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No. |
Name |
Greatness Reason |
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A |
|
01 |
Abdul Rehman Tonku (1903-73) |
The Malaysian statesman who negotiated with the British for independence for
Malaysia. He was the first prime Minister of Malaysia. |
|
02 |
Abraham Lincoln (1809-65) |
The 16th President of USA, who succeeded in abolishing slavery. He was
re-elected as President in 1864 and assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in
1865 |
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03 |
Abu-Bakr (573-634 AD) |
Abu-Bakr, a leading companion of the Prophet Mohammed, was the first Caliph
of the Muslim empire and ruled from 632 AD. He make Islam political and
military force in Arabia. |
|
04 |
Abual Fazal (1561-1602) |
The author of Ain-i-Akbari and Akbamama. He was the celebrated Mughal court
poet, and Prime Minister during Akbar's reign. |
|
05 |
Abu Zar Ghaggari |
A companion of he Holy Prophet. Hundreds of Prophet's saying have been
quoted by him. |
|
06 |
Aesop (600 BC) |
The Greek author of Aesop's Fables, which are moral tales with animal
protagonists. The famous title 'The Tortoise and the Hare' was his creation |
|
07 |
Akbar (1542-1605) |
The greatest Mughal Emperor of India, he reigned from 1556-1605 |
|
08 |
Alberuni |
The famous Arab historian who visited India along the armies of Mahmud of
Ghazni and wrote an account of India: |
|
09 |
Ali bin Abu Talib |
The 4th caliph of Islam (656-661) |
|
10 |
Alfonso de Albuquerque |
Founder of the Portuguese empire in the East, he conquered Goa in 1510 and
died in 1515. |
|
11 |
Alexander the Great(356-323 BC) |
King of Macedonia, who conquered most of Asia Minor and defeated Porus
(India) in 327 BC. A mutiny in his army prevented him from advancing further
into India and he died in 323 BC. |
|
12 |
Alexander Graham Bell(1847-1922) |
The Scottish-American scientist who invented the telephone in 1876 |
|
13 |
Andre-Marie Ampere(1775-1836) |
A French scientist who formulated Ampere's Law. The SI unit of electric
current is named after him. |
|
14 |
Alighieri Dante(1265-1321) |
Italian poet, author of Divine Commedia, a philosophical poem telling the
story of an imaginary journey through Hell. He also wrote love poems which
were collected under the title La Vita Nuova. |
|
15 |
Alexander Fleming(1881-1995) |
The Scottish bacteriologist discovered penicillin in 1928. He, however,
could not isolate it but this was later achieved by Florey and Chain with
whom he shred the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1945. |
|
16 |
Albert Einstein(1879-1955) |
One of the most illustrious scientists of the 20th century, he was born in
1879 at Ulma in Germany and completed his education in Switzerland. He made
the revolutionary discovery of the Theory of Relativity in 1905, which
established his reputation among the physicists of Europe. In 1921 he was
warded the Nobel Prize in Physics. He died in the USA on April 18, 1955. |
|
17 |
Alfred Lord Tennyson(1802-92) |
England's Poet Laureate from 1805 till his death in 1892. Author of in
Memoriam, poem of great beauty and depth of thought. |
|
18 |
Ala-ud-din Khilji |
He ruled north India between (1296-1316). He was the strongest ruler of the
Khilji dynasty and during his reign the Muslims progressed towards the
Narmada river in the Deccan. |
|
19 |
Ang Dorjee |
A Nepalese Sherpa, who climbed Mt Everest in 1984 with Bachendri Pal, the
first Indian woman to conquer Mt Everest. He has the distinction of having
climbed Mt Everest twice without the use of oxygen. |
|
20 |
Archinedes(287-212 BC) |
The Greek scientist and mathematician known for his discovery of the unique
principle of buoyancy (Law of floating). Also discovered and analyzed the
principle of the lever and invented the Archimedes screw to raise
water. |
|
21 |
Arthur Holly Compton |
American scientist, noted for his research on X-rays; won the Nobel Prize in
1927. |
|
22 |
Ashoka, the Great(264-228 BC) |
Grandson of Chandragupta, Ashoka was a great emperor of India. After the
battle of Kalinga, he renounced violence and embraced Buddhism. |
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