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Born c.416 BCE
Died None • Cnidus • Turkey
Subjects Of Study India • Persia
Megasthenes
Greek historian
Thomas Babington Macaulay, detail of an oil painting by J. Partridge, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
English politician and author
Al-Bīrūnī, Afghan commemorative stamp, 1973.
al-Bīrūnī
Persian scholar and scientist
ʿAbd al-Qādir Badāʾūnī
Indo-Persian historian
Bana
Indian writer
Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, sepia drawing by George Frederick Watts; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, 1st Baronet
British law scholar
Pietro della Valle
Italian traveler and writer
Mahadev Govind Ranade
Indian politician
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Indian leader
Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great
king of Macedonia
Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru
prime minister of India
Lord Curzon
Lord Curzon
British foreign secretary
Mohammed Ali Jinnah
Mohammed Ali Jinnah
Pakistani governor-general
Narendra Modi
Narendra Modi
prime minister of India
Vasco da Gama
Vasco da Gama
Portuguese navigator
Indira Gandhi
Indira Gandhi
prime minister of India
Clement Attlee
Clement Attlee
prime minister of United Kingdom
Amitabh Bachchan, 2013
Amitabh Bachchan
Indian actor
Lord Cromer, detail of an oil painting by John Singer Sargent, 1902; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Evelyn Baring, 1st earl of Cromer
British diplomat
Dalhousie, detail of an oil painting by Sir John Watson-Gordon, 1847; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
James Andrew Broun Ramsay, marquess and 10th earl of Dalhousie
governor-general of India

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