List of people from Gujarat - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

This is a list of notable people who can trace their ancestry to Gujarat, India

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India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

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Being geographically close to the hub of Indian film industry, Gujarat has contributed more actors and actresses than any other state. Beside this, Gujarat has given large contribution to the Indian independence movement. Historical hub of trade, peaceful, low-corrupt pace administration has led the Gujarat to create more trade/business tycoons then any other state.

Notable persons of Gujarat different fields

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|Air Marshal

Air Marshal

Air marshal is a three-star air-officer rank which originated in and continues to be used by the Royal Air Force...

Aspy Engineer

Air Marshal Aspy Merwan Engineer DFC was an officer in the Indian Air Force who rose through the ranks to become Chief of the Air Staff and later served as India's ambassador to Iran.-References:**...

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|Pankaj Patel

Pankaj Patel

Pankaj Ramanbhai Patel is the current Chairman and Managing Director of Cadila Healthcare, the fifth largest pharmaceutical company in India. Patel was tied for 26th place on Forbes Magazine's first annual list of the 40 richest Indians with an estimated net worth of $510 million...

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|Ambalal Sarabhai

Ambalal Sarabhai

Ambalal Sarabhai was a leading industrialist of Ahmedabad and also played an important role in India's freedom struggle. He was founder of Sarabhai group of Companies, like Sarabhai Textiles, Calico Textile Mills, Sarabhai Chemicals & others....

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|Lieutenant Colonel

Lieutenant colonel

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Ardeshir Tarapore

Lieutenant Colonel Ardeshir Burzorji Tarapore was born on August 18, 1923 in Mumbai. He belongs to the family of General Ratanjiba who led the army of Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, who was awarded 100 villages of which Tarapore was main village. The name Tarapore comes for the same reason...

||Military||Winner of the Param Vir Chakra, India's highest gallantry award
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|Uday Kotak

Uday Kotak

Uday Kotak is an Indian businessman. He is the vice-chairman and managing director of Kotak Mahindra Bank. He owns a 50% stake in Kotak Mahindra Bank, which he founded and runs. Forbes estimated his wealth to be $3.2 billion in 2011...

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|Ami Trivedi

Ami Trivedi

Ami Trivedi is an Indian television and theatre artist. She has done Gujarati theatre for many years. She has appeared in number of Hindi serials also. Her father is a well-known theatre actor, Tushar Trivedi who has been involved in Gujarati plays for over 20 years...

||Arts and entertainment||Theatre actor and currently a TV actor
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|Dhirubhai Ambani

Dhirubhai Ambani

Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani also known as Dhirubhai, was an Indian-Gujarati business magnate and entrepreneur who founded Reliance Industries, a petrochemicals, communications, power, and textiles conglomerate and the only privately owned Indian company in the Fortune 500. Ambani took his company...

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|Dilip Shanghvi

Dilip Shanghvi

Dilip S. Shanghvi is the chairman of Sun Pharmaceuticals and has an estimated wealth of $4.44 billion. Dilip Shanghvi, holds a commerce degree from the University of Calcutta. He started Sun Pharmaceuticals in 1983 and it is currently the fifth-largest drugmaker in India...

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|Praful Patel

Praful Patel

Praful Manoharbhai Patel is a Member of Parliament of the Lok Sabha of India. He represents the Bhandara-Gondia parliamentary constituency and is a member of the Nationalist Congress Party...

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|Gautam Adani

Gautam Adani

Gautam Adani , is an Indian businessman. He is the chairman of the Adani Group, a leading trading and export company of India. In March, 2011 Forbes magazine announced that Adani is the 6th richest person in India with a personal wealth of US $10 billion...

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|Indravadan Modi||Business||
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|Karsanbhai Patel

Karsanbhai Patel

Dr. Karsanbhai Khodidas Patel is an Indian industrialist, founder of the Rs. 2500 crore Nirma group with major interests in detergents, soaps and cosmetics. In 2005 Forbes listed his net worth as USD $640 million. He has interests in education, and founded a leading engineering college, the...

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|Kasturbhai Lalbhai

Kasturbhai Lalbhai

Kasturbhai Lalbhai was an Indian industrialist. He was widely perceived as a nationalist businessman akin to G. D. Birla.- Early life :...

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|Ramanbhai Patel

Ramanbhai Patel

Ramanbhai B. Patel was an Indian chemist who founded the operation that eventually became the Ahmedabad-based pharmaceutical company Cadila Healthcare....

