Kalpana may refer to:

Film and television

* ''Kalpana'' (1948 film), an Indian Hindi-language dance film * ''Kalpana'' (1960 film), a romantic Bollywood film * ''Kalpana'' (1970 film), an Indian Malayalam film * ''Kalpana'' (2012 film), an Indian Kannada-language comedy horror film * ''Kalpana'' (TV series), an Indian TV series

People

Mononym

Kalpana (Kannada actress) Kalpana (18 July 1943 – 12 May 1979), born Sharat Lata, was an Indian actress who appeared in Kannada films. She was affectionately referred to as ''Minugu Taare'' ("A Shining Star") among the film fraternity. She was widely recognised as one ...

(1943–1979), Indian Kannada film actress *

Kalpana (Malayalam actress) Kalpana Ranjani (5 October 1965 – 25 January 2016), better known mononymously as Kalpana, was an Indian actress who appeared in South Indian films, predominantly in Malayalam and Tamil. Kalpana has acted in over 300 films in various Sou ...

(1965–2016), Indian Malayalam film actress

Surname

Venkatacher Kalpana Venkatacher Kalpana (born 18 July 1961) is a former Test and One Day International cricketer who represented India. She is a right hand batsman and wicket-keeper The wicket-keeper in the sport of cricket is the player on the fielding side ...

(born 1961), Indian cricketer

Given name

Kalpana Chakma Kalpana Chakma was a human rights activist and feminist from Bangladesh who held the position of Organizing Secretary of the Hill Women's Federation. She and her two brothers were abducted on 12 June 1996 from her home at Lallyaghona village alleg ...

, Bangladeshi indigenous women's rights activist *

Kalpana Chawla Kalpana Chawla (17 March 1962 – 1 February 2003) was an Indian-born American astronaut and mechanical engineer who was the first woman of Indian origin to go to space. She first flew on Space Shuttle Columbia, Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' in 199 ...

(1961–2003), Indian American astronaut lost in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster *

Kalpana Dash Kalpana Dash (7 July 1966 – 23 May 2019) was an Indian lawyer and mountaineer. She was the first Odia mountaineer to scale Mount Everest. She scaled Mount Everest on 21 May 2008, along with a team of five members from the United States, Canada ...

(born 1966), Indian lawyer and mountaineer * Kalpana Datta (1913–1995), Indian independence movement activist and fighter * Kalpana Iyer (born c. 1950), Indian beauty pageant contestant and Hindi film actress *

Kalpana Kartik Mona Singha (born 19 August 1931), also known by her stage name Kalpana Kartik, is a retired Hindi film actress. She starred in six films in the 1950s. She is the widow of the late Hindi film actor and film maker Dev Anand. Mona Singha was a ...

(born 1931), Indian Hindi film actress *

Kalpana Lajmi Kalpana Lajmi (1954–2018) was an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter. Lajmi was an independent filmmaker working more on realistic, low-budget films, which are known in India as parallel cinema. Her films were often woman-oriented. ...

(1954–2018), Indian film director, producer and screenwriter * Kalpana Mohan (1946–2012), Indian Hindi film actress *

Kalpana Ramesh Narhire Narhire Kalpana Ramesh ( mr, कल्पना नरहिरे) (born 25 October 1969) is a Shiv Sena politician from Osmanabad district. She was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India representing Osmanabad Osmanabad (; pronounced ...

(born 1969), Indian politician from Osmanabad, Maharashtra *

Kalpana Pandit Kalpana Pandit (born 20 January 1967) is an Indian actress, model, and emergency physician. She owns the film production company ''House of Pandit (TM)''. She is known for her works in Bollywood, and Kannada cinema. In 2008, she hosted the tech ...

, Indian Hindi actress, model and physician *

Kalpana Raghavendar Kalpana Raghavendar (born 8 May 1980) is an Indian playback singer, winner of Idea Star Singer Malayalam and participant in Bigg Boss Telugu Season 1, songwriter and actor. She started her career as a playback singer at the age of five, and as ...

, Indian playback singer *

Kalpana Saxena Kalpana may refer to: Film and television * ''Kalpana'' (1948 film), an Indian Hindi-language dance film * ''Kalpana'' (1960 film), a romantic Bollywood film * ''Kalpana'' (1970 film), an Indian Malayalam film * ''Kalpana'' (2012 film), an I ...

, Indian police officer *

Kalpana Swaminathan Kalpana Swaminathan (born 1956) is an Indian writer from Mumbai. She also writes with Ishrat Syed as Kalpish Ratna. Swaminathan and Syed are both surgeons. Swaminathan won the 2009 Vodafone Crossword Book Award (Fiction) for ''Venus Crossing: ...

(born 1956), Indian writer and doctor

Other uses

Kalpana (imagination) ''Kalpanā'' (Sanskrit: कल्पना) is derived from the root - ''kalpanama'' (कल्पनम्) + ना, and means – 'fixing', 'settlement', 'making', 'performing', 'doing', 'forming', 'arranging', 'decorating', 'ornamenting', 'for ...

, a Vedantic view *

Kalpana (supercomputer) Kalpana was a supercomputer at NASA Ames Research Center operated by the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division and named in honor of astronaut Kalpana Chawla, who was killed in the Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' disaster and had worked as an ...

, at NASA's Ames Research Center *

Kalpana (company) Kalpana was a computer-networking equipment manufacturer located in Silicon Valley which operated during the 1980s and 1990s. Its co-founders, Vinod Bhardwaj, an entrepreneur of Indian origin,

, inventor of the first Ethernet network switch *

Kalpana-1 Kalpana-1 was the first dedicated meteorological satellite launched by Indian Space Research Organisation using Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle on 12 September 2002. The satellite is three-axis stabilized and is powered by solar panels, getting u ...