1. Bhikaiji Cama (1861)

Indian Activist

Known for her leadership in the Indian Independence Movement, she helped design the Flag of Indian Independence, which she introduced to the world at the 1907 International Socialist Conference in...

2. Potti Sreeramulu (1901)

Indian Activist

Remembered for his revolutionary activism on behalf of India's Andhra State-formation cause, this follower of Mahatma Gandhi sacrificed himself for his Telugu people during an early 1950s hunger strike.

3. Bunker Roy (1945)

Indian Activist

Indian social activist who founded the 'Barefoot College' in 1972 to help the rural poor support themselves.

4. Kailash Satyarthi (1954)

Indian Activist

Famous as the founder of the Bachpan Bachao Andolan (English translation: Save the Childhood Movement), this Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist fought to protect tens of thousands of children worldwide from...

5. Amit Jethwa (1975)

Indian Activist

Amit Jethwa was an Indian environmentalist and social worker active in the Gir Forest area near Junagadh Gujarat. He had filed several court cases against illegal mining in the...

6. Teji Bachchan (1914)

Indian Activist

7. Achyut Patwardhan (1905)

Indian Activist

Achyut Patwardhan was an Indian independence activist and political leader and founder of the Socialist Party of India. He was also a philosopher who believed fundamental change in society begins...

8. Mohammad Iqbal Shedai (1888)

Indian Activist

Mohammad Iqbal Shedai was a revolutionary who spent his entire life fighting against British imperialism. The best part of his life was spent in self-exile in Asian and European countries...

9. Biswamohan Debbarma (1968)

Indian Activist

Biswamohan Debbarma is the current chairman of the National Liberation Front of Tripura. He is currently wanted by India and Interpol for crimes against life and health and crimes involving...

10. Mridula Sarabhai (Unknow)

Indian Activist

Mridula Sarabhai was an Indian independence activist and politician. She was a member of the Sarabhai industrialist family of Ahmedabad.

11. Mundlapati Ramanadha Rao (1922)

Indian Activist

Mundlapati Ramanadha Rao was an Indian nationalist social worker and freedom fighter and one of the popular leaders from Andhra Pradesh.

12. Abraham Barak Salem (1882)

Indian Activist

Abraham Barak Salem was an Indian nationalist and Zionist a lawyer and politician and one of the most prominent Cochin Jews of the twentieth century. A descendant of meshuchrarim he...

13. Anasuya Sarabhai (1885)

Indian Activist

Anasuya Sarabhai was a pioneer of the women’s labour movement in India. She founded the Textile Labour Association India's oldest union of textile workers in 1920.

14. Satyam Patel (1932)

Indian Activist

Satyam Patel was a social worker and activist for the cause of labourers farmers untouchables and religious unity in the western state of Gujarat in India. Satyam Patel was...

15. Pawan K Shrivastava (1982)

Indian Activist

Pawan K Shrivastava a film maker writer blogger and activist was born at Marhowrah which used to be a major industrial town of Bihar. After the completion of high...

16. Popatrao Baguji Pawar (1960)

Indian Activist

Popatrao Baguji Pawar is the former sarpanch of Hiware Bazar a gram panchayat in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra India. He is the Executive Director of Maharashtra state government's Model Village...

17. Karyanand Sharma (Unknow)

Indian Activist

Karyanand Sharma was a nationalist and peasant leader who led movements against zamindars and the British.

18. Dada Amir Haider Khan (1900)

Indian Activist

Dada Amir Haider Khan was a communist activist of Pakistan and revolutionary during the Indian independence movement

19. Atul Tandon (1959)

Indian Activist

Atul Tandon is an entrepreneur humanitarian author and adviser. His work has impacted industries as wide as consumer banking e-commerce humanitarian relief and development. He was named one of the...

20. Salem Nanjundaiah Subba Rao (1929)

Indian Activist

Dr. S. N. Subba RaoLiving Spirit of Mahatma GandhiMahatma Gandhi still lives through the lives of many dedicated soldiers of peace such as one of the most popular and dynamic...

21. Bhulabhai Desai (1877)

Indian Activist

Bhulabhai Desai was an Indian independence activist and acclaimed lawyer. He is well-remembered for his defense of the three Indian National Army soldiers accused of treason during World War II...

22. Linganna Pujari (Unknow)

Indian Activist

Linganna Anna Puttal Pujari was a prominent political leader and social worker in Bombay India.

23. Jaswant Singh Khalra (Unknow)

Indian Activist

24. Jamnalal Bajaj (1884)

Indian Activist

Jamnalal Bajaj was an Indian industrialist a philanthropist and Indian independence fighter. He was also a close associate and follower of Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi is known to have adopted him...

25. Avantibai (1831)

Indian Activist

Rani Avantibai was a brave and was the wife of Vikramaditya Singh the ruler of the Indian state of Ramgarh. She was a Lodhi-warrior-queen in the area now known...

26. Manibhai Desai (1920)

Indian Activist

Manibhai Bhimbhai Desai was an Indian social activist associate of Mahatma Gandhi and a pioneer of rural development. At the urging of Mahatma Gandhi when he stayed in the village...

27. Manikuntala Sen (Unknow)

Indian Activist

Manikuntala Sen was one of the first women to be active in the Communist Party of India. She is best known for her Bengali-language memoir Shediner Kotha in which she...

