surname
In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community.
Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name ...
or last name of
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
n origin. It is based on the
Sanskrit
Sanskrit (; attributively , ; nominally , , ) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in South Asia after its predecessor languages had diffused there from the northwest in the late ...
word गोप्तृ ''goptṛ'', which means 'guardian' or 'protector'. According to historian R. C. Majumdar, the surname ''Gupta'' was adopted by several different communities in northern and eastern India at different times.
In Bengal
The Rāmpāl plate of
Srichandra
Srichandra (reigned c. 930–975) was the second and most influential ruler of the Chandra Dynasty in eastern Bengal.
Life
After Traillokyachandra, Srichandra ascended the throne, taking the titles "Paramsaugata", "Parameshwar", "Parambhattārak ...
mentions a line of Brahmins who had Gupta as their surname. In
Bengal
Bengal ( ; bn, বাংলা/বঙ্গ, translit=Bānglā/Bôngô, ) is a geopolitical, cultural and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal, predom ...
region, the surname is found among
Baidya
Baidya or Vaidya is a Hindu community located in Bengal. Baidyas, a caste (''jāti'') of Ayurvedic physicians, have long had pre-eminence in society alongside Brahmins and Kayasthas. In the colonial era, the Bhadraloks were drawn primarily, b ...
Banias
Banias or Banyas ( ar, بانياس الحولة; he, בניאס, label=Modern Hebrew; Judeo-Aramaic, Medieval Hebrew: פמייס, etc.; grc, Πανεάς) is a site in the Golan Heights near a natural spring, once associated with the Greek g ...
and
Jains
Jainism ( ), also known as Jain Dharma, is an Indian religion. Jainism traces its spiritual ideas and history through the succession of twenty-four tirthankaras (supreme preachers of ''Dharma''), with the first in the current time cycle being ...
in the northern part of India.
Notables
Monarchs
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Gupta (king)
Gupta (Gupta script: ''Gu-pta'', fl. late 3rd century CE) was the founder of the Gupta dynasty of northern India. He is identified with king Che-li-ki-to (believed to be the Chinese transcription of "''Shri''-Gupta"), who, according to the 7th ...
, founder of the Gupta dynasty
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Ghatotkacha (king)
Ghatotkacha ( Gupta script: ''Gha-to-tka-cha'', IAST: Ghaṭotkaca, r. c. late 3rd century - early 4th century) was a pre-imperial Gupta king of northern India. He was a son of the dynasty's founder Gupta, and the father of the dynasty's first ...
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Chandragupta I
Chandragupta I ( Gupta script: ''Cha-ndra-gu-pta'', r. c. 319–335 or 319–350 CE) was a king of the Gupta Empire, who ruled in northern and central India. His title ''Maharajadhiraja'' ("great king of kings") suggests that he was the firs ...
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Samudragupta
Samudragupta (Gupta script: ''Sa-mu-dra-gu-pta'', (c. 335–375 CE) was the second emperor of the Gupta Empire of ancient India, and is regarded among the greatest rulers of the dynasty. As a son of the Gupta emperor Chandragupta I and the Li ...
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Chandragupta II
Chandragupta II (r.c. 376-415), also known by his title Vikramaditya, as well as Chandragupta Vikramaditya, was the third ruler of the Gupta Empire in India, and was one of the most powerful emperors of the Gupta dynasty.
Chandragupta continue ...
, also known as Chandragupta Vikramaditya
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Kumaragupta I
Kumaragupta I (Gupta script: ''Ku-ma-ra-gu-pta'', r. c. 415–455 CE) was an emperor of the Gupta Empire of Ancient India. A son of the Gupta emperor Chandragupta II and queen Dhruvadevi, he seems to have maintained control of his inherited te ...
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Skandagupta
Skandagupta ( Gupta script: ''Ska-nda-gu-pta'', r. c. 455-467) was a Gupta Emperor of India. His Bhitari pillar inscription suggests that he restored the Gupta power by defeating his enemies, who may have been rebels or foreign invaders. He ...
, last Gupta emperor
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Vishnugupta (Gupta Empire)
Vishnugupta Candraditya ( Gupta script: ''Vi-ṣ-ṇu-gu-pta'', sa, विष्णुगुप्त) was one of the lesser-known kings of the Gupta Dynasty. He is generally considered to be the last recognized king of the Gupta Empire. His r ...
