A

• Sri Anandamayi Ma, 1987
• Dr. Anugrah Narayan Sinha
  Anugrah Narayan Sinha
  Dr. Anugrah Narayan Sinha , known as Bihar Vibhuti, was an Indian statesman who was the first Deputy Chief Minister cum Finance Minister of the Indian state of Bihar...
  
  , Eminent Freedom Fighter & First Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar (1988)
• Salim Ali
  Salim Ali
  Sálim Moizuddin Abdul Ali was an Indian ornithologist and naturalist. Known as the "birdman of India", Salim Ali was among the first Indians to conduct systematic bird surveys across India and his bird books helped develop ornithology...
  
  , Ornithologist, explorer, ecologist, teacher and writer (1996)
• Anand Rishiji Maharaj
  Anand Rishiji Maharaj
  Anand Rishiji Maharaj was second pattadhar acharya of Jains from 1964 to 1992. The Government of India issued a postage stamp on 9 August 2002 in his honor.He was conferred the title Rastra Sant...
  
   (2002)
• Dhirubhai Ambani
  Dhirubhai Ambani
  Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani also known as Dhirubhai, was an Indian-Gujarati business magnate and entrepreneur who founded Reliance Industries, a petrochemicals, communications, power, and textiles conglomerate and the only privately owned Indian company in the Fortune 500. Ambani took his company...
  
  , industrialist of Gujarat (2002)
• Frank Anthony
  Frank Anthony
  Frank Anthony was a prominent leader of the Anglo-Indian community in India, and was until his death their nominated representative in the Parliament of India....
  
   Parliamentarian, jurist, educationist and philanthropist (2003)
• Annamacharya
  Annamacharya
  Sri Tallapaka Annamacharya was the official songmaster of the Tirumala Venkateswara Temple, and a Telugu composer who composed around 36000 keertana songs, many of which were in praise of Venkateswara, the presiding deity of the temple...
  
   Saint, social reformer and singer-poet (2004)
• Jyotiprasad Agarwalla Cultural icon, nationalist, musician, poet and humanist (2004)
• Abdul Qaiyum Ansari
  Abdul Qaiyum Ansari
  Abdul Qaiyum Ansari was a prominent figure in the freedom struggle of India. He was known for his commitment to national integration, secularism and communal harmony...
  
   (2005)
• Maraimalai Adigal
  Maraimalai Adigal
  Maraimalai Adigal was an eminent Tamil orator and writer. He was a devout Hindu as a staunch follower of Saivism. He has authored more than 100 books, including works on original poems and dramas, but most famous are his books on his research into Tamil literature. Most of his literary works were...
  
  , Tamil lecturer, scholar and researcher (2007)
• Alluri Sita Rama Raju, Freedom fighter (1986)
• Acharya Vijay Vallabh suri
  Acharya Vijay Vallabh suri
  Great Jain Acharya shri Vijay Vallabh Suriji was born in Vadodara, Gujarat in the year 1870 Kartik Suddh Duj. He is also known as Punjab Kesari. He was disciple of great jain Acharyashri Atmaram ji. Alongside his religious bend of mind, it was his desire to inculcate under the precepts of Jainism...
  
   Charismatic Jain Saint(2009)
• Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari
  Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari
  Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari was an Indian nationalist and political leader, and former president of the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League during the Indian Independence Movement...
  
   Congress PresidentGhazipur
  Ghazipur
  Ghazipur , or Ghazipur City, previously spelt Ghazeepore, is a city/town and a municipal corporation and headquarter of Ghazipur district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is the administrative headquarters of Ghazipur Division and Sub-division...
  
  

B

• Subramania Bharati, poet and statesman (1960)
• Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande
  Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande
  Pandit Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande was an Indian musicologist who wrote the first modern treatise on Hindustani Classical Music , an art which had been propagated earlier for a few centuries mostly through oral traditions...
  
   musician (1961)
• Buddha
  Gautama Buddha
  Siddhārtha Gautama was a spiritual teacher from the Indian subcontinent, on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. In most Buddhist traditions, he is regarded as the Supreme Buddha Siddhārtha Gautama (Sanskrit: सिद्धार्थ गौतम; Pali: Siddhattha Gotama) was a spiritual teacher from the Indian...
  
   (1956, 2007)
• Jagadis Chandra Bose, scientist (1958)
• Homi Bhaba
  Homi J. Bhabha
  Homi Jehangir Bhabha, FRS was an Indian nuclear physicist and the chief architect of the Indian atomic energy program...
  
   (1996)
• Sibnath Banerjee (1997)
• Swami Brahmanand, Freedom fighter, member of parliament, social reformer (1997)
• Basaveswara, Social reformer, From Karnataka (1997)
• D.R. Bendre, Kannada Author and Jnanpith Award Winner (1998)
• Sant Gadge Baba Religious philosopher, social reformer and saint (1998)
• Tarashankar Bandopadhyay
  Tarashankar Bandopadhyay
  Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay was one of the leading Bengali novelists. He wrote 65 novels, 53 story-books, 12 plays, 4 essay-books, 4 autobiographies and 2 travel stories...
  
  , Bangla Author and Jnanpith Award Winner (1998)
• Raja Bhamashah(2000)
• Rajarshi Bhagyachandra(2000)
• Radha Gobinda Baruah(2000)
• Chaudhary Brahm Parkash, Leader and former chief minister of Delhi (2001)
• Bhagwan Baba, Ascetic, mystic and saint-poet (2002)
• Kanika Bandopadhyay, Exponent of Rabindra Sangeet (2002)
• Brajlal Biyani
  Brajlal Biyani
  Brijlal Biyani was an Indian independence activist and writer. He grew up in the Akola district of Maharashtra and studied at the Morris College in Nagpur. Biyani joined the Non-Cooperation Movement in 1920...
  
   (2002)
• Mukut Behari Bhargava (2003)
• Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Hindi writer and poet (2003)
• Allah Jilai Bai
  Allah Jilai Bai
  Allah Jilai Bai was a folk singer from Rajasthan, India.Born in Bikaner to a family of singers, by the age of 10 she was singing in the Durbar of Maharaja Ganga Singh. She took singing lessons from Ustad Hussain Baksh Khan and later on from Achhan Maharaj.She was well versed in Maand, Thumri,...
  
  (2003)
• Acharya Bhikshu
  Acharya Bhikshu
  Acharya Bhikshu was one of the great revolutionary saints and reformer of Jainism. He was the founder and first spiritual head of the Svetambar Terapanth sect of Jainism....
  
