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Abul Pakir Jainulbadeen Abdul Kalam born October 15, 1931, Tamil Nadu, India, usually referred to as Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam ^) is the current President of India. A notable scientist and engineer, he is often referred to as the "Missile Man of India" for his work and is considered a leading progressive, mentor, innovator and visionary in India. - James Walker
James Walker, FRS, (September 14, 1781-October 8, 1862) was an influential Scottish civil engineer of the first half of the 19th century. Walker was born in Falkirk and was apprenticed to his uncle Ralph Walker in approximately 1800, with whom he gained experience working on the design and construction of the West India and East India Docks in London. Also in London, he worked on the Surrey Commercial Docks from about 1810 onwards, … - Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence George Durrell (February 27, 1912 - November 7, 1990) was a British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer, though he resisted affiliation with Britain and preferred to be considered cosmopolitan. It was also discovered posthumously that Durrell never had British citizenship. His most famous work is the tetralogy "The Alexandria Quartet". - Kanwal Rekhi
Kanwal Rekhi (born 1945) is an Indian-American engineer, businessman and millionaire philanthropist. Kanwal was born in Rawalpindi (then in British India, now in Pakistan). After the partition of India, his family settled in Kanpur, India. In 1967 Rekhi graduated as an electrical engineer from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay, India and in 1969 he received a Master of Science degree from Michigan Technological University. - Colin MacKenzie
Colonel Colin Mackenzie was Surveyor General of India, and an art collector and orientalist. Mackenzie was born in Stornoway, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. He produced many of the first accurate maps of India, and his research and collections contributed significantly to the field of Asian studies. He began his career as a customs officer in Stornoway, but at age 28, joined the British East India Company as an officer in the engineers. - Anilkumar Nair
A never married bachelor graduate engineer with 31 years service in Indian Private sector industries at senior managment levels,now retired and operating as a Project Consultant with ISO Certification/Audit & Tutoring Where there is a will there is a way - Verghese Kurien
Verghese Kurien (born November 26, 1921 at Kozhikode, Kerala) is called the "father of the White Revolution" in India. He is also known as the "Milkman of India". He was the chairman of the Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd.(GCMMF). GCMMF is an apex cooperative organization that manages the Amul food brand. He is recognised as the man behind the success of the Amul brand. - Kirit Parikh
Dr. Kirit S. Parikh is Emeritus Professor (on retirement as Director) and Founder Director of Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai, India. He has also served as Senior Economic Advisor to United Nations Development Programme from October 1997 to September 1998. He has been a member of the Economic Advisory Council(EAC) of the Prime Minister of India, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and had been a member of EAC of Prime Ministers Rajiv Gandhi, V.P.Singh, … - Thomas Kailath
Professor Kailath has been instrumentally involved in the electronics industry for more than forty years. - Man Mohan Sharma
Mann Mohan Sharma (born May 1, 1937 in Jodhpur, Rajasthan) is an eminent Indian chemical engineer. He was educated at Jodhpur, Mumbai and Cambridge. At the age of 27 years, he was appointed Professor of Chemical Engineering in the University of Mumbai, Department of Chemical Technology. He later went on to become the Director of MUICT, the first chemical engineering professor to do so from MUICT. - Lawrence Samuel Durrell
Lawrence Samuel Durrell (September 23, 1884 - April 16, 1928) was a British Indian subject and engineer, and is best remembered as the father of novelist Lawrence Durrell and naturalist Gerald Durrell. He was an Anglo-Indian in the sense that he was an Englishman born and brought up in India. Born in Dum Dum (present day Kolkata) on September 23, 1884, he was by profession an engineer. - Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar
Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar was a well-known Indian scientist. Bhatnagar was born in Shahpur, now in Pakistan. His father died when he was only eight months old and he spent his childhood in the house of his maternal grandfather, an engineer, where he developed a liking for science and engineering. He used to enjoy building mechanical toys, electronic batteries, string telephones. From his maternal family he also inherited a gift of poetry, … - Alexander Cunningham
Sir Alexander Cunningham (23 January 1814-28 November 1893) was an English archaeologist and army engineer, known as the father of the Archaeological Survey of India. Born in London to the Scottish poet Allan Cunningham, he joined the Bengal Engineers at the age of 19 and spent the next 28 years in the service of British Government of India. Soon after arriving in India, a meeting with James Prinsep sparked his lifelong interest in Indian archaeology and antiquity. - Shanmughan Manjunath