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Budhagupta
Budhagupta (Gupta script: ''Bu-dha-gu-pta'', ) was a Gupta emperor and the successor of Kumaragupta II. He was the son of Purugupta and was succeeded by Narasimhagupta.Raychaudhuri, H.C. (1972). ''Political History of Ancient India'', Calcutta: ...
Academic
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Akhil Gupta
Akhil Gupta (born 1959) is an Indian- American anthropologist whose research focuses on the anthropology of the state, development, as well as on postcolonialism. He is currently Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angele ...
(born 1959), professor at the
University of California
The University of California (UC) is a public land-grant research university system in the U.S. state of California. The system is composed of the campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, ...
,
Los Angeles
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, in the field of social and cultural anthropology
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Amar Gupta
Amar Gupta (born 1953) is an Indian computer scientist based in the United States. Gupta has worked in academics, private companies, and international organizations in positions that involved analysis and leveraging of opportunities at the inter ...
, professor and scientist
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Amlan Das Gupta
Amlan Das Gupta is former Professor of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He is a noted scholar of Classical and Biblical Studies, English Renaissance literature and an authority on Miltonic studies in India having numerous publications to h ...
, Indian professor of English in Jadavpur University, Kolkata
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Anil Kumar Gupta
Anil Kumar Gupta is an Indian scholar in the area of grassroots innovations. He is the founder of the Honey Bee Network. He retired as a full-time professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad in 2017, where he served for about 36 yea ...
, Delhi based professor and policy expert on environment, climate change and disasters
* Arvind Gupta (born 1961), 13th President of the
University of British Columbia
The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public university, public research university with campuses near Vancouver and in Kelowna, British Columbia. Established in 1908, it is British Columbia's oldest university. The university ranks a ...
* Arvind Gupta, Indian toy inventor and popularizer of science
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Brahmagupta
Brahmagupta ( – ) was an Indian mathematician and astronomer. He is the author of two early works on mathematics and astronomy: the ''Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta'' (BSS, "correctly established doctrine of Brahma", dated 628), a theoretical trea ...
, Indian mathematician and astronomer
* Deepak Gupta, Indian researcher, software developer, and writer
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Devendra Prasad Gupta
Devendra Prasad Gupta (; 2 January 1933 – 26 December 2017) was an Indian pre-democratic political sufferer, botanist and academician.
Early life and education
Hailing and raised from a family of Vaidhraj commonly termed as olden Ayurvedic ...
(1933 – 2017), Indian academician and a former vice chancellor of Ranchi University
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M. G. Gupta
M. G. Gupta, known as Bekas Akbarabadi (1925-2011), was an Indian Urdu poet and research scholar. He wrote several books including ''Indian mysticism'', Sikh Gurus, Saint Kabir, Hindu epics and others. He received the Bharat Jyoti Award for his ...
Mrinal Kumar Das Gupta
Mrinal Kumar Das Gupta FNI (1 September 1923 – 28 November 2005, Kolkata) was an Indian astronomer. He was born in erstwhile Barishal district in present-day Bangladesh. He received his B.Sc and M.Sc degrees in Physics from Dhaka University ...
(1923 – 2005), Indian professor and scientist
* Modadugu Vijay Gupta (born 1939), Indian biologist
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Narmada Prasad Gupta
Narmada Prasad Gupta is an Indian urologist, medical researcher, writer and the Chairman of ''Academics and Research Division Urology'' at the Medanta, the Medicity, New Delhi. He is credited with over 10,000 urological surgical procedures and t ...
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Neena Gupta
Neena Gupta (born 4 June 1959) is an Indian actress and television director who works in Hindi films and television. Known for her work in both art-house and commercial films, she won the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for pl ...
Clinical pharmaceutical scientist
A clinical pharmaceutical scientist (or pharmacist-scientist) is a licensed, practicing pharmacist who also functions as an independent researcher in the pharmaceutical sciences. Clinical pharmaceutical scientists are a type of clinician scientist ...
In business and management
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Ajit Gupta
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Ajit Gupta was a Silicon-Valley based entrepreneur and the founder of Aryaka, AAyuja, JantaKhoj, and Speedera Networks. He holds 21 technology patents for Internet content delivery and global traffic management. Ajit Gupta graduated fro ...