  , Founder of Jain Svetambar Terapanth sect (2004)
• Neeraja Bhanot
  Neerja Bhanot
  Neerja Bhanot , was a flight attendant for Pan Am airlines, based in Bombay, India, who died while saving passengers from terrorists on board the hijacked Pan Am Flight 73 on September 5, 1986, she went on to become the youngest recipient of India’s highest civilian award for bravery, the Ashoka...
  
  , Indian Flight Attendant and Ashok Chakra Winner (2004)
• Panna Lal Barupal (2006)
• S.D. Burman, Music composer and singer (2007)
• Begum Hazrat Mahal
  Begum Hazrat Mahal
  Begum Hazrat Mahal , also known as Begum of Awadh, was the first wife of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah.-Queen of Awadh:Her maiden name was Muhammadi Khanum and she was born at Faizabad, Awadh, India. She was a courtesan by profession and had been taken into the royal harem as a Khawasin, after being sold by...
  
   (1984)
• M. Bhaktavatsalam
  M. Bhaktavatsalam
  Minjur Bhaktavatsalam was an Indian lawyer, politician and freedom fighter from the state of Tamil Nadu. He served as the Chief Minister of Madras state from October 2, 1963 to March 6, 1967...
  
   (2008)
• Louis Braille
  Louis Braille
  Louis Braille was the inventor of braille, a system of reading and writing used by people who are blind or visually impaired...
  
   (2009)
• Vaikom Muhammad Basheer
  Vaikom Muhammad Basheer
  Vaikom Muhammad Basheer was a Malayalam fiction writer from the state of Kerala in India. He was a humanist, freedom fighter, novelist and short story writer. He is noted for his pathbreaking, disarmingly down-to-earth style of writing that made him equally popular among literary critics as well...
  
   (2009)

C

• William Carey, missionary
• Subhadra Kumari Chauhan
  Subhadra Kumari Chauhan
  Subhadra Kumari Chauhan was an Indian poetess famous for her emotionally charged Hindi songs.-Early life:Born in Nihalpur village in Allahabad District in Uttar Pradesh. She initially studied in the Crosthwaite Girls’ School in Allahabad and passed the middle-school examination in 1919...
  
  , poetess. (1976)
• TRIPURANENI RAMASWAMI Chowdary, Freedom Fighter (1987)
• T.B. Cunha, Goan freedom Fighter (1998)
• Thakur Anukul Chandra (1987)
• Chhatrasal, Bundela Ruler (1987)
• Father Kuriakose Elias Chavara (1987)
• Rajah Sir Muthiah Chettiar (1987)
• Frédéric Chopin
  Frédéric Chopin
  Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music and has been called "the poet of the piano"....
  
  , Music composer for the Piano (2001)
• Arun Kumar Chanda
  Arun Kumar Chanda
  Arun Kumar Chanda , was an Indian independence activist from Silchar district of Assam..The Government of India issued a stamp on his honour. He was a social worker and writer and edited the Bengali Weekly Saptak....
  
  (2000)
• Jaglal Choudhary(2000)
• Prithviraj Chauhan(2000)
• M C Chagla
  M C Chagla
  M. C. Chagla , full name Mahommedali Currim Chagla, was a renowned Indian jurist, diplomat, and Cabinet Minister who served as Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court from 1948 to 1958.- Active life and career :...
  
  , Jurist, judge, educationist, diplomat, Union Cabinet Minister and Statesman (2004)
• Dheeran Chinnamalai
  Dheeran Chinnamalai
  Dheeran Chinnamalai was a Kongu chieftain and Palayakkarar from Tamil Nadu who rose up in revolt against the British East India Company in the Kongu Nadu, Southern India...
  
   (2005)
• A.M.M. Murugappa Chettiar (2005)
• Prabodh Chandra (2005)
• R.M. Algappa Chettiar (2007)
• S.B. Chavan, politician (2007)

D

• Henri Dunant, Red Cross founder (1957)
• W.M. Haffkine, Plague Vaccine formulator (1960)
• Rukmini Devi Arundale
  Rukmini Devi Arundale
  Rukmini Devi Arundale was an Indian theosophist, dancer and choreographer of the Indian classical dance form of Bharatnatyam, and also an activist for animal rights and welfare....
  
   (1987)
• Nargis Dutt, actress and parliament member (1993)
• Kunji Lal Dubey (1996)
• D.B. Deodhar, Cricket Player (1996)
• Hazari Prasad Dwivedi
  Hazari Prasad Dwivedi
  Acharya' Hazari Prasad Dwivedi was a Hindi novelist, literary historian, essayist, critic and scholar...
  
  , Hindi author (1997)
• Saint Dnyaneshwar (1997)
• Baba Raghav Das, Ascetic, reformer and freedom fighter (1998)
• Bishnu Dey
  Bishnu Dey
  Bishnu Dey was a prominent Bengali poet, prose writer, translator, academic and art critique in the era of modernism, post-modernism...
  
  , Bangla Author and Jnanpith Award Winner (1998)
• Ashapurna Devi, Bangla Author and Jnanpith Award Winner (1998)
• Lokanayak Omeo Kumar Das (1998)
• P.L. Deshpande (2002)
• Durga Das (2003)
• Sant Eknath (2003)
• C. D. Deshmukh
  C. D. Deshmukh
  Sir Chintāman Dwārakānāth Deshmukh, CIE , better known as C. D. Deshmukh, was the first Indian to be appointed as the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India in 1943 by the British Raj authorities...
  
   (2004)
• Guru Dutt
  Guru Dutt
  Vasanth Kumar Shivashankar Padukone , popularly known as Guru Dutt, was an Indian film director, producer and actor. He is often credited with ushering in the golden era of Hindi cinema...
  
  , Director, actor and film producer (2004)
• Jawaharlal Darda (2005)
• Lala Deen Dayal
  Lala Deen Dayal
  Lala Deen Dayal was an Indian photographer. His photography career began in the mid-1870s as a commissioned photographer, eventually he set up studios in Indore, Mumbai and Hyderbad; he became the court photographer to the sixth Nizam of Hyderabad, Mahbub Ali Khan, Asif Jah VI, who awarded him...
  
   (2006)

G

• Mahatma Gandhi
  Mahatma Gandhi
  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi , pronounced . 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement...
  
   (1948, 1998, 2001, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011)
• George V of the United Kingdom
  George V of the United Kingdom
  George V was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 through the First World War until his death in 1936....
  
   (1911)
• George VI of the United Kingdom
  George VI of the United Kingdom
  George VI was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death...
  
   (1937)
• Mirza Ghalib
  Mirza Ghalib
  Dabir-ul-Mulk, Najm-ud-Daula Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan , pen-name Ghalib and Asad , was a classical Urdu and Persian poet from India during British colonial rule...
  
