PERSONS IN NEWS
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Appointments
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Jin
Liquin
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Former
Finance Minister of China – President of AIIB
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Lord
Kamlesh Patel
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Became
first British-Asian appointee to ECB Management Board (England and Wales
Cricket Board)
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Rodrigo
Oreamuno
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Lawyer;
Union Government appointed him to arbitrate Vodafone tax case
Oreamuno
replaces former Chief Justice of India RC Lahoti, who relived himself in May
2015.
Vodafone
already named Yves Fortier of Canada as its nominee on the panel. Now,
Oreamuno and Fortier would name a third arbitrator, who will act as a
chairman of the tribunal for the case.
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Prashant
Pathrabe
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Appointed
as Interim Director of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII)
Pathrabe's
appointment as Director of FTII comes at a time when the institute is at the
centre of a major controversy with students protesting and boycotting classes
after government announced its decision to appoint Gajendra Chauhan as
chairman of its governing council.
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Bhanu
Pratap Sharma
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Chairperson,
FSSAI (Food Safety and Standards Authority of India)
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Swati
Maliwal
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Chairperson,
Delhi Commission for Women
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Maurice
Obstfeld
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American;
Chief Economist of IMF
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Ananth
Narayanan
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CEO,
Myntra
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Ajay
Mathur
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Director
– General, TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute); succeeded RK Pachauri
who was removed from the post over sexual harassment charge
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R
S Sharma
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Chairman,
TRAI
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S.
Davidson Devasirvatham
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Intelligence
Chief, Tamil Nadu
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K
Bhavaneeswari
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Chief
Security Officer, Chennai Metro
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N
Poonguzhali
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Chief
general Manager, BSNL (TN Circle); first woman to hold this post
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Nilanjan
Roy
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Global
Chief Financial Officer
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Ronald
S Folger
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CEO
and MD of Mercedes-Benz India
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Richard
Hay
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Anglo-Indian
(Kerala); a nominated member of Lok Sabha
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George
Baker
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Anglo-Indian
(West Bengal); a nominated member of Lok Sabha; an actor
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Atul
Keshap
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Indian-American;
appointed as the US Ambassador to Sri Lanka and Maldives
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K
Ramanujam IPS
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State
Chief Information Commissioner (Tamil Nadu)
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Ram
Nath Kovind
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New
Governor of Bihar
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Acharya
Dev
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New
Governor of Himachal Pradesh
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Rekha
Menon
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Chairperson
of India’s operation for Accenture
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Sundar
Pichai
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CEO
of Google; Chennai-born
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Amitabh
Bachchan
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‘Tiger
Ambassador’ for Maharashtra
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Om
Prakash Rawat
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Election
Commissioner
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Ajit
Kumar Seth
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Chairman,
Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB)
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Sebastian
Coe
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President,
IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federation)
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Aditi
Chauhan
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India's
first woman to play in English league football
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Ashwani
Lohani
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CMD
of Air India Limited
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Amitabh
Mattoo
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Noted
academician appointed as Advisor to J&K Chief Minister
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Justice
ML Tahaliyani
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Lokayukta
of Maharashtra
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Girish
Sahni
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Director
– General, CSIR
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Novak
Djokovic
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Goodwill
Ambassador of UNICEF
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Rajiv
Mehrishi
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Union
Home Secretary
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Ratan
Watal
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Union
Finance Secretary
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S
A V Satya Murty
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Director,
IGCAR – Kalpakkam
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Akshay
Kumar
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Global
campaigners on UN goals on Sustainable Development Goals
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Hirthik
Roshan
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A R
Rahman
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Tejinder
Pal Singh
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An
Indian-origin driver in Australia; named as Australian of the Day by
Commonwealth Bank of Australia for feeding the homeless in Darwin for the
past three years.
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S A V
Sathya Murthy
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Director,
IGCAR – Kalpakkam
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Hrusikesh
Senapath
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Director,
NCERT
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Ramesh
Chand
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Agriculture
Expert; appointed as full time member of NITI Aayog
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J
Manjula
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Director-General
of Electronics and Communication Systems cluster of DRDO
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Jagdeep
Grewal
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Indian
– American; sworn in as the first woman postmaster of Sacramento City in Claifornia
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Ashok
Sridharan
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Indian
– origin; elected as Mayor of Bonn (Germany)
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Malcolm
Turnbull
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29th
Prime Minister of Australia
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Hormusji
Cama (Bombay Samachar)
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Chairman,
Press Trust of India (PTI)
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Riyad
Mathew (Malayala Manorama)
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Vice
Chairman, Press Trust of India (PTI)
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Jeremy
Corbyn
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Elected
as leader of Labour Party in UK
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Mahesh
Rangarajan
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Resigned
as Director of Nehru Memorial Museum and Library
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Gokulakrishnan
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Rajya
Sabha MP from Puducherry; AIADMK
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E.
