Ranbir Kapoor
Ranbir Raj Kapoor (pronounced [ɾəɳˈbiːɾ kəˈpuːɾ]; born 28 September 1982) is an Indian actor who works in Hindi-language films. He has received several accolades, including seven Filmfare Awards, and is known for his work across a range of film genres. Kapoor has featured in Forbes India's Celebrity 100 list and was included in the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world in 2026 [1] The son of actors Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh, and the grandson of actor-director Raj Kapoor, Kapoor pursued filmmaking and method acting at the…
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Hrithik Roshan
Hritik Rakesh Nagrath [1] (born 10 January 1974), known professionally as Hrithik Roshan (Hindi: [ˈɾɪt̪ɪk ɾoːʃən] [2] ), is an Indian actor and producer who works in Hindi cinema. Referred to as the millennial superstar, [3] he has portrayed a variety of characters and is known for his dancing skills. One of the highest-paid actors in India, he has won many awards, including six Filmfare Awards, of which four were for Best Actor. Starting from 2012, he has appeared in Forbes India 's Celebrity 100 several times based on his income and popularity. Roshan…
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Akshay Kumar
Akshay Hari Om Bhatia [3] (born Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia ; 9 September 1967 [4] ), known professionally as Akshay Kumar (pronounced [əkˈʂəj kʊˈmaːɾ]), is an Indian actor and film producer working in Hindi cinema. Referred to in the media as "Khiladi Kumar", [5] [6] he is the recipient of several accolades, including two National Film Awards and two Filmfare Awards. In 2009, the Government of India awarded him the Padma Shri, India's fourth-highest civilian honour. One of the most prolific actors in Indian cinema, Kumar has appeared in over 150 films in a…
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Aamir Khan
Aamir Hussain Khan [1] (pronounced [ˈaːmɪr xaːn]; born 14 March 1965) is an Indian actor, filmmaker, and television personality who works in Hindi films. Referred to as "Mr. Perfectionist" in the media, [6] [7] [8] [9] through his career spanning over 30 years, Khan has established himself as one of the most notable actors of Indian cinema. [10] [11] Khan is the recipient of numerous awards, including nine Filmfare Awards, four National Film Awards, and an AACTA Award. He was honoured by the Government of India with the Padma Shri in 2003 and the Padma…
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Salman Khan
Salman Khan [1] (pronounced [səlˈmaːn xaːn] ⓘ ; born 27 December 1965) is an Indian actor, film producer, and television personality who works primarily in Hindi cinema. In a career spanning over three decades, his awards include two National Film Awards as a film producer, and two Filmfare Awards as an actor. [3] He has acted in over 80 films. He has been cited as one of the most popular and commercially successful actors of Indian cinema, [4] [5] and was included in Forbes lists of the world's highest-paid celebrities in 2015 and 2018. [6] [7] [8]…
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Shah Rukh Khan
Shah Rukh Khan [1] (pronounced [ˈʃaːɦɾʊx xäːn] ⓘ ; born as Shahrukh Khan on 2 November 1965), popularly known by the initials SRK , is an Indian actor and film producer renowned for his work in Hindi cinema. Referred to in the media as the "Baadshah of Bollywood" and "King Khan", [2] he has appeared in more than 90 films and earned numerous accolades, including a National Film Award and 15 Filmfare Awards. [11] [12] He has been awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India, as well as the Order of Arts and Letters and Legion of Honour by the…
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Amitabh Bachchan
Amitabh Bachchan [1] (né Srivastava ; [2] born 11 October 1942) is an Indian actor, playback singer, and producer who primarily works in Hindi cinema. Widely considered one of the greatest, most accomplished and commercially successful actors in the history of Indian cinema, [8] he has starred in over 200 films. Bachchan has been called "the Angry Young Man", the Shahenshah of Bollywood, Sadi ke Mahanayak (literally meaning "superstar of the century"), Bollywood's Star of the Millennium, or simply Big B. [9] His dominance in the Indian film industry…
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Charan Singh
Chaudhary Charan Singh (23 December 1902 – 29 May 1987) was an Indian politician, peasant leader, author and an independence activist who briefly served as the prime minister of India from July 1979 to January 1980. [2] [3] Singh was principally known for his land and agricultural reform initiatives, and was Member of Parliament (MP) for Baghpat. During his premiership, he was a member of the Janata Party (Secular). He served as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh as a member of Bharatiya Kranti Dal. He also briefly served as the deputy prime minister…
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V. P. Singh
Vishwanath Pratap Singh (25 June 1931 – 27 November 2008) was an Indian politician who served as the Prime Minister of India from 1989 to 1990 and the Raja Bahadur of Manda. [8] [9] Some Pakistani historians state that Singh's family originated from a village in the Yaqubi area of District Peshawar (present-day Swabi, Pakistan), and that after the Partition of India in 1947 he moved with his mother to live at his uncle's home. [10] [11] He was educated at Allahabad University and Fergusson College in Pune. [12] In 1969, he joined the Indian National…
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I. K. Gujral
Inder Kumar Gujral (4 December 1919 – 30 November 2012) was an Indian diplomat, politician, and independence activist, who served as prime minister of India from April 1997 to March 1998. [2] Born in Punjab, he was influenced by politics as a student, and joined the All India Students Federation and the Communist Party of India. He was imprisoned for taking part in the Quit India movement. After independence, he joined the Indian National Congress party in 1964, and became a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha. He was the Minister of Information and…
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H. D. Deve Gowda
