Biographies for Kids

Thomas Jefferson, grew up in Virginia and was raised with the orphaned children of his father’s friend, William Randolph. He was educated from ages 9-14 by a clergyman named William Douglas from whom he learned Greek, Latin, and French. He then attended Reverand James Maury’s School before attending the College of William and Mary. He studied law with George Wythe, …

Born: 28 June 1921, Laknepalli, Narsampet Mandal, Warangal District, Telangana, India Died: 23 December 2004, New Delhi, India Full Name: Pamulaparti Venkata Narasimha Rao Party: Indian National Congress Spouse: Satyamma Children: P. V. Ranga Rao, P.V. Rajeshwar Rao, Vijaya Prasad + Son of Shri P. Ranga Rao, Shri P.V. Narasimha Rao was born on June 28, 1921 at village Laknepalli, …

Full Name: Girish Raghunath Karnad Born: 19 May 1938 Matheran, Bombay Presidency, British India (now in Maharashtra, India) Died: 10 June 2019 (aged 81) Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Occupation: Playwright, Film Director, Film Actor Notable Works: Tughalak 1964, Taledanda Girish Raghunath Karnad was an Indian actor, film director, Kannada writer. He is the recipient of Jnanpith Award for Kannada, the highest literary …

Ramazan Bashardost is an Afghan politician. Born in 1965 in the Qarabagh district of Ghazni Province to a respected family, Ramazan Bashardost is an ethnic Hazara. Bashardost spent a substantial part of his life studying. His early years of schooling were completed in Qarabagh, before moving to Maimana, in Faryab Province. Then, because of the 1978 coup d’etat, Bashardost left …

Full Name: Rohit Gurunath Sharma Born: 30 April 1987 Nagpur, Maharashtra, India Nationality: India Nickname: Ro Role: Right-handed Batsman, Right-arm off break Relation(s): Purnima Sharma (Mother), Gurunath Sharma (Father), Vishal Sharma (Brother), Ritika Sajdeh (Spouse), Samaira (Daughter) Rohit Sharma is an Indian cricketer, born on 30th April 1987 in Bansod, Nagpur. Rohit is primarily a right-handed batsman, who generally opens …

Born: 5 November 1988 Delhi, India Nationality: India Role: Indian Captain, Right handed batsman, Right-arm medium bowler Relation(s): Anushka Sharma (Wife), Saroj Kohli (Mother) Virat Kohli was born on 5 November 1988 in New Delhi. His interest in cricket developed while playing on the streets of Delhi. His father enrolled him in a cricket academy where he was coached by …

Kapil Dev — Kapil Dev Nikhanj was India’s finest all rounder in cricket. He was born on 6th January 1959 in Haryana. He was the former captain and new national team coach. When Kapil was just 20, he set a new record of scoring 1000 runs and taking 100 wickets. He made this record within a period of one year …

Sunil Gavaskar — Sunil Manohar Gavaskar (born July 10, 1949 at Bombay, Maharashtra), nicknamed Sunny, was a cricket player during the 1970s and 1980s for Bombay and India. He is arguably the the greatest opening batsmen in the Test cricket. His Home town (native place) is Ubhadanda-Vengurla. He made a spectacular Test debut in 1971 scoring 774 runs in his first …

Virender Sehwag (born 20 October 1978), affectionately known as Viru, the Nawab of Najafgarh (New Delhi), or the Zen master of modern cricket, is one of the leading batsmen in the Indian cricket team. Sehwag is an aggressive right-handed opening batsman and a part-time right-arm off-spin bowler. He played his first One Day International in 1999 and joined the Indian …

Rahul Dravid — Rahul Sharad Dravid has established himself as an integral part of the Indian National Cricket team with his technical proficiency, stylish strokes and sheer stability. Rahul was born on January 11, 1973 in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, to parents Sharad Dravid and Pushpa. He started to play cricket at the age of 12. Dravid did well in the junior tournaments …