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Chakravarti Rajagopalachari
- Popularly known as Rajaji or C.R., also known as Mootharignar Rajaji
- Last (and only Indian-born) Governor-General of India
- Founder of the Swatantra Party
- One of the first recipients of India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna (1954)
- Criticized for introducing the compulsory study of Hindi. When the Anti-Hindi agitations broke out in 1965, Rajagopalachari completely reversed his 1938 support for the introduction of Hindi and took a strongly anti-Hindi stand in support of the protests, coining the slogan ‘English Ever, Hindi Never’.
- Rajagopalachari's daughter Lakshmi married Devdas Gandhi, son of Mahatma Gandhi. His grandsons include biographer Rajmohan Gandhi, philosopher Ramchandra Gandhi and former governor of West Bengal Gopalkrishna Gandhi.