  , poet (1953)
• Sanjay Gandhi
  Sanjay Gandhi
  Sanjay Gandhi was an Indian politician. The younger son of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Feroze Gandhi, he was a member of the Nehru-Gandhi family...
  
  , (1981)
• Indira Gandhi
  Indira Gandhi
  Indira Priyadarshini Gandhara was an Indian politician who served as the third Prime Minister of India for three consecutive terms and a fourth term . She was assassinated by Sikh extremists...
  
  , Politician and Indian Prime Minister (1984, 1985)
• Sagarmal Gopa
  Sagarmal Gopa
  Sagarmal Gopa was a freedom fighter and patriot from Rajasthan state in India.Born on 3 November 1900 in an affluent Brahmin family in Jaisalmer he took active part in non -co-operation movement in 1921.He opposed anti-people policies of then rulers of Jaisalmer.He was expelled from Jaisalmer and...
  
  , Freedom fighter (1986)
• Guru Ghasidas
  Guru Ghasidas
  Satguru Ghāsidās is a Hindu saint, successor of the Satnam sect of Chhattisgarh, migrated from Narnaul Hariyana. Satguru Ghasidas was born on Monday 18 December 1718. The date of death of Satguru Ghasidas is unknown. No kabra no samadhi place present of Satguru Ghasidas...
  
  , (1987)
• Tyagamurti Goswami Ganeshdutt (1987)
• Kasturba Gandhi
  Kasturba Gandhi
  Kastürbā Gāndhi was the wife of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, marrying him in an arranged marriage in 1883.-Early life and background:...
  
   (1996)
• Shyam Lal Gupt 'Parshad' (1997)
• V.K. Gokak, Kannada Author and Jnanpith Award Winner (1998)
• Narayan Ganesh Goray (1998)
• Sane Guruji, Socio/Political Development Leader (2001)
• Aloysius Gonzaga
  Aloysius Gonzaga
  - Early life :Aloysius Gonzaga was born at his family's castle in Castiglione delle Stiviere, between Brescia and Mantova in northern Italy in what was then part of the Papal States. He was a member of the illustrious House of Gonzaga...
  
   (2001)
• Babu Gulabrai
  Babu Gulabrai
  Babu Gulabrai was one of the greatest literary figures of modern Hindi literature.-Biography:...
  
  , writer and philosopher (2002)
• Santidev Ghose (2002)
• Gora
  Gora
  Gora may refer to:*Gora , a clan of Jats found in north India*Gora or gaura, a Hindi and Indo-Aryan word for a light-skinned person*Gora , by Indian Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore...
  
  (2002)

• Bhaurao Krishnarao Gaikwad
  Bhaurao Krishnarao Gaikwad
  Bhaurao Krishnarao Gaikwad was an associate of Ambedkar and a social worker. The Government of India issued a commemorative stamp in his honour in 2002. He was born in Nasik district in Maharashtra state in India.- References :...
  
   (2002)
• Ghantsala, Playback singer and music director (2003)
• B D Garware
  Abasaheb Garware
  Bhalchandra Digamber Garware was a pioneering industrialist from Maharashtra state in India and Founder Chairman of the Garware Group of Industries.- Birth and childhood :...
  
  , Industrialist (2004)
• Guru Dutt
  Guru Dutt
  Vasanth Kumar Shivashankar Padukone , popularly known as Guru Dutt, was an Indian film director, producer and actor. He is often credited with ushering in the golden era of Hindi cinema...
  
   (2004)
• Rajiv Gandhi
  Rajiv Gandhi
  Rajiv Ratna Gandhi was the sixth Prime Minister of India . He took office after his mother's assassination on 31 October 1984; he himself was assassinated on 21 May 1991. He became the youngest Prime Minister of India when he took office at the age of 40.Rajiv Gandhi was the elder son of Indira...
  
   (2004)
• Gemini Ganesan
  Gemini Ganesan
  Ramaswami Ganesan , popularly known as Gemini Ganesan , was an Indian actor. He was nicknamed "Kadhal Mannan" of Tamil cinema for the romantic roles he played in movies....
  
   (2006)
• Ritwik Ghatak, Script writer and Film Director (2007)
• D.R. Gadgil, Economist (2008)
• Tripuraneni Gopichand
  Tripuraneni Gopichand
  Tripuraneni Gopichand was a Telugu short story writer, novelist, editor, essayist, playwright and film director. Gopichand's writings are remarkable for interplay of values, ideas and 'isms' - materialism, rationalism, existentialism, realism and humanism...
  
  , Telugu Novelist and Film Director (2011)

H

• Lala Hardayal, Freedom Fighter (1987)
• Dr. Hiralal, (1987)
• Dr. Zakir Husain (1998)
• Matangini Hazra
  Matangini Hazra
  Matangini Hazra was an Indian revolutionary who participated in the Indian independence movement until she was shot dead by the British Indian police in front of the Tamluk Police Station on September 29, 1942...
  
  (2002)
• Hafiz (2004)
• Walchand Hirachand
  Walchand Hirachand
  Walchand Hirachand Doshi was an Indian industrialist. He established India’s first modern shipyard, first aircraft factory and first car factory.- Early life :...
  
   (2004)
• Asrar Ul Haq 'Majaaz'
  Majaz
  Asrar ul Haq Majaz was an Indian Urdu poet. He was known for his romantic and revolutionary poetry. He composed ghazals and nazms in Urdu.-Early life:...
  
  , Urdu Poet (2008)
• Hemu Kalani
  Hemu Kalani
  -Early life:Hemu Kalani was born at mir-ki-street old Sukkur in Sindh on 23 March 1923. He was the son of Pesumal Kalani and Jethi Bai. As a child and young man he campaigned with his friends for boycotts of foreign goods and tried to persuade people to use Swadeshi goods...
  
  
• Abdul HamidGhazipur
  Ghazipur
  Ghazipur , or Ghazipur City, previously spelt Ghazeepore, is a city/town and a municipal corporation and headquarter of Ghazipur district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is the administrative headquarters of Ghazipur Division and Sub-division...
  
  

I

• Masti V. Iyengar, Kannada Author and Jnanpith Award Winner (1998)
• U.V. Swaminatha Iyer (2006)

J

• Sir Phiroze Jamshedjee Jeejeebhoy, financier, philanthropist (1959)
• Jiddu Krishnamurti
  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  Jiddu Krishnamurti or J. Krishnamurti or , was a renowned writer and speaker on philosophical and spiritual subjects. His subject matter included: psychological revolution, the nature of the mind, meditation, human relationships, and bringing about positive change in society...
  
