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Father of the nation and the leader of the nationalist movement against the British rule | {Mahatma} Gandhi | 87%
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First Prime Minister of India and the dominant voice in Indian politics from Independence | Jawaharlal Nehru | 82%
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Primer Minister of India since 2014 | Narenda Modi | 79%
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Prime Minister of India who was assassinated in 1984 | {Indira} Gandhi | 77%
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Actor and Bollywood superstar also known as SRK | Shahrukh Khan | 69%
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Bengali poet, writer and the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature | Rabindranath Tagore | 62%
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Sixth Prime Minister of India until his assassination in 1991 | {Rajiv} Gandhi | 62%
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Regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket | Sachin Tendulkar | 56%
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Miss World 2000, and now an internationally well-known singer and actress | Priyanka Chopra | 54%
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Mughal emperor from the 1500s, considered the greatest ruler of the Mughal dynasty | Akbar | 51%
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Oscar-winning composer and the most popular name of Indian music | A. R. Rahman | 51%
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British actor of Indian descent who stared in Slumdog Millionaire and the Last Airbender | Dev Patel | 46%
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Female tennis played who was world No 1. in doubles | Sania Mirza | 44%
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Chess grandmaster and former world chess champion | Viswanathan Anand | 44%
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Actress and the winner of the Miss World 1994 pageant | Aishwarya Rai Bachchan | 41%
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Nepali-Indian Sherpa mountaineer who was one of the first two people to reach Mount Everest | Tenzing Norgay | 38%
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Tennis player who is regarded as one of the greatest doubles tennis players ever | Leander Paes | 33%
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Said to have lived in the 5th to 4th century BC and is revered as the founder of Buddhism | Siddharta Gautama | 31%
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Actress who rose to prominence with her film debut in the drama Slumdog Millionaire | Freida Pinto | 28%
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Filmmaker known for movies The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable and The Village | M. Night Shyamalan | 28%
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Indian revolutionary during the 1920s and 30s | Bhagat Singh | 26%
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First and only Indian driver to compete in Formula One | Narain Karthikeyan | 21%
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Actor who portraits Raj Koothrappali on the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory | Kunal Nayyar | 18%
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Actor who made his debut in the 2012 film Life of Pi | Suraj Sharma | 10%
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Director of movies Monsoon Wedding and Salaam Bombay | Mira Nair | 5%
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