List of Kashmiri Pandits
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List of persons of Kashmiri Pandit lineage:
[edit] Philosophers and Historians
- Anandavardhana, Philosopher
- Vasugupta
- Bhatta Kallata
- Abhinavagupta, Philosopher
- Kshemaraja
- Utpaladeva
- Bhaskara
- Somananda
- Krishnadasa
- Kalhana, Historian, 12th century
- Lalleshvari, mystic and poet, 14th century
- Jonaraja, Historian, 15th century
- Shrivara, Historian, 15th century
- Prajna Bhatta, Historian, 16th century
- Swami Lakshman Joo
[edit] Administrators and diplomats
- Birbal Dhar, invited Ranjit Singh to Kashmir
- Raja Dina Nath, Diwan to Ranjit Singh
- Ram Chandra Kak, Prime minister to maharaja Hari Singh
- Mohan Lal, 1812-1877, Writer and diplomat in the Anglo-Afghan War
- Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
- R.K. Nehru, Ambassador in 50s and 60s
- Durga Prasad Dhar, Ambassador and politician
- P.N. Dhar, Economist
- Triloki Nath Kaul, Ambassador
- Braj Kumar Nehru, Diplomat
- Purushottam Narayan Haksar, Administrator
- Rameshwar Nath Kao, Intelligence chief, 1918-2002
- P.N. Kaul, Ambassador
- Vijayendra N Kaul, Present Comptroller and Auditor General of India
- Triloki Nath Khoshoo, Administrator and environmentalist
- Maharaj Krishen Kaw, Administrator
[edit] Economy & Industry
- Rahul Pandit, Entrepreneur, Started Ideogram Technology Solutions Pvt. Ltd. A Poineer in Web and Software Development. Also Developed Matavaishnodevi.com : The First website from J&K to come Online.
- Vithal Chowdhary, Entrepreneur, Started SaIInfomedia Technologies. A Poineer in Webhosting and Software Development.
- Narain Dass Raina, 19th century, Innovator of Modern Kashmiri "House Boat", a boon to current tourism also. Also father to Swami Lakshman joo (Kashmir Shaivism)(born Kashmir, died Noida(Delhi), India).
- Dr.Maharaj Krishen Raina, Economist and Indian Paper Mfr Industry Guru.
[edit] Politicians & Prominent Lawyers
- Motilal Nehru, Politician
- Jawaharlal Nehru, First prime minister of India
- Tej Bahadur Sapru, Politician and lawyer
- Kailash Nath Katju, Politician and lawyer
- Ram Chandra Kak, Archaeologist and politician
- Sanjay Gandhi, Politician
- Arun Nehru, Politician
- Vivek Tankha, Senior Advocate
[edit] Leading journalists
- Aarti Dhar
- M.K. Razdan
- Aasha Khosa
- Anil Bhatt
- Rahul Pandita
- Kaveree Bamzai
- Sandeep Bamzai
- Sumeer Kaul
- Nidhi Razdan
- Aarti Tikoo
- Shireen Bhan
- Sakal Bhatt
- Sudhir Dhar
- Smriti Kak
- Siddharth Zarabi
- Rhythma Kaul
- Amit Bhan
- Neeraj Santoshi
- Ajay Kaul
[edit] Youth Activists
- Pawan Durani, blogger & netizen
- Aaditya Dar, student activist
- Aditya Raj Kaul, youth activist
[edit] Film makers
- Arun Kaul
- Mani Kaul
- Ashok Pandit
- Siddharth Kak
- Sanjay Kak
[edit] Theatre, Radio, Television, Acting
- Bansi Kaul, Theatre director
- Moti Lal Kemmu
- Pushkar Bhan
- Pran Kishore
- Som Nath Sadhu
- M.K. Raina
- A K Hangal
- Raaj Kumar
- Jeevan
- Kiran Kumar
- Satyen Kappu
- Girja Wattal
- Satish Kaul
- Anupam Kher
- Virendra Razdan
- Soni Razdan
- K. K. Raina