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|Sam Pitroda

Sam Pitroda

Satyanarayan Gangaram Pitroda popularly known as Sam Pitroda is an inventor, entrepreneur and policymaker. Currently Advisor to the Prime Minister of India on Public Information Infrastructure & Innovations, he is also widely considered to have been responsible for India’s communications revolution...

||Business||Father of communication revolution of Modern India
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|Sam Manekshaw

Sam Manekshaw

Field Marshal Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw, MC "Sam Bahadur" was a Field Marshal of the Indian Army. His distinguished military career spanned four decades and five wars...

||Military||Chief of Army Staff, and India's first Indian Field Marshal
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|Vaibhavi Merchant

Vaibhavi Merchant

Vaibhavi Merchant is a well-known Bollywood dance choreographer, the granddaughter of pioneering choreographer Shri B. Hiralal, her maternal grandfather. She is the younger sister of Shruti Merchant.-Career:...

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|Sonal Shah||Economist||
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|Bhikhu Parekh||Literature or philosophy||
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|Ghulam Mohammed Sheikh

Ghulam Mohammed Sheikh

Gulam Mohammed Sheikh is an internationally renowned Painter, Writer and Art critic. He was awarded the prestigious Padmashri award for his contribution to art in 1983....

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|Harilal Upadhyay

Harilal Upadhyay

Shri Harilal Upadhyay was a Gujarati author, considered as one of the all-time great authors in the Gujarati language. He wrote more than a hundred books, including historical novels, social novels, short story collections, biographies, the great Mahabharat series, children's literature, poems and...

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|Jagdish Bhagwati

Jagdish Bhagwati

Jagdish Natwarlal Bhagwati is an Indian-American economist and professor of economics and law at Columbia University. He is well known for his research in international trade and for his advocacy of free trade....

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|K. M. Munshi

K. M. Munshi

Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi was an Indian independence movement activist, politician, writer and educationist from Gujarat state. A lawyer by profession, he later turned to literature and politics. He was a well known name in Gujarati literature...

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|Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi||Literature/Philosophy/Politics||Freedom fighter & Father of Nation of India

India

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|Narmad||Literature or philosophy||
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|Narsinh Mehta

Narsinh Mehta

Narsinh Mehta also known as Narsi Mehta or Narsi Bhagat was a poet-saint of Gujarat, India, and a member of the Nagar Brahmins community, notable as a bhakta, an exponent of Hindu devotional religious poetry. He is especially revered in Gujarati literature, where he is acclaimed as its Adi Kavi...

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|Prachi Desai

Prachi Desai

Prachi Desai is an Indian film and television actress. She is best known for her role as Bani Walia in the Hindi television drama Kasamh Se which aired on Zee TV. Prachi is the endorser, spokesperson, brand ambassador and the face of Neutrogena products in India...

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|Premanand||Literature or philosophy||
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|Rajendra Shukla

Rajendra Shukla

Rajendra Shukla is a well known Gujarati poet.Introduction to Kavi Shri Rajendra ShuklaName: Rajendra ShuklaFather: Anantray ShuklaMother: VidyagauriPlace of Birth: Bantwa, Dist. Junagadh, Gujarat.Date of Birth: 12 October 1942....

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|Sarosh Homi Kapadia||Judiciary||Chief Justice of India
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|Umashankar Joshi

Umashankar Joshi

Umashankar Joshi was an eminent poet, scholar and writer. He received the Jnanpith Award in 1967 for his contribution to Indian, especially Gujarati literature.-Works:...

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|Zaverchand Meghani||Literature or philosophy||
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|Mallika Sarabhai

Mallika Sarabhai

Mallika Sarabhai is an activist and Indian Classical Dancer from Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. Daughter of Classical Dancer Mrinalini Sarabhai and renowned Space Scientist Vikram Sarabhai, Mallika is an accomplished Kuchipudi and Bharatanatyam dancer.-Early life:Mallika Sarabhai was born in...

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|Homai Vyarawalla

Homai Vyarawalla

Homai Vyarawalla , commonly known by her pseudonym "Dalda 13," is India's first woman photojournalist. First active in the late 1930s, she retired in the early 1970s. In 2011, she was chosen for the second highest civilian award Padma Vibhushan by Govt...

||Arts and entertainment||1st woman photojournalist of India
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|Thakkar Bapa

Thakkar Bapa

Amritlal Vithaldas Thakkar, popularly known as Thakkar Bapa was an Indian social worker who worked for upliftment of tribal people in Gujarat state in India. He became a member of the Servants of India Society founded by Gopal Krishna Gokhale in 1914. In 1922, he founded the Bhil Seva Mandal...

