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This is a list of notable Brahmins—that is, notable members of the Brahmin caste or social groups across India.
Contents
1 Freedom Fighters2 Sports
2.1 Athletics
2.2 Archery2.3 Badminton
2.4 Chess2.5 Cricket2.6 Martial arts
2.7 Shooting2.8 Tennis
3 Media and entertainment4 Film stars
4.1 Actors
4.2 Actress5 Musicians6 Recipients of the Civilian awards7 Literature
7.1 Authors
7.2 Novelists7.3 Poets
8 Intellectuals9 Politics
9.1 Pre Independence (British Raj)9.2 Governor General9.3 Speaker (Lok Sabha)
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9.4 MPs and MLAs
9.5 Chief Ministers
9.6 Members of Parliament/Legislative Assembly9.7 Presidents of India
9.8 Prime Ministers of India10 See also
11 References
Freedom Fighters
Yogendra Shukla - Revolutionary
Baikuntha Shukla - Revolutionary
Jawaharlal Nehru - Was also part of Indian national congressChandra Shekhar Azad - Was part of Hindiustan Republican Association
Lokmanya Tilak - Was also part of Indian national congressMangal Pandey - Associated with 1857 rebellion
Rani Lakshmibai - Associated with 1857 rebellion
Swami Sahajanand Saraswati freedom fighter, peasant leaderVasudev Balwant Phadke
VanchinathanV.V.S. Iyer
Subramanya Bharathi
C. RajagopalachariVinayak Damodar Savarkar
Sports
Athletics
Vandana Shanbagh
Archery
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Dola Banerjee
Badminton
Prakash PadukoneNandu Natekar
Hrishikesh KanitkarDipankar Bhattacharya
Chess
Viswanathan Anand - World championPraveen Thipsay - Chess Grand MasterRohini KhadilkarKrishnan Sasikiran
Moheschunder BannerjeeUmakant SharmaAnupama Gokhale
Cricket
Sachin Tendulkar (opener/ all rounder) Master BlasterAjit Agarkar - all rounderAnil Kumble - Spin BowlerAvasarala Rao
Bhavaraju Venkata Krishna RaoChetan Sharma - Fast BowlerD. B. Deodhar
Dhawal Kulkarni - Fast BowlerDinesh Karthik - Wicket keeper/BatsmanE.A.S. Prasanna - Spin Bowler
S. Venkataraghavan - Spin Bowler/All rounderHrishikesh Kanitkar - BatsmanIshant Sharma - Fast Bowler
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Jhulan Goswami - Women's cricketerJoginder Sharma - Medium PacerKrishnamachari Srikanth - Opener
Murali Kartik - Slow Left Arm orthodox BowlerNilesh Kulkarni - Fast BowlerRahul Dravid - Batsman
Raju KulkarniRavi Shastri - Opener/BatsmanRavichandran Ashwin - Spin BowlerRohit Sharma - Batsman
Shubhangi Kulkarni - Women's CricketerSourav Ganguly - Opener/All Rounder/Former CaptainSunil Joshi - Spin Bowler
Suresh Raina - BatsmanJavagal Srinath - Fast BowlerVenkatesh Prasad - Fast Bowler
Vedam Jaishankar - Cricket CorrespondentV.V.S. Laxman - BatsmanB.S. Chandrasekhar - Bowler
Martial arts
Jay Ranade - Breaking World Master
Shooting
Vijay Kumar -olympic medalist
Tennis
Ramanathan KrishnanRamesh KrishnanJaideep Mukherjea
Nirupama Vaidyanathan
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Gaurav Natekar
Media and entertainment
Arnab Goswami- Editor in Chief,News TImesRajdeep Sardesai
Nidhi Razdan - Journalist at NDTV 24x7Rajeev ShuklaT P Kailasam- PlaywrightPuttanna Kanagal- DirectorGirish Kasaravalli- DirectorK. BalachanderKota Srinivasa Rao
Kurumaddali Lakshmi Narasimha Rao (Suthivelu)- ComedianJandhyala Veera Venkata Durga Siva Subramanya Sastry- Playwright, DirectorTrivikram Srinivas- Director, PlaywrightCharu Sharma
Film stars
Actors
Paresh RawalMithun ChakrabortyVikram GokhaleManoj Joshi
Tanikella BharaniMohan JoshiSaurabh ShuklaManoj TiwariVinay PathakManoj Kumar
Kamal Haasan
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Ajith KumarR. Madhavan
Chandra MohanSiddharth Narayan- PlaywrightC. Krishna Rao Gundu Rao (Nagesh)Kanta RaoVarun SandeshJ V Somayajulu
Upendra- Director, PlaywrightVishnuvardhanK. Viswanath- DirectorChittor V. Nagaiah - Actor, SingerCho RamaswamyS. V. ShekharR. S. Manohar
Gemini GanesanSanjay DuttSunil DuttSoumitra ChatterjeeUttam KumarKishore Kumar
Ashok KumarCrazy Mohan - Drama Actor/Dialogue WriterSrikanth - Tamil ActorPrasanna - Tamil ActorAnanth NagShankar Nagbharat
Satish Kaushik - director and famous comedianVishal Bhardwaj
