Nobel Personalities

Abdul Ghaffar Khan

He was known as the 'Frontier Gandhi'. He was a nationalist Muslim leader of the North-West
Frontier Province. He first started a militant organisation known as the 'Red Shirt', and later on joined
the non-violent Civil Disobedience Movement started by Mahatma Gandhi. ...
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Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
A prominent leader of the Scheduled Castes. Built up a party of the untouchables, became a member
of the Constitutent Assembly and piloted through it the Indian Constitution Act which declared India to
be Republic. Healso piloted the Hindu Code through the Indian Legislature....
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Amir Khusrau
Assumed 'Parrot of India', was a famous poet and author who wrote in poetry and prose and also
composed music. He enjoyed the patronage of successive Sultans of Delhi from Balban to Ghiyas-uddin Tughluq. He died in 1324-25. His works include Tughluqnamah and the Tarikh-i-Alai....
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Wumesh Chandra Banerjee
The first president of the Indian National Congress held at Bombay in 1885. He was made Congress
President a second time at its Allahabad session in 1892....
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Mrs. Annie Besant
English theosophist, born in London in October 1847. She founded the Central Hindu College
at Banaras and was elected president of the Theosophical Society in 1907. In 1916 she founded the
Indian Home Rule League and became its first president and in 1917. ...
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Anand Mohan Bose
He was a prominent Indian public man in his times. He was the first Indian to be a Wrangler of
Cambridge University in 1873. He was the founder-secretary of the Indian Association which was
established in Calcutta in 1876, and presided over the 14th session of the Indian National Congress
held in Madras in 1898....
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Netaji Subhash Bose
Popularly known as Netaji, was born on January 23, 1879, at Cuttack. He passed the Indian Civil
Service Examination in 1920. He joined the Indian National Congress in 1921. In 1938 he was the
president of the INC at its Haripura session and in 1939 he was elected president of its Tripuri
session....
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Dadabhai Naoroji
He was elected president of the Indian National Congress at its second session held in Calcutta in
1886. He was the first Indian to be elected a member of the House of Commons in England on
aticket of Liberal Party. Twice again, in 1893 and in 1906, he was elected president of the INC. ...
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Better known as Mahatma Gandhi, was born on October 2, 1869 at Porbandar in Gujarat. Became a
barrister-at-law (1891) in England. Went to South Africa in 1893. Stayed there till 1914 for the cause
of the emancipation of the Indians from the insulting life. ...
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Aurobindo Ghosh
An ardent nationalist who later became a saint, was educated in England. His views were readily
accepted by Lala Lajpat Rai of Punjab and Bal Gangadhar Tilak of Maharashtra and led to the
formation of an extremist school within the Congress. ...
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Rasbehari Ghosh
He was elected president of the Surat session of the Indian National Congress in 1907 in which the
Moderates and Extremists came to a serious clash. Next year he presided over the Madras session of
the INC....
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Gopal Krishna Gokhale
He was a prominent Indian nationalist, and presided over the 1905 session of the Indian National
Congress. In 1905 he founded at Poona the Servants of India Society. He died in 1915. He is
considered as the 'Political Guru' of Gandhiji....
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Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya
A leading nationalist leader, prominent educationist and social reformer. Later on joined the second
session of the Indian National Congress held in 1886 and twice became its President in 1909 and
1918. His greatest achievement was the foundation in 1915 in Benaras of the Hindu University....
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Ashutosh Mukherjee
He was an eminent lawyer and educationist. He was certainly a maker of modern Bengal, if not of
India, by virtue of his eminent services to the cause of education. At the early age of 25 he became a
member of the Senate of the Calcutta University of which he became the vice-chancellor....
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Mrs. Sarojini Naldu
The most talented Indian lady, born of Bengali parents, was a poet and orator who took a prominent
part in Indian politics. She presided over the Kanpur session of the Indian National Congress in 1925
and was the first lady to be appointed a state Governor in the Republic of India....
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Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru
He was the first Prime Minister of Independent India and is known as the architect of modem India. He
was born in Allahabad on Novemeber 14,1889. In 1928 be became the General Secretary of the
Indian National Congressand in 1929 its President. At the Lahore session under his Presidentship was
passed the Independent Resolution....
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Pandit Motilal Nehru
A renowned Indian patriot, was born on 6th May, 1861 in Delhi. He began his career as a lawyer at the
Allahabad High Court, joined the Indian National Movement and started a journal named The
Independent' to support the cause of Indian Nationalism. Along with C. R. Das he formed the Swarajist
Party within the Congress....
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Sister Nivedita
A famous disciple of Swami Vivekananda, was an Irish lady named Miss Margaret Nobel. ...
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Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Pandit
Born in 1900, was a talented daughter of Pandit Motilal Nehru. She held many high offices after Indian
independence including the post of India's High Commissioner in England (1955-61) and India's
Ambassador to the U. S. S. R. as well as to the U. S. A. ...
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Govinda Ballabh Pant
The celebrated Sanskrit grammarian, was the author of Ashtadhyayi. He was one of the leading
members and leaders of the Indian National Congress. He became the Chief Minister in his native
province of Uttar Pradesh after independence....
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Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
A renowned Indian patriot and politician, was born on the 31st, October, 1875 in Gujarat and began
his career as a lawyer. He took a leading part in the Bardoli Satyagraha movement. In 1931 he
became the president of the Congress. He joined the "interim Government" set up in 1946 as the
Home Minister....
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Dr. Rajendra Prasad
He was the first President of the Republic of India. Born in Bihar in 1884, educated at the Calcutta
Universty, he began his career as an advocate and soon commanded a very large practice at Patna
High Court. Prasad became the president of Congress in 1934, 1939 and 1947; a minister in
Nehru'scabinet in 1947....
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Sarvapalli Radha Krishan
The second President of the Republic of India. Radha Krishnan was appointed as India's ambassador to
the USSR in 1949. In 1962 he became the President of India. His birthday, Sept 5, is celebrated as
Teacher's Day....
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Chakravarti Rajagopalachari
A prominent Indian politician, born in South India in 1879. He was the General Secretary of the
Indian National Congress in 1921-22 and was a member of the Congress Working Commitee.
Rajagopalachari was the ChiefMinister of Madras from 1937-39....
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Ram Manohar Lohla
A social and political revolutionary, he founded the 'Samajwadi Party' after difference of opinion with
the Congress....
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Ramakrishna Paramhansa
He was a very great spiritual teacher of the Hindus in modern times. His two-noteworthy disciples
were Keshav Chandra Sen and Swami Vivekanand....
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Lala Lajpat Rai

