National / International Who’s Who 2026
This comprehensive list of National Who’s Who 2026 contains the most important names, designations, and establishment years of key constitutional, political, defense, and administrative authorities in India. Carefully compiled for competitive exam aspirants preparing for SLST, SSC, WBCS, Railway, Banking, and other government exams, this one-liner GK guide will help you quickly revise and remember the current office holders.
EDUCATION & CULTURE
| Post / Organization/Est Year | Name(2026) |
|---|---|
| Chairman, UGC (1956) | Vineet Joshi |
| VC, Delhi University (1922) | Yogesh Singh |
| VC, JNU (1969) | Shantisree Dulipudi Pandit |
| VC, BHU (1916) | Prof. Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi |
| Chancellor, Nalanda University (2010) | Arvind Pangariya |
| Chancellor, Gatishakti University | Ashwini Vaishnav |
| Director, NCERT (1961) | Dinesh Prasad Saklani |
| Chairman, CBSE (1929) | Rahul Singh |
| President, Sahitya Akademi (1954) | Madhav Kaushik |
| President, Sangeet Natak Akademi (1953) | Dr. Sandhya Purecha |
| President, Lalit Kala Akademi (1954) | Prof. V. Nagdas |
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
| Post / Organization/Est Year | Name(2026) |
|---|---|
| Chairman, ISRO (1969) | Dr. V. Narayanan |
| Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission (1948) | A.K Mohanty |
| Director, BARC (1954) | Vivek Bhasin |
| Chairman, DRDO (1958) | Samir V. Kamat |
| Director General, CSIR (1942) | Nallathamby Kalasielvi |
| Director, VSSC (1963) | Shri Rajarajan A |
SPORTS
| Post / Organization/Est Year | Name(2026) |
|---|---|
| Chairman, ICC (1909) | Jay Shah (India) |
| President, IOC (1894) | Kirsty Coventry (Zimbabwe) |
| President, World Athletics (1912) | Sebastian Coe (UK) |
| President, Indian Weightlifting Federation | Sahdev Yadav |
| President, FIH (1924) | Mohammad Tayyab Ikram |
| President, FIFA (1904) | Gianni Infantino (Italy-Switzerland) |
| President, BCCI (1928) | Mithun Manhas |
| Test Captain, BCCI | Shubman Gill |
| Head Coach, Indian Cricket Team | Gautam Gambhir |
| Director General, SAI (1984) | Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya |
| President, Wrestling Federation of India | Sanjay Singh |
| President, AIFF (1937) | Kalyan Chaubey |
| President, Hockey India (2009) | Dilip Tirkey |
| President, IOA (1927) | PT Usha |
| Chairman, PCI (Paralympic) | Shubham Chaudhary |
| President, HBCF | Dr. Ashutosh Pant |
| Gen. Secretary, HBCF | Pushpendra Singh Rathore |
| Treasurer, HBCF | Ramesh Singh |
| National President, ITCSF | Dr. Shrikant Shinde |
BANKING & FINANCE
| Post / Organization/Est Year | Name(2026) |
|---|---|
| Governor, RBI (1935) | Sanjay Malhotra (26th) |
| Deputy Governors, RBI | Poonam Gupta, Swaminathan Janakiraman, T Rabi Shankar, M. Rajeshwar Rao |
| Chairman, SBI (1955) | Challa Srinivasulu Setty |
| MD & CEO, PNB (1894) | Ashok Chandra |
| MD & CEO, ICICI Bank (1994) | Sandeep Bakshi |
| MD & CEO, HDFC Bank (1994) | Shashidhar Jagdisha |
| MD & CEO, Union Bank (1919) | Asheesh Pandey |
| MD & CEO, Central Bank (1911) | Kalyan Kumar |
| MD & CEO, Indian Bank (1907) | Binod Kumar |
| MD & CEO, Bank of Maharashtra (1935) | Nidhu Saxena |
| CEO & MD, LIC (1956) | R. Doraiswamy |
| Chairman, SIDBI (1990) | Manoj Mittal |
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
| Post / Organization/Est Year | Name (2026) |
|---|---|
| Secretary-General, UN (1945) | Antonio Guterres (Portugal) |
| President, World Bank (1944) | Ajay Banga (14th) |
| Managing Director, IMF (1944) | Kristalina Georgieva |
