List of people from Hubli Dharwad
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Hubli-Dharwad Twin city is the home of many national & international reputes. The various personalities who brought credit to the twin-city in different fields are:
Award winners
oscar award winner Shrinivas.L.Habib for best acting in an advertisement. The national level award winner from this place.
Jnanapeeth Award Winners
The Jnanpith Award is a literary award in India, it is one of the two most prestigious literary honours in the country.
- Dr. D. R. Bendre
- Prof. V. K. Gokak
- Sri Girish Karnad
Bharat Ratna
Padma Award Winners
Padmabhushan
- Sri Basavraj Rajguru
- Smt. Gangubai Hangal
- Dr. Mallikarjun Mansoor
Padma Vibhushan
- Sri Bhimsen Joshi
- Smt. Gangubai Hangal(2002)
Padmashri Award
- Dr. R. B. Patil
Academy Award
- Dr. Shankar Mukashi Punekar
Famous Musicians, Poets,Artists and writers
North Karnataka is known for the melody of Hindustani music[1]. Dharwad district is the main place which producing national and international level musicians like Dr Mallikarjun Mansur, Dr Gangubai Hangal, Bharat Ratna Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Pandit Basavaraj Rajguru and Pandit Rajshekar Mansur.
Musicians
- Bharat Ratna Pandit Bhimsen Joshi
- Gangubai Hangal
- Mallikarjun Mansur
- Kumar Gandharva
- Basavraj Rajguru
- Sawai Gandharva
- Sitarratna Rahimat Khan
- Ustad Bale Khan
- Shripati Padigar
- Pandit Mohanrao Kallianpurkar
- Ganayogi Pandith Puttaraja Gavai
Poets
- Dr. D. R. Bendre
- Dr. V. G. Gokak
- Chennaveer Kanavi
- Betgeri Krishna Sharma
Prominent Freedom Fighters
- Gudlappa Hallikeri
Artists
- Girish Karnad
- Leena Chandavarkar
- Suresh Heblikar
- Prashant G Koti
Writers
- Shri Alur Venkatgiri Rao
- Prof. Bhusnurmath
- Shri Patil Puttappa
- Shri Shambha Joshi
- Dr. K. S. Narayanacharya
- Dr. Panchakshari Hiremath
- Dr. Shankar Mokashi Punekar
- Shri Saali Ramachandra Rayaru
- Dr. R. Y. Dharwadkar
- Dr Giraddi Govindraja
Business people
- Gururaj Deshpande, founder Sycamore Networks[2]
- Umesh Vaidyamath, founder and Chief Executive Officer of INSZoom
See also
References
- ^ "School of Hindustani music to start its tune". Retrieved 2009-03-31.
- ^ Mint (newspaper), The Wall Street Journal (December 18, 2009). "Gururaj Deshpande :The serial entrepreneur".