Ram Nath Kovind

Ram Nath Kovind is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current president of India since his inauguration in 2017. He is also the first person from Uttar Pradesh to serve as President of India. He was the second person from the Dalit caste, after Kocheril Raman Narayanan, and the first member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to hold the office. Kovind grew up in humble circumstances in.....

S. Rm. M. Annamalai Chettiar

Raja Sir Satappa Ramanatha Muttaiya Annamalai Chettiar KCSI known simply as Rajah Annamalai Chettiar, was an Indian industrialist, banker, educationist and philanthropist, who is largely remembered for his social work and endowments in Tamil Nadu. He is the founder of Annamalai University in Chidambaram. Born to S. Rm. Muthiah Chettiar of a wealthy and famous Nagarathar family, Annamalai Chettiar.....

Nora Stanton Barney

Nora Stanton Blatch Barney, née Nora Stanton Blatch, an American civil engineer, architect, and suffragist whose professional and political activities built on her family’s tradition of women leaders. Nora Stanton Blatch was the daughter of Harriot Stanton Blatch and the granddaughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, both of whom were leaders of the women’s rights movement in the United States. Aft.....

Walther Rathenau

Walther Rathenau, a German-Jewish statesman, industrialist, and philosopher who organized Germany’s economy on a war footing during World War I and, after the war, as minister of reconstruction and foreign minister, was instrumental in beginning reparations payments under the Treaty of Versailles obligations and in breaking Germany’s diplomatic isolation. Rathenau was the son of Emil Rathenau,.....

Brajesh Mishra

India's first National Security Advisor Brajesh Mishra, was a pivotal figure in shaping foreign policy during NDA government and a troubleshooter of prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. A career diplomat, he had served as India's Permanent Representative to the United Nations and as Ambassador to Indonesia. He retired as Secretary in the External Affairs Ministry. He had played a key role in India.....

Seymour Cray

Seymour Roger Cray was an American electrical engineer and supercomputer architect who designed a series of computers that were the fastest in the world for decades, and founded Cray Research which built many of these machines. Seymour R. Cray, an, American electronics engineer and computer designer who was the preeminent designer of the large high-speed computers known as supercomputers. Cray g.....

Lata Mangeshkar

Lata Mangeshkar is an Indian playback singer and music director. She is one of the best known and most respected playback singers in India. Lata Mangeshkar, also known as the 'Nightingale of India', is one of the most versatile singers in the Indian film industry. Lata was born on September 28, 1929, to classical singer and theatre artist Pandit Deenanath Mangeshkar and Shevanti in Indore, Madhya .....

Robert Edwards

Sir Robert Geoffrey Edwards CBE FRS MAE was an English physiologist and pioneer in reproductive medicine, and in-vitro fertilisation in particular. Robert Edwards, in full Sir Robert Geoffrey Edwards a British medical researcher who developed the technique of in vitro fertilization (IVF). Edwards, together with British gynecologist Patrick Steptoe, refined IVF for the human egg. Their work made .....

William Willcocks

Sir William Willcocks KCMG was a British civil engineer during the high point of the British Empire. He was an irrigation engineer who proposed and built the first Aswan Dam, the scale of which had never been attempte28 July 1932, Cairo, Egyptd previously. Sir William Willcocks, a British civil engineer who proposed and designed the first Aswān (Assuan) Dam and executed major irrigation projects .....

Danny Hillis

Danny Hillis, in full William Daniel Hillis, Jr., an American, is the son of a U.S. Air Force epidemiologist. Hillis spent his early years traveling abroad with his family and being homeschooled. He developed an interest in biology, while his mother nurtured his interest in mathematics. Hillis, at the age of nine, built his first “computer” out of a phonograph player; he later built a tic-tac.....

Prof. Satish Dhawan

Prof. Satish Dhawan was an Indian rocket scientist who was born in Srinagar, India. Dhawan was a graduate of the University of the Punjab in Lahore, now in Pakistan, where he completed a Bachelor of Science in physics and mathematics, a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Master of Arts in English literature. In 1947, he completed a Master of Science degree in aerospace engineering f.....

Bhikaiji Cama

Bhikaiji Cama, née Bhikaiji Patel, Bhikaiji also spelled Bhikaji, also known as Madame Cama,, Indian political activist and advocate for women’s rights who had the unique distinction of unfurling the first version of the Indian national flag—a tricolour of green, saffron, and red stripes—at the International Socialist Congress held at Stuttgart, Germany, in 1907. Born to an extremely wealt.....

Georges Claude

Georges Claude, an engineer, chemist, and inventor of the neon light, which found widespread use in signs and was the forerunner of the fluorescent light. In 1897 Claude discovered that acetylene gas could be transported safely by dissolving it in acetone. His method was generally adopted and brought a wide expansion to the acetylene industry. Independently of the German chemist Carl von Linde, he.....

Fred C. Koch

Fred Chase Koch was an American chemical engineer and entrepreneur who founded the oil refinery firm that later became Koch Industries, a privately held company which, under the principal ownership leadership of Koch's sons Charles and David, was listed by Forbes in 2015 as the second-largest privately held company in the United States. Fred C Koch was an American chemical engineer and entrepreneu.....

Padamji Ginwala

Sir Padamji Pestonji Ginwala was a noted Parsi barrister, economist and public figure based at Bombay, later at Rangoon and lastly at Calcutta. He was born in Ankleshwar in Gujarat to Pestonji Nusserwanji and did his early education from Ahmadabad from government school. He completed his study of Law from University of Cambridge (Trinity Hall)[2] and was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1897.....

V. S. Srinivasa Sastri

Valangaiman Sankaranarayana Srinivasa Sastri CH PC was an Indian politician, administrator, educator, orator and Indian independence activist. He was acclaimed for his oratory and command over the English language. Srinivasa Sastri was born to a poor temple priest in the village of Valangaiman near Kumbakonam, India. Srinivasa Sastri, in full Valangiman Sankarana-rayana Srinivasa Sastri, (born Se.....

Vijay Bhargava

Vijay K. Bhargava is a researcher and Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia. He served the department as its Head for 5 years. A tireless leader, Dr. Vijay K. Bhargava has served the IEEE in a number of roles for over two decades. Currently on the Board of Directors of the IEEE Information Theory Society and a Distinguished Speake.....

John Loudon McAdam

Scottish civil engineer John Loudon McAdam was a Scottish civil engineer and road-builder. He was the inventor of "macadamisation", an effective and economical method of constructing roads. John Loudon McAdam, a Scottish inventor of the macadam road surface. John Loudon McAdam was the youngest of 10 children of James McAdam and Susanna Cochrane. He was born in Ayr before the family moved to Lagwyn.....

Gurajada Apparao

Gurajada Venkata Apparao was a noted Indian playwright, dramatist, poet, and writer known for his works in Telugu theatre. Rao wrote the play Kanyasulkam in 1892, which suhas considered the greatest play in the Telugu language గురజాడ అప్పారావు 1862 సెప్టెంబర్ 21 - 1915 నవంబర్ 30) ప్రముఖ తెలుగు రచయిత. �.....

Sekhar Basu

Sekhar Basu was an Indian nuclear scientist who served as the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Atomic Energy. Sekhar Basu served as the Director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), the Project Director of the Nuclear Submarine Program. He was a recipient of India's fourth highest civilian honor Padma Shri in 2014. He is credited.....

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