- Raj Zutshi
- Tej Sapru
- Preeti Sapru
- Lalit Parimoo
- Kunal Khemu
- Upendra Khashu
- [Veena Sadhu Koul]]
- Rahul Bhat
[edit] Music
- Shobha Gurtu
- Vijay Kichlu, 1930-
- Ravi Kichlu, 1932-
- Krishen Langoo
- Trilok Gurtu, 1951 -
- Bhajan Sopori
- Kailash Mehra Sadhu,Singer
- Karrtik Dharr, Deejay
- Jawahar Wattal
- Rajinder Kachroo,Singer
- Vijay Malla,Singer
- Kailash Kher,Singer
- Aditya Dhar,Singer
- Deleep Langoo,Singer
- Sushma Kalla,Singer
- Neerja Pandit,Singer
- Veena Sadhu Koul,Singer
[edit] Painting and Art
- Dina Nath Walli
- Manohar Kaul
- Kuldeep Khosa
- Ratan Parimoo, Art historian and painter
- Ms. Kishori Kaul
- Kapil Kaul
- Veer Munshi
- Moti Dar General, Vice-Chief of Army Staff
[edit] Fiction, Poetry, Essays
- Krishna Hutheesing
- Santha Rama Rau, Writer
- Pareneeta Khar, Novelist
- Nayantara Sahgal, Novelist
- Chandrakanta (author), Novelist
- Manju Kak, Short-story writer
- Hari Kunzru, Novelist
[edit] Scholars and Writers
- Balji Nath Pandit, Sanskrit and Shaivism
- P.N. Kaul Bamzai, Historian
- Triloki Nath Madan, Sociologist
- Braj Kachru, English professor and linguist
- Pandit Nand Lal Kitroo, Educationist
- Ravinder Kumar, Historian
- Giridhari Lal Pandit, Historian of science
- Lalita Pandit, Literature
- Shakti Kak, Economics
- Jaishree Odin, Literature
- Pandit Krishna Joo Razdan, Poet and Philosopher (late19th-early20th century)
- Dr.Shashi Shekhar Toshkhani,Poet and Linguist
- P. Kachroo, Botanist
- MotiLal Saqi, Poet and Philosopher
- D.N. Fotedar, Zoologist
- Jankinath Kaul 'Kamal', Indologist
- Dinanath Yaksh, Eminent Sanskritist
- Nilkanth Gurtu, Eminent Sanskritist and Saiva Scholar
[edit] Public Service
- Rameshwari Nehru
- Dhanvanthi Rama Rau, 1893-1987, Planned parenthood
- Kashyap Bandhu
[edit] Social Reformers
[edit] Armed Forces
- tej kishen sapru, General
- B.M. Kaul, General
- Tapishwar Narain Raina, Chief of Indian Army
- Kapil Kak, Air Marshal
- S.K. Kaul, Air Chief Marshal
- Gautam Kaul, IPS
- B L Durani
- Moti Dar,General,Vice-Chief of Army Staff
[edit] Scientists
Master Samsar Chand Kaul (-1978), Environmentalist, Teacher and First Ornithologist of Asia.
Prof. Dr. Chand Kumar Atal(Dr.C.K.Atal), Former Director,R.R.L., Jammu And Kashmir (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research under Govt of India), United Nations Consultant (UNIDO), Art critic and collector.
Dr. Triloki Nath Khoshoo, Botanist/cytogenetist. Prof Panjab University, Director, National Botanical Gardens, Lucknow, Secretary of Energy, Government of India.
Dr. Awtar Krishan Ganju. Cytologist. Scientific Director, Comprehensive Cancer Center for the State of Florida, University of Miami, Florida. Scientific Director, Michigan Cancer Foundation, Detroit. USA.
Dr. Ashok Khar, Deputy Direcor, enter for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad. AP. Immunologist and Molecular Biologist.
Dr. M. K. Bhan, Pediatrician and Infectious disease Specialist. Secretary Biotechnology.
Dr. Vinod Raina, Breast Cancer Specialist; All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.
