Shah Rukh Khan

Shah Rukh Khan was born on 2 November 1965 into a Muslim family in New Delhi. He spent the first five years of his life in Mangalore, where his maternal grandfather, Iftikhar Ahmed, served as the chief engineer of the port in the 1960s, he also attended St. Columba's School in central Delhi where he excelled in his studies and in sports such as hockey and football and received the school's highest award, the Sword of Honour.