Famous Personalities and Nicknames in Indian Hisory: Detailed Guide

Famous personalities and nicknames In India and around the world, many famous personalities are popular by their nicknames. These nicknames are usually given to them by leaders or the public because of their contributions in various aspects.

It is also an essential subject under general knowledge and Indian and world history. Here, we have listed all the Famous personalities and nicknames, including MCQ questions asked in the previous year’s SSC exam.

List of Famous Personalities and Nicknames

Personalities	Nickname
Mahatma Gandhi	• Father of the Nation • Bapu • Mahatma • Saint of Sabarmati • Father of Nation (India)
C. Rajagopalachari	• Rajaji • CR
Lal Bahadur Shastri	Man of Peace
Raja Ram Mohan Roy	• Raja • Morning Star of India Renaissance • Father of Indian renaissance
Jawaharlal Nehru	• Chacha • Pandit ji
Dadabhai Naoroji	Grand Old Man of India
Dayanand Saraswati	Martin Luther King of India
Subhash Chandra Bose	Lalaji, Punjab Kesari, or Lion of Punjab
Sayyid brothers	Kingmaker of Indian History
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan	• Frontier Gandhi • Badshah Khan
Rabindranath Tagore	• Vishwa Kavi • Kaviguru • Gurudev
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay	Sahitya Samrat
Indira Gandhi	• Iron Lady of India • Priyadarshini
Muhammad Ali Jinnah	• Quaid-i-Azam and • Baba-i-Qaum
Sarojini Naid	• Nightingale of India • Bharat Kokila
Jayaprakash Narayan	• JP • Lok Nayak
Chanakya	Machiavelli of India
Chandra Shekhar	young Turk
Lala Lajpat Rai	Acharya Nagarjuna
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	• Lokmanya • 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	• Desh Ratna • Ajatshatru
Mother Mary Teresa	• Mother • 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
William E Gladstone	Einstein of India
Salim Ali	• Birdman of India
Shri Krishna Sinha	Bihar Kesari
Siddhartha Gautama	• Lord Buddha • Enlightened One • The Light of Asia
Pt. Madan Mohan	• Mahamana • Prince of Beggars
Dhyan Chand	• The Hockey Wizard or The Magician of Hockey
Dhundiraj Govind Phalke	• Father of Indian cinema
Lata Mangeshkar	• Nightingale of Bollywood • Swar Kokila • Gaan Saraswati
Shah Jahan	Prince of Builders
Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa	Kuvempu
Tipu Sultan	Tiger of Mysore
Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq	Prince of Moneymakers
Sachin Tendulkar	• Little Master • Master Blaster
Sunil Gavaskar	Little Master
Milkha Singh	Flying Sikh
Sourav Ganguly	• Dada • Prince of Calcutta • Maharaj • 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	• Mother • Saint of the Gutters
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel	• Strong (Iron) Man of India • Bismark of India
PT Usha	• Payyoli Express • Udan Pari • 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	Together, known as – Lal, Bal, Pal
Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Bipin Chandra Pal	Bengal Kesari
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

✅ Person Associated with Musical Instrument, Types of Musical Instrument

Who gave the Nickname to the Famous Personalities?

Personalities	Nickname	Given by
Ram Mohan Roy	Raja	Akbar II
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan	Frontier Gandhi	Amir Chand Bombwal
Subhash Chandra Bose	Netaji	Indian soldiers of the Azad Hind Fauj.
Vallabhbhai Patel	Sardar	Mahatma Gandhi.
Charles Freer Andrews	Deenbandhu	Mahatma Gandhi
V.A. Smith	Samudragupta	Napoleon of India
Pt. Madan Mohan Malaviya	Mahamana	Rabindranath Tagore
Bal Gangadhar Tilak	Maker of Modern India	Mahatma Gandhi
Bal Gangadhar Tilak	Father of the Indian Revolution	Jawaharlal Nehru
Milkha Singh	Flying Sikh	General Ayub Khan
Lata Mangeshkar	Gaan Saraswati	Pt. Bhimsen Joshi
Lata Mangeshkar	Mallika –ae-tarannum	Gulzar
Sarojini Naidu	Bharat Kokila	Rabindranath Tagore

✅ Nicknames of Cricket teams, Sports GK

Previous Year Questions on “Famous Personalities and Nicknames”

1. Who among the following is named a “Haryana Hurricane”?
(SSC CAPFs SI, CISF ASI & Delhi Police SI Exam, 2015)
[A] Ajay Jadeja
[B] Ajay Ratsa
[C] Kapil Dev
[D] Nawab Pataudi

2. Who among the following is referred to as ‘Desert Fox’?
(SSC CGL Prelim 2005)
[A] Lord Wavell
[B] Gen. Eisenhower
[C] Gen. Rommel
[D] Gen. McArthur

3. Who among the following is known as the ‘Napoleon of India’?
(SSC CGL Tier-I Re-Exam 2015)
[A] Chandragupta
[B] Samudragupta
[C] Harshavardhana
[D] Ashoka

4. Who gave the title ‘Nightingale of India’ to Sarojini Naidu?
(SSC CGL Tier-I (CBE) Exam. 2016)
[A] Jawaharlal Nehru
[B] Rabindranath Tagore
[C] Rajendra Prasad
[D] Mahatma Gandhi

