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Raja (name)
Raja is a common given name and a surname, derived from Sanskrit राजन् (rajan), meaning "king", "ruler". Given name * Raja (Tamil actor), Indian Tamil-language film actor *Raja Abel (born 1978), Indian film actor * Raja Babu (''Punyamurthula Appalaraju'', ''Adeel Raja''; 1937–1983), Indian actor * Raja Bell (born 1976), American basketball player *Raja Bundela, Indian actor and politician *Raja Chaudhary (born 1975), Indian television actor *Raja Chelliah (1922–2009), Indian economist *Raja Fenske (born 1988), American actor * Raja Gemini (Sutan Amrull; born 1974), American make-up artist and drag performer * Raja Gosnell (born 1958), American film director * Raja Ali Haji (1808–1873), Malay historian, poet and scholar * Raja Hasan (born 1979), Indian playback singer *Raja Petra Kamarudin (''RPK''; born 1950), Malaysian blogger * Raja Kannappan, Indian politician * Raja Kashif (born 1978), British musician *Raja Koduri, Indian-American computer engineer *Raja Nawa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raja (Tamil Actor)
Daggubati Venkatesh, credited as Raja, is an Indian actor who has acted in Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu language films. The actor made his debut in the 1981 Tamil film, ''Paakku Vethalai'', before going on to become a leading actor in the Tamil film industry from 1986 to 2000. He went on to play second lead roles and supporting characters in several films including Kamal Haasan's '' Sathi Leelavathi'' and Rajinikanth's '' Mappillai''. He has also acted in few Telugu films like ''Chinnari Sneham'', ''Sankellu'' and '' Shri Krishnarjuna Vijayam''. He is a relative of veteran film producer late D. Ramanaidu. Career A nephew of Telugu film producer D. Ramanaidu, Daggubati Venkatesh was persuaded by his family to become an actor in Tamil cinema owing to his familiarity with Madras. He subsequently joined Bharathiraja's acting school, where he trained before getting his first major career breakthrough with the director's romantic drama ''Kadalora Kavithaigal'' (1986). To differentia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raja Paranjape
Rajabhau Dattatraya Paranjpe (24 April 1910 – 9 February 1979), known as Raja Paranjape, was an Indian actor, director, producer and writer in the Marathi film and Hindi film Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai, engaged in production of motion pictures in Hindi language. The popular term Bollywood, is a portmanteau of "Bombay" (fo ... industries. He started to produce Marathi films under the banner named Gajraj with Madgulkar and Phadake. The super-hit Hindi film, ''Mera Saaya'', was a remake of his Marathi film, ''Pathlaag''. Career In a career spanning 40 years, Paranjape was associated with about 80 Marathi and Hindi films. Films as director (29 titles) Films as actor (20 titles) References External links * * https://web.archive.org/web/20130424005744/http://www.rajaparanjapepratishthan.org/index.html * https://www.flickr.com/photos/rashid_ashraf/43991175431/in/dateposted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andres Raja
Andres Raja (born June 2, 1982) is a retired Estonian decathlete. Raja was born in Leningrad. He finished sixteenth at the 2007 World Championships and sixth at the 2008 World Indoor Championships. He set a personal best score of 8119 points in August at 2009 World Championships in Athletics. His second best result is 8118 achieved in August 2008 at the Olympics after qualifying to the games with personal best 8069 points, achieved in July 2008 in Rakvere. Raja finished tenth at the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona with 7991 points. He was second in the heptathlon at the Tallinn International meet, scoring a personal best of 6114 points, while winner Ashton Eaton broke the world record.Lindmae, Maris (2011-02-06)Easton sets new World record in Tallinn with 6568 points IAAF World Athletics, formerly known as the International Amateur Athletic Federation (from 1912 to 2001) and International Association of Athletics Federations (from 2001 to 2019, both abbreviated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altaf Raja
