Dara Singh

Dara Singh, born Deedar Singh Randhawa on 19 November 1928 in the Punjab region of India and died on 12 July 2012, was an Indian professional wrestler, actor and politician. He trained in Singapore from the late 1940s, took up the traditional Indian style of pehlwani, and then competed around the world in professional wrestling, winning the Rustam-e-Hind tournament in 1954 and the Commonwealth Championship in 1959. On 29 May 1968 he defeated Lou Thesz in Bombay to win a world championship. After retiring in 1983 he became a film and television actor, best known as Hanuman in the 1987 television Ramayan, served in the Rajya Sabha, and was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame Legacy class of 2018.