Indian Heros and Heroines - Leaders

Thanks to Info4india for their extensive collection of Indian leaders.


Scientists and Visionaries of Technology
Jagadish Chandra Bose - my favorite scientist
JRD Tata - industrialist and visionary who started Aviation (flight) into India.
Chandrasekhar Subhramanyam
Dr.Salim Ali -ornithologist, known as Birdman
Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan - cytogeneticist and father of Green Revolution in India.
Prasanth Chandra Mahalanobis - statistician and founder of the Indian Statistical Institute.

Inspiring Women Leaders
Kiran Bedi - amazing woman police officer who made major reforms in Indian prisons.
Lata Mangeshkar
P.T.Usha - olympic medalist runner, athlete woman
Sarojini Naidu
Rani Lakshmibai
Mother Teresa

Freedom Fighters
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Lala Lajpat Rai
Bhagat Singh
Surendranath Banerjea
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Veer Savarkar
Subhash Chandra Bose
Mahatma Gandhi
Jawahar Lal Nehru
Jay Prakash Narayan
Maharana Pratap - fought against muslim invasion of India





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Prasanth Chandra Mahalanobis - statistician and founder of the Indian Statistical Institute.


Inspiring Atheletes
Prakash Padukone - athelete
Milkha Singh - athlete

Inspiring Artists
Pt. Bhimsen Joshi
Satyajit Ray - filmmaker
Zakir Hussain - genius tabla artist
Vikram Seth - writer
R K Narayan - writer
Raj Kapoor - actor
Mohammed Rafi - singer
Bismillah Khan
Pandit Ravi Shankar

Spiritual Leaders
Sri Ramakrishna - spiritual leader
Swami Vivekananda
Aravinda Ackroyd Ghosh - popularly known as Sri Aurobindo
Gautam Buddha
Adi Sankaracharya
Lord Mahavira