List of Brahmins [edit] Politics During the Indian independence movement, many Brahmins were at the forefront of the

struggle for freedom and later Indian politics, some of the popular ones are : Samrat Hem Chandra Vikramaditya(Hemu), Mangal Pandey, Nana Sahib Peshwa, Rani Laxmibai of Jhansi, Tatya Tope, Baikuntha Shukla, Chandrashekar Azad, Yogendra S hukla, Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee, Swami Sahajanand Saraswati, Adyakrantikarak Vas udev Balwant Phadke, Chapekar brothers, Anant Kanhere, Vinayak Deshapande, Vishw anath Vaishampayan,Sri Satyanarayana Shukla, Basawon Singh (Sinha), Pandit Bhola Shukla, Balgangadhar Tilak, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Madan Mohan Malaviya, Surend ranath Banerjee, Mahadev Govind Ranade, Rajguru, Ramprasad Bismil, Vanchinathan, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar,Ganesh Damodar Savarkar, Prativadi Bhayankara Venkatac harya ("Bhayankarachari"), Mahavir Tyagi,anand sharma, Tanguturi Prakasam Pantul u, S. Srinivasa Iyengar, C. Rajagopalachari, Pattabhi Sitaramayya, P. V. Narasim ha Rao, R.V.Krishna Iyer, Laxmi Raman Acharya, Sri Krishna Sinha, Gobind Ballabh Pant, Kamalapati Tripathi, Sheel Bhadra Yajee, Ravishankar Shukla, Kailashnath Katju, Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru, Motilal Nehru, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Shyama Pra sad Mukherjee, E. M. S. Namboodiripad, Hiren Mukherjee, S. A. Dange, P. C. Joshi , Acharya P. K. Atre, Baba Amte and Vinoba Bhave Gangadharrao Deshpande - Lion o f Karnataka [[Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, Gandhian, first lady Minister of India [[Kamal Nath, politician [[Prakash Vir Shastri, Member of Parliament and advocate of the Arya Samaj m ovement [[Kailash Nath Katju, Former Union Home Minister and Lawyer [[Satyapal Singh Yadav former union minister Present Brahmins in Indian politics: Sushma Swaraj Leader of opposition in Lok sabha J Jayalalithaa AIADMK General Secretary. Leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha & general secretary of BJP party Arun Ja itley Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee, CM of West Bengal Budhadev Bhattacharya, Jagannath Mishra former Chief Minister of Bihar. Union Minister for Rural Development C. P. Joshi and President of the National Commission for Women of India Girija Vyas. Jairam Ramesh Union environment minister. Manohar Joshi former cm of maharashtra Anand Sharma Union minister of Commerce and Industry Sheila Dixit delhi chief minister. Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal Uttranchal chief minister. Sandeep Dixit MP delhi. Dr. Arvind Sharma MP Karnal. Vundavalli Aruna Kumar MP Rajahmundry. Shri Nitin Gadkari BJP President. [[Kamalapati Tripathi [[Murli Manohar Joshi [[Narayan Dutt Tiwari [[Laxmi Raman Acharya [[K.C. Pant [[Mahaveer Prasad

Brahmins who became Prime Ministers of India include: Jawaharlal Nehru,the first Prime Minister of India and Morarji Desai, P. V. Narasimha Rao Indira Gandhi Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Brahmin Presidents of India include: S. Radhakrishnan (whose birthday is celebrated as teachers' day in India), V. V. Giri, R. Venkataraman & Shankar Dayal Sharma. Pakistani politician Mahesh Kumar Malani, a Member of the National Assembly of P akistan from the Pakistan Peoples Party, is also Brahmin. [edit] Military Chanakya was the chief architect of the Maurya empire of Chandragupta Maurya and later his mentor, adviser and strategist. His masterpiece was Arthasastra, one of the greatest treatises on economics, politics, foreign affairs, administr ation, military arts, war and religion ever produced in India. Medieval Hindu king Samrat Hem Chandra Vikramaditya, also called Hemu, who w as an advisor to Afghan rulers Sher Shah Suri, Islam Shah and Adil Shah Suri ini tially, had established 'Hindu Raj' in North India after defeating Akbar's force s at Agra and Delhi, and had his coronation or Rajyabhishake at Purana Quila in Delhi on 7 October 1556, after winning 22 battles continuously, without losing a ny, was a Bhargava and Dhusar Brahmin. Ramchandra Pant Amatya, called