Chawla

Chawla is a Punjabi Arora-Khatri(Kshatriya) surname in punjab from Ancient Times. Chawla Clan of Arora ruled the Kingdom Aror and were part of Arora Kshatriya (Khatri) Royal Clan.

It originates from the name of a clan of the Arora caste, likely stemming from the crop word chawal, which means rice.

Chawla(चावला) derive their ancestry from Sindh and later on after attack of Ghazni they migrated to Upper Punjab ^[1]

Notable people[]

• Kalpana Chawla (1962–2003), Indian-American astronaut killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster
• Bhumika Chawla (born 1978), Indian actress
• Bobby Chawla (born 1982), Danish cricketer
• Devika Chawla, Indian pop singer
• Harcharan Chawla (1926–2001), Indian Urdu writer
• Harpinder Singh Chawla (born 1950), Indian dental surgeon and medical researcher
• Himani Chawla, Indian television actress
• Himanshu Chawla (born 1991), Indian cricketer
• Isha Chawla (born 1988), Indian film actress
• Juhi Chawla (born 1967), Indian actress
• Kailash Chawla (born 1948), Indian politician
• Keerthi Chawla (born 1981), Indian actress
• Laxmi Kanta Chawla, Indian politician
• Louise Chawla, American professor
• Piyush Chawla (born 1988), Indian cricketer
• Prabhu Chawla (born 1946), Indian journalist and editor of India Today
• Preetika Chawla, Indian film actress
• Shuchi Chawla, US-based Indian computer scientist
• Surveen Chawla, Indian actress
• Tarang Chawla (born 1987), Indian-born Australian activist and writer
• , Indian Vety doctor, Trainer, Banker.

• , (born 1995), Indian Composer Artist

Other uses[]

• Chawla (crater), a lunar crater named after Kalpana Chawla.

References[]

Surname list

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