Important Personalities of India

List of Current Important Personalities of India – General Awareness 2016

1. Attorney General of India - Mukul Rohatgi
2. Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) President - Sunil Kanoria
3. Board of Control for Cricket in India BCCI President - Shashank Manohar Anurag Thakur
   
4. Border Security Force BSF Director General - Devendra Kumar PathakK.K Sharma
5. Central Board of Direct Taxes CBDT Chairperson - Atulesh Jindal A K Jain
6. Central Bureau of Investigation CBI Director – Anil Kumar Sinha
7. Central Industrial Security Force CISF Director General - Surender Singh
8. Central Reserve Police Force CRPF Director General - Prakash Mishra
9. Central Vigilance Commissioner - K V Chowdary
10. Chief Election Commissioner of India - Nasim Zaidi
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12. Election Commissioners of India - Achal Kumar Jyoti & Om Prakash Rawat
13. Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) – R. K. Mathur
14. Chief Justice of India - T. S. Thakur
15. Competition Commission of India CCI Chairman - Devender Kumar Sikri
16. Comptroller and Auditor General of India CAG - Shashi Kant Sharma
17. Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) President - Harshavardhan Neotia
18. Finance Commission of India Chairman – Dr. Y. Venugopal Reddy
19. Food Corporation of India (FCI) Chairman & MD - Yogendra Tripathi

List of Famous Persons in India – General Studies 2016

19. Indian Air Chief – Marshal Arup Raha
20. Indian Army Chief – General Dalbir Singh
21. Indian Navy Chief - Admiral Robin K Dhowan Admiral Sunil Lanba
22. Indian Space Research Organisation ISRO Chairman – A S Kiran Kumar
23. Intelligence Bureau (IB) Director - Dineshwar Sharma
24. Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDAI) Chairman - T.S. Vijayan
25. Law Commission of India Chairman – Justice Ajith Prakash Shah
26. Lok Sabha Speaker - Sumitra Mahajan
27. Lok Sabha Deputy Speaker - M. Thambidurai
28. National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) Chairman - B. V. R. Mohan Reddy
29. National Commission for Backward Classes Chairperson - Justice V.Eswaraiah
30. National Commission for Women (NCW) Chairperson - Lalitha Kumaramangalam
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32. National Commission on Farmers (NCF) Chairman - M. S. Swaminathan
33. National Human Rights Commission Chairman -Justice H. L. Dattu
34. National Institution for Transforming India NITI Aayog

• Chairperson - Prime Minister Narendra Modi
• Chief Executive Officer CEO - Amitabh Kant
• Vice Chairperson - Arvind Panagariya

34. National Security Advisor (NSA India) - Ajit Doval
35. National Security Guard (NSG) Director General – R C Tayal
36. Prasar Bharati: Chairman - Dr A Surya Prakash; CEO - Jawhar Sircar
37. President of India - Pranab Mukherjee
38. Prime Minister of India - Narendra Modi

Latest Current Affairs Questions – Who is Who/ Persons in News 2016

39. Railway Protection Force (RPF) Director General - Rajiv Ranjan Verma
40. Rajya Sabha Chairman - Mohammad Hamid Ansari
41. Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman - P. J. Kurien
42. Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India - Sailesh
43. Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) Chief - Rajinder Khanna
44. Reserve Bank of India Governor - Urjit R. Patel Dr. Raghuram Rajan
45. Reserve Bank of India Deputy Governors

• S. Mundra
• R Gandhi
• Urjit R. Patel
• N S Vishwanathan Harun R. Khan
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46. Securities and Exchange Board of India SEBI Chairman - Upendra Kumar Sinha
47. Solicitor General of India - Ranjit Kumar
48. Staff Selection Commission SSC Chairman - Ashim Khurana
49. Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) Chairman - Ram Sewak Sharma
50. Union Public Service Commission UPSC Chairman - Deepak Gupta Alka Sirohi
    
51. Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) Chairman - Nandan Nilekani
52. Vice President of India - Mohammad Hamid Ansari

List of Current Heads of Important Organizations

Ban Ki-moon	Secretary-General, United Nations Organisations
Jan Eliasson	Deputy Secretary-General,UN
Dr. Jim Yong Kim	President, World Bank
Christine Lagarde	Managing Director, International Monetary Fund(IMF)
Irina Bokova	Director General, UNESCO
Dr. Margaret Chan	Director General, WHO
Guy Ryder	Director General, Inter-national Labour Organisation
Anthony Lake	Executive Director, United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund(UNICEF)
Antonio Guterres	UN High Commissioner for Refugees

 List of Important Persons in the world - General Knowledge

Takehiko Nakao	President, Asian Development Bank
Roberto Azevedo		Director - General, WTO
Jens Stoltenberg		Secretary-General, North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)
Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin		Executive Director, UNFPA
Le Luong Minh		Secretary-General, ASEAN
Arjun Bahadur Thapa		Secretary-General, SAARC

 Important Personalities of India