Charles Gordon Curtis

Charles Gordon Curtis (April 20, 1860 in Boston – March 1953 in Central Islip, Suffolk County, New York) was an American engineer, inventor, and patent attorney. He is best known as the developer of the eponymous Curtis steam turbine Curtis graduated in 1881 from Columbia University with a degree in civil engineering, followed by two years at New York Law School.After graduating in 1883, Curtis .....

Mathikere Sampige Ramaiah

M. S. Ramaiah (Kannada: ಎಂ. ಎಸ್. ರಾಮಯ್ಯ) was a renowned educationist, philanthropist, infrastructure visionary, industrialist, and a pioneer in creating several landmark infrastructure projects in India. Mathikere Sampangi Ramaiah was born on 20 April 1922, in Madhugiri to Sampangappa and Narasamma. He completed his primary education in Mathikere, which was then in the outski.....

Mukesh Ambani

Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani is an Indian billionaire businessman, and the chairman, managing director, and largest shareholder of Reliance Industries Ltd., a Fortune Global 500 company and India's most valuable company by market value. He is the Indian business mogul who is the chairman and managing director of the Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries Limited, the foremost company of the Indian ene.....

R. N. Arogyasamy Mudaliar

Diwan Bahadur Rayapuram Nallaveeran Arogyaswamy Mudaliar (18 April 1870 – 30 January 1933) was an Indian politician and civil engineer who served as the Minister of Excise, Medical Administration and six other departments in the Madras Presidency from 1926 to 1928. As a student of Madras Christian College, he performed brilliantly standing topmost in his class. He went on to complete his Civil E.....

Dhondo Keshav Karve

Dhondo Keshav Karve popularly known as Maharshi Karve, was a social reformer in India in the field of women's welfare He advocated widow remarriage and he himself married a widow. In his honour, Karvenagar in Pune was named after him & Queen's Road in Mumbai (Bombay) was renamed to Maharshi Karve Road. Karve was a pioneer in promoting widows' education founded indian women University .The Govern.....

Ferdinand Piëch

Ferdinand Karl Piëch was an Austrian business magnate, engineer and executive who was the chairman of the executive board of Volkswagen Group in 1993–2002 and the chairman of the supervisory board of Volkswagen Group in 2002–2015 A grandson of Ferdinand Porsche, Piëch started his career at Porsche, before leaving for Audi after an agreement that no member of the Porsche or Piëch families sh.....

Namas Chandra

Namas Chandra is the Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Director, Center for Injury Bio-mechanics, Materials, and Medicine at New Jersey Institute of Technology. He held Elmer-Koch Professorship of Engineering and recent past Associate Dean for research and Graduate Studies at the College of Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln . He is the Director of $5.8 M UNL-Army Center for T.....

Kandukuri Veeresalingam

Rao Bahadur Kandukuri Veeresalingam Pantulu was a social reformer and writer from the Madras Presidency, British India. He is considered as the father of the Telugu Renaissance movement. He was one of the early social reformers who encouraged the education of women and the remarriage of widows. He also fought against child marriage and the dowry system. He started a school in Dowlaiswaram in 1874......

Charlie Chaplin

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin KBE was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, The Tramp, and is considered one of the most important figures in the history of the film industry. His career spanned more than 75 years, from childhood in the Victorian era until a year before his death in 1977, and.....

Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, sculptor, architect, draughtsman, theorist, engineer and scientist. Leonardo da Vinci was an artist, scientist, and inventor during the Italian Renaissance. He is considered by many to be one of the most talented and intelligent people of all time. The term Renaissance Man (someone who does many things v.....

Guru Nanak

Gurū Nānak, also referred to as Bābā Nānak, was the founder of Sikhism and is the first of the ten Sikh Gurus. His birth is celebrated worldwide as Guru Nanak Gurpurab on Katak Pooranmashi, i.e. October–November. Nanak's religious ideas draw on both Hindu and Islamic thought, but are far more than just a synthesis. Nanak was an original spiritual thinker and expressed his thoughts in extrao.....

Arogyaswami Paulraj

Arogyaswami J. Paulraj is an Indian-American electrical engineer, academic. He is a Professor Emeritus in the Dept. of Elect. Engg. at Stanford University. He joined the Indian Navy at age 15 through the National Defense Academy,and served for 26 years. Paulraj received a B.E. in electrical engineering from the Naval College of Engineering, Lonavala, India, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering f.....

B. R. Ambedkar

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar popularly also known as Babasaheb, was an Indian jurist, political leader, philosopher, anthropologist, historian, orator, economist, teacher, and editor. He was also the Chairman of the Drafting Committee of Indian Constitution. Born into a poor Mahar (considered an Untouchable caste) He was independent India's first law and justice minister, the principal architect of the .....

Richard Trevithick

Richard Trevithick was a British inventor and mining engineer from Cornwall, UK. The son of a mining captain, and born in the mining heartland of Cornwall, Trevithick was immersed in mining and engineering from an early age. Richard Trevithick was a British inventor and mining engineer from Cornwall who is best known as an early pioneer of steam-powered road and rail transport. He went on to devel.....

Sukhi Turner

Dame Sukhinder Kaur Gill Turner DNZM (born Sukhinder Kaur Gill, 13 April 1952), commonly known as Sukhi Turner, is an Indian-born-New Zealand politician who served as the Mayor of Dunedin, New Zealand, from 1995 until her retirement from the position in 2004. She was also regarded by some as New Zealand's most prominent politician from the country's Indian community. Turner was born in Ludhiana, t.....

William Cookworthy

William Cookworthy was an English Quaker minister, a successful pharmacist and an innovator in several fields of technology. He was the first person in Britain to discover how to make hard-paste porcelain, like that imported from China. He subsequently discovered china clay in Cornwall ECookworthy was apprenticed at 14 to a London apothecary, who later set him up in a business, Bevans and Cookwort.....

R. D. Banerji

Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay, also known as R D Banerji, was an Indian archaeologist and museum expert. He was the Manindra Chandra Nandy Professor of Ancient Indian History and Culture at the Banaras Hindu University from 1928–30. He is best known as the discoverer of Mohenjo-daro, the principal site of the Indus Valley Civilisation. Bandyopadhyay was born in Berhampore of Murshidabad District in .....

Jyotirao Govindrao Phule

Jyotirao Govindrao Phule was an Indian social activist, thinker, anti-caste social reformer and writer from Maharashtra. His work extended to many fields, including eradication of untouchability and the caste system and for his efforts in educating women and exploited caste people. Jyotirao Govindrao Phule was an Indian writer, social activist, thinker and anti-caste social reformer from Maharasht.....

Kasturba Mohandas Gandhi

Kasturbai "Kasturba" Mohandas Gandhi was an Indian political activist. She married Mohandas Gandhi in 1883. In association with her husband and son, she was involved in the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. She was very influenced by her husband Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, a.k.a. Mahatma Gandhi. Kasturba Kapadia was born to Gokuladas Kapadia, a wealthy merchant, and his wife, Vr.....

Ghanshyam Das Birla

Ghanshyam Das Birla, founder of the Birla empire, was a man of many parts It is often said that the biggest reason for GD's business success was his sixth sense for being in the right business at the right time. Ghanshyam Das Birla, GD, as he was fondly referred to, had financed political parties but only once run for a political office, set up colleges though his own formal education stopped at a.....

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