Kattassery Joseph Yesudas (usually referred to as Dr. K. J. Yesudas or Jesudas, Malayalam: കാട്ടശ്ശേരി ജോസഫ് യേശുദാസ് , also nicknamed "Gana Gandharvan") (born January 10, 1940) is an eminent Indian classical musician and leading playback singer of film songs in many Indian languages.

Pulapaka Susheela (born 1935) is an Indian playback singer. She has recorded several songs in many Indian languages including Telugu, language and Kannada. Her career spanned about four decades. Susheela was born in 1935 in Vijayanagaram, Andhra Pradesh. In 1950, music director Nageswara Rao was looking for new talent and scouted for new singers at All India Radio. Of the five people referred, Susheela was selected and Susheela sang her first song, …

S. Janaki (born April 23, 1938) is an Indian playback singer. She has sung in many Indian languages including Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada. Janaki is also a lyricist and a music composer. A devotee of Lord Krishna and Shirdi Sai Baba, she spends a lot of time praying and has also released devotional music cassettes on Meera.

John Muir, born 1810, Glasgow, Scotland, died, 1882, Edinburgh, Scotland, was a Scottish sanskritist. He arrived in India in 1828 as a civil servant in Bengal, and after finally rising to the position of judge in Fatehpur, left the Indian Civil Service in 1853 and returned to the United Kingdom. In India Muir wrote in English, Sanskrit and other Indian languages on a variety of topics, but especially on Christianity, …

Sadhana Sargam is an Indian playback singer. She has sung in many Indian languages. Sadhna Sargam is from a Maharashtran family. She was trained in Indian classical music by her mother at her early childhood and then by Pandit Jasraj by latter on. She is famous for her live concerts and for her live performances.

Rajendra Yadav is one of the eminent Hindi fiction writers. He was born in a traditional Yadav family. He has by now edited the famous magazine HANS for 20 years. HANS, was founded by Munshi Prem Chand. He is the author of a number of Hindi books. Rajendra Yadav is regarded as principal architect of the 'New Wave' phenomenon in post-Indepen­dence Hindi fiction. He is one of the pioneers of this movement, …

Jules Bloch was a French linguist who studied Indian languages, and was also interested in languages in their cultural and social contexts.

Sir Walter Elliot (1803-1887), Born in Edinburgh, studied at the East India College in Haileybury and joined the Indian Civil Service at Madras in 1821 and worked on till 1860. He became a Member of the Council of the Governor of Madras and had a wide range of interests including Botany, Zoology, Indian languages and geology. He rescued the Amaravathi Marbles, which are now housed in theBritish Museum along with his coin collection and collection of other artifacts.

Nithyasree Mahadevan, also referred to as S. Nithyashri Mahadevan (born August 25, 1973) is an eminent Indian classical musician and leading playback singer for film songs in many Indian languages.

Sir Ralph Lilley Turner MC (5 October 1888-22 April 1983) was an English Indian languages philologist and university administrator. He is also the author of some publications concerning the Romani language. Turner was born in Charlton, London. He was educated at the Perse School and Christ's College, Cambridge. In 1913 he joined the Indian Educational Service as a lecturer at Queen's College, Benares.

Samuel Penhallow (July 2, 1665-December 2, 1726), American colonist and historian, was born at St Mabon, Cornwall, England. From 1683 to 1686 he attended a school at Newington Green (near London) conducted by the Rev. Charles Morton (1627-1698), a dissenting clergyman, with whom he emigrated to Massachusetts in 1686.