A P J Abdul Kalam

         Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam was Former Indian President and an Indian scientistwas born 15 October 1931 and administrator who served as the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007. Kalam was born and raised in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu,  Tamil Muslim family to Jainulabudeen, a boat owner and Ashiamma, a housewife, at Rameswaram, He came from a poor background and started working at an early age to supplement his family's income.After completing school, Kalam distributed newspapers to financially contribute to his father's income. In his school years, he had average grades, but was described as a bright and hardworking student.Kalam went on to attend Saint Joseph's College, Tiruchirappalli, then affiliated with the University of Madras, from where he graduated in physics in 1954.  He then moved to Madras in 1955 to aerospace engineering. 

                  After graduating from Madras Institute of Technology (MIT – Chennai) in 1960, Kalam joined Aeronautical Development Establishment of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) as a scientist. Kalam started his career by designing a small helicopter for the Indian Army, but remained unconvinced with the choice of his job at DRDO.  In 1969, Kalam was transferred to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) where he was the project director of India's first indigenous Satellite Launch Vehicle (SLV-III) which successfully deployed the Rohini  satellite in near earth's orbit in July 1980. 

                 After that he made missiles  like Earth ,Trishul ,Akash ,Pruthvi ,Agni and Nag.Agni has the capacity of 2000 km. He made so many missiles that is why he is called as the “Missile Man”,because of these missiles India is safe today. Kalam served as the 11th President of India, succeeding K R Narayanan. He won the 2002 presidential election with an electoral vote of 922,884, surpassing 107,366 votes won by Lakshmi Sahgal. He served from 25 July 2002 to 25 July 2007. Kalam was the third President of India to have been honoured with a Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour, before becoming the President. Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1954) and Dr Zakir Hussain (1963) were the earlier recipients of Bharat Ratna who later became the President of India.He was also the first scientist and the first bachelor to occupy  Rashtrapati Bhavan.  In his book India 2020, Kalam strongly advocates an action plan to develop India into a knowledge superpower and a developed nation by the year 2020. He regards his work on India's nuclear weapons programme as a way to assert India's place as a future superpower. In May 2012, Kalam launched his mission for the youth of the nation called the What Can I Give Movement with a central theme to defeat corruption. He also has interests in writing Tamil poetry and in playing veenai, a South Indian string instrument.

                     He was nominated for the MTV Youth Icon of the Year award in 2003 and in 2006. In the 2011 Hindi film I Am Kalam, Kalam is portrayed as an extremely positive influence to a poor but bright Rajasthani boy named Chhotu, who renames himself Kalam in honour of his idol. A P J Abdul Kalam's 79th birthday was recognised asWorld Student's Day by United Nations.He has also received honorary doctorates from 40 universities.

 The Government of India has honoured him with the Padma Bhushan in 1981 and the Padma Vibhushan in 1990 .  In 1997, Kalam received India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, for his immense and valuable contribution to the scientific research and modernisation of defence technology in India.In 2005, Switzerland declared 26 May as science day to commemorate Kalam's visit in the country.

He launched his mission for the youth of the nation in 2011 called the What Can I Give Movemen twith a central theme to defeat corruption in India.