   (1987)
• Sir William Jones (1997)
• Dr. Jagdish Chandra Jain (1998)
• Jhalkari Bai (2001)
• Jayadeva
• Sant Santaji Jagnade
  Santaji Jagnade
  Shri Santaji Jagnade was one of fourteen cymbal players employed by Shri Tukaram Maharaja, a prominent Marathi Sant. Jagnade recorded several of Tukaram's Abhangs. He belonged to the Teli caste of oil producers and is the only Saint from that caste. Jagnade was born and brought up in Sadumbare in...
  
   Maharaj (2009)

K

• Kabir
  Kabir
  Kabīr was a mystic poet and saint of India, whose writings have greatly influenced the Bhakti movement...
  
  , poet (1953, 2004)
• Kalidasa
  Kalidasa
  Kālidāsa was a renowned Classical Sanskrit writer, widely regarded as the greatest poet and dramatist in the Sanskrit language...
  
  , poet (1960)
• Dhondo Keshav Karve
  Dhondo Keshav Karve
  Maharshi Dr. Dhondo Keshav Karve was a social reformer in India in the field of women's welfare. In honour of Karve, Queen's Road in Mumbai was renamed to Maharishi Karve Road...
  
  , educator (1958)
• Hakim Ajmal Khan
  Hakim Ajmal Khan
  Ajmal Khan was an Indian physician specialising in the field of South Asian traditional Unani medicine as well as a Muslim nationalist politician and freedom fighter. Through his founding of the Tibbia College in Delhi, he is credited with the revival of Unani medicine in early 20th century...
  
  , Freedom fighter (1987)
• Dr. Kailash Nath Katju, Freedom fighter (1987)
• Pandit Hridya Nath Kunzru, Freedom fighter (1987)
• Saifuddin Kitchlew, freedom fighter (1989)
• Abai Konunbaev (1996)
• Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar
  Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar
  Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar was an eminent Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.-Early life:...
  
   (1998)
• Syed Ahmad Khan (1998)
• Vakkom Abdul Khader (1998)
• Ustad Hafiz Ali Khan (2000)
• T.T. Krishnamachari (2002)
• Arran Kali(2002)
• Bade Ghulam Ali Khan (2003)
• Kusumagraj
  Kusumagraj
  Vishnu Vāman Shirwādkar , popularly known by his pen name, Kusumāgraj , was an eminent Marathi poet, playwright, novelist, short story writer, apart from being a humanist, who wrote of freedom, justice and emancipation of the deprived, In a career spanning five decades starting in...
  
   (2003)
• Kishore Kumar
  Kishore Kumar
  Kishore Kumar , born Abhas Kumar Ganguly, was an Indian film playback singer and an actor who also worked as lyricist, composer, producer, director, screenwriter and scriptwriter.Kishore Kumar was one of India's greatest performers of the late 20th century...
  
  (2003)
• Hemant Kumar(2003)
• G. Sankara Kurup
  G. Sankara Kurup
  G. Sankara Kurup, , better known as Mahakavi G , was the first winner of the Jnanpith Award, India's highest literary award...
  
  (2003)
• K. Shivarama Karanth,Kannada Author and Jnanpith Award Winner(2003)
• S.L. Kirloskar (2003)
• Tirupur Kumaran, Freedom fighter (2004)
• Krishan Kant
  Krishan Kant
  Krishan Kant was the tenth Vice President of India from 1997 until his death.Kant's first brush with politics came when he plunged into the Quit India movement, while he was still a student in Lahore. He took part in the Indian Independence Movement as a youth and continued to be involved in...
  
   (2005)
• Pratap Singh Kairon
  Pratap Singh Kairon
  Pratap Singh Kairon was the Chief Minister of the Punjab province , and is widely acknowledged to be the architect of post-Independence Punjab Province. Moreover, he was an Indian independence movement leader...
  
   (2005)
• Vi. Kalyanasundarnar (2005)
• Mehboob Khan (2007)
• Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi, mathematician, statistician, and polymath (2008)
• Ustad Bismillah Khan, Shehnai maestro (2008)
• Udumalai Narayan Kavi (2008)

L

• Laxmibai, Rani of Jhansi (1957)
• Harchand Singh Longowal, (1987)
• Madhu Limaye
  Madhu Limaye
  Madhu Limaye was an Indian Socialist essayist and activist, particularly active in the 1970s. A follower of Ram Manohar Lohia and a fellow-traveller of George Fernandes, he was active in the Janata coalition that gained power at the Centre following the Emergency; he, with Raj Narain and Krishan...
  
   (1997)
• Ram Manohar Lohia
  Ram Manohar Lohia
  Rammanohar Lohia was an Indian freedom fighter and a socialist political leader.-Early life:Lohia was born in a village Akbarpur in Ambedkar Nagar district, Uttar Pradesh, in India to Hira Lal, a nationalist and Chanda,a teacher. He was born to Marwari Maheshwari family. His mother died when he...
  
   (1997)
• Rukmini Lakshmipathi
  Rukmini Lakshmipathi
  Rukmini Laxmipathi was an Indian independence activist and politician belonging to the Indian National Congress. She was the first woman to be elected to the Madras Legislature and the first to serve as a minister in the Madras Presidency.-Biography:Rukmini was born in Madras in an agriculturist...
  
   (1997)
• V Lakshminarayana (2004)
• Nupee Lal (2004)
• Narayan Meghaji Lokhande (2005)
• Henning Holck-Larsen
  Henning Holck-Larsen
  Henning Holck-Larsen was a Dane who co-founded the Indian engineering firm Larsen & Toubro .- Biography :...
  
  , cofounder of Larsen and Tubro (2008)
• Abraham Lincoln
  Abraham Lincoln
  Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union, while ending slavery, and...
  
   (2008)
• Martin Luther King (2008)

M

• Madan Mohan Malaviya
  Madan Mohan Malaviya
  Madan Mohan Malaviya was an Indian educationist, and freedom fighter notable for his role in the Indian independence movement and his espousal of Hindu nationalism...
  
  , educator (1961)
• Meera
  Meera
  Meerabai was an aristocratic Hindu mystical singer and devotee of Lord Krishna from Rajasthan and one of the most significant figures of the Sant tradition of the Vaishnava bhakti movement...
  
  , princess (1953)
• Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
  Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
  Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was a Vaishnava saint and social reformer in eastern India in the 16th century, believed by followers of Gaudiya Vaishnavism to be the full incarnation of Lord Krishna...
  
