List of famous autobiographies – GK

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List of all Autobiographies of Famous people :

Questions on Autobiographies and their authors can be expected in the Gk section of MBA exams like IIFT, XAT, CMAT, etc. Along with the recent releases, students are also expected to know the books and authors of famous autobiographies written over time. So, here we have a list of famous autobiographies that will be useful for your MBA exam GK preparations.

A detailed list of all autobiographies of Famous personalities:

Recent Autobiographies (2021 – 2022)

Name of the Author	Name of the book	Published Year
Kathryn Warner	Philippa of Hainault- Mother of the English Nation	2022
Paul Cantor	Most Dope	2022
Ginger Zee	Natural Disaster	2022
Ann Marks	Vivian Maier Developed	2021

Note: We will keep updating this list for the entire year (2020).

Autobiographies of Presidents & Prime Ministers

Name of the author	Name of the Book	Published year
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam	Wings Of Fire	1999
Barack Obama, President of US	Dreams from my father	1996
Inder Kumar Gujral, Former Indian Prime Minister	Matters of Discretion	2011
Benazir Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan	Daughter of Destiny	1988
I.K Gujral, Indian Politician and Former PM of India	Matters Of Discretion	2011
Jawaharlal Nehru, First PM of India	An Autobiography: Toward Freedom	1936
Margaret Thatcher, Former P.M of the U.K	Margaret Thatcher: The Autobiography	N.A
Thomas Jefferson, Former President of the US	Autobiography 1743-1790	1821
Rajendra Prasad, the first president of India	Athma Katha	1946
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad	India Wins Freedom	1978
Dr. Manmohan Singh	Changing India	2019
Ronald Reagan, Former President of the US	An American Life	1990
Nelson Mandela, Former President of South Africa	Along Walk To Freedom	1994
Winston Churchill, Former PM of the UK	Memoirs of the Second World War	1959

Autobiographies of Famous Politicians:

Name of the author	Name of the Book	Published year
Bill Clinton, American Politician	My Life	2004
Benito Mussolini, Italian Politician	My Autobiography: With the political and social Doctrine of Fascism	1928
Hillary Clinton, an American politician	Living History	2003
Arjun Singh, an Indian Politician	A Grain of Sand in the Hourglass of	2012
J.B Kripalani, Indian politician	My Times, an autobiography	2004
Arjuna Siṃha – Indian political leader	A Grain of Sand in the Hourglass of Time: An Autobiography	2012
Sharad Pawar, National politician, and NCP President	Life On My Terms: From the Grassroots to the Corridors of Power:	2016
L.K. Advani	My Country My Life	2008

Autobiographies of Historical Figures:

Name of the author	Name of the Book	Published year
Adolf Hitler, a German Politician	Mein Kampf	1925
Babar, Mughal Emperor	Baburnama	16th Century
Benjamin Franklin	The Autobiography of Benjamin	1791
Bertr and Arthur William Russell,(British philosopher)	The Autobiography of Bertr and Russell	1951
Charles Robert Darwin, English Naturalist and Geologist	The Recollections of the Development of My Mind and Character	1887
Dalai Lama, Chinese Buddhist Spiritual Leader	Freedom In Exile	1991
Albert Einstein, German Physicist	Autobiographical Notes	1949
Stephen Hawking, Theoretical physicist	A Brief History Of Time	1989
K. Natwar Singh, Indian former Union Cabinet Minister and Writer	One Life Is Not Enough	2014
Khushwant singh,Indian novelist, Lawyer, Journalist and Politician	Truth, Love and a Little Malice	2002
Mohan Das Karam Chand Gandhi, Father of the Nation	My Story Of Experiments with Truth	1940s

Autobiographies of Judges:

Name of the author	Name of the Book	Published year
Mr. Subbarao – Indian Economist, Central Banker, and Civil	Who moved my interest rate ?	2016
Margaret Alva – Indian political leader	Courage & Commitment	2016
B.V. Acharya, Indian Justice	All From Memory	2014
Annachandy (the first female judge in India)	Athma Katha	1973
Fali Sam Nariman, Advocate to the Supreme Court of India	Before Memory Fades	2012
V.K.Krishna Iyer	Wandering in Many Worlds	2009

