Sirajul Islam

Sirajul Islam

male
Sirajul Islam is the chairman of the Board of Editors, Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh. He is also the professor of history at...
Edward Blyth

Edward Blyth

male, deceased (1873)
Edward Blyth (December 23, 1810 - December 27, 1873) was an English zoologist and chemist. He is known as one of the founders of Indian zoology....
Charles Wilkins

Charles Wilkins

male, deceased (1836)
Sir Charles Wilkins (1749 - 1836), was an English typographer and Orientalist, notable as the first translator of Bhagavad Gita into English, and...
James Prinsep

James Prinsep

male, deceased (1840)
James Prinsep (20 August 1799 - 22 April 1840) was an Anglo-Indian scholar and antiquary. In 1819 he was given an appointment in the Calcutta mint,...
Nathaniel Wallich

Nathaniel Wallich

male, deceased (1854)
Nathaniel Wulff Wallich (28 January 1786 - 28 April 1854) was a surgeon and botanist. Born in Copenhagen, in 1806 Wallich obtained the diploma of...

Sándor Kőrösi Csoma

male, deceased (1842)
Sándor Kőrösi Csoma, also known as Alexander Csoma de Kőrös, born Csoma Sándor (March 27, 1784 - April 11, 1842), was a Hungarian philologist and or...
Edward Byles Cowell

Edward Byles Cowell

male, deceased (1903)
Professor Edward Byles Cowell (January 231826 - February 9 1903) was a noted translator of Persian poetry and the first professor of Sanskrit at...

Rajendra Lala Mitra

male, deceased (1891)
Rajendra Lala Mitra (February 15, 1824 - July 26, 1891), Indian Orientalist, was born in Calcutta. The son of Janmejay Mitra, the family hailed...

Henry Francis Blanford

male, deceased (1893)
Henry Francis Blanford (1834-1893) was a meteorologist and paleontologist who worked in India. He was a brother of the naturalist William Thomas...

Shafik H. Hashmi

Shafik H. Hashmi , professor of political science at Georgia Southern University, received a $2,500 grant from the American Council of the...