Indian national leader known as "Lion of Punjab". Founder editor of Bande Mataram, The Punjabeeand
The People. Died of injuries caused by police lathi-charge while leading a demonstration against Simon
Commission at Lahore in 1928. Author of Young India, The Arya Samaj and England's Debt to India....
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V. D. C Savarkar
He founded Mitra Mandal aimed at achieving freedom by armed rebellion, founded Abhinav Bharat,
started Free Indian Society in England (London). Savarkar was arrested in Nasik conspiracy case and
sentenced totransportation for life and freed in 1937. He authored Indian War of Independence....
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Sir Sayyid Ahmed Khan
He was a prominent leader of the Indian Muhammadans. Remained loyal to the British during the
Sepoy Mutiny (1857-58), founded the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College at Aligarh in 1875. In
1920 the college was raised to the status of University and called the Aligarh Muslim University....
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Bhagat Singh
Known as Shahid-e-Azam. Founded Naujawan Bharat Sabha. Exploded bomb in Central Legislative
Assembly at Lahore on April 8, 1929. He was arrested and sentenced for life. He along with Sukh Dev
and Shivram Rajguru, was hanged on March 23, 1931 for participating in Lahore conspiracy....
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Lal Bahadur Shastri
Prime Minister of India from May, 1964 to his death on 11 January, 1966. He was conferred Bharat
Ratna posthumously. He was a martyr for the cause ofpeace between India and Pakistan at
Tashkent....
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Shaukat Ali
A prominent leader and politician amongst the Indian Muhammadans. He along with his brother
Muhammad All, led the Khilafat Movement in 1919-20. He also joined the Indian National Congress
and the non-co-operation movement....
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Rabindranath Tagore
Poet, novelist, patriot, educationist, essayist, painter and philosopher. He founded Shantiniketan (now
Viswabharati University) in West Bengal. The first Asian to receive Nobel Prize in Literature (for
Gitanjali in 1913), writer of National Anthems of India and Bangladesh. ...
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Jamshedji Tata
Parsi industrialist and philanthropist. Father of Indian industry, founded Tata, Iron and Steel Company
in Bihar....
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Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Patriot and statesman, known as Lokmanya. He organised Extremist Party within the Congress with
Lala Lajpat Rai and Bipin Chandra Pal. Britishers called him "Father of Indian Unrest". He gave the
clarion call "Swaraj is mybirth right". Tilak was the founder-editor of Mahratta (English) and Kesar....
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Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
Social reformer and educationist from Bengal and a pioneer in the field of primary education and
widow re-marriage....

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Acharya Vinoba Bhave
Saintly personality; had devoted his life to social welfare; founder of the Bhoodan movement....
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Swami Vivekananda
Disciple of Rama Krishna Paramahansa, and founder of Ramakrishna Mission at Belur. He championed
the supremacy of Vedantic philosophy and his talk at the Chicago conference of world religions in 1893
made westerners realise the greatness of Hinduism for the first time....
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Zakir Hussain
Proposed Wardha Scheme of education, formerly Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Millia. He was elected as
President of India in 1967. ...
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