Aparna may refer to:
*One of the names of the Hindu goddess
Parvati
Parvati ( sa, पार्वती, ), Uma ( sa, उमा, ) or Gauri ( sa, गौरी, ) is the Hindu goddess of power, energy, nourishment, harmony, love, beauty, devotion, and motherhood. She is a physical representation of Mahadevi i ...
People
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Aparna Bajpai
Aparna Bajpai is an Indian actress who has appeared in Tamil, Hindi and Malayalam language films. She is best known for her role in the 2010 film, ''Easan'', directed by Sasikumar.
Early life
Bajpai was born to Ramesh and Sushma Bajpai, and h ...
, Indian actress
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Aparna Balamurali
Aparna Balamurali (born 11 September 1995) is an Indian actress who primarily works in Malayalam films along with a few Tamil films. She is known for her roles in ''Maheshinte Prathikaaram'' (2016), ''Sunday Holiday'' (2017) and ''Soorarai Pot ...
, Indian actress and singer
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Aparna Balan
Aparna Balan (born 9 August 1986) is an Indian badminton player from Kozhikode, Kerala. She was part of the national team that won the silver medal in 2010 Commonwealth Games, also gold medals in 2004, 2006 and 2010 South Asian Games. She is 6 ...
(born 1986), Indian badminton player
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Aparna Brielle
Aparna Brielle (born Aparna Parthasarathy on February 5, 1994) is an American actress. She portrayed Sarika Sarkar on the NBC television series '' A.P. Bio''.
Early life
Aparna Brielle was born in Clackamas, Oregon to Indian American couple ...
(born 1994), American actress
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Aparna Chandra
Aparna Chandra (born 6 January 1971) is a fashion designer and stylist from India.
Life
Chandra was born on January 6, 1971, in Delhi. She watched as a child the tailors employed by her mother, Asha, who was a designer of children's clothing. ...
(born 1971), Indian fashion designer
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Aparna Dixit
Aparna Dixit (born 20 October 1991) is an Indian television actress. She is well known for playing Poorvi in Sony Pal's '' Yeh Dil Sun Raha Hai'', Devika in Life OK's ''Kalash - Ek Vishwaas'', Bani in Colors TV's ''Bepanah Pyaar'', and Shrishti ...
(born 1991), Indian television actress
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Aparna Ghosh
Aparna Ghosh is a Bangladeshi actress, theater artist and model. She won Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress twice for her roles in the films ''Mrittika Maya'' (2013) and '' Gondi'' (2020).
Career
Ghosh debuted in the film ...
, Bangladeshi actress
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Aparna Gopinath
Aparna Gopinath is an Indian actress of film actress and theatre artist. She debuted in the Malayalam film '' ABCD: American-Born Confused Desi'' opposite to Dulquer Salmaan.
Early life
Aparna is born into a Malayali family in Chennai. She was ...
, Malayalam film actress
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Aparna Dutta Gupta, Indian biologist
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Aparna Higgins
Aparna W. Higgins is a mathematician known for her encouragement of undergraduate mathematicians to participate in mathematical research. Higgins originally specialized in universal algebra, but her more recent research concerns graph theory, inclu ...
, Indian-American mathematician
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Aparna V. Huzurbazar
Aparna V. Huzurbazar is an American statistician known for her work using graphical models to understand time-to-event data. She is the author of a book on this subject, ''Flowgraph Models for Multistate Time-to-Event Data'' (Wiley, 2004).
Huzurb ...
, American statistician
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Aparna Jain
Aparna Jain is an author and an executive leadership coach. She is the author of four books - Own It: Leadership Lessons From Women Who Do, which was shortlisted for the Tata Lit Live Festival's Business Book of the Year category in 2016, Like A ...
(born 1970), Indian marketing consultant and author
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Aparna Karthikeyan, Indian journalist and author
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Aparna Kumar
Aparna Kumar is a 2002 batch IPS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre. She was attracted to mountaineering a few years earlier when she was posted at Moradabad, and commanding The 9th Battalion of PAC (Provincial Armed Constabulary which guarded the ...
