Rahul
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Rahul, a popular male name in India
, has a variety of meanings. The earliest meaning found in the Upanishads is "conqueror of all miseries." Rahul also means "Traveler" in Arabic.Buddha's son was also called Rahul meaning "obstruction".
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, has a variety of meanings. The earliest meaning found in the Upanishads is "conqueror of all miseries." Rahul also means "Traveler" in Arabic.Buddha's son was also called Rahul meaning "obstruction".
People named Rahul
- Rahul BajajRahul BajajRahul Bajaj is an Indian businessman, politician and philanthropist. He is the chairman of Indian conglomerate Bajaj Group and member of parliament. Bajaj comes from the business house started by a Rajasthani Marwadi businessman Jamnalal Bajaj. The US$ 1.32 Billion Bajaj Auto is his flagship company...
, industrialist - Rahul Banerjee (archer)Rahul Banerjee (archer)Rahul Banerjee is an Indian sportsman who competes in archery. He is son of Ashok Banerjee and Kalpana Banerjee....
, archer - Rahul Banerjee (actor), actor
- Rahul BhattRahul BhattRahul Bhatt , is an Indian fitness trainer and an aspiring film actor. The son of famous film director Mahesh Bhatt and Kiran Bhatt, Rahul gained unwitting notoriety in 2009 following revelations that David Headley, an accused in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, had befriended him.-Biography:The son of...
, fitness trainer, actor and son of Mahesh BhattMahesh BhattMahesh 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.... - Rahul BoseRahul BoseRahul Bose is an Indian actor, screenwriter, director, social activist, and rugby union player.Bose has appeared in Hindi films such as Pyaar Ke Side Effects and Jhankaar Beats. Time magazine named him "the superstar of Indian arthouse cinema" for his work in parallel cinema films like English,...
, actor - Rahul ChandranRahul ChandranRahul Chandran is policy analyst working in the fields of conflict and security, widely known for his work on resilience and on United Nations reform....
, Policy analyst - Rahul DeshpandeRahul DeshpandeRahul Deshpande is an Indian classical music singer from Pune, India. He is the grandson of the well-known late Pandit Vasantrao Deshpande of Patiala Gharana.-Background:...
, Indian classical singer - Rahul DevRahul DevRahul Dev is an Indian film actor and former model. Dev is known for his unconventional rugged looks and chiselled features and appearances in action films. He was meant to make his acting debut as the main villain in Mukul S. Anand's 1997 film Dus but the director's death while the film was still...
, model, actor - Rahul Dev BurmanRahul Dev BurmanRahul Dev Burman commonly known as R. D. Burman and nicknamed Pancham da or simply Pancham, was an influential Bollywood music composer. He was the only son of singer and Bollywood music composer Sachin Dev Burman and his wife Meera...
, music director - Rahul DholakiaRahul DholakiaRahul Dholakia is an Indian film director-producer-screenwriter, most known for his National Film Award winning film, Parzania , prior to which he also made documentaries like Teenage Parents and New York Taxi Drivers.-Early life and education:Born in Mumbai, to Raksha and Parry Dholakia, an...
, Indian Film Director-Producer-Screenwriter - Rahul DravidRahul DravidRahul Sharad Dravid , is a cricketer in the Indian national team, of which he has been a regular member since 1996. He was appointed as the captain of the Indian cricket team in October 2005 and resigned from the post in September 2007. Dravid was honoured as one of the top-five Wisden Cricketers...
Cricketer, Indian cricket team - Rahul EaswarRahul EaswarPeriyamana illathu Rahul Easwaran Namboothiri better known as Rahul Easwar is an author, activist and researcher in Philosophy from Kerala, India. Easwar is an educationist, takes sessions on philosophy, psycholgy, lifology and is an orator....
, media personality and author - Rahul GandhiRahul GandhiRahul Gandhi is an Indian politician and member of the parliament of India, representing the Amethi constituency. His political party is the Indian National Congress.-Early life and career:...