Anant Gupta
Anant Gupta (born 8 January 1965) is Founder Chairman & CEO, TECHCELX, an integrated business acceleration and investment firm. He is also former President & Chief Executive Officer of HCL Technologies, a global information technology services c ...
, Former CEO and President of
HCL Technologies
HCLTech (formerly Hindustan Computers Limited or HCL Technologies) is an Indian multinational information technology (IT) services and consulting company headquartered in Noida.It emerged as an independent company in 1991 when HCL entered into ...
Havells
Havells India Limited is an Indian multinational electrical equipment company, based in Noida, India. It was founded by Late Sh. Haveli Ram Gandhi, later sold to Gupta who was his distributor. This company manufactures home appliances, lighti ...
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Gupta family
The Gupta family is a wealthy Indian-born family with business interests in South Africa, whose most notable members are brothers Ajay, Atul, and Rajesh "Tony" Gupta—as well as Atul's nephews Varun, and US-based Ashish and Amol. The family ow ...
, well known South African family with significant business interests whose most notable members are the brothers Ajay, Atul and Rajesh Gupta
* Mahendra Mohan Gupta, owner of the
Dainik Jagran
''Dainik Jagran'' ( Hi:दैनिक जागरन , , ) is an Indian Hindi language daily newspaper.
It was ranked 5th in the world and 2nd in India by circulation in 2016. In 2019 Quarter 4, according to Indian Readership Survey, Daini ...
group of
Hindi
Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been de ...
newspapers
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Naren Gupta
Narendra K. Gupta (September 30, 1948December 25, 2021) was an Indian-American venture capital investor and technology entrepreneur. He founded the investment company Nexus Venture Partners, as well as various other investment and software firms. ...
(1948–2021), Indian-American entrepreneur
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Nilesh Gupta
Nilesh Gupta (born 1974) is an Indian businessman, the managing director (MD) of Lupin Limited since September 2013.
Early life
He is the only son of Desh Bandhu Gupta, who founded Lupin in 1968. His eldest sister, Vinita D. Gupta, is the CEO.
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, Indian businessman, managing director of
Lupin Limited
Lupin Limited is an Indian multinational pharmaceutical company based in Mumbai. It is one of the largest generic pharmaceutical companies by revenue globally. The company's key focus areas include paediatrics, cardiovascular, anti-infectives, ...
Radhika Gupta
Radhika Gupta (born 1983) is an Indian business executive. She is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Edelweiss Asset Management Limited.
Gupta started at Edelweiss Global Asset Management as business head of multi-strategy funds and was respon ...
, CEO of
Edelweiss Group
Edelweiss Group (Officially known as Edelweiss Financial Services Limited) is an investment and financial services company based in Mumbai, India. It is co-founded by Rashesh Shah and Venkat Ramaswamy.
The company is dealing in various f ...
Rohm and Haas
Rohm and Haas Company is a manufacturer of specialty chemicals for end use markets such as building and construction, electronic devices, packaging, household and personal care products. Headquartered in Philadelphia, the company is organized i ...
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Rajat Gupta
Rajat Kumar Gupta (; born ) is an Indian-American businessman and convicted felon who, as CEO, was the first foreign-born managing director of management consultancy firm McKinsey & Company from 1994 to 2003. In 2012, he was convicted for insider ...
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United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and international security, security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be ...
special advisor on management reforms, former director of
Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs () is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company. Founded in 1869, Goldman Sachs is headquartered at 200 West Street in Lower Manhattan, with regional headquarters in London, Warsaw, Bangalore, H ...
Rajiv Gupta (technocrat)
Rajiv Gupta is an engineer, a repeat entrepreneur and currently an executive at McAfee.
Early life
Gupta earned a bachelor's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur around 1984. He received his Ph.D. in compiler optimization fro ...
, general manager of
Hewlett Packard
The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard ( ) or HP, was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. HP developed and provided a wide variety of hardware components ...
's E-speak project
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S. K. Gupta
Sudhir k (better known as S. K. Gupta) is an Indian-American business executive.
Education
In 1972 Gupta graduated from the DMET, Kolkata in India. In 1981 he then graduated with a BSE degree in naval architecture and marine engineering from the U ...
, vice president of the
Lockheed Martin
The Lockheed Martin Corporation is an American aerospace, arms, defense, information security, and technology corporation with worldwide interests. It was formed by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta in March 1995. It ...
