10 Names Shown
- B. R. Ambedkar (1891-1956) Indian polymath, father of Indian Constitution
- APJ Abdul Kalam (1931-2015) 11th President of India
- Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964) 1st Prime Minister of India
- Jayaprakash Narayan (1902-1979) social reformer
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924-) 10th Prime Minister of India
- Vallabhbhai Patel (1875-1950) First Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister of India
- Kanshi Ram (1934-2006) Founder and National president of the Bahujan Samaj Party
- Ram Manohar Lohia (1910-1967) Socialist leader
- Rajagopalachari First Indian Governor of India
- Sam Manekshaw (1914-2008) Chief of the Army Staff of the Indian Army
- Baba Amte (1914-2008) social worker
- Mother Teresa (1910-1997) nun and missionary
- Ela Bhatt (1933-) founder Self-Employed Women’s Association of India
- Vinoba Bhave (1895-1982) advocate of nonviolence
- Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (1903-1988) freedom fighter
- Ravi Shankar (1920-2012) musician
- M. S. Subbulakshmi (1916-2004) Carnatic vocalist
- M. F. Husain (1915-2011) painter
- Bismillah Khan (1916-2006) musician
- R. K. Narayan (1906-2001) writer
- R K Laxman (1921-2015) cartoonist, illustrator, and humorist
- B. K. S. Iyengar (1918-2014) founder of Iyengar Yoga
- Amitabh Bachchan (1942-) film actor
- Raj Kapoor (1924-1988) director of Hindi cinema
- Kamal Hasan (1954-) actor, director
- Satyajit Ray (1921-1992) filmmaker
- Lata Mangeshkar (1929-) playback singer
- A. R. Rahman (1967-) composer and philantropist
- Kishore Kumar (1929-1987) film playback singer
- Dilip Kumar (1922-) actor, producer and activist
- Dev Anand (1923-2011) producer and actor
- Mohammad Rafi (1924-1980) singer
- Homi Bhabha (1909-1966) nuclear physicist
- Dhirubhai Ambani (1932-2002) business tycoon, founder of Reliance Industries
- Verghese Kurien (1921-2012) social entrepeneur
- Ghanshyam Das Birla (1894-1983) businessman
- J. R. D. Tata (1904-1993) aviator
- N. R. Narayana Murthy (1946-) IT industrialist
- Vikram Sarabhai (1919-1971) scientist
- M. S. Swaminathan (1925-) geneticist
- Ramnath Goenka (1904-1991) newspaper publisher
- Amartya Sen (1933-) philosopher and economist
- E. Sreedhasran (1932-) civil engineer
- Sachin Tendulkar (1973-) cricketer
- Kapil Dev (1959-) cricketer
- Sunil Gavaskar (1949-) cricketer
- Dhyan Chand (1905-1979) hockey player
- Viswanathan Anand (1969-) chess Grandmaster
- Milkha Singh (1935-) field sprinter
- Indira Gandhi (1917-1984) 3rd Prime Minister of India