Haradanahalli Doddegowda Deve Gowda (pronunciation ⓘ ; born 18 May 1933) [2] is an Indian politician who served as the Prime minister of India for nearly 11 months, from 1996 to 1997, [3] [4] and previously as the Chief minister of Karnataka (1994 – 1996) and a Member of Parliament (MP) in the Lok Sabha. A member of the Janata Dal (Secular), he has been serving as the party's president since 1999 and has been an MP in the Rajya Sabha representing Karnataka since 2020. [5] Born in a family of farmers, Deve Gowda joined the Indian National Congress (INC)…
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P. V. Narasimha Rao
Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao (28 June 1921 – 23 December 2004) was an Indian independence activist, lawyer, [4] and politician from the Indian National Congress who served as the prime minister of India from 1991 to 1996. He was the first person from South India and the second person from a non-Hindi speaking background to be prime minister. He is known for his role in initiating India's economic liberalisation following an economic crisis in 1991, [5] [6] [7] a process that has been sustained and expanded by every successive prime minister of the…
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Morarji Desai
Morarji Ranchhodji Desai (29 February 1896 – 10 April 1995) was an Indian politician and independence activist who served as the prime minister of India between 1977 and 1979 leading the government formed by the Janata Party. During his long career in politics, he held many important posts in government such as the chief minister of Bombay State, the home minister, the finance minister, and the deputy prime minister. Following the death of Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, Desai was a strong contender for the position of Prime Minister, only to be…
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Pratibha Patil
Pratibha Devisingh Patil (born 19 December 1934), also known as Pratibha Patil Shekhawat , [1] [2] is an Indian stateswoman and lawyer who served as the president of India from 2007 to 2012. She was the first woman to become the president of India. A member of the Indian National Congress, she also served as the Governor of Rajasthan from 2004 to 2007, and was a member of the Lok Sabha from 1991 to 1996. Early life Patil was born on 19 December 1934 in the village of Nadgaon in Jalgaon district, Maharashtra, to a Marathi-speaking family. [3] [4] [5] The…
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Ram Nath Kovind
Ram Nath Kovind (Hindi: Rām Nāth Kovind , pronounced [ɾɑm nɑt̪ʰ koʋɪnd̪] ⓘ ; born 1 October 1945) is an Indian politician and lawyer who served as the president of India from 2017 to 2022. He is the first person from Uttar Pradesh as well as the first member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to become the president of India. Prior to his presidency, he served as the Governor of Bihar from 2015 to 2017 and as a Member of Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh for two successive terms. [1] [2] Prior to entering politics, he was a lawyer and he practised in the…
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Droupadi Murmu
Droupadi Murmu [1] (born Durgi Tudu ; [2] 20 June 1958) is an Indian politician who has served as the president of India since 2022. She won the 2022 presidential election from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). [3] She is the first person belonging to a tribal community and also the second woman, after Pratibha Patil, to hold the office. She is also the youngest person to occupy the post (at 64) and the first president born in independent India. [4] [5] Previously, she served as the governor of Jharkhand from 2015 to 2021, being the longest-serving…
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Pranab Mukherjee
Pranab Mukherjee (Bengali: Praṇaba Kumāra Mukhārjī , pronounced [pɾɔnob kumaɾ mukʰaɾʤi] ; 11 December 1935 – 31 August 2020) was an Indian politician who served as the president of India from 2012 until 2017. He was the first person from West Bengal to hold the office. In a political career spanning five decades, Mukherjee was a senior leader in the Indian National Congress and occupied several top ministerial portfolios in the Government of India. [2] Prior to his election as President, Mukherjee was Finance Minister from 2009 to 2012 also in 1982 to…
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A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam (/ˈʌbdʊl kəˈlɑːm/ ⓘ UB-duul kə-LAHM ; 15 October 1931 – 27 July 2015) was an Indian aerospace engineer and science administrator who served as president of India from 2002 to 2007. In 1997, he was awarded India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, for his contribution to the scientific research and modernisation of defence technology in India. [2] Born and raised in a Muslim family in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu, Kalam studied physics and aerospace engineering. He spent the next four decades as a scientist and…
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B. R. Ambedkar
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar [1] (14 April 1891 – 6 December 1956) was an Indian jurist, economist, social reformer and politician who chaired the committee that drafted the Constitution of India based on the debates of the Constituent Assembly of India and the first draft of Sir Benegal Narsing Rau. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] Ambedkar served as Law and Justice minister in the first cabinet of Jawaharlal Nehru. He later renounced Hinduism and converted to Buddhism, inspiring the Dalit Buddhist movement. [7] After graduating from Elphinstone College, University of…
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Lal Bahadur Shastri
Lal Bahadur Shastri [1] (2 October 1904 – 11 January 1966) was an Indian politician and statesman who served as the prime minister of India from 1964 to 1966. He previously served as home minister from 1961 to 1963. Shastri was born to Sharad Prasad Srivastava and Ramdulari Devi in Mughalsarai on 2 October 1904. He studied in East Central Railway Inter college and the Harish Chandra High School, which he left to join the non-cooperation movement. He worked for the betterment of the Harijans at Muzaffarpur and dropped his caste-derived surname of…
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