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Mahatma Gandhi
The man who freed India without picking up a weapon.
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj
The people's king who built an empire from the hills.
Rani Lakshmibai
The queen of Jhansi who rode into battle with her child on her back.
Bhagat Singh
The 23-year-old who smiled at the gallows.
Subhas Chandra Bose
Netaji — the leader who raised an army for India's freedom.
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
The Iron Man who joined 562 pieces into one India.
Jawaharlal Nehru
The first Prime Minister who built modern India's foundations.
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
The boy who was not allowed inside class — and wrote India's Constitution.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
The gentle giant of simplicity — Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan.
Indira Gandhi
India's first and only woman Prime Minister — the Iron Lady of India.
Narendra Modi
From a railway platform tea stall to Prime Minister of India.
Swami Vivekananda
The young monk who introduced India's wisdom to the world.
Savitribai Phule
India's first woman teacher, who faced stones to open school doors for girls.
Sarojini Naidu
The Nightingale of India — poet, freedom fighter, pathbreaking governor.
Mother Teresa
The tiny nun who became mother to the world's forgotten people.
Sudha Murty
Engineer, author, and the woman behind a philanthropy empire.
Rabindranath Tagore
The poet who gave two nations their anthems.
Srinivasa Ramanujan
The clerk with no degree whose equations still guide science today.
C.V. Raman
Asia's first science Nobel — won with equipment worth a few hundred rupees.
M. Visvesvaraya
The engineer whose birthday India celebrates as Engineers' Day.
Homi J. Bhabha
The father of India's atomic energy programme.
Vikram Sarabhai
The father of the Indian space programme.
Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
The newspaper boy who became the Missile Man and President of India.
Kalpana Chawla
The girl from Karnal who touched the stars.
J.R.D. Tata
India's first pilot who built companies like institutions.
Verghese Kurien
The Milkman of India who made a poor country the world's largest milk producer.
Ratan Tata
The gentle giant who proved business can have a heart.
Sundar Pichai
The boy without a phone at home who now leads Google.
Dhyan Chand
The Hockey Wizard whose stick the world wanted to break open.
Milkha Singh
The Flying Sikh who outran his own tragedy.
Sachin Tendulkar
The God of Cricket — a 24-year love letter to one game.
Mary Kom
Six-time world champion who boxed past every 'no'.
Lata Mangeshkar
The Nightingale of India — the voice of a nation for 70 years.
Leonardo da Vinci
Painter of the Mona Lisa, designer of flying machines — 500 years early.
Isaac Newton
The man who explained why things fall — and how the universe moves.
Abraham Lincoln
From a log cabin to the White House — the president who ended slavery.
Florence Nightingale
The Lady with the Lamp who invented modern nursing.
Thomas Edison
10,000 attempts, 1,093 patents, one lit-up world.
Nikola Tesla
The forgotten genius whose electricity powers your home right now.
Marie Curie
Two Nobel Prizes, one borrowed lab coat — the woman who discovered radium.
The Wright Brothers
Two bicycle mechanics who taught humanity to fly.
Albert Einstein
The daydreaming boy who rewrote the rules of the universe.
Helen Keller
Deaf and blind from 19 months old — she still spoke to the whole world.
Nelson Mandela
27 years in prison, zero years of hatred.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The dreamer who marched a nation toward equality.
Muhammad Ali
The Greatest — who fought his biggest battles outside the ring.
Stephen Hawking
Given two years to live at 21 — he explained the universe for 55 more.
Steve Jobs
The college dropout who put a computer in your pocket.
Barack Obama
From 'skinny kid with a funny name' to first Black President of America.
Malala Yousafzai
Shot for going to school — she answered with a Nobel Prize at 17.