This is a list of notable Brahmins—that is, notable members of the Brahmin caste or social groups across India. Contents 1 Spiritual Persons/Saints 2 Scientists 3 Freedom Fighters 4 Nobel Prize 5 Sports 5.1 Athletics 5.2 Archery 5.3 Badminton 5.4 Chess 5.5 Cricket 5.6 Shooting 5.7 Tennis 6 Media and entertainment 7 Film stars 7.1 Actors 7.2 Actress 8 Musicians 9 Recipients of the Civilian awards 10 Recipients of the Gallantry awards 11 Literature 11.1 Authors 11.2 Novelists 11.3 Poets 12 Arts 13 Intellectuals 14 Politics 14.1 Pre Independence (British Raj) 14.2 Governor General 14.3 Speaker (Lok Sabha) 14.4 MPs and MLAs 14.5 Chief Ministers 14.6 Members of Parliament/Legislative Assembly 14.7 Presidents of India 14.8 Prime Ministers of India 15 See also 16 References 17 External links Spiritual Persons/Saints Tulsidas - Born in UP Narsinh Mehta - Born in Gujarat Swami Ramanand - Born in UP Gopalanand Swami - Born in Gujarat Akhandanand - Born in UP Eknath - Born in Maharashtra Dayananda Saraswati - Born in Gujarat Madhvacharya - Born in Karnataka Lokenath Brahmachari - Born in WB Vasudevanand Saraswati - Born in Maharashtra Brahmananda Saraswati - Born in UP Hariharananda Giri - Born in WB Gnanananda Giri - Born in Karnataka Swami Lakshmanananda - Born in Odisha Lahiri Mahasaya - Born in WB Raghavendra Swami - Born in Tamil Nadu Ramakrishna - Born in WB Ramana Maharshi - Born in Tamil Nadu Swami Rama - Born in Uttarakhand Ravi Shankar - Born in Tamil Nadu Samarth Ramdas - Born in Maharashtra Vallabha Acharya - Upasni Maharaj - Born in Maharashtra Thakur Anukulchandra - Born in Bangladesh Ramanuja - Born in Tamil Nadu Vedanta Desika - Born in Tamil Nadu Ramprasad Sen - Born in WB Brahma Chaitanya - Born in Maharashtra Scientists Aryabhata - Mathematician,Astronomer Jogesh Pati- Theoretical Physicist Varahamihira - Mathematician,Astrologer,Astronomer Brahmagupta - Mathematician,Astronomer C.V.Raman - Physicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar - Physicist 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 Wunnava Venkata Varaha Buchi Ramalingam V.V.S. Iyer Subramanya Bharathi C. Rajagopalachari Vinayak Damodar Savarkar Shivaram Rajguru- associate of Bhagat Singh and Sukhdev Babarao Savarkar Anant Kanhere -killed collector Jackson Chapekar brothers Mahadev Govind Ranade Senapati Bapat Indradeep Sinha Tanguturi Prakasham Bhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya Nobel Prize Rabindranath Tagore - Literature C. V. Raman - Physicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar - Physicist Venkatraman Ramakrishnan - Medicine/Physiology Sports Athletics Vandana Shanbagh Archery 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 Jhulan Goswami - Womens 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 - Womens Cricketer Sourav Ganguly - Opener/All Rounder/Former Captain Javagal Srinath - Fast Bowler Venkatesh Prasad - Fast Bowler Vedam Jaishankar - Cricket Correspondent V.V.S. Laxman - Batsman B.S. Chandrasekhar - Bowler Sunil Gavaskar Javagal Srinath Vinoo Mankad Yashpal Sharma Manoj Prabhakar L Sivaramakrishnan Sanjay Manjrekar ( Gundappa Ranganath Vishwanath ) ( Sunil Joshi ) ( Dilip Vengsarkar ) Shooting Vijay Kumar -Olympic medalist Anjali Bhagwat Tennis Ramanathan Krishnan Ramesh Krishnan Jaideep Mukherjea Nirupama Vaidyanathan Gaurav Natekar Rushmi Chakravarthy Media and entertainment Balshastri Jambhekar- Father of Marathi Journalism 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 - Film Director Mani Ratnam - Film Director Shankar - Film Director Suresh Krissna - Film Director Sundar C - Film Director Balaji Sakthivel - Film Director Kota Srinivasa Rao Kurumaddali Lakshmi Narasimha Rao (Suthivelu)- Comedian Kapil Sharma - Comedian Jandhyala Veera Venkata Durga Siva Subramanya Sastry- Playwright, Director Trivikram Srinivas- Director, Playwright Charu Sharma Navdeep- Side Actor Cho Ramaswamy - Actor, Playwright, Journalist Kalki Krishnamurthy - Journalist, Critic, Writer S. S. Vasan - Journalist, Writer, Advertiser, Film Producer, Director and Business tycoon Film stars Actors ravi kishan shukla Paresh Rawal Mithun Chakraborty Vikram Gokhale Manoj Joshi Tanikella Bharani Mohan Joshi Saurabh Shukla Manoj Tiwari Vinay Pathak Manoj Kumar Kamal Haasan Kumar Sanu - Singer 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 ( Guru Dutt ) K. Viswanath- Director Chittor V. Nagaiah - Actor, Singer Cho Ramaswamy S. V. Shekhar R. S. Manohar Gemini Ganesan Soumitra Chatterjee Uttam Kumar Kishore Kumar Ashok Kumar Crazy Mohan - Drama Actor/Dialogue Writer Srikanth - Tamil Actor Prasanna - Tamil Actor Ananth Nag Shankar Nag Satish Kaushik - director and famous comedian Vishal Bhardwaj Actress Bhanumathi Ramakrishna- Actor, Producer & Director Hema Malini Sowcar Janaki Madhuri Dixit Deepika Padukone Rani Mukherjee Meenakshi Seshadri Padma Lakshmi Anushka Sharma Vidya Balan Prachi Desai Vasundhara Das Priyamani Suhasini Maniratnam Ramya Krishnan Soundarya Vimala Raman Madhoo Radhika Pandit Rati Agnihotri Udita Goswami Jayalalithaa Richa Gangopadyay Shruti Hassan Sonali Bendre Lavanya Tripathi Sushmita Sen Musicians Sona Mohapatra-Singer Pritam Chakraborty-composer Kumar Sanu-singer Amit Trivedi-composer Thyagaraja- Composer Bhimsen Joshi- Singer Jitendra Abhisheki - Classical Singer 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 (Madurai Saurastrian community) P. Susheela-Singer S. Janaki-Singer Harini-Singer Tippu-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 Sundar Narayana Rao- Singer Suresh Wadkar-Singer Machas With Attitude-Rap Artists Shishir Parkhie - Singer & Composer Lata Mangeshkar Devadasi community (manushi-india.org/pdfs_issues/PDF%20files%2056/the_evolution_of_a_community.pdf) Asha BhonsleDevadasi community (manushi-india.org/pdfs_issues/PDF%20files%2056/the_evolution_of_a_community.pdf) 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 Recipients of the Civilian awards Bharat Ratna: Pandurang Vaman Kane - Sanskrit Scholar Bharat Ratna: Maharshi Dhondo Keshav Karve - Social Service Bharat Ratna: Acharya Vinoba Bhave - Social Service(Bhudan Movement) Bharat Ratna: Varahagiri Venkata Giri- civilian decoration, Indian fourth President Bharat Ratna: Sachin Tendulkar-Indian Cricketer 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 Bharat Ratna: C N R Rao Padma vibhushan: Nanaji Deshmukh - socia worker, Founder of Bharatiya Jana Sangh Party, MP of BJP. Padma Vibhushan: Sitakant Mahapatra Padma shree: Vempati Chinna Satyam- Dancer Padma Bhushan: S.P.Balasubramanyam- Singer Padma Bhushan: Rahul Dravid-Indian Cricketer Padmashree & Padma Bhushan: Kamal Hassan -Actor Padmashree: Kaasinathuni Viswanath - Actor Recipients of the Gallantry awards Param Veer Chakra: Somnath Sharma- First recipient of Indias highest gallantry award Param Veer Chakra: manoj Kumar Pandey 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 Vinda Karandikar Arvind Gokhale Bal Kolhatkar Vasant Kanetkar Arakalgud Narasinga Rao Krishna Rao Anakru Novelists 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 [(kumar vishvaas)] Arts Ravi Paranjape - visit website raviparanjape/docs/paintings.htm 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 Politics Raje Udaram Deshmukh - Ruler of Mahur, Maharashtra. 