Krishan

Krishan is a given name and surname. Notable persons with that name include:

People with the given name

• Krishan Bheel (born 1968), Pakistani politician
• Krishan Chander (1914–1977), Urdu and Hindi Afsaana Nigaar, or short story writer
• Krishan Dev Sethi, the current General secretary of Democratic Conference Jammu and Kashmir
• Krishan Dinidu (born 1990), Sri Lankan cricketer
• Krishan Imdika (born 1976), Sri Lankan cricketer
• Krishan Kant, the tenth Vice President of India from 1997 until his death
• Krishan Kant Saini (born 1931), Indian Airforce helicopter pilot who achieved the world's highest altitude helicopter landing
• Krishan Kumar (born 1942), Indian sociologist who is currently Chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of Virginia
• Krishan Kumar Modi, (born 1940), Indian businessman and head of Modi Enterprises
• Krishan Kumar Sharma "Rasik" (born 1983), Hindi, Punjabi, English and Urdu poet and writer
• Krishan Lal Balmiki (1942–2010), Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party, member of the Parliament of India representing Rajasthan
• Krishan Sabnani (born 1954), Senior Vice President of the Networking Research Laboratory at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs in New Jersey
• Maharaj Krishan Kaushik (born 1955), former member of the India national field hockey team and former coach
• Predhiman Krishan Kaw, Indian plasma physicist, currently the director of the Institute for Plasma Research
• Raj Krishan Gaur (born 1931), Agricultural minister from Himachal
• Vikas Krishan Yadav (born 1992), Indian male boxer from Bhiwani district in Haryana, won a gold medal in the 2010 Asian Games

People with the surname

• Gopal Krishan, Indian musician and player of the vichitra veena
• Guru Har Krishan (1656–1664), the eighth of the Eleven Gurus of Sikhism
• Kewal Krishan (1923–2008), Indian medical practitioner and politician
• Kolluru Krishan, Indian engineer and businessman
• Mircea Krishan (1924–2013), German-Romanian Actor
• Rajendra Krishan (1919–1988), Indian poet, lyricist and screenwriter

See also

• Krischan
• Krishan Avtaar, 1993 Hindi-language Indian feature film
• Krishan Nagar, part of the Islampura neighbourhood of Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
• Shaheed Krishan Chand Memorial Stadium (previously known as the Paddal Ground), a cricket ground in Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India
• Shri Krishan Institute Of Engineering & Technology, private engineering institute in Kurukshetra, Haryana, India