100 Notable alumni of
University of Mumbai
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The University of Mumbai is 196th in the world, 37th in Asia, and 3rd in India by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Mumbai sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
- Years
- 1891-1956 (aged 65)
- Occupations
- freedom fighterbarristereducational theoristbibliographersocial reformer
- Biography
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Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was an Indian jurist, economist, social reformer and political leader who headed the committee drafting the Constitution of India from the Constituent Assembly debates, served as Law and Justice minister in the first cabinet of Jawaharlal Nehru, and inspired the Dalit Buddhist movement after renouncing Hinduism.
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Mukesh Ambani
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- businesspersongraphic designerinternational forum participantentrepreneur
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Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani is an Indian billionaire businessman. He is the chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries, India's most valuable company by market value. With an estimated net worth of $112.1 billion according to Forbes as of February 2024, he is the richest person in Asia and 11th richest in the world. Sometimes characterized as a plutocrat; he has attracted both fame and notoriety for reports of market manipulation, political corruption, cronyism, and exploitation. Time magazine listed him as one of the 100 most influential people of 2019, under the "Titans" section.
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Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
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- beauty pageant contestantmodelfilm actoractor
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Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is an Indian actress who is primarily known for her work in Hindi and Tamil films. The winner of the Miss World 1994 pageant, she later established herself as one of the most popular and influential celebrities in India. Rai Bachchan has received numerous accolades for her acting and was honoured with the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 2009 and the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the Government of France in 2012. In the 2000s and 2010s, she was often cited in the media as "the most beautiful woman in the world".
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Sonam Kapoor
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- film directormodelfilm actoractor
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Sonam Kapoor Ahuja is an Indian actress who works in Hindi films. She has received several awards, including a National Film Award and a Filmfare Award, and from 2012 to 2016, she appeared in Forbes India's Celebrity 100 list based on her income and popularity.
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Freida Pinto
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- television actormodeltelevision presenterfilm actoractor
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Freida Selena Pinto is an Indian actress who has appeared mainly in American and British films. Born and raised in Mumbai, Maharashtra, she resolved at a young age to become an actress. As a student at St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, she took part in amateur plays. After graduation, she briefly worked as a model and then as a television presenter.
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Zakir Naik
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- surgeonwriterdocentoratormotivational speaker
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Zakir Abdul Karim Naik is an Indian Islamic public orator who focuses on comparative religion. He is the founder and president of the Islamic Research Foundation (IRF) and Peace TV. He is a well-known figure in the Islamic world, and while he does not claim to be a follower of any one school of thought in Islam, he is most closely associated with the Salafi school of thought.
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Ileana D'Cruz
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- film actormodel
- Biography
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Ileana D'Cruz is an Indian-born Portuguese actress who primarily appears in Hindi, Telugu, and Tamil language films. Born in Mumbai, she spent most of her childhood in Goa. D'Cruz made her screen debut in 2006 with the Telugu-language film Devadasu, a commercial success, which won her the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut - South.
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Emraan Hashmi
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- actor
- Biography
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Emraan Anwar Hashmi is an Indian actor who works in Hindi cinema. Born into the Bhatt family, he began his career an assistant director on the horror film Raaz (2002). He made his acting debut with the crime film Footpath (2003), and achieved his breakthrough for his starring role in the erotic thriller Murder (2004).
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Vidya Balan
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- television actormodelfashion modelfilm actoractor
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Vidya Balan is an Indian actress. Known for pioneering a change in the portrayal of women in Hindi cinema with her roles in female-led films, she is the recipient of several awards, including a National Film Award and seven Filmfare Awards. She was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 2014.
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Anil Ambani
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- entrepreneurchief executive officerpoliticianinternational forum participantchairperson
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Anil Dhirubhai Ambani is an Indian businessman chairman and managing director of Reliance Group (a.k.a. Reliance ADA Group). The Reliance Group was created in July 2006 following a demerger from Reliance Industries Limited. He led several stocks listed corporations including Reliance Capital, Reliance Infrastructure, Reliance Power and Reliance Communications.
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Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
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- prose writerwriterrevolutionaryphilosopherplaywright
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Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Marathi pronunciation: [ʋinaːjək saːʋəɾkəɾ]; 28 May 1883 – 26 February 1966) was an Indian independence activist, politician, and writer. Savarkar developed the Hindu nationalist political ideology of Hindutva while imprisoned at Ratnagiri in 1922. He was a leading figure in the Hindu Mahasabha. He started using the honorific prefix Veer ("brave") since he wrote his autobiography. Savarkar joined the Hindu Mahasabha and popularized the term Hindutva (Hinduness), to create a collective "Hindu" identity as an essence of Bharat (India). Savarkar was an atheist.
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Mani Ratnam
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- film directorscreenwriterfilm actoractorfilm producer
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Gopalaratnam Subramaniam, known professionally as Mani Ratnam, is an Indian film director, film producer and screenwriter who predominantly works in Tamil cinema and few Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada films. He is one of India's most acclaimed and commercially successful filmmakers. Ratnam has won six National Film Awards, four Filmfare Awards, six Filmfare Awards South, and numerous awards at various film festivals across the world. In 2002, the Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri, acknowledging his contributions to film.
