Biography is essential as it preserves history, educates readers, and provides motivation. Whether about world leaders, scientists, artists, or everyday people, biography offers a glimpse into the triumphs and struggles that shape lives.
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Would you like a more detailed biography of a specific person? Here is the list of biographies.
List of Famous Personalities
- Phani Sarma – Indian Actor and Film Director
- Nipon Goswami – Indian Actor
- Kedarnath Agarwal – Hindi modern poet
- Maithili Sharan Gupt – Rashtrakavi of modern India
- Makhanlal Chaturvedi – Indian poet
- Mannu Bhandari – Leading Indian author
- Mohan Rakesh – Pioneer of Nai Kahani (New Story) literary movement of Hindi Literature
- Munshi Premchand – Referred to as “Upanyas Samrat” (Emperor Among Novelists)
- Nagarjun – Prominent protagonist of modernity in Maithili
- Narendra Sharma – Indian writer
- Nirmal Verma – Pioneer of the Nai Kahani (New Story) literary movement of Hindi literature
- Rahim Das – Navaratnas in the court of the Mughal Emperor Akbar
- Ramdhari Singh Dinkar – Indian poet
- Sudama Pandey – Angry young man of Hindi Poetry
- Sumitranandan Pant – Indian Poet
- Suryakant Tripathi “Nirala” – Indian Poet of Shadowy Era who is known as Nirala
- Subhadra Kumari Chauhan – Indian Poet
- Bharatendu Harishchandra – Father of Indian modern Hindi literature and originator of Hindi Prose
- Biography of Tapan Das – Assamese actor
- Rajni Basumatary – Indian filmmaker and actress
- Jyotiba Phule – The father of Indian social revolution
- Kiran Bedi – India’s first female IPS officer
- Anna Hazare – An Indian Social worker who brought changes to Relegan Siddhi village as an ideal village
- Ram Nath Kovind – The first person from Uttar Pradesh to sworn in as President of India
- Zakir Husain – The first Muslim President of India
- Pranab Mukherjee – The first Bengali person to be sworn in as the President of India.
- Kocheril Raman Narayanan (K. R. Narayanan) – The first person of Dalit Community to be sworn in as the President of India
- Chaudhary Charan Singh – The only Prime Minister of India who did not face Parliament and who is also dubbed as “Champion of Farmers”
- Chakravarti Rajagopalachari – Former Governor-General of India
- Giani Zail Singh – The first Sikh to hold the highest prestigious position of President
- Ramaswamy Venkataraman – The Eighth President of India
- Neelam Sanjiva Reddy – The Youngest President of India to be Elected Unopposed
- Bhogeswar Baruah
- Rajendra Prasad
- Badan Chandra Borphukan
- Mamoni Raisom Goswami
- Hiren Bhattacharya
- Rabindranath Thakur (Tagore)
- Padmanath Gohain Baruah
- Nalini Bala Devi
- Santwana Bordoloi – Director
- Upendra Chandra Lekharu – Researcher of Assamese Old Literature
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan – The Second President of India
- Sheela Borthakur – Social Worker
- Sushmita Dev – Indian Politician
- Seema Biswas – Indian Film Actress
- Jahnu Barua – Assamese Film Director
- Dr. Bhupen Hazarika – Indian Singer
- Vishwanath Pratap Singh – 7th Prime Minister of India
- Vinayak Damodar Savarkar – Leader of Hindu Mahasabha
- Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao – Father of the Indian Economic Reforms
- Mohammad Hidayatullah – 11th Chief Justice and 6th Vice President of India
- Dadabhai Naoroji – Grand Old Man of India
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee – 10th Prime Minister of India
- Tantia Tope – Rebel General
- Chandra Shekhar Singh Solanki – Eighth Prime Minister of India
- Bipin Chandra Pal – Father of Revolutionary Thoughts
- Bal Gangadhar Tilak – Father of Indian Unrest
- Bhagat Singh – Indian Revolutionary
- Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit – First Women President of the United Nations General Council
- Sukhdev Thapar – Indian Revolutionary
- Nana Saheb Peshwa II – Indian Peshwa of the Maratha Empire
- Mangal Pandey – Indian Soldier and the first Martyr of India’s Freedom Movement
- Kunwar Singh – Leader & Military Commander of the Revolt of 1857
- Ashfaqulla Khan – Indian Freedom Fighter and a Martyr for Kakori Train Robbery
- Annie Besant – Founder of Home Rule League
- Nip Baruah – Assamese Film Director & Producer
- Bhabendra Nath Saikia – Film director from Assam
- Adil Hussain – Indian Actor
- Banarasidas – Businessman and Indian Poet
- Jaishankar Prasad – Modern Hindi writer
- Jainendra Kumar – Indian writer
- Agyeya – Indian writer of Hindi literature
- Amrita Pritam – Indian Novelist
- Amarkant – Indian writer in Hindi Literature
- Dharamvir Bharati – Social thinker of India
- Hazari Prasad Dwivedi – Hindi Novelist
- Ravidas – Indian mystic poet-saint of the Bhakti Movement
- Surdas – Hindu devotional poet
- Mirabai – Krishna Bhakti (Devotee of Lord Krishna)
- Medha Patkar – Indian social activist
- Mahadevi Varma – Earned the title of Modern Meera
- Shri Shri Madhavdev – The important preceptor of the Ekasarana Dharma
- Srimanta Sankardev – Assamese polymath; a saint-scholar
- Tulsidas – Indian Poet and Philosopher
- Kalidas – The Shakespeare of India
- Kamala Das – Mother of Modern Indian English Poetry
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