Atal Bihari Vajpayee (born December 25, 1924),(ਅਟਲ ਬਿਹਾਰੀ ਵਾਜਪੇਈ) was the Prime Minister of India, briefly in 1996, and again from March 19, 1998 until May 19, 2004. He retired from active politics in December 2005, but still comments on and participates in national debates of policy, welfare and defence. He is a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party and Indian politics in general.

Rahul Gandhi (born June 19, 1970) is an Indian politician and member of the Parliament of India, representing the Amethi constituency. His political party is the Indian National Congress.

Chandra Shekhar Singh (July 1, 1927 - July 8, 2007) was the eleventh Prime Minister of the Republic of India.

Amitabh Bachchan (Hindi: IPA: [/mitab btn/], born Amitabh Harivansh Bachchan on October 11, 1942), is an Indian film actor. He first gained popularity in the early 1970s and has since become one of the most prominent figures in the history of Indian cinema.

Sanjay Gandhi was an Indian politician, the younger son of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and politician Feroze Gandhi. A controversial figure, he was accused of abuses during the Emergency and died in an aeroplane crash shortly after his mother's return to power. He had been elected to the Parliament of India five months before his death.

Sunil Dutt, born as Balraj Dutt was an Indian Bollywood actor, producer, director and politician. He was the cabinet minister for Youth Affairs and Sports in the Manmohan Singh government (2004-2005). His son, Sanjay Dutt, is currently also a Bollywood star. In 1984 he joined the Congress (I) party and was elected to Parliament for five terms from the constituency of Mumbai North West.

Yusuf Khan (born December 11, 1922), also commonly known as Dilip Kumar (Hindi: दिलीप कुमार ; Urdu: دِلِیپ کُمار) is an Indian Bollywood film actor and a former Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha). Dilip Kumar is regarded as one of the greatest actors ever to grace the Indian film industry. His performances have been regarded as the epitome of emoting in Indian Cinema.

Jagjivan Ram (Devanāgarī: जगजीवन राम, known popularly as Babuji was a freedom fighter and a social reformer hailing from the backward classes of Bihar in India. He served as a minister in the Indian parliament with various portfolios for more than forty years, and also served as the Deputy Prime Minister of India.

Dr. Najma Heptulla is an Indian politician and Bharatiya Janata Party member of Parliament in India's Upper House (Rajya Sabha) from Rajasthan. She is the grand-niece of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, a prominent Indian freedom fighter who had opposed the creation of a separate Muslim state.

Ram Vilas Paswan (born 5 July, 1946) is a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represents the Hajipur constituency of Bihar and is president of the Lok Janshakti Party, political party. He is a Dalit Indian politician from the state of Bihar. He currently leads the Lok Janshakti Party which he founded in 2000 and is a member of the Indian Parliament from Hajipur, Bihar.

Venkaiah Naidu is an Indian politician. He was the president of the Bharatiya Janata Party 2002 to 2004, which is currently the opposition party in the Parliament of India. He resigned on October 18, 2004 later succeeded by L.K. Advani. Naidu took over as BJP president after Jana Krishnamurthi stepped down in 2002. Naidu hails from Andhra Pradesh. On January 28, 2004, He was elected unopposed for a full 3 year term.

Anbumani Ramadoss was born on October 8 1968 in Pondicherry.He is the Cabinet Minister for Health and Family Welfare in the Central Government of India.He was elected to the Parliament as a member of the Rajya Sabha in 2004.He was a student of Madras Medical College and did his MBBS.He is a doctor by profession. He belongs to the Pattali Makkal Katchi founded by his father Dr S. Ramadoss.He married Sowmiya on August 28 1991. He has 3 daughters.

Jairam Ramesh is presently a Member of the Parliament of India representing Andhra Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament. He is also the Minister of State for Commerce in the current Congress Party-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government.

Prakash Vir Shastri was a noted Member of the Parliament of India (Sansad). Born on December 30, 1923 as Om Prakash Tyagi (Devanāgarī: अोउम प्रकाश त्यागी) in the village of Ayodhya to a sepoy father, he earned his Shastri degree from Banaras Hindu University.

Noor Bano was a member of the 11th and 13th Lok Sabha, lower house of parliament of India.She was elected from Rampur on ticket of Indian National Congress party. Born in 1939 at Loharu in Haryana she studied at M.G.D. Girls Public School in Jaipur. Married in 1956 to Nawab Zulfiquar Ali Khan of Rampur they have three children.

Asaduddin Owaisi (May 13, 1969) is an Indian politician and a member of Lok Sabha, Lower House of the Parliament of India. He was born in Hyderabad.

Raja Ramanna (1925 - September 23, 2004) born in Tumkur, Karnataka, was an Indian nuclear scientist and was associated with the country's first nuclear test in 1974. He died in Mumbai in 2004. Beginning his studies at Bishop Cotton Boys School, Bangalore, Raja Ramanna obtained Ph.D. and L.R.S.M. from London. He specialised in nuclear physics, reactor physics and design, European music and philosophy. Dr. Ramanna was also a noted pianist. Dr.

Biju Patnaik (1916 1997) was an Indian politician. Son of Lakshminarayan and Ashalata Patnaik, Bijayananda Patnaik was born in Cuttack, Orissa (India) on March 5, 1916. He studied Aeronautics at the Aeronautical Training Institute of India. He joined the Indian National Airways, where he was involved with the war effort from 1940 to 1942. He was thereafter imprisoned until 1945 due to his activism efforts with the Quit India Movement.

