List of Brahmins

This is a list of notable people who belong to the Brahmin caste.

Historical figures

• Gopana - was the General of Kumara Kampana II who was the son of Bukka Raya the founder of Vijayanagara Empire[1]
• Moropant Pingle -was the Peshwe in Shivaji Maharaj's Asthapradhan mandal[2]
• Peshwa Bajirao I - Peshwa of Maratha Empire.
• Lakshmibai - Rani of Jhansi[3]
• Vidyaranya - kingmaker, patron saint and high priest to Harihara I and Bukka Raya I, the founders of the Vijayanagara Empire[4]
• Samarth Ramdas, provided guidance and support to the contemporary Maratha warrior-king Shivaji Maharaj. [5]
• Parashurama, the sixth avatar of Vishnu, is also the Guru of Bhishma, Dronacharya, and Karna. [6]
• Chanakya-first ever known political master in the world and A man who delivered the theory of nationalism ..and his most of the theories are still relevant..
• Adi Shankara- The first person who threaded thousands of creeds of India in a formula that gave birth to the concept of India for the first time in history and that concept was got also distinguished.

Actors

• Anupam Kher[7]
• Raaj Kumar[8]
• Manoj Bajpayee[9]
• Sidharth Shukla[10]

Actress

• Adah Sharma[11]
• Aditi Sharma[12]
• Deepika Padukone[13]
• Hema Malini[14]
• J. Jayalalithaa[15]
• Madhuri Dixit[16]
• Mamta Kulkarni[17]
• Yami Gautam[18]
• Vasundhara Das[19]

India independence movement

• Mangal Pandey, associated with the 1857 rebellion[20]
• Gopal Krishna Gokhale, political guru of Mahatma Gandhi[21]
• Bal Gangadhar Tilak, a member of the Indian National Congress[21]
• C. Rajagopalachari, the last Governor-General of India; former Chief Minister of Madras State[22]
• Chandra Shekhar Azad, freedom fighter and an Indian revolutionary who reorganised the Hindustan Republican Association (HRA) [21]

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics

• C. V. Raman,[23] awarded Nobel Prize for Physics, 1930
• Udupi Ramachandra Rao,[24] : Former ISRO chairman and one of the pioneer of Indian satellite development programme (developed India's first satellite Aryabhata ).
• Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar,[25] American astrophysicist, awarded 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics
• Shakuntala Devi,[26] Indian mathematician.
• Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician[27]
• C. S. Seshadri, Indian mathematician.[28]

Social sciences

• Ramachandra Guha,[29] Indian historian and writer

Military

• Somnath Sharma, First recipient of India's highest gallantry award Param Vir Chakra[30]

Musicians

• Thyagaraja, composer[31]
• Bhimsen Joshi, singer[32]
• Bharathwaj, composer[33]
• Shankar Mahadevan, singer[34]

Nobel laureates

• C. V. Raman[35][36]
• Rabindranath Tagore[37]
• Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar[38][39]

Politicians

MPs and MLAs

• Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya- engineer, Diwan of Mysore[40]
• Pramod Mahajan, minister in the government of Vajpayee[41]
• Arindam Bhattacharya (politician), Member of Legislative Assembly(MLA) from the West Bengal Legislative Assembly[42] and President of the West Bengal unit of All India Brahman Mahasabha founded by Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya in 1939

Chief Ministers

Photo	Name	Born	Death	Brahmin Sub-Caste	Notes
	Manohar Joshi [43]	2 December 1937			Chief Minister of Maharashtra (1995–99), Speaker of Loksabha (2002–04)
	Tanguturi Prakasam [44][45]	23 August 1872	20 May 1957	Niyogi Brahmin	Chief Minister of Madras Presidency (1946–47), Chief Minister of Andhra state (1953–54)
	C. Rajagopalachari[29]	10 December 1878	25 December 1972	Tamil Brahmin	2nd Chief Minister of Madras State (10 April 1952 – 13 April 1954)last Governor-General of India
	E. M. S. Namboodiripad[46]	13 June 1909	19 March 1998	Nambudiri Brahmin	Chief Minister of Kerala (1957–59 & 1967–69)
	Jayalalithaa Jayaraman[47]	24 February 1948	5 December 2016	Iyengar	Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (1991–96, May 2001-Sept 2001, 2002–06, 2011–16)
	Govind Ballabh Pant[48]	10 September 1887	7 March 1961		Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (1950-54)
	Devendra Fadnavis[49]	22 July 1970		Deshastha Brahmin	Chief Minister of Maharashtra (2014-)
	P. V. Narasimha Rao[50]	28 June 1921	23 December 2004	Niyogi Brahmin	Fourth Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (30 September 1971 – 10 January 1973 )

Presidents of India

Photo	Name	Born	Death	Brahmin Sub-Cast	In Office
	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan[51][52]	5 September 1888	17 April 1975	Niyogi Brahmin	Second President (13 May 1962 – 13 May 1967)
	Shankar Dayal Sharma[53]	19 August 1918	26 December 1999	Gaur Brahmin	Ninth President (25 June 1992 – 25 July 1997)
	Pranab Mukherjee[54]	11 December 1935		Kulin Brahmin	Thirteenth President (25 July 2012 – 25 July 2017)
	V. V. Giri[55]	10 August 1894	24 June 1980	Niyogi Brahmin	fourth president 24 August 1969 to 24 August 1974

Prime Ministers of India

Photo	Name	Born	Death	Brahmin Sub-Cast	In Office
	Jawaharlal Nehru	14 November 1889	27 May 1964	Saraswat Brahmin (Kashmiri Pandit)	First PM (15 August 1947 – 27 May 1964)
	Indira Gandhi	19 November 1917	31 October 1984	Saraswat Brahmin (Kashmiri Pandit)	Third PM (24 January 1964 - 24 March 1977 and 14 January 1980 – 31 October 1984)
	Morarji Desai[56]	29 February 1896	10 April 1995		Fourth PM (24 March 1977 – 28 July 1979)
	Atal Bihari Vajpayee[57]	25 December 1924	16 August 2018		Tenth Prime Minister (16 May 1996 – 1 June 1996 and 19 March 1998 – 22 May 2004)
	P. V. Narasimha Rao[50]	28 June 1921	23 December 2004	Niyogi Brahmin	Ninth Prime Minister (21 June 1991 – 16 May 1996 )

Spiritual people

• Adi Shankara[58]
• Dayanand Saraswati[59]
• Swaminarayan[60]
• Ramanujacharya[61]
• Tulsidas[62]
• Eknath, according to legend[63]
• Madhvacharya[64]
• Ram Mohan Roy, co-founder of the Brahmo Samaj movement in 1828[65]
• Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, a social reformer who promoted widow remarriage[66]
• Vallabha Acharya[67]

Writers and poets

• D. R. Bendre[68]
• Masti Venkatesha Iyengar[69]
• Goswami Tulsidas, the author of the epic "Ramcharitmanas", "the greatest book of all devotional literature". [70]

See also

• List of Kashmiri Hindus
• List of Gaud Saraswat Brahmins
• List of Deshastha Brahmins
• List of Chitpawan Brahmins
• List of Karhade Brahmins
• List of Iyengars
• List of Iyers
• List of Saraswats

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