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Gupta (Hindi: गुप्ता) is a surname of Indian origin. Gupta is a common surname in India, but it is uncertain whether there was one parent clan from which all families with Gupta surname branched. According to the historian R. C. Majumdar, it is more probable that different families without any connection adopted this name at different times.[1] However, in northern India, most of Guptas belong to the Aggarwal community.
Gupta can refer to:
Rulers of Gupta Empire
- Maharaja Sri-Gupta
- Ghatotkacha (Gupta Ruler), father of Chandragupta I
- Chandragupta I, considered as the first Gupta emperor
- Samudragupta
- Chandragupta II, also known as Chandragupta Vikramaditya
- Kumaragupta I (Mahendraditya)
- Skandagupta, considered as the last Gupta emperor
- Vishnugupta
Other figures from ancient India
- Vishnugupta, another name for Chanakya
- Brahmagupta (589–668), Indian mathematician and astronomer
Academics
- Amar Gupta, professor and scientist
- Amlan Das Gupta, Indian professor of English in Jadavpur University, Kolkata
- M K Das Gupta, Indian professor and scientist
- Modadugu Vijay Gupta, Indian biologist
- Navarun Gupta, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at University of Bridgeport
- Akhil Gupta, professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, notable scholar in the field of social and cultural anthropology
Business and Management
- D. K. Gupta, founder of the publishing house Signet Press in Kolkata, India
- Mahendra Mohan Gupta, owner of the Dainik Jagran group of Hindi newspapers
- N. C. Sen Gupta, eleventh Governor of the Reserve Bank of India
- Rajat Gupta, United Nations special advisor on management reforms
- Rajat Gupta, former Head of McKinsey Consulting
- Rajiv Gupta, general manager of Hewlett Packard's E-speak project
- Vinod Gupta, chairman and CEO of infoUSA
Entertainment industry
- Anara Gupta, Indian model
- Anil Gupta, British writer and producer (radio and television)
- Buddhadev Das Gupta, Indian classical sarod musician and teacher
- Deepti Gupta, American actress of Indian origin
- Neena Gupta, Indian actress
- Partho Sen-Gupta, Indian film director and script writer
- Puja Gupta, winner of Miss India Universe in 2007
- Tanika Gupta, British playwright of Indian origin
- Sanjay Gupta, Bollywood director
- Yana Gupta, Indian model-actress of Czech-origin
Literature
- Baldev Raj Gupta, Indian writer
- Ishwar Chandra Gupta, Indian Bengali poet and writer
- Jagadish Gupta, Bengali poet and writer
Politics
- Chaman Lal Gupta, former minister of state in Government of India
- Indrajit Gupta, Indian Communist leader, Union Minister for Home Affairs during 1996-98
- Ram Prakash Gupta, Indian politicianl; former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh and governor of Madhya Pradesh
- Shyama Charan Gupta, Indian politician
Revolutionaries
- Badal Gupta, Indian revolutionary
- Dinesh Gupta, Indian revolutionary
- Manmath Nath Gupta, Indian revolutionary and author of autobiographical, historical and fictional books in Hindi, English and Bengali
- Niranjan Sen Gupta, Indian revolutionary
- Nolini Kanta Gupta, Indian revolutionary, linguist, scholar, crific, poet, philosopher and mystic
Sports
- Abhinn Shyam Gupta, Indian badminton player
- Pankaj Gupta, Indian sports administrators
- Sandip Gupta, Kenyan cricketer
- Abhijeet Gupta, Indian chess player
Other
- Aghore Nath Gupta, an Indian scholar of Buddhism and a preacher of the Brahmo Samaj
- Lala Hansraj Gupta, Indian educationist, social worker and philanthropist
- Lala Ram Prakash Gupta, Indian social worker and participant in the Indian Independence movement and Bhoodan movement
- Mahendranath Gupta, Indian spiritual writer and disciple of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
- Rohit Gupta, Indian polymath and artist
- S. P. Gupta, Indian archaeologist and art historian
- Dr. Sanjay Gupta, American neurosurgeon and CNN senior medical correspondent
- Sunil Gupta, Indian-born Canadian photographer
See also
- Gupta script (or Gupta Brahmi), the script used for writing Sanskrit during Gupta Empire in India
- Gupta Technologies, a software development company
- Gupta-Bleuler formalism, a way of quantizing the electromagnetic field
- Vinod Gupta School of Management
References
- ^ Majumdar, Ramesh Chandra (1986). Vakataka Gupta Age: circa 200-550 A.D. Motilal Banarsidass Publ. p. 126. ISBN 8120800265.
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