Philosophers and historians

• Anandavardhana
  Anandavardhana
  Anandavardhana was the author of Dhvanyaloka, a work articulating the philosophy of "aesthetic suggestion". The philosopher Abhinavagupta wrote an important commentary on it.Anandavardhana is credited with creating the dhvani theory...
  
  , Philosopher
• Vasugupta
  Vasugupta
  Vasugupta was the author of the famous Shiva Sutras of Vasugupta. The author was believed to have amassed knowledge and recognition through direct realization. He was a native of Kashmir and was a great devotee of Lord Shiva. One night Shiva appeared to Vasugupta in a dream and instructed him to...
  
  
• Bhatta Kallata
  Bhatta Kallata
  Bhatta Kallata was a notable Shaivite thinker who wrote Spanda-karika. He was a pupil of Vasugupta....
  
  
• Abhinavagupta
  Abhinavagupta
  Abhinavagupta was one of India's greatest philosophers, mystics and aestheticians. He was also considered an important musician, poet, dramatist, exegete, theologian, and logician - a polymathic personality who exercised strong influences on Indian culture.He was born in the Valley of Kashmir in...
  
  , Philosopher
• Kshemaraja
  Kshemaraja
  Rajanaka Kshemaraja was a philosopher and a disciple of Abhinavagupta. He wrote original works of Kashmir Shaivism including the set of sutras entitled Pratyabhijna Hridayam.-Further reading:...
  
  
• Utpaladeva
  Utpaladeva
  Utpaladeva was one of the great teachers of the philosophy of Kashmir Shaivism.Utpaladeva, an influential philosopher-theologian of the Pratyabhijna school of Shaiva thought composed the Ishvara-pratyabhijna-karika, or 'Verses on the Recognition of the Lord' and the 'Shivastotravali'.-External...
  
  , wrote a commentary on the book Samhita
• Bhaskara
  Bhaskara (Kashmiri)
  Bhaskara was a notable writer on the Kashmir Shaivism sect of Hinduism. He wrote an important commentary on the Shiva Sutras of Vasugupta. According to Dyczkowski, "We know nothing about him except that he was the son of one Divakarabhatta and was, therefore, like the other Kashmiri Saiva authors,...
  
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• Somananda
  Somananda
  Somananda was one of the teachers of Kashmir Shaivism, in the lineage of Trayambaka, author of the first philosophical treatise of this school, Śivadṛṣṭi...
  
  
• Lalleshvari, mystic and poet, 14th century
• Jonaraja
  Jonaraja
  Jonaraja was a Kashmiri historian and Sanskrit poet. His is a continuation of Kalhana's and brings the chronicle of the kings of Kashmir down to the time of the author's patron Zain-ul-Abidin . Jonaraja, however, could not complete the history of the patron as he died in the 35th regnal year...
  
  , Historian, 15th century
• Shrivara
  Shrivara
  Shrivara wrote a work on the history of Kashmir that adds to the previous works of Kalhana and Jonaraja, thereby providing an update of the history of Kashmir till 1486 CE....
  
  , Historian, 15th century
• Prajna Bhatta
  Prajna Bhatta
  Prajna Bhatta wrote Rajavalipataka that brings Kashmir's history to the time of its incorporation in the dominions of the Mogul emperor Akbar, 1588....
  
  , Historian, 16th century
• Swami Lakshman Joo
  Swami Lakshman Joo
  Swami Lakshman Joo Raina was a famed mystic and scholar of Kashmir Shaivism. He was known as Lal Sahib by followers and considered by them to be a fully realized saint.- Family :...
  
   Raina

Administrators and diplomats

• Brij Mohan Kaul
  Brij Mohan Kaul
  Brij Mohan Kaul was the controversial General who resigned in the aftermath of the Indian military debacle against the Chinese in the 1962 Sino-Indian War...
  
  - Army General
• Birbal Dhar, invited Ranjit Singh to Kashmir
• Ram Chandra Kak
  Ram Chandra Kak
  Ram Chandra Kak was Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir during 1945–47. He was also a pioneering archaeologist who excavated the leading sites of antiquities in Kashmir and wrote the definitive text on them....
  
