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Mohan (name)

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Mohan is a given name and surname. Notable people with this name include:

Sole name

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  • Mohan, another name for Krishna, a major Hindu deity
  • Mohan (actor) (born 1956), Kollywood film actor
  • Mohan (director), Indian director of Malayalam films
  • Mohanlal (born 1960), South Indian film actor
  • Crazy Mohan (1952–2019), Tamil comedy actor, script writer and playwright

Given name

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  • Mohan Agashe (born 1947), Indian actor
  • Mohan Babu (born 1950), born Manchu Bakthavatsalam Naidu, actor, producer, politician from Andhra Pradesh
  • Mohan Baidya, chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal Revolutionary Maoist
  • Mohan Bam (born 1991), Nepalese judoka
  • Mohan Bhagwat (born 1950), Indian veterinary doctor and the current Sarsanghachalak of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
  • Mohan Bhandari (1937–2015), Indian film and television actor
  • Mohan Chand Sharma (1965–2008), Indian Police Inspector who served in the Delhi Police, Special Cell
  • Mohan Choti (1939–1992), Indian film actor
  • Mohan Das, more commonly known as Lotan Baba (or "rolling saint"), an Indian holy man promoting peace by rolling his body along the ground when he travels
  • Mohan Dharia (1925–2013), Indian lawyer, Union minister, and social worker
  • Mohan Ellawala (1948–2009), governor of Sabaragamuwa Province in Sri Lanka from October 2, 2008 up until his death in 2009
  • Mohan al-Furayji, Iraqi Army general who planned the 2008 operation against militias in Basra
  • Mohan Galot (born 1945), Kenyan businessman
  • Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869–1948), better known as Mahatma Gandhi, Indian revolutionary, President of the Indian National Congress
  • Mohan Gokhale (1954–1999), Indian film, television and theater actor who has worked in art films such as Sparsh, Bhavni Bhavai and Mirch Masala
  • Mohan Krishna Indraganti, Telugu film director from India
  • Mohan Jena (born 1957), member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India representing the Jajpur constituency of Orissa, and a member of the Biju Janata Dal political party
  • Mohan Joshi (born 1945), Indian actor
  • Mohan Kanda (born 1945), Indian Administrative Service officer and a member of the National Disaster Management Authority
  • Mohan Kapoor (born 1965), Indian actor
  • G. Mohan Kumar (born 1955), Indian Administrative Service and former Defence Secretary and Defence Production Secretary of India
  • Mohan Kumar (director) (1934–2017), Indian film director
  • Mohan Kumar (serial killer) (born 1963), Indian killer called "Cyanide Mohan"
  • Mohan Kumaramangalam (1916–1973), Indian politician and communist theorist who was a member of the Indian National Congress, and later, the Communist Party of India
  • Mohan Lal Grero, Sri Lankan educationist and politician, currently a member of the Provincial Councillor of the Western Province
  • Mohan Lal Jhikram (1919–2010), leader of Indian National Congress from Madhya Pradesh, India
  • Mohan Lal Kashmiri (1812–1877), Indian spy, diplomat, and author
  • Mohan Lal Sukhadia (1916–1982), Indian political and social leader, Chief Minister of Rajasthan 1954–1971
  • Mohan Maharishi, Indian theatre director, actor and a playwright
  • Mohan Munasinghe, Sri Lankan physicist
  • Mohan Patel (born 1952), field hockey player from New Zealand, member of the team that won the gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal
  • Mohan Kumar Raja (born 1996), Indian sprinter
  • Mohan Rakesh (1925–1972), major figure of 20th-century Hindi literature
  • Mohan Rawale (born 1948), member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India representing the Mumbai South Central constituency of Maharashtra and a member of the Shiv Sena (SS) political party
  • Ram Mohan Roy (1774–1833), founder of Brahmo Samaj, a 19th-century spiritual and religious reformation
  • Mohan Sharma, Indian film actor in Malayalam films of Chattakari fame
  • Manmohan Singh (born 1932), Prime minister of India
  • Mohan Singh (general) (1909–1989), Indian military officer and member of the Indian Independence Movement
  • Mohan Singh (1945–2013), Indian politician, former general secretary of the Samajwadi Party
  • Mohan Bikram Singh (born 1935), often referred to as MBS, party name Gharti, a Nepalese politician
  • Mohan Singh Kohli (born 1931), Indian mountaineer
  • Mohan Sinha Mehta (1895–1986), founder of Vidya Bhavan group of institutions and Sewa Mandir in Udaipur in Rajasthan
  • Mohan Singh Oberoi (1898–2002), Indian hotelier, founder and chairman of Oberoi Hotels & Resorts
  • Mohan Sithara (born 1959), Malayalam film music composer in Kerala
  • Mohan Sivanand (born 1951), Indian journalist and artist
  • Mohan Upreti (1925–1997), Indian theatre director, playwright and a music composer, considered one of the pioneers in Indian theatre music

Surname

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  • A. G. Mohan (born 1945), Indian yoga teacher, yoga therapist and author
  • Ananthula Madan Mohan (1931–2004), Indian politician
  • Balaji Mohan (born 1987), Indian film director
  • C. Mohan (born 1955), American computer scientist and IBM Fellow
  • Chander Mohan, former Deputy Chief Minister of Haryana State in India
  • Chander Mohan (journalist) (born 1946), Indian journalist
  • Chandra Mohan (disambiguation), several people
  • Chinta Mohan (born 1954), member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India representing the Tirupathi constituency of Andhra Pradesh, and a member of the Indian National Congress
  • Dominic Mohan (born 1969), British journalist originally from Bristol, England
  • Duvvasi Mohan, Telugu comedian
  • Earl Mohan (1889–1928), American film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 50 films between 1915 and 1927
  • John Mohan (born 1939), American bridge player
  • Keith Mohan (born 1935), English cricketer who played for Derbyshire in the County Championship in 1957 and 1958
  • Kim Mohan (born 1949), American author and editor
  • Mac Mohan (1938–2010), Indian character actor in Hindi language films
  • Madan Mohan (disambiguation), several people
  • Manjima Mohan (born 1993), Indian film actress
  • Monica Mohan, American artist
  • Murali Mohan (born 1940), South Indian film actor, producer and politician
  • N. M. Mohan (1949–2012), Indian comics writer
  • Narendra Mohan (1934–2002), Indian industrialist, chairman and managing director of the Rs 874-crore Jagran Prakashan publisher for India's largest selling Hindi newspaper Dainik Jagran
  • Neal Mohan, CEO of YouTube since February 2023
  • Nicky Mohan (born 1970), English former professional footballer who played in defence
  • Pantam Gandhi Mohan, Indian politician
  • Radha Mohan (born 1965), Tamil movie director
  • Raja Mohan, Indian academic, journalist and foreign policy analyst
  • Rakesh Mohan (born 1948), Indian economist and former Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India
  • Ram Mohan (born 1931), veteran in the Indian animation industry
  • Saira Mohan (born 1978), fashion model of Indian, Irish and French heritage
  • Saranya Mohan (born 1989), Indian film actress who has acted in Malayalam and Tamil films such as Yaaradi Nee Mohini and Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu
  • Shweta Mohan (born 1985), Indian playback singer who has sung in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada languages, daughter of Sujatha Mohan
  • Sujatha Mohan (born 1964), Indian playback singer who has sung in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi movies
  • Swati Mohan, Indian-American aerospace engineer
  • Vinu Mohan (born 1985), Indian actor in Malayalam cinema, son of actress Sobha Mohan