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Aditya Roy Kapur
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- actor
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Aditya Roy Kapur is an Indian actor who works in Hindi films. After working as a VJ, he made his acting debut with the musical drama London Dreams (2009). Kapur had his first commercial success with the romance Aashiqui 2 (2013). In the same year, the romantic comedy Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani emerged as his highest-grossing release, and won him the IIFA Award for Best Supporting Actor in addition to a nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor.
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John Abraham
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- modelfilm actoractorfilm producer
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John Abraham is an Indian actor and film producer who works in Hindi films. Known for his stoic action hero persona, he is a recipient of a National Film Award along with nominations for four Filmfare Awards. Abraham has appeared in Forbes India's Celebrity 100 list since 2017 based on his income and popularity.
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Nita Ambani
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- international forum participantphilanthropist
- Biography
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Nita Ambani is an Indian philanthropist. She is the chairperson and founder of the Reliance Foundation, Dhirubhai Ambani International School and a director of Reliance Industries. She is married to Reliance Industries chairman and managing director Mukesh Ambani. With a family fortune estimated in excess of US$83.4 billion (February 2023), the Ambanis are among the richest in the world. She is also an art collector and the owner of the Indian Premier League cricket team Mumbai Indians.
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Homi Jehangir Bhabha
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- nuclear physicist
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Homi Jehangir Bhabha, FNI, FASc, FRS, Hon.FRSE was an Indian nuclear physicist who is widely credited as the "father of the Indian nuclear programme". He was the founding director and professor of physics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), as well as the founding director of the Atomic Energy Establishment, Trombay (AEET) which was renamed the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in his honour. TIFR and AEET served as the cornerstone of the Indian nuclear energy and weapons programme. He was the first chairman of the Indian Atomic Energy Commission and secretary of the Department of Atomic Energy. By supporting space science projects which initially derived their funding from the AEC, he played an important role in the birth of the Indian space programme.
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P. V. Narasimha Rao
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- novelistfreedom fighterjuristpoetpolitician
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Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao, popularly known as P. V. Narasimha Rao, was an Indian lawyer, statesman and politician who served as the 9th prime minister of India from 1991 to 1996. He is known for introducing various liberal reforms to India's economy.
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Lara Dutta
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- beauty pageant contestantmodelfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Lara Dutta Bhupathi is an Indian actress and winner of the Miss Universe 2000 pageant, who primarily works in Hindi language films. She has received a Filmfare Award, and was a prominent leading lady in the 2000s.
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Shabana Azmi
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- film actorsingerpublic figureactorstage actor
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Shabana Azmi is an Indian actress of film, television and theatre. Her career in the Hindi film industry has spanned over 160 films, mostly within independent and neorealist parallel cinema, though her work extended to mainstream films as well as a number of international projects. One of India's most acclaimed actresses, Azmi is known for her portrayals of distinctive, often unconventional female characters across several genres. She has won a record five National Film Awards for Best Actress, in addition to six Filmfare Awards and several international accolades. The Government of India honoured her with the Padma Shri in 1998 and the Padma Bhushan in 2012.
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Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
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- stock traderbusinessperson
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Rakesh Radheyshyam Jhunjhunwala was an Indian billionaire investor, stock trader, and Chartered Accountant. He began investing in 1985 with a capital of ₹5,000, with his first major profit in 1986. At the time of his death, he had an estimated net worth of US$5.8 billion, making him the 438th richest person in the world. He was a partner in his own asset management firm, Rare Enterprises.
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Jamsetji Tata
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- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata was an Indian pioneer industrialist who founded the Tata Group, India's biggest conglomerate company. Named the greatest philanthropist of the century by several polls and ranking lists, he also established the city of Jamshedpur.
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Siddharth Roy Kapur
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- film producer
- Biography
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Siddharth Roy Kapur is an Indian film producer and the founder of Roy Kapur Films. He is the former managing director of The Walt Disney Company India and the former president of the Producers Guild of India in a tenure lasting six terms (2016–22).
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Smita Patil
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- stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
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Smita Patil was an Indian film and theatre actress who mainly worked in Hindi and Marathi films. Regarded among the finest and greatest actresses in the history of Indian cinema, Patil appeared in over 80 films, in a career that spanned over a decade. Patil was the recipient of two National Film Awards, a Filmfare Award, two Filmfare Awards Marathi. She received the Padma Shri, India's fourth-highest civilian honour in 1985.
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Lal Krishna Advani
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- autobiographerpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Lal Krishna Advani is an Indian politician who served as the 7th Deputy Prime Minister of India from 2002 to 2004. He is one of the co-founders of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wing Hindu nationalist volunteer organization. He is the longest serving Minister of Home Affairs serving from 1998 to 2004. He is also the longest serving Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha. He was the prime ministerial candidate of the BJP during the 2009 general election.
