Shahrukh Khan: Time Magazine has called him as probably the most recognizable actor in the world. The Guardian Newspaper has described him as the world's biggest film star on the assumption that Bollywood has a global audience of 3.6 billion as compared to
2.5 billion for Hollywood. National Geographic featured him on their cover in 2005 for their feature Inside Bollywood. March 2007 onwards, his wax figure stands along with Amitabh Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai at Madame Tussauds Wax Musuem in London. Shah Rukh Khan is without doubt the toast of Bollywood today, arguably it's most saleable actor and perhaps it's most powerful personality. All this without any connections with the Indian Film Industry which is known for its nepotism!

Birthday: 2 November, 1965.

Spouse: Gauri Khan.

Debut: He first got notice as an actor in 1988 with the TV serials Dil Darya and Fauji.

However his first release was Raj Kanwar's Deewana (1992).

Major Impact: Aditya Chopra's Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995).

Succesful Films: Yash Chopra (Dil to Paagal Hai (1997), Veer Zaara (2004)), Subhash Ghai (Pardes (1997)), Mani Ratnam (Dil se
(1998),

Sanjay Leela Bhansali (Devdas (2002)), Karan Johar (Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998), Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (2001), Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006)), Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003), Ashutosh Gowarikar (Swades (2004)), Farhan Akhtar (Don (2006)), Farah Khan

(Om Shanti Om (2007).

Awards: Won the Filmfare Best Actor Award for 8 times.

Forthcoming Bollywood film: My Name is Khan.

Facts we didn't know:

He studied in St. Columbia's school, New Delhi, where he was awarded the 'Sword of Honor', essentially the award for best student.

Although his birth name is spelled Shahrukh, he prefers and signs his name as Shah Rukh.

Purchased a villa on a man made island on the coast of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.

His son, Aryan Khan, portrayed SRK as an infant in Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... (2001).

His acting career in Bollywood was launched by his friend Vivek Vaswani and Hema Malini.

Is very scared of riding horses.

At school he was an ace in Hindi, Electronics and Biology but wasn't good at all in Mathematics.

For a short span of time Shahrukh ran a restaurant in Dariya Ganj in New Delhi, India. -Sampurn Media