Sanjeev Gupta
Sanjeev Gupta (born September 1971) is an Indian-born British businessman, and the founder of Liberty House Group. He is the CEO and chairman of GFG Alliance, an international conglomerate that operates primarily in the steel and mining indu ...
, Founder of
Liberty House Group
Liberty Steel Group Holdings UK Ltd (LHG), which is also referred to as Liberty House or Liberty House UK, is a British industrial and metals company founded in the United Kingdom in 1992 by industrialist Sanjeev Gupta. It is headquartered in L ...
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Umang Gupta
Umang Gupta (August 3, 1949 – April 19, 2022) was an Indian-American entrepreneur and Silicon Valley, California, executive credited with writing the first business plan for Oracle Corporation. He was also the founder of enterprise software c ...
, Indian-American entrepreneur
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Vinita Gupta
Vinita Gupta (born 1950) is an Indian-born American businesswoman. She is the founder and chairman of Digital Link Corporation (now Quick Eagle Networks). She is credited with being the first woman of Indian origin to take her company public in ...
(born 1950), Indian-American businesswoman and founder of Digital Link Corporation (now Quick Eagle Networks)
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Vinita D. Gupta
Vinita D. Gupta (born 1968/1969) is an Indian businesswoman, the chief executive officer (CEO) of Lupin Limited since September 2013, and the chairperson of Lupin Inc (LI), and its US subsidiary, Lupin Pharmaceuticals Inc (LPI).
Early life
Vin ...
(born 1968/1969), Indian-American businesswoman and CEO of Lupin
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Vinod Gupta
Vinod Gupta (born July 4, 1946; often mentioned as "Vin Gupta") is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He is the former chief executive officer (CEO) and chairman of infoGROUP (previously known as infoUSA). Gupta served as CEO ...
, chairman and CEO of
infoUSA
Data Axle, formerly Infogroup, is a provider of data, technology and marketing services for salespeople, marketers, and professionals.
History
Data Axle was founded in 1972 as a company called Business Research Services that compiled and prov ...
In entertainment
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Additi Gupta
Additi Gupta (born 21 April 1988) is an Indian television actress, best known for playing Heer in '' Kis Desh Mein Hai Meraa Dil'' and Khan Begum in '' Qubool Hai''.
Early life
Gupta was born on 21 April 1988 in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh to Ved P ...
, Indian television actress
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Amrapali Gupta
Amrapali Gupta, also as Amrapali Yash Sinha, is an Indian television actress.
Personal life
Gupta is married to her co-star Yash Sinha
Yash Sinha (born 20 August) is an Indian television actor.
Filmography
Television
Perso ...
, Indian television actress
* Anil Gupta, British writer and producer (radio and television)
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Buddhadev Das Gupta
Buddhadev Das Gupta (1 February 1933 – 15 January 2018) was an Indian classical musician who played the sarod. He used to reside in Kolkata, India. He was one of the artists featured in Nimbus Records' ''The Raga Guide''.
Early life and tr ...
, Indian classical
sarod
The sarod is a stringed instrument, used in Hindustani music on the Indian subcontinent. Along with the sitar, it is among the most popular and prominent instruments. It is known for a deep, weighty, introspective sound, in contrast with the sweet ...
musician and teacher
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Kovid Gupta
Kovid Gupta (born 1988) is an Indian-American author, screenwriter, filmmaker, and social activist. He is best known for his non-fiction books '' Kingdom of The Soap Queen: The Story of Balaji Telefilms'' and '' Redrawing India: The Teach For ...
, Indian-American author, screenwriter, filmmaker, and social activist
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Megha Gupta
Megha Gupta is an Indian television actress and model.
Career
Gupta has appeared in television serials such as ''Kkavyanjali'', ''Kumkum – Ek Pyara Sa Bandhan'', '' Mamta'', '' C.I.D.'', ''MTV Big F'', and ''Main Teri Parchhain Hoon''. She ...
, Indian television actress
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Neena Gupta
Neena Gupta (born 4 June 1959) is an Indian actress and television director who works in Hindi films and television. Known for her work in both art-house and commercial films, she won the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for pl ...
, Indian film and television actress
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Rajendra Gupta
Rajendra Gupta (born 17 October 1947) is an Indian film, television and theatre actor and director who is known for his television roles of Adina Beg Khan Sahib e Azam in 2010 series of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, Pandit Jagannath in the 1990s Doorda ...
