* October 15 – Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, President of India

* Muslim missile engineer Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam is elected president of India, to be sworn into office July 25.

Adnan was married to his wife Sophia Pakir, an Islamic religious teacher.

Famous football players are Kazi Salahuddin ( current BFF president ), Chunnu, Nizam, Tutul, Aslam, Nannu, Helal, and Pakir Ali once played for this club and converted this club to be one of the best football clubs in South Asia.

Kalam was born on 15 October 1931 to Jainulabdeen, a boat owner and Ashiamma, a housewife, at Rameswaram, located in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

The name Van Mahotsava ( the festival of trees ) originated in July 1947 after a successful tree-planting drive was undertaken in Delhi, in which national leaders like Jawaharlal Nehru, Dr Rajendra Prasad and Abdul Kalam Azad participated.

Speakers at Techkirti have included APJ Abdul Kalam, Vladimir Voevodsky, Dougulas OSheroff, Oliver Smithies and Richard Stallman.

Abdul Kalam in a joint sitting of the two houses of the Indian Parliament.

* 1931 – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Eleventh President of India

Dr. Abdul Kalam also arrived at the test site as the representative of the TBRL although he had no role whatsoever in the development of the nuclear bomb or even in the nuclear programme.

The former Indian president Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam is also famously a vegetarian.

Abdul Kalam served as the 11th President of India, succeeding K. R. Narayanan.

The NDA then put forth a third candidate Abdul Kalam as their official choice, without seeking consensus ; one opposition party ( the Samajwadi Party under Mulayam Singh Yadav ) dissipated the unity of the Opposition by supporting this proposal.

Abdul Kalam released a photo-biography, written and compiled by Dr. Sunil Kothari with a foreword by former president R. Venkataraman.

Abdul Kalam ( the " missile-man of India "), and the writer Sujatha among others.

Prominent alumni of this institute include former President Abdul Kalam and Sujatha Rangarajan.

Abdul Kalam, inaugurated a newly-constructed Indoor Sports stadium-with international standards-in November 2006.

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First he worked as Director of the Madras Institute of Technology, where one of his students was Abdul Kalam ( later Kalam became President of India and designed indigenous satellite launch vehicles and missiles ).

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Abdul Kalam, who emerged victorious .. Cap Lakshmi Sahgal breathed her last on 23 July 2012.

Abdul Kalam is elected president of India.

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Paula Julie Abdul (; born June 19, 1962 ) is an American singer-songwriter, dancer, choreographer, actress and television personality.

Abdülmecid II, ( also with various alternate spellings, including Abdul Mejid, Aakhir Khalifatul Muslimeen Sultan Abd-ul-Mejid, ( Abdülmecid, The Caliph of Islam and the servant of Medina and Mecca ) Abdul Medjit (; Abdülmecid el-Sânî ) ( May 29 / 30, 1868 – 23 August / 23 September 1944 ; reigned 19 November 1922 – 3 March 1924 )) was the last Caliph of Islam from the Ottoman Dynasty, nominally the 37th Head of the Ottoman Imperial House from 1922 to 1924.

Ghabdellatif (; Abdul Latyf, Abd al Latif ; Tatar: Ğäbdellatíf ) ( ca.

Zakir Abdul Karim Naik (; born 18 October 1965 ) is an Indian public speaker on the subject of Islam and comparative religion.

Halim Abdul Messieh El-Dabh (; born March 4, 1921 ) is an Egyptian-born American composer, performer, ethnomusicologist, and educator, who has had a career spanning six decades.

The then President of India, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam and the then chief minister of Tamil Nadu Karunanidhi were chief guests.

Radio Ceylon has produced some of the finest announcers of South Asia among them: Livy Wijemanne, Vernon Corea, Pearl Ondaatje, Tim Horshington, Greg Roskowski, Jimmy Bharucha, Mil Sansoni, Eardley Peiris, Shirley Perera, Bob Harvie, B. H. Abdul Hameed, Claude Selveratnam, Christopher Greet, Prosper Fernando, Tony de Costa, Ameen Sayani ( of Binaca Geetmala fame ), S. P. Mylvaganam ( the first Tamil Announcer on the Commercial Service ), Thevis Guruge, H. M. Gunasekera, A. W. Dharmapala, Karunaratne Abeysekera, Chitrananda Abeysekera, Kailayar Sellanainar Sivakumaran, Mervyn Jayasuriya, Vijaya Corea, Elmo Fernando, Eric Fernando, Nihal Bhareti Leon Belleth and V Sundharalingam.

* B. H. Abdul Hameed, Sri Lankan Tamil radio broadcaster

The Abdul Gafoor Mosque, built in 1859 and named after a Tamil lawyer's clerk, features Arabian-and Renaissance-style architecture.

Abdul was born in San Fernando, California to Jewish parents.

Abdul's father, Harry Abdul, was born in Aleppo, Syria, raised in Brazil, and subsequently immigrated to the United States ; her mother, Lorraine M. ( née Rykiss ), is originally from Minnedosa, Manitoba in Canada with ancestors from Russia and Ukraine, and Abdul derives Canadian citizenship through her.

* Abdul Nacer Benbrika ( born ca.

* Abdul Nasir ( Guantanamo detainee 874 ) ( born 1981 ), Afghan

" Indonesian police saya Muklas has identified Mantiqe IV's leader as Abdul Rahim-an Indonesian born Australian '.

He was born Dante Terrell Smith in Brooklyn, New York City, the son of Sheron Smith and Abdul Rahman.

* Shawn Daivari ( born 1984 ), American wrestler who has performed as " Sheik Abdul Bashir "

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Rashid Ali born as the son of Sayyad Abdul Wahhab al-Gaylani into the prominent Baghdad-based Gaylani family.

Maumoon Abdul Gayoom () ( born December 29, 1937 ) was a Dictator of the Maldives from 1978 to 2008.

Habibie was born in Parepare, South Sulawesi Province to Abdul Jalil Habibie and R. A. Tuti Marini Puspowardojo.

Salman Khan ( pronunciation: ; born Abdul Rashid Salim Salman Khan on 27 December 1965 ) is an Indian film actor.

His father, Abdul Karim, was born in Bazouriyeh, a village in Jabal Amel ( South Republic of Lebanon ) located near Tyre.

Jermaine LaJuane Jackson ( also known as Mohammad Abdul Aziz ) ( born December 11, 1954 ) is an American singer, bassist, composer, a member of The Jackson 5 and occasional film director.

Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj was born on February 8, 1903, in Alor Setar, Kedah.

Gul Agha was born by the name of Shafiq to a poor tea shop owner, who later became a famous Mujahideen commander, Haji Abdul Latif.

Arjumand Banu Begum was born in Agra into a family of Persian nobility, as a daughter of Abdul Hasan Asaf Khan, making her a niece ( and later daughter-in-law ) of Empress Nur Jehan, the wife of the emperor Jahangir.

Arjumand Banu Begum was born in Agra into a family of Persian nobility, as a daughter of Abdul Hasan Asaf Khan, making her a niece ( and later daughter-in-law ) of Empress Nur Jehan, the wife of the emperor Jahangir.

Abdul Karim Telgi ( born 1961 ) is a convicted counterfeiter from India.

* Abdul Hodge ( born 1983 ), American football linebacker