Practice MCQ Questions and answers on Famous Personalities-GK

Euclid was a great mathematician and often called the father of geometry.

Kutty, Shankar, Laxman and Sudhir Dar all are cartoonists.

Sardar Patel is known as the iron man of India. He was a political and freedom leader in India’s freedom struggle. Sardar Patel put all his efforts to unify the fragments of princely states into the Indian union.

Shakuntala Devi (4 November 1929 – 21 April 2013) was an Indian mathematician, writer and mental calculator, popularly known as the "Human Computer".

Jude Felix Sebastian (born 26 January 1965) is an Indian field hockey player. He competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics and the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Sarada Ukil was a Bengali actor and artist, known for his role in the movie Prem Sanyas, "The Light of Asia", under the German director Franz Osten. Sarada was the father of Shantanu Ukil, one of the early pioneers of the Bengal School of Art.

Amartya Sen is famous for his significant contributions to welfare economics (for which he was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in economics), including his development of more sophisticated measures of poverty, and for his work on the causes and prevention of famines.

Satyajit Ray, (born 2 May, 1921, Calcutta [now Kolkata], India - died 23 April, 1992, Calcutta), Bengali motion-picture director, writer, and illustrator who brought the Indian cinema to world recognition with Pather Panchali (The Song of the Road) and its two sequels, known as the Apu Trilogy.

In 1994, Dr Joon Lew (South Korea) and Dr V Ekambaram (India) received International Gandhi Award for Outstanding Contributions to Leprosy Work.

Ustad Amjad Ali Khan (born 9 October 1945) is an Indian classical sarod player, best known for his clear and fast ekhara taans. Khan was born into a classical musical family and has performed internationally since the 1960s. He was awarded India's second highest civilian honour Padma Vibhushan in 2001.