Personalities from Indore who have earned name and fame in their fields... (If we have missed someone, you can add it..)
Politicians and statesmen
Devi Ahilya Bai Holkar, ruler of Indore state who spent most of her life in Maheshwar on the banks of the Narmada and is said to have visited Indore only twice in her lifetime. Her name is synonymous with Indore and the University and airport are named after her.
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, father of the Indian Constitution and campaigner for Dalit rights was born in Mhow.
Vinayak Sitaram Sarvate, well known nationalist, freedom fighter and Padma Vibhushan awardee was a member of Constituent Assembly of India.
Field Marshal K. M. Cariappa, the first Indian Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army studied at Daly College Indore.
Field Marshal Sam Bahadur Manekshaw was Commandant of the Infantry School, Mhow during the 1950s.
General K. Sundarji was Commandant of the College of Combat,Mhow (now known as Army War College) during the early 1980s.
Sumitra Mahajan, BJP Leader and MP
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Artists
Swar Kokila Lata Mangeshkar, the Nightingale of India was born in Indore to Pandit Dinanath Mangeshkar.
Kishore Kumar, famous playback singer and actor, who belonged to Khandwa had studied at the Indore
Christian College and used to stay in the hostel.
Johnny Walker, famous comic actor was born in Indore.
Salman Khan, an Indian film actor who appears in Bollywood movies was born in Indore.
Mangala Ramachandran, eminent Hindi Writer of Tamil origin. Born in Indore, studied in Bal Vinay Mandir.
Rahat Indori, Urdu poet and songwriter in Hindi films.
Goswami Dr Gokulotsavji Maharaj, famous classical singer of the 'khayal' and 'dhrupad gayan' styles.
Ustad Rais Khan, the celebrated Indian sitar maestro was born in Indore in 1938.
Ustad Amir Khan, celebrated Hindustani classical vocalist, born in Indore 1912. Referred his unique,
unprecedented style of khyal singing as "Indore Gharana."
D.J. Joshi, b.1911-d.1984, Eminent painter and sculptor. Studied arts at Chitrakala Mandir, Indore along with
M.S Joshi, N.S. Bendre, M.F. Husain, Solegaokar and others.
Vishnu Chinchalkar, eminent painter popularly known as 'Guruji'.
N.S. Bendre, eminent painter born in Indore in 1910.
Himanshu Dudwadkar and Shreya Bhargava, notable architects who have done exeptional work in the field of restoration and conservation.they have recently rebuilt the Rajbada of Indore, the only reconstruction of any
historic structure of its kind in India.
M.F. Husain, eminent painter, he spent his childhood in Indore.
Prabhu Joshi, notable Hindi short story writer, painter and media person.
Hafeez contractor, famous architect of India is born in Indore.
Vijayendra Ghadgey, Well known Actor of India is born in Indore.
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Sports persons
Colonel C.K. Nayudu, first Indian Test Captain in cricket. He led India between 1932 and 1934.
Captain Mushtaq Ali, Colonel Nayudu's team-mate in the Holkar team and in the Indian team. Popularly known as the 'Errol Flynn' of Indian cricket.
Chandu Sarwate, former cricketer and former selector.
Sanjay Jagdale, former state cricketer. Presently one of the national selectors for the senior all-India teams and the honorary secretary of the Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association. He is also the director of the Cricket Club of Indore.
Raj Singh Dungarpur, former president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India and a former selector. An ex-student of Daly College, Indore.
Rahul Dravid, an Indian cricketer, and the current captain of the Indian cricket, born in Indore.
Narendra Hirwani, a leg spin bowler and former member of Indian cricket team moved to Indore when he was a teenager.
Amay Khurasiya, former member of Indian Cricket team has studied in Indore.
Sandhya Agarwal, former captain of Indian women's cricket team.
Honorary Captain Shankar Lakshman (1933-2006), goalkeeper of the Indian hockey team in the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics and won two golds and a silver. Captain of the team which won the gold in the 1966 Asian Games. He belonged to Mhow and lived his retired life here till his death on Apr 29 2006.
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Others
Sir Albert Howard, an Englishman and agricultural scientist who devised the Indore method of composting in the 1930s.