Sreedharan
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Metro
Man of India; accepted an invitation of United Nations Secretary General Ban
Ki-moon to serve on his High-Level Advisory Group on Sustainable Transport
(HLAG-ST).
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P. V.
Chandran
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President,
Indian Newspaper Society (INS)
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Eric
Fanning
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Newly
appointed Army Secretary of US; also the first gay (same-sexuality) Army
Secretary
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Zayn
Khan
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President,
Federation of Motor Sports Clubs of India
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John
T Chambers
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Elected
as Chairman of USIBC (US India Business Council)
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Stuti
Narain Kacker
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Chairperson,
National Commission for Protection of Child Rights
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Sourav
Ganguly
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President
of Cricket of Association of Bengal
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Syed
Akbaruddin
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To be
the next, Permanent Representative of India to the UN (from Jan 2016)
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Matthias
Muller
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Chief
Executive Officer of Volkswagen
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Arvind
Panagariya
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Sherpa
for G-20 Summit
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Jennifer
Lopez
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Global
Advocate for Girls and Women
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Jayant
Prasad
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Director
– General, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses
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Praveen
Dikshit
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DGP,
Maharashtra
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Deaths
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Dr.
APJ Abdul Kalam
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11th
President of India
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Matti
Makkonen
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Finish
tech pioneer of SMS technology
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K
P P Nambiar
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Founding
Chairman of Kerala State Electronics Development Corporation Limited
(Keltron)
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Y
K Sabharwal
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Former
Chief Justice of India
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Abdullah
Hussai
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Renowned
Urdu Poet (Pakistan)
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Diana
Douglas
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Actress
(Hollywood)
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Bashar
Navaaz
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Urdu
Poet
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M.
S. Viswanathan
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Music
Composer
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Joan
Sebastian
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Musician
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V
Ramakrishnan
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Telugu
playback singer
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Jules
Bianchi
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Formula
1 Race Driver (France)
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Alex
Rocco
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English
Film Actor
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Bisheshar
Pardeep
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Urdu
Poet
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Olaf
Pooley
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English
Film Actor
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Tom
Moorie
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Cartoonist
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P
R Chari
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Advocate
(nuclear disarmament)
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Bijoy
Krishna Handique
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Politician
(Congress Party)
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Ramkrishna
Suryabhan Gavai
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Former
Governor of Bihar and Kerala
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P
Hariharan
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Physicist
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Clive
Rice
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Former
Cricket Captain, South Africa
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Dr.
Suniti Solomon
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Doctor,
who detected first HIV in India
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Vasundhara
Komkali
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Vocalist
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Sasi
Perumal
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Gandhian
Activist
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Suvra
Mukherjee
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First
Lady of India (wife of Pranab Mukherjee)
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Jagannath
Mishra
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Former
State Minister of Madhya Pradesh; BJP
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Cilla
Black
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British
Singer
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Arnold
Scaasi
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Fashion
designer
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George
Cole
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Actor
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Frances
Oldham Kelsey
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Canadian
doctor who played a central role in preventing the drug thalidomide being
distributed in the US
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Kayyara
Kinhanna Rai
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Freedom
fighter
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Bhalchandra
Pendharkar
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Marathi
Stage actor
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Paravoor
Bharathan
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Malayalam
Actor
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Chitranjan
Swarup
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State
Minister, Government of Uttar Pradesh
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N
R Varhadpande
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Eminent
Sanskrit Scholar and Indologist
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Pranab
Kumar Borah
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Veteran
journalist
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Dr.
M M Kalburgi
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Eminent
Kannada writer – shot dead
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Oliver
Wolf sacks
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Renowned
neurologist and author
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Chandra Bahadur Dangi
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Nepal; World's shortest man
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Binny Yanga
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Social Worker; Arunachal Pradesh
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Aadesh Srivastava
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Music Composer; Maharashtra
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Ramaswamy Iyer
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Water Policy expert
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Balkrishna Wasnik
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Former MP from Congress; from
Maharashtra
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John P Connell
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English film actor
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Gauthama Neelambaran
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Tamil writer
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Frank D. Gilory
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Pultizer – prize winner
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Kalamandalam Sathyabhama
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Mohiniyattam dancer
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Bal Pandit
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Marathi cricket commentator and
writer
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Jackie Collins
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British-born novelist
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Jagmohan Dalmiya
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BCCI President
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Radhika Thilak
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Playback Singer; Malyalam
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Sadhan Gupta
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Veteran Leftist
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Nizam
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Odia Lyricist
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Lawrence Peter Yogi Berra
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Baseball legend; USA
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Syed Ahmed
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Governor, Manipur
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Frank Tyson
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Former England Fast Bowler
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