as one of the six pillars of the Maratha empi re by none other than Shivaji himself, and later Peshwa Baji Rao I who led the M arathi army to 41 battle victories, without ever losing one, contributed greatly to the Maratha empire's stability and expansion. Birbal,[50] the most trusted, admired and loved minister of Akbar, and the i ncharge of the military and administration, was a Brahmin. Mangal Pandey, Tatya Tope and Nana Saheb were the leading personalities in t he rebellion of Indian soldiers against the British in 1857 sepoy mutiny Several chiefs of the Indian Army have been Brahmins, including General K V Krishna Rao, General Arun S. Vaidya, General Krishnaswamy Sundarji, General T.N. Raina, General Bipin Chandra Joshi, General Sundararajan Padmanabhan and Genera l V. N. Sharma.The first winner of the highest gallantry award, Param Vir Chakra in independent India was Major Somnath Sharma, a Himachali Brahmin. Maj Padmapa ni Acharya, recipient of Maha Vir Chakra. In the Indian Air Force too, Brahmins have reached the apex rank of Air Chie f. Among these are Air Marshal Subroto Mukherjee, Air Chief Marshal Swaroop Kris han Kaul, Air Chief Marshal Srinivasapuram Krishnaswamy, and Air Chief Marshal S .P. Tyagi. India's first and only cosmonaut, Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma, is al so a Brahmin. In the Indian Navy, Admiral A. K. Chaterji, and Admiral J. G. Nadkarni are B rahmins who rose to the heights of their service. Captain Mahendra Nath Mulla, a Kashmiri Pandit, commander of the INS Khukri received the Maha Vir Chakra durin g the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, for his gallantry at the helm of his stricken ship.

[edit] Scholars and writers Brahmin scholars and writers include Pa?ini, Satyabrata Nath, Patanjali, Kalidas , Satya Sandhani Haridutta Dash,Chandrasekhar pranava (Indian yoga Mentore) Chan akya, Banabhatta, Goswami Tulsidas, Sur Das, Keshav das, BihariSaint Dnyaneshwar , Eknath, Samarth Ramdas. Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, Prativadi Bhayanka ra Annangaracharya (Sanskrit scholar and composer of the Suprabhatam in the mid1400s), Melpathur Narayana Bhattathiri, Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan, Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar', Jiddu Krishnamurthy, Hazariprasad Dwivedi, Sumitranandan Pant, S ubramanya Bharathy, Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, Ramvriksh Benipuri, Chaitanya Maha prabhu, Suryakant Tripathi Nirala, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Bankim Chandra C hatterjee, Srilal Shukla and Manohar Shyam Joshi. Other Brahmin scholars include Pandurang Vaman Kane, Ram Sharan Sharma and Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya. Modern w riters include R. K. Narayan, Chandramani Brahmdutt, cartoonist R. K. Laxman, Sa nskrit scholar Kundalam Rangachariar, Yoga exponent B.K.S. Iyengar, journalist I ndra Kant Mishra, and traditional Vedic astrologer Srirangam Ramesh Guru, Achary a Kuber Nath Rai. There have been many eminent scholars and writers like Maasti Venkatesh Iyengar and Viswanatha Satyanarayana and Sitakant Mahapatra who produced great literary master pieces in their local languages and won the highest literary award of Ind ia, the Jnanapith award. [edit] Sciences Scientists from the Brahmin fold include Varahamihira, Brahmagupta, Aryabhatta, Bhaskaracharya, Madhava of Sangamagrama, Neelakanta Somayaji, Paramesvara and ot hers of Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics whose findings and discoverie s predated those of many eminent European scientists and mathematicians like New ton by centuries,[51] Nobel laureates Sir C. V. Raman and his nephew Subrahmanya n Chandrasekhar, agricultural scientist M. S. Swaminathan, Prof. A. K. Joshi, (m olecular plant breeder), ethno-sociologist M. N. Srinivas, the most talented leg endary mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, eminent physicist Suri Bhagavantam, em inent engineer M. Visvesvarayya (whose birthday is celebrated as Engineers' day in India), eminent chemist and material scientist C.N.R. Rao, Nobel laureate Ven katraman