- Farooq Abdullah
Dr. Farooq Abdullah (born October 21 1936, Soura, Kashmir), the son of Sheikh Abdullah, is a doctor of medicine and has served as chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir on several occasions. Farooq Abdullah studied at the C.M.S Tyndale Biscoe Memorial Schoolin Shiekhbagh (Lal Chowk), Srinagar. Farooq Abdullah has been for autonomy to Jammu and Kashmir within the constitution of India and formalising the Line of Control (LoC) as the international border.
- Omar Abdullah
Omar Abdullah (born 10 March, 1970) is a member of 14th Lok Sabha. He represents Srinagar constituency of Jammu and Kashmir. He was a minister in Atal Bihari Vajpayee's government. He is the son of Farooq Abdullah and grandson of Sheikh Abdullah. He is an alumnus of the Burn Hall School Srinagar, Lawrence School, Sanawar and University of Mumbai. In 1998, Omar Abdullah was elected to 12th Lok Sabha. In 1998-99, he was Member, Committee on Transport and Tourism and Member, …
- Sheikh Abdullah
Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah, known as Sher-e-Kashmir (the Lion of Kashmir) (Dec 5 1905, Soura, Kashmir - Sept 8 1982, Srinagar), was the leader of the National Conference, Kashmir's largest political party, and one of the most important political figures in the modern history of Jammu and Kashmir. He was the Prime Minister of Kashmir soon after its controversial provisional accession to India in 1947, and was later jailed and exiled.
- Mohammad Afzal
Mohammad Afzal also known as Afzal Guru is an Indian from Kashmir accused and convicted of conspiracy in the December 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament. In 2004, he was sentenced to death by the Supreme Court of India. The sentence was to be carried out on 20 October, 2006. The sentence is now stayed, after his family filed a mercy petition to the President. There is pressure to issue clemency to Afzal from political groups in Kashmir, …
- Karan Thapar
Karaṇ Thāpar, born on 22nd November, 1955 in Srinagar, India, is one of India's noted television commentators and interviewers. Currently the President of Infotainment Television, Thapar is noted for his aggressive interviews with leading politicians and celebrities - his interviews with cricketer Kapil Dev (where Dev broke down into tears), George Fernandes, Jayalalithaa, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, General Pervez Musharraf, Benazir Bhutto, …
- Mirwaiz Omar Farooq
Mirwaiz Muhammad Omar Farooq (born 23 March 1973) is the chairman of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference, a coalition of disparate political parties in Jammu and Kashmir that wish independence for the state. He attended Burn Hall School in Srinagar. Placed on the stage at the age of 17, following the death of his father, Mirwaiz Molvi Farooq, Omar Farooq united 23 Kashmiri militant organizations into the APHC.
- Kunal Khemu
Kunal Khemu (Hindi: कुणाल खेमू, born in 25 May, 1983 in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India) is an Indian actor who appears in Bollywood films.
- Khurshid Ahmed
Khurshid Ahmed was the private secretary of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the first Governor-General of Pakistan. He was sent as an observer by Jinnah to Jammu and Kashmir with the tribal army during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. Ahmed was repatriated from Srinagar by Indian forces.
- Sadiq Ali
Sadiq Ali is a senior politician of Kashmir (India), a noted poet and writer and an active environmentalist. He has been an elected legislator of the Kashmir State Assembly for three consective terms. Mr Sadiq Ali was born in Srinagar into an influential business family. His father, the late Mr. Jaffer Ali was a world renowned Papier-Machie artist and businessman. Sadiq Ali graduated from Aligarh Muslim University and earned his PhD in foreign Affairs.
- Subhash Kak
Subhash Kak (born March 26, 1947 in Srinagar, Kashmir) is an Indian American computer scientist. He has published material related to cryptography and quantum information. He is notable for publications outside of his field, from an India-centric "Indigenous Aryans" ideology, including history and philosophy of science, ancient astronomy, and history of mathematics.
- Joanna Lumley
Joanna Lumley OBE, FRGS (born 1 May 1946) is an English actress and former model who is best known for her roles in "The New Avengers", "Absolutely Fabulous", "Sapphire and Steel" and "Sensitive Skin".
- Amar Singh Thapa
Amar Singh Thapa was the General of the Nepalese forces of western front in the Anglo-Nepalese War. He is regarded as one of the National heroes of Nepal. His major contributions are: # Unification of Nepal: annexed several western principalities like Jumla, Doti, Kumaon, Garhwal, Dehradun, Srinagar and Kangra. # Annexed Palpa to the Kingdom of Nepal # Served as the Nepalese care taker of the western principalities and protectorates west of the Mahakali River.