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|Nethra Raghuraman

Nethra Raghuraman

Nethra Raghuraman is an actress and model from Vadodara, Gujarat, India. She has been selected as Look of the Year contest winner for Femina magazine in 1997. She also won the Best female newcomer title at Star Screen Awards in 2000. Her most notable films include Thakshak by Govind Nihalani and ,...

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|Tanvi Vyas

Tanvi Vyas

Tanvi Vyas won the Miss India Earth title in 2008. It was first won by Harshita Saxena who eventually surrendered her title to Ms. Tanvi due to the violation of a contract signed with Gladrags....

||Arts and entertainment||Model
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|Ketan Mehta

Ketan Mehta

Ketan Mehta is an Indian film director, who has also directed documentaries and television serials.-Early life and education:Born in Navsari in Gujarat, Ketan Mehta did his schooling from Sardar Patel Vidyalaya, Delhi and later graduated in film direction from Film and Television Institute of...

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|Anees Bazmee

Anees Bazmee

Anees Bazmee is an Indian film director, film writer, Screenplay writer who works in the Bollywood film industry.-Career:Bazmee started his career in 1988, as a dialogue writer for the film Hum Farishte Nahin. He then took a year break, and returned in 1990 as a writer for the film Swarg, which was...

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|Mahesh Bhatt

Mahesh Bhatt

Mahesh Bhatt , is a prominent Indian film director, producer and screenwriter.Bhatt's early directional career consisted of acclaimed films, such as Arth, Saaransh, Janam, Naam and Zakhm....

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|Abhijat Joshi

Abhijat Joshi

Abhijat Joshi is an Indian academic and screenwriter particularly known for his work with Vinod Chopra Productions, as the screenwriter for Lage Raho Munna Bhai and 3 Idiots...

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|Darshan Jariwala

Darshan Jariwala

Darshan Jariwala is a Gujarati film, television and stage actor. He won the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor for Gandhi, My Father. He currently stars in the show Saas Bina Sasural which airs on Sony TV as Chhedilal Chaturvedi...

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|Vipul Shah||Arts and entertainment||Movie director
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|Shefali Shah

Shefali Shah

- Biography :Shefali Shah was born in July 1974 and is the only child of Sudhakar Shetty and Shobha Shetty...

||Arts and entertainment||Movie actress
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|Indra Kumar||Arts and entertainment||Movie director
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|Manmohan Desai

Manmohan Desai

Manmohan Desai was a producer and director of Indian movies.- Background :His father, Kikubhai Desai, was an Indian film producer and owner of Paramount Studios from 1931 to 1941. His productions, mainly stunt films, included Circus Queen, Golden Gang, and Sheikh Challi...

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|Mukesh Bhatt

Mukesh Bhatt

Mukesh Bhatt , is an Indian film producer, who has produced several Bollywood films. He is the younger brother of director, Mahesh Bhatt and also the co-owner of the production company, Vishesh Films, set up in 1986...

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|Mahesh Kanodia||Arts and entertainment||Music Director
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|Naresh Kanodia

Naresh Kanodia

Naresh Kanodia is a Gujarati cinema actor. He is the brother of Mahesh Kanodia, another well known Gujarati actor and was a member of the Vidhansabha, Gujarat.-References:...

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|Sajid Nadiadwala

Sajid Nadiadwala

- Career :Nadiadwala started as an AC Technician and then later worked as spot boy and graduated to become production assistant in his uncle's production house before establishing his own production company called "Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment"...

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|Ismail Merchant

Ismail Merchant

Ismail Merchant was an Indian-born film producer, best known for the results of his famously long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions which included director James Ivory as well as screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala...

||Arts and entertainment||Movie producer
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|Anandji Virji Shah

Anandji Virji Shah

Anandji Virji Shah was a famous Indian musician. Together with his brother he formed the Kalyanji-Anandji duo, and won the 1975 Filmfare Award for Best Music Director, for Kora Kagaz.- Birth and early life :...

