• Following are the some of those who directly participated and sacrificed a lot in the freedom struggle:
  • A. J. John, A. K. Fazlul Huq, A. Vaidyanatha Iyer, Abbas Tyabji, Abdul Bari, Abul Kalam Azad, Achyut Patwardhan, Ali Jawad Zaidi, Allama Iqbal, Alluri Sita Rama Raju, Amarajeevi Potti Sreeramulu, Ambikagiri Raychoudhury, Amir Chand Bombwal, Anugrah Narayan Sinha, Ashfaqulla Khan, Ashfaqullah, Atulkrishna Ghosh, Aurobindo Ghosh, Azimullah Khan, Baba Gurdit Singh, Baba Kanshi Ram, Babubhai P. Vaidya, Badal Gupta, Bagha Jatin, Bahadur Shah Zafar, Baikuntha Shukla, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Baldev Singh, Banarsi Das Gupta, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Banwari Lal, Barin Ghosh, Basawon Singh (Sinha), Batukeshwar Dutt, Benoy Basu, Bhagat Singh, Bhagwat Dayal Sharma, Bhai Balmukund, Bhai Parmanand, Bhai Ram Singh, Bhikaiji Cama, Bhola Paswan Shastri, Bholaram das, Bhulabhai Desai, Bhupendra Nath Datta, Bipin Chandra Pal, Birsa Munda, C. Subramaniam, Chakravarti Rajgopalachari, Chandrasekhar Azad, Chandrasekhar Azad, Chapekar brothers, Chempakaraman Pillai, Chittaranjan Das, Dadabhai Naoroji, Dheeran Chinnamalai, Dinesh Gupta, Dula Bhaya Kag, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, G. A. Natesan, G. Subramania Iyer, Ganesh Dutt, Ganesh Shanker Vidyarthy, Ganesh Vasudev Mavlankar, Ganga Sharan Singh (Sinha), Gokulbhai Bhatt, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Gopinath Bardoloi, Govind Ballabh Pant, Guru Radha Kishan, Hasrat Mohani, Indulal Yagnik, J. C. Kumarappa, Jagjivan Ram, Jamnalal Bajaj, Jawaharlal Nehru, Jayaprakash Narayan, Jhaverchand Meghani, Jivatram Kripalani, Joseph Baptista, K. Kamaraj, Kalki Krishnamurthy, Kamla Nehru, Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi, Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Kanhaiyalal Maneklal Munshi, Kanhu Murmu, Kartar Singh Jhabbar, Kartar Singh Sarabha, Karyanand Sharma, Kasturba Gandhi, Kayyar Kinhanna Rai, Kazi Nazrul Islam, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Khudiram Bose, Kittur Chennamma, Krishna Menon, Krishna Sinha, Lakshmi Sahgal, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Lala Lajpat Rai, Laxmi Raman Acharya, M. Bhakthavatsalam, Madan Lal Dhingra, Madan Mohan Malaviya, Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi, Mahadev Desai, Mahadev Govind Ranade, Mahatma Jyotiba Phule, Mahavarat Vidyalankar, Mahavir Tyagi, Mangal Pandey, Maniben Patel, Manilal Pandya, Manmath Nath Gupta, Manubhai Shah, Mathai Manjooran, Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Maulana Shaukat Ali, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Mohandas Gandhi, Mohanlal Pandya, Morarji Desai, Motilal Nehru, Mridula Sarabhai, Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari, Mulana Mazharul Haque, Muthulakshmi Reddi, Nabin Chandra Bardoloi, Nana Patil, Nana Sahib, Narahar Vishnu Gadgil, Narendra Dev, Narhari Parikh, O. P. Ramaswamy Reddiyar, P. Kakkan, P. Varadarajulu Naidu, Pattabhi Sitarammiaya, Pherozeshah Mehta, Prabhudas Patwari, Prafulla Chaki, Prem Krishna Khanna, Pritilata Waddedar, Pujya Mota, Pulin Behari Das, Purushottam Das Tandon, Purushottam Das Tandon, R. Chidambara Bharathi, Rabindranath Tagore, Rae Ahmed Nawaz Khan Kharal, Rafi Ahmad Kidwai, Raj Narain, Rajarshi Shahu Maharaj, Rajendra Prasad, Ram Dulari Sinha, Ram Manohar Lohia, Ram Prasad Bismil, Ram Singh, Ramavriksha Benipuri, Rammanohar Lohia, Rani Lakshmibai, Rani Laxmibai, Rani Velu Nachiyar and Maruthu Pandiyar, Rao Tula Ram, Rao Tula Ram of Rewari[7], Rash Behari Bose, Ratnappa Kumbhar, Ravi Shankar Vyas, S. K. Amin, Sachindra Nath Sanyal, Sahajanand Saraswati, Samaldas Gandhi, Sangu Ganesan, Sarat Chandra Bose, Sardar Vedaratnam, Sardul Singh Caveeshar, Sardul Singh Caveeshar, Sarojini Naidu, Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, Seth Govind Das, Shah Nawaz Khan (general), Shankar Dayal Sharma, Shankarlal Banker, Shankarlal Parikh, Sheel Bhadra Yajee, Sheikh Abdullah, Shirishkumar Mehta, Shivaram Hari Rajguru, Shivaram Rajguru, Shriram Sharma, Shyamji Krishna Varma, Sidhu Murmu, Sikander Bakht, Sikander Hyat Khan, Subhas Chandra Bose, Subramanya Bharathy, Subramanya Siva, Sukhdev, Sukhdev Thapar, Surendranath Banerjee, Surya Sen, T.Sadasivam, Tanguturi Prakasam, Tara Prasad Barooah, Taraknath Das, Tarun Ram Phukan, Tatya Tope, Tej Bahadur Sapru, Thakur Jugal Kishore Sinha, Thillaiaadi Valliammai, Tilka Manjhi, Tiruppur Kumaran, Titumir (Sayyid Mir Nisar Ali), Tribhuvandas Kishibhai Patel, U. Muthuramalingam Thevar, U.N. Dhebar, Udham Singh, Ullaskar Dutta, Usha Mehta, V. Kalyanasundaram, V. S. Srinivasa Sastri, V. Subbiah, V.O. Chidambaram Pillai, V.V.S.Aiyar, Vallabhbhai Patel, Vanchinathan, Vasudev Balwant Phadke, Veerapandiya Kattabomman, Vijayalaksmi Pandit, Vinayak Damodar (Veer) Savarkar, Vinoba Bhave, Vithalbhai Patel, Yadunandan Sharma, Yamuna Karjee, Yashpal, Yogendra Shukla, Zakir Hussain.