| Director General, WTO (1995) | Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala |
| Director General, UNESCO (1945) | Audrey Azoulay (France) |
| Secretary-General, NATO (1949) | Mark Rutte |
| Director-General, WHO (1948) | Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus |
| Secretary-General, OECD (1961) | Mathias Cormann |
GLOBAL CORPORATIONS
| Post / Organization/Est Year | Name (2026) |
|---|---|
| CEO, Google (1998) | Sundar Pichai |
| CEO, Apple (1976) | Tim Cook |
| CEO, Microsoft (1975) | Satya Nadella |
| Tata Sons (1868) / Tata Trusts (1919) | Natarajan Chandrasekaran / Siddharth Sharma |
| CEO, TCS (1968) | K. Krittivasan |
| CEO, Infosys (1981) | Salil Parekh |
| CEO, OpenAI (2015) | Sam Altman |
| CEO, SpaceX (2002) | Elon Musk |
| CEO, YouTube (2005) | Neal Mohan |
| Head, Instagram (2010) | Adam Mosseri |
| CEO, Meta (Facebook) (2004) | Mark Zuckerberg |
| CEO, X (Twitter) (2006) | Linda Yaccarino |
| CEO, Flipkart (2007) | Kalyan Krishnamurthy |
| CEO, NVIDIA (1993) | Jensen Huang |
| Co-Founder, Anthropic (2021) | Dario Amodei |
| Co-Founder, DeepMind (2010) | Demis Hassabis |
AI PLATFORMS
| AI Platform/Est Year | Company | Head (2026) |
|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT (2022) | OpenAI | Sam Altman |
| Gemini (2023) | Sundar Pichai | |
| Copilot (2023) | Microsoft | Satya Nadella |
| DeepSeek (2023) | DeepSeek AI | Liang Wenfeng |
| Claude (2023) | Anthropic | Dario Amodei |
| Meta AI (2023) | Meta | Mark Zuckerberg |
| Grok (2023) | xAI | Elon Musk |
| Watson AI (2011) | IBM | Arvind Krishna |
| Amazon AI | Amazon | Andy Jassy |
| Midjourney (2022) | Midjourney Inc. | David Holz |
⭐ MOST IMPORTANT FOR EXAMS (Quick Revision)
| Organization | Est. |
|---|---|
| RBI | 1935 |
| LIC | 1956 |
| ISRO | 1969 |
| DRDO | 1958 |
| CSIR | 1942 |
| United Nations (UN) | 1945 |
| WTO | 1995 |
| WHO | 1948 |
| UGC | 1956 |
| NCERT | 1961 |
NATIONAL WHO’S WHO 2026 – MCQ Practice Set
1. Who is the current Chairman of the University Grants Commission (UGC)?
a) Yogesh Singh
b) Vineet Joshi
c) Dinesh Prasad Saklani
d) Rahul Singh
Answer: b) Vineet Joshi
2. In which year was the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) established?
a) 1958
b) 1962
c) 1969
d) 1975
Answer: c) 1969
3. Who is the present Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)?
a) Shaktikanta Das
b) Sanjay Malhotra
c) Urjit Patel
d) Raghuram Rajan
Answer: b) Sanjay Malhotra
4. The President of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) is:
a) PT Usha
b) Narinder Batra
c) Dilip Tirkey
d) Kalyan Chaubey
Answer: a) PT Usha
5. Which of the following organizations was established in 1945?
a) World Bank
b) International Monetary Fund (IMF)
c) United Nations (UN)
d) World Trade Organization (WTO)
Answer: c) United Nations (UN)
6. Who is the CEO of Microsoft and the head of its AI platform Copilot?
a) Sundar Pichai
b) Sam Altman
c) Satya Nadella
d) Jensen Huang
Answer: c) Satya Nadella
7. The Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) was established in:
a) 1947
b) 1956
c) 1960
d) 1951
Answer: b) 1956
8. Who is the Chairman of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)?
a) Dr. V. Narayanan
b) Samir V. Kamat
c) A.K. Mohanty
d) Vivek Bhasin
Answer: b) Samir V. Kamat
9. Adam Mosseri is the Head of which social media platform?
a) Facebook
b) X (Twitter)
c) Instagram
d) YouTube
Answer: c) Instagram
10. The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) was established in:
a) 1953
b) 1961
c) 1969
d) 1972
Answer: b) 1961
BONUS QUESTION
11. Who is the CEO of OpenAI and the head of ChatGPT?
a) Elon Musk
b) Dario Amodei
c) Sam Altman
d) Sundar Pichai
Answer: c) Sam Altman
