Personalities of India with Nicknames: We’ve numerous well-known characters of India that are affectionately tended to by their epithets. These epithets are for the most part given to them by pioneers or the public as a result of their commitments in various viewpoints. In this article, we have here recorded the renowned Indian characters with their monikers. These popular characters range from lawmakers to holy people, performers to social reformers and political dissidents! We should look at the epithets of renowned character of India.
India is a tremendous country and has gone through some extreme opportunity battles, which anyway were addressed fully backed by our extraordinary public patron. Popular characters in India, for example, Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru and various different characters play had a huge impact in India.
Characters like Vinoba Bhave and Dr. Rajendra Prasad has added to governmental issues and different developments, which exceptionally supported India in the Freedom Struggle.
Celebrities like Rabindranath Tagore, Siddhartha Gautama, and so on got writing and philosophical upheaval for the country.
Renowned Personalities like P.T. Usha and Sachin Tendulkar had an enormous commitment to Indian Sports.
Famous Personality & Nickname
| Nickname | Personality |
| Acharya | Vinoba Bhave |
| Adi Kavi | Valmiki |
| Desh Ratna, Ajatshatru | Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
| Akbar of Kashmir | Jainul Abdin |
| Andhra Kesari | T Prakasam |
| Anna | C N Annadurai |
| Babuji | Jag jeevan Ram |
| Badshah Khan / Frontier Gandhi | Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan |
| Bapu | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi |
| Bengal Kesari | Ashutosh Mukherji |
| Bengal Tiger | Bipin Chandrapal & Saurav Ganguli |
| Bihar Kesri | Dr. Srikrishna Singh |
| Bihar Vibhuti | Dr. Anurag Narayan Singh |
| Bismark of India | Vallabhai Patel |
| Biswa Kavi | Rabindranath Tagore |
| Buddha | Siddhartha Gautama |
| C R | C Rajagopalachari |
| Chacha | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Deenabandhu | C F Andrews |
| Desabandhu | C R Das |
| Desh Ratna | Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
| Deshbandhu | Chitta Ranjan Das |
| Deshpriya | Yatindra Mohan Sengupta |
| Father of Gujrat | Ravi Sankar Maharaj |
| Father of Nation (India) | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi |
| Flying Sikh | Milkha Singh |
| Gandhiji | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi |
| Grand Old Man of India | Dadabhai Naoroji |
| Grandfather of Indian Films | Dhundiraj Govind Phalke |
| Gurudev | Rabindranath Tagore |
| Guruji | M S Gohlwalkar |
| Haryana Hurricane | Kapil Dev |
| Hockey Wizard | Dhyan Chand |
| Indian Machiavelli | Chanakya |
| Iron Lady of India | Indira Gandhi |
| Iron Man | Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel |
| J P | Jayaprakash Narayan |
| Jana Nayak | Karpuri Thakur |
| Kaviguru | Rabindranath Tagore |
| King Maker of Indian History | Sayyed Bandhu |
| Kuvempu | K.V.Puttappa |
| Lal | Lala Lajpat Rai |
| Bal | Bal Ganghadhar Tilak |
| Pal | Bipin Chandra Pal |
| Light of Asia | Sreebuddha |
| Lion of Kashmir | Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah |
| Lion of Maratha | Bal Gangadhar Tilak |
| Little Master | Sunil Gavaskar |
| Lokmanya | Bal Gangadhar Tilak |