5. Who is named as the Flying Sikh of India?
(SSC Tax Assistant (Income Tax & Central Excise) 2009)
[A] Mohinder Singh
[B] Ajit Pal Singh
[C] Joginder Singh
[D] Milkha Singh

6. Who referred to Mahatma Gandhi as “Father of the Nation” for the first time?
(SSC CGL Tier-I (CBE) 2016)
[A] Jawaharlal Nehru
[B] Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
[C] C. Rajgopalachari
[D] Subhash Chandra Bose

7. Who gave the title of ‘Sardar’ to Vallabhbhai Patel?
(SSC MTS 2013)
[A] Rajaji
[B] Gandhiji
[C] Nehru
[D] M.A. Jinnah

8. Who is called the ‘Prophet of New India’?
(FCI Assistant Grade-III 2012)
[A] Dayanand Saraswati
[B] Sri Ramakrishna
[C] Raja Ram Mohan Roy
[D] Swami Vivekananda

9. Who is popularly known as the Grand Old Man of India?
(SSC CHSL (10+2) LDC 2015)
[A] Dadabhai Naoroji
[B] Madan Mohan Malaviya
[C] Mahadeva Govinda Ranade
[D] Surendranath Banerjee

10. Who, among the following, has been known as the ‘Frontier Gandhi’?
(SSC Combined Matric Level (PRE) 2000)
[A] Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
[B] Khan Saheb
[C] Chaudhary Shaukatullah
[D] Liaquat Ali Khan

11. Find the correct match:
(SSC Combined Matric Level (PRE) 2001)
A. Abdul Gaffar Khan…. 1. Mahatma
B. Dadabhai NaoroJi….. 2. Frontier Gandhi
C. Mohandas Karam …. 3. Grand Old man of India
D. Rabindra Nath Tagore ….. 4. Gurudev
[A] A-3, B-1, C-4, D-2
[B] A-2, B-3, C-1, D-4
[C] A-4, B-1, C-2, D-3
[D] A-2, B-1, C-3, D-4

12. Match the following:
(SSC Section Officer (Audit) Exam. 14.12.2003)

#List: I
A. Jayprakash Narayan
B. C. F. Andrew
C. Dadabhai Nauroji
D. Lala Lajpat Rai

#List: II
1. Dinbandhu
2. Grand old man of India
3. Lok Nayak
4. Punjab Kesari
5. Raja Jee

…..(A) (B) (C) (D)
[A] 5….4…. 3.. 2
[B] 3… 1….2.. 4
[C] 1…. 2…..5…3
[D] 4…..3…..1…5

13. Who is called the ‘Father of the Indian National Congress’?
(SSC Tax Assistant (Income Tax & Central Excise) 2005)
[A] Mahatma Gandhi
[B] A.O. Hume
[C] Lokmanya Tilak
[D] Surendra Nath Banerjee

14. Who is generally acknowledged as the pioneer of local self-government in modern India?
(SSC Section Officer (Commercial Audit 2006)
(SSC Combined Matric Level (PRE) 2000)
(SSC Multi-Tasking Staff 2013)
[A] Ripon
[B] Mayo
[C] Lytton
[D] Curzon

15. ‘Deshbandhu’ is the title of
(SSC Combined Matric Level (PRE) 2001)
[A] B.R. Ambedkar
[B] C.R. Das
[C] B.C. Pal
[D] Rabindranath Tagore

16. Who is commonly known as the Iron Man?
(SSC Constable (GD) 2013)
[A] Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
[C] Vittal Bhai Patel
[B] Bal Gangadhar Tilak
[D] Bipin Chandra Pal

17. ‘Prince of Pilgrims’ was the name attributed to
(SSC (10+2) Level Data Entry Operator & LCD)
[A] Fa-Hien
[B] I-tsing
[C] Hiuen Tsang
[D] Megasthenes

Top one-liner on Famous personalities and nicknames

Here are the top 14 one-liners on the topic “Famous Personalities and their nicknames”. Practice more so that you can remember it easily.

Question 1: who gave the name flying Sikh to Milkha Singh?
Answer: “Flying Sikh” name given by Ayub Khan

Question 2: Which freedom fighter was known as Saint of Sabarmati?
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi was known as the Saint of Sabarmati.

Question 3: Amir Khusrau is popularly known as?
Answer: Voice of India or Parrot of India

Question 4: William Shakespeare is popularly known as?
Answer: Bard of Avon

Question 5: Which famous personalities are known as “Morning Star of India Renaissance”?
Answer: Raja Ram Mohan Roy is known as the “Morning Star of India Renaissance”. He was also known as the Father of the Indian Renaissance and Raja.

Question 6: Valmiki was known as?
Answer: Adi Kavi

Question 7: Which Sports Personalities are known as Dhing Express?
Answer: Indian Sprinter Hima Das of Assam, known as Dhing Express.

Question 8: Which Indian revolutionary known as “Badshah Khan”?
Answer: Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

Question 9: Who gave the name ‘Raja’ to Ram Mohan Roy?
Answer: Akbar II

Question 10: Charles Freer Andrews popularly known as the _
Answer: Deshbandhu

Question 11: Who among the following is named as Saint of the Gutters?
Answer: Mother Teresa

Question 12:  Chanakya popularly known as _
Answer: Machiavelli of India

Question 13: Who is named as the Tiger of Mysore?
Answer:  Tipu Sultan

Question 14: Who gave the title “Napoleon of India” to Samudragupta?
Answer: V.A. Smith

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