Designation |
Person |
Chief of Air Staff |
Air Marshal Sir Thomas Elmhurst |
Chief of Naval Staff |
Vice Admiral R D Katari |
Commander-in-Chief of Free India |
General Sir Roy Bucher |
Commander-in-Chief, IAF |
Air Marshal Subroto Mukherjee, 1954 |
Cosmonaut |
Sqn. Ldr. Rakesh Sharma, 1984 |
Defence Minister of India |
Baldev Singh |
Field Marshal |
Sam Manekshaw, 1973 |
First female jawan in the Army |
Sapper Shanti Tigga |
First Indian (pre Independence) flying ace |
Indra Lal Roy |
First Param Vir Chakra Winner |
Major Som Nath Sharma |
Indian Chief of Staff |
General Kodandera Madappa Cariappa, 1947 |
Indian Commander-in-Chief of Free India |
General Kodandera Madappa Cariappa, 1949 |
India's first military helicopter pilot |
Air Commodore Sudhindra Kumar Majumdar |
President of Indian Republic |
Dr. Rajendra Prasad |