Top 10 Most Important Indian People of the 20th Century

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was a major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement ***

Vallabhbhai Patel was a political and social leader of India who played a major role in the country's struggle for independence and guided its integration into a united, independent nation ***

Mother Teresa, was a Roman Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her humanitarian work ***

Subhash Chandra Bose, generally known as Netaji, was one of the most prominent leaders of the Indian Independence Movement against the British Raj ***

J.R.D. Tata ***

Srila Prabhupada ***

Lokmanya Tilak was an Indian nationalist, social reformer and freedom fighter who was the first popular leader of the Indian Independence Movement and is known as "Father of the Indian unrest ***

Pandurang Shastri Vaijnath Athavale, known as dada, meaning elder brother in marathi A philosopher and social reformer who gave discourses upon Srimad Bhagawad Geeta and Upnishads ***

Rabindranath Tagore, also known by the sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali poet, Brahmo Samaj philosopher, visual artist, playwright, novelist, and composer whose works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. ***

Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi was an Indian politician who served as Prime Minister of India for three consecutive terms from 1966 to 1977 and for a fourth term from 1980 until her assassination in 1984 ***