, actor in cinema for good character roles.
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Partho Sen-Gupta
Partho Sen-Gupta (also spelled Partho Sen Gupta or Partho Sengupta pronounced ''Partho Shen-Goopto'') is an independent film director and screenwriter. He is a French citizen, of Indian origin. He has a post-graduate in Film Direction from FEMI ...
, Indian film director and script writer
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Rohit Gupta
Rohit Gupta is a film director, film producer and entrepreneur who resides in the United States. He is known for directing '' Midnight Delight'', '' Life! Camera Action...'', '' Another Day Another Life'', winning several awards & nominations. ...
, American Film director
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Puja Gupta
Puja Gupta (born 30 January 1987) is an Indian model and actress. She is a former Miss India Universe, a title she won in 2007.
Life and career
Gupta was born in New Delhi, India. Her modeling breakthrough came in 2007 when she won the title ...
, winner of Miss India Universe in 2007
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Tanika Gupta
Tanika Gupta (born 1 December 1963) is a British playwright. Apart from her work for the theatre, she has also written scripts for television, film and radio plays.
Early life
Tanika Gupta was born in London to immigrant parents from Kolkata, ...
, British playwright of Indian origin
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Sanjay Gupta
Sanjay Gupta (born October 23, 1969) is an American neurosurgeon, medical reporter, and writer. He serves as associate chief of the neurosurgery service at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, associate professor of neurosurgery at t ...
, Bollywood director
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Yana Gupta
Yana Gupta (born Jana Synková; 23 April 1979) is a Czechs, Czech model and actress who lives and works in India.
Early life
Gupta was born as Jana Synková in 1979 in Brno, South Moravian Region, Czech Socialist Republic, Czech SR, Czecho ...
, Indian model-actress of Czech origin
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Sanjay Gupta
Sanjay Gupta (born October 23, 1969) is an American neurosurgeon, medical reporter, and writer. He serves as associate chief of the neurosurgery service at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, associate professor of neurosurgery at t ...
, American teleneurosurgeon and
CNN
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senior medical correspondent
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Esha Gupta
Esha Gupta (; born 28 November 1985) is an Indian actress, model and the winner of the Miss India International title of 2007. She has established a career in Bollywood films.
Gupta entered the Femina Miss India contest in 2007, where she plac ...
, Femina Miss India International title in 2007, Indian film actress
* Aarti Gupta, winner of Miss Teen India International 2014, Indian-American model
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Vikas Gupta
Vikas Gupta (born 7 May 1988) is an Indian television producer, creative director, screenwriter and host. He is known for participating in ''Bigg Boss 11'' , '' Bigg Boss 14'' and hosting '' MTV Ace of Space''.
Life
Gupta was born on 7 May 198 ...
, Indian television producer, director and host
* Manish Gupta, Indian film director
EastEnders
''EastEnders'' is a Television in the United Kingdom, British soap opera created by Julia Smith (producer), Julia Smith and Tony Holland which has been broadcast on BBC One since February 1985. Set in the fictional borough of Walford in the Ea ...
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In journalism
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Shekhar Gupta
Shekhar Gupta (born 26 August 1957) is an Indian journalist and author. He is the founder and the current editor-in-chief of ''ThePrint''. He is also a columnist for the ''Business Standard'' and pens a weekly column which appears every Saturda ...
, former editor-in-chief of
Indian Express
''The Indian Express'' is an English-language Indian daily newspaper founded in 1932. It is published in Mumbai by the Indian Express Group. In 1999, eight years after the group's founder Ramnath Goenka's death in 1991, the group was split betw ...
Supreme Court of India
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and former Chief Justice of the
Tripura
Tripura (, Bengali: ) is a state in Northeast India. The third-smallest state in the country, it covers ; and the seventh-least populous state with a population of 36.71 lakh ( 3.67 million). It is bordered by Assam and Mizoram to the east a ...
and the
Chhattisgarh
Chhattisgarh (, ) is a landlocked state in Central India. It is the ninth largest state by area, and with a population of roughly 30 million, the seventeenth most populous. It borders seven states – Uttar Pradesh to the north, Madhya Prade ...
