Thursday, April 26, 2007

Personalities from Bangalore

I have edited the below list from what is already available on the web. Most of the people are just associated with the city and not necessarily completely from here.And yes,there are many missing as they may not be known in other parts of the country.I hope to keep adding worthwhile names to this list:)

Models/Media (i cant possible name every model out here:)
-Lara Dutta

-Prasad Bidapa

Business
-Vijay Mallya - the flamboyant entrepreneur.Has various ventures like
Kingfisher Beer, Kingfisher
Airlines

Entertainment/Movies
-Girish Karnad
-Guru Dutt - Hindi movie actor born and brought up in Karnataka. Graduated from Bangalore Central College
-Rajnikant - Worked in Bangalore before becoming a Tamil movie superstar
-Dr. Rajkumar - I am sure you must have now seen his poster stuck on every glass building in blore!


Government
-Deve Gowda(First PM of India from Karnataka,not a blorean in a true sense though)
-H.T. Sangliana - best known as Super Cop!

Mathematics
-Shakuntala Devi


Science

-C. V. Raman - In 1930, for the first time in its history, an Indian scholar, educated entirely in India has received the highest honor in science, the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Medical

-Dr. Devi Shetty - founder & MD of Narayana Hrudayalaya. Dr. Devi Shetty has started this noble venture just to provide medical service at low cost, preferably for free. In a nutshell, he is a man with a good heart.

Sports
-Prakash Padukone
-Anil Kumble
-Rahul Dravid
-Roger Binny
-Syed Kirmani
-Venkatesh Prasad
-Ashwini Nachappa - Athlete

-Mahesh Bhupathi - Tennis pro
-Nisha Millet - Swimmer
-Pankaj Advani - won World Snooker Championship on Oct 25, 2003 at a young age of 19.

Technology
-Arun Netravali - was President, Bell Laboratories
-Azim H Premji - Chairman, Wipro Corporation
-Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw - CMD
Biocon. Popularly known as the "Bio Queen" of India.
-Nandan M. Nilekani - Co-founder & CEO, Infosys
-N.R. Narayana Murthy - Chairman & Chief Mentor Officer, Infosys Technologies Limited
-Sabeer Bhatia - born in Delhi, studied in Bangalore. Instrumental in introducing the first free web based email service
Hotmail.
-Azim Premji
-Arun Sarin- he studied in Military school,Blore.

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