Jayi Rajaguru

Jayakrushna Rajaguru Mohapatra popularly known as Jayi Rajaguru was a prominent figure of the Indian independence movement in the state of Odisha. A princely-priest by profession at the court of the Khurda kingdom, Rajaguru revolted against the British Raj in the province. Jaykrushna was born in a family in which his ancestors served in the court of the King of Khurda as Rajguru. His forefathers .....

Ma Huateng

Ma Huateng, also known as Pony Ma, is a Chinese billionaire business magnate. He is the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Tencent, Asia's most valuable company, one of the largest Internet and technology companies, and one of the biggest investment, gaming and entertainment conglomerates in the world. Ma Huateng, Chinese business executive who was cofounder and CEO (1998– ) of Ten.....

Bill Gates

William Henry Gates III is an American business magnate, software developer, investor, author, and philanthropist. He is a co-founder of Microsoft, along with his late childhood friend Paul Allen. Net worth: 13,510 crores USD (2021) Forbes, Trending Entrepreneur Bill Gates founded the world's largest software business, Microsoft, with Paul Allen, and subsequently became one of the richest men in .....

Indra Nooyi

Indra Nooyi is an Indian-American business executive and former chairperson and chief executive officer of PepsiCo. She has consistently ranked among the world's 100 most powerful women. Indra Nooyi, Indian-born American businesswoman who was instrumental in the lucrative restructuring and diversification of soft-drink manufacturer PepsiCo, Inc.’s brands. Nooyi served as the company’s CEO (20.....

K. R. Narayanan

Kocheril Raman Narayanan was an Indian statesman, diplomat, academician and politician who served as the tenth president of India and ninth vice president of India.Kocheril Raman Narayanan, Indian politician and diplomat, who was the president of India from 1997 to 2002. He was the first Dalit, a member of the country’s lowest social castes, to occupy the office. Despite his family’s poverty .....

Albert Fink

Albert Fink was a German-born civil engineer who worked in the United States. He is best known for his railroad bridge designs, which helped revolutionize the use of iron for American railroad bridge construction. He devised the Fink truss and many truss bridges, especially the Fink-Type Truss Bridge. Albert Fink, a German-born American railroad engineer and executive who was the first to investig.....

Ren Zhengfei

Ren Zhengfei is a Chinese entrepreneur and engineer who is the founder and CEO of Huawei Technologies, the world's largest manufacturer of telecommunications equipment and second largest manufacturer of smartphones. .....

Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia

Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia FRS was a pioneering geologist in India and among the first Indian scientists to work in the Geological Survey of India. He is remembered for his work on the stratigraphy of the Himalayas. Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia FRS was a pioneering geologist in India and among the first Indian scientists to work in the Geological Survey of India. He is remembered for his work on the st.....

R. K. Laxman

Rasipuram Krishnaswami Laxman was an Indian cartoonist, illustrator, and humorist. He is best known for his creation The Common Man and for his daily cartoon strip, You Said It in The Times of India, which started in 1951. R. K. R.K. Laxman, in full Rasipuram Krishnaswami Laxman, an Indian cartoonist who created the daily comic strip You Said It, which chronicled Indian life and politics through t.....

Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan

Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan is an Indian space scientist who headed the Indian Space Research Organisation from 1994 to 2003. He is presently Chancellor of Central University of Rajasthan and NIIT University. He is the former chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University and the chairman of Karnataka Knowledge Commission. Dr. Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan took his Bachelor of Science with Honours and Mas.....

Frederick W. Lanchester

Frederick William Lanchester LLD, Hon FRAeS, FRS, was an English polymath and engineer who made important contributions to automotive engineering and to aerodynamics, and co-invented the topic of operations research. Frederick William Lanchester, an English automobile and aeronautics pioneer who built the first British automobile (1896). In 1891, after attending Hartley University College (now th.....

Sunil Bharti Mittal

Sunil Bharti Mittal is an Indian billionaire entrepreneur, philanthropist and the founder and chairperson of Bharti Enterprises, which has diversified interests in telecom, insurance, real estate, education, malls, hospitality, Agri and food besides other ventures. Sunil Bharti Mittal was born in a Punjabi Agrawal family. His father, Sat Paul Mittal, had been the Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha.....

Frank Spedding

Frank Harold Spedding was a Canadian American chemist. He was a renowned expert on rare earth elements, and on extraction of metals from minerals. The uranium extraction process helped make it possible for the Manhattan Project to build the first atomic bombs. Frank Harold Spedding, an American chemist who, during the 1940s and ’50s, developed processes for reducing individual rare-earth elemen.....

Deepak Chopra

Deepak Chopra is an Indian-American author and alternative medicine advocate. A prominent figure in the New Age movement, his books and videos have made him one of the best-known and wealthiest figures in alternative medicine. An expert in the field of mind-body healing, Deepak Chopra is a world-renowned speaker and author on the subject of alternative medicine. The author of numerous books on a.....

Alfred Nobel

Alfred Bernhard Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist. He is best known for having bequeathed his fortune to establish the Nobel Prize, though he also made several important contributions to science, holding 355 patents in his lifetime. Alfred Nobel, in full Alfred Bernhard Nobel,a Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist who invented dynamite and ot.....

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.....

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