- Shah Jahan
Shahbuddin Mohammed Shah Jahan, January 5, 1592 - January 22, 1666) was the ruler of the Mughal Empire in the Indian Subcontinent from 1628 until 1658. The name Shah Jahan comes from Persian meaning "King of the World." He was the fifth Mughal ruler after Babur, Humayun, Akbar, and Jahangir. After revolting against his father Jahangir, as the latter had revolted against Akbar, he succeeded to the throne upon his father's death in 1627. - Virender Sehwag
Virender Sehwag (born 20 October, 1978, in Delhi) also known as "Veeru" is an Indian cricketer (batsman) and member of the Indian national cricket team since 1999 (one-dayers) and 2001 (Tests). He is a blistering right-handed opening batsman and a right-arm off-spin bowler. He is the current record holder for the highest score made by an Indian in Test Cricket. He was appointed as vice-captain of the Indian team under Rahul Dravid in October 2005, … - Guru Gobind Singh
Guru Gobind Singh (Born in Patna, Bihar, India, on 22 December, 1666 as "Gobind Rai" - 7 October, 1708, Nanded, Maharashtra, India) was the tenth and last of the Ten Gurus of Sikhism and became Guru on November 11, 1675 following in the footsteps of his father, the ninth Sikh Guru, Guru Teg Bahadur. He was Guru between 1675 and 1708. Guru Gobind Singh (also sometimes transliterated as 'Govind'), played a monumental part in the development of the Sikh faith. - Sheila Dikshit
Sheila Dikshit (sometimes rendered Shiela and Dixit) (born March 31, 1938) is the Chief Minister of Delhi since 1998. She is from the Indian National Congress. In early 1970s, she was chairperson of the Young Women's Association and was instrumental in the setting up two hostels for working women in Delhi... She represented India at United Nations Commission on Status of Women for five years (1984-1989). - Ajay Devgan
Vishal Devgan, born (April 2, 1969 in Delhi, India), popularly known as Ajay Devgan is an actor working in the Hindi film industry (Bollywood). Beginning as an action hero in the early 1990s, Devgan matured early in his career, as is widely regarded now as one of the finest actors in the industry. - Kapil Sibal
Kapil Sibal was born in Jalandhar, Punjab on August 8 1948. He obtained his M.A. in History from St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi, Delhi and LL.M. from Harvard Law School, USA. He was offered appointment to the Indian Administrative Service, but declined the offer. He joined the Bar association in 1972. He was designated as a senior advocate in 1983. He has contributed articles on important issues such as security, nuclear proliferation, terrorism etc., … - Sitaram Yechury
Sitaram Yechury is an Indian politician, member of the politburo of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He was born on 12 August, 1952 in an Andhra Brahmin family hailing from Kakinada. After school education in Hyderabad, he had to move to Delhi due to disruption of academic life as a result of the Telengana movement in 1969. At Delhi, in 1970 he completed Higher Secondary (one Year Course) standing first in the All India merit list. - Ishant Sharma
Ishant Sharma, is an Indian cricketer, more specifically a fast-medium pace bowler at pace around 130 km/h (80 mph). Sharma was called up to join the Indian national cricket team for the 2006–07 Test series in South Africa at the age of 18, though he did not play for his country in the series. However, after receiving the call-up and organising travel arrangements, it was decided to not send for Sharma after all. - Nandita Das
Nandita Das (born November 7, 1969 in Delhi, India) is an Indian actress. Das gained popularity in the 1990s by starring in Deepa Mehta films like "Fire" (1996) and "Earth" (1998). - Gautam Gambhir
Gautam Gambhir (born 14 October 1981, in Delhi) is an Indian opening batsman. He has been a member of the Indian national cricket team since 2003 (ODIs) and 2004 (Tests). Gambhir had been a prolific run-scorer in domestic cricket with an average of over 50 but his two successive double-hundreds in 2002 (one of them against the visiting Zimbabweans) made him a strong contender for India's opening slot. - Sushma Swaraj
Sushma Swaraj (born February 14, 1952) is a former union cabinet minister of India. She is also a former chief minister of Delhi. She is one of the most prominent woman politicians within the Bharatiya Janata Party. - Zakir Hussain
Zakir Hussain, was the third President of India from May 13 1967 until his death on 3 May 1969. Hussain was born in Hyderabad (India). His Pashtun father had migrated to Hyderabad from Kaimganj in Uttar Pradesh. He was educated at Islamia High School in Etawah, and at the Anglo-Muhammadan Oriental College (now Aligarh Muslim University). - Joginder Singh
Joginder Singh (Aug 3 1940, Delhi - Nov 6 2002) was an Indian hockey player. Playing in the right-wing position, he won the silver medal with his team at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome and the 1962 Asian Games in Jakarta, and then the gold medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. After retiring, he settled in Kolkata, where he worked as a sports officer for the Bengal Nagpur Railway (BNR), later renamed to the South Eastern Railway (SER). - Asaf Ali
