Q: Who is known as the “Iron Man of India”?
A: Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Q: Who was the first woman Prime Minister of India?
A: Indira Gandhi
Q: Who is called the “Architect of the Indian Constitution”?
A: Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
Q: Who was the first Governor-General of independent India?
A: Lord Mountbatten
Q: Who is known as the “Missile Man of India”?
A: Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Q: Who was the first Indian to become the President of the UN General Assembly?
A: Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit was first woman & first Indian
Q: Who is called the “Grand Old Man of India”?
A: Dadabhai Naoroji
Q: Who founded the Indian National Army (INA)?
A: Subhas Chandra Bose
Q: Who is known as the “Father of Indian Renaissance”?
A: Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Q: Who is called the “Frontier Gandhi”?
A: Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Q: Who founded the Arya Samaj?
A: Swami Dayananda Saraswati
Q: Who started the Brahmo Samaj?
A: Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Q: Who led the Aligarh Movement?
A: Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Q: Who is known as the “Nightingale of India”?
A: Sarojini Naidu
Q: Who founded the Ramakrishna Mission?
A: Swami Vivekananda
Q: Who led the Self-Respect Movement in Tamil Nadu?
A: Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
Q: Who started the Home Rule League in India?
A: Annie Besant
Q: Who is known for the Chipko Movement?
A: Sunderlal Bahuguna
Q: Who is known as the “Mother Teresa of Maharashtra”?
A: Sindhutai Sapkal
Q: Who is known as the “Father of White Revolution in India”?
A: Dr. Verghese Kurien
Q: Who is known as the “Bard of Bengal”?
A: Rabindranath Tagore
Q: Who wrote the national anthem ‘Jana Gana Mana’?
A: Rabindranath Tagore
Q: Who authored the book Discovery of India?
A: Jawaharlal Nehru
Q: Who is known as the “Shakespeare of India”?
A: Kalidasa
Q: Who is known as the “Father of Indian Cinema”?
A: Dadasaheb Phalke
Q: Who composed India’s national song ‘Vande Mataram’?
A: Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
Q: Who is known as the “Meghdoot of Modern India”?
A: Harivansh Rai Bachchan
Q: Who is the first Indian to receive the Nobel Prize?
A: Rabindranath Tagore (Literature, 1913)
Q: Who is famous as India’s first woman teacher?
A: Savitribai Phule
Q: Who is known as the “Father of Modern Indian Art”?
A: Raja Ravi Varma
Q: Who is known as the “Lion of Punjab”?
A: Lala Lajpat Rai
Q: Who was India’s first Deputy Prime Minister?
A: Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Q: Who is called the “Mother of Indian Revolution”?
A: Madam Bhikaji Cama
Q: Who founded the Forward Bloc?
A: Subhas Chandra Bose
Q: Who is known as the “Sher-e-Kashmir”?
A: Sheikh Abdullah
Q: Who became the first woman President of India?
A: Pratibha Patil
Q: Who is called the “Architect of Modern India”?
A: Jawaharlal Nehru
Q: Who was the first CM of West Bengal?
A: Prafulla Chandra Ghosh
Q: Who is known as the “Young Turk” of Indian politics?
A: Chandra Shekhar
Q: Who led the Bardoli Satyagraha?
A: Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Q: Who is known as “Deshbandhu”?
A: Chittaranjan Das
Q: Who founded the Servants of India Society?
A: Gopal Krishna Gokhale
Q: Who led the Vaikom Satyagraha?
A: K. Kelappan
Q: Who is known as the “Prophet of New India”?
A: Swami Vivekananda
Q: Who started the Widow Remarriage Movement in India?
A: Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar
Q: Who is known as the “Liberator of the Indian Press”?
A: Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Q: Who founded the Theosophical Society in India?
A: Annie Besant
Q: Who launched the Bhoodan Movement?
A: Acharya Vinoba Bhave
Q: Who is known as “Mahamana”?
A: Madan Mohan Malaviya
Q: Who is regarded as the “Father of Indian Labour Movement”?
A: Narayan Meghaji Lokhande
Q: Who wrote the epic Anand Math?
A: Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
Q: Who is the author of Gitanjali?
A: Rabindranath Tagore
Q: Who is known as “India’s Nightingale of Classical Music”?
A: M. S. Subbulakshmi
Q: Who painted the famous work “Bharat Mata”?
A: Abanindranath Tagore
Q: Who is known as the “Sitar Maestro of India”?
A: Ustad Vilayat Khan
Q: Who wrote the book Train to Pakistan?
A: Khushwant Singh
Q: Who is known as the “Father of Indian Animation”?
A: Ram Mohan
Q: Who created the Indian tricolour flag design?
A: Pingali Venkayya
Q: Who is known as the “Indian Napoleon”?
A: Samudragupta
Q: Who composed the patriotic song “Saare Jahan Se Achha”?