  , Prime minister to maharaja Hari Singh
• Mohan Lal
  Mohan Lal (Zutshi)
  Mohan Lal was a traveller, diplomat, and author. He played a central role in the First Anglo-Afghan War of 1838–1842. His biography of Dost Mohammad Khan, emir of Kabul, is a primary source on the War....
  
  , 1812–1877, Writer and diplomat in the Anglo-Afghan War
• Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
  Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
  Vijaya Lakshmi Nehru Pandit was an Indian diplomat and politician, the sister of Jawaharlal Nehru, the aunt of Indira Gandhi and the great-aunt of Rajiv Gandhi, all of whom served as Prime Minister of India.In 1921 she married Ranjit Sitaram Pandit, who died on 14 January 1944...
  
  
• R.K. Nehru, Ambassador in 50s and 60s
• Durga Prasad Dhar, Ambassador and politician
• P.N. Dhar, Economist
• Braj Kumar Nehru
  Braj Kumar Nehru
  Braj Kumar Nehru was the son of Brijlal and Rameshwari Nehru and a relative of India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru....
  
  , Diplomat
• Purushottam Narayan Haksar
  P. N. Haksar
  Parmeshwar Narayan Haksar was one of the earliest and most important political strategists in the political democracy of independent India. His most important role was in the political ascent of Indira Gandhi, as the Prime Minister in her own right and personal political strength, and the...
  
  , Administrator
• Rameshwar Nath Kao, Intelligence chief, Founder of Research and Analysis Wing (1918–2002)
• P.N. Kaul, Ambassador
• Triloki Nath Khoshoo
  Triloki Nath Khoshoo
  Triloki Nath Khoshoo was a world-renowned environment scientist and an able administrator...
  
  , Administrator and environmentalist
• Tapishwar Narain Raina
  Tapishwar Narain Raina
  Tapishwar Narain Raina was the Chief of the Army Staff of the Indian Army during 1975-78. Later he served as High Commissioner to Canada.Early life and Education...
  
  , Chief of Indian Army staff and Diplomat.
• Kapil Kak, Former Air Marshal , Now an Indian defense analyst

Economy & Industry

• Sharad Haksar, India's most awarded advertising photographer.
• O P Bhatt, Chairman, State Bank of India.

Politicians & Prominent Lawyers

• Motilal Nehru
  Motilal Nehru
  Motilal Nehru was an early Indian independence activist and leader of the Indian National Congress, who remained Congress President twice, and...
  
  , Politician
• Jawaharlal Nehru
  Jawaharlal Nehru
  Jawaharlal Nehru , often referred to with the epithet of Panditji, was an Indian statesman who became the first Prime Minister of independent India and became noted for his “neutralist” policies in foreign affairs. He was also one of the principal leaders of India’s independence movement in the...
  
  , First prime minister of India
• Tej Bahadur Sapru, Politician and lawyer
• Kailash Nath Katju, Politician and lawyer
• Sheila Kaul
  Sheila Kaul
  Sheila Kaul is a social democratic leader of the Indian National Congress and a former union cabinet minister and provincial Governor in India. She was also an educationist, social worker, and social reformer in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, and an independence activist in British India...
  
  , Politician and social worker
• Ram Chandra Kak
  Ram Chandra Kak
  Ram Chandra Kak was Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir during 1945–47. He was also a pioneering archaeologist who excavated the leading sites of antiquities in Kashmir and wrote the definitive text on them....
  
  , Archaeologist and politician
• Indira Gandhi
  Indira Gandhi
  Indira Priyadarshini Gandhara was an Indian politician who served as the third Prime Minister of India for three consecutive terms and a fourth term . She was assassinated by Sikh extremists...
  
  
• Deepa Kaul
  Deepa Kaul
  Deepa Kaul is a social democratic leader of the Indian National Congress and has headed ministries, including social welfare, culture, and tourism, as a member of the legislature of Uttar Pradesh. A political scientist by training, she is also a social worker and reformer...
  