Altaf Raja (born 15 October 1967) is an Indian Qawwali singer. In 1997 Altaf gained recognition with his debut album ''Tum To Thehre Pardesi''. His most recent song is ''Ae Sanam''. He used ttps://ekajanbee.in/2023/01/altaf-raja-shayari.html urdu shayariin their Songs. Early life Born in Nagpur to professional Qawwals, Altaf Raja began musical training at the age of 15 Career Raja's breakthrough came in 1997 with the album ''Tum To Thehre Pardesi'', which sold 4million units. Raja has also acted in Bollywood movies such as '' Shapath'' (1997), '' Yamraaj'' (1998), ''Mother'' (1999), and '' Ghanchakkar (film), Ghanchakkar'' (2013). Albums Movies as playback singer # Vickida No Varghodo (2022) - Gujarati movie # Tamasha (2015) # Dil Lagana - Hunterrr (2015) # Jholu Ram - Ghanchakkar (film), Ghanchakkar (2013) # Madholal: Keep Walking (2010) # Toonpur Ka Superhero (2010) # Market (2003) # Tumse Kitna - Company (2002) # Aaapka Naam kya - Benaam (1999) # Mother (1999 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allar Raja
Allar Raja (born 22 June 1983) is an Estonian rower. He is a member of rowing club "SK Kalev" located in Pärnu. Rowing career 2000–2008 Raja competed in the World Rowing Junior Championships in 2000 in the quadruple sculls event (19th) and in 2001 in the double sculls event (13th). In 2004 he competed in the U-23 World Regatta in the single sculls event achieving 8th position. His first appearance in the World Rowing Championships was in 2005 in Gifu, Japan in the double sculls event with Silver Sonntak. They were second in Final C, achieving 14th position overall. Raja won his first World Championships medal in 2006 in Eton, Great Britain, where ha was a member of the bronze-winning quadruple sculls team with Andrei Jämsä, Tõnu Endrekson and Igor Kuzmin. 2007 in Munich, Germany he competed in the quadruple sculls event with Kuzmin, Latin and Taimsoo earning 8th position. The same team was 5th at the 2007 European Rowing Championships held in Poznań, Poland. At the 2008 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adeel Raja
Mohammad Adeel Khalid Raja ( ur, محمد عدیل خالد راجہ; born 15 August 1980), or Adeel Raja, is a Pakistan-born Dutch cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...er. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm offbreak bowler. References * * 1980 births Living people Dutch cricketers Netherlands One Day International cricketers Pakistani cricketers Cricketers at the 2003 Cricket World Cup Cricketers at the 2007 Cricket World Cup Cricketers at the 2011 Cricket World Cup Pakistani emigrants to the Netherlands Dutch people of Punjabi descent Cricketers from Lahore Sportspeople of Pakistani descent {{Netherlands-cricket-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abid Raja
Abid Qayyum Raja (born 5 November 1975) is a Norwegian lawyer and Liberal Party politician who served as Minister of Culture from 2020 to 2021.; He was elected to the Storting as representative for Akershus in 2013 where he served as second deputy chair of the Standing Committee on Transport and Communications and also is a member of the Standing Committee on Scrutiny and Constitutional Affairs. In October 2017, Raja was elected as the vice-president of the Storting, the second time in Norway's history that a Muslim has been elected to that office. Early life Born in Oslo into a family of Pakistani descent, he was raised in the St. Hanshaugen neighborhood in Oslo. His father Abdul Qayyum Raja (1937– ) was a factory worker who worked at the Christiania Spigerverk steel plant in Nydalen, while his mother Akthar Nasim (1949–2021) was a homemaker. Raja describes his parents as someone who "used violence as a part of the parenting, violence was relatively common in my commu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raja Ravi Varma
Raja Ravi Varma ( ml, രാജാ രവിവർമ്മ; 29 April 1848 – 2 October 1906) was an Indian painter and artist. He is considered among the greatest painters in the history of Indian art. His works are one of the best examples of the fusion of European academic art with a purely Indian sensibility and iconography. Specially, he was notable for making affordable lithographs of his paintings available to the public, which greatly enhanced his reach and influence as a painter and public figure. His lithographs increased the involvement of common people with fine arts and defined artistic tastes among common people. Furthermore, his religious depictions of Hindu deities and works from Indian epic poetry and Puranas have received profound acclaim. He was part of the royal family of erstwhile Parappanad, Malappuram district. Raja Ravi Varma was closely related to the royal family of Travancore of present-day Kerala state in India. Later in his life, two of his grandda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raja Toumi
