M. Venkaiah Naidu

Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu is an Indian politician and the current Vice President of India and the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, in office since 11 August 2017. Previously, he served as the Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Urban Development and Information and Broadcasting in the Modi Cabinet. arlier, he was the Union Cabinet Minister for Rural Development in the Atal Bihari Vajp.....

Vladimir Chelomey

Vladimir Nikolayevich Chelomey or Chelomei was a Soviet mechanics scientist, aviation and missile engineer. He invented the first Soviet pulse jet engine and was responsible for the development of the world's first anti-ship cruise missiles and ICBM complexes like the UR-100, UR-200, UR-500 and UR-700. From the beginning of the Great Patriotic War in 1941, Chelomey worked at the Baranov Central I.....

C. N. R. Rao

Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao FRS, also known as C. N. R. Rao, is an Indian chemist who has worked mainly in solid-state and structural chemistry. He has honorary doctorates from 83 universities from around the world, and has authored around 1,770 research publications and 53 books. Dr Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao, Linus Pauling Research Professor and Honorary President of the Jawaharlal.....

Pierre-Paul Riquet

Pierre-Paul Riquet, Baron de Bonrepos was the engineer and canal-builder responsible for the construction of the Canal du Midi. Pierre-Paul, Baron Riquet de Bonrepos, a French public official and self-made engineer who constructed the epochal 240-km (149-mile) Midi Canal (also called the Languedoc Canal) connecting the Garonne River to the Aude River, thus linking the Atlantic Ocean and the Medit.....

Elon Musk

Elon Reeve Musk FRS is an entrepreneur and business magnate. He is the founder, CEO, and Chief Engineer at SpaceX; early stage investor, CEO, and Product Architect of Tesla, Inc.; founder of The Boring Company; and co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI. A centibillionaire, Musk is one of the richest people in the world. Elon Musk is one of the greatest and most prolific modern inventors and is respon.....

P. V. Narasimha Rao

Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao was an Indian lawyer and politician who served as the 10th Prime Minister of India from 1991 to 1996. His ascendancy to the prime ministership was politically significant in that he was the second holder of this office from a non-Hindi-speaking region and the first from South India. Son of Shri P. Ranga Rao, Shri P.V. Narasimha Rao was born on June 28, 1921 at K.....

P. T. Usha

Pilavullakandi Thekkeparambil Usha, IPA, is a retired Indian track and field athlete. She has been associated with Indian athletics since 1979. She is often called the "queen of Indian track and field". Usha was first noticed in 1977 by O. M. Nambiar, an athletics coach, at a sports prize-distribution ceremony ,, he began coaching her. Quick results followed when she won six medals at the inter-s.....

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee or Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, CIE was an Indian novelist, poet and journalist. He was the composer of Vande Mataram, originally in Sanskrit, personifying India as a mother goddess and inspiring activists during the Indian Independence Movement. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee also known as Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay was one of the greatest novelists and poets of India. He .....

Bill Lear

William Powell Lear was an American inventor and businessman. He is best known for founding the Lear Jet Corporation, a manufacturer of business jets. He also invented the battery eliminator for the B battery, and developed the 8-track cartridge, an audio tape system. .....

Dharmendra Pradhan

Dharmendra Pradhan is an Indian politician who is the Minister for Petroleum & Natural Gas and Steel in the Government of India and son of a former minister of state Debendra Pradhan. Dharmendra Pradhan was an eminent politician hailing from Orissa. He is the son of former BJP MP Dr. Debendra Pradhan. Leadership qualities were visible in him from his college days. He soon became the A.B.V.P. acti.....

Anil Shetty

Anil Shetty is an Indian social leader, time investor, entrepreneur, author, activist and a motivational speaker, based in India. He is the lead campaigner of "Save Govt Schools" movement in Karnataka. He is named as top 10 Yuva Kannadiga 2018 by Karnataka’s no 1 daily newspaper Vijayakarntaka Anil Shetty is an Indian social leader, time investor, entrepreneur, author, activist and a motivationa.....

Hermann Oberth

Hermann Julius Oberth was an Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and engineer. He is considered one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics, along with the French Robert Esnault-Pelterie, the Russian Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, and the American Robert Goddard. Herman Oberth grew up in the country of Romania. As a young man, Oberth got scarlet fever and was sent to Italy to recover. Wh.....

Gautam Adani

Gautam Shantilal Adani is an Indian billionaire industrialist and philanthropist who is the chairman and founder of the Adani Group -- an Ahmedabad-based multinational conglomerate involved in port development and operations in India. Gautam Shantilal Adani is an Indian billionaire industrialist and philanthropist who is the chairman and founder of the Adani Group -- an Ahmedabad-based multinati.....

Ellison Onizuka

Ellison Shoji Onizuka was an American astronaut, engineer, and USAF test pilot from Kealakekua, Hawaii, who successfully flew into space with the Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-51-C. Ellison was born , in Kealakekua, Kona, Hawaii, a simple rural community. From these humble beginnings, Ellison formulated his dream of venturing into space. Ellison excelled in school, graduating from Konawaena Hi.....

Prashant Bhushan

rashant Bhushan is an Indian public interest lawyer in the Supreme Court of India. He was a member of the faction of the India Against Corruption movement known as Team Anna which supported Anna Hazare's campaign for the implementation of the Jan Lokpal Bill. After a split in IAC, he helped Team Anna form the Aam Aadmi Party. In 2015, he made several allegations against the party's leadership, it.....

Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu

Dieudonné Sylvain Guy Tancrède de Gratet de Dolomieu usually known as Déodat de Dolomieu was a French geologist. The mineral and the rock dolomite and the largest summital crater on the Piton de la Fournaise volcano were named after him. Dieudonné Dolomieu, also called Déodat De Gratet De Dolomieu, a French geologist and mineralogist after whom the mineral dolomite was named. A member of the.....

Jiro Horikoshi

Jiro Horikoshi was the chief engineer of many Japanese fighter designs of World War II, including the Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter.Jiro Horikoshi was the chief engineer of many Japanese fighter designs of World War II, including the Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter. Born: 22 June 1903, Fujioka, Gunma, Japan Died: 11 January 1982, Tokyo, Japan Jiro Horikoshi was born near the city of Fujioka, Gunma Pref.....

Konrad Zuse

Konrad Zuse was a German civil engineer, pioneering computer scientist, inventor and businessman. His greatest achievement was the world's first programmable computer; the functional program-controlled Turing-complete Z3 became operational in May 1941. Konrad Zuse was born in Berlin, Germany. In 1935, he graduated from the Technische Hochschule Berlin-Charlottenburg in civil engineering. After g.....

Johan August Brinell

August Brinell was a Swedish Metallurgical Engineer. Brinell is noted as the creator of a method for quantifying the surface hardness of materials, now known as the Brinell hardness test. His name is also commemorated in the description of a failure mechanism of material surfaces known as Brinelling. Johan August Brinell, Swedish metallurgist who devised the Brinell hardness test, a rapid, nondes.....

Abhinandan Varthaman

Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman VrC is an Indian Air Force fighter pilot who, during the 2019 India–Pakistan standoff, was held captive in Pakistan for 60 hours after his aircraft was shot down in an aerial dogfight. He was awarded a medal by the Indian government for shooting down of a PAF F-16 with his MiG-21 Bison. Pakistan released videos and images showing Varthaman being rescued fro.....

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