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|Kalyanji Virji Shah

Kalyanji Virji Shah

Kalyanji Virji Shah was Kalyanji of Kalyanji-Anandji duo. He and his brother, Anandji Virji Shah have been famous Indian film musicians, and won the 1975 Filmfare Award for Best Music Director, for Kora Kagaz....

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|Ismail Darbar

Ismail Darbar

Ismail Darbar is an Indian composer and violinist, a popular name in Bollywood.-Career:Ismail Darbar is from Surat, Gujarat. He worked for several years as a session violinist for leading music directors Laxmikant Pyarelal, Kalyanji Anandji, Bappi Lahiri, Rajesh Roshan, Anand-Milind,...

||Arts and entertainment||Music composer
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|Shekhar Ravjiani||Arts and entertainment||Music composer, singer
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|Shravan Rathod

Shravan Rathod

Shravan Rathod is an Indian musician. He is the brother of playback singers Roop Kumar Rathod and Vinod Rathod. His father Pandit Chhaturbhuj Rathod was a classical musician...

||Arts and entertainment||Music composer
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|Himesh Reshammiya

Himesh Reshammiya

Himesh Reshammiya is an Indian music director, composer, singer and actor.-Music and film career:Himesh Reshammiya was born in Bhavnagar, Gujarat to Vipin Reshammiya and Madhu Reshammiya. He had his first success as a music director of the 2003 film, Tere Naam...

||Arts and entertainment||Music composer, singer, actor, producer
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|Salim-Sulaiman

Salim-Sulaiman

Salim Merchant And Sulaiman Merchant are a musical duo of brothers, born and brought up in Bhuj, Kutch, India. They belong to Ismaili Muslim family and are inspired by their father Sadruddin Merchant, who used to lead Ismaili Scouts Orchestra in India..Steeped in a family tradition of music as the...

||Arts and entertainment||Music composer, singer
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|Salim-Sulaiman

Salim-Sulaiman

||Arts and entertainment||Music composer
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|Ranjit Barot

Ranjit Barot

Ranjit Barot is an Indian film score composer, music director, music arranger and singer. He is a long time associate of A. R. Rahman and has done music arrangements for him in many of his works....

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|Amit Trivedi

Amit Trivedi

Amit Trivedi is an Indian film composer, musician, singer and lyricist, working in Bollywood. After working as a theater and jingle composer and composing for non-film albums, he debuted as a film composer in the 2008 Hindi film Aamir, and shot to fame in the Hindi film music scene with his...

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|Firoz A. Nadiadwala

Firoz A. Nadiadwala

Firoz A. Nadiadwala is a Hindi film producer. Many of his relatives such as A.A. Nadiadwala and A.K. Nadiadwala have been producers in the industry for over 4 decades. His father is producer A.G Nadiadwala. Sajid Nadiadwala, another successful film producer is his cousin. Firoz is known for...

||Arts and entertainment||Movie director
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|Sanjay Gadhvi

Sanjay Gadhvi

Sanjay Gadhvi 22 November 1965 is an Indian writer and director belongs to Surendranagar in Gujarat.Hise was born to Manubhai Gadhvi, a renowned and much revered speaker, socialite and orator. His father also tried films during his young age, afterwards he quit films and focused on social work.He...

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|Alka Yagnik

Alka Yagnik

Alka Yagnik is an Indian singer who is ranked among the best Hindi playback singers of all time. She is a seven-time winner of the Filmfare Best Female Playback Award as well as a two-time recipient of the prestigious National Film Awards...

||Arts and entertainment||Singer
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|Aishwarya Majmudar

Aishwarya Majmudar

Aishwarya Majmudar is a singer from Ahmedabad, India. She got huge recognition after winning the 2008 musical reality show Amul STAR Voice of India of STAR TV at a young age of 15. She got highly praised for her performances by all judges with Sartaj Sarvottam and Super Sartaj Sarvottam...

||Arts and entertainment||Singer
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|Falguni Pathak

Falguni Pathak

Falguni Pathak , born March 12, 1964, is an acclaimed singer and performing artist from India, based in Mumbai. Her music is based on traditional musical forms from the Indian state of Gujarat...

||Arts and entertainment||Singer
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|Hemant Chauhan

Hemant Chauhan

Hemant Chauhan is a Gujarati writer and singer. He specializes in Bhajan, religious and Garba songs and other folk genres.-Selected works:*Pankhida O Pankhida*Om Namah Shivay-shiv Dhun*Om Sai Mangalam mp3*Shriman Narayana*Laher Lagi Bhajan Ni.mp3...

