Pran most often refers to
, the concept of a "life force" in Hindu philosophy.
Pran may also refer to:
People
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Pran Kishore Kaul
Pran Kishore Kaul is a Kashmiri stage personality. In addition to acting, he has directed and written screenplays. He was bestowed from the Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel '' Sheen Tu Watu Pod''. He was one of the founders of the Miltsar ...
, Kashmiri actor
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Pran Nath (disambiguation)
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Pran Nath (musician)
Pandit Pran Nath (Devanagari: पंडित प्राणनाथ) (3 November 1918 – 13 June 1996) was an Indian classical singer and master of the Kirana gharana singing style. Promoting traditional raga principles, Nath exerted an ...
(1918–1996), Hindustani classical singer
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Pran Nath (physicist)
Pran Nath is a theoretical physicist working at Northeastern University, with research focus in elementary particle physics. He holds a Matthews Distinguished University Professor chair.
Research
His main area of research is in the fields of su ...
(born 1939), Indian-American physicist
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Pran Nath Lekhi
Pran Nath Lekhi (प्राण नाथ लेखी; 1924/25 – 28 February 2010) was an Indian Lawyer. He was one of India's leading lawyers, who primarily practiced at the Supreme Court of India and the High Court of Delhi. Lekhi was ...
(1924/1925–2010), Indian lawyer
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Pran Nath Thapar
General Pran Nath Thapar (23 May 1906 – 23 June 1975) was the fourth Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army. The Sino-Indian War was fought during his term, in which the Indian Army fared poorly. Thapar resigned during the last stages o ...
(1906–1975), Indian military commander
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Pran Nevile
Pran Nevile (1922 – October 11, 2018) was an Indian author of Indian Art, Indian Culture & Indian History best known for the 1992 book, '' Lahore: A Sentimental Journey''. He was an authority on pre-1947 Lahore and Nautch.
Biography
Nevile wa ...
(1922–2018), Indian writer
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Pran Kumar Sharma
Pran Kumar Sharma (15 August 1938 – 5 August 2014), better known as Pran, was an Indian cartoonist best known as the creator of ''Chacha Chaudhary'' (1971). He also created other characters like Shrimatiji, Pinki, Billoo, Raman, and Channi ...
(1938–2014), commonly known as ''Pran'', Indian cartoonist
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Pran (actor)
Pran Krishan Sikand (12 February 1920 – 12 July 2013), better known by his mononym, Pran, was an Indian actor, known as the greatest villain ever in the history of Indian cinema and character actor in Hindi cinema from the 1940s to the ...
(1920–2013), born Pran Krishan Sikand, Indian film actor
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Dith Pran
Dith Pran ( km, ឌិត ប្រន; 23 September 1942 – 30 March 2008) was a Cambodian photojournalist. He was a refugee and survivor of the Cambodian genocide and the subject of the film ''The Killing Fields'' (1984).
Early life
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(1942–2008), Cambodian photojournalist, subject of ''The Killing Fields''
Places
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Pranburi (disambiguation) Pranburi (Thai
Thai or THAI may refer to:
* Of or from Thailand, a country in Southeast Asia
** Thai people, the dominant ethnic group of Thailand
** Thai language, a Tai-Kadai language spoken mainly in and around Thailand
*** Thai script
*** Thai ...
, several places in Thailand
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Pran Buri District, district in Prachuap Khiri Khan Province, Thailand
Other
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PRAN-RFL Group
PRAN-RFL Group ( bn, প্রাণ-আরএফএল গ্রুপ) is a Bangladeshi multinational consumer goods company with headquarters in Dhaka. It is the largest agribusiness & plastic product manufacturer in Bangladesh. Currently ...
, a Bangladeshi food-products corporation
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PRAN, largest processors of fruits and vegetables in Bangladesh
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Pran Cola, cola soft drink manufactured by Pran Group in Bangladesh
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Pran of Albania'', 1929 novel by Elizabeth Miller
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