  , Politician and social worker
• Arun Nehru
  Arun Nehru
  Arun Nehru is an Indian politician and columnist. In the 1980s he was the chief strategist for his cousin Rajiv Gandhi and a minister in his government, but owing to ideological differences defected with V.P. Singh to the Janata Dal. Presently he is politically more close to BJP...
  
  , Politician
• Makhan Lal Fotedar
  Makhan Lal Fotedar
  Makhan Lal Fotedar is a senior leader of the Indian National Congress party. He has been a cabinet minister in the Government of India.He was a close associate of Indira Gandhi.- References :...
  
  
• Neel Kashkari
  Neel Kashkari
  Neel T. Kashkari was the Interim Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability in the United States Department of the Treasury. While in this role, he led the Office of Financial Stability, the office set up to buy troubled financial assets from U.S. financial firms under the $700...
  
  , is the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability in the United States Department of the Treasury
  United States Department of the Treasury
  The Department of the Treasury is an executive department and the treasury of the United States federal government. It was established by an Act of Congress in 1789 to manage government revenue...
  
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• Markandey Katju
  Markandey Katju
  Justice Markandey Katju is the Chairman, Press Council of India. He was formerly a Judge of the Supreme Court of India.-Family / Background:Justice Markandey Katju was born on September 20, 1946 in Lucknow, India. He is of Kashmiri Brahmin descent...
  
  , Judge of the Supreme Court of India

Film Industry, Theatre, Radio, Television, Acting

• Mani Kaul
  Mani Kaul
  Mani Kaul was an Indian film director of Hindi films. He graduated from the Film and Television Institute of India where he was a student of Ritwik Ghatak and later became a teacher. Started his career with Uski Roti , which won him the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie, he went on to win...
  
  , Film director
• Kanchi Kaul
  Kanchi Kaul
  Kanchi Kaul is a TV actor born on May 24, 1982. She is best known for her roles in Indian Television including the role of Ananya Sachdev-Samarth in the show Ek Ladki Anjaani Si, she was later replaced by Sai Ananad and the role of Suhana in the show Bhabhi on Star Plus. She also played the role...
  
  
• Bansi Kaul, Theatre director
• Aditya Dhar
  Aditya Dhar
  Aditya Dhar is an Indian lyricist, dialogue writer, film director and playback singer.-Biography:Dhar joined a professional theatre group at the age of 14. He studied hotel management in Bangalore. On graduation he started his own theatre group, "C'est La Vie", and gave lessons to students in...
  
  , Lyricist, Dialogue Writer, Playback Singer, Film Director
• Moti Lal Kemmu
• Rajan Khosa
  Rajan Khosa
  Rajan Khosa is an Indian writer-director-producer who has worked between the UK, Europe and India for the last decade.His most noted film, Dance of the Wind , starring Kitu Gidwani in the lead role, won many national and International film awards, including Audience Award London Film Festival 1997,...
  
  
• Pushkar Bhan
  Pushkar Bhan
  Pushkar Bhan is Kashmir's most famous radio actor and script writer.He has acted with Raj Kapoor and other great Bollywood actors.-External links:*http://www.radiokashmir.org/Artistes/pbhan.html...
  
  
• Pran Kishore
  Pran Kishore
  Pran Kishore Kaul is a famous Kashmiri stage personality. In addition to acting, he has directed and written screenplays. He was bestowed an award from the Sahitya Natak Academy for his novel Sheen Tu Watu Pod. He was one of the founders of the Miltsar Kashmir Music & Dance Group, a group that...
  
  
• M.K. Raina
• A K Hangal Film Actor,Ex.Chairman of IPTA
  Ipta
  IPTA can refer to:* Indian People's Theatre Association* International Pulsar Timing Array...
  
  
• Raaj Kumar
  Raaj Kumar
  Raaj Kumar , born Kulbushan Pandit was an Indian actor in Hindi movies. Raaj Kumar started out as sub-inspector of Mumbai police in the late 1940s before he turned to acting with the 1952 film Rangili...
  
