August 2021

Name of the Personality Field
Sardarni Man Kaur Indian track-and-field athlete
Padma Sachdev Noted author and first modern woman poet of the Dogri language
Shankar Subramaniam, “Babu” Nayaran Olympian Footballer
P.S. Banarji Kerala Cartoonist, sculptor and folk singer
Anupam Shyam Indian film and television actor
Commodore Kasargod Patnashetti Gopal Rao War hero and was honoured with Mahavir Chakra and Veer Seva Medal
Saranya Sasi Malayalam film and television actor
Dr Balaji Tambe Ayurveda doctor, spiritual leader and proponent of Yoga
Gerd MullerGerman professional footballer
Chinmoy Chatterjee Former Indian footballer
Maki Kaji Creator of a puzzle named ‘Sudoku’
Anandha Kannan Tamil star and a TV host
Kalyan Singh Former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
Syed Shahid Hakim Indian Footballer
Sean Lock British Comedian
Ted Dexter England international cricketer
Buddhadeb Guha Eminent Bengali writer

July 2021

Name of the Personality Field
K V Sampath Kumar Editor of ‘Sudharma’ Sanskrit Daily
Sivan Mooywood’s Veteran Cinematographer and Director
Prasannan Former Indian Footballer
Dilip Kumar Legendary Bollywood Actor
Richard Donner Filmmaker
Keshav Datt 2 time Olympics Gold Medal Winning Indian Hockey Team member
Virbhadra Singh Former Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister
Dr PK Warrier Renowned Ayurvedic physician and managing trustee of Kottakkal Arya Vaidya Sala (AVS)
Yashpal SharmaFormer Indian Cricketer
Paul Orndorff Renowned American Professional Wrestler
Surekha Sikri Three-Time National Award-Winning Actress
Mamnoon Hussain Former President of Pakistan
Gautam Benegal Animation Filmmaker and Cartoonist
Urmil Kumar Thapliyal Theatre Personality and Litterateur
‘Kalaimaamani’ Sikkil Shri R Bhaskaran Carnatic Classical Violinist
Gira Sarabhai Co-founder of the National Institute of Design
Satish Kalsekar Marathi literature and a Sahitya Akademi, Award Winner
Jayanthi Actress
Nandu Natekar Legendary Indian Badminton Player
Mike Hendrick English Cricketer

June 2021

Name of the Personality Field
Poul Schlueter Former PM of Denmark
T M Kaliannan Gounder Former Member of the Indian Constituent Assembly
Sir Anerood Jugnauth Former PM and President of Mauritius
Dr Lakshmi Nandan Bora Assamese Litterateur
Dingko Singh Asian games Gold Winning Boxing Player
Buddhadeb Dasgupta National Award Winning Bengali Film Director
Surat Singh Mathur Olympian
Ukhnaa Khurelsukh Former Mongolian Prime Minister
SiddalingaiahNoted Kannada poet, playwright and Dalit activist
Prof Radhamohan Ji Economist and Environmentalist
Sanchari Vijay Kannada Film Actor
Nirmal Milkha Kaur Former Indian Volleyball Captain
Gottfried Bohm First German Architect and the winner of the Pritzker Prize
Milkha Singh Indian track and Field Sprinter
Kenneth Kunda First President of Zambia
Guruprasad Mohapatra Secretary in DPIIT (Department of Industry and Internal Trade)
John McAfee Founder of McAfee Antivirus Software
Parassala B Ponnammal Legendary Carnatic Singer
Sivasankaran Nair Malayalam Cinematographer and Director

May 2021

Name of the Personality Field
Michael Collins American Astronaut-Pilot
Rohit Sardana TV Journalist and News Anchor
Pandit Devabrata Chaudhuri Sitar Maestro
Bikramjeet Kanwarpal Film and TV Actor
Kanupriya Doordarshan Channel Anchor
Manas Bihari Verma Indian Aeronautical Scientist
Chandro Tomar Shooter and was famously known as ‘Shooter Dadi’
Parul Dabi Das Assam’s first female IAS officer
Jagmohan MalhotraFormer Governor of J&K
Chaudhary Ajit Singh Former Union Minister and Chief of Rashtriya Lok Dal
V Kalyanam Personal Secretary to Mahatma Gandhi
Abhilasha Patil Actress by profession
Shesh Narayan Singh Senior Journalist
Vanraj Bhatia Veteran Music Composer
Raghunath Mohapatra Eminent Sculptor, Architect, and Member of the Rajya Sabha
Ravinder Pal Singh Olympic Medalist Hockey Player
Venugopal Chandrasekhar Arjuna Awardee former Table Tennis Player
Homan Borgohain Assamese literature and Journalist
Indu Jain Philanthropist and Chairperson of Times Group
Anup Bhattacharya Freedom Fighter and Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra Musician
MS Narasimhan Famous Mathematician
K Ragothaman Former CBI Officer
Rajeev Satav Senior Congress MP
Rajendrasinh Jadeja Former Saurashtra pacer and BCCI referee
Chaman Lal Gupta Former Union Minister and Senior BJP Leader
Ki. Rajanarayanan Tamil Folklorist and Writer
Dr KK Aggarwal Renowned Cardiologist and former national president of the Indian Medical Association (IMA)
Jagannath Pahadia Former CM of Rajasthan and Former Governor of Haryana and Bihar
Laxman Music director and famous for the duo composers ‘Raam-Laxman’
Sunderlal Bahuguna Environmentalist and Gandhian
Dr Srikumar BanerjeeFormer Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India
O P Bhardwaj India’s Boxing 1st Dronacharya Awardee Coach
Max Mosley Former head of Formula One’s governing body
Yuan Longping Chinese Scientist and was known for developing hybrid rice strain
BabagoudaPatil Ex Union Minister and the Former Leader
HS Doreswamy Freedom Fighter
Colonel Panjab Singh Hero of the Battle of Poonch which took place in the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War
Alka Raghuvanshi Author and Art Curator

