January 8 famous birthdays in India Indian celebrity Bollywood

In this post you will know 8 January's famous birthday personality in India like Bollywood actor, actress, cricketer, politician. January 8 famous birthdays in India

Sagarika Ghatge

Sagarika Ghatge (born 8 January, 1986) is an Indian film actress best known for her debut role as Preeti Sabarwal in the Bollywood movie, Chak De! India. Ghatge was born in Kolhapur, Maharashtra to a Maratha family. Her father Vijayendra Ghatge is a veteran actor, and she is a descendant of Royal Holkar Dynasty of Indore. Ghatge attended Chatrapati Shahu Vidyalaya School till grade 8.

Birth Date: 08-Jan-1986
Birth Place: Maharashtra, India
Career: Model, Actress
Citizenship: India

Nanda

Nanda (born 8 January 1939) is an Indian film actress of Hindi films and Marathi films. Nanda was born in a Maharashtrian show-business family to Vinayak Damodar Karnataki (Master Vinayak), a successful Marathi actor-director .Her father died when Nanda was a child. The family faced hard times. She became a child artiste and helped them by working in films like Jaggu in the early 1950s.

Birth Date: 08-Jan-1939
Birth Place: Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India
Death Date: 25-Mar-2014
Career: Actor
Citizenship: India

Saeed Jaffrey

Saeed Jaffrey (born 8 January 1929) is an Indian-born British actor, who has done numerous British movies. He was born in Malerkotla, Punjab. His film credits include The Man Who Would Be King (1975), Shatranj Ke Khiladi (The Chess Players) (1977), Gandhi (1982), A Passage to India (1965 BBC version and 1984 film).

Birth Date: 08-Jan-1929
Birth Place: Malerkotla, Punjab, India
Career: Actor
Citizenship: India, United Kingdom

Tarun Kumar

Tarun Kumar is an Indian film actor who primarily works in Telugu and Tamil cinema. He frequently appears in romantic comedy films. He is the elder son of Oriya actor Chakrapani & noted actress Roja Ramani. He started his acting career under Usha Kiran Movies production, as a child actor.

January 8 famous birthdays in India

Birth Date: 08-Jan-1983
Birth Place: Andhra Pradesh, India
Career: Actor
Citizenship: India

Nafisa Ali

Nafisa Ali (born 18 January 1957) is an actress and social activist from India. Nafisa Ali was born to photographer, Ahmed Ali, son of S. Wajid Ali and brother of Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah. She hails from Faridabad, Haryana. Her mother's name is Philomena Torresan, who is now settled in Australia. Her brother is the Australia-based motor rallyist, Niaz Ali.

Birth Date: 08-Jan-1957
Birth Place: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Career: Actress, Model, Politician
Citizenship: India

Taraka Ratna

Taraka Ratna Nandamuri is an Indian film actor in Telugu cinema, born as "Obulesu". He is the grandson of Veteran Telugu actor N.T. Rama Rao. He was born on January 8, 1983 to Mohanakrishna Nandamuri. 2009 - Nandi Award for Best Villain - Amaravathi.

Birth Date: 08-Jan-1983
Birth Place: India, , India
Career: Actor
Citizenship: India

Fearless Nadia

Fearless Nadia (8 January 1908 – 9 January 1996) was an Indian film actress and stuntwoman, who is most remembered the masked, cloaked adventuress in Hunterwali (The Princess and the Hunter) released in 1935, which was one of the earliest female lead Indian films. Fearless Nadia was born as Mary Ann Evans on 8 January 1908 in Perth, Western Australia.

Birth Date: 08-Jan-1908
Birth Place: Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Death Date: 09-Jan-1996
Career: Actor
Citizenship: India

Harris Jayaraj

Harris Jayaraj (born 8 January 1975) is an Indian film composer. He has written scores and soundtracks for Tamil, Telugu and Hindi films. Harris Jayaraj hails from a pious Christian Nadar family from Tirunelveli and was born and brought up in Chennai. Harris studied at Krishnaswamy Matric School, K. K. Nagar. His father, S. M. Jayakumar.

Birth Date: 08-Jan-1975
Birth Place: Kodambakkam,
Career: Musician, Music Director, Audio engineering, Record producer, Composer
Citizenship: India

Raziuddin Siddiqui

Dr. Professor Muhammad Raziuddin Siddiqui (January 8, 1908 – January 8, 1998) also known as Dr. Razi, was an eminent Pakistani theoretical physicist and a renowned mathematician who played an instrumental and an influential role in Pakistan's education system and Pakistan's integrated nuclear detterence development.

Birth Date: 08-Jan-1908
Birth Place: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
Career: Scientist, Physicist
Citizenship: Pakistan

Mohan Rakesh

Mohan Rakesh (January 8, 1925 – January 3, 1972) was one of the pioneers of the Nai Kahani ("New Story") literary movement of the Hindi literature in the 1950s. He wrote the first modern Hindi play, Ashadh Ka Ek Din (One Day in Aashad) (1958), which won a competition organized by the Sangeet Natak Akademi. He made significant contribution to novel, short story, travelogue.

Birth Date: 08-Jan-1925
Birth Place: Amritsar, Punjab, India
Career: Writer, Playwright
Citizenship: India

Vijayasree

Vijayasree (Vijayashree or Vijayasri) was a Malayalam film actress and sex symbol from India in the 1970s. She acted in many movies opposite Prem Nazir. She gained popularity due to her beauty and was considered as the most beautiful actress in the malayalam film history. She was a contemporary of the popular Malayalam actress Jayabharathi.