| Loknayak | Jayaprakash Narayan |
| Machiavelli of India | Chanakya |
| Magician of Hockey | Dhyanchand |
| Mahamana | Madan Mohan Malviya |
| Man of Iron | Vallabh Bhai Patel |
| Man of Peace | Lal Bahadur Shastri |
| Morning Star of India Renaissance | Raja Ram Mohan Roy |
| Napolean of India | Samudra Gupta |
| Netaji | Subhash Chandra Bose |
| Nightingale of India | Sarojini Naidu |
| Panditji | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Panjab Kesari | Lala Lajpat Rai |
| Payyoli Express | P. T. Usha |
| Prince of Kolkata | Saurav Ganguly |
| Priyadarshini | Indira Gandhi |
| Punjab Kesari | Lala Lajpat Rai |
| Rajaji | C Rajagopalachari |
| Rajarshee | Purushottam Das tendon |
| Sahid-e-Azam | Bhagat Singh |
| Saint of Sabarmati | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi |
| Saint of the Gutters | Mother Teresa |
| Shakespeare of India | Kalidas |
| Sher-e-Kashmir | Sheikh Abdullah |
| Sparrow | Major General Rajinder Singh |
| Strong Man of India | Vallabh Bhai Patel |
| Swar Kokila | Lata Mangeshkar |
| Tau | Chaudhury Devi Lal |
| The Little Master | Sachin Tendulkar |
| Tiger of Mysore | Tipu Sultan |
| Tota-e-Hind | Amir Kushiro |
| Udanpari | P.T.Usha |
| Young Turk | Chandra Sekhar |
| Personalities | Nickname |
| Mahatma Gandhi | 1.Father of the Nation 2.Bapu 3.Mahatma 4.Saint of Sabarmati 5.Father of Nation (India) |
| C. Rajagopalachari | 1.Rajaji 2.CR |
| Lal Bahadur Shastri | Man of Peace |
| Raja Ram Mohan Roy | 1.Raja 2.Morning Star of India Renaissance 3.Father of Indian renaissance |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | 1.Chacha 2.Pandit ji |
| Dadabhai Naoroji | Grand Old Man of India |
| Dayanand Saraswati | Martin Luther King of India |
| Subhash Chandra Bose | Netaji, Patriot of Patriots |
| Sayyid brothers | Kingmaker of Indian History |
| Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan | 1.FrontierGandhi 2.Badshah Khan |
| Rabindranath Tagore | 1.VishwaKavi 2.Kaviguru 3.Gurudev |
| Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay | Sahitya Samrat |
| Indira Gandhi | 1.Iron Lady of India 2.Priyadarshini |
| Muhammad Ali Jinnah | 1.Quaid-i-Azam 2. Baba-i-Qaum |
| Sarojini Naid | 1.Nightingale of India 2.Bharat Kokila |
| Jayaprakash Narayan | 1.JP 2.Lok Nayak |
| Chanakya | Machiavelli of India |
| Chandra Shekhar | young Turk |
| Lala Lajpat Rai | Lalaji, Punjab Kesari or Lion of Punjab |
| Jagjivan Ram | Babuji |
| Jatindra Mohan Sengupta | Deshpriya |
| Bhagat Singh | ‘Shaheed-e-Azam’ or shaheed |
| Valmiki | Adi Kavi |
| Tanguturi Prakasam Pantulu | Andhra Kesari |
| Bal Gangadhar Tilak | 1.Lokmanya 2.Lion of Maratha |
| Lord Ripon | Father of the Local Self-Government |
| C. N. Annadurai | Anna |
| Tushar Kanti Ghosh | Grand old man of Indian Journalism |
| Dr. Rajendra Prasad | 1.DeshRatna 2.Ajatshatru |
| Mother Mary Teresa | 1.Mother 2.Saint of the Gutters |
| Ravi Shankar Maharaj | Father of Gujarat |
| Zain-ul-Abidin | Akbar of Kashmir |
| Charles Freer Andrews | Deenbandhu |
| Chittaranjan Das | Deshbandhu |
| Sheikh Mujibur Rahman | Bangabandhu |
| Archarya Nagarjuna | Einstein of India |
| Salim Ali | Birdman of India |
| Shri Krishna Sinha | Bihar Kesari |
| Siddhartha Gautama | 1.LordBuddha 2.EnlightenedOne 3.The Light of Asia |
| Pt. Madan Mohan | 1.Mahamana 2.Prince of Beggars |
| Dhyan Chand | 1.The Hockey Wizard 2.The Magician of Hockey |