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Sunil Gavaskar
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- cricketerfilm actor
- Biography
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Sunil Manohar Gavaskar is an Indian cricket commentator and former captain of the national cricket team who represented India and Bombay from 1971 to 1987. Gavaskar is acknowledged as one of the greatest opening batsmen of all time.
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Tejasswi Prakash
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- television actoractor
- Biography
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Tejasswi Prakash Wayangankar is an Indian actress who appears in Hindi television and Marathi films. She is best known for her role of Ragini in Colors TV's drama series Swaragini - Jodein Rishton Ke Sur, and the triple role of Pratha, Prathna and Pragati in Colors TV's supernatural drama series Naagin 6.
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Shraddha Arya
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- television actoractor
- Biography
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Shraddha Arya is an Indian actress. She made her film debut as a lead role in SJ Suryah's Tamil film Kalvanin Kadhali along with Nayantara in 2006, in Hindi film Nishabd and in Telugu film Godava with Vaibhav Reddy. She is known for her performances in the Life OK serials Main Lakshmi Tere Aangan Ki, Tumhari Paakhi and Dream Girl. Since 2017, she has been portraying the role of Dr. Preeta Arora in Zee TV's Kundali Bhagya. In 2019, she simultaneously participated in Nach Baliye 9 as a contestant along with Alam Makkar.
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Sucheta Dalal
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- authorjournalist
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Sucheta Dalal is an Indian business journalist and author. She has been a journalist for over two decades and was awarded a Padma Shri for journalism in 2006. She was the Financial Editor for the Times of India until 1998 when she joined the Indian Express group as a Consulting Editor, leaving in 2008. She is known for exposing the 1992 stock market scam propagated by Harshad Mehta.
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Kumar Mangalam Birla
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- entrepreneurbusiness magnatechief executive officerinternational forum participantaccountant
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Kumar Mangalam Birla is an Indian billionaire industrialist, philanthropist, and the chairman of the Aditya Birla Group, one of the largest conglomerates in India. He is the chancellor of the Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani and ex-chairman of Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. According to Forbes, he has an estimated net worth of US$17.6 billion, as of October 2023 making him the 7th richest person in India.
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Amaal Mallik
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- composer
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Amaal Mallik is an Indian music director, composer, singer, music producer, arranger, background scorer, performer and lyricist. He is the elder son of Daboo Malik and Jyothi Malik, and grandson of Sardar Malik. He debuted as a composer in 2014 by composing three songs for Salman Khan's Jai Ho, following it up with the song "Naina" from Khoobsurat. He got widely recognition by composing songs for M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story. He is signed on by Sony Music India.
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Mithila Palkar
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- television actoractor
- Biography
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Mithila Palkar is an Indian actress known for her characters in the TV series Girl in the City and Netflix's Little Things. She rose to prominence in March 2016 with her Marathi version of the "cup song". She has received several awards including a Filmfare Award Marathi and two Filmfare OTT Awards.
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Ajay Piramal
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- businessperson
- Biography
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Ajay Gopikisan Piramal is an Indian billionaire businessman, and the chairman of the Piramal Group, a conglomerate with interests in pharmaceutical, financial services, real estate, healthcare analytics and glass packaging. As of September 2022, his net worth was estimated at US$3 billion.
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Priya Dutt
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- politician
- Biography
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Priya Dutt Roncon is an Indian politician and social worker. She was elected for the first time to the 14th Lok Sabha from Mumbai North West constituency in Maharashtra on 22 November 2005, representing the Indian National Congress party. She represented the Mumbai North Central constituency in the 15th Lok Sabha from 2009. In the 2014 and 2019 Indian general elections, she was defeated by Poonam Mahajan of the BJP.
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Naval Tata
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- businessperson
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Naval Hormusji Tata was an adopted son of Sir Ratanji Tata and a noted alumnus of the Tata Group. He is the father of Ratan Tata, Jimmy Tata and Noel Tata.
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Devayani
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- television actoractor
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Devayani is an Indian actress known for her works primarily in Tamil, in addition to Telugu, Kannada, Hindi, Malayalam, Bengali films and Television. Known of her homely and traditional-oriented roles, she was one of the sought after actress in the mid-90s and early 2000s. She won the Tamil Nadu state award for best actress for her roles in Kadhal Kottai (1996), Suryavamsam (1997), and Bharathi (2000). She was a part of several successful films, including Ninaithen Vandhai (1998), Suswagatham (1998), Nee Varuvai Ena (1999), Thenali (2000),Vallarasu(2000), Friends (2001), Aanandham (2001) and Azhagi (2002), Panchathantiram (2002),Thenkasi Pattanam (2002),Balettan (2003), Naran (2005),Janatha Garage (2016). well as in the Sun TV's serial Kolangal. She was honoured with a Kalaimamani award in 2000. She won the ITFA award for the movie Azhagi (2002). She also won the Tamil Nadu state award for best actress for her role in the serial Kolangal (2003-2009).She won various accolades for her contribution to cinema and TV.She won twice time suntv award and a Zee Tamil award for serials. She won lifetime achievement in 2017 and 2022.In 2022 galata channel honoured decade of the 90s herione. She was nominated six times for filmfare awards.She has been in the industry 30 years.She also judged various reality shows in Sun tv,Kalaingar tv, Raj tv, Vijay tv,Zee Tamil,Mazhavil Manorama.She is the first highest paid serial artist for a episode one lakh.
