Ashwini Nachappa

Ashwini Nachappa is an accomplished former track and field athlete and an Indian film actress from Karnataka. Nachappa gained fame around the start of the 1980s, when she outran P.T. Usha on two occasions. She has been referred to as India's FloJo. In 1988 she received the Arjuna award. Ashwini Nachappa was born on October 21, 1967 in Kodagu, Karnataka and she is married to Datha Karaumbiah with .....

Julie Payette

Julie Payette CC CMM COM CQ CD is a Canadian engineer, scientist and former astronaut who served from 2017 to 2021 as Governor General of Canada, the 29th since Canadian Confederation. Payette holds engineering degrees from McGill University and the University of Toronto. Payette received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from McGill University in Montreal in 1986 and a master’s de.....

Virender Sehwag

Virender Sehwag is a former Indian cricketer. Widely regarded as one of the most destructive batsmen of all time, Sehwag played as an aggressive right-handed opening batsman and also bowled part-time right-arm off-spin. He played his first One Day International in 1999 and joined the Indian test side in 2001. Virender Sehwag About this soundpronunciation (help·info) (born 20 October 1978) is a f.....

Mikhail Simonov

Mikhail Petrovich Simonov was a Russian aircraft designer famed for creating the Sukhoi Su-27 fighter-bomber, the Soviet Union's answer to the American F-15 Eagle. Russian aircraft designer Mikhail Petrovich Simonov was a Russian aircraft designer famed for creating the Sukhoi Su-27 fighter-bomber, the Soviet Union's answer to the American F-15 Eagle. Born: 19 October 1929, Rostov-on-Don, Russia.....

Nirmala Deshpande

Nirmala Deshpande was a noted Indian social activist who had embraced Gandhian philosophy. She devoted her adult life to promotion of communal harmony and service to women, tribal people, and the dispossessed in India. She was awarded Padma Vibhushan, the second highest civilian award of India in 2006. and was awarded Sitara-e-Imtiaz posthumously by Pakistan in 2010 Deshpande was born to Vimala.....

Christian Friedrich Schönbein

Christian Friedrich Schönbein HFRSE was a German-Swiss chemist who is best known for inventing the fuel cell at the same time as William Robert Grove and his discoveries of guncotton and ozone Friedrich Schönbein was a chemist best known for the discovery of ozone and the invention of guncotton. He attended primary school until age 13, when he was apprenticed to a chemical and pharmaceutical fac.....

K. P. S. Menon

Kumara Padmanabha Sivasankara Menon Sr. CIE ICS, usually known as K. P. S. Menon, was a diplomat and diarist, a career member of the Indian Civil Service. He was appointed independent India's first Foreign Secretary, serving from 1948 to 1952. Kumara Padmanabha Sivasankara Menon Sr. CIE ICS, usually known as K. P. S. Menon, was a diplomat and diarist, a career member of the Indian Civil Service. H.....

Milkha Singh

Milkha Singh, also known as The Flying Sikh, was an Indian track and field sprinter who was introduced to the sport while serving in the Indian Army. He is the only athlete to win gold at 400 metres at the Asian Games as well as the Commonwealth Games. He also won gold medals in the 1958 and 1962 Asian Games. Milkha Singh, byname the Flying Sikh, an Indian track-and-field athlete who became the f.....

Anil Kumble

Anil Kumble is an Indian cricket coach, captain, former cricketer and commentator who played Test and One Day International cricket for the national team for 18 years. Anil Kumble represented the terms hard trier, match-winner, and a fighter in Indian cricket. Being India's most effective bowler in both Tests and ODIs, Kumble spearheaded the Indian bowling attack for more than a decade. Most remem.....

Robert Stephenson

Robert Stephenson FRS HFRSE FRSA DCL was an English civil engineer and designer of locomotives. The only son of George Stephenson, the "Father of Railways", he built on the achievements of his father. Robert has been called the greatest engineer of the 19th century. Robert Stephenson built on the considerable achievements of his father, George. His forward thinking enabled the significant expansi.....

