Gautam Adani
Gautam Shantilal Adani (Gujarati: [ɡəʊt̪əm ʃãn̪t̪ilal əd̪aɳiː]) (born 24 June 1962) is an Indian billionaire businessman who is the founder and chairman of the Adani Group, a multinational conglomerate involved in port development and operations in India. [1] [2] As of June 2026, Adani is ranked as the second richest person in India and 24th in the world, with a net worth of $89.6 billion. [3] In 2022, Time magazine included him in the 100 most influential people in the world. [4] As a teenager, Adani moved to Mumbai in 1978 to work as a diamond sorter…
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Mukesh Ambani
Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani (born 19 April 1957) is an Indian businessman. He is the chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries, the largest public company in India by market capitalisation in 2025. As of June 2026, he is the richest person in Asia and the 22nd richest in the world, with a net worth of US$91.8 billion. [5] [6] He has attracted fame due to his growth and wealth, and criticism for being a plutocrat, [7] and reports of market manipulation, political corruption, cronyism, and exploitation. [8] [9] [10] [11] Born in 1957 to Dhirubhai…
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Sunil Chhetri
Sunil Chhetri [27] (born 3 August 1984) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a forward for and captains the Indian Super League club Bengaluru. He is the all-time top scorer in ISL history, [30] the fourth-highest international goalscorer, [31] [32] and the most-capped player and all-time top goalscorer of the India national team. He is known for his pace, technique, and dribbling ability. Chhetri began his professional career at Mohun Bagan in 2002, [33] [34] moving to JCT where he scored 21 goals in just 48 games. [35] Sunil was part of…
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D. Gukesh
Gukesh Dommaraju (born 29 May 2006), also known as Gukesh D , is an Indian chess grandmaster and the reigning World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, Gukesh is the youngest undisputed [1] World Champion; the youngest player to have surpassed a FIDE rating of 2750, doing so at the age of 17; and the third-youngest to have surpassed 2700 Elo at age 16. He earned the title of grandmaster at age 12 and is the fourth-youngest grandmaster in chess history. Gukesh started playing chess at age 7. He won the under-12 title at the World Youth Chess Championship in…
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R. Praggnanandhaa
Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa (born 10 August 2005), commonly known as Pragg , is an Indian chess grandmaster. A former chess prodigy, he placed second in the 2023 Chess World Cup, and won the 2025 FIDE Circuit. He was part of the Indian team that won the silver medal at the 2022 Asian Games in the men's team competition, and the gold medal in the open section at the 45th Chess Olympiad in 2024. Early and personal life Praggnanandhaa was born to a Tamil-speaking family in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on 10 August 2005. [1] His father, Rameshbabu, works as a branch…
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Abhinav Bindra
Abhinav Bindra (born 28 September 1982) is an Indian former sport shooter and a businessman. [1] He is an Olympic gold medalist as well as the first and one of only two Indians to win an individual Olympic gold medal. [2] [3] Bindra is also the first Indian to have held concurrently the World and Olympic titles for the men's 10-metre air rifle event, having earned those honours at the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2006 World Championships. Bindra has won seven medals at the Commonwealth Games and three medals at the Asian Games. With more than 150 medals…
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Viswanathan Anand
Viswanathan " Vishy " Anand (born 11 December 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster. Anand is a four-time undisputed World Chess Champion, a FIDE World Chess Champion [2] , a two-time World Rapid Chess Champion, and a World Blitz Chess Champion. He became the first grandmaster from India in 1988 and became the fourth player in history to pass the 2800 Elo mark on the FIDE rating list In April 2006. [3] He occupied the number-one position for 21 months, the sixth-longest period on record, and has the eighth-highest peak FIDE rating of all time. [4] Anand…
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Manu Bhaker
Manu Bhaker (born 18 February 2002) is an Indian sport shooter. She has 2 medals at the Olympic Games, 23 medals at the World Championships and World Cups, as well as 12 medals at the Asian Games and Asian Championships. [2] At the 2024 Olympics, she became the first Indian woman shooter to win a medal by clinching the bronze in the 10m pistol event. [3] She won another bronze in 10m pistol mixed team, becoming the first Indian to win two medals in a single Olympic Games. [4] Bhaker is also the youngest Indian to win gold medals at the World Cup. [5]…
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Mary Kom
Mangte Chungneijang "Mary" Kom [2] (born 24 November 1982) [1] is an Indian Olympic boxer, politician, and former Member of Rajya Sabha. [3] [4] [5] She is the only woman to win the World Amateur Boxing Championship six times, the only female boxer to have won a medal in each one of the first seven World Championships, and the only boxer (male or female) to win eight World Championship medals. [6] [7] [8] [9] Nicknamed Magnificent Mary , she was the only Indian female boxer to have qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics, where she competed in the…
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Saina Nehwal
Saina Nehwal (pronunciation ⓘ ; born 17 March 1990) is a former Indian badminton player. A former world no. 1, she has won 24 international titles, which include ten Superseries titles. Although she reached the world's 2nd in 2009, it was only in 2015 that she was able to attain the world no. 1 ranking, thereby becoming the only female player from India and thereafter the second Indian player – after Prakash Padukone – to achieve this feat. [7] She has represented India three times in the Olympics, winning a bronze medal in her second appearance at…
