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Abbreviated Titles of Some Well Known Figures

Original Name Also called
Abdul Ghaffar Khan Badshah Khan, Frontier Gandhi
Adolf Hitler Führer or Führer
Bal Gangadhar Tilak Lokmanya
Benito Mussolini IL Duce
C. F. Andrews Deenabandhu
C. N. Annadurai Anna
C. Rajagopalachari Rajaji or CR
C. R. Das Deshbandhu
Dadabhai Naoroji Grand Old Man of India
Duke of Wellington Iron Duke
Dwight David Eisenhower Ike
Earl of Warwick King Maker
Gen. Erwin Rommel Desert Fox
Florence Nightingale Lady with the Lamp
Francisco Franco El Caudillo
Geoffrey Chaucer Father of English Poetry
Jawaharlal Nehru G.B.S.
Jayaprakash Narayan J. P., Loknayak
Joan of Arc Maid of Orleans
Lal Bahadur Shastri Man of Peace
Lala Lajpat Rai Sher-E-Punjab, Punjab Kesari
M.K. Gandhi Bapu, Mahatma, Father of the Nation
M.S. Golwalkar Guruji
Madan Mohan Malaviya Mahamana
Napoleon Bonaparte Little Corporal, Man of Destiny
Narinder Datta Swami Vivekanand
Field Marshal K. M. Cariappa Kipper
Otto von Bismarck Man of Blood and Iron, Iron Chancellor
Queen Elizabeth I Maiden Queen
Rabindranath Tagore Gurudev
Rajinder Singh (Maj. Gen.) Sparrow
Samuel Langhorne Clemens Mark Twain
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Man of Iron, Strong Man of India
Sarojini Naidu Nightingale of India
Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah Sher-E-Kashmir
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Bangabandhu
Subhash Chandra Bose Netaji
Tenzing Norgay Tiger of Snows
T. Prakasam Andhra Kesari
Sir Walter Scott Wizard of the North
William Ewart Gladstone Grand Old Man of Britain
William Shakespeare Bard of Avon

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