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Chanda Kochhar
- Enrolled in the University of Mumbai
- Graduated with master's degree in management
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- businesspersonbankerinternational forum participantentrepreneur
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Chanda Kochhar is an Indian banker. She was the managing director (MD) and chief executive officer (CEO) of ICICI Bank from 2009 to 2018 She resigned from her positions in 2018 due a case of conflict of interest. Subsequently, she was fired by ICICI Bank, a decision which was later upheld by the Supreme Court of India.
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Dhvani Bhanushali
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- singer
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Dhvani Bhanushali is an Indian pop singer. Born in Mumbai, she gained popularity with her single Vaaste in 2019 which has crossed 1.5 billion views on YouTube, making her the youngest and fastest Indian pop star to hit 1 billion views on YouTube. She started her music career in 2017 by singing acoustic version song Humsafar from Badrinath Ki Dulhania. Her first song in the film was Ishtehaar from the film Welcome To New York, released in 2018. In the same year she starred in the music video "Ishare Tere" with Guru Randhawa and "Dilbar" From Satyameva Jayate which was an instant hit.
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Omar Abdullah
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- politician
- Biography
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Omar Abdullah is an Indian politician who served as former Chief Minister of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir and Chairperson of Jammu and Kashmir National Conference since 2009.
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Ratanji Tata
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- businesspersonart collector
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Sir Ratanji Jamsetji Tata was an Indian financier and philanthropist during the British Raj.
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Rahul Bose
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- film directorfilm actorrugby union playerscreenwriteractor
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Rahul Bose is an Indian actor, director, screenwriter, social activist, and athlete. Bose is the President of Indian Rugby Football Union.
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Suresh Prabhu
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- international forum participantpolitician
- Biography
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Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu is an Indian politician and Chancellor of Rishihood University who was the Minister of Civil Aviation, Railways, Commerce & Industry in the First Modi ministry.
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Reita Faria
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- physicianmodelbeauty pageant contestant
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Reita Faria Powell is an Indian physician, former model and the winner of Miss World 1966 pageant. She is the first Miss World winner to be qualified as a medical doctor.
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Yashwantrao Chavan
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- politician
- Biography
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Yashwantrao Balwantrao Chavan was an Indian freedom fighter and politician. He served as the last Chief Minister of Bombay State and the first of Maharashtra after latter was created by the division of Bombay state. His last significant ministerial post was as the Deputy Prime Minister of India in the short lived Charan Singh government in 1979.
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Dorabji Tata
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- businessperson
- Biography
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Sir Dorabji Tata was an Indian industrialist of the British Raj, and a key figure in the history and development of the Tata Group. He was knighted in 1910 for his contributions to industry in British India.
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Puja Banerjee
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- actormodeltelevision actor
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Puja Banerjee, also sometimes credited as Pooja Bose or simply Pooja, is an Indian actress who appears predominantly in Bengali films and Hindi television. She is well known for playing Vrinda in the show Tujh Sang Preet Lagai Sajna, which aired on Star Plus. She participated in Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa (2014), Comedy Nights Bachao (2015).
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Saiee Manjrekar
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- actor
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Saiee Manjrekar is an Indian actress who works in Hindi and Telugu-language films. Daughter of actors Mahesh Manjrekar and Medha Manjrekar, she made her acting debut with Dabangg 3, for which she received Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut nomination. Manjrekar has since appeared in the Telugu films Ghani (2022), Major (2022) and Skanda (2023).
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Uday Kotak
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- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Uday Suresh Kotak is an Indian banker and Founder of Kotak Mahindra Bank, where he currently serves as its non-executive director.
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Sanjay Gupta
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- film directorscreenwriterfilm producerdirector
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Sanjay Gupta is an Indian filmmaker, producer and screenwriter working primarily in Bollywood industry. Gupta is mostly known for his remakes of American action-thriller and crime films, including films such as Aatish, Kaante, Kaabil, Shootout at Lokhandwala, Shootout at Wadala, Jazbaa and Zinda.' and Mumbai Saga. He has frequently cast Sanjay Dutt and John Abraham in his movies.
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Kshama Sawant
- Enrolled in the University of Mumbai
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science in computer science
- Occupations
- economistpoliticianactivist
- Biography
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Kshama Sawant is an Indian-American politician and economist who served on the Seattle City Council from 2014 to 2024. She is a member of Socialist Alternative, the first and only member of the party to date to be elected to public office.
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Siddhi Idnani
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- actor
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Siddhi Idnani is an Indian actress who appears in Tamil and Telugu cinema. She made her acting debut in Telugu movie Jamba Lakidi Pamba (2018). She was critically acclaimed as "Paavai" for her role in the Tamil film Vendhu Thanindhathu Kaadu (2022). She made her Hindi debut with The Kerala Story (2023).