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 Indias Independence movement Lokmanya Tilak - First famous leader of Indias 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 Arun Jaitley K. V. Krishna Rao- Former Chief of the Indian Army, Former Governor of Jammu & Kashmir Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya- Engineer, Diwan of Mysore Saluva Timmarusu- Former Prime Minister of Krishna Deva Raya Tenneti Viswanadham- Freedom Fighter, Former Minister for Finance and Law Vundavalli Aruna Kumar - Congress MP, Rajahmundry, AP Sushma Swaraj - BJP Mp Nanaji Deshmukh,- Social Worker, Padma vibhushan, Founder of Bharatiya Jana Sangh Party, MP of BJP. Chief Ministers Photo Name Born Death Brahmin Sub-Cast In Office Notes Sri Krishna Sinha 21 October 1887 31 January 1961 Bhumihar Brahmin 9 December 1946 – 31 January 1961 Chief Minister of Bihar T prakasam Tanguturi Prakasam 23 August 1872 20 May 1957 Telugu Brahmin 30 April 1946 – 23 March 1947 1 October 1953 – 15 November 1954 Chief Minister of Madras Presidency Chief Minister of Andhra state P. V. Narasimha Rao P. V. Narasimha Rao 28 June 1921 23 December 2004 Telugu Brahmin 30 September 1971 - 10 January 1973 21 June 1991 – 16 May 1996 Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Prime Minister of India E. M. S. Namboodiripad E. M. S. Namboodiripad 13 June 1909 19 March 1998 Nambudiri Brahmin 5 April 1957 – 31 July 1959 6 March 1967 – 1 November 1969 Chief Minister of Kerala Ramakrishna Hegde 29 August 1926 12 January 2004 Havyaka Brahmin 10 January 1983 – 10 August 1988 Chief Minister of Karnataka Jayalalithaa Jayalalithaa Jayaraman 24 February 1948 Iyengar 24 June 1991 – 12 May 1996 14 May 2001 – 21 September 2001 2 March 2002 – 12 May 2006 16 May 2011 – Present Actor Current Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu R. Gundu Rao 8 April 1937 22 August 1993 Haryanvi Brahmin 12 January 1980 – 6 January 1983 Chief Minister of Karnataka Mamata Banerjee Mamata Banerjee 5 January 1955 Bengali Brahmin 20 May 2011 – Present Chief Minister of West Bengal Manohar Joshi 2 December 1937 Chitpavan Brahmin 14 March 1995 - 31 January 1999 Chief Minister of Maharashtra Members of Parliament/Legislative Assembly Bhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya- Andhra Pradesh MP Presidents of India Photo Name Born Death Brahmin Sub-Cast In Office Notes Pranab Mukherjee Pranab Mukherjee 11 December 1935 Bengali Brahmin 25 June 2012 – Present current president Varahagiri Venkata Giri August 10, 1894 Telugu Brahmin 23 June 1980 (aged 85) Fourth President of India, Seventh Vice President of India R. Venkataraman Ramaswamy Venkataraman 4 December 1910 27 January 2009 Tamil Brahmin 25 July 1987 - 25 July 1992 Eighth President of India, Seventh Vice President of India Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan 5 September 1888 17 April 1975 Telugu Brahmin 13 May 1962 - 13 May 1967 Shankar Dayal Sharma Shankar Dayal Sharma 19 August 1918 26 December 1999 North Indian Brahmin 25 June 1992 - 25 July 1997 Ninth President of India Prime Ministers of India Photo Name Born Death Brahmin Sub-Cast In Office Notes Atal Bihari Vajpai Atal Bihari Vajpai 25 December 1924 U. P. Brahmin 16 May 1996 - 1 June 1996 19 March 1998 - 19 May 2004 Indira Gandhi Indira Gandhi * 19 November 1917 31 October 1984 Kashmiri Pandit 24 January 1966 - 24 March 1977 14 January 1980 - 31 October 1884 First Women Prime Minister of the Republic of India Pandit Nehru Jawaharlal Nehru 14 November 1889 27 May 1964 Kashmiri Pandit 15 August 1947 -27 May 1964 First Prime Minister of the Republic of India Morarji Desai Morarji Desai 29 February 1896 10 April 1995 Anavil Brahmin 24 March 1977 - 28 July 1979 First Non-Congress Prime minister P. V. Narasimha Rao Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao 28 June 1921 23 December 2004 Telugu Brahmin 21 June 1991 - 16 May 1996
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