Asaf Ali (1888-1953) was an Indian freedom fighter and noted Indian lawyer. He was the first ambassador from India to the United States of America. He also worked as the governor of Orissa. Educated in the St. Stephen's College, Delhi and called to bar from Lincoln's Inn in England, he entered the Indian independence movement and was imprisoned many times. - Deepa Mehta
Deepa Mehta ,(born 1950 in Amritsar Punjab, India) is a controversial Indian-Canadian film director and screenwriter who is based in Toronto and Delhi. - Ram Kumar
Ram Kumar (born 1924, in Shimla, India) is a contemporary Indian artist. Educated as an economist with an M.A. from St. Stephen's College, Delhi, Ram Kumar took classes at the Sharda Vakil School of Art, and then went to Paris and studied further there under Andre Lhote and Fernard Leger. He was befriended by S.H. Raza, a major artist. Ram Kumar paints abstract landscapes, usually in oil or acrylic. He is also an author, writing fiction in Hindi. - Murli Manohar Joshi
Murli Manohar Joshi was the Union Human Resources Development minister of India in the NDA government. Joshi is a leading member of the BJP. He was born in Delhi on January 5 1934, hailing from the Kumaon Hills region of northern India which today form a part of the state of Uttarakhand. Mr. Joshi had his early education in Chandpur, District Bijnore and Almora (currently part of Uttarakhand). He completed his B.Sc. from Meerut College and M.Sc. from Allahabad University. - Amitav Ghosh
Amitav Ghosh (born 1956 in Calcutta), is an Indian-Bengali author known for his work in the English language. He was educated at the Doon School (where he was a younger contemporary of Vikram Seth), St. Stephen's College, Delhi, Delhi University and Oxford University, where he was awarded a Ph.D. in social anthropology. Ghosh lives in New York with his wife, Deborah Baker, author of "In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding" (1993) and a senior editor at Little, … - Javed Akhtar
Javed Akhtar (born November 21, 1940, Delhi, India) is a former Pakistani cricketer who played in one Test in 1962. An off spinner, he had success at first-class level, taking his wickets at an average of 18.17, but struggled in his only Test, failing to take a wicket. He later became an umpire, standing in 18 Tests and 40 ODIs from 1980 to 1999. - Shikhar Dhawan
Shikhar Dhawan (b. 5 December, 1985 in Delhi) is an Indian cricketer who played in the 2004 U-19 Cricket World Cup where he was the leading run scorer. He is a left-handed batsman who after 27 List A games for Delhi has achieved an average of over 50. - Abu Salem
Abu Salem (born 1968) is an underworld don originally from Azamgarh district in Uttar Pradesh, India. He has been accused in the 1993 Bombay serial blasts case and killing of India's music baron Gulshan Kumar 1997. He has unsuccessfully attempted to kill Bollywood film directors Rajiv Rai and Rakesh Roshan. At one time was a close associate of Dawood Ibrahim and later fell off when he seemed too-big-for-his-boots. - Ahmed Ali
Ahmed Ali (1910 in New Delhi - 14 January 1994 in Karachi) was a Pakistani novelist, diplomat and scholar, who was responsible for writing arguably the greatest novel ever written about Delhi. Born in Delhi, India, he was involved in progressive literary movements as a young man. He contributed to "Aangarey" ("Red Hot Embers", 1933), a collection of short stories that caused an uproar among fundamentalist Muslims. - Amit Mishra
Amit Mishra (born November 24, 1982 in Delhi) is an Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and legbreak bowler. Comparisons his critics have made with Shane Warne are by no means undeserved. A similar run-up, and bowl, along with a heroic Warne-style loss of weight made Mishra an attacking cricketer who bowled a praised leg and offbreak. Mishra was initially called into the Indian squad for the Test against the West Indies in 2002, … - Kirpal Singh
Sant Kirpal Singh (6 February, 1894-21 August, 1974) was a guru who was born in India in the village of Sayyad Kasran, in the western part of the Punjab which now belongs to Pakistan. He taught the unity of all religions and the birthright of man to attain self-knowledge and God-knowledge. Under the guidance of his Surat Shabd Yoga or Sant Mat guru, Baba Sawan Singh, of Radha Soami Satsang Beas, … - Ashish Nehra
Ashish Nehra (born April 29, 1979 in Delhi) is an Indian cricketer (left-arm fast bowler) who has represented India at the international level since 1999. Nehra started playing first-class cricket for his hometown, Delhi, in the 1997/1998 season and made his Test debut against Sri Lanka at Colombo in 1999 and his ODI debut against Zimbabwe at Harare in 2001. On his Test debut, Nehra started out well, … - Nitish Katara
Nitish Katara was an executive in Delhi when he was murdered in the early hours of February 17 2002. The son of an IAS officer in the Ministry of Shipping, he had recently graduated from the Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad, where he had fallen in love with his classmate, Bharati Yadav. It is widely believed that he was murdered by Bharati's brother Vikas Yadav. Bharti Yadav is the daughter of DP Yadav, … - Guru Teg Bahadur
