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This is a list of famous and notable people from Madhya Pradesh, India. [1] This would include persons who are known to a large number of people and is based on the extent of their popularity. Their fame could be brief, what matters is that they were well known during the peak of their popularity.
Baba Gurmukh Singh, Indian Freedom Fighter, a Ghadr revolutionary and a Sikh activist; Baba Kharak Singh; Baldev Singh, was an Indian independence movement leader and also the first Defence Minister of India; Bhagat Singh, Indian Freedom Fighter and most common symbol of India's Freedom Struggle by any means and a Ghadr revolutionary
Indian cultural influence (Greater India) Timeline of Indian history. Chandragupta Maurya overthrew the Nanda Empire and established the first great empire in ancient India, the Maurya Empire. India's Mauryan king Ashoka is widely recognised for his historical acceptance of Buddhism and his attempts to spread nonviolence and peace across
The history of India up to (and including) the times of the Buddha, with his life generally placed into the 6th or 5th century BCE, is a subject of a major scholarly debate. The vast majority of historians in the Western world accept the theory of Aryan Migration with c. 1500-1200 BCE dates for the displacement of Indus civilization by Aryans ...
Neha Aggarwal, 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing Indian table tennis player; Premlata Agrawal, first Indian woman to scale the Seven Summits; Vantika Agrawal, Woman Grandmaster (Chess) Pushpendra Kumar Garg, Khel Ratna Award winner; Priyam Garg, captain of Indian U-19 Men's cricket team
Samudragupta, (c. 335–375 CE) was the second emperor of the Gupta Empire of ancient India, and is regarded among the greatest rulers of India. As a son of the Gupta emperor Chandragupta I and the Licchavi princess Kumaradevi, he greatly expanded his dynasty's political and military power.
Following is a list of famous and notable Punjabi people, an ethnic group belonging to the Punjab region.It contains people mainly from what is today Punjab, Pakistan and Punjab, India, and people with Punjabi ancestry or people who speak Punjabi as their primary language.
Venkatesan Devarajan was the second Indian to win a medal at the Boxing World Cup after Pu Zoramthanga (boxer), from Mizoram. He is from Chennai, India. He was awarded the Arjuna Award in 1995. He competed in the men's bantamweight event at the 1992 Summer Olympics. V. Devarajan has been a fighter on and off the boxing ring.