Actress
Bhanumathi Ramakrishna- Actor, Producer & Director
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Hema MaliniMadhuri DixitDeepika PadukoneJaya BachchanRekha
Urmila MatondkarRani MukherjeeMeenakshi SeshadriPadma LakshmiAnushka SharmaVidya BalanPrachi Desai
Vasundhara DasPriyamaniTrisha KrishnanSuhasini ManiratnamRamya KrishnanSoundarya
Vimala RamanMadhooRadhika PanditRati AgnihotriUdita GoswamiJayalalitha filmographySonali Bendre
Musicians
Shreya Ghoshal-singerPritam Chakraborty-composerKumar Sanu-singerAmit Trivedi-composerThyagaraja- Composer
Bhimsen Joshi- Singer
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Mangalampalli Balamurali Krishna- Singer, Actor and ComposerGhantasala Venkateswara Rao- Singer and Composer
K. V. Mahadevan-ComposerP. B. Sreenivas-SingerT. M. Soundararajan-SingerP. Susheela-SingerS. Janaki-SingerHarini-Singer
S. P. Balasubramanyam- Singer, Actor and ComposerVani Jayaram-SingerUsha Uthup-SingerS. P. Sailaja- Singer and ActorSunitha Upadrashta - Singer/Anchor/Dubbing ArtistVidyasagar-Composer
Bharathwaj-composerHariharan-Singer and composer
Shankar Mahadevan-SingerSalil Kulkarni-Singer and Composer
UnnikrishnanSinger
Karthik-Singer and ComposerMahalaxmi Iyer-Singer
Vijay Prakash-SingerSuresh Wadkar-Singer
Machas With Attitude-Rap ArtistsShishir Parkhie - Singer & Composer
Lata Mangeshkar
Asha BhonsleJatin Lalit (Jatin Pandit & Lalit Pandit) (Rajasthani)
Vikram Pandit (Maharashtrian)Shrradha Pandit (Rajasthani/Hindi/Haryanvi)
Shweta Pandit (Rajasthani/Hindi/Haryanvi)
Yash Pandit (Rajasthani/Hindi/Haryanvi)Ravi Shankar
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Recipients of the Civilian awards
Bharat Ratna: M. S. Subbulakshmi - Carnatic Classical Music Vocalist
Bharat Ratna: Chakravarti Rajgopalachari - Independence ActivistBharat Ratna: C. V. Raman - Physicist
Bharat Ratna: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan - PhilosopherBharat Ratna: Bhagwan Das - Author
Bharat Ratna: Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya - Civil EngineerBharat Ratna: Pandit Bhimsen Joshi - Hindustani Classical Music Vocalist
Padmashree: Vempati Chinna Satyam- Dancer
Padma Bhushan: S.P.Balasubramanyam- SingerPadma Bhushan: Rahul Dravid-Indian Cricketer
Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna: Sachin Tendulkar-Indian CricketerPadmashree: Kamal Hassan -Actor
Padmashree:Kaasinathuni Viswanath - Director
Literature
Authors
Girish Karnad
S. L. Bhyrappa
Udupi Rajagopalacharya Ananthamurthy- CriticNannayya Bhattaraka- Author
Kota Shivaram Karanth- Environmentalist, ArtistJiddu Krishnamurti- Philosopher
Sudha Murty- Social Worker, PhilanthropistSamethanahalli Rama Rao
B.V.K. Sastry- Critic
Bhagavatula Siva Sankara Sastry (Arudra)P.L. Deshpande
Novelists
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Chilakamarthi Lakshmi Narasimham- Playwright
Poets
Potana
Chikkupadhyaya
Ajjada Adibhatla Narayana Dasu- PhilosopherPingali Lakshmikantamu
Veturi Sundararama Murthy- LyricistGurazada Appa Rao- Playwright
Srirangam Srinivasa Rao (Sri Sri)Sirivennala Seetha Rama Sastry- Composer
Divakarla Tirupathi Sastry
Challapilla Venkata SastryGarimella Satyanarayana- Freedom Fighter
Viswanatha SatyanarayanaRayaprolu Subbarao
Intellectuals
Pingali Venkaiah - Designer of Indian National Flag
Srinivasa Ramanujan - Renowned mathematician.Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan - Space scientist
Shakuntala Devi- "Human computer" fameN. R. Narayana Murthy- Chairman Emeritus and Co-Founder Infosys
Lakshmi Narayanan- Vice Chairman and former CEO of Cognizant Technology Solutions
Raja Ramanna- Nuclear scientistUdipi Ramachandra Rao- Space Scientist, Former Chairman of ISRO
K. V. Kamath- Chairman Infosys & ICICI BankBhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya - Founder Andhra Bank
Politics
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Pre Independence (British Raj)
Peshwas (Appointed as ministers by Maratha Kings)
Baji Rao I - Appointed as minister by Chhatrapati Shahu
Nanasaheb PeshwaMadhavrao I