, Indian politician and son of Rajiv Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi - Rahul GunderjaharagandRahul GunderjaharagandRahul Gunderjaharagand was the 23rd Viceroy of Patna, India, reigning from 1854-1866.Born in Bissleboron, Patna, he was a leader in the Indian Rebellion of 1857....
, Viceroy of Patna, 1854–1866 - Rahul KanwatRahul KanwatRahul Jagdish Kanwat is an Indian cricketer. Kanwat is a right-handed batsman who bowls right-arm off break. He was born in Jaipur, Rajasthan....
, cricketer - Rahul KhannaRahul Khanna- Early life and background :Khanna was born and raised in Mumbai. His father is Bollywood matinee idol & politician, Vinod Khanna, and his younger brother is Bollywood actor, Akshaye Khanna....
, Bollywood actor - Rahul KumarRahul KumarRahul Kumar is an Indian football player who plays as a Defender for I-League team Salgaocar S.C.. A Punjab lad, Kumar was one of the original players of Pune F.C. in 2007....
, footballer - Rahul Mahajan (blogger)Rahul Mahajan (blogger)Rahul Mahajan is a noted American blogger and author of The New Crusade: America's War on Terrorism, and Full Spectrum Dominance. The son of noted plasma physicist, Swadesh Mahajan, Rahul Mahajan has a PhD in particle physics from the University of Texas at Austin. He received his Bachelor in...
, noted American blogger and author - Rahul Mahajan (politician)Rahul Mahajan (politician)Rahul Mahajan is an Indian reality show entertainer.He first came into the news when his father Pramod Mahajan was shot by Pravin Mahajan, Rahul Mahajan's uncle. His father died twelve days later from his wounds. Television footage showed him comforting his sister and mother and maintaining a...
, son of Late Pramod Mahajan, a prominent Indian politician - Rahul MukerjeeRahul MukerjeeRahul Mukerjee is a Professor of Statistics, in the higher academic grade, at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.-Biography:Mukerjee completed his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Statistics at the University of Calcutta in 1975 and 1977 respectively, finishing at the top of his class in each...
, Professor of Operations ManagementOperations managementOperations management is an area of management concerned with overseeing, designing, and redesigning business operations in the production of goods and/or services. It involves the responsibility of ensuring that business operations are efficient in terms of using as little resources as needed, and... - Rahul NambiarRahul NambiarRahul Nambiar is an Indian playback singer and live performer. A MBA and M.Com-graduate, he won the Swapthaswarangal show in 2001 and began singing live...
, Indian playback singer and live performer - Rahul NandaDiwan Rahul NandaDr. Diwan Rahul Nanda as the Global Chairman of TOPSGRUP, an Indian MNC to acquire Great Britain’s leading security company The Shield Guarding Company Limited. TOPSGRUP is today the second largest security services provider in India with close to 85,000 employees.-Career:At the age of 16, Dr...
, Businessman - Rahul PrasadRahul PrasadRahul Prasad was an Indian cricketer. He was a left-handed batsman and right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for Jharkhand. He was born in Delhi....
, cricketer - Rahul Raj (composer), South Indian composer
- Rahul RamRahul RamRahul Ram plays the bass guitar for Indian Ocean. He joined as a part of the band in 1991. He had been playing bass guitar since junior school in the seventies....
, musician - Rahul RoyRahul RoyRahul Roy Kapoor is an Indian film actor, who works in Bollywood films. He debuted in the hit Mahesh Bhatt production Aashiqui for which he is famous. His popularity increased with the 1992 film Sapne Saajan Ke, in which he was helped by having the music of Nadeem Shravan, with Kumar Sanu's...
, Bollywood actor - Rahul Roy (accountant)Rahul Roy (accountant)Rahul Roy was an Indian chartered accountant.-Career:In 1998, Rahul Roy, a former president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India became the youngest person ever to head the ICAI, the second largest professional institute in the World, at 34 years of age...
