Famous People with Name Dattatreya

Dattatreya Laxman Patwardhan            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Dattatreya Laxman Patwardhan: He started his career in the Central Railway yard in Parel, Bombay, under the name D. Lakman Pat. As a young boy, his father had chastised him for failing 5th grade twice, and had told him that he would not be good for anything but washing buffaloes (which in Marathi sounds like "mashi") - so he expressed his desire to work with machines, not buffaloes, to his German foreman Peter Joedel. The foreman's brother Heinrich Joedel, who was the chief petty officer on the freighter Stansfels, smuggled him on board in the coal bin on a trip to Hamburg, Germany. When he was discovered, he was put to work by the ship's captain Schmidt instead of being tossed overboard. In Hamburg,

Bandaru Dattatreya            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Bandaru Dattatreya: is an Indian politician. He was the president of the Andhra Pradesh unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He is succeeded as president by Kishan Reddy. He has been elected thrice as member of parliament from Secunderabad Lok Sabha constituency in Indi