Khanna_(name)
Khanna (clan)
Clan name of north India
Khanna is a Khatri clan of the Dhai Ghar community found in Punjabi Hindu communities.[1] Individuals belonging to the clan commonly bear 'Khanna' as their family name or surname.
Activists
- Prem Krishna Khanna, Indian freedom fighter who was arrested in the Kakori conspiracy case against the British Empire, and was prosecuted
Actors
- Akshaye Khanna, Indian actor
- Chahat Khanna, Indian actress
- Gaurav Khanna, Indian actor
- Mukesh Khanna, Indian actor who played the role of Shaktimaan
- Padma Khanna (born 1949), Indian actress
- Paul Khanna, British-Indian actor
- Raashi Khanna, Indian actress
- Ragini Khanna, Indian actress
- Rahul Khanna, Indian actor
- Rajesh Khanna, Indian actor
- Ravi Khanna, Indian actor, journalist and writer
- Rinke Khanna, Indian actress
- Shalini Khanna, Indian actress
- Sucheta Khanna, Indian actress
- Tarun Khanna, Indian actor
- Twinkle Khanna, Indian actress
- Vinod Khanna, Indian actor
Athletes
- Anilkumar Khanna, Indian cricketer
- Dinesh Khanna, Indian badminton player who was first and only Indian to win a gold medal in the Badminton Asia Championships. He also won bronze medal in the Asian Games.
- Gaurav Khanna, Indian para-badminton Team Head National Coach
- Pooja Khanna, India's first ever Paralympic Archery player. She debuted at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
- Satish Khanna, Indian cricketer
- Surinder Khanna, Indian cricketer
Civil servants
- Rajinder Khanna, former chief of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), the external intelligence agency of India.
Creatives
- Amit Khanna (photographer), film director, writer, film producer, actor and fashion photographer
- Anamika Khanna, Indian fashion designer
- Balraj Khanna, Indian author and artist
- Bishamber Khanna, Indian painter and enamellist.
- Krishen Khanna, Padma Bhushan winning Indian artist
- Derek Khanna, American conservative political commentator and columnist.
- Ranjana Khanna, literary critic and theorist recognized for her interdisciplinary, feminist and internationalist contributions
- Radhika Khanna, Indian fashion designer
- Shipra Khanna, Indian celebrity chef who won the second season of the Indian television show MasterChef
- Usha Khanna, Indian music director in Hindi cinema.
- Vikas Khanna, Indian celebrity chef
Businesspeople and financiers
- Aditya Khanna, Indian entrepreneur, financier and philanthropist
- Amit Khanna, He was the founder chairman of Reliance Entertainment and former president of the Producers Guild of India
- Navin Khanna, Indian businessman and former polo player
- Nitin Khanna, Indian-born entrepreneur settled in Portland, Oregon, United States. He is the founder of MergerTech.
- S.L. Khanna, Indian businessman and doctor
- Vinod Khanna, Indian businessman
- Vipin Khanna, Indian businessman, financier and Indian Army officer
Executives
- Gopal Khanna, Minnesota's first Chief Information Officer (CIO)
- Roma Khanna, television and digital media executive. She has previously served as the CEO of Revolt TV
Lawyers
- Hans Raj Khanna, Judge in Supreme Court of India
- Sanjiv Khanna, Judge of the Supreme Court of India.
- Vikramaditya Khanna, Indo-American lawyer and professor of law at the University of Michigan Law School
Politicians
- Arvind Khanna, Indian politician, businessman, investor and philanthropist
- Avinash Rai Khanna, Indian politician who served as Vice Chairman, Indian Red Cross Society and Vice President of Bhartiya Janta Party.
- Harish Khanna, Indian politician
- Mehr Chand Khanna, Indian politician who served as the Union Minister for Rehabilitation from 1954 to 1962
- Ro Khanna (born 1976), American politician
- Suresh Kumar Khanna, Indian politician
- Tejendra Khanna, former Lieutenant Governor of Delhi
- Todar Mal, finance minister of Mughal Emperor Akbar.[2]
Scientists
- Faqir Chand Khanna, Indian nuclear physicist who was awarded the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society
- Gaurav Khanna, Indian-American black hole physicist, supercomputing innovator, academic and researcher.
- Kum Kum Khanna, Indian molecular biologist and professor. She has made discoveries in identifying single-stranded DNA binding proteins, hSSB1 and hSSB2
- Parag Khanna, Indian American specialist in geopolitics and globalization
- Rajnish Khanna, Indian-American photobiologist and research scientist at Stanford University.
- Renu Khanna Chopra, Indian scientist
- Sanjeev Khanna, Indian-American computer scientist
- Tarun Khanna (born 1968), Indian-born American academic, author, and an economic strategist. He is currently the Jorge Paulo Lemann professor at Harvard Business School
- W.H. McLeod, Louis E. Fenech (2014). Historical dictionary of Sikhism (Third ed.). Rowman & Littlefield. p. 182. ISBN 9781442236011.
- "Raja Todar Mal Khanna, b.1503 d.1589 - Ancestry®". Ancestry. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
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