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Chandrasekhar Trimbak Sarwate (known as Chandu or Chandra; born July 22, 1920 in Sagor, Madhya Pradesh - died December 23, 2003 in Indore) was an Indian cricketer. He was an all-rounder who played nine Test matches for India between 1946 and 1951 without much success — his Test batting average was only 13.00, and his Test bowling average was 124.66.
However, in first-class cricket, he had a long career, spanning 32 years, during which he represented Central Provinces and Berar, Maharashtra, Hindus, Mumbai, Holkar, Madhya Pradesh and Vidarbha. Perhaps his most famous innings was for the Indians against Surrey at The Oval in 1946 when he and Shute Banerjee put on 249 for the last wicket, more than the first nine wickets put together. It is the only time in first-class cricket when the last two batsmen have both scored centuries. His best ever score was 246 for Holkar against Bengal in 1951, and his best bowling in an innings was 9 for 61 for Holkar against Mysore in 1946. His overall batting average in first-class cricket was 32.73 and his bowling average was 23.54.
Sarwate was a national selector for three years in the early 1980s, and was one of the selectors who picked the Indian team that won the World Cup in England in 1983. Besides being the secretary of Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association, he was also the chairman of its selection committee on number of occasions. Sarwate held degrees in arts and law and was a fingerprint expert by profession.
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling type Right-arm off-break, Leg-break
Tests First-class
Matches 9 171
Runs scored 208 7430
Batting average 13.00 32.73
100s/50s -/- 14/38
Top score 37 246
Balls bowled 658 27533
Wickets 3 494
Bowling average 124.66 23.54
5 wickets in innings - 26
10 wickets in match - 3
Best bowling 1/16 9/61
Catches/stumpings -/- 91/-
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Johnny Walker (May 15, 1923 – 29 July 2003) is the screen name of a famous Indian actor and comedian, who acted in over 300 movies. He is most associated with the Indian film director and actor, Guru Dutt. He was born as Badruddin Jamaluddin Kazi in India in 1923, the son of a mill worker. The family shifted to Bombay when the textile mill his father worked in closed down. Looking after his 15-member family was tough; five of the family died young. Badruddin tried his hand at almost everything, including working in the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (B.E.S.T) buses as a conductor. He was posted at the Dadar bus depot, but worked on several routes.
He was discovered at the age of 26 in 1950 by actor, and script-writer Balraj Sahni while travelling in a B.E.S.T bus in Bombay. Badruddin was then working as a bus conductor, and in doing his job issuing tickets he entertained his passengers with various antics. This is what attracted Balraj's attention. Balraj, who was then penning the script for the film Baazi (1951), presented him to Guru Dutt as a candidate for the role of comedian. Badruddin's screen test consisted of acting as a drunk, and he did it so well that Guru Dutt gave him the screen name, "Johnny Walker" after the famous Scotch whisky brand of that era. Johnny was even cast as hero in the ego-boosting Johnny Walker (1957), with the irony being that he was a teetotaler. He enjoyed a very good friendship with Guru Dutt, who often used to change scripts to accommodate a role for Johnny. Johnny Walker is remembered as a very humble person who always kept a low-profile, even when he was the peak of his career. He was deeply impacted by the untimely death of his mentor, Guru Dutt in 1964. By the 1970s through to the 90s he was acting in bit parts; his role in Anand was an example of how he could excel in a serious role even when it was only for a few minutes. His last performance was in actor/director Kamal Hasan's film, Chachi 420 in 1998, which he performed at the request of musician/director/writer Gulzar who scripted the movie.
1951 Baazi
1954 Aar Paar
1954 Taxi Driver
1955 Mr. & Mrs. '55
1956 C.I.D.
1956 Chori Chori
1957 Pyaasa
1957 Naya Daur
1958 Madhumati
1959 Kaagaz Ke Phool
1960 Mughal-E-Azam
1960 Chaudhvin Ka Chand
1963 Bees Saal Baad
1963 Mere Mehboob
1968 Haseena Maan Jayegi
1968 Shikar
1971 Anand
1975 Pratigya
1980 Shaan
1997 Chachi 420
Johnny is most remembered for his part in the movie, "C.I.D" where he sang the famous song,Yeh Hai Bombay Meri Jaan, a paean to the city of Bombay, and for Sar Jo Tera Chakraye from Guru Dutt's classic, Pyaasa.The last song was developed during a visit by Guru Dutt and Johnny to Calcutta before the filming of the movie. There, while eating breakfast at a road-side joint one morning, they happened to watch a local masseur apply his talents to a gentleman's head, giving him a head massage. Guru Dutt at once told Johnny to note the scene for the future. In the 1950s, producers mandated that a film song be picturised on Johnny to pander to the audience's love of the comedian. His popularity began to wane with the rise of actor/comedian Mehmood in the 1960s. "Filmmakers were no longer interested in my kind of clean comedies, and I thought it's time for me to bid goodbye," he once said.
