On December 30, 1943, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose hoisted the Indian flag in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands after declaring the islands free from British Rule, much before the mainland won Independence.

The islands were first occupied by Japanese forces in 1942 and they passed on the powers to Bose's Azad Hind Fauj.

But is Netaji the only famous Bose? Here are five more famous people with the same surname:

1.The revolutionary from Bengal was hanged by the British in 1908 - much before Subhas Chandra Bose jumped into the freedom struggle. Khudiram was just 18. His crime - throwing a bomb at a judge's carriage but mistakenly killing a British woman and her daughter in Muzaffarpur. Read the full July 13, 1908, court judgement here.

2.This Bose is the man who is said to have actually invented the radio, not Guglielmo Marconi. It was Bose who invented the mercury coherer along with a telephone receiver that Marconi used to receive the first radio signal. Bose never got his due even as the Nobel Prize went to Marconi

3.There is little bit of Bose in the "God Particle" too after the physicist's name was immortalised in the Higgs Boson . Reason: The famous Bose-Einstein (B-E) statistics in quantum mechanics. Physicist Paul Dirac named the new particle that follows the B-E statistics as boson. More about Bose here.





4.Bose is today a brand name too as the world's best sound system and the credit goes to Amar Bose, an Indian-American sound engineer, who founded the Bose Corporation

5. DK Bose: None one has ever seen or met this Bose, but the name evokes a cult following, courtesy this song, where he is simply asked to run for his life. Blame it on Amitabh Bhattacharya, the song writer.