   (1986)
• Vinoo Mankad, Cricket Player (1996)
• Vijay Merchant
  Vijay Merchant
  Vijaysingh Madhavji Merchant , real name Vijay Madhavji Thakersey was an Indian cricketer. A right-hand batter and occasional right-arm medium pace bowler, Merchant played first class cricket for Mumbai cricket team as well as 10 Test matches for India between 1929 and 1951...
  
  , Cricket Player (1996)
• Sri Ramana Maharshi
  Ramana Maharshi
  Sri Ramana Maharshi , born Venkataraman Iyer, was a Hindu spiritual master . He was born to a Tamil-speaking Brahmin family in Tiruchuzhi, Tamil Nadu. After experiencing at age 16 what he later described as liberation , he left home for Arunachala, a mountain considered sacred by Hindus...
  
   (1998)
• Balwantrai Mehta
  Balwantrai Mehta
  Balwantrai Mehta was the second Chief Minister of Gujarat, India. He was a valiant freedom fighter, social worker and pioneer of concept of Panchayati Raj . He was a soldier in the Bardoli Satyagraha. His greatest contribution were in the sphere of princely states' peoples' fight for self-rule....
  
  (2000)
• Dr. Harekrushna Mahtab(2000)
• B. P. Mandal (2001)
• Giani Gurumukh Singh Musafir, Socio/Political Development Leader (2001)
• Chandragupta Maurya
  Chandragupta Maurya
  Chandragupta Maurya , was the founder of the Maurya Empire. Chandragupta succeeded in conquering most of the Indian subcontinent. Chandragupta is considered the first unifier of India and its first genuine emperor...
  
   (2001)
• Dwarka Prasad Mishra
  Dwarka Prasad Mishra
  Pt. Dwarka Prasad Mishra , an Indian National Congress politician was a former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh.He was twice the chief minister of the state from 30 September 1963 to 8 March 1967 and 9 March 1967 to 29 July 1967....
  
   (2001)
• Syama Prasad Mookerjee
  Syama Prasad Mookerjee
  Dr. Shyama Prasad Mookerjee was a minister in Jawaharlal Nehru's Cabinet as a Minister for Industry and Supply....
  
  , Nationalist (2001)
• Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee(2002)
• Muktai
  Muktabai
  Muktabai or Muktai was a saint in the Varkari tradition. She was born in a Deshastha Brahmin family and was the younger sister of Dnyaneshwar, the first Varkari saint. Muktabai wrote forty-one Abhang throughout her life span. "Tati ughada dnaneshwara" is one her most insightful works, being a...
  
  , Poet-saint (2003)
• Kakaji Maharaj
  Kakaji Maharaj
  Kakaji Maharaj was an Indian philosopher and thinker. He was associated with Swaminarayan faith. He received enlighhtenment in 1952. Kakaji Maharaj was one of the spiritual successors of Yogiji Maharaj, master of the AksharPurushottam doctrine. The Government of India issued a commemorative...
  
   (2003)
• Mukesh, Playback singer(2003)
• Narendra Mohan
  Narendra Mohan
  Narendra Mohan was an Indian industrialist, chairman and managing director of the Rs 874-crore Jagran Prakashan publisher for India's largest selling Hindi newspaper Dainik Jagran...
  
   (2003)
• Murasoli Maran
  Murasoli Maran
  Murasoli Maran was a prominent Tamil politician in India, and an important leader of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party which is headed by his maternal uncle and mentor, M. Karunanidhi. A Member of Parliament for 36 years, he was made a Union Minister in three separate central governments, in...
  
   (2004)
• A.V. Meiyappan (2006)
• Pankaj Kumar Mullick (2006)
• Madhubala
  Madhubala
  Mumtaz Jahan Begum Dehlavi, known by her stage name Madhubala was a Hindi movie actress. She starred in several successful movies in the 1950s and early 1960s, many of which have attained a classic status...
  
  , Film Actress (2008)
• Field Marshal SHFJ Manekshaw
  Sam Manekshaw
  Field Marshal Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw, MC "Sam Bahadur" was a Field Marshal of the Indian Army. His distinguished military career spanned four decades and five wars...
  
  , Indian Army Officer (2008)
• Lord Mountbatten of Burma
  Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
  Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, KG, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, DSO, PC, FRS , was a British statesman and naval officer, and an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh...
  
  , last viceroy and first governor-general of India

N

• Motilal Nehru
  Motilal Nehru
  Motilal Nehru was an early Indian independence activist and leader of the Indian National Congress, who remained Congress President twice, and...
  
  , freedom leader (1961)
• Rameshwari Nehru
  Rameshwari Nehru
  Rameshwari Nehru, born Rameshwari Raina , was a very prominent social worker of India. She worked for the upliftment of the poorer classes as well as for women. She married Brij Lal Nehru, nephew of Motilal Nehru and cousin of the first prime minister of independent India, Jawaharlal Nehru...
  
  , Women's rights campaigner (1987)
• Col. C.K. Nayudu
  C. K. Nayudu
  Cottari Kanakaiya Nayudu , also known as CK, was an Indian cricketer who served as India's first Test captain. He was born in Nagpur, Maharashtra and died in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. He played first-class cricket regularly till 1958, and returned for one last time in 1963 at the age of 68...
  
  , Cricket Player (1996)
• Jawaharlal Nehru, Political Leader and the first Prime Minister of independent India (1997, 2005)
• E.M.S. Namboodiripad, Socio/Political Development Leader (2001)
• C. Sankaran Nair
  C. Sankaran Nair
  Sir Chettur Sankaran Nair KCIE was the President of the Indian National Congress in 1897 held at Amraoti. Until present he is the only Keralite to hold the post.-Early life and education:...
  
  , Nationalist (2001)
• U Kiang Nongbah, Nationalist (2001)
• S. Nijalingappa
  S. Nijalingappa
  Siddavanahalli Nijalingappa was a senior Congress politician and the Chief Minister of Karnataka between 1956 and 1958 and once again between 1962 and 1968...
  
  , Ex chief minister Of Karnataka, Former of Modern Karnataka(2003)
• Raj Narain
  Raj Narain
  Raj Narain was an Indian politician who, as a candidate of Janata Party for the Lok Sabha in 1977, ran for office in Rae Bareli constituency and defeated Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India...
  
   (2007)
• J. P. Naik (2007)
• Rani Velu Nachchiyar (2008)
• Kamala Nehru
  Kamala Nehru
  Kamala Kaul Nehru was the wife of Jawaharlal Nehru - leader of the Indian National Congress and first Prime Minister of India. Kamala married Nehru on 7 February 1916.-Contribution to the Indian Freedom Movement:...
  
