Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
Padma Vibhushan recipient; Bansuri maestro
Bharat Ratna recipient
PVC awardee for his role in Indo-Pakistan war of 1965
Odia poet, novelist, dramatist, essayist
Author (in Malayalam) and cartoonist
'Moon Man of India'; project director for Chandrayaan I; former director of ISRO
Writer; Booker Prize shortlist
Filmmaker, scriptwriter
MVC award for bravery in Kargil War
Bharat Ratna recipient; two-time interim PM
Punjabi poet, songwriter, novelist
Vocal activist against acid attacks and internet censorship
Former world champion in badminton
Oceanographer; first Indian woman to visit Antarctica
Journalist, author, talk show host
Musician, founder of Rock Street Journal
Founder of Ranga Shankara in Bangalore
Carnatic vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, playback singer
Founder of YourStory
Led India to the 2011 cricket World Cup title
Folk and sufi-style singer, composer
Hindi poet; Jnanpith awardee
Cricket team captain
One of the founding members of the CPI
Indian Air Force officer, writer and military strategist
Actor known for his versatility; "Thakur" in Sholay
Producer, director and screenwriter
Film director, producer, actor
First batter to score more than 10,000 Test runs
Hindustani classical singer
Economist and former Labour Party politician
Award-winning writer
Seismologist; predicted 2015 Nepal earthquake
10-time national champion in TT
Founder of VLCC
Veena maestro (Carnatic music)
Pioneer of modern dance in India
Botanist, who worked on plant tissue culture
Cricket umpire
Supermodel from the 90s
Entrepreneur; founder of HCL Technologies and Shiv Nadar University
MasterChef s1 winner
Hockey player; Padma Shri award winner
Politician, activist
Writer, director
Founder and CEO of Paytm
Member of the Constituent Assembly of India
Freedom fighter
Led India to an Asian Games hockey gold in 1998 after a 32-year gap
Dramatist
Contemporary artist
CEO and founder of Zivame
Director in Tamizh cinema
Actor and entrepreneur; Miss World 2000
Among the leading batters in cricket
Bronze medallist at the 1952 Olympics - 200 mtrs running
Fashion designer known for blending Indian textiles and Western silhouettes
First woman Indian footballer to play professionally in Europe
Key figure in the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857
Cricket commentator, journalist
Thespian, actor known for work in parallel cinema
Supreme Court judge (6th woman to achieve this distinction)
World's first amputee to scale Mt. Everest, Mt. Kilimanjaro etc
Gujarati poet, scholar and writer; Jnanpith awardee
Nominated for the Filmfare Award for Best Lyricist a total of 40 times
Business journalist, author; Founder of SheThePeople.TV
Playback singer
Former editor of Open Magazine, author of 'Serious Men'
Computer scientist; pioneer in the field of data structures
Playback singer, music director
Violinist and composer
Nationalist and freedom fighter
25-time IBSF world champ!
Founder chairman of Wipro
Founder of the Sun group of companies
Novelist known for Sacred Games and other works
Carnatic vocalist
Scientist; chairman of Cipla; 'modern-day Robin Hood' for providing cheap AIDS meds to poor countries
Hunter, naturalist
Painter, sculptor, film maker
Economist, considered the father of Indian economic reforms of 1991
Founder of Ashtanga yoga
Mohan Veena (slide guitar) player
Novelist and short story writer
Established AVM Studios
Assamese poet
Actor, singer, primarily working in Malayalam films
First civilian commercial pilot among other things
Author of 'Mistress of Spices' and other works
Rapper and singer
Many 'firsts' - first woman to admitted to a women's college
Gujarati and English translator
Pioneer of Hindi and Urdu social fiction
Famed cartoonist; Established Children's Book Trust among other things
Mathematician and Marxist historian
