Ela Ramesh Bhatt

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

Jagat Singh Mehta	Kongara Jaggayya
Jagmohan	Devaki Jain
Jainendra Kumar	Lalgudi Jayaraman
Jhabarmal Sharma	Bhimsen Joshi
Ali Yavar Jung	K.G. Subramanyan
Anil Kakodkar	Abdul Kalam
Kalindi Charan Panigrahi	Swami Kalyandev
M. V. Kamath	Kamleshwar
Kapil Dev	Prithviraj Kapoor
K. Shivaram Karanth	Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan
Girish Karnad	Krishnaswami Kasturirangan
Gopinath Kaviraj	Surashri Kesarbai Kerkar
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan	Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar
Triloki Nath Khoshoo	S. L. Kirloskar
Dominic Chacko Kizhakemuri	Daulat Singh Kothari
Komal Kothari	Kottayan Katankot Venugopal
Yamini Krishnamurthy	M. S. Krishnan (geologist)
T N Krishnan	Devulapalli Krishnasastri
Mogubai Kurdikar	Verghese Kurien
Kuvempu	Pratap Chandra Lal
Kasturbhai Lalbhai	R. K. Laxman
M. L. Vasanthakumari	Periyasaamy Thooran
Maharaja KrishnaRasgotra	Talat Mahmood
Josh Malihabadi	N. R. Malkani
Narayan Singh Manaklao	Sam Manekshaw
Lata Mangeshkar	Palghat Mani Iyer
Manikya Lal Verma	Sonal Mansingh
Mario Miranda	Raghunath Anant Mashelkar
M. V. Mathur	Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Tyeb Mehta	Ismail Merchant
Waman Bapuji Metre	Mrinal Miri
Vidya Niwas Mishra	Dr. A.P. Mitra
Sunil Mittal	Kelucharan Mohapatra
Yoshiro Mori	Grace Morley
Brijmohan Lall Munjal	C. Sivarama Murti
N. Mahalingam	Shiv Nadar
Akkineni Nageswara Rao	Roddam Narasimha
H. Narasimhaiah	C. K. Nayudu
Kazi Nazrul Islam	Gopaldas Neeraj
Arun Netravali	Nandan Nilekani
Indra Nooyi	Mohan Singh Oberoi
Rajendra K. Pachauri	Poornima Arvind Pakvasa
Yash Pal	Frank Pallone
K. N. Panikkar	Sumitranandan Pant
Bhikhu Parekh, Baron Parekh	Maulana Abdul Karim Parekh
Rajendra Singh Paroda	Bhaurao Patil
D. K. Pattammal	Swaraj Paul
Pavate D. C.	Ramanujam Varatharaja Perumal
Prabhu Chawla	Azim Premji
R. D. Pradhan	Raja Rao
Rajan and Sajan Mishra	Rajinikanth
Rajkumar	Ram Kinkar Upadhyay
Ram Narain Agarwal	Ram Narayan
Narasimhan Ram	Next

Padma Bhusan Recipients

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

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

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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