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Devdutt Pattanaik
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- writermythographer
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Devdutt Pattanaik is a mythologist and writer from Mumbai, India. He is also a speaker, illustrator and author, on Hindu sacred lore, legends, folklore, fables and parables. His work focuses largely on the areas of religion, mythology, and management. He has written books on the relevance of sacred stories, symbols and rituals in modern times; his more popular books include Myth = Mithya: A Handbook of Hindu Mythology Jaya: An Illustrated Retelling of the Mahabharata and Sita: An Illustrated Retelling of the Ramayana and My Gita. Pattanaik has incorporated the Mahabharata and the Ramayana into human resource management.
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Vikas Bhalla
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- actorsingertelevision actor
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Vikas Bhalla pronounced [ʋɪkaːs bʱəlla] is an Indian film, television actor, singer and producer. Vikas is trained in Hindustani classical music from Allahabad University, under Pandit Jialal Vasant. He appeared as a lead actor in films in the early 90s, and went on to feature in several music and video albums. In 1995, Bhalla made his film debut in Ramesh Modi's Sauda, in which he played the lead role of Deepak, opposite Neelam. The film was inspired by the Hollywood blockbuster Indecent Proposal.
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Madhur Mittal
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- film actor
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Madhur Mittal is an Indian actor. He is known for his character 'Tito' in the TV serial Shaka Laka Boom Boom and his performance as Salim Malik in the film Slumdog Millionaire, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 2008 and for which he won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.
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Bombay Jayashri
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- singercomposeractorteacher
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"Bombay" Jayashri Ramnath is an Indian Carnatic vocalist, singer, and musician. She has sung songs in multiple languages, including for Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi movies. Born into a family of musicians, Jayashri represents the fourth generation of music practitioner's in her family. Trained by Lalgudi Jayaraman and T.R. Balamani. She was awarded India's fourth highest civilian award, the Padma Shri, in 2021. In December 2023, she was awarded the most prestigious award in the Carnatic Music Field, the Sangeetha Kalanidhi, by the Madras Music Academy. She has become one of the most sought-after Carnatic musicians today.
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Ram Sampath
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- songwritercomposerrecord producersinger
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Ram Sampath is an Indian composer, music producer and musician, who started his career composing advertising jingles for Mumbai-based advertising industry, subsequently he started composing for pop albums like Tanha Dil (2000) by Shaan, before composing for films like Khakee, Delhi Belly (2011), Talaash (2012), Raees etc.
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Swapnil Joshi
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- television actoractor
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Swapnil Joshi is an Indian film and television actor, in Hindi and Marathi languages. At nine years old, he appeared in the Ramanand Sagar show Uttar Ramayan. He has done some of the most successful series in television such as Krishna, Eka Lagnachi Dusri Goshta as well as films like Duniyadari, Mumbai-Pune-Mumbai casting him as the lead actor. He has done many comedy shows like Comedy Circus and Papad Pol – Shahabuddin Rathod Ki Rangeen Duniya in Hindi industry. Swapnil owns a wrestling team named 'Vidarbhache Wagh' in Zee Maharashtra Kusti Dangal. He was ranked twelfth in The Times of India's Top 20 Most Desirable Men of Maharashtra in 2017.
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Anand Tiwari
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- film directorfilm actoractordirector
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Anand Tiwari is an Indian actor, producer, writer, lyricist and director known for his work in Hindi films. He has appeared in films like Kites (2010), Udaan (2010), Aisha (2010), and Go Goa Gone (2013). As a stage actor, he is best known for Rage Productions' One on One (2010).
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Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin
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- spiritual leaderphilanthropist
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Mufaddal Saifuddin is the spiritual leader, the 53rd Da'i al-Mutlaq of one million Dawoodi Bohras, a subgroup of the Tayyibi, Mustaali, Ismaili Shia branch of Islam. He is the second son of the 52nd Da'i al-Mutlaq, Mohammed Burhanuddin, whom he succeeded in 2014. He is the Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University and Jamia Miliya Islamia University situated in India. He has led a number of cultural, social, and economic initiatives. In Islamic Cairo, he rebuilt shrines of the Ahl al-Bayt and led the restoration of medieval Fatimid architecture, notably Al-Anwar Mosque, Al-Aqmar Mosque, Al-Juyushi Mosque, and Lulua Mosque. In Yemen, he has spearheaded several campaigns to improve socio-economic conditions of the inhabitants of the Haraaz region, introducing sustainable agricultural systems, improving local infrastructure and providing equal access to education for children.
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Kashmira Shah
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- actormodel
- Biography
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Kashmera Shah is an Indian actress. She has appeared in numerous Hindi and Marathi films. She was also a contestant on the reality shows Bigg Boss 1, Nach Baliye 3 and Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi 4.
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Teesta Setalvad
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- authorjournalisthuman rights activist
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Teesta Setalvad is an Indian civil rights activist and journalist. She is the secretary of Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP), an organisation formed to advocate for the victims of 2002 Gujarat riots.
