Famous Personalities - Section 1

The horticulture ambassador of Maharashtra was appointed to be the prominent Bollywood actor, Amitabh Bachan. Bachchan is actively involved in promoting this kind of agriculture in a state that has over two million hectares of land engaged in production of fruits.

Muhammad Fuad Masum is the present day President of Iraq. He has been in office since 2014 being the seventh President of Iraq. Commonly known as Faud Masum, he was associated with the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan as one of its founders.

Henry Graham Greene OM CH, better known by his pen name Graham Greene, was an English novelist regarded by many as one of the great writers of the 20th century.

Verghese Kurien known as the Father of the White Revolution in India was a social entrepreneur whose "billion-litre idea", Operation Flood - the world's largest agricultural dairy development programme.

Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi was an Indian Carnatic singer from Madurai, Tamil Nadu. She was the first musician ever to be awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour.

Sushmita Sen is a Bengali Indian film actress, model and the winner of the Miss Universe pageant of 1994. Sen was the first Indian and only Bengali to win the crown. After completing her reign, Sen went on to pursue Bollywood. Miss Universe 1994, Ms. Sushmita Sen hails from New Delhi.

Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia is an Indian classical flautist, who plays the bansuri, an Indian bamboo flute, in the Hindustani classical tradition.

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Three great saint composers - Thyagaraja, Muthuswami Dikshitar and Shyama Sastri are known as the 'Trimurti' of Carnatic music. They were not only contemporaries during the later half of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century, but were also, incredibly, born in the same town of Thiruvarur in the Thanjavur district of Tamil Nadu.

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