Guru Tegh Bahadur (Born in Amritsar, Punjab, India on 1 April, 1621 and was executed by Aurangzeb in Delhi on 11 November, 1675) was the ninth of the Ten Gurus of Sikhism. He became the Guru on March 20, 1665 following in the footsteps of his grand-nephew, Guru Har Krishan. - Madan Lal Khurana
Madan Lal Khurana (born October 15, 1936, Lyallpur (now called Faisalabad in Pakistan) is an Indian politician. Khurana was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party till his expulsion on disciplinary grounds in 2005. BJP suffered badly in 1984 general-elections, held after the death of Indira Gandhi. Khurana is credited with reviving the party in India's capital (New Delhi). He worked tirelessly, which earned him the title of 'Dilli Ka Sher' (Lion of Delhi). - Rahul Sharma
Rahul Sharma (born September 14, 1960 in New Delhi) is a Hong Kong cricketer, who has captained Hong Kong in representative cricket. In the Ranji Trophy, he played one match, for Delhi. - Abhijeet Sawant
Abhijeet Sawant (born (October 7, 1981) is an Indian singer. He was the winner of India's first "Indian Idol", a show very similar to "Pop Idol" and "American Idol", on March 5, 2005. - Rabbi Shergill
Rabbi Shergill (born 1975) is an Indian musician famous for his debut album "Rabbi" and the chart-topper song of 2005, "Bulla Ki Jana". His music has been described variously as rock, Sufiana, and "semi-Sufi semi-folksy kind of music with a lot of Western arragements." Rabbi himself has been called "Punjabi music's true urban balladeer". Rabbi's father was a Sikh preacher. His mother is a college principal and a Punjabi poetess. - Sonal Chauhan
Sonal Singh Chauhan, an Indian fashion model, was crowned as the Miss World Tourism 2005 at Miri, Sarawak state of Malaysia. She was a noteworthy former Miss India contestant. She is the first Indian to have claimed Miss World Tourism title. She has been a popular model of Delhi, and has appeared in a number of advertisement campaigns in print and electronic media. She was born in a Rajput family, originally hailing from the state of Uttar Pradesh/UP. - Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Vallabhbhai Patel (31 October 1875 - 15 December 1950) was a political and social leader of India who played a major role in the country's struggle for independence and guided its integration into a united, independent nation. In India and across the world, he was often addressed as Sardar, which means "Chief" in many languages of India. Raised in the countryside of Gujarat and largely self-educated, … - Jagdish Tytler
Jagdish Tytler (b. January 11, 1944) is a controversial Indian politician, several times a Union Minister, belonging to the ruling Indian National Congress party. He was the Indian Union Minister of State for Overseas Indian Affairs, a position he resigned from after an official commission of inquiry noted the 'balance of probability' indicated he was responsible for inciting and leading murderous mobs against the Sikh community in Delhi during the 1984 Anti-Sikh Riots, … - Vir Singh
Dr Vir Singh (डॉ वीर सिंह) is an author and honorary Director of Maharaja Surajmal Centre for Research and Publication, run by Surajmal Memorial Education Society, New Delhi. He was born on 3 July 1935 at village Sarangpur in Bulandshahar district in Uttar Pradesh in the family of a Hindu Jat of Sejwar Gotra. His father was Late Shri Hukam Singh, a mukhiya of the village. - Daler Mehndi
Daler Mehndi ('), born August 18, 1967, is a bhangra/pop singer from India. Mehndi was a student of traditional Punjabi music and his first album broke sales records in India. Since 1995 he has recorded several highly successful albums in India, and also sung in several Bollywood movies. His international popularity has grown in recent years allowing him to tour the United States. - Rajeev Kumar
Rajeev Kumar –famous Activist and Educationist from New Delhi, India. Founder of Movement and Action for Social Services(MASS). Major Projects : (1) SARLA – He is running a chain of Sewing centres in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Zharkhand and other states for self employment of poor women. - Swapan Dasgupta
Swapan Dasgupta (3rd October, 1955) is a senior Indian journalist and columnist who was managing editor of India Today weekly till 2003. His articles are published in various Indian and international media including Pioneer, The Telegraph, Dainik Jagran, The Times of India, Outlook, The Wall Street Journal and several others. - Sahib Singh Verma
Sahib Singh Verma (b.March 15, 1943, Mundka Village, Outer Delhi, d.June 30, 2007) was an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He served as Chief Minister of Delhi (1996-1998) and as member of parliament (1999-2004). He was a senior vice-president in the BJP. He died on June 30, 2007, when his car collided with a truck on the Alwar-Delhi highway. - Jug Suraiya
Jug Suraiya is the Associate Editor of the Times of India, Delhi, an author besides being a columnist. He had his schooling in La Martiniere Calcutta. He writes the weekly column "Jugular Vein" which appears in all the Sunday editions of the Times of India, and the cartoon strip "Dubyaman" which appears daily. It covers everything from mundane to serious things that happen to people in everyday life, …
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