Famous Nicknames of Eminent Persons
Nickname | Person |
| Father of the Nation | Mahatma Gandhi |
| Bapu | Mahatma Gandhi |
| Frontier Gandhi | Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan |
| Badshah Khan | Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan |
| Strong (Iron) Man of India | Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel |
| Iron Man of India | Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel |
| Sardar | Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel |
| Young Turk | Chandra Shekhar |
| Loknayak | Jayaprakash Narayan |
| Lokmanya | Bal Gangadhar Tilak |
| Deshbandhu | Chittaranjan Das |
| Deenbandhu | Charles Freer (C.F.) Andrews |
| Mahamana | Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya |
| Chacha | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Man of Peace | Lal Bahadur Shastri |
| Sparrow | Major Rajinder Singh |
| Siwar (Swar) Kokila | Lata Mangeshkar |
| Udanpari | P. T. Usha |
| Mother | Mother Teresa |
| Rajaji / C.R. | Chakravarti Rajagopalachari |
| Guruji | M. S. Golwalkar |
| Bangabandhu | Sheikh Mujibur Rahman |
| Grand Old Man of India | Dadabhai Naoroji |
| Grandfather of Indian Films | Dhundiraj Govind (Dadasaheb) Phalke |
| Father of Indian Cinema | Dadasaheb Phalke |
| Andhra Kesari | Tanguturi Prakasam Pantulu |
| Sahid-e-Azam | Bhagat Singh |
| Bihar Kesari | Dr. Shri Krishna Singh |
| Bengal Kesari | Ashutosh Mukherjee |
| Punjab Kesari | Lala Lajpat Rai |
| Desh Ratna | Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
| Ajatshatru | Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
| Father of Gujarat | Ravi Shankar Maharaj |
| Tau | Chaudhary Devi Lal |
| King Maker | Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick |
| Nightingale of India | Sarojini Naidu |
| Bulbul-e-Hind | Sarojini Naidu |
| Lady with the Lamp | Florence Nightingale |
| Lal, Bal, Pal | Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak & Bipin Chandra Pal |
| Sher-e-Kashmir | Sheikh Abdullah |
| Akbar of Kashmir | Zain-ul-Abidin |
| Shakespeare of India | Mahakavi Kalidasa |
| Napoleon of India | Samudragupta |
| Machiavelli of India | Chanakya (Kautilya) |
| Vishva Kavi | Rabindranath Tagore |
| Gurudev | Rabindranath Tagore |
| Bharat Kokila | Sarojini Naidu |
| Bihar Vibhuti | Dr. Anugrah Narayan Singh |
| Babuji | Jagjivan Ram |
| Morning Star of India | Raja Ram Mohan Roy |
| Father of Indian Renaissance | Raja Ram Mohan Roy |
| King Maker of Indian History | Sayyid Brothers |
| Rajarshi | Purushottam Das Tandon |
| Haryana Hurricane | Kapil Dev |
| Magician of Hockey | Major Dhyan Chand |
| Jan Nayak | Karpoori Thakur |
| Il Duce | Benito Mussolini |
| Tooti-e-Hind (Parrot of India) | Amir Khusrau |
| Maiden Queen | Queen Elizabeth I |
| Maid of Orleans | Joan of Arc |
| Man of Blood and Iron | Otto von Bismarck |
| Fuehrer | Adolf Hitler |
| Deshpriya | Yatindra Mohan Sengupta |
| Kunjumon / Kunjumpu* | K. V. Puttappa (Kuvempu) |
| Little Corporal | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Man of Destiny | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Father of English Poetry | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Netaji | Subhas Chandra Bose |
| Uncle Ho | Ho Chi Minh |
| Li-Kwan | Pearl S. Buck |
| Grand Old Man of Britain | William Ewart Gladstone |
| Desert Fox | Field Marshal Erwin Rommel |
| Quaid-e-Azam | Muhammad Ali Jinnah |
| Little Master | Sunil Gavaskar |
| Anna | C. N. Annadurai |
| Bard of Avon | William Shakespeare |
| Nickname | Person |
| Missile Man of India | Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam |
| People’s President | Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam |
| Bharat Ratna of Indian Science | C. V. Raman |
| Father of the Indian Constitution | Dr. B. R. Ambedkar |
| Architect of the Indian Constitution | Dr. B. R. Ambedkar |
| Father of the Green Revolution (India) | M. S. Swaminathan |
| Father of the White Revolution | Dr. Verghese Kurien |
| Father of the Blue Revolution (India) | Dr. Arun Krishnan (policy context) / widely associated with fisheries mission rather than one individual* |
| Flying Sikh | Milkha Singh |
| Payyoli Express | P. T. Usha |
| Captain Cool | M. S. Dhoni |
| Master Blaster | Sachin Tendulkar |
| Little Master | Sachin Tendulkar (also popularly used) |
| God of Cricket | Sachin Tendulkar |
| Wall | Rahul Dravid |
| Turbanator | Harbhajan Singh |
| Dada | Sourav Ganguly |
| Bengal Tiger | Sourav Ganguly |
| Hitman | Rohit Sharma |
| King Kohli | Virat Kohli |
| Prince of Kolkata | Sourav Ganguly |
| Flying Fairy | P. T. Usha |
| Punjab da Puttar | Bhagat Singh (popular reference) |
| Sher-e-Punjab | Maharaja Ranjit Singh |
| Lion of Punjab | Lala Lajpat Rai |
| Gurudev | Rabindranath Tagore |
| Mahakavi | Subramania Bharati |
| Vidyasagar | Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar |
| Desh Nayak | Subhas Chandra Bose |
| Iron Lady of India | Indira Gandhi |
| Iron Lady of Britain | Margaret Thatcher |
| Iron Chancellor | Otto von Bismarck |
| Lady of the Mughal Court | Nur Jahan |
| Father of Modern India | Raja Ram Mohan Roy |
| Father of Local Self Government in India | Lord Ripon |
| Father of Indian Space Programme | Vikram Sarabhai |
| Father of India’s Nuclear Programme | Homi J. Bhabha |
| Metro Man of India | E. Sreedharan |