Last-minute revision on the famous personalities for Competitive exams RRB(NTPC)-June 2025

Last-minute revision on the famous personalities for Competitive exams RRB(NTPC)-June 2025. Here are some important one-liner objective notes about famous personalities that are useful for last-minute revision for competitive exams:

Last-Minute revision- Famous Personalities

• Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is known as the Father of the nation (India).
• Gopal Krishna Gokhale is considered the political guru of Mahatma Gandhi.
• Mahatma Gandhi returned to India from South Africa on 9th January 1915, observed as Pravasi Bharatiya Divas.
• October 2, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, is internationally observed as Non-violence Day.
• Gandhiji was president of Indian National Congress in 1924 at the Belgaum session.
• Rabindranath Tagore called Gandhiji as „Mahatma‟.
• Cripps Mission (1942) was called as „Post Dated Cheque‟ by Gandhiji.
• The Story of My Experiments with Truth is the autobiography of Gandhiji.
• Gandhi was thrown out of the train at Pietermaritzburg station in South Africa.
• Mahatma Gandhi was first arrested by the British Government at Sabarmati on 10 March 1922.
• Mahatma Gandhi was nominated 5 times for the Nobel Peace Prize.
• One of Gandhiji’s famous Quotes is “My Life is My Message.”.
• Raj Ghat Memorial is dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi in New Delhi.
• Netaji is known as the beacon of light of Asia.
• The title of „Father of the Nation‟ was given to Mahatma Gandhi by Subhash Chandra Bose.
• „Dilli Chalo’ was a famous slogan of Subhash Chandra Bose.
• The book ‘The Indian Struggle’ was written by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
• Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose was re-elected President of INC at the Tripuri Session in 1939.
• Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was the First Deputy Prime Minister of India.
• Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was the First home minister of India.
• The Birthday of Vallabhbhai Patel is celebrated as Rashtriya Ekta Diwas or National Unity Day.
• Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel is known as ‘Indian Bismarck’ and “The Iron Man of India”.
• Mahatma Gandhi gave the title “Sardar” to Vallabhbhai Patel.
• ‘The Statue of Unity’ is located in Gujarat and dedicated to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.
• BR Ambedkar was the Chairman of the drafting committee.
• BR Ambedkar is the Father of Indian Constitution.
• BR Ambedkar received Bharat Ratna in 1990.
• BR Ambedkar is the only Indian leader to participate in all the round table conferences.
• Dr. Rajendra Prasad was the first President of independent India.
• Dr. Rajendra Prasad was the First elected President of the Constituent Assembly.
• Jawaharlal Nehru was the First prime minister of independent India.
• In 1955, Jawaharlal Nehru received the Bharat Ratna award.
• Motilal Nehru was the Father Of Jawaharlal Nehru.
• ‘An Autobiography’ is the autobiography of Jawaharlal Nehru.
• “Discovery of India” is written by Jawaharlal Nehru.
• Jawaharlal Nehru Initiated the Non-Aligned Movement.
• Shantivan Memorial in New Delhi is dedicated to Jawaharlal Nehru.
• C. Rajagopalachari was the last Governor-General of India.
• C. Rajagopalachari received the Bharat Ratna award in 1954.
• Lal Bahadur Shastri served as the second Prime Minister of India.
• Lal Bahadur Shastri is also known as Man of Peace.
• Lal Bahadur Shastri Signed the Tashkent Agreement with Ayub Khan for a ceasefire between India and Pakistan.
• Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan served as the first Vice President of India and the second President of India.
• Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan’s birthday is celebrated in India as Teachers Day.
• Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was awarded a Bharat Ratna in 1954.
• Dadabhai Naoroji is known as the Grand Old Man of India.
• The book “Poverty and Un-British Rule in India” was written by Dadabhai Naoroji.
• Dadabhai Naoroji was the first Indian calculated the national Income.
• Dadabhai Naoroji was the first Indian elected to British parliament.
• Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit was the first woman minister of an Indian state (UP).
• Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit was the first woman to become president of the UN General Assembly.
• Sarojini Naidu was the first woman governor of India.
• Sarojini Naidu was known as the Nightingale of India.
• Sarojini Naidu was the first Indian woman President of Indian National Congress.
• Sucheta Kriplani was India’s first woman Chief Minister, serving Uttar Pradesh.
• Indira Gandhi was the first and only female Prime Minister of India.
• Indira Gandhi received the Bharat Ratna in 1971.
