Ghulam Dastagir

A stationmaster named Ghulam Dastagir at the Bhopal railway station refused to leave his post during the 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy. He prevented any trains from stopping at the station, saving thousands of lives even as his colleagues started dying around him. He survived the disaster, but spent the next two decades in and out of hospitals as a result of his prolonged exposure to the gas.