  
• R. K. Narayan
  R. K. Narayan
  R. K. Narayan , shortened from Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami Tamil: ) , Madras Presidency, British India. His father was a school headmaster, and Narayan did some of his studies at his father's school...
  
  , Writer (2009)

P

• Bipin Chandra Pal
  Bipin Chandra Pal
  Bipin Chandra Pal was an Indian nationalist. He was among the triumvirate of Lal Bal Pal.-Early life and background:...
  
  , freedom leader (1958)
• K.V.Puttapa, The Great Kannada Author and Jnanpith Award Winner (1998)
• Savitribai Phule
  Savitribai Phule
  Savitribai Jotiba Phule was a social reformer, who, along with her husband, Mahatma Jotiba Phule, played an important role in improving women's rights in India during the British Rule....
  
   (1998)
• Maharaja Bijli Pasi (2000)
• Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
  Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
  Vijaya Lakshmi Nehru Pandit was an Indian diplomat and politician, the sister of Jawaharlal Nehru, the aunt of Indira Gandhi and the great-aunt of Rajiv Gandhi, all of whom served as Prime Minister of India.In 1921 she married Ranjit Sitaram Pandit, who died on 14 January 1944...
  
  (2000)
• Jagdev Prasad (2001)
• Swami Pranavananda
  Swami Pranavananda
  Swami Pranavanda Saraswathi was a founding member of the Divine Life Society in Malaysia.-Early life:N. Ponniah was born on 28 August 1908 at Alavaddi, in Sri Lanka. His parents Nagamuthu and Kannagi were devout Hindus. Even at an early age, when he was learning at Arunodaya College, he had the...
  
   (2002)
• Vithalrao Vikhe Patil (2002)
• Govindaro Pansare (2003)
• S.K. Pottekkatt(2003)
• Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai
  Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai
  Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai was a novelist and short story writer of Malayalam language, spoken in Kerala state, South India. He is popularly known as Thakazhi, after his place of birth. He focused on the oppressed classes as the subject of his works, which are known for their attention to...
  
  (2003)
• Marudhu Pandiar Brothers (2004)
• Nanabhoy Palkhivala
  Nanabhoy Palkhivala
  Nanabhoy "Nani" Ardeshir Palkhivala was an Indian jurist and economist.- Early years :Nani Palkhivala was born in 1920 in Bombay to blue collar, middle-class Parsi parents...
  
   (2004)
• Baji Rao Peshwa (2004)
• P N Panicker
  P N Panicker
  Puthuvayil Narayana Panicker is known as the Father of the Library Movement in Kerala. The activities of the Kerala Grandhasala Sanghom which was initiated by P. N...
  
   (2004)
• Pāṇini (2004)
• Kavimani Desiga Vinayagam Pillai (2005)
• Ayothidhasa Pandithar (2005)
• Devaneya Pavanar
  Devaneya Pavanar
  Devaneya Pavanar , was a prominent Indian Tamil author who wrote over 35 books. Additionally, he was a staunch proponent of the "Pure Tamil movement" and initiated the Etymological Dictionary Project primarily to bring out the roots of Tamil words and their connections and ramifications.In his 1966...
  
  , Tamil author (2006)
• L.V. Prasad, Film actor, producer and director (2006)
• Manoharbhai Patel (2007)
• Dr. B.P. Pal (2008)
• Rajesh Pilot
  Rajesh Pilot
  Rajesh Pilot was an Indian politician and a minister in the Government of India. He belonged to the Indian National Congress party and represented the Dausa constituency in Lok Sabha....
  
  , politician (2008)
• A.T. Paneerselvam (2008)
• Sheikh Tambi Pavalar (2008)
• Mangal Pandey
  Mangal Pandey
  Mangal Pandey was a sepoy in the 34th Regiment of the Bengal Native Infantry of the English East India Company. He is widely known in India as one of its first freedom fighters...
  
  
• Chittu Pandey
  Chittu Pandey
  Chittu Pandey , popularly referred to as the Shere Ballia , was an Indian independence activist.Pandey was born in Rattuchak, a village in Ballia District of Uttar Pradesh....
  
  

R

• Yeduguri Sandinti Rajasekhara Reddy, Politician (2010)
• Prafulla Chandra Roy
  Prafulla Chandra Roy
  Prafulla Chandra Ray was a Indian academician, a chemist and entrepreneur. He was the founder of Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals, India's first pharmaceutical company...
  
  , scientist (1961)
• Veer Surendra Sai, Freedom fighter (1986)
• M.N. Roy, Freedom Fighter (1987)
• Rabindranath Tagore
  Rabindranath Tagore
  Rabindranath Tagore , sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European Nobel laureate by earning the 1913 Prize in Literature...
  
   (1987)
• Kotamaraju Rama Rao (1997)
• Lt. Indra Lal Roy, Fighter Pilot, Distinguished Flying Cross (1998)
• Dr. Burgula Ramakrishna Rao (2000)
• Sant Ravidas (2001)
• N.G. Ranga
  N.G. Ranga
  Gogineni Ranga nayukulu , better known as N. G. Ranga , was an Indian freedom fighter, parliamentarian, and kisan leader...
  
  , Socio/Political Development Leader (2001)
• V.K. Rajwade (2003)
• Mohammad Rafi(2003)
• Dr S Roerich (2004)
• Bimal Roy
  Bimal Roy
  Bimal Roy was one of the most acclaimed Indian film directors of all time. He is particularly noted for his realistic and socialistic films like Do Bigha Zamin, Parineeta, Biraj Bahu, Madhumati, Sujata, and Bandini, making him an important director of Hindi cinema...
  
   (2007)
• Bishwanath Rai (2006)
• Swami Rangnathananda Maharaj (2008)
• T.V. Ramasubbaiyer (2008)
• Bishnu Prasad Rabha (2009)

S

• Chatrapati Shivaji, Maratha King (1961)
• Surdas
  Surdas
  Surdas, the 15th century sightless saint, poet and musician, is known for his devotional songs dedicated to Lord Krishna. Surdas is said to have written and composed a hundred thousand songs in his magnum opus the 'Sur Sagar' , out of which only about 8,000 are extant...
  
  , poet and saint (1953)
• Bhim Sen Sachar
  Bhim Sen Sachar
  Bhim Sen Sachar was an Indian politician. He was the Chief Minister of Punjab from April 13, 1949to October 18, 1949 and again from April 17, 1952to January 23, 1956....
  
  , Freedom fighter (1986)
• Swami Sivananda
  Swami Sivananda
  Swami Sivananda Saraswati was a Hindu spiritual teacher and a proponent of Yoga and Vedanta. Sivananda was born Kuppuswami in Pattamadai, in the Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu. He studied medicine and served in Malaya as a physician for several years before taking up monasticism...
  