• Bankim Chandra Chatterjee is the Author of Vande Mataram.
• The Indian National Anthem was written by Rabindranath Tagore.
• Rabindranath Tagore received Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 (For Gitanjali).
• Rabindranath Tagore surrendered his knighthood as a protest against the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
• Visvabharati university was founded by Rabindranath Tagore.
• Clement Richard Attlee was Prime Minister of Britain at the time of Indian independence.
• Nelson Mandela was President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, the country’s first black head of state.
• Nelson Mandela received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.
• Nelson Mandela received the Bharat Ratna in 1990.
• A famous quote by Nelson Mandela is „Education is the most powerful weapon that you can use to change the world.‟.
• Abdul Ghaffar Khan is known as Frontier Gandhi.
• Abdul Ghaffar Khan is also known as Badshah Khan.
• In 1987, Abdul Ghaffar Khan was the first person who won Bharat Ratna without being a non-Indian.
• Tunku Abdul Rahman is known as the Father of Malaysia.
• Tunku Abdul Rahman was the First prime minister of Malaysia.
• Abraham Lincoln served as the 16th president of the United States.
• Abraham Lincoln is associated with Abolishing slavery.
• Abraham Lincoln is one of the four US presidents who have been assassinated.
• Abu Bakr was the first caliph.
• Abul Fazal was one of the Navratnas in the court of Akbar.
• Abul Fazal is the Author of Akbarnama.
• Adolf Hitler was a leader of the Nazi Party.
• “Mein Kampf” (My Struggle) is an autobiography of Adolf Hitler.
• Gestapo was the official secret police of Nazi Germany.
• Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany in 1933.
• Gen. Erwin Rommel was Popularly known as the Desert Fox.
• Gen. Erwin Rommel served as field marshal in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany During World War II.
• Yasser Arafat was Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
• Yasser Arafat received Nobel Prize in 1994.
• Sri Aurobindo was an Indian philosopher and freedom fighter.
• Aurobindo Ghosh is the Author of the Books ‘Essays on the Gita’ and ‘The Life Divine’.
• Aristotle was a Greek philosopher.
• Aristotle is known as the Father of Western Philosophy.
• Aristotle was the Teacher of Alexander the Great.
• A famous quote by Aristotle is “Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”.
• Aryabhatta was an Indian mathematician-astronomer.
• Aryabhatta adorned the court of Gupta ruler Chandragupta Vikramaditya.
• Banabhatta, the author of Harshacharita and Kadambari, was a court poet of Harsha.
• Ashoka the Great was an Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty.
• Ashoka fought the Kalinga War in 261 BC.
• Ashoka held the third Buddhist council at his capital Pataliputra in 250 BC.
• Ashoka is the son of Bindusara.
• Alexander the Great was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon.
• In 326 BC, Alexander invaded India.
• Babur was the Founder of the Mughal empire in India.
• Babur defeated Ibrahim Lodi in the First Battle of Panipat (1526).
• Sir C.V. Raman was an Indian physicist.
• C.V. Raman was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1930 for Physics (For Discovery of the Raman effect).
• C.V. Raman was awarded a Bharat Ratna in 1954.
• Albert Einstein was born in 1879 at Ulm, Germany.
• Albert Einstein won Nobel Prize for Physics (Explanation of photoelectric effect) in 1921.
• Albert Einstein formulated his special theory of relativity (E = mc^2) in 1905.
• Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876.
• Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born scientist.
• Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin (antibiotics) in 1928.
• Sir Alexander Fleming was a Scottish biologist.
• Alexander Fleming received the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1945.
• Sir Frederick Banting was a Canadian medical scientist.
• Insulin was discovered by Sir Frederick Banting.
• Frederick Banting received the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1923 (for the discovery of insulin).
• Andre-Marie Ampère was a French physicist and mathematician.
• Andre-Marie Ampère formulated Ampere’s Law of electromagnetism.
• Archimedes was a Greek mathematician, physicist, inventor, and astronomer.
• Archimedes discovered the Principle of buoyancy (Law of floating).
• Archimedes discovered the laws of levers and pulleys.
• Archimedes is associated with the concept of „the center of gravity‟.
• Srinivasa Ramanujan was an Indian mathematician.
• Amartya Sen is an Indian economist and philosopher.
• Amartya Sen received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998 for his contribution to welfare economics.
• MS Swaminathan is known as the Father of Green Revolution in India.
• Stephen William was born in Oxford, United Kingdom.
