Jawaharlal Nehru
First Prime Minister of independent India. Born Allahabad, India. Father of Mrs Indira Gandhi. Popularly known as Pandit(ji) which means "scholar".
First Prime Minister of independent India. Born Allahabad, India. Father of Mrs Indira Gandhi. Popularly known as Pandit(ji) which means "scholar".
Born India. Called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1882. Travelled extensively, settled in Singapore where he made his fortune in property. Returned to England in 1905. In 1915 he gave his Singap...
Social worker and author. Born Margaret Elizabeth Noble, in Dungannon, County Tyrone. She came to London, where in 1895 she met Swami Vivekananda. She became his follower and travelled to India wit...
Trustee of The Memorial Gates Trust. Gulam Kaderbhoy Noon was born on 24 January 1936 in Bombay (now called Mumbai), India. Our Picture Source and his Wikipedia page give much information about th...
George Orwell was born in Bengal as Eric Arthur Blair, his father was a British colonial civil servant. Joined the Indian imperial police in Burma but left in 1927 and decided to become a writer. ...
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Literature, Seriously Famous, TV & Radio, Bengal, Burma, France, India, Spain
Hero of the Indian Rebellion during which he relieved the siege of Lucknow.
Lambeth Labour Councillor 2006 – 14 and Lambeth Mayor 2010 - 11.
Daughter of Lord Paul. She died from leukaemia and the Ambika Paul Foundation which supports charitable causes, was set up in her memory.
Business magnate, philanthropist and politician. Born Swraj Paul at Jalandhar, Punjab, India. He moved to England in 1966 to get treatment for his daughter who was suffering from leukaemia. Founded...
Person, Commerce, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration, India
Frederick William Pay was born in 1883 in Gunnersbury, Middlesex (now Greater London), the eldest of the five children of William Thomas Pay (1858-1912) and Sarah Ann Pay née Pearce (1859-1930). Hi...