, Accountant - Rahul SainiRahul SainiRahul Saini is an Indian author of contemporary fiction. His books have strong comic tones and present up-beat stories that portray the fun loving, free spirited and out going character of today’s Indian youth...
, Indian author - Rahul SanghviRahul SanghviRahul Sanghvi is an Indian cricketer, specialising in left arm orthodox spin. He played one Test Match, which was the First Test between Australia and India in 2001, but was dropped after Australia claimed a 10 wicket victory. He played in 10 One Day Internationals...
, cricketer - Rahul SankrityayanRahul SankrityayanMahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan , who is called the Father of Hindi Travel literature, was one of the most widely-traveled scholars of India, spending forty-five years of his life on travels away from his home. He became a buddhist monk and eventually took up Marxist Socialism...
, historian, Buddhist religious scholar, Marxist philosopher, prolific writer and polymath - Rahul SarpeshkarRahul SarpeshkarRahul Sarpeshkar is currently an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prof. Sarpeshkar received B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1990 and the Ph.D. degree...
, scientist - Rahul Sharma (Hong Kong cricketer) (born 1960), Hong Kong cricketer
- Rahul Sharma (musician)Rahul Sharma (musician)Rahul Sharma is an Indian classical musician of Hindustani classical music. He plays santoor and is also a vocalist.-Early life:...
(born 1972), Indian classical musician - Rahul Sharma (Indian cricketer)Rahul Sharma (Indian cricketer)Rahul Sharma is an Indian cricketer. He is primarily a right-handed legbreak and googly bowler. He has been a member of the Punjab cricket team since 2006...
(born 1986), Indian cricketer - Rahul SinghRahul Singh (paramedic)Rahul Singh is a Toronto paramedic and the founder of GlobalMedic, a humanitarian relief organization that provides disaster relief in areas affected by natural disasters or complex emergencies. For his work with GlobalMedic, Singh was named to the 2010 Time 100 list of "The World's Most...
, Canadian paramedic - Rahul SoodRahul SoodRahul Sood was the founder of VoodooPC , and became the outgoing Chief Technology Officer for the Hewlett Packard Global Voodoo Business Unit...
, founder of VooDooPC - Rahul VaidyaRahul Vaidya-Life before fame:The son of an engineer with the Maharashtra State Electricity Board, Vaidya grew up in Mumbai, where he studied music under Suresh Wadkar and entered various child talent competitions. While he was a Second Year Junior College student in Mithibai College, he participated in Indian...
, singer, Indian Idol runner up - Rahul VarmaRahul VarmaRahul Varma is a Canadian playwright.He attended college at the University of Lucknow, and moved to Canada in 1976. He co-founded Teesri Duniya Theatre in 1981, and became its Artistic Director in 1986. He began Teesri Duniya's quarterly magazine, alt.theatre, in 1998...
, playwright
Media
- Rahul (film)Rahul (film)Rahul is an Indian Emotional Drama film directed and produced by Prakash Jha. The film stars Neha, Neena Kulkarni and Gulshan Grover in leadroles.-Sypnosis:...
, 2001 Hindi film by Prakash JhaPrakash JhaPrakash Jha is an Indian film producer-director-screenwriter, who is most known for his political and socio-political films such as Damul , Mrityudand , Gangaajal , Apaharan and multistarrer hit movie Raajneeti... - Rahul's Arranged MarriageRahul's Arranged Marriage (2005)Rahul's Arranged Marriage, is a 2005 silent Canadian film directed and produced by Anant Mathur, and is a short film.-Plot:The film revolves around a young man named Rahul whose father wants him to marry the daughter of his old friend Mr. Kapoor. Rahul is quite modern and the concept of arranged...
, 2005 Canadian film by Anant Mathur - Rahul Missing CaseRahul Missing CaseRahul Missing case concerns a seven year old boy, who went missing on 18 May 2005, while playing with friends in his neighborhood near Alappuzha in Kerala, India...