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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
- Baba Amte – Indian Social Worker
- Aruna Roy – President of the National Federation of Indian Women
- Vinoba Bhave – India Philosopher
- Sarbananda Sonowal – Former Chief Minister of Assam
- Syed Abdul Malik – The highest Novel writer in the field of modern Assamese prose literature.
- Mahim Bora – Indian writer who is known as The “Ronga Jia poet”
- Bhubanmohan Baruah – Novelist, Short story writer
- Mafizuddin Ahmed Hazarika – The poet of “Gyan Malini”
- Birinchi Kumar Barua – Novelist
- Padmadhar Chaliha – The Founder of Shivsagar College, Joysagar
- Rajanikanta Bordoloi – The Emperor of Assamese Novel
- Prabhat Mukherjee – Indian film director
- Parineeta Borthakur – Indian Actress
- Rani Lakshmibai – Rani of Jhansi
- Shankar Dayal Sharma – The youngest Chief Minister of Bhopal State
- Ram Prasad Bismil – Freedom Fighter who played an active role in India’s Freedom Struggle
- Biography of Gulzarilal Nanda – The Interim Prime Minister of India
- Begum Hazrat Mahal – India’s first female freedom fighter
- Morarji Desai – Fourth Prime Minister of India
- Indira Gandhi – The first female Prime Minister of India
- Rajiv Gandhi – The youngest Prime Minister of India
- Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed – The 5th President of India
- Pratibha Devi Singh Patil – First woman President of India
- Joi Barua – Indian singer and music composer from Assam
- Dipali Barthakur – Nightingale of Assam
- Rongbong Terang – Padmashree Awardee
- Indra Bania – First Assamese actor to win International Award
- Barsha Rani Bishaya
- Jitendra Nath Goswami
- Ambikagiri Raichoudhury
- Amalendu Guha
- Aideo Handique
- Biography of Maniram Dewan
- Kumar Bhaskar Varman
- Biography of Kushal Konwar
- Jyoti Prasad Agarwala
- Biography of Lala Lajpat Rai
- Biography of Mahatma Gandhi
- Biography of Subhas Chandra Bose
- Biography of Tarun Gogoi
- Varahgiri Venkata Giri
- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
- Dev Kanta Barooah
- Harishankar Brahma
- Jawaharlal Nehru
- Lal Bahadur Shastri
- Biography of Achyut Lahkar
- Biography of Kanaklata Barua
- Biography of Dipankar Bhattacharjee
- Biography of Tayabun Nisha
- Sarojini Naidu
- Tarun Ram Phukan
- Gunaram Khanikar
- Biography of Indira Miri
- Biography of Joyanti Chutia
- Nomal Chandra Borah
- Biography of Lachit Borphukan
- Swami Vivekananda
- Uddhab Bharali
- Hemchandra Goswami
- Krishna Kanta Handique
- Lakshminath Bezbaruah
- Manmohan Singh
- Biography of Homen Borgohain
- Biography of Nilmani Phookan
- Raghunath Choudhary
- Biography of Queen Ojha
- Biography of Ananda Chandra Agarwala
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