STATIC GK (famous personalities and Their nick name )

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Name  Nick Name  Profession Additional Information and Significant Contribution
Vinoba Bhave Acharya
  • Indian Advocate
 Bhoodan Movement
Valmiki Adi Kavi
  • Poet
 The Ramayana
Dr. Rajendra Prasad Desh Ratna, Ajatshatru
  • Political Leader and Lawyer
 First President of India
Jainul Abdin Akbar of Kashmir
  • Painter
 Series of paintings depicting some of the great famines in Bengal
T Prakasam Andhra Kesari
  • Indian politician
  • freedom fighter
  • The chief minister of the Madras Presidency
 Became the first chief minister of the new Andhra state, created by the partition of Madras State along linguistic lines.
C N Annadurai Anna
  • 1st Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu
  • Constituency Leader of the State Legislative Council
 4th Chief Minister of Madras State
Jagjeevan Ram Babuji
  • Member of the Parliament uninterrupted from 1936 to 1986 and this is a world record.
 He also holds another record for being the longest-serving cabinet minister in India (30 years).
Abdul Ghaffar Khan Badshah Khan / Frontier Gandhi
  • Leader of the Awami National Party
 Amassed the world’s first major nonviolent army in his region.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Bapu
  • Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist
 Rowlatt Act, India’s Freedom Struggle, Satyagrah, etc.
Ashutosh Mukherji Bengal Kesari
  • Prolific Bengali educator, jurist, barrister and mathematician
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Bipin Chandrapal & Saurav Ganguli Bengal Tiger
  • Indian nationalist, writer, orator, social reformer
 Indian independence movement freedom fighter.
Dr. Srikrishna Singh Bihar Kesri
  • first Chief Minister of the Indian state of Bihar
 Along with the nationalists Dr. Rajendra Prasad and Dr. Anugrah Narayan Sinha, Sinha is regarded among the Architects of Modern Bihar.
Dr. Anurag Narayan Singh Bihar Vibhuti
  • first Deputy Chief Minister and the Finance Minister of the Indian state of Bihar
 Indian nationalist statesman, a participant in Champaran Satyagraha, Gandhian & one of the architects of modern Bihar,
Vallabhai Patel Bismark of India
  • Deputy prime minister
 First Home Minister of Independent India
Rabindranath Tagore Biswa Kavi
  • Bengali polymath
  • Bengali poet, short-story writer, song composer, playwright, essayist, and painter
 who introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language into Bengali literature, thereby freeing it from traditional models based on classical Sanskrit.
Siddhartha Gautama Buddha
  • Śramaṇa
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C Rajagopalachari C R
  • Indian statesman, writer, lawyer, and independence activist.
 Rajagopalachari was the last Governor-General of India, as India soon became a Republic in 1950.
Jawaharlal Nehru Chacha
  • Nehru was the first post-British independence prime minister.
 The principal leader of the Indian independence movement
C F Andrews Deenabandhu
  • Became a priest in 1896
 Contributions to the Indian independence movement
C R Das Desa Bandhu
  • Indian freedom fighter, political activist, and lawyer during the Indian independence movement
 Founder-leader of the Swaraj Party (Independence party) in Bengal during the period of British colonial rule in India.
Dr. Rajendra Prasad Desh Ratna
  • Doctorate in Law from Allahabad University
 First President of Independent India
Chitta Ranjan Das Deshbandhu
  • Indian freedom fighter, political activist, and lawyer
 Closely associated with a number of literary societies and wrote poems, apart from numerous articles and essays.
Yatindra Mohan Sengupta Desh Priya
  • Barrister-at-Law
 Non-Cooperation movement
Ravi Sankar Maharaj Father of Gujrat
  • Independence and social activism.
 He founded Rashtriya Shala (National School)
Milkha Singh Flying Sikh
  • The only athlete to win gold at 400 metres at the Asian Games as well as the Commonwealth Games.
 Indian track and field sprinter.
Dadabhai Naoroji Grand old man of India
  • Indian political leader, merchant, scholar
 Indian National Congress 

First Asian to be a British MP.

Liberal Party Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom House of Commons
Dhundiraj Govind Phalke Grand Father of Indian Films
  • Director
 Landscape painter of academic nature studies.
Rabindranath Tagore Gurudev
  • Bengali polymath
  • Bengali poet, short-story writer, song composer, playwright, essayist, and painter.
 Who introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language into Bengali literature, thereby freeing it from traditional models based on classical Sanskrit.
M S Gohlwalkar Guruji
  • Second Sarsanghchalak (or, “Chief”) of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)
 Widely noted to be the most prominent ideologue of Hindutva
Kapil Dev Haryana Hurricane
  • Cricketer
 He led India to win its first Cricket World Cup title in 1983.
Dhyan Chand Hockey Wizard
  • Indian field hockey player
 Major Dhyan Chand was conferred the Padma Bhushan.
Chanakya Indian Machiavelli – –
Indira Gandhi Iron Lady of India – –
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Iron Man
  • Indian statesman.
 He served as the First Deputy Prime Minister of India.
Jayaprakash Narayan JP
  • Indian independence activist, theorist, socialist and political leader.
 Narayan was educated at universities in the United States, where he became a Marxist.
Karpuri Thakur Jana Nayak
  • Student activist.
 He was influenced by nationalistic ideas as a student and joined the All India Students Federation.
Rabindranath Tagore Kaviguru
  • Bengali polymath
  • Bengali poet, short-story writer, song composer, playwright, essayist, and painter.
 Who introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language into Bengali literature, thereby freeing it from traditional models based on classical Sanskrit.
Sayyed Bandhu King Maker of Indian History
  • King Makers
 They created and dethroned Mughal Emperors
K.V.Puttappa Kuvempu
  • Lecturer of Kannada language at Maharaja College of Mysore
 He founded the Kannada Adhyayana Samsthe
Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Ganghadhar Tilak and Bipin Chandra Pal Lal, Bal, Pal
  • Advocate the Swadeshi movement
 Assisted the boycott of all imported items and the use of Indian-made goods in 1907 during the anti-Partition agitation in Bengal which began in 1905.
Sree Buddha Light of Asia
  • Indian philosopher, reformer and founder of Buddhism
 Rediscovered an ancient path to release clinging and craving and escape the cycle of birth and rebirth
Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah Lion of Kashmir
  • Kashmiri politician
 Founding leader of the All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference
Bal Gangadhar Tilak Lion of Maratha
  • Indian nationalist, teacher, and an independence activist
 He was the Indian Independence Movement’s first leader. He was one of the Lal Bal Pal triumvirate’s three members. He was dubbed “The Father of Indian Unrest” by British colonial authorities.
Sunil Gavaskar Little Master
  • Indian cricket commentator
 He held the record of 34 Test centuries
Bal Gangadhar Tilak Lokmanya – –
Jayprakash Narayan Loknayak
  • Indian independence activist and political leader
 Quit India movement
Chanakya Machiavelli of India – Ancient Indian teacher, philosopher, economist, jurist and royal advisor.

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