When people become famous, public often begin to call them by one or more nickname / sobriquet. Often times these sobriquets become so popular that they become permanent. Following is the list of some famous personalities from around the world and the sobriquets they are known by.
ALSO SEE: Nicknames of Countries in the World
| Person’s Name | Sobriquet / Nickname |
|---|---|
| Adolf Hitler | Fuehrer |
| Amir Khushro | Parrot of India, Tota-e-hind |
| Ashutosh Mukherji | Bengal Kesari |
| Babur | Prince of Autobiography |
| Bal Gangadhar Tilak | Punjab Kesari, Lokmanya |
| Bankim Chandra Chattopadhay | Sahitya Samrat |
| Benito Mussolini | II Duce |
| Bhagat Singh | Prince of Martyrs, Sahid-e-Azam |
| CF Andrews | Deen bandhu |
| Chakravarti Rajagopalachari | CR, Rajaji |
| Chanakya | Machiavelli of India |
| Chandra Shekhar | Young Turk |
| Chaudhury Devi Lal | Tau |
| Chengiz Khan | Scourage of God |
| Chitta Ranjan Das | Desh bandhu |
| CN Annadurai | Anna |
| Dadabhai Naoroji | Grand Old man of India |
| Dayanand Saraswati | Martin Luther of India |
| Dhundiraj Govind Phalke | Grandfather of Indian Films |
| Dhyanchand | Magician of Hockey |
| Dr. Anugrah Narayan Singh | Bihar Vibhuti |
| Dr. Rajendra Prasad | Desh Ratna, Ajatshatru |
| Dr. Srikrishna Singh | Bihar Kesari |
| Duke of Wellington | Iron Duke |
| Earl of Warwick | King Maker |
| Edmund Spencer | Poet’s Poet |
| Florence Nightingale | Lady with the lamp |
| Gen Ervin Rommel | Desert Fox |
| General Eisenhower | Ike |
| Geoffery Chaucer | Father of English Poetry |
| George Bernard Shaw | GBS |
| Hippocrates | Father of Medicine |
| Hiuen Tsang | Prince of Pilgrims |
| Ho Chi Minh | Uncle Ho |
| Indira Gandhi | Iron Lady of India |
| Jagjiwan Ram | Babuji |
| Jainul Abdin | Akbar of Kashmir |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | Chacha, Pandit ji |
| Jayaprakash Narayan | JP, Loknayak |
| Joan of Arc | Maid of Orleans |
| Kapil Dev | Haryana Hurricane |
| Karpuri Thakur | Jana Nayak |
| Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan | Frontier Gandhi, Badshah Khan |
| KV Puttappa | Kuvempu |
| Lal Bahadur Shastri | Man of Peace |
| Lala Lajpat Rai | Bengali Tiger |
| Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Bipin Chandra Pal | Together known as – Lal, Bal, Pal |
| Lata Mangeshkar | Swar Kokila |
| Lord Buddha | Enlightened One |
| Lord Rippon | Father of the Local Self-Government |
| Mahakavi Kalidas | Shakespeare of India |
| Maharaja Kumar of Vizianagara | Vizzy |
| Mahatma Gandhi | Father of the Nation, Bapu, Mahatma |
| Major General Rajinder Singh | Sparrow |
| Mark Twain | Samuel Clemens |
| Milkha Singh | Flying Sikh |
| Mohammad Ali Jinnah | Quaid-i-Azam |
| Mother Teresa | Mother |
| MS Golwalkar | Guruji |
| Muhammad bin Tughlaq | Prince of Money Makers |
| Nagarjuna | Indian Einstein |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | Little Corporal,Man of Destiny |
| Otto Van Bismark | Man of Blood and Iron |
| Pearl Buck | Li-Kwan |
| PT Usha | Udanpari |
| Pt. Madan Mohan Malaviya | Mahamanya, Prince of Beggars |
| Purushottam Das Tandon | Rajarishi |
| Queen Elizabeth I | Maiden Queen |
| Rabindranath Tagore | Vishwa Kavi, Kaviguru, Gurudev |
| Raja Ram Mohan Roy | Morning Star of India Renaissance |
| Ravi Shankar Maharaj | Father of Gujarat |
| Richard Cobden | Apostle of Free Trade |
| Sachin Tendulkar | Master Blaster |
| Salim Ali | Bird man of India |
| Samudra Gupta | Napoleon of India |
| Sankaracharya | Sage of Kanchi |
| Sarat Chandra Chattopadhay | Kathasilpi |
| Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel | Strong (Iron) Man of India |
| Sarojini Naidu | Nightingale of India |
| Saurav Ganguly | Prince of Kolkata |
| Sayyed Bandhu | King Maker of Indian History |
| Sayyed Bandu | Kingmaker of Indian History |
| Shah Jahan | Prince of Builders |
| Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah | Sher-e-Kashmir, Lion of Kashmir |
| Sheikh Mujibut Rahman | Banga Bandhu |
| Sir Walter Scot | Wizard of the North |
| Subhash Chandra Bose | Netaji, Patriot of Patriots |
| Sunil Gavaskar | Little Master |
| T Prakasam | Andhra Kesari |
| Tipu Sultan | Mysore Tiger |
| Tushar Kanti Ghosh | Grand old man of Indian Journalism |
| Valmiki | Adi Kavi |
| William Shakespeare | Bard of Avon |
| Willium E Gladstone | Grand Old Man of Britain |
| Yatindra Mohan Sengupta | Deshpriya |
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