Dayanidhi Maran (born December 5, 1966, Kumbakonam, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India) is a member of parliament in India’s 14th Lok Sabha from Madras Central constituency. Till May 2007 he was Minister of Communications and IT in the Union Cabinet. He is the son of Late Mr.Murasoli Maran and the grandnephew of DMK president M Karunanidhi. He is the younger brother of Kalanidhi Maran, the founder and managing director of Sun Network, …

Sanjay Nirupam (born February 6, 1965) is an Indian politician. He was born in the remote village of Rohtas in Bihar. He spent his childhood in Rohtas and after completing his schooling, moved to Patna in 1980 for higher education. He has been active in politics since his student life. He graduated in 1986 in arts with honours in political science. He moved to Delhi in 1986 and joined the weekly "Panch Janya" as a Sub-editor.

Rajmohan Gandhi (1935, New Delhi, India) is a biographer and grandson of Mahatma Gandhi. His maternal grandfather is Rajaji and his father is Devdas Gandhi. Rajmohan is also a journalist and political activist. Mr. Gandhi, a research professor at the Centre for Policy Studies in New Delhi, India, has written widely on the Indian independence movement and its leaders, India-Pakistani relations, human rights and conflict resolution.

Vijayaraje Scindia (1919-2001) born Lekha Divyeshwari and until 1970 styled the Rajmata of Gwalior, was a prominent Indian political personality. In the days of the British Raj, as consort of the last ruling Maharaja of Gwalior, she ranked among the highest aristocrats of the land. In later life, she became a politician of considerable influence and was elected repeatedly to both houses of the Indian parliament.

Kamlesh Kumari was a recipient of Ashoka Chakra Award, India's highest peacetime award. She was the woman constable of CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force) who died defending the parliament of India from terrorist attack on 13 December 2001.

Dr. Sebastian Paul (born 1 May, 1947) is a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represents the Ernakulam constituency of Kerala. Dr. Paul made his electoral debut in the 1997 Lok Sabha byelection in Ernakulam (Lok Sabha Constituency) when he defeated Antony Isaac of the INC. The byelection was necessitated by the demise of the sitting MP, Xavier Arackal. In 1998, he unsuccessfully contested against George Eden, conceding a margin of nearly 75,000 votes.

Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar (died 27 February 1956) popularly known as "Dadasaheb" was an independence activist and the first Speaker of the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India. Mavalankar hailed from Marathi background but lived and worked in Ahmedabad, capital of Gujarat. He was a colleague and close friend of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. Mavalankar joined the Indian Independence Movement with the Non-Cooperation Movement.

Sontosh Mohan Dev is a veteran Indian political leader and a key member of the Indian National Congress. Mr Dev was first elected to the Parliament in 1980, the first of Seven terms in office as the Member Of Parliament for Silchar Assam and also From Tripura. Mr Dev has the rare distinction of being elected from two different states.

Manohar Malgonkar (b. 1913) is an Indian English language author of fiction and nonfiction. Manohar Malgonkar was born in a royal family, and educated at Bombay University. He was an officer in the Maratha Light Infantry, a big game hunter, a civil servant, a mine owner and a farmer, and he also stood for parliament. Most of that activity was during momentous times of Indian history -- the build up to independence and its aftermath -- often the settings for his works.

Pandit Raghunath Vinayak Dhulekar was prominent Indian freedom fighter from Uttar Pradesh who took active part in Quit India movement and held many responsible positions in Indian politics such as Member of the Parliament of India and Constituent Assembly in the year 1952. He was also Speaker of Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha between 1958 and 1963.

Dahyabhai Patel (b. 1906 - d. 1967) was the son of Indian leader Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, an Indian freedom fighter and later a member of the Parliament of India. Educated in Bombay, Dahyabhai Patel graduated from the Gujarat Vidyapith and began working for an insurance company, and settled in Bombay. His first wife Yashoda died, leaving him his son Bipin. He would later marry Bhanumati and have more children.

Kartik Oraon, born in an oraon family, on born on 29th October 1924 in a village named Karound Littatoli of Gumla district, Jharkhand state, India, was a famous adivasi of 20th century. His father was Jaira Oraon and mother was Birsi Oraon. Kartik Oraon was named Kartik, as he was born in the month of Kartik as per the Hindu calendar. After completing high schooling from Gumla in 1942, he passed Intermediate examination from Science College, Patna, …

Pt. Tarkeshwar Pandey (1910 - 1989) was an Indian Member of Parliament from 1952 to 1977. He was in jail from 1932 to 1939. He was the only Congress MP to have opposed the Hindu Code Bill in Indian Parliament. Was MP from Salempur from 1972 to 1977 (http://parliamentofindia.nic.in/ls/lok05/state/05lswb.htm). Strangely is associated more with Ballia politics than Salempur. Has a village named after him in Ballia and a colony in Varanasi.

Dayanand Bandodkar (1911-03-12-1973-08-12) was the first Chief Minister of Goa after the territory was returned to India by Portugal. A wealthy mine owner, he sought to merge the territory with the state of Maharashtra. After his request to gain 18 out of 28 candidates for a merger with Maharashtra was denied by the Congress party, he formed his own Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party. He swept the polls in 1963, 1967 and in 1972 and remained in power until his death in 1973.

U. Srinivas Mallya who was also called Malliah in North India or Sheenappa Mallya in Dakshina Kannada is the architect of Modern Canara District or master planner and a true politician. In his 18 years tenure as member of Parliament, from 1946-1965 he did not speak a single word. But he was instrumental in getting several nation building projects mentioned below. When in Mangalore, you would have sauntered down NH 17 or 48, …

U. Srinivas Mallya who was also called Malliah in North India or Sheenappa Mallya in Dakshina Kannada is the architect of Modern Canara District or master planner and a true politician. In his 18 years tenure as member of Parliament, from 1946-1965 he did not speak a single word. But he was instrumental in getting several nation building projects mentioned below. When in Mangalore, you would have sauntered down NH 17 or 48, …