Parikh is a name found among

Hindu Hindus (; ) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism.Jeffery D. Long (2007), A Vision for Hinduism, IB Tauris, , pages 35–37 Historically, the term has also been used as a geographical, cultural, and later religious identifier for ...

s of the

Bania caste __NOTOC__ The Bania (also spelled Baniya, Banija, Banya, Vaniya, Vani, Vania and Vanya) is a Vaishya community mainly found in Indian states of Gujarat, and Rajasthan, but they are also found in Madhya Pradesh. Haryana, Punjab, Chandigarh, Del ...

and also

Jain 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 ...

s. In means ''assayer'' in the

Gujarati language Gujarati (; gu, ગુજરાતી, Gujarātī, translit-std=ISO, label=Gujarati script, ) is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Indian state of Gujarat and spoken predominantly by the Gujarati people. Gujarati is descended from Old Gu ...

and has its roots in 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 for ''examiner''. Both the

Oswal The Oswal (sometimes spelled Oshwal or Osval) are a Jain community with origins in the Marwar region of Rajasthan and Tharparkar district in Sindh. They claim to be of Rajput Rajput (from Sanskrit ''raja-putra'' 'son of a king') is a large ...

and

Porwal This category contains the 30 gotras of the Paudwal community, a Hindu, and Jain community (nyat) and Gujarat, originating from They are very well settled in maharashtra and gujrat. References Gotras Jain communities {{India-ethno-stu ...

communities of India have clans called ''Parekh''.http://www.ancestry.com/facts/Parikh-name-meaning.ashx People bearing the name, who may or may not be affiliated with the above communities, include: *

Shrenu Parikh Shrenu Parikh (born 11 November 1989) is an Indian television actress. She is best known for portraying Aastha Agnihotri in the StarPlus romantic drama ''Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon? Ek Baar Phir'' (2013–2015) and Gauri Kumari Sharma in the dr ...

, Indian television actress. *

Narhari Parikh Narhari Dwarkadas Parikh was a writer, independence activist and social reformer from Gujarat, India. Influenced by Mahatma Gandhi, he was associated with Gandhian institutes throughout his life. He wrote biographies, edited works by associat ...

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 ...

freedom fighter A resistance movement is an organized effort by some portion of the civil population of a country to withstand the legally established government or an occupying power and to disrupt civil order and stability. It may seek to achieve its objectives ...

and social reformer *

Rahul Parikh Rahul K. Parikh is an American pediatrician practicing in the San Francisco Bay Area, and who is also employed by Kaiser Permanente in Walnut Creek, California, as the associate Physician-in-Chief of Patient Education in the Diablo Service Area. ...

, American pediatrician *

Rasiklal Chhotalal Parikh Rasiklal Chhotalal Parikh (1897–1982) was a 20th-century Gujarati poet, playwright, literary critic, Indologist, historian, and editor from Gujarat, India. He was the president of Gujarat Sahitya Sabha and was appointed the president of Guja ...

, Gujarati writer, Poet, and Indologist *

Rohit Jivanlal Parikh Rohit Jivanlal Parikh (born November 20, 1936) is an Indian-American mathematician, logician, and philosopher who has worked in many areas in traditional logic, including recursion theory and proof theory. He is a Distinguished Professor at Brook ...

, Indian-American mathematician and logician *

Himanshu Parikh Himanshu Parikh is a leading Indian engineer. Early life Himanshu Parikh was born in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Tanzania (; ), officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( sw, Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Afri ...

, Indian architect *

Jayant Parikh Jayant Parikh (born 2 April 1940) is an Indian artist, printmaker, and muralist. He is a student of N. S. Bendre, K. G. Subramanyan and Sankho Chaudhuri. He lives and works in Vadodara, India. His work is held in the collections of the Nationa ...

, Indian Painter, Printmaker, and Muralist *

Vasant Parikh Vasant Vrajlal Parikh (14 February 1929 ― 16 March 2007) was an Indian politician, social worker, writer, eye surgeon and Ayurveda doctor from Gujarat. Biography Parikh was born on 14 February 1929 at Vadnagar (now in Mehsana district, Gujarat ...

, Indian politician and social worker *

Deepak Parikh Clariant Chemicals India Ltd () is a specialty chemicals manufacturing company from the Indian state of Maharashtra. The India office is headquartered in Thane. The main business activity of Clariant Chemicals (India) involves manufacture of sp ...

, CEO of

Clariant Chemicals India Clariant Chemicals India Ltd () is a specialty chemicals manufacturing company from the Indian state of Maharashtra. The India office is headquartered in Thane. The main business activity of Clariant Chemicals (India) involves manufacture of sp ...

Tej Parikh Tej Parikh is a British economist and writer. Parikh was Chief Economist of the Institute of Directors, a private-sector employer lobbyist, from 2017 to 2021. Between 2015 and 2016 he worked as a journalist for The Cambodia Daily in Phnom Penh. ...

, former Chief Economist,

Institute of Directors The Institute of Directors (IoD) is a British professional organisation for company directors, senior business leaders and entrepreneurs. It is the UK's longest running organisation for professional leaders, having been founded in 1903 and incor ...

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