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P. V. Sindhu
Pusarla Venkata Sindhu (born 5 July 1995) is an Indian badminton player. [2] Considered as one of India's most successful athletes, Sindhu has won medals at tournaments such as the Olympic Games, the World Championships, and on the World Tour. She is the first and only Indian to become the badminton world champion and only the second individual from India to win two consecutive medals at the Olympic Games. [6] She rose to a career-high world ranking of No. 2 in April 2017. [7] Sindhu broke into the top 20 of the BWF World Rankings in September 2012, at…
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Neeraj Chopra
Lieutenant Colonel Neeraj Chopra PVSM VSM (born 24 December 1997) is an Indian javelin thrower. He has won gold medals at the Olympic Games, World Championships, Commonwealth Games, Asian Championships and Asian Games. [10] Chopra has won the Diamond League once. He won the Olympic gold medal in 2020 and became the first Asian javelin thrower to do so. [11] He became the first Asian to win a gold medal in javelin throw at the 2023 World Championships. Chopra finished in the top two in 26 consecutive tournaments from June 2021 to September 2025, the…
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Sourav Ganguly
Sourav Chandidas Ganguly [1] [2] [3] (Bengali: [ʃou̯ɾɔbʱ t͡ʃoɳɖid̪aʃ ɡɔŋɡopad̪ʱːae̯] ⓘ ; born 8 July 1972) is an Indian cricket administrator and former cricketer and captain of the Indian national cricket team. He is popularly called the Maharaja of Indian Cricket . [4] He is regarded as one of India's most successful cricket captains. [5] As captain, he led Indian national team to win the 2002 ICC Champions Trophy and reach the final of the 2003 Cricket World Cup, the 2000 ICC Champions Trophy and the 2004 Asia Cup. [6] Ganguly scored 11,363 runs in…
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Sunil Gavaskar
Sunil Manohar Gavaskar (Marathi pronunciation: [suniːl ɡaːʋəskəɾ]; born 10 July 1949), is an Indian cricket commentator and former cricketer. He captained the Indian national cricket team while representing India and Mumbai from 1971 to 1987. He was the first batsman to pass 10,000 runs in Test cricket. [2] Gavaskar is acknowledged as one of the greatest opening batsmen of all time. Gavaskar was widely admired for his technique against fast bowling, with a particularly high average of 65.45 against the West Indies, who possessed a four-pronged fast…
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Kapil Dev
Kapildev Ramlal Nikhanj (pronunciation: [kəpil deːʋ] born 6 January 1959) is an Indian former cricket team captain. Regarded as one of the greatest all-rounders in the history of cricket, he was a fast-medium bowler and a hard-hitting middle-order batsman. [4] Dev is the only player in the history of cricket to have taken more than 400 wickets (434 wickets) and scored more than 5,000 runs in Test cricket. [5] Dev was the captain of the Indian cricket team that won the 1983 Cricket World Cup. [6] Dev is first captain of Indian heritage to win the Cricket…
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Yuvraj Singh
Yuvraj Singh (born 12 December 1981) is an Indian former international cricketer who played in all formats of the game. An all-rounder who batted left-handed in the middle order and bowled slow left-arm orthodox, he has won 7 Player of the Series awards in One Day International cricket, which is the joint third-highest by an Indian cricketer, shared with former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly. He is the son of former Indian cricketer and actor Yograj Singh. Singh was a member of the Indian cricket team in ODIs from 2000 to 2017 and played his first Test…
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Hardik Pandya
Hardik Himanshu Pandya (born 11 October 1993) is an Indian international cricketer who plays for the Indian cricket team. He is an all-rounder who is a right-handed middle-order batsman and right arm fast-medium bowler. He is considered one of the best all-rounders in the world in white-ball cricket. Pandya is the first fast-bowling all-rounder in T20Is to complete 1,000 runs and 100 wickets. He captains Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League and occasionally plays for Baroda in domestic cricket. He has captained the Indian team in white-ball…
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Jasprit Bumrah
Jasprit Jasbirsingh Bumrah (Punjabi: [dʒəsˈpɾiːt̪ bʊmˈɾaː]; born 6 December 1993) is an Indian International cricketer who plays for the Indian national cricket team in all formats of this game and has captained India in Tests and T20Is. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest bowlers in the history of cricket. Bumrah became the first bowler to reach the No. 1 position in the ICC Men's Player Rankings across all three formats and the first Indian bowler to take 100 wickets in Tests, One Day Internationals, and Twenty20 Internationals. He represents…
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Rohit Sharma
Rohit Gurunath Sharma (born 30 April 1987) is an Indian international cricketer and the former captain of the India national cricket team in all formats of the game. [6] He is a right-handed top-order batter. He represents Mumbai in domestic cricket and Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League. Sharma was a member of the teams that won the 2007 T20 World Cup, the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy and was the winning captain of the 2024 T20 World Cup and the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy. Sharma is widely regarded as a modern-day great, known for his leadership…
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MS Dhoni
Mahendra Singh Dhoni ([məˈɦeːnd̪ɾə ˈsɪŋɡʱ ˈd̪ʱoːniː] ⓘ ; born 7 July 1981) is an Indian professional cricketer who plays as a right-handed batter and a wicket-keeper. Widely regarded as one of the most prolific wicket-keeper batsmen and captains, he represented the Indian cricket team and was the captain of the team in limited overs formats from 2007 to 2017 and in Test cricket from 2008 to 2014. Dhoni has captained the most number of international matches and is the most successful Indian captain. He has led India to victory in the 2007 ICC World…
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