   Famous Film Actor
• Jeevan Villon, Famous for negative role.
• Satish Kaul
  Satish Kaul
  Satish Kaul is an actor in Punjabi and Hindi movies. Notable film roles include Sassi Punnu, Ishq Nimana, Suhag Chooda and Patola. During the militancy in Punjab, he stopped doing Punjabi films and moved to television....
  
   Tv & Film Actor
• Kiran Kumar Dhar
• Anupam Kher
  Anupam Kher
  Anupam Kher is an Indian actor who has appeared in nearly 400 films and 100 plays. Though mainly appearing in Bollywood films, he has had roles in some films from other nations as well...
  
   Famous Film Commedian
• Soni Razdan TV & Film Actress,wife of Famous Film Producer Mahesh Bhatt
  Mahesh Bhatt
  Mahesh Bhatt , is a prominent Indian film director, producer and screenwriter.Bhatt's early directional career consisted of acclaimed films, such as Arth, Saaransh, Janam, Naam and Zakhm....
  
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• K. K. Raina
  K. K. Raina
  K. K. Raina is an Indian film, television and theatre character actor, and award-winning script writer, who is best known for his roles as Juror #8 in the 1986 film Ek Ruka Hua Faisla, a remake of 12 Angry Men, and the Dr. Watson-like side-kick Ajit in the 1993 Doordarshan detective series Byomkesh...
  
   Actor
• M. K. Raina, theatre
• Raj Zutshi TV Actor
• Kunal Khemu Bollywood Actor
• Shereen Bhan
  Shereen Bhan
  Shereen Bhan is an Indian journalist and news anchor. She is the Delhi Bureau Chief and Executive Editor of CNBC-TV18.Shereen Bhan belongs to a Kashmiri Pandit family and is the daughter of a fighter pilot Air Marshal SK Bhan of the Indian Air Force. She did her schooling at Kendriya Vidyalaya in...
  
  , TV Anchor
• Nidhi Razdan
  Nidhi Razdan
  Nidhi Razdan is a television journalist at NDTV 24x7, an English language television network that carries news and current affairs in India, owned by New Delhi Television Ltd.-Early life:...
  
  , News Reader
• Maanvi Gagroo
  Maanvi Gagroo
  Maanvi Gagroo Maanvi Gagroo Maanvi Gagroo (born on 5 September, 1985 is an Indian actress. Her first appearance was in the role of Bikki or Ambika Gill in the show Dhoom Machaao Dhoom. Repeatedly, Maanvi's year of birth has been shown to be 1987 but it is in reality only 1985....
  
   Film,TV and Theatre Actor
• Ashoke Pandit
  Ashoke Pandit
  -Early years:Ashoke Pandit’s relentless artistic efforts have been spread over various mediums ranging from television shows, documentary films, ad films and also feature films. He made his foray into the entertainment arena with notable shows that were going to prove to be milestones in...
  
   Filmmaker & Television Director
• Mohan Shah
  Mohan Shah
  Mohan Shah is an acclaimed actor, anchor, singer and director.He was born at Anantnag town in Kashmir on 5th September 1956. Mohan Shah is the sixth born but fourth surviving child of his parents and younger brother of Maharaj Shah, a renowned artist, writer, director of Kashmir. In his early...
  
   Actor,Anchor,Writer,Director
• Sandeepa Dhar
  Sandeepa Dhar
  Sandeepa Dhar is an Indian actress. Sandeepa made her acting debut in the 2010 Hindi film Isi Life Mein. For her performance in the film, she was nominated for the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut, Star Screen Award for Most Promising Newcomer and Stardust Award for Superstar of Tomorrow.-...
  
  , Actress

Music

• Archis Tiku, founding member and bassist of British indie rock band Maxïmo Park, 1977-
• Vijay Kichlu, 1930-
• Ravi Kichlu, 1932-
• Trilok Gurtu, 1951 -
• Bhajan SoporiSantoor mastreo, Music Director
• Kailash Mehra Sadhu
  Kailash Mehra Sadhu
  Kailash Mehra Sadhu is a Kashmiri singer.-External links:***...
  