||Arts and entertainment||Singer
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|Kunal Ganjawala

Kunal Ganjawala

Kunal Ganjawala is popularly known as Bollywood playback singer. But he also did a very well contribution to Kanada film industry as well. Kunal began his career by singing jingles. He came to limelight with the song 'Bheege Honth Tere' form film Murder in 2004. It was his first biggest hit...

||Arts and entertainment||Singer
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|Mauli Dave

Mauli Dave

Mauli Dave was a finalist on Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2007 and was also recently crowned Miss Teen India Texas 2007.Dave is also a professional dancer who was a finalist in Sony Entertainment Television's "Boogie Woogie Chalo America" in 2003....

||Arts and entertainment||Singer
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|Manhar Udhas

Manhar Udhas

Manhar Udhas is Hindi and Gujarati language singer. He has given voice for many Hindi movies as playback singer. He is the elder brother of singer Pankaj Udhas and Nirmal Udhas and has worked with Pankaj on albums and Live Shows. Manhar has worked with all the composers of the film world and has...

||Arts and entertainment||Singer
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|Mahesh Kanodia||Arts and entertainment||Singer
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|Freddie Mercury

Freddie Mercury

Freddie Mercury was a British musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Queen. As a performer, he was known for his flamboyant stage persona and powerful vocals over a four-octave range...

||Arts and entertainment||Singer
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|Vasant Rai

Vasant Rai

Vasant Rai was one of world's most acclaimed performers of Indian music and virtuoso of the Indo/Persian/Afghan instrument Sarod.-Personal life and education:Rai was born in Unjha, Kutch, Gujarat and studied music in India...

||Arts and entertainment||Sitar player
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|Abbas Tyabji

Abbas Tyabji

Abbas Tyabji was an Indian freedom fighter from Gujarat, who once served as the Chief Justice of the Gujarat High Court. Mahatma Gandhi appointed Tyabji, at age seventy-six, to replace him as leader of the Salt Satyagraha in May, 1930 after Gandhi’s arrest. Tyabji was arrested soon afterward and...

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|Ahmed Patel

Ahmed Patel

Ahmed Patel is a senior leader of Indian National Congress party. He is the present political secretary to Congress President and Leader Sonia Gandhi. Patel is among the core think tank of the INC today. He is one of the crucial leaders in the decision making process of the party at national level...

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|Chimanbhai Patel

Chimanbhai Patel

-Education:He born on 3 June 1929 in Chikodra village of Sankheda Tehsil in Vadodara district. He was elected the first president of student union of The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in Vadodara in 1950. He has done Masters in Economics from that university.-Political career:He has been...

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|H. M. Patel

H. M. Patel

Hirubhai Mulljibhai Patel was an Indian civil servant who played a major role in the issues regarding internal and national security in the first years after the independence of India. From 1977 to 1980, served as the Finance Minister and later the Home Minister of India.-Early life:Patel was a...

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|K. M. Munshi

K. M. Munshi

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|Karan Bilimoria||Politics||
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|Kasturba Gandhi

Kasturba Gandhi

Kastürbā Gāndhi was the wife of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, marrying him in an arranged marriage in 1883.-Early life and background:...

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|Mahadev Desai

Mahadev Desai

Mahadev Desai was an Indian independence activist and nationalist writer; he was most famously known for being the personal secretary of Mahatma Gandhi.-Career:...

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|Meghnad Desai||Politics||
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|Mohammad Ali Jinnah||Politics||Freedom fighter & Father of Nation of Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

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|Morarji Desai

Morarji Desai

Morarji Ranchhodji Desai was an Indian independence activist and the fourth Prime Minister of India from 1977–79. He was the first Indian Prime Minister who did not belong to the Indian National Congress...

||Politics||Indian Prime Minister who got highest civilization award (Bharat Ratna

Bharat Ratna

Bharat Ratna is the Republic of India's highest civilian award, awarded for the highest degrees of national service. This service includes artistic, literary, and scientific achievements, as well as "recognition of public service of the highest order." Unlike knights, holders of the Bharat Ratna...

, Nishan-e-Pakistan

Nishan-e-Pakistan

The Nishan-e-Pakistan is the highest of civil awards and decorations given by the Government of Pakistan for the highest degree of service to the country and nation of Pakistan...