- Satish Dhawan
Satish Dhawan (25 September 1920-3 January 2002) was an Indian rocket scientist who was born in Srinagar, India and educated in India and the United States. He is considered by the Indian scientific community to be the father of experimental fluid dynamics research in India and one of the most eminent researchers in the field of turbulence and boundary layers. He succeeded Vikram Sarabhai, the founder of the Indian space programme, …
- Qazi Touqeer
Qazi Touqeer, born June 2 1985 in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, was one of the three finalists of Fame Gurukul, one of the most watched television shows in India - along with Rex D'Souza and Ruprekha Banerjee. On 20 October, 2005, he managed to grab the top prize along with Ruprekha Banerjee. All through the 4 months spent in Gurukul, Qazi was criticized, being just saved 10 times from being voted out. But ultimately his performing ability along with his singing paid off.
- Amin Kamil
Amin Kamil (1924 -) is perhaps the greatest living poet of Kashmiri language whose influence is widely accepted by his contempraries and later generations. He is also known as a story teller, a critc and a scholar of a high calibre. Kamil was born at Kaprin, a village in South Kashmir. He graduated in Arts from the Punjab University and took his degree in Law from the Aligarh Muslim University. He joined the Bar in 1947 and continued to practice Law till 1949, …
- Rehman Rahi
Rehman Rahi (born March 6, 1925, Srinagar) is an Indian poet, translator and critic. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1961 for his poetry collection "Nawroz-i-Saba", the Padma Shri in 2000, and the Jnanpith Award (for the year 2004) in 2007. He is the first Kashmiri writer to be awarded the Jnanpith, India's highest literary award. Rehman Rahi began his career as a clerk in the government and was associated with the Progressive Writers' Association, …
- Swami Lakshman Joo
Swami Lakshman Joo (9 May 1907 in Srinagar, Kashmir - early hours of 27 September 1991 in A-48, Sector 39 NOIDA,NCR, Uttar Pradesh, India) was a famed mystic and scholar. According to Kashmir Shaivastic lore, he was also a fully-realized saint. Birth and Family Bio-Sketch Lal Sahib, affectionately called by his immediate family, friends, welcomed one and all, rich or poor, people from all religions and race came to him, …
- Ella Maillart
Ella Maillart (February 20, 1903 - March 27, 1997) was a French speaking Swiss adventurer and travel writer, as well as a sportswoman. She had been captain of the Swiss Women's hockey team and was an international skier. She spent decades exploring oriental republics of the USSR during the Stalin period and published a rich series of books considered today as valuable historical testimonies. In these countries she is often cited as a reference.
- Dame Edith Mary Brown
Dame Edith Mary Brown (24 March, 1864-6 December, 1956) was the founder of The Christian Medical College Ludhiana, the first Medical training facility for woman in Asia. Brown was born in Whitehaven in 1846. She graduated from Girton College, Cambridge, one of the first woman to be admitted to the Honours Degree Examination at the University of Cambridge in 1882. After graduating she studied medicine at Edinburgh and in Brussels, …
- Nirmal Jit Singh Sekhon
Nirmal Jit Singh Sekhon is remembered for his gallantry and his statues have also been installed in many cities in Punjab (India). A marine tanker built in 1985 was named "Flying Officer Nirmal Jit Singh Sekhon, PVC".
- Nawang Kapadia
Lieutenant Nawang H. Kapadia, was an Indian Army officer who died fighting Pakistan-based terrorists in the jungles of Rajwar in Kupwara district of Srinagar on 11th November 2000. His parents are mountaineers Geeta and Harish Kapadia. From his early childhood, Nawang had imbibed the adventurous talents of his parents, both of whom were famous in their own right.
- Marc Aurel Stein
Sir Marc Aurel Stein, Stein Márk Aurél in Hungarian. In 1901 Stein was responsible for exposing forgeries of Islam Akhun. During his expedition of 1906-1908 while surveying in the Kunlun mountain range in western China, Stein suffered frostbite and lost several toes on his right foot. When he was resting from his extended journeys into Central Asia, …
- Chandrakanta
Chandrakanta चन्द्रकान्ता is a writer, born in Srinagar, India. She has written many novels and stories in the Hindi language including the epic "Katha Satisar", which was awarded the Vyas Samman prize in 2005. To date, her published short stories number about 200. She has also published seven novels as well as poetical works. Her writing concerns socio-political issues and women's concerns in general.
- Ghulam Rasool Santosh
Ghulam Rasool Santosh (1929-1997) was a prominent Kashmiri painter. He was best known for his themes inspired by Kashmir Shaivism.<br /> He was born Ghulam Rasool in a Muslim family of modest means in the Chinkral Mohalla neigborhood of old Srinagar. He dropped out of school after his father's death and took up odd jobs like writing and painting signboards, weaving silk and white-washing walls.
- Kashi Nath Kaul
Kashi Nath Kaul (died 1964) was a prominent social reformer and activist who lived in Chatabal, Srinagar. He was a progressive who helped reform various social standards, such as widow remarriage. His family is a direct descendant of Raj Kaul - the ancestor of Jawahar Lal Nehru. He was only 48 when he died.