April 2021

Name of the Personality Field
Beverly Cleary Author
Didier Ratsiraka Former President of Madagascar
Isamu Akasaki Japan’s Physicist
Shashikala Om Prakash Saigal Film and TV Actress
Digvijaysinh Zala Former Union Minister and MLA from Gujarat
P. Balachandran Malayalam Screenwriter, Filmmaker, Dramatist and Actor
Radheshyam Khemka President of Gita Press
Chandra Naidu India’s first female cricket commentator
Fatima Rafiq ZakariaPadma Shri Awardee, Journalist, Academician and Chairman of Maulana Azad Educational Trust and Khairul Islam Trust Mumbai
Prince Philip Husband of Queen Elizabeth II
Sanjay Chakravarty Shooting Coach
Satish Kaul Actor
Balbir Singh Junior Hockey Player
Yogesh Praveen Historian
Dr Kakala Subba Rao Radiologist
Ranjit Sinha Former CBI Chief
GVG Krishnamurthy Former Election Commissioner
Charles Geschke American Computer Scientist, Co-founder of Adobe and PDF Developer
Ahmed Hussain Lala Football Player
Bachi Singh Rawat Former Union Minister
Sumitra Bhave National Award-winning Marathi filmmaker
Ganjam Venkatasubbiah Kannada Writer
Maidavolu Narasimham Former RBI Governor
Sankha Ghosh Bengali Poet
Farid Sabri Renowned Qawwali Singer
Kishore Nanadlaskar Actor
Amit Mistry Gujarati and Hindi Film and TV actor
Shravan Rathod Music Composer
Justice MM Shantanagoudar Supreme Court Judge
Pandit Rajan Mishra Indian Classical Singer
Krishnamurthy Santhanam Nuclear Scientist
Dadudan Pratapdan Gadhvi Veteran Gujarati Poet and Folk Singer
Manzoor Ahthesham Hindi Writer
Manoj Das Odia Writer

March 2021

Name of the PersonalityField
Nandkumar Singh Chauhan Lok Sabha MP
M G George Muthoot Chairman of Muthoot Group
Anshuman Singh Former Governor of Rajasthan and Gujarat
Ishar Singh Deol Athlete
Lakshminarayana Bhatta Kannada Poet, critic and translators
Shrikant Moghe Marathi Actor
Hamed Bakayoko Prime Minister of Ivory Coast
Laxman Pai Padma Bhushan Awarded Painter and Artist
‘Marvelous’ Marvin HaglerBoxing player
Chemancheri Kunhiraman Nair Kathakali dancer
Lou Ottens Inventor of Audio Cassette tapes
Moudud Ahmed Former PM of Bangladesh
Dilip Gandhi Former Union Minister
John Magufuli President of Tanzania
GV Ramakrishna Former SEBI Chairman
Nawal Saadawi Egyptian feminist, psychiatrist and novelist
Adam Zagajewski Polish Poet
Laxmipriya Mohapatra Odissi dancer
KC Chakrabarty Former RBI Deputy Governor
Anil Dharker Journalist and Author

February 2021

Name of the PersonalityField
Cicely Tyson US Actress
Tony Trabert American Tennis Player
Christopher Plummer Canadian Actor
Akhtar Ali India’s Tennis player
Rajiv Kapoor Actor
Bansi Kaul Founder of Rang Vidushak
Carlos Menem Argentina’s Former President
Justice M Rama Jois Former governor of Bihar and Jharkhand
Satish Sharma Congress Leader and Member of Parliament
Rahul Khullar Former Chairman of TRAI (Telecomm Regulatory Authority of India)
Vishnu Narayanan Namboothiri Malayalam Poet

January 2021

Name of the PersonalityField
Indira Joseph Venniyoor Veteran Broadcaster, All India Radio veteran and first English news announcer of Travancore Radio
John Fulton Reid New Zealand Cricket Player
Shantanu Mohapatra Music Director by Profession
Buta Singh Union Minister and Rajasthan’s Congress Leader
Colonel Narendra ‘Bull’ Kumar Mountaineer
Vilas Patil Undalkar Former Maharashtra Cabinet Minister and Congress MLA
Anil Panachooran Malayalam Poet and Lyricist
Michael Kindo Hockey Player
Chitra Ghosh Academician by Profession
Satya Paul Fashion Designer
Alan Burgess Cricket Player
Madhavsinh Solanki Former CM of Gujarat
Neil Sheehan American Journalist and Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author
Turlapati Kutumba Rao Telugu Journalist
Prof. Shashikumar M Chitre Astrophysicist and Mathematician
Ved Mehta Indian-American Writer
D Prakash Rao Social Activist
Kamal Morarka Former Union Minister and Industrialist
Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan Indian Classical Musician
Dr V Shanta Oncologist by Profession
Mata Prasad Former Governor of Arunachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh
Unnikrishnan Namboothiri Malayalam Actor
Lary King American Radio and Television host and a spokesperson
Narendra Chanchal Indian Bhajan Singer
Narendra Luther Historian, Author, Poet and Bureaucrat by Profession
Prasanta Dora Former Indian National Football Team Goalkeeper
Cloris Leachman American Actress
Paul Crutzen Noble Prize Winner in Chemistry
Dr Shaibal Guptaa Economist