   (1986)
• S. Satyamurti
  S. Satyamurti
  S. Satyamurti was an Indian politician and patriot. A protege of S. Srinivasa Iyengar, Satyamurti was the political mentor of Kumaraswami Kamaraj....
  
  , Freedom fighter (1987)
• Veer Narayan Singh, patriot (1987)
• Nain Singh
  Nain Singh
  Pandit Nain Singh Rawat was one of the first of the pundits who explored the Himalayas for the British. He hailed from the Johaar Valley of Kumaon...
  
  , pundit (2004)
• Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Saint (1967)
• Alluri Sitaramaraju
  Alluri Sitaramaraju
  Alluri Sita Rama Raju , also known as Aluri Rpia page on Mogallu Village]-Early life:...
  
  , Freedom fighter (1986)
• Yellapragada Subbarao
  Yellapragada Subbarao
  Yellapragada Subbarao was an Indian biochemist who discovered the function of Adenosine Triphosphate as a energy source in the cell, and made important contributions to the treatment of cancer. Most of his career was spent in the United States...
  
  , Scientist (1995)
• Giani Zail Singh (1995)
• Muhammad Ismail Sahib (1996)
• Sant Kavi Sunderdas (1997)
• Bhaktivedanta Swami (1997)
• Muhammed Abdurahiman Shahib (1998)
• Shanker Dayal Sharma (2000)
• Raj Kumar Shukla
  Raj Kumar Shukla
  Raj Kumar Shukla was an indigo cultivator of Champaran , who met Gandhiji to make him aware of the plight of the cultivators in Champaran and persuaded him to come there...
  
   (2000)Bihar
  Bihar
  Bihar is a state in eastern India. It is the 12th largest state in terms of geographical size at and 3rd largest by population. Almost 58% of Biharis are below the age of 25, which is the highest proportion in India....
  
  *General Zorawar Singh
  General Zorawar Singh
  Zorawar Singh Kahluria was born in a village of Kahlur State in modern Himachal Pradesh, India....
  
  (2000)
• Basawon Singh (Sinha)
  Basawon Singh (Sinha)
  Basawon Singh has been among the greatest nationalists who joined into the freedom struggle at a tender age of 13 and kept on his struggle for the independence of the country from the colonial yoke and fighting for the rights of the underprivileged, industrial labours and agricultural workers all...
  
   (2000)
• R. Srinivasan
  R. Srinivasan
  R. Srinivasan is an Indian politician and incumbent member of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly from the Arcot constituency. He represents the Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party.- References :...
  
  (2000)
• Swami Sahajanand Saraswati
  Swami Sahajanand Saraswati
  Swami Sahajanand Saraswati , born in a Jijhoutia Brahminfamily of Ghazipur of Uttar Pradesh state of India, was an ascetic of Dashnami Order of Adi Shankara Sampradaya as well as a nationalist and peasant leader of India...
  
   (2000)Ghazipur
  Ghazipur
  Ghazipur , or Ghazipur City, previously spelt Ghazeepore, is a city/town and a municipal corporation and headquarter of Ghazipur district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is the administrative headquarters of Ghazipur Division and Sub-division...
  
  
• Swami Shraddhanand
  Swami Shraddhanand
  Swami Shraddhanand was an Indian educationist and an Arya Samaj missionary who propagated the teachings of Swami Dayanand. This included the establishment of educational institutions, like the Gurukul Kangri University, and played a key role on the Sangathan and the Shuddhi a Hindu reform...
  
   (1970)
• Potti Sriramulu (2000)
• Suraj Narain Singh (2001)
• Yogendra Shukla
  Yogendra Shukla
  Yogendra Shukla was an Indian nationalist born in Bihar. He served in the Cellular Jail , and he was among the founders of Hindustan Socialist Republican Association...
  
  , Freedom fighter and revolutionary (2001)
• Baikunth Shukla, Freedom fighter and revolutionary (2001)
• Jubba Sahni, Freedom fighter and revolutionary (2001)
• Krishna Nath Sarmah
  Krishna Nath Sarmah
  Krishna Nath Sarmah was a renowned nationalist and social reformer from Assam. After graduating with degrees in science and law, he started a legal practice in 1917. Inspired by Mahatma Gandhi, he joined the freedom struggle instead...
  
  , Nationalist (2001)
• Samanta Chandra Sekhar (2001)
• Thakur Satyananda (2002)
• Chandraprabha Saikiani(2002)
• Anna Bhau Sathe (2002)
• Tipu Sultan
  Tipu Sultan
  Tipu Sultan , also known as the Tiger of Mysore, was the de facto ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore. He was the son of Hyder Ali, at that time an officer in the Mysorean army, and his second wife, Fatima or Fakhr-un-Nissa...
  
  , Sultan of Mysore and Freedom fighter (1974)
• Janardan Swami (2003)
• Swami Swaroopanandji (2003)
• Major Somnath Sharma, Paramveer Chakra (2003)
• Siddhar Swamigal (2004)
• Indra Chandra Shastri
  Indra Chandra Shastri
  Indra Chandra Shastri was an Indian author and philosopher from Bikaner in Rajasthan state in India.The government of India issued a postage stamp in his honour.- References :*...
  
   (2004)
• Radhanath Sikdar
  Radhanath Sikdar
  Radhanath Sikdar was an Indian mathematician who, among many other things, calculated the height of Peak XV in the Himalaya and showed it to be the tallest mountain above sea level. Peak XV was later named Mount Everest.-Early life:Radhanath was born as youngest child of Tituram, a resident of...
  
   (2004)
• Nain Singh
  Nain Singh
  Pandit Nain Singh Rawat was one of the first of the pundits who explored the Himalayas for the British. He hailed from the Johaar Valley of Kumaon...
  
   (2004)
• K Subrahmanyam (2004)
• Bhagat Puran Singh
  Bhagat Puran Singh
  Bhai Puran Singh was born in Rajewal Ludhiana district, Punjab. Born into a Hindu family, he was given the name Ramjidas as a child. Later, while still a child, he choose to become a Sikh. Though he never finished his basic schooling, he became a writer, a publisher, an environmentalist, and a...
  
   (2004)
• Bhaskara Sethupathy
  Bhaskara Sethupathy
  Bhaskara Sethupathy was a Raja of Ramnad. He became the recognised proprietor of the Ramnad estate after his father's death in 1873 till 1895. From 1895, He assumed Managership of Rameswaram till 1901.He was regarded as a pious, brilliant and generous ruler by his supporters...
  
