Ela Ramesh Bhatt

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Ela Ramesh Bhatt was born on September 7, 1933 in Ahmedabad, India. The second of three daughters, Ela grew up in a well-to-do family deeply interested and active in social causes. Her childhood was spent in Surat, an export centre on the coast about 100 miles from Ahmedabad, where her father, Sumant Bhatt, had a successful law practice. Her mother, Vanalila Vyas, was active in the women's movement.

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Padma Bhusan Recipient

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Jagat Singh MehtaKongara Jaggayya
JagmohanDevaki Jain
Jainendra KumarLalgudi Jayaraman
Jhabarmal SharmaBhimsen Joshi
Ali Yavar JungK.G. Subramanyan
Anil KakodkarAbdul Kalam
Kalindi Charan PanigrahiSwami Kalyandev
M. V. KamathKamleshwar
Kapil DevPrithviraj Kapoor
K. Shivaram KaranthKariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan
Girish KarnadKrishnaswami Kasturirangan
Gopinath KavirajSurashri Kesarbai Kerkar
Maulana Wahiduddin KhanVishnu Sakharam Khandekar
Triloki Nath KhoshooS. L. Kirloskar
Dominic Chacko KizhakemuriDaulat Singh Kothari
Komal KothariKottayan Katankot Venugopal
Yamini KrishnamurthyM. S. Krishnan (geologist)
T N KrishnanDevulapalli Krishnasastri
Mogubai KurdikarVerghese Kurien
KuvempuPratap Chandra Lal
Kasturbhai LalbhaiR. K. Laxman
M. L. VasanthakumariPeriyasaamy Thooran
Maharaja KrishnaRasgotraTalat Mahmood
Josh MalihabadiN. R. Malkani
Narayan Singh ManaklaoSam Manekshaw
Lata MangeshkarPalghat Mani Iyer
Manikya Lal VermaSonal Mansingh
Mario MirandaRaghunath Anant Mashelkar
M. V. MathurKiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Tyeb MehtaIsmail Merchant
Waman Bapuji MetreMrinal Miri
Vidya Niwas MishraDr. A.P. Mitra
Sunil MittalKelucharan Mohapatra
Yoshiro MoriGrace Morley
Brijmohan Lall MunjalC. Sivarama Murti
N. MahalingamShiv Nadar
Akkineni Nageswara RaoRoddam Narasimha
H. NarasimhaiahC. K. Nayudu
Kazi Nazrul IslamGopaldas Neeraj
Arun NetravaliNandan Nilekani
Indra NooyiMohan Singh Oberoi
Rajendra K. PachauriPoornima Arvind Pakvasa
Yash PalFrank Pallone
K. N. PanikkarSumitranandan Pant
Bhikhu Parekh, Baron ParekhMaulana Abdul Karim Parekh
Rajendra Singh ParodaBhaurao Patil
D. K. PattammalSwaraj Paul
Pavate D. C.Ramanujam Varatharaja Perumal
Prabhu ChawlaAzim Premji
R. D. PradhanRaja Rao
Rajan and Sajan MishraRajinikanth
RajkumarRam Kinkar Upadhyay
Ram Narain AgarwalRam Narayan
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Padma Bhusan Recipients

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A. Ramachandran
Gary Ackerman
H. P. S. Ahluwalia

Mian Bashir Ahmed
Begum Akhtar
Javed Akhtar
Horace Alexander
Aruna Asaf Ali
Salim Ali (ornithologist)
Ebrahim Alkazi
Amritlal Nagar
Dev Anand
Viswanathan Anand
U. R. Ananthamurthy
Prabha Atre
Augustine Pinto
B. B. Lal
B. R. Barwale
Amitabh Bachchan
Harivansh Rai Bachchan
Hirabai Badodekar
Teejan Bai
SundaramBalachander
Baldev Upadhyaya
Balraj Puri
Tarashankar Bandopadhyay
Banumathi
Nabakanta Barua
Rajshekhar Basu
Shyam Benegal
Chembai
Prabhu Lal Bhatnagar
Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar
Chandi Prasad Bhatt
Ela Bhatt
Bhogilal Pandya
Billy Arjan Singh
Chandu Borde
Boyi Bhimanna
Brihaspati Dev Triguna
Buddhadeb Bosu
Camille Bulcke
Amiya Chakravarty
Dhyan Chand
Lokesh Chandra
Chandrashekhar Shankar Dharmadhikari
Chandrika Prasad Srivastava
Soumitra Chatterjee
Swadesh Chatterjee
Harindranath Chattopadhyay
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay
Hariprasad Chaurasia
Chiranjeevi
Sarvadaman Chowla
Banoo Jehangir Coyaji
D. B. Deodhar
Durgabai Deshmukh
Girija Devi
B. Saroja Devi
Manna Dey
Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon
Joginder Singh Dhillon
Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar'
Faquir Chand Kohli
Michael Ferreira
Madhav Gadgil
Ela Gandhi
Sivaji Ganesan
Dhirendra Nath Ganguly
Sunil Gavaskar
Gokulbhai Bhatt
Gopichand Narang
Gottipati Brahmaiah
D. V. Gundappa
Maithili Sharan Gupt
Gurram Jashuva
Shobha Gurtu
Habib Tanvir
Irfan Habib
Madapati Hanumantha Rao
Anna Hazare
Hazari Prasad Dwivedi
Veerendra Heggade
Lakhumal Hiranand Hiranandani
Henning Holck-Larsen
Somnath Hore
Zakir Hussain (musician)
Qurratulain Hyder
B. K. S. Iyengar

U. R Ananthamurthy

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Born : 21 December 1932,Melige, Tirthahalli taluk, Shimoga District, Karnataka
Occupation : Professor, Writer
Nationality : India
Genres : Fiction
Literary movement : Navya

Udupi Rajagopalacharya Ananthamurthy born December 21, 1932, is a leading contemporary writer and critic in the Kannada language and is considered as one of the most important representatives of the Navya movement. Ananthamurthy is counted among the most eminent Indian authors. He is the sixth person among seven recipients of the Jnanpith Award for the Kannada language, the highest literary honor conferred in India.In 1998, he received the Padma Bhushan award from the Government of India.

Awards
Jnanpith award in 1994
Padma Bhushan in 1998
Rajyothsava award in 1984
Sahitya academy award in 1983
Maasti award in 1994

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Viswanathan Anand

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Full name : Viswanathan Anand
Country : India
Born : 11 December 1969 (age 39) ,Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Title : Grandmaster(1988)
World champion : 2000-2002 (FIDE), 2007-present(undisputed)
FIDE rating : 2791 (No. 2 on the january 2009 FIDE rating list)
Peak rating : 2803 (April 2006, April 2008 )

Awards
Anand has received many national and international awards.
Arjuna award for Outstanding Indian Sportsman in Chess in 1985
Padma Shri, National Citizens Award and Soviet Land Nehru Award in 1987
The inaugural Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award, India's highest sporting honour in the year 1991-1992.
British Chess Federation 'Book of the Year' Award in 1998 for his book My Best Games of Chess. Padma Bhushan in 2000
Jameo de Oro the highest honour given by the Government of Lanzarote in Spain on 25 April 2001. The award is given to illustrious personalities with extraordinary achievements.
Chess Oscar (1997, 1998, 2003, 2004 and 2007)
Sportstar Millennium Award in 1998, from India's premier Sports magazine for being the sportperson of the millennium
Padma Vibhushan in 2007
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