C. K. Prahalad

Coimbatore Krishnarao Prahalad was a corporate and social strategist, educator and author. He was the Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor of Corporate Strategy at the University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross School of Business Prahalad was born in Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu).. His father was a Tamil scholar and judge in Madras (now Chennai). At 19, he had finished his BSc degree i.....

Giorgetto Giugiaro

Giorgetto Giugiaro is an Italian automobile designer. He has worked on supercars and popular everyday vehicles. He was born in Garessio, Cuneo, Piedmont. Giugiaro was named Car Designer of the Century in 1999 and inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame in 2002. Giorgetto Giugiaro is arguably the world’s most influential modern automotive designer. He was born in Garessio, Italy in 1938. His f.....

M. S. Swaminathan

Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan is an Indian geneticist and administrator, known for his role in India's Green Revolution. Swaminathan has been called the "Father of Green Revolution in India" for his role in introducing and further developing high-yielding varieties of wheat in India. Professor M S Swaminathan has been acclaimed by the TIME magazine as one of the twenty most influential Asians o.....

James Henry Greathead

James Henry Greathead was a mechanical and civil engineer renowned for his work on the London Underground railways, Winchester Cathedral, and Liverpool overhead railway, as well as being one of the earliest proponents of the English Channel, Irish Sea and Bristol Channel tunnels. Using his ‘Greathead Shield’, the engineer James Henry Greathead was instrumental in the building of the London Un.....

Rajendra Singh

Rajendra Singh is an Indian water conservationist and environmentalist from Alwar district, Rajasthan in India. Also known as "waterman of India", he won the Magsaysay Award in 2001 and Stockholm Water Prize in 2015. He runs an NGO called 'Tarun Bharat Sangh', which was founded in 1975. The NGO based in village hori-Bhikampura in Thanagazi tehsil, near Sariska Tiger Reserve, has been instrumental.....

Neil Armstrong

Neil Alden Armstrong was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer, and the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also a naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor. Neil A. Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, was born in Wapakoneta, Ohio.and was the son of Viola Louise and Stephen Koenig Armstrong.The family moved around the state repeatedly, living in 16 towns over th.....

M. A. Muthiah Chettiar

Raja Sir Muttaiya Annamalai Muthiah Chettiar was an Indian banker, politician, philanthropist, socialite and cultural activist who served as Mayor of Madras city and Minister of Excise and Education in the provincial government of Madras Presidency. Raja Sir Muttaiya Annamalai Muthiah Chettiar was an Indian banker, politician, philanthropist, socialite and cultural activist who served as Mayor of .....

Alan Mulally

Alan Roger Mulally is an American aerospace engineer and manufacturing executive. He is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of the Ford Motor Company. He retired from Ford Motor Company on July 1, 2014. .....

Kishore Kumar

Kishore Kumar was an Indian playback singer and actor. He was one of the most popular singers in the Indian film industry and from soft numbers to peppy tracks to romantic moods, Kumar sang in different genres but some of his rare compositions which were considered classics were lost in time. Kishore Kumar (born Abhas Kumar Ganguly was an Indian playback singer and actor. According to Ashok Kuma.....

George Francis FitzGerald

Prof George Francis FitzGerald FRS FRSE was an Irish academic and physicist who served as Erasmus Smith's Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin from 1881 to 1901. George Francis FitzGerald, a physicist who first suggested a method of producing radio waves, thus helping to lay the basis of wireless telegraphy. He also developed a theory, now known as the Lorent.....

Anu Aga

Anu Aga is an Indian billionaire businesswoman and social worker who led Thermax, an energy and environment engineering business, as its chairperson from 1996 to 2004. She was among the eight richest Indian women, and in 2007 was part of 40 Richest Indians by net worth according to Forbes magazine. She was awarded with the Mumbai Women of the Decade Achievers Award by ALL Ladies League, the all l.....

Pierre Charles L’Enfant

Pierre Charles L'Enfant was a French-American military engineer who designed the basic plan for Washington, D.C. known today as the L'Enfant Plan. Pierre Charles L’Enfant, was a French-born American engineer, architect, and urban designer who designed the basic plan for Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States. L’Enfant studied art under his father at the Royal Academy of Painti.....

Ganga Prasad Birla

Ganga Prasad Birla, born in Benares was an Indian industrialist. Ganga Prasad Birla or simply G. P. Birla (1922 – 2010) was an industrialist, educationalist and philanthropist and fourth generation member of the Birla business family. Born as the son of businessman Brij Mohan Birla and grandson of Read More

Meena Kumari

Meena Kumari was an Indian film actress and poet, who worked in Hindi films. Popularly known as The Tragedy Queen, she was active between 1939 and 1972. Kumari was described by critics as a "historically incomparable" actress of Hindi cinema. Meena Kumari[1] (born Mahjabeen Bano was an Indian film actress and poet, who worked in Hindi films. In a career spanning 33 years, she starred in about 92.....

Joseph Henry Gilbert

Sir Joseph Henry Gilbert, Fellow of the Royal Society was an English chemist, noteworthy for his long career spent improving the methods of practical agriculture. He was a fellow of the Royal Society. SIR JOSEPH HENRY GILBERT was an English chemist, born at Hull. He studied chemistry first at Glasgow under Thomas Thomson; then at University College, London, in the laboratory of A. T. Thomson (177.....

Premchand

Dhanpat Rai Srivastava, better known by his pen name Munshi Premchand, was an Indian writer famous for his modern Hindustani literature. He is one of the most celebrated writers of the Indian subcontinent, and is regarded as one of the foremost Hindi writers of the early twentieth century. Premchand, also spelled Prem Chand, pseudonym of Dhanpat Rai Srivastava, was an Indian author of novels and s.....

John Ericsson

John Ericsson was a Swedish-American inventor. He was active in England and the United States. Ericsson collaborated on the design of the railroad steam locomotive Novelty, which competed in the Rainhill Trials on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, which were won by inventor George Stephenson's, Rocket. John Ericsson, a Swedish-born American naval engineer and inventor who built the first armou.....

Henry Ford

Henry Ford was an American industrialist, business magnate, and founder of the Ford Motor Company, and chief developer of the assembly line technique of mass production. Henry Ford was an American automobile manufacturer who created the Model T in 1908 and went on to develop the assembly line mode of production, which revolutionized the automotive industry. As a result, Ford sold millions of car.....

Mehrotra Santosh

Santosh Mehrotra is a human development economist, whose research and writings have had most influence in the areas of labour, employment, skill development, child poverty, and the economics of education. He was an economic adviser in the United Nations system in New York City, Italy, and Thailand (1991–2006), and technocrat in the government of India (2006–2014), apart from making contributio.....

Henri Fayol

Henri Fayol was a French mining engineer, mining executive, author and director of mines who developed a general theory of business administration that is often called Fayolism. He and his colleagues developed this theory independently of scientific management but roughly contemporaneously. Henri Fayol was a French industrialist, mining engineer, executive, and director of mines. Fayol together wi.....

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