Raja Toumi (born 3 April 1978) is a Tunisian handball player. She is coaching for Orkanger IF and previously for the Tunisian national team. She was captain for the Tunisian team at the 2009 World Women's Handball Championship The 2009 World Women's Handball Championship was the 19th edition, second to take place outside Europe, of the international championship tournament in women's team sport handball that is governed by the International Handball Federation (IHF). C ... in China, where Tunisia placed 14th. References 1978 births Living people Sportspeople from Tunis Tunisian female handball players Expatriate handball players {{Tunisia-handball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raja Sen
Raja Sen (born 10 November 1955) is an Indian film and television director and the winner of three National Film Awards from Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He is the father of actress Rimi Sen. Career Raja Sen first received recognition with ''Subarnalata'' (1997), a teleserial, he followed it up with ''Adarsha Hindu Hotel'', ''Arogyo Niketan'', few episodes of ''Desh Amaar Desh'' are some of the notables of the Bengali television arena. He has also documented the real life paradigm of the living legends of Bengal's World of Art & Culture, namely, Suchitra Mitra, Tapan Sinha, Sombhu Mitra, Subhas Mukhopadhyay. Personal life Raja Sen is married to ''Papiya Sen'', has two daughters, Romi Sen and Rimi Sen and two granddaughters Mishka and Juana. Filmography Feature film * ''Damu (1996 film), Damu'' (1996) - Cast: Raghuvir Yadav, Satya Banerjee, Monoj Mitra, Sabyasachi Chakrabarty, Rimi Sen (Child Artist). * Atmiyo Swajan (1999) - Cast: Soumitra Chatterjee, Supriya Devi, Dipankar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raja Shehadeh
Raja Shehadeh (born 1951) is a Palestinian lawyer, human rights activist and writer. He co-founded the award-winning Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq in 1979. In 2008, he won the Orwell Prize, Britain's pre-eminent award for political writing, for his book ''Palestinian Walks.'' Early life Raja Shehadeh was born into a prominent Palestinian Christian family. His grandfather, Saleem, was a judge in the courts of the British Mandate of Palestine. His great-great-uncle, the journalist Najib Nassar, founded the Haifa-based newspaper '' Al-Karmil'' in the last years of the Ottoman Empire, before World War I. His father, Aziz, was one of the first Palestinians to publicly support a two-state solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict. His family fled from Jaffa to Ramallah in 1948. In 1951 Raja was born in Ramallah, West Bank, Jordan where he grew up. He attended Birzeit College for two years before studying English literature in the American University of Beirut. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raja Rao
Raja Rao (8 November 1908 – 8 July 2006) was an Indian-American writer of English-language novels and short stories, whose works are deeply rooted in metaphysics. '' The Serpent and the Rope'' (1960), a semi-autobiographical novel recounting a search for spiritual truth in Europe and India, established him as one of the finest Indian prose stylists and won him the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1964. For the entire body of his work, Rao was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1988. Rao's wide-ranging body of work, spanning a number of genres, is seen as a varied and significant contribution to Indian English literature, as well as World literature as a whole. Biography Early life Raja Rao was born on 8 November 1908 in Hassan, in the princely state of Mysore (now in Karnataka in South India) into a Kannada-speaking Brahmin family and was the eldest of 9 siblings, with seven sisters and a brother named Yogeshwara Ananda. His father, H.V. Krishnaswamy, taught Ka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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