Poonawalla or Poonawala is an Indian (
Parsi/
Dawoodi Bohra) toponymic surname for someone from
Pune (formerly Poona) in India. It may refer to:
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Adar Poonawalla, (born 1981), Indian businessman
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Cyrus S. Poonawalla
Cyrus S. Poonawalla (born in 1941) is an Indian billionaire businessman, and the chairman and managing director of the Cyrus Poonawalla Group, which includes the Serum Institute of India, an Indian biotech company which is the largest vaccine m ...
, Indian businessman
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Ismail Poonawala (born 1937), Indian professor of Arabic
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Lila Poonawalla
Lila Firoz Poonawalla (born 16 September 1944) is an Indian industrialist, philanthropist, humanitarian and the founder of ''Lila Poonawalla Foundation'', a non governmental organization promoting professional education among aspiring girls in I ...
, (born 1944), Indian industrialist
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Natasha Poonawalla, (born 1981), Indian philanthropist
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Riaz Poonawala
Riaz Husein Poonawala (born 8 May 1961) is an Indian-born cricketer who played for the United Arab Emirates national cricket team. Poonawala started his first-class cricket career playing for his native Maharashtra for whom he played 28 games b ...
(born 1961), Indian cricketer
See also
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Poonawalla Fincorp
Poonawalla Fincorp Limited, (formerly known as Magma Fincorp) is a Cyrus S. Poonawalla group Non-Banking Finance Company (NBFC) that focuses on consumer and MSME financing.
The company operates more than 279 branches in 21 states, as of 2022.
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, Indian financial company
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Indian surnames
Surnames of Indian origin
Gujarati-language surnames
Parsi people
Dawoodi Bohras
People from Pune
Toponymic surnames
Marathi-language surnames