• ‘A Brief History of Time’ is a popular science book by Stephen William.
• Tim Berners-Lee is the Inventor of the World Wide Web.
• Bachendri Pal is an Indian mountaineer.
• Bachendri Pal was the First Indian woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1984.
• Sachin Tendulkar is an Indian former international cricketer.
• Tendulkar played his 200th Test match against West Indies.
• Tendulkar is the first batsman to score 200 in ODI cricket.
• Sachin Tendulkar received Bharat Ratna in 2014.
• Playing It My Way is the autobiography of Sachin Tendulkar.
• Dipa Karmakar is an Indian gymnast.
• Dipa Karmakar is the First Indian to win gold at gymnastics world challenge.
• Kapil Dev is a former Indian cricketer.
• Kapil Dev captained the Indian cricket team that won the 1983 Cricket World Cup.
• Mihir Sen was the first Indian to swim across English Channel.
• Milkha Singh is also known as The Flying Sikh.
• Rakesh Sharma was the first Indian to go into space.
• Rakesh Sharma flew aboard a Soyuz T11 spacecraft on 1984.
• Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama discovered a sea route to India.
• In 1498 CE, Vasco da Gama reached Calicut.
• Satyajit Ray was an Indian filmmaker.
• Satyajit Ray received the Dadasaheb Phalke Award (1984).
• Satyajit Ray received the Bharat Ratna (1992).
• Satyajit Ray received an Honorary Academy Award in 1992.
• Lata Mangeshkar is an Indian playback singer.
• Lata Mangeshkar is known as the Melody queen of India.
• The Dadasaheb Phalke Award was bestowed on Lata Mangeshkar in 1989.
• Lata Mangeshkar received the Bharat Ratna in 2001.
• Bhanu Athaiya is an Indian costume designer.
• Bhanu Athaiya was the first Indian to win an Academy Award in 1983.
• Reita Faria Powell was the first Indian woman to win the Miss World title in 1966.
• Hanaoka Seishu was a Japanese surgeon.
• Seishu Hanaoka performed the first successful surgical treatment of breast cancer under general anesthesia in the world.
• Sebastian Kurz is the Chancellor of Austria.
• Sebastian Kurz is the youngest head of government in the world.
• Sanna Marin is the Prime Minister of Finland.
• Sanna Marin became the youngest female prime minister in the world.
• Narendra Modi is serving as the 14th and current Prime Minister of India since 2014.
• Narendra Modi is a Member of Parliament for Varanasi.
• Narendra Modi was the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014.
• Nita Ambani is the first Indian trustee of New York’s Metropolitan Museum.
• Nita Ambani was the first Indian woman to become a member of the International Olympic Committee.
• Radha Krishna Mathur is the first Lieutenant Governor of the union territory of Ladakh.
• Sharad Arvind Bobde is the 47th chief justice of india.
• Bipin Rawat was the First Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) of India.
• Indian Air Force’s Wing Commander Shaliza Dhami was the first female officer to become Flight Commander of a flying unit.
• Avani Chaturvedi was one of the first combat pilots.
• Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee is an Indian-American economist.
• Abhijit Banerjee was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2019.
• Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist for female education.
• Malala Yousafzai was the co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (2014), along with Kailash Satyarthi.
• A. P. J. Abdul Kalam was an Indian aerospace scientist.
• A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Served as the 11th President of India.
• A. P. J. Abdul Kalam was awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1997.
• Pranab Mukherjee Served as the 13th President of India.
• Pranab Mukherjee was awarded the Bharat Ratna in 2019.
• Ram Nath Kovind is serving as the 14th President of India.
• Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
• Mother Teresa was awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1980.
• Pandit Ravi Shankar was an Indian musician and composer.
• Pandit Ravi Shankar was the best known proponent of the sitar.
• Ravi Shankar was awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1999.
• Bhupen Hazarika was an Indian playback singer, musician, poet and film maker from Assam.
• Bhupen Hazarika was awarded the Bharat Ratna in 2019.
• The Dadasaheb Phalke Award was bestowed on Bhupen Hazarika in 1992.
• Vikram Sarabhai is regarded as the Father of the Indian Space Program.
• Vikram Sarabhai was honoured with Padma Bhushan in 1966 and the Padma Vibhushan in 1972.
• Homi Jehangir Bhabha is Known as the father of the Indian nuclear Programme.
• Homi Jehangir Bhabha was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1954.

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