- Jaffer Ali
Jaffer Ali (died April 1975) was a world-renowned papier-mache artist and entrepreneur from Hassanabad, Srinagar, Kashmir. Jaffer Ali received numerous awards, including one from Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, for his exemplary work in promoting Kashmiri handicrafts. His skills in the art descended through his grandfather who brought the papier-mache trade to Kashmir from Mashad, Iran. Jaffer Ali was survived by four sons and two daughters.
- Keshav Malik
Keshav Malik is an Indian poet, critic, arts scholar, and curator. He was born on 5 November 1924 in the town of Miani, in what is now the Punjab province of Pakistan - but at the time was part of British India.Keshav Malik was born into a Sabharwal Kukhran family, Malik is name used by many Kukhrans. Malik graduated from Amar Singh College in Srinagar, Kashmir in 1945. From 1947-48, he was a personal assistant to Jawaharlal Nehru.
- Erkin Alptekin
Erkin Alptekin, son of Isa Yusuf Alptekin, the late General Secretary of the Provincial Government of East Turkistan, was born on July 4, 1939 in East Turkistan. After the occupation of East Turkistan by the Chinese Communists in 1949, he sought refuge in Srinagar, Kashmir, India, with his parents. His schooling began in Urumchi, capital of East Turkistan and he graduated from Convent College in Srinagar, and the Institute of Journalism, in Istanbul, Turkey.
- Ratan Parimoo
Ratan Parimoo (born 1936 in Srinagar, Kashmir) is one of the major art historians and painters of modern India. He was for a long time a professor at the M.S. University in Vadodara. He is married to the artist Naina Dalal. His paintings are included in the collection of India's National Gallery of Modern Art.
- Om Prakash Malhotra
General Om Prakash Malhotra PVSM (born August 6, 1922 in Srinagar (city), Kashmir), was the 13th Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army. Commissioned in the Regiment of Artillery in November 1941, he fought against the Japanese in the Second World War in Burma. He commanded artillery regiments across India between November 1950 and July 1961. He later served as an instructor at the Defense Services Staff College, Wellington, …
- Alexander Gardner
Alexander Haughton Campbell Gardner ("Gordana Khan") (1785 - 1877) was a soldier and mercenary. He travelled to Afghanistan and Punjab and served in various military positions in the region. By his own accounts he was born in Wisconsin to a Scottish father and an Anglo-Spanish mother, but it has been alleged that he in reality was Irish, from Congloose. He was trained as an artillery gunner, most likely by the British army, …
- Narahar Vishnu Gadgil
Narahar Vishnu Gadgil was an Indian freedom fighter and one of its chief political leaders in Maharashtra. Upon Indian independence, Gadgil became the Minister for Public Works in the first Indian Cabinet led by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. Gadgil's Ministry undertook the project of building a military-calibre road from Pathankot to Srinagar via Jammu in Kashmir, during the Indo-Pakistan War of 1947.
- Begum Akbar Jahan Abdullah
Akbar Jahan Abdullah was a member of Sixth and Eighth Lok Sabha from 1977 to 1979 and 1984 to 1989 from Srinagar and Anantnag Parliamentary constituencies of Jammu and Kashmir. She was wife of Sheikh Abdullah and mother of Farooq Abdullah .She had the distinction of being the first President of Jammu and Kashmir Red Cross Society from 1947 to 1951. She also ably served as Chairman of State Level Committee of International Year of Women, …
- Muhammed Amin Andrabi
Muhammad Amin Andrabi was born in Srinagar, Kashmir in 1940 into the prominent Andrabi Sayyed family. His father was a revered sufi shaykh and a religious scholar.<br /> He was schooled at the Islamia High School, Kashmir's first modern school founded in 1899, in Srinagar. He had an early proclivity for languages and learnt English, Arabic, Persian and Urdu in school. He earned his doctrate in Urdu from Kashmir university, …
- Chunni Lal Vishen
Chunni Lal Vishen was born in 1934 in Rainawari, Srinagar. He did his M.Ed, M.A in Mathematics and Psychology from the University of Delhi, his MS in Industrial Engineering from University of New Haven and Ph.D from Kashmir University. He was a Fulbright Scholar in the United States and a visiting fellow at Yale University. He has worked in the field of education throughout his career, spanning about fifty years.
- Nadeem
well im kool tempramented guy with soft heart likes to make friends and to share probs with them.
- Jibranâ¢
Hi, This is Jibran... I'm a Burn Hallian studyin in class 10th. I love watching Formula 1 races and spending time on the computer. I am total music freak. Its like Oxygen for me and i listen to it for atleast 3 hours a day... I luv singing. Aircrafts make me go crazy. I just luv watching aircrafts and hope to be a Pilot in the near future..I like everything that has speed.
- Abdul
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- Venu
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- Faizi