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Pakistan

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|Narendra Modi

Narendra Modi

Narendra Damodardas Modi is the current Chief Minister of the Indian state of Gujarat.He was born in a middle class family in Vadnagar; and is a member of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh since childhood, as also an active politician since early in life. He holds a masters degree in political...

||Politics||Chief Minister of Gujarat
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|Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel was an Indian barrister and statesman, one of the leaders of the Indian National Congress and one of the founding fathers of India...

||Politics||Indian Freedom Fighter
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|Savjibhai Korat

Savjibhai Korat

Savjibhai Korat was an Indian politician, a cabinet minister of Gujarat state. He was born into a farmer’s family in an Indian village near Jetpur....

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|Shyamji Krishna Varma

Shyamji Krishna Varma

Shyamji Krishna Varma was an Indian revolutionary, lawyer and journalist who founded the Indian Home Rule Society, India House and The Indian Sociologist in London. A graduate of Balliol College, Krishna Varma was a noted scholar in Sanskrit and other Indian languages...

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|Suresh Mehta

Suresh Mehta

Suresh Mehta is a former chief minister of Indian state of Gujarat He served as minister also in various BJP governments. He spent a majority of his life in the nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party . He served in the Gujarat government on more than one occasions and he hails from the electorally...

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|Vithalbhai Patel

Vithalbhai Patel

Vithalbhai Patel was an Indian legislator and political leader, and co-founder of the Swaraj Party.-Early life:Born in Nadiad, in the Indian state of Gujarat, Vithalbhai Jhaverbhai Patel was the third of five Patel brothers, four years elder to Vallabhbhai Patel, raised in the village of Karamsad...

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|Swami Dayananda Saraswati

Swami Dayananda Saraswati

Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati was an important Hindu religious scholar, reformer, and founder of the Arya Samaj, a Hindu reform movement. He was the first to give the call for Swarajya – "India for Indians" – in 1876, later taken up by Lokmanya Tilak...

||Religion||Founder of the Arya Samaj

Arya Samaj

Arya Samaj is a Hindu reform movement founded by Swami Dayananda on 10 April 1875. He was a sannyasi who believed in the infallible authority of the Vedas. Dayananda emphasized the ideals of brahmacharya...

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|Zain Bhikha

Zain Bhikha

Zain Bhikha is an Indian South African singer-songwriter, who has achieved success as a performer of Islamic nasheed songs. Associated with prominent Muslim personalities, including Yusuf Islam and Dawud Wharnsby, Bhikha has collaborated on albums and also released several solo albums...

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|Ahmed Deedat

Ahmed Deedat

Ahmed Hussein Deedat was a Muslim writer and public speaker of Indian South African descent. He was best known for his numerous inter-religious public debates with evangelical Christians, as well as pioneering video lectures, most of which centered around Islam, Christianity and the Bible...

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|Muni Hitruchi Vijay

Muni Hitruchi Vijay

Shri Hitruchi Vijay Ji is one of the prominent Jain monk.He is the last disciple of Great Jain Acharya shri Ramchandra surishwarji maharaj.He has nearly 12 disciples .He was at Pansar Tirth near Ahemadabad for chaturmas....

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|Bhagwan Swaminarayan

Bhagwan Swaminarayan

Swaminarayan , also known as Sahajanand Swami, is the central figure in a modern sect of Hinduism known as the Swaminarayan Faith, a form of Vaishnavism...

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|Morari Bapu

Morari Bapu

Morari Bapu , who has been giving 9 day-long sermons in both Gujarati and Hindi all over the world—including in India, the United States, the United Kingdom, South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, on a cruise ship in the Mediterranean Sea, and on an airplane travelling the world—since the...

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|Pramukh Swami Maharaj

Pramukh Swami Maharaj

Pramukh Swami Maharaj is the fifth spiritual successor of Bhagwan Swaminarayan in the BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha, a Hindu organization, and the current guru of the sect....

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|Homi J. Bhabha

Homi J. Bhabha

Homi Jehangir Bhabha, FRS was an Indian nuclear physicist and the chief architect of the Indian atomic energy program...

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|Vikram Sarabhai

Vikram Sarabhai

Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai was an Indian physicist. He is considered to be the father of the Indian space program; legendary Homi Bhabha’s successor as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission; and was as at home in the world of the arts as in his favourite laboratory. His interests were vast and...