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Cornelia Dorabuji
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- novelistbarristerwriterfolklorist
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Cornelia Sorabji was an Indian lawyer, social reformer and writer. She was the first female graduate from Bombay University, and the first woman to study law at Oxford University. Returning to India after her studies at Oxford, Sorabji became involved in social and advisory work on behalf of the purdahnashins, women who were forbidden to communicate with the outside male world, but she was unable to defend them in court since, as a woman, she did not hold professional standing in the Indian legal system. Hoping to remedy this, Sorabji presented herself for the LLB examination of Bombay University in 1897 and the pleader's examination of Allahabad High Court in 1899. She became the first female advocate in India but would not be recognised as a barrister until the law which barred women from practising was changed in 1923.
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Shubha Balsavar Khote
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- actorfilm actortelevision actor
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Shubha Balsavar is an Indian film and television actress who has worked in several Hindi-language and a few Marathi-language films. She is also a former women's national champion in swimming and cycling.
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Ester Noronha
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Ester Valerie Noronha is an Indian actress, singer. Known for her work in Telugu, Kannada and Konkani film and entertainment industries for more than a decade, Noronha has won the Best Actress Award for her Konkani film Sophiya - A Dream Girl, Best Performance Award for Telugu Webseries Recce and Best Supporting Actress Award for her Kannada movie Lanke. Noronha has worked in more than 35 films in around 7 languages including Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Tulu, Konkani, Telugu and Tamil till date. Her works include Bhimavaram Bullodu, Shakeela, Lanke, Sophiya, Recce.
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Arjun Appadurai
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- sociologistanthropologistacademic
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Arjun Appadurai is an Indian-American anthropologist recognized as a major theorist in globalization studies. In his anthropological work, he discusses the importance of the modernity of nation-states and globalization. He is the former University of Chicago professor of anthropology and South Asian Languages and Civilizations, Humanities Dean of the University of Chicago, director of the city center and globalization at Yale University, and the Education and Human Development Studies professor at NYU Steinhardt School of Culture.
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Shernaz Patel
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India - Occupations
- actor
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Shernaz Patel is an Indian film and theatre actor, who works in Hindi and English films, most known for her roles in films like Black and Guzaarish (2010) and English language theatre in Mumbai. She made her theatre debut with The Diary Of Anne Frank in 1984. Since then, she has acted in several noted productions in Mumbai-based English theatre, and formed RAGE theatre group in Mumbai, with Rahul da Cunha and Rajit Kapur in 1993. She has also given voice to the character of Yashoda in the TV series Little Krishna.
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Narayan Apte
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- 1911-1949 (aged 38)
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- politician
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Narayan Dattatraya Apte was an Indian assassin and recruiting officer for the British Royal Indian Air Force. He was executed by hanging for planning the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi.
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Swati Piramal
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- 1956-.. (age 68)
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- physicianbusinessperson
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Swati Ajay Piramal is an Indian scientist and industrialist, and is involved in healthcare, focusing on public health and innovation. She is the vice chairperson of Piramal Group, a business conglomerate with interests in pharmaceuticals, financial services, real estate and glass packaging.
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Paresh Ganatra
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- television actoractor
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Paresh Ganatra is an Indian television, stage and film actor. He is known for his role as Praveen Thakkar in the Star Plus comedy series Baa Bahu Aur Baby (2005–2010), SAB TV's sitcom Chidiya Ghar and films like No Entry (2005), Rowdy Rathore (2012) amongst others.
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Nishigandha Wad
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- 1969-.. (age 55)
- Occupations
- television actoractor
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Nishigandha Wad is an Indian film & television actress, social scientist, and author. She is known for her roles in 90s Marathi films.
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Anil Kakodkar
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- mechanical engineernuclear physicist
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Anil Kakodkar, is an Indian nuclear physicist and mechanical engineer. He was the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India and the Secretary to the Government of India, he was the Director of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay from 1996 to 2000. He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian honour, on 26 January 2009.
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Bhavin Turakhia
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- businessperson
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Bhavin Turakhia is a serial entrepreneur, and the founder of Titan, Flock, Radix, CodeChef and Zeta. In 2016, Bhavin, a billionaire, was ranked as the 95th richest person in India, along with his brother Divyank Turakhia, according to Forbes. He has been honored as a 2011 Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
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Raghunath Anant Mashelkar
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- chemistchemical engineer
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Raghunath Anant Mashelkar,, also known as Ramesh Mashelkar, is an Indian Chemical Engineer, born in a village named Marcel in Goa and brought up in Maharashtra.
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Fali Sam Nariman
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- barristerpolitician
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Fali Sam Nariman is an Indian jurist. He is a senior advocate to the Supreme Court of India since 1971 and was the President of the Bar Association of India from 1991 to 2010. Nariman is an internationally recognised jurist on international arbitration. He has been honored with the 19th Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award for Excellence in Public Administration 2018. He is one of India's most distinguished constitutional lawyers and he has argued several leading cases. He remained Additional Solicitor General of India May 1972- June 1975.
