Pant (surname)
Pant or Panta/Pantha (Hindi: पंत) (Nepali: पन्त/पन्थ) are a group of surnames which are prevalent in India and Nepal.
Pant is part of a compound of North Indian and Marathi surnames of people with a Hindu Brahmin background. The Pant surname is derived from the title pandit, symbolizing the community's traditional commitment to scholarship.
People with Pant in their surname belong to the Marathi Brahmin and Kumauni Brahmin community, originally centered in Uttarakhand and to a lesser extent, Nepal. The ancestors of these families migrated from the western India, particularly from the Konkan area of Maharashtra to their current Himalayan home. Brahmins in Konkan area still retain "Pant" title in the middle names to indicate ancestral claims to ministership or high scholarship [citation needed]
Notable people
- Aditi Pant First Indian Lady to visit Antarctica
- Aditya Bhushan Pant, Indian toxicologist, neurobiologist and a scientist
- Anju Panta, Nepali Famous Singer
- Apa Pant, Diplomat, freedom fighter
- Diksha Panth, actress
- Garima Panta, Nepali Actress
- Govind Ballabh Pant, the first Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
- Hargovind Pant Indian Freedom Fighter
- Hemad Pant Prime Minister of Seuna (Yadava) dynasty
- Ila Pant, Indian politician
- K. C. Pant, former Indian Member of Parliament
- Kamla Pant , Women Activist, uttrakhand mahila manch, prominent role in making uttrakhand
- Maheshwar Panta, Army General of Gorkha Kingdom
- Manoj Pant Director, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade
- M. C. Pant, Indian radiation oncologist and Padma Shri recipient
- Meghna Pant, fiction author and financial journalist
- Muktesh Pant, businessman
- Pitambar Pant, Indian independence activist, civil service officer and writer
- Prakash Pant Uttarakhand Politician
- Raghuji Pant, CPN-UML politician
- Ram Raj Pant, Linguist of the Nepali language, literary writer and promoter of legal education in Nepal
- Ranjan Pant , CEO Advisor and Global Strategy Management Consultant
- Pushpesh Pant, academic, food critic and historian
- Rishabh Pant, Indian cricketer
- Sheila Irene Pant, 10th Governor of Sindh, wife of the first Prime Minister of Pakistan
- Shivani, Gaura Pant, story writer for women's magazines
- Sorabh Pant Indian standup comic and writer
- Sumitranandan Pant, poet and philosopher
- Sunil Babu Pant, Social Activist In Nepal
- Yadav Pant, Nepalese economist, politician and former Governor (Fifth) of Nepal Rastra Bank
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