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n name derived from the

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word () / ''()'', meaning "Divine Brilliance".

Real persons with the first name Divya

Divya Bhatnagar Divya Bhatnagar (15 September 1986 – 7 December 2020) was an Indian television actress. Career She appeared in serials like ''Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai'', '' Sanskaar-Dharohar Apnon Ki'', and '' Udaan'', Sethji and ''Tera Yaar Hoon Main''. ...

(1986–2020), Indian television actress *

Divya Bharti Divya Bharti (; 25 February 1974 – 5 April 1993) was an Indian actress who worked predominantly in Hindi and Telugu films. Known for her acting versatility and beauty, she was considered one of the most popular and highest paid Indian actres ...

(1974–1993), Bollywood film actress * Divya Chouksey (1990–2020), Indian actress * Divya Desai, Indian actress *

Divya Dutta Divya Dutta (born 25 September 1977) is an Indian actress and model. She has appeared in Hindi and Punjabi cinema, in addition to Malayalam and English-language films. She has received many awards including a National Film Award, a Filmfare Aw ...

(born 1977), Indian actress *

Divya Dwivedi Divya Dwivedi is a philosopher and author based in India. She is an associate professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Her work focuses on ontology, metaphysics, literature, and Political philosophy, philosophy of politics. Early ...

(active from 2006), Indian philosopher *Divya Gopikumar, a South Indian actress known as Abhirami * Divya Kumar (disambiguation), several people * Divya Maderna, Indian politician from Rajasthan *

Divya Narendra Divya Narendra (; born March 18, 1982) is an American businessman. He is the CEO and co-founder of SumZero along with Harvard classmate Aalap Mahadevia. He also co-founded HarvardConnection (later renamed ConnectU) with Harvard University classma ...

, CEO of Subzero *

Divya Palat Divya Palat (born 23 May 1979 in Calcutta, India) is a Producer and Director for theatre plays like ''A Personal War- Stories of the Mumbai Terror Attacks'' and was a Hindi actress who has done films, such as '' Masti'' with Vivek Oberoi, '' Dh ...

, Hindi film actress * Divya Singh, basketball player for the Indian national team *

Divya Tewar Divya Tewar (born 1 August 1984 in Haryana) is an Indian judoka. She represented India at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing in the 78 kg category, but failed to qualify for the finals. She first lost to Cuba's Yalennis Castillo in th ...

, Indian judoka *

Divya Unni Divyaa Unni is an Indian actress and classical dancer who teaches various forms of dance such as Bharathanatyam, Kuchipudi and Mohiniyattom. Early life Divyaa Unni was born to Ponnethmadhatil Unnikrishnan and Kizhkemadhatil Uma Devi at Kochi, K ...

, Malayalam film actress *Divya Venkatasubramaniam, the real name of

Kanika Subramaniam Divya Venkatasubramaniam, better known by her stage name Kaniha or Kanika, is an Indian actress who predominantly works in Malayalam cinema along with a few Tamil, Telugu and Kannada movies. Kaniha made her debut in the 2002 Tamil film '' Fiv ...

, Tamil actress *

Divya Victor Divya Victor is a Tamil American poet and professor, known for her poetry book ''Curb'' which won the PEN Open Book Award. __TOC__ Early life and education Divya Victor was born in Nagercoil, India. Victor earned her B.S. in English from T ...

, Tamil American poet (fl.2009 -)

Fictional characters named Divya

* Divya (

Sonia Agarwal Sonia Agarwal is an Indian actress known for her works predominantly in Tamil cinema and a few Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada films. She is best known for her performances in the films such as ''Kaadhal Kondein'' (2003), ''7G Rainbow Colony'' (2 ...

), the female lead, opposite

Dhanush Venkatesh Prabhu Kasthuri Raja (born 28 July 1983), known professionally as Dhanush, is an Indian actor, producer, director, lyricist and playback singer who predominantly works in Tamil cinema. Starring in 46 films over his career, among hi ...

from the movie

Kaadhal Kondein ''Kaadhal Kondein'' () is a 2003 Indian Tamil-language romantic psychological thriller film written and directed by Selvaraghavan, starring his brother Dhanush and newcomers Sonia Agarwal and Sudeep Sarangi, while Nagesh and Daniel Balaji pla ...

. * Divya Rathore (Simran Jehani), sister of the male lead,

Fawad Khan Fawad Afzal Khan ( ur, ) (born 29 November 1981) is a Pakistani actor, producer, screenwriter, model and singer having received several awards including a Filmfare Award, two Lux Style Awards and six Hum Awards. Khan began his acting caree ...

from the movie Khoobsurat. * Divya Katdare (Reshma Shetty), a supporting character in the TV series

Royal Pains ''Royal Pains'' (stylized ℞oyalPains) is an American comedy-drama television series that ran on the USA Network from 2009 to 2016. The series was based in part on actual concierge medicine practices of independent doctors and companies. The ca ...

Real persons with the first name Divya

Fictional characters named Divya

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