A: Muhammad Iqbal
Q: Who gave the slogan “Jai Jawan Jai Kisan”?
A: Lal Bahadur Shastri
Q: Who founded the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA)?
A: Sachindra Nath Sanyal
Q: Who was called the “Prince of Workers”?
A: Lala Lajpat Rai
Q: Who was the first Indian to become a member of the British Parliament?
A: Dadabhai Naoroji
Q: Who was the first Indian to become the President of INC?
A: Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee
Q: Who is known as the “Andhra Kesari”?
A: T. Prakasam
Q: Who led the Swadeshi Movement in Bengal?
A: Surendranath Banerjee
Q: Who is known as the “Political Guru” of Mahatma Gandhi?
A: Gopal Krishna Gokhale
Q: Who was the first female Governor of an Indian state?
A: Sarojini Naidu
Q: Who founded the Communist Party of India?
A: M. N. Roy
Q: Who introduced the Widow Remarriage Act, 1856?
A: Lord Dalhousie
Q: Who is known as the “Mother of Social Work in India”?
A: Dr. Durgabai Deshmukh
Q: Who started the Seva Sadan Society for women?
A: Ramabai Ranade
Q: Who campaigned for the abolition of Sati?
A: Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Q: Who is known as the “Greatest Indian after Gandhi” (BBC Poll)?
A: Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
Q: Who founded the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)?
A: Kanshi Ram
Q: Who founded the NGO “Sulabh International”?
A: Bindeshwar Pathak
Q: Who wrote "Why I Am an Atheist"?
A: Bhagat Singh
Q: Who is known as the “Narmada Bachao Andolan” leader?
A: Medha Patkar
Q: Who founded the “Arya Mahila Samaj”?
A: Pandita Ramabai
Q: Who wrote Godan, one of the greatest Hindi novels?
A: Munshi Premchand
Q: Who composed the epic poem Shahnameh?
A: Firdausi
Q: Who is known as the “Kabir of Modern India”?
A: Rabindranath Tagore (for Baul influence)
Q: Who created the Amar Chitra Katha comic series?
A: Anant Pai
Q: Who wrote India’s national pledge?
A: Pydimarri Venkata Subba Rao
Q: Who composed the patriotic song “Ae Mere Watan Ke Logon”?
A: Kavi Pradeep
Q: Who is known as the “Father of Modern Tamil Poetry”?
A: Subramania Bharati
Q: Who is known as the “Picasso of India”?
A: M. F. Husain
Q: Who directed the first Indian feature film Raja Harishchandra?
A: Dadasaheb Phalke
Q: Who discovered the Raman Effect?
A: C. V. Raman
Q: Who invented the Cresco graph (plant growth recorder)?
A: J. C. Bose
Q: Who is known as the “Missile Woman of India”?
A: Tessy Thomas
Q: Who constructed India’s first rocket launch station?
A: Vikram Sarabhai
Q: Who is known as the “Human Computer”?
A: Shakuntala Devi
Q: Who was India’s first woman astronaut?
A: Kalpana Chawla
Q: Who is known as the “Father of Green Revolution in India”?
A: M. S. Swaminathan
Q: Who invented the Pentium chip?
A: Vinod Dham
Q: Who developed India’s first indigenous supercomputer PARAM?
A: Vijay Bhatkar
Q: Who is known as the “Space Father of India”?
A: Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Q: Who founded the Sabarmati Ashram?
A: Mahatma Gandhi
Q: Who is known as the “Father of Indian Radio Broadcasting”?
A: A. K. Chatterjee
Q: Who founded the Chipko Movement’s Women’s Wing?
A: Gaura Devi
Q: Who created the famous cartoon character “Common Man”?
A: R. K. Laxman
Q: Who is the first Indian to win an Oscar?
A: Bhanu Athaiya
Q: Who was the founder of the Ghadar Party?
A: Lala Hardayal
Q: Who is known as the “Hero of Kakori Conspiracy”?
A: Ram Prasad Bismil
Q: Who was the first Speaker of the Lok Sabha?
A: G. V. Mavalankar
Q: Who founded the Prarthana Samaj?
A: Atmaram Pandurang
Q: Who is known as the “Lion of Gujarat”?
A: Sardar Patel
Q: Who started the ‘Kesari’ newspaper?
A: Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Q: Who was the first Indian woman to preside over the INC?
A: Annie Besant
Q: Who led the social reform movement “Ekka Movement” in Uttar Pradesh?
A: Baba Ram Chandra
Q: Who founded the “Young Bengal Movement”?
A: Henry Louis Vivian Derozio
Q: Who founded the “Indian Red Cross Society”?
A: Sir Claude Hill & Lady Chelmsford
Q: Who is known as the “Father of Indian Statistics”?
A: P. C. Mahalanobis