High Courts
* Rajiv Gupta, former Chief Justice of
Chhattisgarh
Chhattisgarh (, ) is a landlocked state in Central India. It is the ninth largest state by area, and with a population of roughly 30 million, the seventeenth most populous. It borders seven states – Uttar Pradesh to the north, Madhya Prade ...
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Uttarakhand
Uttarakhand ( , or ; , ), also known as Uttaranchal ( ; the official name until 2007), is a state in the northern part of India. It is often referred to as the "Devbhumi" (literally 'Land of the Gods') due to its religious significance and ...
and
Kerala
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High Courts
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Vanita Gupta
Vanita Gupta (born November 15, 1974) is an American attorney who has served as United States Associate Attorney General since April 22, 2021. From 2014 to 2017, Gupta served as Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division under P ...
, former head of the Civil Rights Division at the
United States Department of Justice
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ), also known as the Justice Department, is a federal executive department of the United States government tasked with the enforcement of federal law and administration of justice in the United State ...
In literature
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Maithili Sharan Gupt
Maithili Sharan Gupt (3 August 1886 – 12 December 1964) was one of the most important modern Hindi poets. He is considered one among the pioneers of ''Khari Boli'' (plain dialect) poetry and wrote in Khari Boli dialect, at a time when most Hin ...
Ishwar Chandra Gupta
Ishwar Chandra Gupta ( bn, ঈশ্বরচন্দ্র গুপ্ত; 6 March 1812 – 23 January 1859) was a famous Indian Bengali poet and writer. Gupta was born in Kanchrapara, in Bengal.
Early life
Ishwar Chandra Gupta was born in ...
, Indian Bengali poet and writer
* Jagadish Gupta, Bengali poet and writer
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Mahendranath Gupta
Mahendranath Gupta ( bn, মহেন্দ্রনাথ গুপ্ত) (14 July 1854 – 4 June 1932), (also famously known as শ্রীম, Master Mahashay, and M.), was a disciple of Ramakrishna (a great 19th-century Hindu mystic) and ...
, Indian spiritual writer and disciple of
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Ramakrishna Paramahansa ( bn, রামকৃষ্ণ পরমহংস, Ramôkṛṣṇo Pôromohôṅso; , 18 February 1836 – 16 August 1886),——— — also spelled Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, born Gadadhar Chattopadhyaya,, was an In ...
Banarsi Das Gupta
Banarsi Das Gupta (5 November 1917 – 29 August 2007) was an Indian politician who served as the 4th Chief Minister of Haryana state in India.
Life
Gupta was born in Bhiwani and he studied at Pilani in Rajasthan.
Gupta was a renowned ...
, former Chief Minister of
Haryana
Haryana (; ) is an Indian state located in the northern part of the country. It was carved out of the former state of East Punjab on 1 Nov 1966 on a linguistic basis. It is ranked 21st in terms of area, with less than 1.4% () of India's land ar ...
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Chandra Bhanu Gupta
Chandra Bhanu Gupta (14 July 1902 – 11 March 1980) served three terms as chief minister of Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. In 1970s he was a member of Congress (O) and Janata Party.
Early life
He was born in Atrauli, Aligarh district in 190 ...
, served three terms as Chief Minister of
Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh (; , 'Northern Province') is a state in northern India. With over 200 million inhabitants, it is the most populated state in India as well as the most populous country subdivision in the world. It was established in 1950 ...
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Ram Prakash Gupta
Ram Prakash Gupta (26 October 1923 – 1 May 2004) was Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, and Governor of Madhya Pradesh. He was a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party, as well as its predecessor party, the Bharatiya Jana Sangh.
A post-gra ...
, former Chief Minister of
Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh (; , 'Northern Province') is a state in northern India. With over 200 million inhabitants, it is the most populated state in India as well as the most populous country subdivision in the world. It was established in 1950 ...
and Governor of
Madhya Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh (, ; meaning 'central province') is a state in central India. Its capital is Bhopal, and the largest city is Indore, with Jabalpur, Ujjain, Gwalior, Sagar, and Rewa being the other major cities. Madhya Pradesh is the seco ...
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Indrajit Gupta
Indrajit Gupta (18 March 1919 – 20 February 2001) was an Indian politician who belonged to the Communist Party of India (CPI). From 1996 to 1998, he served as Union Home Minister in the United Front governments of prime ministers H. D. Deve ...
West Bengal
West Bengal (, Bengali: ''Poshchim Bongo'', , abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabitants within an area of . West Bengal is the fourt ...