  ,Singer
• Jawahar Wattal,composer
• Kailash Kher,Singer
• Neerja Pandit
  Neerja Pandit
  Neerja Pandit is an Indian Playback Singer in Hindi Film & Television Music and also a Live Performer. She has also recorded songs for Telugu films.-Early Life and Background:...
  
  , Singer, Kashmiri Folk, Hindi Film & Television Music.
• Amit Kilam, Indian Ocean (band)
  Indian Ocean (band)
  Indian Ocean are an Indian rock band formed in New Delhi in 1990. They are considered to be the pioneers of fusion rock genre in India. Susmit Sen, Asheem Chakravarty, Rahul Ram and Amit Kilam formed the most stable and successful line-up in the band's timeline. This line-up lasted till Asheem's...
  
   - Percussionist & Singer
• Sandeepa Dhar
  Sandeepa Dhar
  Sandeepa Dhar is an Indian actress. Sandeepa made her acting debut in the 2010 Hindi film Isi Life Mein. For her performance in the film, she was nominated for the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut, Star Screen Award for Most Promising Newcomer and Stardust Award for Superstar of Tomorrow.-...
  
  , - Film Actress

Art, Design & Painting

• Ratan Parimoo
  Ratan Parimoo
  Ratan Parimoo is one of the major art historians and painters of modern India. He was for a long time a professor at the M.S. University in Vadodara...
  
  , Art historian and painter
• Sharad Haksar, Photographer and Adman

Fiction, Poetry, Essays

• Arnimal
  Arnimal
  Arnimal was a leading Kashmiri poetess. According to some scholars, many of the verses attributed to poetess Habba Khatun actually belong to her.-External links:*...
  
  , Kashmiri Poet
• Brij Narayan Chakbast
  Brij Narayan Chakbast
  Brij Narayan Chakbast, also spelled, Brij Narain Chakbast, was an Urdu poet.- Life :Chakbast was an Urdu poet. He was born in 19 January 1882 in a Kashmiri Pandit family settled in North India in 15th century A.D.. Chakbast was born in Faizabad in 1882...
  
  , renowned Urdu poet
• Krishna Hutheesing
  Krishna Hutheesing
  Krishna Nehru Hutheesing was an Indian writer, the youngest sister of Jawaharlal Nehru and Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, and part of the Nehru-Gandhi family.-Biography:...
  
  
• Chandrakanta (author)
  Chandrakanta (author)
  Chandrakanta is a writer, born in Srinagar, India. She has written many novels and stories in the Hindi language including the epic Katha Satisar, which was awarded the Vyas Samman prize in 2005....
  
  , Novelist
• Manju Kak
  Manju Kak
  Manju Kak is a Kashmiri writer and film-maker. Her books are:*First Light in Colonelpura*Requiem for an unsung revolutionary and other stories.-Reference:...
  
  , Short-story writer
• Hari Kunzru, Novelist

Scholars and Writers

• Balji Nath Pandit
  Balji Nath Pandit
  Balajinnatha Pandita was a Sanskrit scholar and authority of Kashmir Shaivism.He obtained his Ph.D. at Punjab University and was the Professor of Sanskrit and Philosophy at Himachal Pradesh University...
  
  , Sanskrit and Shaivism
• P.N. Kaul Bamzai, Historian
• Triloki Nath Madan
  Triloki Nath Madan
  Triloki Nath Madan in Kashmir, India is an anthropologist, with a Ph.D from the Australian National University . He is currently Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi University, and Distinguished Senior Fellow , Center for the Study of Developing Societies,...
  
  , Sociologist
• Braj Kachru, English professor and linguist
• Ravinder Kumar, Historian
• Giridhari Lal Pandit, Historian of science
• Lalita Pandit, Literature
• Jaishree Odin
  Jaishree Odin
  Jaishree Odin is a post-modern literary theorist who teaches at the University of Hawaii. She has examined the feminist angle to mysticism and considered the current relevance of Shaivite theories of higher consciousness....
  