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Sumitra Mahajan (born 12 April 1943) is a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. She has been representing the Indore constituency of Madhya Pradesh since 1989 and is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) political party. She is a former union minister of state of India.She was minister from 2002 to 2004 and held portfolios of Human Resources and Communications. She studied at Indore University for MA and LLB.
Sumitra Mahajan was born to Usha and Purushotam Sathe in Chiplun, Maharashtra. She accomplished her M.A. and LL.B from Indore University after marrying late Jayant Mahajan of Indore.(now Devi Ahilya University) in Indore.
Constituency: Indore
Born: 12 April 1943 (1943-04-12) (age 64)
Chiplun, Ratnagiri
Political party: BJP
Spouse: Jayant Mahajan
Children: 2 sons
Residence: Indore, Madhya Pradesh
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Rahul Sharad Dravid is an Indian cricketer, and the former captain of the Indian national cricket team, of which he has been a regular member since 1996. He is ranked among the 10 best current Test batsmen by the ICC in world cricket and has the highest Test batting average of any Indian batsman in history. Dravid is one of only three Indian batsmen to have scored 9,000 runs in test cricket (the other two being Sachin Tendulkar and Sunil Gavaskar). On February 14, 2007, he became the sixth player in history and only the third Indian after Sachin Tendulkar and Saurav Ganguly to score 10,000 runs in ODI cricket.[4] As of now, he is the highest ranked Indian batsman in the ICC Test rankings and the 2nd highest rated Indian batsman in the ICC ODI rankings.[5] On 14th September, 2007 he announced his resignation as captain of India team.
Personal information
Full name Rahul Sharad Dravid
Born 11 January 1973 (1973-01-11) (age 34)
Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right arm off spin
International information
Test debut (cap 206) 20 June 1996: v England
Last Test 13 August 2007: v England
ODI debut (cap 95) 3 April 1996: v Sri Lanka
Last ODI 14 October 2007: v Australia
ODI shirt no. 19
Domestic team information
Years Team
1990 – present Karnataka
2003 Scotland
2000 Kent
Career statistics
Tests ODI FC LA
Matches 112 333 228 434
Runs scored 9492 10585 18240 14671
Batting average 56.50 39.49 57.00 42.27
100s/50s 24/48 12/81 49/95 20/108
Top score 270 153 270 153
Balls bowled 120 186 617 477
Wickets 1 4 5 4
Bowling average 39.00 42.50 54.60 105.25
5 wickets in innings – – 0 –
10 wickets in match – n/a – n/a
Best bowling 1/18 2/43 2/16 2/43
Catches/stumpings 153/– 193/14 268/1 227/17
As of 3 November 2007
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Lata Mangeshkar (लता मंगेशकर) (born September 28, 1929) is an Indian singer. Focusing mainly on Hindi and Marathi film music (playback singing), she has sung in over twenty major Indian languages.
Lata Mangeshkar is only the second Indian singer to have received the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour, the other being M. S. Subbulakshmi. In fact, no other Indian singer of non-classical music has been awarded anything higher than the Padma Bhushan, the nation's third highest civilian honour as of April 2007.
Mangeshkar was featured in the Guinness Book of World Records from 1974 to 1991 for "most recordings" in the world. The claim was that she has reportedly recorded not less than 25,000 solo, duet and chorus-backed songs in 20 Indian languages between 1948 to 1974 (30,000 songs between 1948 and 1987, according to 1987 edition). However, reputed sources introduced concerns for its veracity, claiming that the number of songs was highly exaggerated, and Mangeshkar's sister, singer Asha Bhosle has recorded more songs than her
Lata Mangeshkar was born in a Maharashtrian family at Sikh Mohalla, Indore in Central India Agency now in Madhya Pradesh. Her father Pandit Deenanath Mangeshkar was a classical singer and theatre actor. Her mother Shudhhamati was Deenanath Mangeshkar's second wife. The family's original surname was Hardikar, but Pandit Deenanath later changed it to Mangeshkar to identify with his native village, Mangeshi in Goa. Lata was originally named "Hema", but was later renamed after Latika, a character in one of her father's plays, Bhaan Bandhan.[1] She was the firstborn child, to be followed by siblings Hridayanath, Asha, Usha and Meena.