   (2004)
• Padampat Singhania (2005)
• Madhavrao Scindia
  Madhavrao Scindia
  Madhavrao Scindia was a prominent Indian politician and minister from the Congress Party. He was born into the Scindia family, who formerly ruled Gwalior...
  
   (2005)
• Dr. T.S. Soundram (2005)
• M. S. Subbulakshmi
  M. S. Subbulakshmi
  Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi , also known as M.S., was a renowned Carnatic vocalist. She was the first musician ever to be awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honor. She is the first Indian musician to receive...
  
   (2005)
• NMR Subbaraman (2006)
• M. Singaravelar (2006)
• Ma Po Shivagnanam (2006)
• Satyendra Narain Singh,freedom fighter & Bihar chief minister
• V.G.Suryanarayana Sastriar, Tamil scholar and writer (2007)
• Damodaram Sanjivayya
  Damodaram Sanjivayya
  Damodaram Sanjivayya was the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, India from 11 January 1960 to 12 March 1962.-Early life:...
  
  , Politician and chief minister (2008)
• Maharshi Bulusu Sambamurthy (2008)
• Shri Shirdi Sai Baba, saint (2008)
• Ramdhari Singh Dinkar
• Rahul Sankrityayan
  Rahul Sankrityayan
  Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan , who is called the Father of Hindi Travel literature, was one of the most widely-traveled scholars of India, spending forty-five years of his life on travels away from his home. He became a buddhist monk and eventually took up Marxist Socialism...
  
  

T

• Purushottam Das Tandon
  Purushottam Das Tandon
  Purushottam Das Tandon पुरुषोत्तम दास टंडन , was a freedom fighter from Uttar Pradesh in India, of Punjabi Khatri descent. He is widely remembered for his efforts in achieving the Official Language of India status for Hindi. He was customarily given the title Rajarshi...
  
  , freedom fighter (1982)
• Rabindranath Tagore
  Rabindranath Tagore
  Rabindranath Tagore , sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European Nobel laureate by earning the 1913 Prize in Literature...
  
  , poet (1953, 1961)
• J.R.D. Tata, industrialist (1958)
• Thiruvalluvar, Tamil poet (1960)
• Bal Gangadhar Tilak
  Bal Gangadhar Tilak
  Lokmanya Tilak –, was an Indian nationalist, teacher, social reformer and independence fighter who was the first popular leader of the Indian Independence Movement. The British colonial authorities derogatorily called the great leader "Father of the Indian unrest"...
  
  , independence leader (1956)
• Tulsidas
  Tulsidas
  Tulsidas , was a Hindu poet-saint, reformer and philosopher renowned for his devotion for the god Rama...
  
  , poet and saint (1953)
• Tyagaraja
  Tyagaraja
  Kakarla Tyagabrahmam , colloquially known as Tyāgarājar and Tyagayya was one of the greatest composers of Carnatic music or classical South Indian music. He, along with his contemporaries Muthuswami Dikshitar and Shyama Shastry, forms the Trinity of Carnatic music...
  
  , musician (1961)
• Tansen
  Tansen
  Mia Tansen is considered among the greatest composer-musicians in Hindustani classical music. He was an extraordinarily gifted vocalist, known for a large number of compositions, and also an instrumentalist who popularized and improved the rabab .He was among the Navaratnas at the court of the...
  
  , Singer (1986)
• P.M. Thevar (1995)
• Omkarnath Thakur
  Omkarnath Thakur
  Omkarnath Thakur was an Indian educator, musicologist, and Hindustani classical singer. He is famously known as "Pranav Rang", his pen-name.Thakur was born 1897 in a village in the Princely State of Baroda into a poor military family...
  
   (1997)
• Prabodhankar Thackeray
  Prabodhankar Thackeray
  Keshav Sitaram alias Prabodhankar Thackeray, commonly known as Prabodhankar Thackeray, was one of the Key leaders of the Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti which successfully campained for a linguistic state of Maharashtra...
  
   (2002)
• Sant Tukaram
  Tukaram
  Sant Tukaram was a prominent Varkari Sant and spiritual poet during a Bhakti movement in India.Sant Tukaram was born and lived most of his life in Dehu, a town close to Pune in Mahārāshtra, India. He was born to a couple with the family name "More", the descendent of the Mourya Clan with first...
  
   (2002)
• Jamshedji Nusserwanji Tata, industrialist (2008)
• Mother Theresa, Humanitarian, Nobel Peace Prize Winner (1980 and 1997)

V

• Vaidyanatha Iyer, freedom fighter, Madurai, Tamil Nadu (1999)http://www.tamilnadupost.nic.in/phil/stamps_misc.htm
• Victoria of the United Kingdom
  Victoria of the United Kingdom
  Victoria was the monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. From 1 May 1876, she used the additional title of Empress of India....
  
   (1854)
• Visvesvarayya, The Great engineer and statesman from karnataka (1960)
• Sardar A. Vedaratnam (1998)
• Pandit Suryanarayan Vyas, Author (2002)
• Vaidyaratnam P.S. Varier
  Vaidyaratnam P.S. Varier
  Vaidyaratnam P.S. Varier was an Ayurvedic physician from Kerala, India who in 1902 founded Kottakal Arya Vaidya Sala organization for the manufacture and sale of ayurvedic medicines. The Government of India has issued a postage stamp bearing his image....
  
  , Founder of Arya Vaidya Sala, Kottakkal (2002)
• S. S. Vasan
  S. S. Vasan
  Subramaniam Srinivasan , popularly known by his screen name S. S. Vasan, was anIndian journalist, writer, advertiser, film producer, director and business tycoon...
  
   (2004)
• Randhir Prasad Verma
  Randhir Prasad Verma
  Randhir Prasad Verma was an Indian police officer who died while trying to resist a robbery attempt in a bank in Dhanbad. He was posthumously awarded gallantry award Ashok Chakra. The Government of India also issued a Commemorative postage stamp in his honor in 2004.He was born in 1952 in...
  
  , Superintendent of Police and Ashok Chakra Winner (2004)
• Tenneti Viswanatham (2004)
• Thirumuruga Kirubananda Variyar (2006)
• G. Varadaraj (2006)
• Saint Vallalar
  Arutprakasa Vallalar Chidambaram Ramalinga Swamigal
  Arutprakasa Vallalar Chidambaram Ramalingam , whose pre-monastic name was Ramalingam, is commonly known in India and across the world as Vallalar...
  
   (2007)
• Thillaiyadi Valliammai (2008)
• Virchand Gandhi, 19th Century Indian Legend (8 November 2009)
• Vijay Chandra Sekhar, Tamil Actor (2010)
• Ecoman Vijaypal Baghel, environmentalist,(2001)