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Jagdish Bhagwati
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- economistuniversity teacher
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Jagdish Natwarlal Bhagwati is an Indian-born naturalized American economist and one of the most influential trade theorists of his generation. He is a University Professor of economics and law at Columbia University and a Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. He has made significant contributions to international trade theory and economic development.
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Atul Khatri
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- actorchief executive officerstand-up comedian
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Atul Naraindas Khatri is an Indian stand-up comedian and YouTube personality. He was rated among the top Indian comedians by CNN-IBN and was the only Indian to perform in the Hong Kong International Comedy Festival. He was also the winner of the CEO's Got Talent Season 1.
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Homai Vyarawalla
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- journalistphotographerphotojournalist
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Homai Vyarawalla, commonly known by her pseudonym Dalda 13, was India's first woman photojournalist. She began her career in 1938 working for the Bombay Chronicle, capturing images of daily life in the city. Vyarawalla worked for the British Information Services from the 1940s until 1970 when she retired. In 2011, she was awarded Padma Vibhushan, the second highest civilian award of the Republic of India. She was amongst the first women in India to join a mainstream publication when she joined The Illustrated Weekly of India. A pioneer in her field, Vyarawalla died at the age of 98. Google doodle honoured India's "First Lady of the lens" in 2017 with a tapestry of Indian life and history drawn by guest doodler Sameer Kulavoor.
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Dwarkanath Kotnis
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- military physician
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Dwarakanath Shantaram Kotnis, also known by his Chinese name Ke Dihua (Chinese: 柯棣华; pinyin: Kē Dìhuá), was one of the five Indian physicians dispatched to China to provide medical assistance during the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1938. Known for his dedication and perseverance, he has been regarded as an example for Sino-Indian friendship and collaboration.
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Kurush Deboo
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- television actoractor
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Kurush Deboo is an Indian actor who has acted in many supporting roles in Hindi films and television series. He was first noticed as Shah Rukh Khan's character's loyal friend in Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa. He is known for his role as Dr. Rustom Pavri in Munnabhai M.B.B.S.
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Pherozeshah Mehta
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- politician
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Sir Pherozeshah Merwanjee Mehta was an Indian politician and lawyer from Bombay. He was knighted by the British Government in India for his service to the law. He became the Municipal commissioner of Bombay Municipality in 1873 and its president four times – 1884, 1885, 1905 and 1911. Mehta was one of the founding members and President of the Indian National Congress in 1890 held at Calcutta.
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Divyank Turakhia
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- business executive
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Divyank Turakhia is an Indian-born computer-programmer, businessman, billionaire, and investor. His net worth is estimated at $1.76 billion (as of Sept 2017). He founded Media.net, which he sold in 2016 to a Chinese consortium for $900 million, the third-largest ever ad-tech deal.
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Jagdish Chandra Mahindra
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- businessperson
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Jagdish Chandra Mahindra commonly referred as J. C. Mahindra was an Indian industrialist and co-founder of Mahindra & Mahindra in 1945, with Kailash Chandra Mahindra and Malik Ghulam Mohammed. He is the grandfather of Anand Mahindra, the present Chairman of Mahindra Group.
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R. Hari Kumar
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- naval officer
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Admiral Radhakrishnan Hari Kumar PVSM, AVSM, VSM, ADC is a serving flag officer in the Indian Navy. He is the 25th and current Chief of the Naval Staff (CNS). Previously, he served as the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Western Naval Command. In his prior appointments, he served as the Chief of Integrated Defence Staff, Chief of Personnel, Controller Personnel Services, the Flag Officer Commanding Western Fleet, Flag Officer Sea Training and the Chief of the Staff of the Western Naval Command. He was the Commandant of the Naval War College, Goa and served as a naval advisor to the government of Seychelles. He is an alumnus of National Defence Academy, the Naval War College, the Army War College, Mhow and the Royal College of Defence Studies.
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Devisingh Ransingh Shekhawat
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- 1934-2023 (aged 89)
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- politician
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Devisingh Ramsingh Shekhawat was an Indian agriculturist and politician who served as the first gentleman of India as the husband of President Pratibha Patil. He also served as the first gentleman of Rajasthan and also as mayor of Amravati. He was a member of the Indian National Congress.
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Gulfam Khan
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- television actoractor
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Gulfam Khan is an Indian television and film actress who works in Indian television and Bollywood Hindi cinema. She is known for playing the role of Nazneen in Aladdin - Naam Toh Suna Hoga from 2018 to 2020.
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Prafullachandra Natwarlal Bhagwati
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- judgelawyer
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Prafullachandra Natwarlal Bhagwati was the 17th Chief Justice of India, serving from 12 July 1985 until his retirement on 20 December 1986. He introduced the concepts of public interest litigation and absolute liability in India, and for this reason is held, along with Justice V. R. Krishna Iyer, to be a pioneer of judicial activism in the country. He is the longest-served supreme court judge (including Chief Justice to tenure) in India.
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Ajit Gulabchand
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- international forum participantbusiness magnate
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Ajit Gulabchand is an Indian industrialist. Gulabchand is the chairman and managing director of Hindustan Construction Company. Gulabchand serves as chairman of the board of governance at National Institute of Construction Management & Research (NICMAR) and as chairman of Walchand College of Engineering, Sangli.
