Abbreviated Titles of Some Well Known Figures
| Original Name | Also called |
| Abdul Ghaffar Khan | Badshah Khan, Frontier Gandhi |
| Adolf Hitler | Führer or Führer |
| Bal Gangadhar Tilak | Lokmanya |
| Benito Mussolini | IL Duce |
| C. F. Andrews | Deenabandhu |
| C. N. Annadurai | Anna |
| C. Rajagopalachari | Rajaji or CR |
| C. R. Das | Deshbandhu |
| Dadabhai Naoroji | Grand Old Man of India |
| Duke of Wellington | Iron Duke |
| Dwight David Eisenhower | Ike |
| Earl of Warwick | King Maker |
| Gen. Erwin Rommel | Desert Fox |
| Florence Nightingale | Lady with the Lamp |
| Francisco Franco | El Caudillo |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | Father of English Poetry |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | G.B.S. |
| Jayaprakash Narayan | J. P., Loknayak |
| Joan of Arc | Maid of Orleans |
| Lal Bahadur Shastri | Man of Peace |
| Lala Lajpat Rai | Sher-E-Punjab, Punjab Kesari |
| M.K. Gandhi | Bapu, Mahatma, Father of the Nation |
| M.S. Golwalkar | Guruji |
| Madan Mohan Malaviya | Mahamana |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | Little Corporal, Man of Destiny |
| Narinder Datta | Swami Vivekanand |
| Field Marshal K. M. Cariappa | Kipper |
| Otto von Bismarck | Man of Blood and Iron, Iron Chancellor |
| Queen Elizabeth I | Maiden Queen |
| Rabindranath Tagore | Gurudev |
| Rajinder Singh (Maj. Gen.) | Sparrow |
| Samuel Langhorne Clemens | Mark Twain |
| Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel | Man of Iron, Strong Man of India |
| Sarojini Naidu | Nightingale of India |
| Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah | Sher-E-Kashmir |
| Sheikh Mujibur Rahman | Bangabandhu |
| Subhash Chandra Bose | Netaji |
| Tenzing Norgay | Tiger of Snows |
| T. Prakasam | Andhra Kesari |
| Sir Walter Scott | Wizard of the North |
| William Ewart Gladstone | Grand Old Man of Britain |
| William Shakespeare | Bard of Avon |