Hema Malini

Hema Malini is an Indian actress, dancer, writer, director, producer, and politician. She is primarily known for her work in Hindi films. Malini made her acting debut in 1963 with the Tamil film Idhu Sathiyam. Hema Malini (born 16 October 1948) is an Indian actress, dancer, writer, director, producer, and politician.[3] She is primarily known for her work in Hindi films. Malini made her acting d.....

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam was an Indian aerospace scientist who served as the 11th president of India from 2002 to 2007. He was born and raised in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu and studied physics and aerospace engineering.A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, in full Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, an Indian scientist and politician who played a leading role in the development of India’s missile and nucl.....

W. Edwards Deming

William Edwards Deming was an American engineer, statistician, professor, author, lecturer, and management consultant. William Edwards Deming (1900-1993) is widely acknowledged as the leading management thinker in the field of quality. He was a statistician and business consultant whose methods helped hasten Japan’s recovery after the Second World War and beyond. He derived the first philosophy .....

Har Dayal

Lala Har Dayal Singh Mathur was an Indian nationalist revolutionary and freedom fighter. He was a polymath who turned down a career in the Indian Civil Service. Lala Har Dayal, Har Dayal also spelled Hardayal or Hardyal, Indian revolutionary and scholar who was dedicated to the removal of British influence in India. Har Dayal graduated from the Government College, Lahore (University of the Punj.....

Hubert Shirley-Smith

Sir Hubert Shirley-Smith, CBE, BSc, MICE was a British civil engineer. Shirley-Smith is perhaps most famous for helping to design the Howrah Bridge in Calcutta for the Indian Public Works Department in 1943. Sir Hubert Shirley-Smith, a British civil engineer who designed steel bridges in many parts of the world and was a noted writer on engineering topics. Shirley-Smith is perhaps most famous for.....

Ashok Kumar

Kumudlal Ganguly, better known by his stage name Ashok Kumar and also fondly called Dadamuni, was an Indian film actor who attained iconic status in Indian cinema and who was a member of the cinematic Ganguly family. Kumudlal Ganguly, popularly known by his screen name 'Ashok Kumar' was a legendary film actor and producer who had very finally played all lead, supportive and negative characters. H.....

Elmer Ambrose Sperry

Elmer Ambrose Sperry Sr. was an American inventor and entrepreneur, most famous for construction, 2 years after Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe, of the gyrocompass and as founder of the Sperry Gyroscope Company. He was known as the "father of modern navigation technology." Elmer Ambrose Sperry, a versatile American inventor and industrialist, best known for his gyroscopic compasses and stabilizers. As .....

M. A. Chidambaram

Muthiah Annamalai Chidambaram was an Indian industrialist and cricket administrator. He was the youngest son of Raja Sir Annamalai Chettiar, Raja of Chettinad. Chidambaram was the younger brother of M. A. Muthiah Chettiar and M. A. Ramanathan Chettiar. He started off with a scooter factory in Mumbai, Automobile Products of India in 1946 and later became the Director of the Indian Aluminium Compa.....

Dana Scott

Dana Stewart Scott is an American logician who is the emeritus Hillman University Professor of Computer Science, Philosophy, and Mathematical Logic at Carnegie Mellon University; he is now retired and lives in Berkeley, California. Dana Scott, in full Dana Stewart Scott, an American mathematician, logician, and computer scientist who was cowinner of the 1976 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour .....

Jayaprakash Narayan

Jayaprakash Narayan, popularly referred to as JP or Lok Nayak, was an Indian independence activist, theorist, socialist and political leader. Jayaprakash Narayan, also spelled Jai Prakash Narain, also called Jaya Prakash Narayan, Indian political leader and theorist. Narayan was educated at universities in the United States, where he became a Marxist. Upon his return to India in 1929, he joined .....

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