Saina Nehwal

Saina Nehwal is a former Indian badminton player, born on 17 March 1990, who won 24 international titles including ten Superseries titles and reached world number one in 2015, the first Indian woman to do so. She represented India three times at the Olympics and won a bronze medal at London 2012, the first Indian badminton player to take an Olympic medal. She is the only Indian to have won a medal in every major BWF individual event, including the World Championships and the World Junior Championships, and she won two Commonwealth Games singles golds. She received the Padma Bhushan in 2016 and is credited with raising the popularity of badminton in India.