Name | Nick Name | Profession | Additional Information and Significant Contribution |
Vinoba Bhave | Acharya |
| Bhoodan Movement |
Valmiki | Adi Kavi |
| The Ramayana |
Dr. Rajendra Prasad | Desh Ratna, Ajatshatru |
| First President of India |
Jainul Abdin | Akbar of Kashmir |
| Series of paintings depicting some of the great famines in Bengal |
T Prakasam | Andhra Kesari |
| Became the first chief minister of the new Andhra state, created by the partition of Madras State along linguistic lines. |
C N Annadurai | Anna |
| 4th Chief Minister of Madras State |
Jagjeevan Ram | Babuji |
| He also holds another record for being the longest-serving cabinet minister in India (30 years). |
Abdul Ghaffar Khan | Badshah Khan / Frontier Gandhi |
| Amassed the world’s first major nonviolent army in his region. |
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi | Bapu |
| Rowlatt Act, India’s Freedom Struggle, Satyagrah, etc. |
Ashutosh Mukherji | Bengal Kesari |
| – |
Bipin Chandrapal & Saurav Ganguli | Bengal Tiger |
| Indian independence movement freedom fighter. |
Dr. Srikrishna Singh | Bihar Kesri |
| Along with the nationalists Dr. Rajendra Prasad and Dr. Anugrah Narayan Sinha, Sinha is regarded among the Architects of Modern Bihar. |
Dr. Anurag Narayan Singh | Bihar Vibhuti |
| Indian nationalist statesman, a participant in Champaran Satyagraha, Gandhian & one of the architects of modern Bihar, |
Vallabhai Patel | Bismark of India |
| First Home Minister of Independent India |
Rabindranath Tagore | Biswa Kavi |
| who introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language into Bengali literature, thereby freeing it from traditional models based on classical Sanskrit. |
Siddhartha Gautama | Buddha |
| – |
C Rajagopalachari | C R |
| Rajagopalachari was the last Governor-General of India, as India soon became a Republic in 1950. |
Jawaharlal Nehru | Chacha |
| The principal leader of the Indian independence movement |
C F Andrews | Deenabandhu |
| Contributions to the Indian independence movement |
C R Das | Desa Bandhu |
| Founder-leader of the (Independence party) in Bengal during the period of British colonial rule in India. |
Dr. Rajendra Prasad | Desh Ratna |
| First President of Independent India |
Chitta Ranjan Das | Deshbandhu |
| Closely associated with a number of literary societies and wrote poems, apart from numerous articles and essays. |
Yatindra Mohan Sengupta | Desh Priya |
| Non-Cooperation movement |
Ravi Sankar Maharaj | Father of Gujrat |
| He founded Rashtriya Shala (National School) |
Milkha Singh | Flying Sikh |
| Indian track and field sprinter. |
Dadabhai Naoroji | Grand old man of India |
| Indian National Congress |
Dhundiraj Govind Phalke | Grand Father of Indian Films |
| Landscape painter of academic nature studies. |
Rabindranath Tagore | Gurudev |
| Who introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language into Bengali literature, thereby freeing it from traditional models based on classical Sanskrit. |
M S Gohlwalkar | Guruji |
| Widely noted to be the most prominent ideologue of Hindutva |
Kapil Dev | Haryana Hurricane |
| He led India to win its first Cricket World Cup title in 1983. |
Dhyan Chand | Hockey Wizard |
| Major Dhyan Chand was conferred the Padma Bhushan. |
Chanakya | Indian Machiavelli | – | – |
Indira Gandhi | Iron Lady of India | – | – |
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel | Iron Man |
| He served as the First Deputy Prime Minister of India. |
Jayaprakash Narayan | JP |
| Narayan was educated at universities in the United States, where he became a Marxist. |
Karpuri Thakur | Jana Nayak |
| He was influenced by nationalistic ideas as a student and joined the All India Students Federation. |
Rabindranath Tagore | Kaviguru |
| Who introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language into Bengali literature, thereby freeing it from traditional models based on classical Sanskrit. |
Sayyed Bandhu | King Maker of Indian History |
| They created and dethroned Mughal Emperors |
K.V.Puttappa | Kuvempu |
| He founded the Kannada Adhyayana Samsthe |
Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Ganghadhar Tilak and Bipin Chandra Pal | Lal, Bal, Pal |
| Assisted the boycott of all imported items and the use of Indian-made goods in 1907 during the anti-Partition agitation in Bengal which began in 1905. |
Sree Buddha | Light of Asia |
| Rediscovered an ancient path to release clinging and craving and escape the cycle of birth and rebirth |
Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah | Lion of Kashmir |
| Founding leader of the All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference |
Bal Gangadhar Tilak | Lion of Maratha |
| He was the Indian Independence Movement’s first leader. He was one of the Lal Bal Pal triumvirate’s three members. He was dubbed “The Father of Indian Unrest” by British colonial authorities. |
Sunil Gavaskar | Little Master |
| He held the record of 34 Test centuries |
Bal Gangadhar Tilak | Lokmanya | – | – |
Jayprakash Narayan | Loknayak |
| Quit India movement |
Chanakya | Machiavelli of India | – | Ancient Indian teacher, philosopher, economist, jurist and royal advisor. |
First Asian to be a British MP.
Liberal Party Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom House of Commons