Tandon
Tandon is surname found among Hindu Khatris and Sikhs of Punjab, India. It is derived from a Khatri clan.[1]
Notable people
Notable people with the surname, who may or may not be affiliated to the clan, include:
- Purushottam Das Tandon, Bharat Ratna, Indian freedom fighter
- Raveena Tandon (born 1974), Indian film actress
- Prakash Narain Tandon, Indian neurosurgeon
- Prakash Tandon, entrepreneur, writer
- Sirjang Lal Tandon, Tandon PC manufacturer, founder of Tandon Corporation
- Lalji Tandon (1935–2020), Indian politician
- Lekh Tandon, Indian film actor, director
- Chandrika Tandon, trustee NYU Tandon School of Engineering
- Nina Tandon, businessperson, TED Fellow
- Ravi Tandon, producer
- Saumya Tandon, Indian television actress
- Amit Tandon, Indian singer, television actor
- Kushal Tandon, Indian model, television actor
- Gulshan Lal Tandon, former chairman of Coal India Limited
- Grace Martine Tandon, better known by her stage name Daya, American singer and song writer with partial Indian ancestry.
References
- ^ Hanks, Patrick; Coates, Richard; McClure, Peter, eds. (2016). The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland (1st ed.). Oxford University Press (OUP). p. 2623. ISBN 978-0199677764. Retrieved 17 March 2019.
Indian (Panjab): Hindu (Khatri) and Sikh, based on the name of a clan in the Khatri community