, Indian mountain climber
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Aparna B. Marar
Aparna B. Marar is an Indian classical dancer, organiser, art educator, choreographer and singer. She is also an engineer with a postgraduate degree in wireless communication engineering from PSG College of Technology. She has received numerou ...
, Indian classical dancer
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Aparna Nagesh, Indian dancer and activist
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Aparna Nair
Aparna Nair is an Indian actress, who appears in Malayalam cinema.
Biography
Aparna was introduced to cinema by the veteran Lohithadas in '' Nivedyam''. After ''Nivedyam'', she portrayed Panchali in the play ''Chayamukhi'', which had Mohanlal a ...
(born 1989), Malayalam film actress
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Aparna Nancherla
Aparna Nancherla (born August 22, 1982) is an American comedian and actress of Indian descent. She has appeared on ''Inside Amy Schumer'' and has written for ''Late Night with Seth Meyers'' and ''Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell''. Nancherla re ...
(born 1982), American comedian and actress
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Aparna Panshikar, Indian classical singer and composer
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Aparna Pillai
Aparna Pillai, better known mononymously as Aparna, is an Indian actress, who has appeared in Tamil films. She is probably best known for her performances in ''Pudhukottaiyilirundhu Saravanan'' and ''Nenjil''.
Career
Aparna Pillai entered the ...
, Tamil film actress
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Aparna Popat
Aparna Popat (born 18 January 1978) is a former Indian badminton player. She was India's national champion for a record equaling nine times when she won all the senior national championships between 1997 and 2006.
Early life
Aparna Popat was ...
(born 1978), Indian badminton player
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Aparna Raina
Aparna Raina is a National Award Winning Production Designer. She started her Career in 2006 as an Art Assistant with the film Khosla Ka Ghosla and a Set Dresser in the critically Acclaimed film The Namesake. Since then she has worked on Several F ...
, Indian production designer
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Aparna Rao
Aparna Rao (February 3, 1950 – June 28, 2005) was a German anthropologist who performed studies on social groups in Afghanistan, France, and some regions of India. Her doctorate studies focused on anthropogeography, ethnology, and Islamic stud ...
(1950–2005), German anthropologist
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Aparna Sen
Aparna Sen (, ''Ôporna Shen'') is an Indian film director, screenwriter and actress who is known for her work in Bengali cinema. She has received several accolades as an actress and filmmaker, including nine National Film Awards, five Filmf ...
(born 1945), Indian actress and filmmaker
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Aparna Sindhoor
Aparna Sindhoor (born 1970/1971) is a choreographer, dancer, and teacher from Mysore, India.
She is the Artistic Director of Navarasa Natyalya Dance Theater.
Education
Sindhoor began dancing at the age of five, first learning from her mothe ...
, Indian-American choreographer and dancer
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Aparna Vinod
Aparna Vinod is an Indian actress. She made her film debut in 2015 with the Malayalam film ''Njan Ninnodu Koodeyundu''.
Early life and education
Aparna was born in Ernakulam in Kerala to entrepreneur Vinod P (a descendant of Padmanaban Palp ...
(born 1996), Indian actress
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Aparna (television presenter)
Aparna Vastarey, known mononymously as Aparna, is an Indian actress, television presenter and a former radio jockey. A popular face in Kannada television, she is known for her work as a presenter of various shows that aired on DD Chandana in the ...
, full name Aparna Vastarey, Indian actress and television presenter
*Aparna, character on the television series ''
Insecure''
Films
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''Aparna'' (1972 film), starring
Tanuja
Tanuja Samarth, known mononymously as Tanuja, is an Indian actress who predominantly works in the Hindi film industry. Part of the Mukherjee-Samarth family, she is the daughter of actress Shobhna Samarth and producer Kumarsen Samarth, and was ...
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''Aparna'' (1981 film), Malayalam film released in 1981 directed by CP Padmakumar
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''Aparna'' (1989 film), an unreleased Malayalam-language film
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''Aparna'' (1993 film), Malayalam film released in 1993 directed by PK Radhakrishnan
See also
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Indian feminine given names