Narasimha Deva I or (also Lāñguḷā Narasinha Deba) was a king of of Eastern Ganga Dynasty of ancient Utkal (present day Orissa). He ruled the dynasty from 1238–1264. He has built the Konark temple, a fort complex Raibania fort in Balasore and Khirachora Gopinatha Temple of Remuna.

Deva Premal (born in 1970 in Nürnberg, Germany) is a musician known for her meditative spiritual New Age music which puts ancient Sanskrit mantras into atmospheric contemporary settings.

Deva met her partner in life and music, Miten, at the Osho Ashram in Pune, India in 1990, and they have been touring together since 1992, offering concerts and chant workshops worldwide.

Best known for her top-selling chant CDs, Deva is a classically trained musician who grew up singing mantras in a German home permeated with Eastern spirituality. Her albums have topped the New Age charts throughout the world since her first release, The Essence, featuring the Gayatri Mantra. Deva & Miten's record company, Prabhu Music, reports sales of over 900,000 albums.

Deva began her journey with mantra in her mother's womb, as her father chanted the Gayatri Mantra, one of the most sacred mantras of Hinduism, to her daily, and it continued to be her bedtime lullaby after she was born. Many years later, she heard a friend singing the Gayatri and was inspired to put together an album featuring it. She and Miten recorded The Essence in her mother's apartment in Germany, the same one in which she was born and where her parents had sung the Gayatri Mantra to her years before.

Bimal Prasad (born 1925) is an Indian historian known for his scholarship on modern Indian history.

Prasad was professor of history at University of Patna, Patna and then South Asian Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, and served as Dean, School of International Studies.

An intellectual with socialist inclinations, Prasad was associated with Jayaprakash Narayan's mass movement in 1974-75, and has written / edited several books on Narayan.

He is known for his postcolonial analysis of the Indian independence movement, particularly his work on the burgeoning foreign policy of the Indian national congress, and for his work communal relations during the British Raj. He has also written several analyses of Foreign Affairs in the South Asian region.

In addition to an impressive array of books, he has also contributed to many journals and volumes on modern Indian history

Prasad has had a long interest in the origins and ramifications of India's foreign policy, and his work on pre-independence foreign policy was a classic of postcolonial history. He is known as an expert on relations within South Asia, and has had personal connections with many leaders from the region.

Suhotra Swami or Suhotra Dasa, (born Roger Terrence Crowley, December 11, 1950, Holyoke, Massachusetts - April 8, 2007, Mayapur, India) was a HinduVaishnava author,philosopher and a leading guru in the International Society of Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). He was a governing body commissioner (GBC), an initiating spiritual master (diksa guru) and a sannyasi in ISKCON. He also served as a chairman of the GBC. Since joining ISKCON Suhotra Swami has spent much of his time lecturing and teaching in Europe, especially in Germany and Eastern European countries. Suhotra Swami authored several books on Gaudiya Vaishnava philosophy and Vedanta.

Suhotra Swami was born as Roger Terrence Crowley in Holyoke, Massachusetts. In his youth, he joined the Hippie movement in Detroit and later the Hare Krishna movement. In 1972 he became a disciple of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, receiving the name Suhotra Dasa. In the 1970s he was a part of a travelling troupe of Hare Krishnas, who were preaching all over the United States, performing kirtans on the streets and distributing spiritual literature. In 1974 Suhotra Dasa was interviewed in Houston by a reporter of the Texas Monthly magazine, who visited the local ISKCON Radha Krishna temple. When asked about an Indian guru Maharaj Ji, who was visiting Houston at the time, Suhotra Dasa said that Maharaj Ji's methods were not authorized in the Bhagavad Gita, the basic Hindu spiritual text,