| Dhundiraj Govind Phalke | Father of Indian cinema |
| Lata Mangeshkar | 1.Nightingale of Bollywood 2.Swar Kokila 3.Gaan Saraswati |
| Shah Jahan | Prince of Builders |
| Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa | Kuvempu |
| Tipu Sultan | Tiger of Mysore |
| Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq | Prince of Moneymakers |
| Sachin Tendulkar | 1.LittleMaster 2.Master Blaster |
| Sunil Gavaskar | Little Master |
| Milkha Singh | Flying Sikh |
| Sourav Ganguly | 1.Dada 2.Prince of Calcutta Maharaj 3.God of the Off Side |
| Kapil Dev | Haryana Hurricane |
| Amir Khusrau | voice of India or Parrot of India |
| Purushottam Das Tandon | Rajarshi |
| Lt. Col Rajinder Singh | Sparrow |
| Sheikh Abdullah | Sher-e-Kashmir |
| Kalidasa | Shakespeare of India |
| Biju Patnaik | Sher-e-Utka |
| Mother Mary Teresa | 1.Mother 2.Saint of the Gutters |
| Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel | 1.Strong (Iron) Man of India 2.Bismark of India |
| PT Usha | 1.Payyoli Express 2.Udan Pari 3.Golden Girl |
| Chengiz Khan | Scourage of God |
| Earl of Warwick | King Maker |
| George Bernard Shaw | GBS |
| General Eisenhower | Ike |
| Pearl Buck | Li-Kwan |
| Hippocrates | Father of Medicine |
| Chaudhary Devi Lal | Tau |
| Gen Ervin Rommel | Desert Fox |
| Otto Van Bismarck | Man of Blood and Iron |
| Adolf Hitler | Fuehrer |
| Willium E Gladstone | Grand Old Man of Britain |
| Queen Elizabeth | IMaiden Queen |
| Ho Chi Minh | Uncle Ho |
| MS Golwalkar | Guruji |
| Geoffery Chaucer | Father of English Poetry |
| Maharaja Kumar of Vizianagara | Vizzy |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | Little Corporal, Man of Destiny |
| Benito Mussolini | II Duce |
| William Shakespeare | Bard of Avon |
| Mark Twain | Samuel Clemens |
| Florence Nightingale | Lady with the lamp |
| Edmund Spencer | Poet’s Poet |
| Hiuen Tsang | Prince of Pilgrims |
| Dr. Anugrah Narayan Singh | Bihar Vibhuti |
| Babur | Prince of Autobiography |
| Karpuri Thakur | Jana Nayak |
| MS Golvalkar | Guruji |
| Ashutosh Mukherji | Bengal Kesari |
| Tushar Kanti Ghosh | Grand old man of Indian Journalism |
| Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Bipin Chandra Pal | Together known as – Lal, Bal, Pal |
| Sankaracharya | Sage of Kanchi |
| Sarat Chandra Chattopadhay | Kathasilpi |
| Ashutosh Mukherjee | BengalKesari |
| Yatindra Mohan Sengupta | Deshpriya |
| Ravi Sankar Maharaj | Father of Gujrat |
| Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah | Lion of Kashmir |
| Sarojini Naidu | Nightingale of India |
| Purushottam Das tandon | Rajarshee |
| Mother Teresa | Saint of the Gutters |
| Chaudhury Devi Lal | Tau |
| Amir Khushro | Tota-e-Hind |
| Chandra Sekhar | Young Turk |
Frequently Asked Question
Q1. who gave the name flying Sikh to Milkha Singh?
Ans. “Flying Sikh” name given by Ayub Khan
Q2. Which political dissident was known as Saint of Sabarmati?
Ans. Mahatma Gandhi known as Saint of Sabarmati.
Q3. Amir Khusrau is prominently known as?
Ans.Voice of India or Parrot of India
Q4. William Shakespeare is prominently known as?
Ans. Bard of Avon
Q5. Which renowned characters known as “Morning Star of India Renaissance”?
Ans. Raja Ram Mohan Roy is known as the “Morning Star of India Renaissance”. He was otherwise called the Father of the Indian Renaissance and Raja.
