Samresh Jung (born 5 May 1970) is an Indian sport shooter. He is an air pistol specialist. At the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, he won two Gold medals, in the men’s free pistol pairs and in the open event of 25 m standard pistol pairs, both in partnership with Jaspal Rana. He contested in the 10 m air pistol and …

Saina Nehwal (born 17 March 1990) is an Indian badminton player who is currently ranked No. 2 in the world by Badminton World Federation. She will become the No.1 ranked player in the world when the official BWF rankings are released next week after she qualified for the finals of the Indian Open and her competitor Carolina Marin lost in the …

Sabeer Bhatia (born 30 December 1968 Chandigarh) is an Indian American entrepreneur who founded the Hotmail email service and Jaxtr. Achievements: Named by TIME as one of the “People to Watch” in International Business (2002) Sabeer Bhatia is one of the poster boys of Indian success story at Silicon Valley. He is better known as the man who co-founded Hotmail. He later sold …

S. Raman, is one of few Indian tennis players who have excelled at the international circuit as well. On the roads of Kamlesh Mehta and Chetan Baboor, this ace player gained equal fame in both the sectors in tennis. Employed with the Indian Oil Corporation, Raman was a fitness freak and was reputed to be one of the fittest players in …

S. K. Mitra — A shot was fired and a huge balloon rose up, carrying a man with it. The assembled crowd at the Calcutta Maidan cheered. The man, Ram Chandra Chatterjee, was demonstrating that one could ascend by balloon. While the crowd shouted and applauded the feat, a nine-year-old boy was puzzled. He tugged at the shirt of his …

Roger Scruton — Roger Vernon Scruton is a writer, philosopher and public commentator. He has specialised in aesthetics with particular attention to music and architecture. He engages in contemporary political and cultural debates from the standpoint of a conservative thinker and is well known as a powerful polemicist. His first publication – Art and Imagination – was an exploration of …

Roger Randall Dougan Revelle, was a scientist and scholar who was instrumental in the formative years of the University of California, San Diego and was one of the first scientists to study global warming and the movement of Earth’s tectonic plates. The six-foot-four Revelle was often referred to as a “scientific giant”, both literally and figuratively. UC San Diego’s first …

Roger Federer (born 8 August 1981) is a Swiss professional tennis player. As of 21 June 2010, he is ranked World No. 2 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). He previously held the number one position for a record 237 consecutive weeks and 285 total weeks, one week behind record holder Pete Sampras. Roger Federer began playing tennis when …

Rodrigo Millar, is a skillful Chilean midfielder of considerable experience, known for his well-timed runs into the box and his ability to pick out the right ball at the right time. After national coach Marcelo Bielsa brought the player back into the Chile squad in the final stretch of qualifying matches for 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa, Millar rapidly …

Robin van Persie — After a season blighted by an ankle injury that kept him out of action from November to mid-April, the Arsenal striker goes into the 2010 FIFA World Cup hungry to make his mark. The forward likened by club manager Arsene Wenger to Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo contested less than a month at the end of …