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List of Brahmins From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is a list of notable Brahmins—that is, notable members of the Brahmin caste or social groups across India.

Contents 1 Freedom Fighters 2 Sports 2.1 Athletics 2.2 Archery 2.3 Badminton 2.4 Chess 2.5 Cricket 2.6 Martial arts 2.7 Shooting 2.8 Tennis 3 Media and entertainment 4 Film stars 4.1 Actors 4.2 Actress 5 Musicians 6 Recipients of the Civilian awards 7 Literature 7.1 Authors 7.2 Novelists 7.3 Poets 8 Intellectuals 9 Politics 9.1 Pre Independence (British Raj) 9.2 Governor General 9.3 Speaker (Lok Sabha) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Brahmins#References

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9.4 MPs and MLAs 9.5 Chief Ministers 9.6 Members of Parliament/Legislative Assembly 9.7 Presidents of India 9.8 Prime Ministers of India 10 See also 11 References

Freedom Fighters Yogendra Shukla - Revolutionary Baikuntha Shukla - Revolutionary Jawaharlal Nehru - Was also part of Indian national congress Chandra Shekhar Azad - Was part of Hindiustan Republican Association Lokmanya Tilak - Was also part of Indian national congress Mangal Pandey - Associated with 1857 rebellion Rani Lakshmibai - Associated with 1857 rebellion Swami Sahajanand Saraswati freedom fighter, peasant leader Vasudev Balwant Phadke Vanchinathan V.V.S. Iyer Subramanya Bharathi C. Rajagopalachari Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

Sports Athletics Vandana Shanbagh

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Dola Banerjee

Badminton Prakash Padukone Nandu Natekar Hrishikesh Kanitkar Dipankar Bhattacharya

Chess Viswanathan Anand - World champion Praveen Thipsay - Chess Grand Master Rohini Khadilkar Krishnan Sasikiran Moheschunder Bannerjee Umakant Sharma Anupama Gokhale

Cricket Sachin Tendulkar (opener/ all rounder) Master Blaster Ajit Agarkar - all rounder Anil Kumble - Spin Bowler Avasarala Rao Bhavaraju Venkata Krishna Rao Chetan Sharma - Fast Bowler D. B. Deodhar Dhawal Kulkarni - Fast Bowler Dinesh Karthik - Wicket keeper/Batsman E.A.S. Prasanna - Spin Bowler S. Venkataraghavan - Spin Bowler/All rounder Hrishikesh Kanitkar - Batsman Ishant Sharma - Fast Bowler en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Brahmins#References

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Jhulan Goswami - Women's cricketer Joginder Sharma - Medium Pacer Krishnamachari Srikanth - Opener Murali Kartik - Slow Left Arm orthodox Bowler Nilesh Kulkarni - Fast Bowler Rahul Dravid - Batsman Raju Kulkarni Ravi Shastri - Opener/Batsman Ravichandran Ashwin - Spin Bowler Rohit Sharma - Batsman Shubhangi Kulkarni - Women's Cricketer Sourav Ganguly - Opener/All Rounder/Former Captain Sunil Joshi - Spin Bowler Suresh Raina - Batsman Javagal Srinath - Fast Bowler Venkatesh Prasad - Fast Bowler Vedam Jaishankar - Cricket Correspondent V.V.S. Laxman - Batsman B.S. Chandrasekhar - Bowler

Martial arts Jay Ranade - Breaking World Master

Shooting Vijay Kumar -olympic medalist

Tennis Ramanathan Krishnan Ramesh Krishnan Jaideep Mukherjea Nirupama Vaidyanathan en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Brahmins#References

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Gaurav Natekar

Media and entertainment Arnab Goswami- Editor in Chief,News TImes Rajdeep Sardesai Nidhi Razdan - Journalist at NDTV 24x7 Rajeev Shukla T P Kailasam- Playwright Puttanna Kanagal- Director Girish Kasaravalli- Director K. Balachander Kota Srinivasa Rao Kurumaddali Lakshmi Narasimha Rao (Suthivelu)- Comedian Jandhyala Veera Venkata Durga Siva Subramanya Sastry- Playwright, Director Trivikram Srinivas- Director, Playwright Charu Sharma

Film stars Actors Paresh Rawal Mithun Chakraborty Vikram Gokhale Manoj Joshi Tanikella Bharani Mohan Joshi Saurabh Shukla Manoj Tiwari Vinay Pathak Manoj Kumar Kamal Haasan en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Brahmins#References

