This is a list of notable people who belong to the Hindu Brahmin caste.
Year | Image | Laureate | Category | Comment | Citation |
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1913 | Rabindranath Tagore [233] | Literature | First Asian to win Nobel prize in Literature | "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West." | |
1930 | Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman [234] [235] | Physics | First Asian to win Nobel prize in Physics | "for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him." | |
2009 | Venki Ramakrishnan [236] [237] | Chemistry | First Indian Nobel laureate in Chemistry | "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome." | |
2014 | Kailash Satyarthi [238] | Peace | First Indian Nobel laureate in Peace | "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education." |
Photo | Name | Born | Death | Brahmin Sub-Cast | In Office |
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Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan [350] [351] | 5 September 1888 | 17 April 1975 | Niyogi Brahmin | Second President (13 May 1962 – 13 May 1967) | |
V. V. Giri [352] | 10 August 1894 | 24 June 1980 | Niyogi Brahmin | fourth president 24 August 1969 to 24 August 1974 | |
Ramaswamy Venkataraman [353] | 4 December 1910 | 27 January 2009 | Iyer Brahmin | Eighth president 25 July 1987 to 25 July 1992 | |
Shankar Dayal Sharma [354] | 19 August 1918 | 26 December 1999 | Gaur Brahmin | Ninth President (25 June 1992 – 25 July 1997) | |
Pranab Mukherjee [355] | 11 December 1935 | 31 August 2020 | Kulin Brahmin | Thirteenth President (25 July 2012 – 25 July 2017) |
Photo | Name | Born | Death | Brahmin Sub-Cast | In Office | |
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Jawaharlal Nehru [356] | 14 November 1889 | 27 May 1964 | Saraswat Brahmin (Kashmiri Pandit) | First PM (15 August 1947 – 27 May 1964) | ||
Indira Gandhi [357] | 19 November 1917 | 31 October 1984 | Saraswat Brahmin (Kashmiri Pandit) | Third PM (24 January 1964 – 24 March 1977 and 14 January 1980 – 31 October 1984) | ||
Morarji Desai [358] | 29 February 1896 | 10 April 1995 | Fourth PM (24 March 1977 – 28 July 1979) | |||
Rajiv Gandhi [359] | 31 October 1984 | 2 December 1989 | Sixth PM (31 October 1984 – 2 December 1989) | |||
P. V. Narasimha Rao [360] | 28 June 1921 | 23 December 2004 | Niyogi Brahmin | Ninth Prime Minister (21 June 1991 – 16 May 1996 ) | ||
Atal Bihari Vajpayee [361] | 25 December 1924 | 16 August 2018 | Tenth Prime Minister (16 May 1996 – 1 June 1996 and 19 March 1998 – 22 May 2004) |
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HARDIKAR , Narayan Subrao ( Dr ) ; Politician ( b Dharwar , May 7, 1889 ) : Padma Bhushan, Rajya Sabha member. Was born in a poor Brahmin family.
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He told her to manage his jagir with the assistance of a Deshatha Brahmmin clerk named Daoji Konddeo
... the Bombay Chronicle carried a long article on Baloo by his erstwhile teammate D.B. Deodhar.37 Ironically, a quarter of a century earlier, this Poona Brahmin had been one of the protagonists in the controversy over the captaincy of the Hindu side in the Bombay Quadrangular.
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