Narayanrao PeshwaRaghunathrao
Madhavrao IIBaji Rao II
Nana Sahib - Associated with 1857 rebellion
Indian national congress
Gopal Krishna Gokhale - Also associated with India's Independence movement
Lokmanya Tilak - First famous leader of India's Independence movement
Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee - 1st president of Indian national congress
Governor General
C Rajagopalachari
Speaker (Lok Sabha)
G. V. MavalankarM. A. Ayyangar
Manohar Joshi
Somnath Chatterjee
MPs and MLAs
Ananth Kumar- BJP MP from Bangalore, Karnataka
K. V. Krishna Rao- Former Chief of the Indian Army, Former Governor of Jammu & Kashmir
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Saluva Timmarusu- Former Prime Minister of Krishna Deva RayaMokshagundam Visvesvarayya- Engineer, Diwan of Mysore
Tenneti Viswanadham- Freedom Fighter, Former Minister for Finance and LawArun Jaitley
Vundavalli Aruna Kumar - Congress MP, Rajahmundry, AP
Chief Ministers
Photo Name Born DeathBrahmin Sub-
CastIn Office Notes
Tanguturi Prakasam23 August1872
20 May 1957 Telugu Brahmin
30 April 1946 – 23 March
19471 October 1953 – 15
November 1954
Chief Minister of Madras
PresidencyChief Minister of Andhra
state
P. V. Narasimha
Rao28 June 1921
23 December
2004Telugu Brahmin
30 September 1971 - 10
January 197321 June 1991 – 16 May 1996
Chief Minister of Andhra
PradeshPrime Minister of India
E. M. S.
Namboodiripad13 June 1909
19 March
1998
Nambudiri
Brahmin
5 April 1957 – 31 July 19596 March 1967 – 1 November
1969
Chief Minister of Kerala
Ramakrishna
Hegde
29 August
1926
12 January
2004
Havyaka
Brahmin
10 January 1983 – 10 August
1988Chief Minister of Karnataka
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Jayalalithaa
Jayaraman
24 February1948
Brahmin-
Iyengar
24 June 1991 – 12 May 1996
14 May 2001 – 21 September20012 March 2002 – 12 May 200616 May 2011 – Present
Actor
Current Chief Minister of
Tamil Nadu
R. Gundu Rao 8 April 193722 August
1993
Haryanvi
Brahmin
12 January 1980 – 6 January
1983Chief Minister of Karnataka
Mamata Banerjee5 January
1955
Bengali
Brahmin20 May 2011 – Present
Chief Minister of West
Bengal
Members of Parliament/Legislative Assembly
Bhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya- Andhra Pradesh MP
Presidents of India
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Photo Name Born DeathBrahmin Sub-
CastIn Office Notes
Pranab Mukherjee11 December1935
BengaliBrahmin
25 June 2012 –Present
current president
Ramaswamy
Venkataraman
4 December
1910
27 January
2009Tamil Brahmin
25 July 1987 - 25
July 1992
Eighth President of India, Seventh Vice
President of India
Sarvepalli
Radhakrishnan
5 September
1888
17 April
1975
Telugu
Brahmin
13 May 1962 - 13
May 1967
Shankar DayalSharma
19 August1918
26 December1999
North IndianBrahmin
25 June 1992 - 25July 1997
Ninth President of India
V V Giri
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Prime Ministers of India
Photo Name Born DeathBrahminSub-Cast
In Office Notes
Atal Bihari Vajpai25December
1924
U. P.
Brahmin
16 May 1996 - 1 June1996
19 March 1998 - 19May 2004
Indira Gandhi *
19
November
1917
31 October1984
KashmiriPandit
24 January 1966 - 24
March 197714 January 1980 - 31
October 1884
First Women Prime Minister of theRepublic of India
Jawaharlal Nehru
14
November1889
27 May1964
KashmiriPandit
15 August 1947 - 14November 1964
First Prime Minister of the Republicof India
Morarji Desai29 February1896
10 April1995
AnavilBrahmin
24 March 1977 - 28 July1979
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Pamulaparthi VenkataNarasimha Rao
28 June
1921
23December
2004
Telugu
Brahmin
21 June 1991 - 16 May1996
Note = * - Prime Ministers who were murdered.
See also
List of Maithil BrahminList of Kashmiri PanditsList of Goud Saraswat Brahmins
List of Deshastha BrahminsList of ChitpavansList of Iyengars
List of IyersList of Deshastha Brahmin surnamesList of Telugu BrahminsList of Saraswats
References
Famous Brahmin Personality (http://www.brahmsena.com/AboutBrahmin/BrahminPersons.aspx)
REBELS-NATHURAM GODSEY
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