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|Ajay Jadeja

Ajay Jadeja

Ajaysinhji Daulatsinhji Jadeja was born on 1 February 1971 in royal rajput family of Jamnagar, Gujarat. He was a regular in the Indian cricket team between 1992 and 2000, playing in 15 Test matches and 196 One Day Internationals. His cricketing achievements were overshadowed by a 5 year ban for...

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|Chandu Borde

Chandu Borde

Chandrakant Gulabrao "Chandu" Borde born 21 July 1934 in Poona In Marathi Christian Family, is a ex-cricketer who was a member of the Indian team between 1958 and 1970. Following his retirement, Borde became a cricket administrator, serving as the Chairman of national selectors...

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|Irfan Pathan

Irfan Pathan

Irfan Pathan is an Indian cricketer who made his debut for India in late-2003 and was a core member of the national team until a decline in form set in during 2006, forcing him out of the team...

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|Jasu Patel

Jasu Patel

Jasubhai Motibhai Patel was an off-spinner who played Test cricket for Indian cricket team. His fame lies entirely on a single match against Australia where he took 14 wickets.-Early days:...

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|Jeetan Patel

Jeetan Patel

Jeetan Shashi Patel is a New Zealand cricketer of Indian descent. Patel is a right arm off spin bowler. He plays domestic cricket for the Wellington Firebirds and has represented the New Zealand Black Caps in One Day Internationals, Twenty20 matches, and Test cricket.Patel was earmarked as a...

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|Karsan Ghavri

Karsan Ghavri

Karsan Devjibhai Ghavri is a former Indian cricketer who played in 39 Tests and 19 ODIs from 1974 to 1981. He played in the 1975 and 1979 World Cups....

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|Munaf Patel

Munaf Patel

Munaf Musa Patel Urdu:مناف موسی پٹیل is an Indian cricketer who has also played for the West Zone in the Duleep Trophy and Gujarat, Mumbai cricket team and Maharashtra cricket team....

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|Sanjay Patel||Business||Hospitality Services
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|Nari Contractor

Nari Contractor

Nariman Jamshedji "Nari" Contractor is a former cricket player. He was left-handed opening batsman whose international career was ended abruptly by a serious injury....

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|Nayan Mongia

Nayan Mongia

Nayan Ramlal Mongia is a former Indian cricketer. He played as a right-handed batsman and a wicketkeeper. Currently, he is a cricket analyst....

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|Parthiv Patel

Parthiv Patel

Parthiv Ajay Patel is an Indian cricketer, wicketkeeper-batsman, and a member of the Indian national cricket team. He is a left-handed batsman. He got married in 2008 to Avni Zaveri.- ODI career :...

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|Ravindra Jadeja||Sports||Cricket, Bowler, All-rounder
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|Siddharth Trivedi

Siddharth Trivedi

Sidhharth Trivedi is an Indian Cricketer who represents Gujarat.-Career:Siddharth Trivedi is Right-hand batsman and a Right-arm Medium pace bowler. He made his first class debut in 2002-03...

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|Vinoo Mankad||Sports||Cricket, Allrounder
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|Yusuf Pathan

Yusuf Pathan

Yusuf Pathan is an Indian cricketer. Pathan made his debut in first-class cricket in 2001/02. He is a powerful and aggressive batsman and a right-arm offbreak bowler. His brother Irfan Pathan is also an Indian cricketer...

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|Irfan Pathan

Irfan Pathan

Irfan Pathan is an Indian cricketer who made his debut for India in late-2003 and was a core member of the national team until a decline in form set in during 2006, forcing him out of the team...

||Sports||Cricket, Allrounder
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|Cheteshwar Pujara

Cheteshwar Pujara

Cheteshwar Arvind Pujara is an Indian Test cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman. Pujara has the distinction of hitting three triple centuries within a span of one month, although only the last of these was in a first-class match. In December 2008, the BCCI awarded him a D-grade national contract...

||Sports||Cricket, Batsman
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|Jaydev Unadkat

Jaydev Unadkat

Jaydev Unadkat also known as Jaydev Dipakbhai Unadkat Jaydev Unadkat also known as Jaydev Dipakbhai Unadkat Jaydev Unadkat also known as Jaydev Dipakbhai Unadkat (born October 18, 1991, Porbandar, Gujarat, is an Indian cricketer. He plays for Kolkata Knight Riders, and has also played the Under-19...

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Notable persons of Gujarat different fields

See also