Famous sports personality

Chetan Anand Burdagunta (Born July 8, 1980) is considered by many to be one of the best male badminton players to come from India. Chetan Anand is the current highest ranked player from India in the world of badminton. He has the Arjuna Award to his name in the country.

Akhil Kumar (born March 27, 1981) is an Indian boxer from Bhiwani, Haryana.Akhil qualified for the 2008 Olympic Games beating among others, the silver medallist from the 2004 Summer Olympics - Worapoj Petchkoom at the Asian boxing qualifying tournament in Bangkok. At the Olympic event, he made his way to the second round in the Bantamweight 54 kg category beating Frenchman Ali Hallab on points 12-5. In the round of 16, he controversially beat current World Champion Sergey Vodopyanov coming from 2-6 down in the second round of the bout. The score was tied 9-9 at the end of the fourth round but the judges' decision went in Akhil's favor on account of having landed a greater number of punches ^[3]. He lost 3-10 to Veaceslav Gojan of Moldova in the quarter finals on August 18, 2008.

Akhil received the Arjuna award in 2005.

Shiv Shankar Prasad Chowrasia (born 15 May 1978), also known as "Chipputtsia", is an Indian professional golfer. After he turned professional in 1997, he went on to win eight titles on the Indian Tour and finished second twice in the Indian Open.In February 2008, he won the inaugural Indian Masters, which was a part of the 2008 European Tour