Famous Personalities
Sannuvanda Kushalappa Uthappa
Uthappa is an Indian professional field hockey player, who played as an attacking midfielder, for the Indian national team and Kalinga Lancers, at the Hockey Indian League.Uthappa took up hockey professionally, at the age of 14 and joined the Sports Authority of India, Bengaluru in 2004. Uthappa has received many trophies and awards and he was named as the best player
T. V. Mohandas Pai
Mohandas Pai is a Padma Shri Awardee and the Chairman of Manipal Global Education. Mohandas was a former director of Infosys.Mohandas founded Akshaya Patra Foundation, Bengaluru to start a mid-day meal program for the school children.
Mohandas has been active in working with the regulators to improve the business ecosystem.
Roger Michael Humphry Binny
Born on 19th July 1955, He is an Indian Former Cricketer Who was part of the 1983 Cricket World Cup Winning Squad. Roger Binny is known as a cricket all -rounder who is best known for his impressive bowling performance
Syed Kirmani
Syed Kirmani is an Indian cricketer who played cricket for India and Karnataka as a wicket-keeper.
Kirmani was awarded the Padma Shri in 1982, and in 2016 he became the recipient of the 2015 Col CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award for Cricket in India.
Prakash Raj
Prakash Raj is well known as an Indian actor, film director, producer, television presenter and a politician. Prakash Raj has received National Film Awards, Nandi Awards and many more awards as such was given for his best performance.
Kumar Bangarappa
He was Born on 28th September 1963. He is an Indian Actor and a Politician from Karnataka Bharatiya Janatha Party. He was the youngest member of the legislature as well as the youngest minister of Karnataka.
Stuart Binny
Stuart Binny is the son of the former Indian test cricketer, Roger Binny.Stuart is a former Indian international cricketer. He is an Indian record holder for the best bowling spell in an ODI. Stuart has played One Day Internationals, T20 Internationals, and Tests.
Shashi Kumar
Born on 2nd December 1965, He is a famous Actor and a Politician from Karnataka. He works predominantly in Kannada Film. He has acted in many movies and also was a member of Parliament.
Ashish Ballal
Ashish Ballal was a former Indian goalkeeper of field hockey. He represented India in 275 international matches in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.For his outstanding contribution to the game of hockey, Ballal was bestowed with Arjuna Award in 1997 by the Government of India.
Sadhu Kokila
Sadhu Kokila is one of the famous musician and a comedian in Kannada film industry. He was born to a family of musicians with father being a violinist in a music band of Karnataka Police Department. He has received multiple nominations and awards in the category of best comedian in the South Indian International Movie Awards.