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Ajith Kumar R. Madhavan Chandra Mohan Siddharth Narayan- Playwright C. Krishna Rao Gundu Rao (Nagesh) Kanta Rao Varun Sandesh J V Somayajulu Upendra- Director, Playwright Vishnuvardhan K. Viswanath- Director Chittor V. Nagaiah - Actor, Singer Cho Ramaswamy S. V. Shekhar R. S. Manohar Gemini Ganesan Sanjay Dutt Sunil Dutt Soumitra Chatterjee Uttam Kumar Kishore Kumar Ashok Kumar Crazy Mohan - Drama Actor/Dialogue Writer Srikanth - Tamil Actor Prasanna - Tamil Actor Ananth Nag Shankar Nag bharat Satish Kaushik - director and famous comedian Vishal Bhardwaj

Actress Bhanumathi Ramakrishna- Actor, Producer & Director en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Brahmins#References

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Hema Malini Madhuri Dixit Deepika Padukone Jaya Bachchan Rekha Urmila Matondkar Rani Mukherjee Meenakshi Seshadri Padma Lakshmi Anushka Sharma Vidya Balan Prachi Desai Vasundhara Das Priyamani Trisha Krishnan Suhasini Maniratnam Ramya Krishnan Soundarya Vimala Raman Madhoo Radhika Pandit Rati Agnihotri Udita Goswami Jayalalitha filmography Sonali Bendre

Musicians Shreya Ghoshal-singer Pritam Chakraborty-composer Kumar Sanu-singer Amit Trivedi-composer Thyagaraja- Composer Bhimsen Joshi- Singer en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Brahmins#References

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Mangalampalli Balamurali Krishna- Singer, Actor and Composer Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao- Singer and Composer K. V. Mahadevan-Composer P. B. Sreenivas-Singer T. M. Soundararajan-Singer P. Susheela-Singer S. Janaki-Singer Harini-Singer S. P. Balasubramanyam- Singer, Actor and Composer Vani Jayaram-Singer Usha Uthup-Singer S. P. Sailaja- Singer and Actor Sunitha Upadrashta - Singer/Anchor/Dubbing Artist Vidyasagar-Composer Bharathwaj-composer Hariharan-Singer and composer Shankar Mahadevan-Singer Salil Kulkarni-Singer and Composer UnnikrishnanSinger Karthik-Singer and Composer Mahalaxmi Iyer-Singer Vijay Prakash-Singer Suresh Wadkar-Singer Machas With Attitude-Rap Artists Shishir Parkhie - Singer & Composer Lata Mangeshkar Asha Bhonsle Jatin 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 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Brahmins#References

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Recipients of the Civilian awards Bharat Ratna: M. S. Subbulakshmi - Carnatic Classical Music Vocalist Bharat Ratna: Chakravarti Rajgopalachari - Independence Activist Bharat Ratna: C. V. Raman - Physicist Bharat Ratna: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan - Philosopher Bharat Ratna: Bhagwan Das - Author Bharat Ratna: Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya - Civil Engineer Bharat Ratna: Pandit Bhimsen Joshi - Hindustani Classical Music Vocalist Padmashree: Vempati Chinna Satyam- Dancer Padma Bhushan: S.P.Balasubramanyam- Singer Padma Bhushan: Rahul Dravid-Indian Cricketer Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna: Sachin Tendulkar-Indian Cricketer Padmashree: Kamal Hassan -Actor Padmashree:Kaasinathuni Viswanath - Director

Literature Authors Girish Karnad S. L. Bhyrappa Udupi Rajagopalacharya Ananthamurthy- Critic Nannayya Bhattaraka- Author Kota Shivaram Karanth- Environmentalist, Artist Jiddu Krishnamurti- Philosopher Sudha Murty- Social Worker, Philanthropist Samethanahalli Rama Rao B.V.K. Sastry- Critic Bhagavatula Siva Sankara Sastry (Arudra) P.L. Deshpande

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Chilakamarthi Lakshmi Narasimham- Playwright

Poets Potana Chikkupadhyaya Ajjada Adibhatla Narayana Dasu- Philosopher Pingali Lakshmikantamu Veturi Sundararama Murthy- Lyricist Gurazada Appa Rao- Playwright Srirangam Srinivasa Rao (Sri Sri) Sirivennala Seetha Rama Sastry- Composer Divakarla Tirupathi Sastry Challapilla Venkata Sastry Garimella Satyanarayana- Freedom Fighter Viswanatha Satyanarayana Rayaprolu Subbarao