Shanmugam Manjunath (1978 Kolar-2005) was a marketing engineer for the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) who was murdered for sealing a corrupt petrol station in UP. Who later became a rallying cry for IIM, IIT and other institutes students. - Kumar Bhattacharyya Baron Bhattacharyya
Sushanta Kumar Bhattacharyya, Baron Bhattacharyya, CBE (born 6 June 1940) is an Indian-born British engineer, educator and government advisor. Bhattacharyya was born in Bangalore in 1940, the Brahmin son of an eminent academic. He did his B.Tech from IIT Kharagpur, MSc and PhD from University of Birmingham, Honorary Doctorate from University of Surrey, Honorary Doctorate in Engineering from UTM Malaysia, … - Atul Chitnis
Atul Chitnis (1962-) is an Indian consulting technologist known for his work in the fields of data networks, internet and intranets, Linux and Free and Open Source Software and mobile computing in India. He is also the founder of FOSS.IN (formerly Linux Bangalore), one of Asia's largest FOSS conferences. - Frederick William Stevens
Frederick William Stevens (November 11, 1847 – March 3, 1900 was an English architectural engineer. Born in Bath, England, he was articled in 1862, and became an engineer attached to the India Public Works Department in 1867. After a year in Pune, he was transferred to Bombay and the office of the Architect to the Government of India. In 1877 his services were loaned to the Great Indian Peninsula Railway for the design of the Victoria Terminus, … - Guilford Lindsey Molesworth
Sir Guilford Lindsey Molesworth (1828-1925) was an English civil engineer. He was educated at the college of civil engineers at Putney, then became chief assistant engineer of the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railroad, but soon resigned to conduct the constructions at Woolwich Arsenal during the Crimean War. He returned to London for a number of years, worked at his profession, … - Carl Louis Schwendler
Carl Louis Schwendler (1838 - 1882) was a German electrician and one of the first proponents of the Tungsten based incandescent light bulb. He also published an influential textbook on telegraphs, and worked in British India at a senior post in the Telegraph Department. He was commissioned by the Railways to perform a feasibility study of lighting Indian Railway stations by electric lamp. - Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan
Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan, also known by his nickname of Venkat, (born 21 April, 1945, in Madras) was formerly a cricketer. He played for Derbyshire in English county cricket. He played Test cricket for the Indian cricket team, and later became an umpire on the elite ICC Test panel. An off spin bowler, he was one of the famed Indian quartet of spin bowlers in the 1970s (the others being Bhagwat Chandrasekhar, Bishen Bedi and Erapalli Prasanna). - Pravin Godkhindi
Pravin Godhkindi ((Kannada: ಪ್ರವೀಣ್ ಗೋಡಖಂಡಿ) is a flute (Bansuri) player following Hindusthani style of music.He is trained Electrical engineer.He is alumni of SDM College of Engineering and Technology,Dharwad.He plays traditional style of flute as well as western.He has experimented with fusion of both Indian and Western music.He has given many concerts and regular musician of All India Radio (A.I.R). - Lochan Singh
Sardar Lochan Singh (1892-1996) was an Indian civil engineer and cabinet minister. Born in West Punjab (now Pakistan), he was educated in engineering, first at Queen's College Belfast, and later at the Imperial College, London. He rose through the ranks of the Indian army under the British empire, and later through the civil service of independent India, to become the first post-master general, and later, secretary of state for post and telecommunications. - Jacob Samuda
Jacob Samuda (August 24, 1811 - November 12, 1844 was a Jewish English civil engineer born in London. He is described as "the first Jewish engineer" on his tombstone, in the Sephardic cemetery, Mile End, London. He was the elder son of Abraham Samuda, an East and West India merchant of London, and Joy, daughter of H. d'Aguilar of Enfield Chase, Middlesex. After his apprenticeship with John Hague, an engineer, … - Alexander Meadows Rendel
Sir Alexander Meadows Rendel (3 April 1828-23 January 1918) was a British civil engineer. Rendel was born in Plymouth. He was the eldest son of the engineer James Meadows Rendel and his wife Catherine Harris. His brothers were the civil engineer George Wightwick Rendel and the Liberal MP Stuart Rendel, 1st Baron Rendel. He was educated at The King's School Canterbury and Trinity College, Cambridge. Rendel was the engineer of the London Dock Company in 1856, … - Sujoy K. Guha
Sujoy Kumar Guha is an Indian biomedical engineer. He was born in Patna, India, in 1939. He did his graduation ("B.Tech.") in electrical engineering from IIT Kharagpur. He received his Ph.D. in Medical Physiology from St. Louis, USA. He then founded the Centre for Biomedical Engineering, IIT Delhi and AIIMS and also obtained his MBBS degree from Delhi University. One of the founders of Biomedical engineering in India, Prof. - Sisir Kumar Mitra