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Irawati Karve
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- anthropologistwriterpoet
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Irawati Karve was a pioneering Indian sociologist, anthropologist, educationist and writer from Maharashtra, India. She was one of the students of G.S. Ghurye, founder of Indian Sociology & Sociology in India. She has been claimed to be the first female Indian Sociologist.
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Kallam Anji Reddy
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- biologist
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Kallam Anji Reddy was an Indian entrepreneur in the pharmaceutical industry, the founder-chairman of Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, which he established in 1984, and chairman of Dr Reddy's Foundation (DRF), the corporate social responsibility arm of the group, established 1996. He was a member of the Indian Prime Minister's Council on Trade and Industry.
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Iskandar Ali Mirza
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- politician
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Iskandar Ali Mirza was a Bengali-Pakistani politician, statesman and military general who served as the Dominion of Pakistan's fourth governor-general of Pakistan from 1955 to 1956, and then as the Islamic Republic of Pakistan's first president from 1956 to 1958.
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Narendra Jadhav
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- university teacherwritereconomistpoliticianacademic
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Narendra Damodar Jadhav is an Indian economist, educationist, public policy expert, professor and writer in English, Marathi and Hindi.
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Atul Kasbekar
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- fashion photographerphotographer
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Atul Kasbekar is an Indian fashion photographer, recognised for his Kingfisher Calendar shoots. He owns Bling! Entertainment Solutions and Corporate Image, and is a Bollywood film producer through partnership in Ellipsis Entertainment.
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Buck Ruxton
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- physician
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Buck Ruxton was an Indian-born physician convicted and subsequently hanged for the September 1935 murders of his common-law wife, Isabella Ruxton (née Kerr), and the family housemaid, Mary Jane Rogerson, at his home in Lancaster, England. These murders are informally known as the Bodies Under the Bridge and the Jigsaw Murders, while Ruxton himself became known as The Savage Surgeon.
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Harish Bhimani
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- actor
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Harish Bhimani is an Indian voiceover artiste, writer and anchor. He is the voice of Samay (Time), the narrator of the TV series Mahabharat.
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Madhav Gadgil
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- biologistprofessorecologist
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Madhav Dhananjaya Gadgil is an Indian ecologist, academic, writer, columnist and the founder of the Centre for Ecological Sciences, a research forum under the aegis of the Indian Institute of Science. He is a former member of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India and the Head of the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP) of 2010, popularly known as the Gadgil Commission.
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Vijaya Mehta
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- film actorscreenwritertelevision actoractorfilm director
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Vijaya Mehta, is a noted Indian Marathi film and theatre director and also an actor in many films from the Parallel Cinema. She is a founder member of Mumbai-based theatre group, Rangayan with playwright Vijay Tendulkar, and actors Arvind Deshpande and Shriram Lagoo. She is most known for her acclaimed role in film Party (1984) and for her directorial ventures, Rao Saheb (1986) and Pestonjee (1988). As the founder member of theatre group, Rangayan, she became a leading figure in the experimental Marathi theatre of the 1960s.
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I. G. Patel
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- economistbankercivil servant
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Indraprasad Gordhanbhai Patel, popularly known as I. G. Patel, was an Indian economist and a civil servant who served as the fourteenth Governor of the Reserve Bank of India from 1 December 1977 to 15 September 1982.
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Padmanabha Acharya
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- politician
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Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya was an Indian politician who was the Governor of Manipur, from 27 June 2019 to 23 July 2019 and Governor of Nagaland, from 19 July 2014 to 31 July 2019, also Governor of Arunachal Pradesh, from 28 January 2017 to 3 October 2017 and Governor of Tripura, from 21 July 2014 to 19 May 2015.
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K.C. Mahindra
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- businessperson
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Kailash Chandra Mahindra, known as K. C. Mahindra, was an Indian industrialist, who co-founded Mahindra & Mohammed in 1945 which was later renamed as Mahindra & Mahindra in 1948, with Jagdish Chandra Mahindra
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Anand Patwardhan
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- film director
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Anand Patwardhan is an Indian documentary filmmaker known for his socio-political, human rights-oriented films. Some of his films explore the rise of religious fundamentalism, sectarianism and casteism in India, while others investigate nuclear nationalism and unsustainable development. Notable films include Bombay: Our City (Hamara Shahar) (1985), In Memory of Friends (1990), In the Name of God (Ram ke Nam) (1992), Father, Son, and Holy War (1995), A Narmada Diary (1995), War and Peace (2002) and Jai Bhim Comrade (2011), and Reason (2018) which have won national and international awards.
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Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai
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- economistwriterpoliticianuniversity teacher
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Meghnad Jagdishchandra Desai, Baron Desai is an Indian-born naturalised British economist and former Labour politician. He stood unsuccessfully for the position of Lord Speaker in the House of Lords in 2011. He has been awarded the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award in the Republic of India, in 2008. He is a Professor Emeritus of the London School of Economics.