Dr. P.K.Kaw, Dr. Predhiman Kaw (1948-) is an Indian plasma physicist, who is currently the director of the Institute for Plasma Research. He received PhD from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1966. He received Padma Shri award in 1985 and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in 1986.
Dr. Rameshwar N. K Bamezai, Professor, School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi -110067, India. Ph.D. All India Instutute of Medical Sciences. Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India. UGC - Hari Om Ashram Trust- Jagdish Chander Bose Award for Research in Life Sciences for the Year 2000.
Dr. Bharat Chattoo, Dr. Chattoo is a senior professor with the Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology Centre, M.S. University of Baroda, Baroda. He has been the Head of the Department of Microbiology, M.S. University of Baroda, (1996-2001) and has been a professor since 1986. He is the Coordinator of Biotechnology Teaching Programme and the Director of Centre for Genome Research at M.S. University and is the founder Vice Chancellor of the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Jammu.
Dr. Avinash Kak (also known as Avi Kak to his friends around the world) is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University who has done pioneering research in image processing, tomography, computer vision, and computer languages. His research on machine vision and robotics is based on the credo that sensory intelligence for machines must be demonstrated using real data, since practically anything can be shown to work with synthetic data. His laboratory has performed research on sensory intelligence for the machines of the future by considering 3D object recognition, vision-guided navigation for indoor mobile robots, and task and assembly planning. With regard to the pathbreaking contributions made by Kak and his collaborators: In 1989, Chen and Kak published 3D-POLY that is still the fastest algorithm for recognizing 3D objects in depth maps. In 1992, Kosaka and Kak published FINALE, which is considered to be a computationally efficient and highly robust approach to vision-based navigation by indoor mobile robots. In 2003, a group of researchers that included Kak developed a tool for content-based image retrieval that was demonstrated by clinical trials to markedly improve the performance of radiologists. This remains the only clinically evaluated system for content-based image retrieval for radiologists. About his contributions to education, his book Principles of Computerized Tomographic Imaging, now re-published as a Classic in Applied Mathematics by SIAM (Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics), is still widely used around the world in courses dealing with modern medical imaging. His other co-authored book Digital Picture Processing is also considered to be a classic and has been one of the most widely referenced sources in literature dealing with digital image processing and computer vision. His most recent book, Programming with Objects, presents a comparative approach to the teaching and learning of two very large object-oriented languages, C++ and Java.
Dr. Autar K. Mattoo Plant Physiologist, US Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD.
Dr. Ashok Raina Supervisory Research Entomologist, US Department of Agriculture. Discovered a strain of Metarhizium anisopliae (C4-B, patent pending), very lethal particularly to FST alates. Discovered two nematodes, Rhabditis rainai n. sp. and Panagrolaimus sp. from FST.
Dr. Subhash C Kak Dr. Kak is Delaune Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, LA. He joined the LSU faculty in 1979. He has worked in the areas of wireless, data security, neural networks, information technology, and quantum information processing. His research on neural networks has focused on instantaneously trained neural networks(INNs) and their applications to prediction, data compression, and communications.
Dr. Suraj P. Bhat UCLA JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE. His research interest is in the Molecular genetics of the Development of the Vertebrate visual System/Gene Expression and Recombinant DNA technologies.
Dr. Vijay K. Kuchroo Professor of Neurology, Harvard University, Boston MA. The major focus of his research is to study the autoimmune T cell response, role of costimulatory molecules and their receptors in the induction and differentiation of T cells and identification of cell surface molecules differentially expressed on T cell subsets.
Dr. Sanjay Dhar Director of Research, Aesthetic & Plastic Surgery Institute, University of California, Irvine. His research is focussed on Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine by incorporating gene therapy and/or adult stem cells to reconstruct the critical nerve and bone defects in clinical setting.
Dr. Arun Fotedar Professor and Director of Cancer Cell Biology Program, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, San Diego. His research is to study the cancer cell biology and cell to cell communication.
Sudhir Kumar Sopory Group Leader, Plant Molecular Biology, ICGEB, New Delhi.
