Balbir Singh Dosanjh, popularly known as Balbir Singh Senior has been a former Indian Hockey player who has represented the nation in 3 Olympic Games getting his team a Gold Medal victory at all the 3 events and has also been the Coach of the Indian Hockey tem for some time. He won three gold medals teams in the 1948, 1952 and 1956 Olympic Games And Silver Medal at the Asian Games 1958 as well as the Asian Games 1962. He is first hockey player to be awarded the Padma Shri.