Birth Date: 08-Jan-1953
Birth Place: India, , India
Citizenship: India

Ashapoorna Devi

Ashapoorna Devi also Ashapurna Debi or Asha Purna Devi, is a prominent Bengali novelist and poet. She was born in 8 January 1909. She has been widely honoured with a number of prizes and awards. She was awarded 1976 Jnanpith Award and the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 1976; D.Litt by the Universities of Jabalpur, Rabindra Bharati, Burdwan and Jadavpur.

Birth Date: 08-Jan-1909
Birth Place: Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Career: Writer, Poet
Citizenship: India

Bhuma Nagi Reddy

Bhuma Nagi Reddy (born 8 January 1964) is an Indian politician. He was elected in the byelection to the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly in 1992 following the sudden death of his brother Bhuma Sekhar Reddy a sitting MLA from Allagadda constituency in Kurnool district of A.P. In 1996 he came into limelight when he was chosen as TDP candidate to contest against the then prime minister P.V. Narasi.

Birth Date: 08-Jan-1964
Citizenship: India

Jyotindra Nath Dixit

Jyotindra Nath Dixit (January 8, 1936 – January 3, 2005), commonly referred as J. N. Dixit, was an Indian diplomat and former Indian Foreign Secretary (1991–1994), the top bureaucratic job in the Ministry of External Affairs. At the time of his death he was the National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister of India and is most remembered for his role as a negotiator in Pakistan and China Dispute.

Birth Date: 08-Jan-1936
Birth Place: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Death Date: 03-Jan-2005
Career: Diplomat
Citizenship: India

Neelam Jaswant Singh

Neelam Jaswant Singh (born 8 January 1971 in Farmana) is an Indian discus thrower. Her personal best throw is 64.55 metres, achieved at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan. During the 2005 World Championships she tested positive for the banned stimulant pemoline in an in-competition test. In the year 1998, Neelam Jaswant Singh won the bronze medal at the Bangkok Asian Games.

Birth Date: 08-Jan-1971
Citizenship: India

Karanjit Singh

Karanjit Singh (born 1986) is an Indian football player. He is currently playing for Salgaocar S.C. in the I-League in India as a goalkeeper. Karanjit Singh was born on January 8, 1986 at Hoshiarpur, Punjab, India. Karanjit Singh started playing football when he was 15. At one of the local tournaments, he was spotted by the former national coach, Sukhwinder Singh. Subsequently, in 2004.

Birth Date: 08-Jan-1986
Birth Place: Hoshiarpur, Punjab, India
Citizenship: India

Chhatar Singh Darbar

Chhatar Singh Darbar (born 8 January 1954) is a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represents the Dhar constituency of Madhya Pradesh and is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Birth Date: 08-Jan-1954
Birth Place: Dhar, Madhya Pradesh, India
Career: Politician
Citizenship: India

Srinath Prahlad

Srinath Prahlad (born January 8, 1973 in Mysore, India) is a tennis player from India and has represented the country in the Davis Cup. He reached one ATP doubles final partnering fellow Indian Saurav Panja at the 2000 Chennai Open but lost 7–5, 6–1 to Julien Boutter and Christophe Rochus. He is the shortest player in history of tennis in ATP.

Birth Date: 08-Jan-1973
Birth Place: Mysore, Karnataka, India
Career: Tennis player
Citizenship: India

K. Sukumaran

K. Sukumaran (8 January 1903 - 18 September 1981) was the Editor of Kerala Kaumudi Daily, the third most circulated newspaper in Malayalam which celebrated its centenary in 2011. He served as the President of Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana Yogam during 1953-54. K. Sukumaran was born on 8 January 1903 to great reformer, thinker and socio-cultural leader C.V.

Birth Date: 08-Jan-1903
Birth Place: Mayyanad, , India
Citizenship: India

Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh

Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh (born 8 January 1957) is an Indian politician. In 1991, he was elected to the 10th Lok Sabha from Gonda constituency in Uttar Pradesh state as a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate. He was re-elected to the 13th Lok Sabha in 1999 from the same constituency and in 2004, he was re-elected to 14th Lok Sabha from Balrampur.

Birth Date: 08-Jan-1957
Birth Place: Gonda, Uttar Pradesh, India
Career: Politician
Citizenship: India

Mamidipudi Venkatarangayya

Mamidipudi Venkatarangayya M.A. (January 8, 1889 – January 13, 1982) was a multidisciplined person and financial and political scientist and historical writer of Andhra Pradesh, India. He was recipient of Padma Bhushan in 1968 by Indian Government. He was born in Purini village of Kovur taluq in Nellore district in 1889 to Venkatesham and Narasamma.

Birth Date: 08-Jan-1889
Death Date: 13-Jan-1982
Citizenship: India

Ahmed Mohiuddin

Dr. Ahmed Mohiuddin (January 8, 1923 – January 4, 1998) was a noted scientist, scholar and researcher of Pakistan. Ahmed was born in Hyderabad, India, where he received his early education from Hyderabad. He obtained his M.Sc. (Biology) from Osmania University in 1945 with distinction. In 1945 he was awarded a Ph.D. scholarship from government.

Birth Date: 08-Jan-1923
Birth Place: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
Death Date: 04-Jan-1998
Career: Scientist
Citizenship: Pakistan