Sisir Kumar Mitra [or "Shishirkumar Mitra"] (October 24, 1890-August 13 1963) was an Indian physicist. He was born and raised in Calcutta, India. His parents were the doctor Saratkumari and the school teacher Jaykrishna. At the age of nine he witnessed a hot air balloon and became intrigued in the phenomenon, so he began studying science. The family moved to Bhagalpur, where Sisir attended school and the local college. - Lewis A. Pick
Lewis Andrew Pick was born in Brookneal, Virginia, and graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1914. He received his Regular Army commission in the United States Army Corps of Engineers on July 1, 1920. During World War I he served with the 23rd Engineers in the French Third Republic. He served in the Philippines from 1921 until 1923 and helped organize an engineer regiment composed of Filipino soldiers. - Thomas Holdich
Colonel Sir Thomas Hungerford Holdich, KCMG, KCIE, CB (1843-1929) was a British geographer and president of the Royal Geographical Society. He is best known as Superintendent of Frontier Surveys in British India and author of numerous books, including "The Gates of India" and "Political Frontiers and Boundary Making". Born in Dingley, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom to the Rev. - James John McLeod Innes
James John McLeod Innes (February 5 1830-December 13 1907) (VC, CB) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was 28 years old, and a lieutenant in the Bengal Engineers, Indian Army during the Indian Mutiny. On 23 February 1858 at Sultanpore, India, Lieutenant Innes, far in advance of the leading skirmishers, … - Charles Close
Colonel Sir Charles Frederick Arden-Close, FRS (10 August 1865 - 19 December 1952) was a British geographer and surveyor, he was Director General of the Ordnance Survey from 1911 to 1922. His insistence on attention to detail saw the improvement of many attitudes and methods at the Ordnance Survey, his planning saw the production of many of maps now viewed as pinnacles in the classic period of map making. - Hugh Elles
Sir Hugh Jamieson Elles KCB KCMG KCVO DSO (1880-1945) was a British General and the first commander of the newly formed Tank Corps in the First World War. Born in British India on 27 May 1880, Hugh Elles was the younger son of Lt Gen Sir Edmond Elles. He was educated at Clifton College, near Bristol, and the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, after which he was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in June 1899. - Rama Raghoba Rane
Second Lieutenant Rama Raghoba Rane, was born on 26 June 1918 at Chendia, Karnataka. He was commissioned in the Corps of Engineers on 15 December 1947. He retired as a Major in 1968. During his 21 years' service with the Army, he earned five M-in-D (Mentioned-in-Despatches). He served with distinction during the 1947-48 Jammu and Kashmir operations. He was awarded the Param Vir Chakra for his courage and gallaranty during the war against Pakistan. - Edward Talbot Thackeray
Sir Edward Talbot Thackeray VC, KCB (19 October, 1836—3 September, 1927) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. The son of Rev Francis Thackeray and Mary Anne Shakespeare, he was 20 years old, and a Second Lieutenant in the Bengal Engineers, … - Kenneth Mason
Kenneth Mason MC (10 September 1887 - 1976) was a soldier and geographer notable as the first statutory professor of Geography at the University of Oxford. His work surveying the Himalayas was rewarded in 1927 with a Royal Geographic Society Founder's Medal, the citation reading "for his connection between the of surveys of India and Russian Turkestan, and his leadership of the Shakshagam Expedition". - George Tomkyns Chesney
Sir George Tomkyns Chesney (April 30 1830 - March 31 1895), British Army general, brother of Colonel Charles Cornwallis Chesney, was born at Tiverton, Devon, on April 30 1830. Educated at Blundell's School, Tiverton, and at Addiscombe, he entered the Bengal Engineers as second lieutenant in 1848. He was employed for some years in the public works department and, on the outbreak of the Indian rebellion of 1857, joined the Ambala column, … - James Smith
James Smith (1871- 18 March 1946) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was about 26 years old, and a corporal in The Buffs (East Kent Regiment), British Army during the Mohmand Campaign, India when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. On the night of 16/17 September 1897, in the Mamund Valley, … - Jay Bhatti
Jay Bhatti trabajó en Microsoft en la gestión de productos. Jay obtuvo su MBA de la Wharton School, y realizó sus estudios en Ingeniería de Sistemas de la Universidad de Rutgers. - Maia Bittner
maia bittner is a young lady who worked at spock - Gufi Paintal
Gufi Paintal, is an Indian actor who appeared in some notable Bollywood movies in 1980s, as well as television serials and plays. His brother Paintal and his son Hiten Paintal are also actors. Initially trained as an engineer, he would go on to follow his younger brother (who had been trained at the Film and Television Institute of India) into acting. Arriving in Bombay in 1969 and Gufi took up modeling, …
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