Ramakrishnan, C. P. Ramanujam and Shakuntala Devi. Raja Ramanna, who wa s instrumental in making India a nuclear weapons state, P. K. Iyengar, Vulimiri Ramalingaswami, who served as the director of AIIMS and later as director genera l Indian Council of Medical Research, U. R. Rao and K. Kasturirangan, former cha irmen of ISRO, Prem Chand Pandey and Narendra Karmarkar. There were/have been ma ny directors, distinguished world renowned faculty members, students and alumni like for instance A.Narasimhachari[52] and his elder brother A.Raghavachari (top per of IITJEE 88) etc. who have contributed and continuing to contribute immense ly to the world wide esteem of premier Indian institutes like IITs, IIMs, AIIMS and IISc. They (Brahmins) also hold many academic, scientific, R&D and industry positions in prestigious establishments in India and abroad, like for example th e 2007 "mathematician's Nobel prize" laureate S.R. Srinivasa Varadhan of NYU. Un fortunately because of the socio political and economic challenges they are conf ronting in the country, India is unable to fully utilise the talents and service s of the younger generations of Brahmins, who are preferring to migrate away in large numbers in pursuit of better opportunities and recognition outside the cou ntry leading to a massive brain drain. PVN Acharya(1924 1993), of the Prativadi Bhayankara family, received his PhD in Bi ochemistry with highest honours from the University of Paris-Sorbonne, and publi shed papers with his professor, the famous French scientist Edgar Lederer. As a student in Paris and later as a biochemist in Madison, Wisconsin, PV Narasimh Ac harya conducted groundbreaking work in tuberculosis and was the first scientist to discover that "irreparable DNA damage" is caused by low-dose ionizing radiati on, environmental pollutants and the food additives nitrites and nitrates, and t

hat such damage to the DNA is a causal factor in premature ageing and cancer.[53 ][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61] Prior to pursuing his doctorates at the Sorbon ne, PVN Acharya graduated from Benares Hindu University, where he studied Oil Te chnology, and worked at the Shri Ram Institute for Industrial Research and the N ational Council of Applied Economic Research (New Delhi), where he developed com mercial applications for castor oil including detergents and synthetic materials , including Nylon products. Sunita Williams, an Astronaut in NASA is also born i n a Brahmin Family of Deepak Pandya. [edit] Sports In cricket, major names include Sunil Manohar Gavaskar, Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Sourav Ganguly, Dilip Balwanth Vengsarkar, Ajit Wadekar, Srinivas Venkat raghavan, E. A. S. Prasanna, Bagawath Subramania Chandrashekhar, Gundappa Vishwa nath,M.L.Jaisimha, Chetan Sharma, Parthasarathy Sharma, Ravi Shastri, Krishnamac hari Srikkanth, Anjali Vedpathak, Vangipurappu Venkata Sai Laxman, Anil Kumble, Javagal Srinath, Venkatesh Prasad, Ajay Sharma, Dinesh Karthik, Murali Kartik, R ohit Sharma, Ishant Sharma, Amit Mishra, Subramaniam Badrinath, Suresh Raina, Ma neesh Pandey, Sadagoppan Ramesh, Ajit Agarkar, Hrishikesh Kanitkar, Sunil Joshi and many more. Other sports names include the world chess champion Vishwanathan Anand, Kirti Azad (cricketer and M.P.), and 1890s national tennis champion Narum anchi Narayanamurthy from Tenali, Andhra Pradesh. Indian Badminton Champion Prak ash Padukone is also a Brahmin. [edit] Arts Saint musicians include Thyagaraja, Vyasatirtha, Raghavendra Swami, Muthuswami D ikshitar and Shyama Sastri. Several notable names in Indian classical music belo ng to the Brahmin community, such as Mysore Vasudevacharya, Veena Venkatagiriyap pa, Bhimsen Joshi, Gangubai Hangal, M S Subbulakshmi, Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Pandit Ravi Shankar, Veena Doraiswamy Iyengar, Mangalampalli Balamurali Krishna , Pandit Jasraj, Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan and Shivkumar Sharma. Aditi Govitrikar, Gayatri Joshi, Sonali Bendre, Rani Mukherjee, Kajol, Vidya Balan, Sonali Kulkarn i and Deepika Padukone. Tansen, Baiju Bawra the musician of Akbar's court