Intellectuals Pingali Venkaiah - Designer of Indian National Flag Srinivasa Ramanujan - Renowned mathematician. Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan - Space scientist Shakuntala Devi- "Human computer" fame N. R. Narayana Murthy- Chairman Emeritus and Co-Founder Infosys Lakshmi Narayanan- Vice Chairman and former CEO of Cognizant Technology Solutions Raja Ramanna- Nuclear scientist Udipi Ramachandra Rao- Space Scientist, Former Chairman of ISRO K. V. Kamath- Chairman Infosys & ICICI Bank Bhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya - Founder Andhra Bank

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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 Peshwa Madhavrao I Narayanrao Peshwa Raghunathrao Madhavrao II Baji 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. Mavalankar M. 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 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Brahmins#References

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Saluva Timmarusu- Former Prime Minister of Krishna Deva Raya Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya- Engineer, Diwan of Mysore Tenneti Viswanadham- Freedom Fighter, Former Minister for Finance and Law Arun Jaitley Vundavalli Aruna Kumar - Congress MP, Rajahmundry, AP

Chief Ministers Photo

Name

Born

Death

Brahmin SubCast

In Office

30 April 1946 – 23 March 1947 Telugu Brahmin 1 October 1953 – 15 November 1954

Notes

Chief Minister of Madras Presidency Chief Minister of Andhra state

Tanguturi Prakasam

23 August 1872

P. V. Narasimha Rao

23 December 28 June 1921 2004

30 September 1971 - 10 Chief Minister of Andhra Telugu Brahmin January 1973 Pradesh 21 June 1991 – 16 May 1996 Prime Minister of India

E. M. S. Namboodiripad

19 March 13 June 1909 1998

Nambudiri Brahmin

5 April 1957 – 31 July 1959 6 March 1967 – 1 November Chief Minister of Kerala 1969

Ramakrishna Hegde

29 August 1926

Havyaka Brahmin

10 January 1983 – 10 August 1988

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20 May 1957

12 January 2004

Chief Minister of Karnataka

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24 June 1991 – 12 May 1996

Jayalalithaa Jayaraman

24 February 1948

R. Gundu Rao

8 April 1937

Mamata Banerjee

5 January 1955

22 August 1993

BrahminIyengar

14 May 2001 – 21 September Actor 2001 Current Chief Minister of 2 March 2002 – 12 May 2006 Tamil Nadu 16 May 2011 – Present

Haryanvi Brahmin

12 January 1980 – 6 January 1983

Chief Minister of Karnataka

Bengali Brahmin

20 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

Death

Brahmin SubCast

Name

Born

Pranab Mukherjee

11 December 1935

Bengali Brahmin

25 June 2012 – Present

current president

Ramaswamy Venkataraman

4 December 27 January 1910 2009

Tamil Brahmin

25 July 1987 - 25 July 1992

Eighth President of India, Seventh Vice President of India

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

5 September 17 April 1888 1975

Telugu Brahmin

13 May 1962 - 13 May 1967

Shankar Dayal Sharma

19 August 1918

26 December North Indian 1999 Brahmin

In Office

25 June 1992 - 25 July 1997

Notes

Ninth President of India

V V Giri

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Name

Born

Atal Bihari Vajpai

25 December 1924

Indira Gandhi *

19 November 1917

Jawaharlal Nehru

14 November 1889

Morarji Desai

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Death

Brahmin Sub-Cast

U. P. Brahmin

In Office

Notes

16 May 1996 - 1 June 1996 19 March 1998 - 19 May 2004

31 October Kashmiri 1984 Pandit

24 January 1966 - 24 March 1977 14 January 1980 - 31 October 1884

First Women Prime Minister of the Republic of India

27 May 1964

Kashmiri Pandit

15 August 1947 - 14 November 1964

First Prime Minister of the Republic of India

29 February 10 April 1896 1995

Anavil Brahmin

24 March 1977 - 28 July 1979

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Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao

28 June 1921

23 December 2004

Telugu Brahmin

21 June 1991 - 16 May 1996

Note = * - Prime Ministers who were murdered.

See also List of Maithil Brahmin List of Kashmiri Pandits List of Goud Saraswat Brahmins List of Deshastha Brahmins List of Chitpavans List of Iyengars List of Iyers List of Deshastha Brahmin surnames List of Telugu Brahmins List of Saraswats

References Famous Brahmin Personality (http://www.brahmsena.com/AboutBrahmin/BrahminPersons.aspx) REBELS-NATHURAM GODSEY Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Brahmins&oldid=575248316" Categories: Lists of Indian people by community Brahmins Indian castes en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Brahmins#References

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