Adwaita was the name of a male Aldabra Giant Tortoise in the Alipore Zoological Gardens of Kolkata, India. He was the oldest living animal in Kolkata and may receive the title of oldest creature in the animal kingdom known if the claim of his age of 250 years is determined to be true by proposed carbon dating (though carbon 14 has a half life of 5730±40 years, so would be an unsuitable method for accurate dating on a scale of only hundreds of years, …

Charles Rockwell Lanman (July 8 1850-February 20 1941) was an American scholar of the Sanskrit language. He was born in Norwich, Connecticut, graduated from Yale University in 1871, was a graduate student there (1871-1873) under James Hadley and WD Whitney, and in Germany (1873-1876) studied Sanskrit under Weber and Roth and philology under Georg Curtius and August Leskien.

Bharavi was an 8th century Sanskrit language poet known for great Sankrit epic, the "Kiratarjuniya" (or Arjuna and the Mountain Man). His poetry is characterised by its intricate styles and ethreal expressions. It is possible that he might have influenced the 8th-century poet Magha.

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, …

General (ret.) Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (born September 9, 1949 in Pacitan, East Java, Indonesia), is an Indonesian retired military general and statesman as well as the sixth President of Indonesia. Yudhoyono won the presidency in September 2004 in the second round of the Indonesian presidential election, in which he defeated incumbent President Megawati Sukarnoputri. He was sworn into office on 20 October 2004, together with Jusuf Kalla as Vice President.

Diah Permata Megawati Setiawati Soekarnoputri (born January 23, 1947), was President of Indonesia from July 2001 to October 20, 2004. She was the country's first female President, and the first Indonesian leader born after independence. On September 20 she lost her campaign for re-election in the 2004 Indonesian presidential election. She is the daughter of Indonesia's first president, Sukarno.

G. Sankara Kurup, (born June 3, 1901, Nayathode, Kerala, India - February 2, 1978, Trivandrum, Kerala), better known as Mahakavi G (The Great Poet G), was the first winner of the Jnanpith Award, the Government of India's highest literary award. He won the prize in 1965 for his collection of poems in Malayalam "Odakkuzhal" (The bamboo flute, 1950). With part of the prize money he established the literary award Odakkuzhal in 1968.

Sri Dandin is a 6th-7th century Indian Sanskrit author of prose romances and expounder on poetics. Although he produced literature on his own, most notably the "Dasakumaracarita", first translated in 1927 as "Hindoo Tales, or The Adventures of the Ten Princes", he is best known for composing the "Kavyadarsa" ('Mirror of Poetry'), the handbook of classical Sanskrit poetics, or "kavya". His writings were all in Sanskrit

"'"' (September 15 973 in Kath, Khwarezm - December 13 1048 in Ghazni) was a Persian Muslim universal genius of the 11th Century, whose experiments and discoveries were as significant and diverse as those of Leonardo da Vinci or Galileo, five hundred years before the Renaissance; al-Biruni was well-known in the Muslim world, but unlike some of his contemporaries (such as Abulcasis, Alhacen, and Avicenna), al-Biruni's name was little known in the Western world.

Aacharya Tirthapura Nanjundaiah Srikantaiah also known as ThiNamShree (November 26, 1906 - September 7, 1966) was a Kannada literary poet, scholar, and teacher. Srikantaiah was instrumental in preparing and publishing Kannada version of Constitution of India in 1952. He is also credited for suggesting the term "Rashtrapathi", a Sanskrit equivalent for President of India.

Singha (싱하) is the ID pseudonym of the Korean individual who writes critical commentary on DC Inside Starcraft gallery. As a result of his penchant for referring to himself as "brother" (형), he has gained renown as Sing-ha the brother (싱하형), and his uniquely expressive manner of stylistic phraseology has been gaining in popularity since Autumn 2004. He has become identified with having uploaded Bruce Lee's image with "jjalbang" picture, …