V. V. Giri
Varahagiri Venkata Giri (Telugu వరాహగిరి వేంకటగిరి, Hindi वराहगिरी वेंकट गिरी, 
; born 10 August 1894 in Brahmapur; † 24 June 1980 in Madras, Tamil Nadu) was an Indian politician and President of the Republic of India from 1969 to 1974.
Giri was born into a Telugu-Brahman family in Berhampur, in what is now Odisha (then part of British India). His father was a lawyer. Both parents were active in the Indian autonomy and independence movement. Giri received his first education at the local Khallikote College. In 1913 he went to Ireland (then part of the United Kingdom) and studied at University College Dublin from 1913 to 1916. His contacts with the Irish independence movement Sinn Féin and Éamon de Valera led to his expulsion to India in 1916 after the Easter Rising. There he worked in the trade union movement and for Indian independence. After India's independence, he was High Commissioner in Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) from 1947 to 1951 and later Governor in Uttar Pradesh (1957-1960), Kerala (1960-1965) and Mysore (1965-1967). In 1967, he was elected as the Vice President of India. In 1969 after the death of Zakir Hussain, he was elected to the office of President of India on 16 August 1969 with the support of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her supporters against the official candidate of the Congress Party leadership.
