Personalities | Distinctive Names of Some Famous Personalities
Many famous personalities are addressed with certain names and titles given in honor of their work for welfare. Their good work is recognized by their titles. the title is given out of love and respect they earned for doing noteworthy works for society.
Many competitive exams ask questions related to famous titles in the general knowledge section. One must have knowledge of the most famous personalities and their titles.
Here is a list of some famous men and women in history with their distinctive names not only of the nation but around the world.
Indian Personalities Distinctive Names
- Mahatma Gandhi………………………………Father of the Nation

- Lal Bahadur Shastri………………………………..Man of Peace
- Dr. Rajendra Prasad………………………………. Ajatshatru, Desh Ratna
- Raja Ram Mohan Roy……………………………. Morning Star of India
- Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel…………………………Iron man of India
- Rabindranath Tagore………………………………Vishwa Kavi
- Bhagat Singh………………………………………….Sahid-e-Azam, Prince of Martyrs
- Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Bipin Chandra Pal……………… Lal-Bal-Pal
- Bal Gangadhar Tilak……………………………….Lokmanya

- Dhundiraj Govind Phalke……………………….Grandfather of Indian Films
- Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah………………….Sher-e-Kashmir Lion of Kashmir
- Sayyed Bandhu………………………………………King maker of indian History
- Tipu Sultan…………………………………………….Mysore Tiger
- Sarojini Naidu…………………………………………Nightingale of India
- Lata Mangeshkar…………………………………….Swarn Kokila
- Dadabhai Naoroji…………………………………….Grand Old man of India
- Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan………………………..Frontier Gandhi
- Salim Ali………………………………………………….Bird Man of India
- Subhash Chandra Bose……………………………Netaji
- PT Usha…………………………………………………..Payyoli Express
- Sourav Ganguly……………………………………….Prince of Kolkata
- Dhyanchand…………………………………………….Hockey Wizard of India
- Milkha Singh……………………………………………Flying Sikh
- Samudra Gupta……………………………………….Napolean of India
- Indira Gandhi…………………………………………..Young Turk
- Lord Buddha……………………………………………Enlightened One
- Sachin Tendulkar…………………………………….The Little Master
- Nagarjuna………………………………………………..Indian Einstein
- Sankaracharya…………………………………………Sage of Kanchi
- Dr. B R Ambedkar.……………………………………Baba Saheb
- Mother Teresa………………………………………….Saint of Gutters
- Kalidas……………………………………………………Shakespeare of India
- Major General Rajinder Singh………………….Sparrow
- Samudragupta………………………………………..Napolean of India
- Jayaprakash Narayan……………………………..Loknayak
- Yatindra Mohan Sengupta……………………….Deshpriya
- C F Andrews……………………………………………Deenabandhu
- Ashutosh Mukherji…………………………………………………Bengal Kesari
- Jainul Abdin…………………………………………………………..Akbar of Kashmir
- Vinoba Bhave…………………………………………………………Acharya
- Vallabhai Patel………………………………………………………..Bismark of India
- Ravi Shankar Maharaj……………………………………………..Father of Gujarat
- Sreebuddha…………………………………………………………….Light of Asia
- Bal Gangadhar Tilak………………………………………………..Lion of Maratha
- Purushottam Das Tandon…………………………………………Rajarshee
- Lala Lajpat Rai…………………………………………………………Punjab Kesari

- Chanakya……………………………………..Machiavelli of India
- Karpuri Thakur……………………………..Jana Nayak
- Kapil Dev……………………………………..Haryana Hurricane
World Personalities Distinctive Names
- The Great Commoner………………………………William Pitt
- The Blind Poet…………………………………………John Milton
- The Black Prince……………………………………..Son of Edward III
- The Morning Star of the Reformation……….John Wycliff
- The Dickens of France…………………………….Honore de Balzac
- The Unready……………………………………………King Etheral II of England
- The first Gentleman in Europe…………………King George IV of England
- The Grand Oldman………………………………….William Ewart Gladstone
- The Iron Chancellor…………………………………Prince Otto Von Bismarck
- The King Maker……………………………………….Richard Neville
- Old Rough and Ready……………………………..Zachary Taylor
- The Swedish Nightingale………………………..Jenny Lind
- The Merrie Monarch……………………………….King Charles II of England
- The Little Corporal…………………………………Napolean Bonaparte
- The Beloved Disciple……………………………..St John
- The Light of Asia……………………………………Buddha
- The Sage of Concord……………………………..Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The Black Napolean………………………………Jean Jacques Dessalines of Haiti
- The Iron Duke……………………………………….The Duke of Wellington
- The Mad Monk………………………………………Rasputin
- The Lady of the Lamp……………………………Florence Nightingale
- The Tiger of France………………………………Georges Clemenceau
- The Father of Medicine…………………………Hippocratess
- The Father of Modern Astronomy…………..Copernicus
- The Father of Modern Chemistry……………Antoine Lavoisier
- The Father of Natural History………………..John Ray
- The Father of Modern Music…………………Johann Sebastian Bach
- The Father of Novel Writing………………….Giovanni Boccaccio
- The Father of Biography……………………….Plutarch
- The Father of Poets………………………………Homer
- The Father of English Poetry………………..Geoffrey Chaucer
- The Father of Moral Philosophy……………Thomas Aquinas
- The Father of Unitarianism…………………..John Biddle
- The Father of History……………………………Herodotus
- The Father of Experimental Philosophy………Thomas Aquinas
- The Uncrowned Queen of Arabia…………………Gertrude Bell
- The Inspired Idiot…………………………………Oliver Goldsmith
- The Faultless Painter……………………………Andrea del Sarto
- The Maid of Orleans…………………………….Joan of Arc
- William of the Conqueror……………………..William I of England
- The Seraphic Doctor…………………………….St Bonaventura
- The Semiramis of the North…………………Catherine II Empress of Russia
- Defender of the Holy Sepulchre…………..Godfrey of Bouillon
- The Maid of Orleans……………………………Joan of Arc
- The Virgin Queen………………………………..Queen Elizabeth I
- Coeur de Lion……………………………………..Richard I of England
- Reformation………………………………………..John Wycliff
- The Bard of Avon………………………………..William Shakespeare
- The Apostle of the Indians…………………..Bartholome de Las Cassa
- The Most Musical of all Englishmen……….Sir William Sterndale Bennett
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