was bo rn a Brahmin. Rati Agnihotri, Apurva Agnihotri, Sunil Dutt, Sanjay Dutt, Ajay De vgn, Kamal Hassan, Mithun Chakraborty, Suhasini, Moushumi Chatterjee, Paresh Raw al, Chunky Pandey, Rekha, Rakesh Roshan, Hrithik Roshan, Ramesh Vinayakam, Kisho re Kumar, Ashok Kumar, Shankar Mahadevan, Udit Narayan, Rajesh Roshan, Hariharan , Mani Sharma, Shruti Hassan, Meenakshi Sheshadri, Indian Idol winners Sandeep A charya, Sreeram chandra and finalist N.C. Karunya, Vishnuvardhan, Upendra, Anant h nag, Shankar nag are also Brahmins. [edit] Hindu Saints Brahmin saints include Adi Shankara, Ramanuja, Madhwacharya, Mandana Mishra, Cha itanya Mahaprabhu, Goswami Tulsidas, Surdas, Vallabhacharya, Dnyaneshwar, Samart h Ramdas , Ramakrishna Paramhansa, Ramana Maharshi, Rameshbhai Oza and Shree Kri paluji Maharaj. [edit] Hindu avatarams Some incarnations, i.e. (Avatars), of Lord Vishnu were Brahmins. Parashurama, th e son of sage Jamadagni, is considered a redeemer of virtue and set the stage fo r nobility to manifest as Lord Rama, the divine king, by ridding the world of un scrupulous and unjust rulers - Haiheyas. As Vamana, a dwarf Bramhin, Vishnu who vanquished Bali, an ancient king of Kerala who became more powerful than the Dev as [edit] Business and Educational institutions T.T. Krishnamachari]], TTK group, T. V. Sundaram Iyengar]], TVS and sons, Sundram Fastners, Arun Pudur of Celframe , Infosys, N. R. Narayana Murthy, SHREE BINDUKSHINI Advisory Services(www.bindukshini.com), Nitin Omprakash Bo

hra, UB Group Vijay Mallya, Dr. Gururaj "Desh" Deshpande, the founder of the Sycamore and Deshpande Cent er for Technological Innovation at MIT,Persistent Systems Founder - Anand Deshpa nde , KPIT Cummins Infosystems Ltd, Jaypee group, D S Kulkarni Group,Kulkarni Power Tools, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Atre Group, Garware Industries Kingfisher, Airdeccan,Deccan Aviations Amrutanjan LTD Baidyanath Vicco Sahara Group L&T construction and infrastructures]] Amalagamations group TAFE tractors TIME Institutes Ashida Electronics Agri gold industries. India Cements AMP Sanmar Group Kirloskar and Toyota kirloskar. Shriram chits AXIS Bank ICICI bank Dhanalaxmi Bank Karnataka bank pvt ltd, Indus Airways The Hindu and sportstar magazines Seshasayee group, Sankhya Infotech, United Infotech, Gammon Infratech, Camlin Products, Uninor telecomunications Malladi Pharmaceuticals, Orchid Pharmaceuticals, Orchid hotels Kamat Hotels, Kohinoor group of companies, Colorchips animations, Indra Nooyi]], C.E.O. of Pepsico, C. K. Prahalad]], Nandan Nilekani of infosys]], Dyaneshwar of ITC, Kiran Majumdar of Biocon etc.. Of the 9 IPL teams in INDIA 3 teams are owned by Brahmins Vijay Mallya-RCB Bangalore N.Srinivas-CSK chennai. Subrato roy-Pune warriors. Symbiosis International University and its institutions,Pune, Manipal University and its Institutions,Manipal,Karnataka, ICFAI University and its institutes Manohar Joshi's Kohinoor Group of Institutions,Mumbai, Karnatak Law Society and its Institutions at Belgaum,Karnataka, Sharada Vilas Institutions at Mysore,Karnataka,

NIE Mysore, R V Deshpande's VRDM Trust Institutions at Haliyal,Karnataka, Darbar Institutions,Bijapur,Karnataka, Gokhale Education Society,Pune, N V Society and its institutions, Gulbarga,Poornapragna Educational Institutions run by Udupi Mutt,Karnataka, Institutions run by Sringeri Sharada Peetham,Sringeri,Karnataka, JSS Institutions Mysore K E Board's Institutions at Dharwar,Karnataka, Malnad Developement Foundation-MDF,Sagar,Karnataka, Modern Education Society, Sirsi,Karnataka, JE Society,Athani, CTE Society,Chikodi [[Vidyananda Gurukul Institutions,Kuknoor in Karnataka and many more educati onal institutions are run by Brahmins for the purpose of providing quality educa tion for all the sections of the society. KLE education society runs many medical and engineering colleges in karnatak a. Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, founder of Benaras Hindu University. Vikram Pandit - Citigroup CEO Rajan Kumar - Founder Director, Technology Xpress Info Solutions Pvt. Ltd.