Signs of Great Indians

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Full Name: Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata

He was a pioneer aviator and important businessman of India. He was awarded Indias highest civilian

award, the Bharat Ratna in 1992

J.R.D. Tatas Autograph:

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14. Jawaharlal Nehru



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From October 11, 1902 to October 8, 1979

He is widely known as JP,

He was an Indian freedom fighter and political leader, remembered especially for leading the opposition

to Indira Gandhi in the 1970s and for giving a call for peaceful Total Revolution. His biography,

Jayaprakash, was written by his nationalist friend and an eminent writer of Hindi literature, Ramavriksha

Benipuri. In 1998, he was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna, Indias highest civilian award, in

recognition of his social work. Other awards include the Magsaysay award for Public Service in 1965.

Jayaprakash Narayans Autograph:

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16. Kapil Dev



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Full name: Kapil Dev Ramlal Nikhanj

born 6 January 1959, Chandigarh

Better known as Kapil Dev, is a former Indian cricketer regarded as one of the greatest all-rounders of all

time.

He was captain when India won the world cup in 1983. Kapil Dev was named by Wisden as the Indian

Cricketer of the Century in 2002. Kapil Dev had a rather prosaic stint as Indias national cricket coach for

10 months between October 1999 and August 2000.

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17. Lata Mangeshkar

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born September 28, 1929

She is one of the best-known playback singers in the Hindi film industry. Mangeshkars career started in

1942 and has spanned over six and a half decades. She sang in over 980 Bollywood movies and has sung

songs in over twenty regional Indian languages, but primarily in Hindi. She is the elder sister of the

equally accomplished singer Asha Bhosle and lesser-known singers, brother Hridayanath Mangeshkar and

sisters Usha Mangeshkar and Meena Mangeshkar.Lata is the second vocalist ever to have received the Bharat Ratna, Indias highest civilian honour.

Mangeshkar was featured in the Guinness Book of World Records from 1974 to 1991 for having made the

most recordings in the world. The claim was that she has recorded no less than 25,000 solo, duet, and

chorus-backed songs in 20 Indian languages between 1948 to 1974 (30,000 songs between 1948 and

1987, according to 1987 edition). Over the years, while several sources have supported this claim, others

have raised concerns over its veracity, claiming that this number was highly exaggerated and that

Mangeshkars sister, Asha Bhosle, had more song recordings than she had.

Lata Mangeshkars Autograph:



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18. M.F. Husain

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Full name: Maqbool Fida Husain

born 1915, Pandharpur, Maharashtra

He is one of Indias best known artists and his work over a career of over seven decades has been

prolific. One of the most highly rated artists in the world today, his work sells at astonishing prices and

are grabbed almost instantly by international art collectors.



According to Forbes magazine, he has been called the "Picasso of India".After a long, successful career

his work suddenly became controversial in 1996, when he was 81 years old, following the publication of

an article about nude images of Hindu deities painted in the 1970s.

M.F. Husains Autograph:

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19. Mahatma Gandhi

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Full Name: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi



From 2 October 1869 to 30 January 1948

He was the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement.

He was the pioneer of satyagraharesistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, firmly founded

upon ahimsa or total non-violencewhich led India to independence and has inspired movements for civil

rights and freedom across the world. Gandhi is commonly known around the world as Mahatma Gandhi

and in India also as Bapu.He is officially honoured in India as the Father of the Nation.

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20. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

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Full Name: Maulana Abul Kalam Muhiyuddin Ahmed

From 11 November 1888 to 22 February 1958

He was a Muslim scholar and a senior political leader of the Indian independence movement.

He was one of the most prominent Muslim leaders to support Hindu-Muslim unity, opposing the partition

of India on communal lines.

Following Indias independence, he became the first Minister of Education in the Indian government. He

is commonly remembered as Maulana Azad; he had adopted Azad (Free) as his pen name.

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21. Morarji Desai

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Full Name: Morarji Ranchhodji Desai

From 29 February 1896 to 10 April 1995

was an Indian independence activist and the Prime Minister of India from 1977-79. He was the first Indian Prime Minister who did not belong to the Indian National Congress. He is the only Indian to

receive the highest civilian awards from both India and Pakistan, the Bharat Ratna and Nishaan-e-

Pakistan.

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22. Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia



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born July 1, 1938

He is a Indian classical instrumentalist. He is a player of the bansuri, the North Indian bamboo flute.

Chaurasia is a classicist who has made a conscious effort to reach out and expand the audience for

classical music.

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23. Sachin Tendulkar



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Full Name: Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar

born April 24, 1973 in Mumbai

He is an Indian cricketer widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket.

In 2002, Wisden ranked him the second greatest Test batsman of all time, next to Donald Bradman, and

the second greatest one day international (ODI) batsman of all time, next to Viv Richards.

In September 2007, the Australian leg spinner Shane Warne rated Tendulkar as the greatest player he

has played with or against. Tendulkar was the only player of the current generation to be included inBradmans Eleven, the dream team of Donald Bradman, published in his biography. He is sometimes

referred to as Little Master or Master Blaster

Tendulkar is the highest run scorer in both Test matches and ODIs, and also the batsman with the most

centuries in either form of the game. The first player to score fifty centuries in all international cricket

combined, he now has more than eighty international centuries.

Sachin Tendulkars Autograph:



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24. Sunil Gavaskar

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Full Name: Sunil Manohar "Sunny" Gavaskar

born 10 July 1949 in Mumbai, Maharashtra

He was a cricketer during the 1970s and 1980s for Bombay and India.Widely regarded as one of the greatest opening batsmen in test match history, Gavaskar set world

records during his career for the most runs and most centuries scored by any batsman. He held the

record of 34 Test centuries for almost two decades before it was broken by Sachin Tendulkar in

December 2005.

He was widely admired for his technique against fast bowling, with a particularly high average of 65.45

against the West Indies, who possessed a four-pronged fast bowling attack regarded as the most vicious

in Test history.

His captaincy of the Indian team, however, was less successful. The team at one stage went 31 Test

matches without a victory. There were incidents like crowd displeasure at Eden Gardens in Calcutta

leading to multiple matches being disrupted, in response to the poor performance of the Indian team.

Turbulent performances of the team lead to multiple exchanges of captaincy between Gavaskar and KapilDev, with one of Gavaskars sackings coming just six months before Kapil led India to victory at the 1983

Cricket World Cup.

Sunil Gavaskars Autograph:

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25. Sunita Williams



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born September 19, 1965

She is a United States Naval officer and a NASA astronaut.

She was assigned to the International Space Station as a member of Expedition 14 and then joined

Expedition 15. She holds the record of the longest spaceflight (195 days) for female space travelers. AsNASAs official public spokesperson, she was selected to appear on the Colbert Report to announce the

name for Node 3 of the ISS.

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26. Ustad Bismillah Khan

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From March 21, 1916 to August 21, 2006

He was an Indian shehnai maestro. He was the third classical musician to be awarded the Bharat Ratna

(in 2001), the highest civilian honour in India.Ustad Bismillah Khans Autograph:

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