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Famous personalities of India

Short, sourced profiles — sector, state, honours, facts and quotes. Money figures always name their source and year; estimates are marked.

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Benegal Rama Rau Banking & finance Benegal Rama Rau Indian banker and judge (1889-1969) 1889–1969 Bhimsen Joshi Classical music Bhimsen Joshi Indian Hindustani classical vocalist (1922–2011) 1922–2011 · Karnataka Bidhan Chandra Roy Politics & governance Bidhan Chandra Roy Former Chief Minister of West Bengal, India (1882–1962) 1882–1962 · Bihar Bismillah Khan Music Bismillah Khan Indian shehnai player (1916–2006) 1916–2006 · Bihar Brahmananda Saraswati Religion & spirituality Brahmananda Saraswati Indian spiritual master (1868-1953) 1868–1953 · Uttar Pradesh C. K. Prahalad Business & industry C. K. Prahalad Indian academic (1941–2010) 1941–2010 · Tamil Nadu C. Rajagopalachari Politics & governance C. Rajagopalachari Indian politician and activist (1878–1972) 1878–1972 · Tamil Nadu Charusita Chakravarty Science & space Charusita Chakravarty Indian academic, researcher (1964-2016) 1964–2016 Chintaman Dwarkanath Deshmukh Banking & finance Chintaman Dwarkanath Deshmukh Indian politician (1896–1982) 1896–1982 · Maharashtra Cyrus Pallonji Mistry Business & industry Cyrus Pallonji Mistry Indian businessman (1968–2022) 1968–2022 · Maharashtra D. R. Bendre Literature & writing D. R. Bendre Kannada poet (1896–1981) 1896–1981 · Karnataka Dev Anand Film & entertainment Dev Anand Indian actor, producer, director 1923–2011 Devdas Gandhi Journalism & media Devdas Gandhi Indian activist (1900–1957) 1900–1957 Dilip Kumar Actors Dilip Kumar Indian actor and politician (1922-2021) 1922–2021 Durga Khote Film & entertainment Durga Khote Indian actress (1905–1991) 1905–1991 · Maharashtra Ebrahim Alkazi Ebrahim Alkazi Theatre director (1925–2020) 1925–2020 · Maharashtra Feroze Gandhi Journalism & media Feroze Gandhi Indian politician and journalist (1912-1960) 1912–1960 · Maharashtra George Fernandes Journalism & media George Fernandes Indian trade unionist and politician (1930–2019) 1930–2019 · Karnataka Gopinath Bordoloi Freedom struggle Gopinath Bordoloi Indian Independence Activist and 1st Chief Minister of Assam 1890–1950 · Assam Govind Ballabh Pant Politics & governance Govind Ballabh Pant Indian politician and freedom fighter (1887–1961) 1887–1961 · Uttarakhand Guru Brahmanand Religion & spirituality Guru Brahmanand Indian guru, social reformer and philosopher (1908-1973) 1908–1973 · Haryana Har Gobind Khorana Science & space Har Gobind Khorana Indian-American molecular biologist (1922-2011) 1922–2011 Hirabai Barodekar Classical music Hirabai Barodekar Indian Hindustani classical musician 1905–1989 · Gujarat Inder Kumar Gujral Politics & governance Inder Kumar Gujral Prime Minister of India (1997-1998) 1919–2012

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Profiles start from Wikidata (CC0) and Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; summaries are short and credited on each page), with portraits only under free Commons licences. Editors review every profile before it is published — living people always.

Net worth and income come from official records (election affidavits, company filings) or recognised rich lists (Forbes, Hurun), each with its year. News-report figures are shown only as marked estimates. We never guess anyone's gender: it is shown only as the person states it.

Reliability 1–5 on each profile is the weakest source behind what the page shows: 5 official record, 4 strong sources (Forbes, major publications), 3 encyclopedic sources, 2 or less weak.

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