Raj (name)

Raj (Hindi: राज, Urdu: راج, Bengali: রাজ) in different contexts means "rule", "king", "ruler", "emperor" or "royalty" and "power" in the Sanskrit language families of the Indian sub-continent, including Romanes, its closest Indo-European relative. The word is cognate to Latin rex.

Given name or nickname[]

Raj Ballav Koirala (born 1982), Nepalese actor
Raj Gupta, American business executive
Raj Kamal Jha (born 1966), Indian novelist and journalist
Raj Kapoor (1924–1988), Indian actor, director and producer
Raj Kaul, 18th-century ancestor of Jawahar Lal Nehru
Raj Khosla (1925–1991), Indian director
Raj Krishna, Indian economist
Raj Manhas, American educator
Raj Man Singh Chitrakar, Nepalese artist
Raj Mohinder Singh Majitha, Indian politician
Raj Mukherji, New Jersey lobbyist and real estate developer
Raj Narain (1917–1986), Indian politician
Raj Pannu (born 1934), Canadian educator and politician
Raj Patel (born 1972), British-born academic, journalist, activist and writer
Rajendra Persaud (born 1963), British psychiatrist, broadcaster, and author
Raj Pradhan, Nepalese cricketer
Dabbala Rajagopal Raj Reddy (born 1937), Indian-American pioneer in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
Raj Rajaratnam (born 1957), American former manager of the hedge fund Galleon Group, convicted in 2011 of insider trading
Raj Rajeshwari Devi (died 1806), queen consort and twice queen regent of Nepal
Raj Singh (disambiguation), several people
Raj Thackeray (born 1968), Indian politician

Surname[]

Anil Raj (1984–2019), American human rights activist, Amnesty International board member, killed in 2019 in Kabul while working on the United Nations Development Programme
Besant C. Raj (1933–2018), Indian expert and writer on financial management
Charan Raj (born 1958), Indian film actor, director, music director, film producer, and writer
Jagdish Raj (1928–2013), Bollywood actor who holds a Guinness World Record for being the most typecast actor
K. N. Raj (1924–2010), Indian economist
Maria Venus Raj (born 1988), Filipino beauty queen, TV personality, model, and actress
Mithali Raj (born 1982), Indian cricketer
Prakash Raj or Raj (born 1965), Indian actor and producer

Fictional characters[]

Raj Koothrappali, on the American sitcom The Big Bang Theory
Raj King, played by Aatif Nawaz in the British web series Corner Shop Show
Roger "Raj" Thomas, on the American TV series What's Happening!! and What's Happening Now!!
Raj, the neurotic Indian elephant on the American cartoon series Camp Lazlo
Raj, the shop assistant who appears in every one of David Walliams novels except Awful Auntie

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