and contemporary style dancer; played lead role in Dil Dosti Dance Prahlad Tipanya, Kabir folksinger from Lunyakheri village; recipient of the Sangeet Natak Akademi award Mahadevi Varma, Hindi poet; freedom fighter; was married to Dr Swarup Narain Varma in Indore Johnny Walker, famous comic actor; born in Indore Kunwar Amarjeet Singh, hip-hop and contemporary style dancer; played lead role in Dil Dosti Dance Zakir Khan, Stand-up comedian, Shahbaz Khan (actor), Television actor, known for his role in "Chandrakanta" as "Kunwar Virendra Singh"; Son of Ustad Amir Khan, born and raised in indore. Mantra Well known RJ, Actor, Comedian; born and raised in Indore. Rulers, nationalists, and politicians Devi Ahilya Bai Holkar, most noted ruler of Holker State; built numerous temples, wells and dharamshalas all over India; spent most of her life in Maheshwar, then capital of the Holkars, situated on the banks of the Narmada and is said to have visited Indore only twice in her lifetime; her name is synonymous with Indore, and the university and airport are named after her Maharaja Yashwantrao Holkar, key figure in Maratha history; galvanized several years of resistance against the British Empire; was called the Napoleon of India Yeshwantrao Holkar II (born 1908), the Maharaja of Indore belonging to the Holkar dynasty of the Marathas; born in Indore Field Marshal K. M. Cariappa, first Indian Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army; studied at Daly College Indore Field Marshal Sam Bahadur Manekshaw, Commandant of the Infantry School, Mhow during the 1950s Yashoda Devi, first woman to be elected from a former princely state of India as a member of a legislative assembly Jyotiraditya Scindia, Indian Politician, former President of MPCA, Hereditary Patron of Daly College, Indore Sumitra Mahajan, Bharatiya Janata Party Leader and MP; Member of Parliament from Indore Lok Sabha constituency since 1989 Digvijay Singh, Indian politician; former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh; senior leader of the Indian National Congress political party; studied at Daly College in Indore; alumnus of Shri Govindram Seksaria Institute of Technology and Science, Indore Pushpa Devi Singh, Indian politician Sartaj Singh, PWD minister in government of Madhya Pradesh Kaptan Singh Solanki, Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party General K. Sundarji, Commandant of the College of Combat, Mhow (now known as Army War College) during the early 1980s Kailash Vijayvargiya, leader of Bharatiya Janata Party; ex-Mayor of Indore Thawar Chand Gehlot, cabinet minister in the Ministry of Social Justice