Autobiographies of Activists

Name of the Author	Name of the book	Published Year
Malala Yousafzai	I’m Malala	2014
Sita Ram Goel	How I became a Hindu	1982
Bhagat Singh, Freedom Fighter	Why am I an Atheist	1930

Autobiographies of Sportsmen and Athletes

Name of the Author	Name of the book	Published Year
Abhinav Bindra, Indian Shooter	A Shotat History: My Obsessive Journey to	2011
Novak Djokovic	Serve to win	2013
Kapil Dev, Former Indian Cricketer	Sraight From The Heart	2013
David Beckham, English former professional footballer	My World, My Side	2000
Mary Kom, Indian Boxer	Unbreakable	2013
Muhammad Ali, American former professional boxer	The Greatest: My Own Story	1975
P.T Usha, Indian athlete	Golden Girl	1987
Usain Bolt, Jamaican sprinter.	Faster Than Lightning: My Autobiography	2013
Anil Kumble	Wide Angle	2011
Shoaib Akhtar	Controversially Yours	2011
Rafael Nadar	Rafa : My story	2011
Vishwanathan Anand	Mind Master	2019
Saurav Ganguly	One Century is Not enough	2018
Yuvraj Singh, Indian Cricketer	The Test of My Life	2013
Sunil Gavaskar – Indian former cricketer	Sunny Days: An Autobiography	2014
Chris Gayle – Jamaican cricketer	Six Machine	2016
Sania Mirza – Indian professional tennis player	Ace against Odds	2016
Andre Agassi, American tennis player	Open: An autobiography	2009
Mike Tyson, American retired professional boxer	Undisputed Truth	2013
Milka Singh,Indian Track And Field Sprinter	The Race Of MyLife	2013
Matthew Hayden, former Australian cricketer	Standing My Ground	2011
Ricky Ponting,former Australian cricketer	Ponting: At the Close of Play	2013
Sachin Tendulkar, Former Indian Cricketer	Playing it My Way	2014
Saina Nehwal,Indian badminton player	Playing to win	2013
AB de Villiers – South African cricketer	AB: The Autobiography	2016

Autobiographies of Writers:

Name of the Author	Name of the book	Published Year
Anne Frank, German Writer	The Diary of a Young Girl	1947
Kamala Das – Indian author and poet	My Story	1973
Leo Tolstoy, a Russian novelist	My Confession	1884
Oscar Wilde , an Irish author, play writer and poet.	De Profundis	1897
Maxim Gorky, a Russian and Soviet writer	My Child hood	1913
Agatha Christie, English Crime Novelist	An Autobiography	1977
Khushwant Singh	Truth, Love and a Little Malice	2002

Autobiographies of Film Makers:

Name of the Author	Name of the book	Published Year
Charlie Chaplin, English comic actor and film-maker	My Autobiography	1964
Marilyn Monroe, an American actress, model, and singer	My Story	N.A
Michael Jackson – an American singer,song writer, record producer, dancer, and actor	Moon Walk	1988
Shatrughan Sinha -Actor of Hindi Cinema & Indian Politics	Anything But Khamosh: The Shatrughan Sinha Biography	2016
Shashi Kapoor – Indian film actor and film Producer	Shashi Kapoor – the Householder, the Star	2016
Akira Kurosawa, Japanese Filmmaker	Something like an Autobiography	1981
Annie Besant	Annie Besant: An Autobiography	1908
Mark Twain, an American author and Humorist	Mark Twain’s Autobiography, posthumous	1907
Dilip Kumar, an Indian film actor	The Substance And The Shadow	2014

We hope you found this article on the list of famous autobiographies useful. The current list will be updated by us routinely so do keep checking out the blog for current updates that could come in this year’s exam.

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