Grewal or Garewal is a family name historically used in India and Pakistan as a

gotra In Hindu culture, the term gotra (Sanskrit: गोत्र) is considered to be equivalent to lineage. It broadly refers to people who are descendants in an unbroken male line from a common male ancestor or patriline. Generally, the gotra fo ...

Jat people The Jat people ((), ()) are a traditionally agricultural community in Northern India and Pakistan. Originally pastoralists in the lower Indus river-valley of Sindh, Jats migrated north into the Punjab region in late medieval times, and subse ...

Notable people

Alexi Grewal Alexi Singh Grewal (born September 8, 1960) is an American Olympic gold medalist and former professional road racing cyclist. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, Grewal became the first American man to win an Olympic gold medal in road ...

, an Olympic Gold medalist and cyclist; *

Gippy Grewal Rupinder Singh "Gippy" Grewal (born 2 January 1983), is an Indian actor, singer, film director and producer whose works span over Punjabi and Hindi film industry. His single "Phulkari" was very successful in the Punjabi music industry. He mad ...

, a singer, actor, and producer; *

Gurbir Grewal Gurbir Singh Grewal (; born June 23, 1973) is an American attorney and prosecutor who served as the sixty-first attorney general of the State of New Jersey from January 2018 until his resignation in July 2021. Appointed by Governor of New Jersey ...

, the current Attorney General of

New Jersey New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York; on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the Delaware ...

; *

Gurcharan Singh Grewal Lt. Colonel Sardar Gurcharan Singh Grewal (May 4, 1911 – February 7, 1949) was an Indian field hockey Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goal ...

, an Olympic Gold medalist and field hockey player; *

Gurmant Grewal Gurmant Singh Grewal (born December 21, 1957) is an Indo-Canadian politician and former Conservative Member of Parliament. Gurmant and his wife, Nina Grewal, who represented Fleetwood—Port Kells from 2004 to 2015, were the first married co ...

, a former 3-term Member of Parliament in Canada and Deputy House Leader; *

Hardeep Grewal Hardeep Grewal is a Canadian politician who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2022 provincial election. He represents the riding of Brampton East as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario The Progr ...

, Ontario MPP *

Inderpal Grewal Inderpal Grewal is a professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Yale University, and a key figure in the academic discipline of women's studies. She is an influential feminist scholar whose research interests include transnational and p ...

, a professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Yale University; *

J. S. Grewal Jagtar Singh Grewal (1927 – 11 August 2022) was an Indian writer, historian, scholar, and a vice-chancellor of the Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU). After securing his Ph.D. and DLitt from London, he joined the GNDU, where he founded the Depa ...

, an Indian writer, historian, and scholar; *

Nina Grewal Nina Grewal (born 20 October 1958), is a Canadian politician of the Conservative Party of Canada, Conservative Party. She represented the constituency of Fleetwood—Port Kells, British Columbia from her election in the 2004 Canadian federal el ...

, a former 4-term Member of Parliament in Canada. Nina and Gurmant Grewal were the first married couple to concurrently serve in the Canadian Parliament; * Sarla Grewal, Indian bureaucrat; *

Mehtab Singh Grewal Sardar Mehtab Singh Grewal (born 1857) was a home minister in the court of Maharaja Hira Singh of Nabha State in the early 20th century. Mehtab is credited with introducing the Mandi system in Punjab Punjab (; Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪ� ...

, royal Home minister in the court of Maharaja

Hira Singh Hira Singh (18 December 1843 – 24 December 1911) was the ruler of Nabha State, one of the Phulkian states in the Punjab. Early life Hira Singh was born at Badrukhan, Jind, on 18 December 1843 , the second son of Sukha Singh (died 1852), fro ...

Nabha State Nabha State, with its capital at Nabha, was one of the Phulkian princely states of Punjab during the British Raj in India. Nabha was ruled by Jat Sikhs of Sidhu clan. See also *Patiala and East Punjab States Union *Political integration of ...

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Punjabi tribes Jat clans Jat clans of Punjab {{Pakistan-ethno-stub