Students preparing for different government job exams should know the nicknames of different famous personalities because are asked about these nicknames quite often. We are trying to list nicknames of the most important personalities in this post.
Famous Personality of India with Nicknames
Tiger of Mysore – Tipu Sultan
Swar Kokila – Lata Mangeshkar
Strong Man of India-Vallabhai Patel
Sparrow – Major General Rajinder Singh
Shakespeare of India – Kalidasa
Saint of the Gutters – Mother Teresa
Saint of Sabarmati – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Acharya – Vinoba Bhave
Adi Kavi – Valmiki
Desh Ratna, Ajatshatru – Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Andhra Kesari – T Prakasam
Anna – C N Annadurai
Bapu – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Bengal Kesari – Ashutosh Mukherji
Bengal Tiger – Bipin Chandrapal & Saurav Ganguli
Birdman of India – Dr. Salim Ali
Frontier Gandhi, Badshah Khan -Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Man of Peace – Lal Bahadur Shastri
Chacha, Pandit ji – Jawaharlal Nehru
Morning Star of India Renaissance – Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Bismark of India – Vallabhai Patel
Sage of Kanchi – Sankaracharya
Udanpari – PT Usha
Enlightened One – Lord Buddha
Shakespeare of India – Mahakavi Kalidas
Prince of Builders – Shah Jahan
Loknayak – Jayaprakash Narayan
Guruji – MS Golvalkar
Grand old man of Indian Journalism – Tushar Kanti Ghosh
Father of Gujarat – Ravi Shankar Maharaj
Desh bandhu – Chitta Ranjan Das
CR, Rajaji – Chakravarti Rajagopalachari
Lal, Bal, Pal – Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Bipin Chandra Pal
Banga bandhu -Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Bihar Kesari – Dr. Srikrishna Singh
Iron Lady of India – Indira Gandhi
Bengal Kesari – Ashutosh Mukherji
Punjab Kesari, Lokmanya – Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Akbar of Kashmir – Jainul Abdin
Prince of Martyrs, Sahid-e-Azam – Bhagat Singh
Bihar Vibhuti – Dr. Anugrah Narayan Singh
Deshpriya – Yatindra Mohan Sengupta
Father of the Local Self-Government – Lord Rippon
Grandfather of Indian Films – Dhundiraj Govind Phalke
Kuvempu – KV Puttappa
Napoleon of India – Samudra Gupta
Rajashree – Purushottam Das Tandon
Guruji – MS Golwalkar
JP – Jayaprakash Naraya
Father of the Nation, Bapu, Mahatma – Mahatma Gandhi
Grand Old man of India – Dadabhai Naoroji
Indian Einstein – Nagarjuna
Netaji, Patriot of Patriots – Subhash Chandra Bose
Strong (Iron) Man of India – Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Vishwa Kavi, Kaviguru, Gurudev – Rabindranath Tagore
Deen bandhu – CF Andrews
Panditji – Jawaharlal Nehru
Priyadarshini – Indira Gandhi
Sahitya Samrat – Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
Young Turk Chan – dra Sekhar
Tota-e-Hind – Amir Khushro
Nicknames of Famous Sport Personalities
Sports personalities are often known to have good nicknames. Given below are the nicknames of some famous sports personalities.
Dada – Saurav Gan guly
Bengal Tiger – Saurav Ganguly
Master Blaster- Sachin Tendulkar
Bombay Bomber – Sachin Tendulkar
Little Master – Sunil Gavaskar
Sunny – Sunil Gavaskar
Jamie – Rahul Dravid
The Wall – Rahul Dravid
Veeru – Virender Sehwang
Jumbo – Anil Kumble
Gauti – Gautam Gambhir
Baroda Express – Zaheer Khan
Mr.Cool – MS Dhoni
Mysore Express – Javagal Srinath
Turbanator – Harbhajan Singh
Rawalpindi Express – Shoaib Akhtar
The Don – Donald Bradman
Mr.Cricket – Michael Hussey
The Enforcer – Glenn Mcgrath
Ice Man – Steve Waugh
Beefy – Lan Botham
Whispering Death – Michael Holding
Flying Finns – Paavo Nurmi
Rafa -Rafael Nadal
Gilli – Adam Gilchrist
Jimmy – Mohindar Amarnath
Hockey Wizard – Dhyan Chand
Flying Sikh – Milkha Singh
Haryana Hurricane – Kapil Dev
Payyoli Express – P.T.Usha
Freddy – Andrew Flintoff
King Carl – Carl Lewis
Nole – Novak Djokovic
Lightning Bolt -Usain Bolt
World Personalities and their nicknames
Father of English Poetry – Geoffery Chaucer
Grand Old Man of Britain – Willium E Gladstone
King Maker – Earl of Warwick
Wizard of the North – Sir Walter Scot
Ike – General Eisenhower
Bard of Avon – William Shakespeare
Lady with the lamp – Florence Nightingale
Maid of Orleans – Joan of Arc
Fuehrer – Adolf Hitler
Samuel Clemens – Mark Twain
Scourage of God – Chengiz Khan
GBS – George Bernard Shaw
Desert Fox – Gen Ervin Rommel
II Duce – Benito Mussolini
Iron Duke – Duke of Wellington
Apostle of Free Trade – Richard Cobden