Lata Mangeshkar's first music teacher was her father, Deenanath Mangeshkar. Raised in Maharashtra, she started working as an actress in her father's musical plays (sangeet nataks) at the age of five. Deenanath's recitals and lessons left a strong impression on his daughter, as did the songs of K.L. Saigal, who was her favorite singer and idol. Her formal education was limited to one day in the school. On the first day in the school, she started teaching songs to other children. When the teacher stopped her, she was so angry that she stopped going to the school
In 1950s, Lata Mangeshkar recorded songs for all the major composers of the period, including Anil Biswas, Shankar-Jaikishan, Naushad, S. D. Burman, C. Ramchandra, Hemant Kumar, and Salil Chowdhury. One notable exception was O. P. Nayyar, who never recorded songs with Lata Mangeshkar, and patronized her younger sister Asha Bhosle instead.
Lata Mangeshkar sang many classical raga-based songs for Naushad, in films like Baiju Bawra (1952), Mughal-E-Azam and Kohinoor. Her first song for Naushad was Ae Chorre Ki Jaat Badi Bewafa, a duet with G. M. Durrani. Shankar-Jaikishan used Lata as their female singer in all the movies they scored, mainly for Raj Kapoor. These movies include Aag, Aah (1953), Shree 420 (1955), and Chori Chori (1956). Sachin Dev Burman Burman used Lata as his leading female singer for many films, including Sazaa (1951), House No. 44 (1955), and Devdas (1955). However, the two had a major falling-out in 1957, and she refused to record for him again until 1962.[1] During this time, Burman utilized Geeta Dutt and Asha Bhosle.
It was also during the 1950s that Lata formed her association with one of her favourite composers, Salil Chowdhury. She won her first Filmfare Best Female Playback Award, for the song Aaja Re Pardesi from Madhumati (1958), composed by Chowdhury.
Lata Mangeshkar also worked with many other notable composers including Hemant Kumar, Khayyam, Ravi, Sajjad Hussain, Roshan, Kalyanji-Anandji, C. Ramchandra, Vasant Desai, Sudhir Phadke, Hansraj Behl and Usha Khanna.
Lata Mangeshkar has won several awards and honors, including Padma Bhushan (1969), Padma Vibhushan (1999), Dada Saheb Phalke Award (1989), Bharat Ratna (2001), three National Film Awards, and 12 Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards. She has also won four Filmfare Best Female Playback Awards. In 1969, she made the unusual gesture of giving up Filmfare Best Female Playback Award, in order to promote fresh talent. She was later awarded Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award in 1993.
In 1984, the State Government of Madhya Pradesh instituted the Lata Mangeshkar Award in honor of Lata Mangeshkar. The State Government of Maharashtra also instituted a Lata Mangeshkar Award in 1992.
In 1974, The Guinness Book of Records listed Lata Mangeshkar as the most recorded artist in the history, stating that she had reportedly recorded "not less than 25,000 solo, duet and chorus backed songs in 20 Indian languages" between 1948 and 1974. Her record was contested by Mohammed Rafi, who claimed to have sung around 28,000 songs.[15][16] After Rafi's death, in its 1984 edition, the Guinness Book of Word Records stated Lata Mangeshkar's name for the "Most Recordings", but also stated Rafi's claim. The later editions of Guinness Book stated that Lata Mangeshkar had sung no fewer than 30,000 songs between 1948 and 1987. Her fans claim that she has recorded thousands of songs, with estimates ranging up to figures as large as 50,000.[17][18] However, even the earliest Guinness claim of 25,000 songs (between 1948-1974) was shown to be exaggerated by the film journalists and critics. Lata Mangeshkar herself stated that she does not keep a record of the number of songs recorded by her, and that she did not know from where Guinness Book editors got their information from.[19] According to available records, the number of songs sung by Lata Mangeshkar in Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu films till 1991 was found to be 5250.[20] The total number of film songs recorded in other languages, and the non-film songs was much lesser. The Guinness Book entry was removed in 1991 amid controversy.
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