28. Rafiq Ahmed (1889)

Indian Activist

Rafiq Ahmad commonly known as Comrade Rafiq Ahmad of Bhopal was a famous communist activist of the 20th century India. He was one of the founders of the Communist Party...

29. Janaki Devi Bajaj (1893)

Indian Activist

Janaki Devi Bajaj was an Indian independence activist who was jailed for participating in Civil Disobedience Movement in 1932. She was born in 1893 in Jaora in Madhya Pradesh in...

30. Jan Muhammad Junejo (1886)

Indian Activist

Barrister Jan Muhammad Junejo: born in 1886 Larkana Sindh. was a prominent leader of the Khilafat Movement and took active part in their struggle against the British Raj.

31. Arun Kumar Chanda (1899)

Indian Activist

Arun Kumar Chanda was an Indian independence activist from Cachar district of Assam.. The Government of India issued a stamp in his honour. He was a social worker and writer...

32. Mallika Sengupta (1960)

Indian Activist

Mallika Sengupta is a Bengali poet feminist and reader of Sociology from Kolkata known for her unapologetically political poetry.

33. M. D. Nanjundaswamy (Unknow)

Indian Activist

Prof. Mahantha Devaru Nanjundaswamy was an Indian rural activist and anti-globalization campaign leader. As president of the Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha he led campaigns against agricultural patenting by multinational corporations...

34. Gokulbhai Bhatt (1899)

Indian Activist

Gokulbhai Daulatram Bhatt was a freedom fighter and a social worker from Rajasthan state in India. He was a member of Constituent Assembly of India representing Bombay State and chief...

35. Anne Anjaiah (Unknow)

Indian Activist

Anne Anjaiah was an Indian freedom fighter and politician from the state of Andhra Pradesh. He was born in Mudunuru village in Krishna district Andhra Pradesh India. He joined Non-cooperation...

36. Enuga Sreenivasulu Reddy (1924)

Indian Activist

Enuga Sreenivasulu Reddy and moved to the United States to study at New York University. He held several positions at the United Nations and a driving force behind the Special...

37. Kapil Mishra (1980)

Indian Activist

Kapil Mishra is a political activist and social entrepreneur. He was a candidate of Aam Aadmi Party from Karawal Nagar constituency of New Delhi.

38. Vijay Singh Pathik (1882)

Indian Activist

Vijay Singh Pathik alias Bhoop Singh Gurjar popularly known as Rashtriya Pathik was born in a Gurjar family in Village Guthawali7th Km. stone on Bulandshahr-Saidpur road District Bulandshahr Uttar Pradesh...

39. Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883)

Indian Activist

Vināyak Dāmodar Sāvarkar was an Indian pro-independence activist politician as well as a poet writer and playwright. He advocated dismantling the system of caste in Hindu culture and reconversion...

40. Sangolli Rayanna (1796)

Indian Activist

Sangolli Rayanna was a prominent warrior from Karnataka India. Rayanna was born on 15th Aug 1798. He was the army chief of the Kingdom of Kittur ruled at the...

41. Maurice Frydman (Unknow)

Indian Activist

Maurice Frydman aka Swami Bharatananda was an engineer and humanitarian who spent the later part of his life in India. He lived at the ashram of Mohandas Gandhi and took...

42. Joseph Edamaruku (1934)

Indian Activist

see EdamarukuJoseph Edamaruku popularly identified by his surname Edamaruku was a well known journalist and rationalist from Kerala. He was the Delhi Bureau chief of the Malayalam magazine Keralasabdam for...

43. Pavanan (1925)

Indian Activist

Puthan Veetil Narayanan Nair was a well known rationalist literary critic and left wing political activist from Kerala India.

44. Arun Manilal Gandhi (1934)

Indian Activist

Arun Manilal Gandhi is the fifth grandson of Mohandas Gandhi through his second son Manilal. Following the footsteps of his grandfather he is also a socio-political activist although he eschews...

45. Sadat Husaini (1973)

Indian Activist

Syed Sadatullah Husaini is the former National President of Students Islamic Organisation of India and Member of Central Advisory Council of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind. He also heads the Study and Research...

46. Arun Pathak (1975)

Indian Activist

Arun Pathak is an activist in Varanasi India. He is best known for staging suicide attempts as a form of political protest.

47. Harish Iyer (1979)

Indian Activist

Harish Iyer also known as “Aham” hiyer and “Harrish Iyer” is an activist for a number of socio-cultural and environmental issues. He is an equal rights activist known for his...

48. Sandeep Pandey (1965)

Indian Activist

Sandeep Pandey is an Indian social activist. He co-founded Asha for Education with Dr. Deepak Gupta and V. J. P Srivastava while working on his Ph. D in Mechanical engineering...

49. Wooday P. Krishna (1963)

Indian Activist

Wooday P. Krishna is a famous Indian activist, who was born on February 1, 1963 in India. Krishna is a well-known and nationally recognized educationist. He has provided leadership to...

50. Dusharla Satyanarayana (1954)

Indian Activist

Dusharla Satyanarayana is a famous Indian activist, who was born on March 12, 1954 in India. According to Astrologers, Dusharla Satyanarayana's zodiac sign is Pisces.
Dusharla Satyanarayana (born 12 March 1954)...