  , Literature
• MotiLal Saqi, Poet and Philosopher
• Nilkanth Gurtu
  Nilkanth Gurtu
  Nilkanth Gurtoo was a Kashmiri Sanskrit & Shaiva scholar and professor who translated many philosophical texts into Hindi or English.- Professor Nilkanth Gurtoo :Nilkanth Gurtoo was born in Srinager, Kashmir, India on January 2, 1925...
  
  , Eminent Sanskritist and Saiva Scholar

Public Service and Social Work

• Rameshwari Nehru
  Rameshwari Nehru
  Rameshwari Nehru, born Rameshwari Raina , was a very prominent social worker of India. She worked for the upliftment of the poorer classes as well as for women. She married Brij Lal Nehru, nephew of Motilal Nehru and cousin of the first prime minister of independent India, Jawaharlal Nehru...
  
  
• Dhanvanthi Rama Rau
  Dhanvanthi Rama Rau
  Dhanvanthi Handoo Rama Rau was founder and president of the Family Planning Association of India. She was a Kashmiri, born and brought up in Hubli, and later moved to Madras to join Presidency College. She served as president of the International Planned Parenthood Federation...
  
  , 1893–1987, Planned parenthood
• Kashyap Bandhu
  Kashyap Bandhu
  Kashyap Bandhu was a political leader and social reformer of Kashmir.-References:*...
  
  
• Ashoke Pandit
  Ashoke Pandit
  -Early years:Ashoke Pandit’s relentless artistic efforts have been spread over various mediums ranging from television shows, documentary films, ad films and also feature films. He made his foray into the entertainment arena with notable shows that were going to prove to be milestones in...
  
  , Social Activist, Fighting for the rights of Kashmiri Pandits since their exodus in 1990, through the medium of Cinema.

Scientists

• Subhash Kak
  Subhash Kak
  Subhash Kak is an Indian American computer scientist, most notable for his controversial Indological publications on history, the philosophy of science, ancient astronomy, and the history of mathematics...
  
  , Delaune Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Louisiana State University
• Kailas Nath Kaul
  Kailas Nath Kaul
  Professor Kailas Nath Kaul , FLS was an Indian botanist, agronomist, agricultural scientist, horticulturist, herbalist, and naturalist, and a world authority on Arecaceae in the 1950s...
  
  , renowned botanist and world authority on palms
• Pran Nath
  Pran Nath
  Pran Nath is a theoretical physicist working at Northeastern University, with research focus in elementary particle physics. He holds a Matthews Distinguished University Professor chair.-Research:...
  
  , Matthews Distinguished Professor of Physics at Northeastern University, PhD Stanford, 1964, and inventor of SUGRA
• V.K. Raina
  Vijay Kumar Raina
  Vijay Kumar Raina is an Indian geologist and glaciologist, and author of a controversial discussion paper from India's Ministry of Environment and Forests regarding Himalayan glaciers...
  
  ,Geologist,Geological Survey of India
• Jagmohan Lal Razdan
  Jagmohan Lal Razdan
  Dr. Jagmohan Lal Razdan was a pioneer in the field of radiology in India. He was born into an affluent Kashmiri Pandit family based in Gwalior, Central India, and educated at Cambridge, England....
  
  , pioneer of radiology in India

People with Kashmiri Pandit ancestry

• Nayantara Sahgal
  Nayantara Sahgal
  Nayantara Sahgal is an Indian writer in English. Her fiction deals with India's elite responding to the crises engendered by political change; she was one of the first female Indo-Anglian writers to receive wide recognition...
  
  , Novelist
• Santha Rama Rau
  Santha Rama Rau
  Santha Rama Rau was an Indian American travel writer.Her father, Sir Benegal Rama Rau, was an Indian diplomat and ambassador. Her mother was Dhanvanthi Rama Rau, a leader in the Indian women's rights movement who was the International President of Planned Parenthood.As a young girl, Rama Rau...
  
  , (Mother Kashmiri Pandit)
• Allama Iqbal, Philosopher, poet,(Grandfather Kashmiri Pandit),belonged to Sapru clan
• Sheikh Abdullah, CM , J & K State(Grandfather Kashmiri Pandit,belonged to Kaul clan