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Shyama Charan Gupta
Shyama Charan Gupta (9 February 1945 – 9 April 2021) was an Indian politician from the Bharatiya Janata Party, entrepreneur, and Member of Parliament representing Allahabad (Lok Sabha constituency) in the North Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. H ...
, Indian politician
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Badal Gupta
Badal Gupta ( bn, বাদল গুপ্ত ''Badol Gupto''), real name Sudhir Gupta (1912 – 8 December 1930), was an Indian revolutionary against British rule in India, who is noted for launching an attack on the Secretariat Building - t ...
, Indian revolutionary
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Dinesh Gupta
Dinesh Chandra Gupta ( bn, দিনেশ চন্দ্র গুপ্ত ''Dinesh Chôndro Gupto'') or Dinesh Gupta (6 December 1911 – 7 July 1931) was an Indian revolutionary against British rule in India, who is noted for launching an ...
, Indian revolutionary
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Ram Prakash Gupta
Ram Prakash Gupta (26 October 1923 – 1 May 2004) was Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, and Governor of Madhya Pradesh. He was a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party, as well as its predecessor party, the Bharatiya Jana Sangh.
A post-gra ...
, Indian social worker and participant in the
Indian Independence movement
The Indian independence movement was a series of historic events with the ultimate aim of ending British Raj, British rule in India. It lasted from 1857 to 1947.
The first nationalistic revolutionary movement for Indian independence emerged ...
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Bhoodan movement
The Bhoodan movement (Land Gift movement), also known as the Bloodless Revolution, was a voluntary land reform movement in India. It was initiated by Gandhian Vinoba Bhave in 1951 at Pochampally village, Pochampally
The Bhoodan movement attempted ...
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Mahesh Chandra Gupta
Mahesh Chandra Gupta is an Indian politician and a member of 18th Uttar Pradesh Assembly and 17th Legislative Assembly, Uttar Pradesh of India. He represents the Badaun (Assembly constituency) in Budaun district of Uttar Pradesh.
Political ca ...
Manmath Nath Gupta
Manmath Nath Gupta (7 February 1908 – 26 October 2000) was an Indian Marxist revolutionary writer and author of autobiographical, historical and fictional books in Hindi, English and Bengali. He joined the Indian independence movement at the ...
, Indian revolutionary and author of autobiographical, historical and fictional books in Hindi, English and Bengali
* Manish Gupta, MP, Rajya Sabha and former MLA from
Jadavpur
Jadavpur is a southern neighbourhood of Kolkata in the district of Kolkata of West Bengal, India. Jadavpur is one of the important junctions in South Kolkata. Jadavpur University and a number of research institutes of national and internation ...
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Kolkata
Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...
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West Bengal
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Nolini Kanta Gupta
Nolini Kanta Gupta (13 January 1889 – 7 February 1984) was a revolutionary, linguist, scholar, critic, poet, philosopher and yogi, and the most senior of Sri Aurobindo's disciples. He was born in Faridpur, East Bengal, to a cultured and pr ...
, Indian revolutionary, linguist, scholar, critic, poet, philosopher and mystic
* Chaman Lal Gupta, Minister in the Vajpayee Government (
BJP
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; ; ) is a political party in India, and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. Since 2014, it has been the ruling political party in India under Narendra Modi ...
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* Aayush kumar Gupta, Chairman & Central President of Samriddha Nepal Foundation , Youth Social Activist, Hindi Poet
* Kavinder Gupta, former
Deputy Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir
The Deputy Chief Minister of Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir was a position that existed within the cabinet of Jammu and Kashmir, an Indian state between 1954 and 2019. The state was reconstituted by the government of India as the union ter ...
Pankaj Gupta
Pankaj Kumar Gupta (10 September 1898 – 5 March 1971) was one of the earliest Indian sports administrators involved in professional football, hockey and cricket. He is best known for his involvement in professional hockey where he worked va ...
, Indian sports administrators
* Sandip Gupta, Kenyan cricketer
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Abhijeet Gupta
Abhijeet Gupta (born 16 October 1989) is an Indian chess player with the title of Grandmaster (GM). Gupta is the first player to win the Commonwealth Chess Championship five times. He has completed his early education from A's Steward Senior ...
, Indian chess player
* Deepdas Gupta, Former Indian Cricketer