List of Baniyas
Agrawal is a Bania community found throughout Northern, Central and Western India.[1]
This is a partial list of notable/famous people who use Agrawal (or other spelling variations) or an Agrawal gotra as their surname.
Arts
- Purushottam Agrawal, writer and an ex-member of the Union Public Service Commission board
- Vinita Agrawal, poet, editor and curator
- Vasudeva Sharan Agrawala, scholar of cultural history, Sanskrit and Hindi literature, numismatics, museology, art history, and recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award
- Bhagwan Das, Bharat Ratna (India's highest civilian award) awardee[2]
- Sita Ram Goel, historian, religious and political activist, writer, and publisher in the late twentieth century
- S. N. Goenka, Padma Bhushan awardee, Vipassana meditation teacher
- Bharatendu Harishchandra, Known as the "father of modern Hindi literature and Hindi theatre"[3]
Civil servants
India
- Lav Agarwal, face of India's fight against COVID-19 pandemic[4]
- D. P. Agrawal (academic), ex-chairman of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC)
- Subhash Chandra Garg, served as executive director in the World Bank, Economic Affairs Secretary and Finance Secretary of India
- Samant Goel, incumbent chief of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW)
- L. C. Goyal, ex-Union Home Secretary
- Alok Mittal, inspector general, National Investigation Agency, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India
- Vinay Mittal, ex-chairman of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC)
United States
- Rohit Aggarwala, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection
Corporate and business
Technology and Startups
- Amit Agarwal, Country Head, Amazon India
- Ritesh Agarwal, founder and CEO, Oyo Rooms
- Bhavish Aggarwal, co-founder and CEO, Ola Cabs and Ola Electric
- Dinesh Agarwal, founder and CEO of IndiaMART
- Parag Agrawal, Ex-CEO of Twitter
- Mohit Aron, founder and CEO of Cohesity, and co-founder and CTO of Nutanix
- Binny Bansal, co-founder, Flipkart
- Jyoti Bansal, founder, AppDynamics
- Mukesh Bansal, co-founder and former CEO, Myntra, co-founder and CEO Cure Fit
- Peyush Bansal, co-founder and CEO, Lenskart
- Rohit Bansal, co-founder and COO, Snapdeal
- Sachin Bansal, co-founder, Flipkart
- Kavin Bharti Mittal, founder, hike Messenger
- Anupam Mittal, founder, People Group Shaadi.com
Other businesses
- Anil Agarwal, founder and chairman of Vedanta Limited
- Raamdeo Agrawal, co founder of Motilal Oswal Group
- Radhe Shyam Agarwal, co-founder and executive chairman of Emami
- Ramesh Chandra Agarwal, founder and chairman of Dainik Bhaskar
- Sanjay Agarwal, MD & CEO of AU Small Finance Bank
- Shishir Bajoria, Chairman, SK Bajoria Group
- Narendra Bansal, founder and owner of Intex Technologies
- Naresh Goyal, founder, Jet Airways
- Subhash Chandra, chairman of Essel Group
- Binod Chaudhary, founder and owner of Chaudhary Group in Nepal
- Sanjay Dalmia, chairman of Dalmia group
- Rohtas Goel, founder of Omaxe
- Qimat Rai Gupta,Founder and MD Havells
- Om Prakash Jindal, founder and owner of the Jindal Group
- Savitri Jindal, chairperson of JSW Steel
- Lakshman Das Mittal, owner and chairman of Sonalika Group
- Lakshmi Mittal, chairman and CEO of ArcelorMittal
- Som Mittal, former president of NASSCOM
- Sunil Mittal, founder and chairman of Bharti Airtel
- B. K. Syngal, telecom exec
Entertainment industry
- Aarthi Agarwal, actress
- Ananya Agarwal, actress
- Anirudh Agarwal, actor
- Anu Aggarwal, actress
- Abhishek Agarwal (film producer)
- Divya Agarwal, actress
- Kajal Aggarwal, actress
- Mansi Aggarwal, choreographer
- Nidhhi Agerwal, actress
- Nisha Agarwal, actress
- Ravi Agrawal (film producer), movie producer
- Reena Aggarwal, actress
- Sakshi Agarwal, actress
- Shruti Agarwal, actress
- Smita Bansal, actress
- Sonia Agarwal, actress
- Vivek Agrawal, movie producer
- Devendra Goel, director and producer
- Vipul Goyal, standup comedian
- Aditi Mittal, standup comedian, actress, and writer
Law
- Ajay Agarwal
- Adish Aggarwala, jurist and the President of International Council of Jurists
- Rajesh Bindal, acting Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court
- Adarsh Kumar Goel, Supreme Court of India judge
- Manju Goel, Delhi High Court Judge
- Mahesh Mittal Kumar, Chairman of National Company Law Tribunal
- Ajay Kumar Mittal, Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court
- Gita Mittal, Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir High Court
Politics and activists
Activists
- Sir Ganga Ram Agrawal, civil engineer and architect known as "the father of modern-day Lahore"[5]
- Ajay Goyal, A global entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist and writer.
- Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian author, freedom fighter, and politician. He played a pivotal role in the Indian Independence movement.[6][7]
- Ashok Singhal, president of Vishva Hindu Parishad and in charge of Ram Janmabhoomi movement
United States
- Amit Agarwal, Solicitor General of Florida
- Jay Goyal, member of the Ohio House of Representatives
- Bobby Jindal, former governor of Louisiana
India
- Alok Agarwal
- Amar Nath Agarwal
- Bed Prakash Agarwal
- Dhirendra Agarwal
- Lakkhiram Agarwal
- Mukund Lal Agrawal
- Radha Mohan Das Agarwal
- Rajesh Agarwal
- Ramdas Agarwal
- Satish Chandra Agarwal
- Satya Prakash Agarwal
- Sudarshan Agarwal
- Tulsi Agarwal
- Faqir Chand Aggarwal
- Jai Bhagwan Aggarwal
- Jai Parkash Aggarwal
- Kapil Dev Aggarwal
- Mira Aggarwal
- Premchand Aggarwal
- Umesh Aggarwal
- Amar Agrawal
- Brijmohan Agrawal
- Devendra Agrawal
- Dinesh Agrawal
- Gaurishankar Agrawal
- Gopaldas Shankarlal Agrawal
- Jai Singh Agrawal
- Jagannath Prasad Agrawal
- Manoj Kumar Agrawal
- Naresh Chandra Agrawal
- Nitin Agrawal
- Rajendra Agrawal
- Vinod Agrawal (politician)
- Pawan Kumar Bansal, ex-Minister of Railways, Government of India
- Sunil Bansal
- Suresh Bansal
- Vijay Bansal
- Vinod Singh Bansal
- Rajeev Bindal
- Atul Garg
- Jagan Prasad Garg
- Mange Ram Garg
- Parkash Chand Garg
- Pukhraj Garg
- Rajesh Garg
- Sanjay Garg
- Aseem Goel
- Charti Lal Goel
- Ram Niwas Goel
- Shiv Charan Goel
- Surendra Prakash Goel
- Vijay Goel (politician)
- Chandrakanta Goyal
- Jai Bhagwan Goyal
- Krishana Kumar Goyal
- Mohinder Goyal
- Piyush Goyal, Minister of Railways, Minister of Commerce & Industry, Government of India
- Ved Prakash Goyal
- Gopal Goyal Kanda
- Arvind Kejriwal, Chief Minister of Delhi
- Kamini Jindal
- Ashok Kumar Mittal, Member of Parliament in Rajya Sabha, Chancellor of Lovely Professional University
- Madan Mohan Mittal
- Rajnish Kumar Mittal
- Sat Paul Mittal
- Sudhanshu Mittal
- Ashok Singhal (politician)
- Banwari Lal Singhal
- Mangat Ram Singhal
- Ram Kishan Singhal
- Shailendra Mohan Singhal
- Harsh Vardhan, Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Minister of Science and Technology, Minister of Earth Sciences, Government of India
- Vijender Garg Vijay
Science and technology
- Anant Agarwal, professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, founder and CEO of edX, founder and CTO of Tilera
- Anil Agarwal, Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan awardee elected to the Global 500 Roll of Honour by the United Nations Environment Programme
- Anurag Agrawal - director of the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize awardee
- G. D. Agrawal, Indian environmental engineer, religious leader, monk, environmental activist, professor, and Patron of Ganga Mahasabha founded by Madan Mohan Malviya in 1905
- Girish Saran Agarwal, theoretical physicist, member of Royal Society UK
- Manindra Agrawal, Deputy Director, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and Padma Shri awardee
- Rakesh Agrawal (chemical engineer), Winthrop E. Stone Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University
- Rakesh Agrawal (computer scientist), Technical Fellow at the Microsoft Search Labs, author of the 1st as well as 2nd highest cited of all papers in the fields of databases and data mining))
- Ram Narain Agarwal, aerospace engineer; Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan awardee, considered the father of the Agni series of the ballistic missiles
- Ramesh K. Agarwal, aviation pioneer; William Palm Professor of Engineering at Washington University
- Anita Goel, Harvard-MIT physicist, physician; expert in nanobiophysics and nanotechnology; chairman and CEO of Nanobiosym; inventor of Gene-RADAR technology
- Amit Goyal, scientist and inventor
- Jai Pal Mittal, Fellow of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre and Distinguished Professor of Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai
- Amit Singhal, Google Fellow and head of Google Search team for 15 years
Sports
- Asha Agarwal, Arjuna Award winner
- Mayank Agarwal, Indian cricket team member
- Sam Agarwal
- Sandhya Agarwal, former captain of Indian women's cricket team
- Subhash Agarwal, Arjuna Award winner, coach of India's national billiards team
- Krishnan Kumar Aggarwal
- Neha Aggarwal
- Premlata Agrawal, first Indian woman to scale the Seven Summits
- Vantika Agrawal, Woman Grandmaster (Chess)
- Pushpendra Kumar Garg, Khel Ratna Award winner
- Priyam Garg, captain of Indian U-19 Men's cricket team
- Malaika Goel
- Suresh Goel, Arjuna Award winner
- Neha Goyal, Olympian[8]
- Sanjiwan Goyal
- Ankur Mittal
See also
References
- ^ Hanks, Patrick (8 May 2003). Dictionary of American Family Names. Oxford University Press. p. xcvi. ISBN 978-0-19-977169-1.
The Banias of northern India are really a cluster of several communities, of which the Agarwal Banias, Oswal Banias, and Porwal Banias are mentioned separately in connection with certain surnames.
- ^ John Gallagher; Gordon Johnson; Anil Seal (1973). Locality, Province and Nation: Essays on Indian Politics 1870 to 1940. CUP Archive. pp. 45–. ISBN 978-0-521-09811-3.
- ^ "Remembering Bharatendu Harishchandra on Hindi Divas, a man whose work fortified the language". 14 September 2019.
- ^ "Health ministry official Lav Agarwal, face of India's Covid briefings, tests positive for coronavirus".
- ^ "Sir Ganga Ram: The pride of Lahore | Pakistan Today".
- ^ "Sub Division, Jagraon, Punjab". www.jagraonadministration.in. Retrieved 2022-04-20.
- ^ "Indian National Congress". Indian National Congress. Retrieved 2022-04-20.
- ^ "In pics: India's women's hockey team celebrates its stunning victory over Australia".
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