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Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule, and to later inspire movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahātmā, first applied to him in 1914 in South Africa, is now used throughout the world.
Narendra Modi
Narendra Damodardas Modi is an Indian politician who has served as the prime minister of India since 2014. Modi was the chief minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the member of parliament (MP) for Varanasi. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wing Hindutva paramilitary volunteer organisation. He is the longest-serving prime minister outside the Indian National Congress.
Morarji Desai
Prime Minister of India (1977-1979)
Jamsetji Tata
Indian industrialist, founder of the Tata Group (born 1839)
Zubin Mehta
Indian conductor
Dayananda Saraswati
Indian social reformer (1824-1883)
Mahesh Bhatt
Indian film director, producer and screenwriter
Kasturba Gandhi
wife of Mahatma Gandhi, an Indian leader of British era (1869-1944)
Twinkle Khanna
Indian author, interior designer
Ela Bhatt
founder of the Self-Employed Women's Association of India (SEWA)
Gujarati people
Indian ethnic group that is traditionally Gujarati-speaking
Vikram Sarabhai
father of Indian space programme (1919–1971)
Inayat Khan
founder of the Sufi Order in the West in 1914 and teacher of Universal Sufism
Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Indian film director, producer and screenwriter
Amit Shah
Indian politician and 32nd Union Minister of Home Affairs
Abdul Sattar Edhi
Pakistani philanthropist, social activist, ascetic and humanitarian
Balkrishna Doshi
Indian architect (1927-2023)
Drashti Dhami
Indian television actress and model
Karishma Tanna
Indian actress and kathron ke khilari winner
Sam Manekshaw
First Field marshal of the Indian Army (1914–2008)
Ratna Pathak
Indian actress
Jagdish Bhagwati
economist
Daisy Shah
Indian film actress
Mehboob Khan
film director (1906–1964)
Vijay Rupani
Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2016 to 2021
Mahadev Desai
Indian independence activist, writer and Mahatma Gandhi's personal secretary (1892–1942)
Hemachandra
Hemachandra () was a 12th century Śvetāmbara Jaina ācārya, scholar, poet, mathematician, philosopher, yogi, grammarian, law theorist, historian, lexicographer, rhetorician, logician, and prosodist. Noted as a prodigy by his contemporaries, he gained the title kalikālasarvajña, "the knower of all knowledge in his times" and is also regarded as father of the Gujarati language.
Devdas Gandhi
Indian activist (1900–1957)
Hansa Jivraj Mehta
reformist, social activist, freedom-fighter and educator and writer of India
Vikram Bhatt
Indian film director
Raai Laxmi
Indian actress and model
Mahmood Mamdani
Mahmood Mamdani is a Ugandan anthropologist, academic, and political commentator. He is the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and a professor of anthropology, political science, and African studies at Columbia University. He also serves as the chancellor of Kampala International University in Uganda, and honorary professor at the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town.
Irfan Habib
Indian Marxist historian
Amit Trivedi
Indian film score composer, music director, singer and lyricist
Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil of Rajpipla
Member of the royal family of Rajpipla, LGBT rights activist
Ami Bera
American physician and politician
Gopalkrishna Gandhi
Indian civil servant and diplomat
Najma Heptulla
Indian politician
Salim-Sulaiman
Salim–Sulaiman are an Indian music composer duo consisting of siblings Salim and Sulaiman Merchant. The duo has composed music predominantly for Hindi films.
Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhji
Indian cricketer (1895-1966)
Ranjitsinhji
Colonel Kumar Sri Sir Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji II (10 September 1872 – 2 April 1933), often known as Ranji or K. S. Ranjitsinhji, was an Indian cricketer who later became ruler of his native Indian princely state of Nawanagar, (present day Jamnagar) from 1907 to 1933. The main part of his cricket career was from 1893 to 1904 when, as one of the greatest batsmen of his time, he played for Cambridge University, Sussex, London County and, in 15 Test matches, for England.
Neel Jani
Swiss professional Porsche factory driver
Yusuf Pathan
Indian cricketer
Sohrab Modi
Indian film actor, director, producer (1897-1984)
Teesta Setalvad
Indian activist
Zoa Morani
Indian model and actress
Narayan Desai
Indian writer and activist
Vaishali Desai
Indian actress
Prachee Shah Pandya
actress
C. Kumar N. Patel
Indian electrical engineer
Anees Bazmee
Indian film director
Shyamji Krishna Varma
an Indian revolutionary, lawyer and journalist who founded the Indian Home Rule Society, India House and The Indian Sociologist in London (1857-1930)
Bhupendrabhai Patel
Indian politician
Kaka Kalelkar
Indian social reformer, historian, educationist, and journalist (1885–1981)
Shailesh Vara
British politician (born 1960)
Pinki Virani
Indian journalist, activist
Anasuya Sarabhai
Indian labour activist (1885–1972)
Pranav Mistry
Indian computer scientist
Uday Kotak
Executive Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Kotak Mahindra Bank
Mohammed Burhanuddin
52nd Dai al-Mutlaq of the Dawoodi Bohra