(O racle Partner) Ram Bhogale and Mukund Bhogale - Nirlep Industries Baburaoji Parkhe - Parkhe group Gokhale - Tortoise Mosquito Repellant Chandrasekhar Bhaskar Bhave SEBI Chairman Kiran Karnik Former president of NASSCOM for 2007 08 Pothy Moopanar, Pothys Textiles founder. S. Ramadorai, former CEO of Tata Consultancy Services A Sivasailam, Chairman Amalgamations Group Sivasankaran Chairman, Sterling group. B Muthuraman, Managing Director, Tata Steel. Sipping spirits Anil Salgaonkar, Salgaonkar Mining/ Salgaonkar Brothers Shrinivas Dempo (Shenoy), Dempo Group Dattaraj Salgaocar, V.M.Salgaocar Group of Companies Manoj Tirodkar, GTL Radha Timblo, Timblo Group, Goa Chandavarkars promoters of FDC Limited, Hemant Nerurkar, MD of Tata Steel N. K. Sinkar (former Chairman of LIC) Vasant M. Prabhu, Vice Chairman & Chief Financial Officer of Starwood Hotels & Resorts, USA N. S. Rao, founder of Pest Control India A. V. Kamat, Chairman and Managing Director of Hindustan Machine Tools Raghunandan Kamath, owner of Natural Ice Cream Ajit Kamath, founder/ owner of Arch Pharmalabs Vivek Kamath, MD of Berkery Noyes (USA) V. G. Rajadhyaksha (ex-Chairman, Hindustan Lever) Aditya Borkar, Boroplast IT industry Nandan Nilekani, Co-founder of Infosys Mohandas Pai, Director of Infosys Sudhakar Shenoy, founder Chairman and CEO of Information Management Consulti ng Inc. Rohith Bhat, Robosoft Technologies Suresh Kamath, LaserSoft Infosystems (now part of Polaris) Chaitanya "Chet" Kamat, MD & CEO of Oracle Financial Services

AD INDUSTRY Madhukar Kamath, MD & CEO of Mudra Group Bharat Dabholkar, MD of Publicis India Subhash Kamath, Managing Partner of BBH India Bal Mundkur, Founder of Ulka Advertising Arun Pudur - President and Co-Founder of Celframe, known worldwide for the s oftware product Celframe Office Arvind Raghunathan - Managing Director and Head of Global Arbitrage, Deutsch e Bank Sampath Rangarajan - Department Head, Mobile Communications and Networking R esearch, NEC Labs, Princeton, USA. Dr.Ramesh Srinivasan - General Manager, Bloom Energy India Pvt Ltd, Bangalor e, India. A pioneer and technology leader in power electronics converters and in verters for high power clean energy generation systems Subrah Iyar (b. 1957), CEO of WebEx Ramani Ayer ex CEO of The Hartford Kalyanaraman iyer(Kalyan jewellers and silks)]. Bhima battar(Bhima Jewellers). Pramod Chaudhari- Founder of Praj Industries Dr. Dinesh Keskar [President, Boeing-India] Arvind Khaladkar [Chairman, Janata Sahakari Bank Ltd. Pune-India] D.S.Kulkarni founder & Managing Director DSK Developers Ltd. Jayant Joshi, Managing Editor, Deepa Publications) Jayant Narayan Godbole, Former Chairman, IDBI Bank Ltd. Mr. Virendra D. Mhaiskar Chairman & Managing Director, IRB Infrastructure Lt d. Manohar Ganesh Sathe, Former Chairman & Managing Director, Sathe Buiscuits & Chocolates Ltd. Dandekars of Camlin Dhananjay Datar of Al-Adil, Dubai Nitin Paranjpe, Managing Director, Hindustan Unilever Shirish Apte, CEO (Asia Pacific) Citigroup Bhogales of Nirlep Appliances ltd. (Non-Stick Cookware) Deepak Ghaisas Smita Ghaisas, owner, Minilec Pvt. Ltd. India Chitale Bandhu Mithaiwale P. N. Gadgil Jewellers [edit] Social/Public Service Dhondo Keshav Karve, Dr. Keshav Baliram Hedgewar (RSS founder), Shri. M.S.Golwal kar (Guruji), Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Durgabai Deshm ukh, Baba Amte, Pandurang Shastri Athavale, Sudha Murthy/Infosys Foundation are some of the well known social reformers/activists.& Dr Chandramani Brahmdutt is Chairman and Shri Dev Dutt Sharma is Secretary of INTERNATIONAL BRAHMIN COUNCIL. Most of India's Chief Justices are Brahmins to name few Justice M. N. Venkatacha liah, etc., C.D. Deshmukh, H.V.R. Iyengar, C. Rangarajan, C.R. Krishna Swamy Rao , T.N. Seshan, T.N. Chaturvedi, B. K. Chaturvedi, Raju Narayanaswamy and many di stinguished civil servants of India who rose to the highest positions of Chiefs of Indian civil services/Cabinet Secretaries of India,[62] comptroller and audit or generals of India, principal secretaries of various ministries of the Union g overnment and chief secretaries of many Indian states. [edit] Other Nathuram Godse the assassin of Mahatma Gandhi was also a Brahmin