Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea |
December 2024
Name of the Person | Field |
| "Old Fox" of Indian squash | |
| Neale Fraser | An iconic Australian tennis player and Davis Cup Legend |
| Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna | Former Karnataka Chief Minister and External Affairs Minister |
| Renowned poet and civil rights activist | |
| Legendary Gujarati singer | |
| Legendary tabla maestro and four-time Grammy Award winner | |
| "Encyclopedia of Forests" | |
| Classical singer and harmonium artist | |
| Former Chief Minister of Haryana | |
| Prolific Malayalam actress and theatre artist. | |
| Co-founder of Epigamia | |
| Baiga tribal artist and Padma Shri awardee | |
| Renowned filmmaker | |
| Former World Snooker Champion | |
| Renowned folk artist and Padma Shri awardee | |
| Legendary Malayalam writer | |
| Former Prime Minister of India | |
| Former chairman of Suzuki Motor Corporation | |
| Former US President | |
| Richard Parsons | |
| French Indologist and Padma Shri awardee |
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
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Name of the Person |
Field |
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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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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
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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 |
|---|---|
| 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
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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
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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 |
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Naeem Sayyed |
Indian actor, singer, Marathi film director, and producer |
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Benjamin Zephaniah |
Poet and ‘Peaky Blinders’ Actor |
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Joe Solomon |
Former West Indies batter |
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Leelavathi |
Veteran Kannada Actor |
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Dr. Gao Yaojie |
Renowed AIDS Activist |
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Andre Braugher |
Emmy-winning actor |
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Lee Sun-kyun |
South Korean actor |
November 2023
| Name of the Personality | Field |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
