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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, used both as a family name and as both a feminine and a masculine given name. Raman is also a

Belarus Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by R ...

ian variant of the given name

Roman Roman or Romans most often refers to: *Rome, the capital city of Italy *Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD *Roman people, the people of ancient Rome *''Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a letter ...

. There may be other origins also.

Surname

* Avadhanam Sita Raman (19192001), Indian writer, journalist and editor *

Aneesh Raman Aneesh Raman is Vice President and Head of The Opportunity Project at LinkedIn. A former CNN war correspondent and speechwriter to President Barack Obama, Raman is an experienced communicator, focusing his career in recent years on the expansion ...

(active from 2005), American journalist and entrepreneur *

Aroon Raman Aroon Raman is an Indian entrepreneur and author. Education and early life Raman was born in India to parents of South Indian descent. He did his Masters in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi and then pursued his MBA from Whart ...

(active from 1991), Indian entrepreneur and author *

B. Raman Bahukutumbi Raman (14 August 1936 – 16 June 2013), also referred to as B. Raman, was an Additional Secretary of the Cabinet Secretariat of the Government of India and head of the counter-terrorism division of the Research and Analysis Win ...

(19362013), Indian intelligence officer *

Bangalore Venkata Raman Bangalore Venkata Raman (8 August 1912 – 20 December 1998) was an Indian astrologer in modern India and an author of numerous books and articles. He was instrumental in making Vedic Astrpology (Saint Parashar System) or Hindu astrology known a ...

(191298), Indian astrologer and writer *

Benito Raman Benito Raman (born 7 November 1994) is Belgian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Belgian club Anderlecht. Career Youth At the age of 4 he started playing football at Cercle Melle. He stayed there for six months. In 2001, at a ...

(born 1994), Belgian footballer * C. Raman (active 1960), Indian civil servant and administrator *

C. V. Raman Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (; 7 November 188821 November 1970) was an Indian physicist known for his work in the field of light scattering. Using a spectrograph that he developed, he and his student K. S. Krishnan discovered that when ...

(Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman; 18881970), Indian physicist who won the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics **

Raman scattering Raman scattering or the Raman effect () is the inelastic scattering of photons by matter, meaning that there is both an exchange of energy and a change in the light's direction. Typically this effect involves vibrational energy being gained by a ...

(AKA Raman effect), inelastic photon scattering, for the discovery of which C. V. Raman was awarded the Nobel Prize **

Raman spectroscopy Raman spectroscopy () (named after Indian physicist C. V. Raman) is a spectroscopic technique typically used to determine vibrational modes of molecules, although rotational and other low-frequency modes of systems may also be observed. Raman sp ...

, a technique which relies on Raman scattering **

Raman amplification Raman amplification "Raman effect"
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Dinesh Raghu Raman Major Dinesh Raghu Raman, AC was an Indian military officer with the 19th Battalion of the Jat Regiment who was posthumously awarded India's highest peacetime military decoration Ashoka Chakra. Early life Major Dinesh Raghu Raman was born on ...

(died 2007), Indian Army officer posthumously awarded the Ashoka Chakra for bravery * E. S. S. Raman (born 1954), Indian politician * K. Raman (active 2019), Indian politician *

Krishnan Raman Krishnan Raman (c. 11th century AD) was an officer in the Chola army who served as the Commander-in-chief of the Chola forces under Rajaraja Chola I. He held the title ''Mummadi Brahmarayar Niyomanam''. Origin Krishnan Raman Tamil shavite Bra ...

(), Commander-in-chief of the Chola forces under Rajendra Chola *

Mohan Raman Mohan Raman, also known as Mohan V. Ram (born 3 April 1956), is an Indian actor and writer. In 2017 and 2019, he was a Jury member for the National Film Award for Best Writing on Cinema. Raman is a film historian and writes for ''The Hindu''. He ...

(born 1956), Indian film and television actor and management trainer *

Mythili Raman Mythili Raman is a Tamil American lawyer and the former acting Assistant Attorney General for the United States Department of Justice's Criminal Division. Early life and family Mythili is the daughter of Athishdam Tharmaratnam and grand daughte ...

(active from 2013), American lawyer * P. S. Raman (born 1960), Indian lawyer * Pallathu Raman (18921950), Indian poet, writer, social reformer and community leader *

Prawaal Raman Prawaal Raman is an Indian film director and screenwriter known for his works in Hindi cinema. He has written and directed films like ''Darna Mana Hai'' (2003), ''Gayab'' (2004), ''Darna Zaroori hai'' (2006), '' 404'' (2011) and ''Main Aur Charl ...

(active from 2000), Indian film director and screenwriter *

Priya Raman Priya Raman (born 18 June 1974) is an Indian actress and television producer. She has appeared in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada cinema and in television serials of Malayalam and Tamil languages. Her first film was the Rajnikanth-produced ...

(active 199399), Indian actress and film producer in Malayalam * Radha Raman (disambiguation) * Sarangapani Raman (1920after 1948), Indian footballer * Sumanth C. Raman (active from 1995), Indian television anchor and sports commentator in Tamil * Sundar Raman (born 1971 or 1972), Indian sports business professional *

T. V. Raman T. V. Raman (born 4 May 1965) is a computer scientist who specializes in accessibility research.Gibbs, W.W. (1996) ''Profile: T. V. Raman – Envisioning Speech'', ''Scientific American'' 275(3), 52-54. His research interests are primarily i ...

(born 1965), Indian computer scientist * Theruvath Raman (19172009), Indian journalist, writer, publisher and social activist * U. C. Raman (born 1965), Indian politician * V. P. Raman (193291), Indian lawyer and politician * Varadaraja V. Raman (born 1932), Indian-born American academic in the field of humanities *

Vidyullekha Raman Vidyullekha Raman (born 4 November 1991), also known as Vidyu Raman, is an Indian actress and comedienne who appears in Tamil and Telugu films. The daughter of actor Mohan Raman, Vidyullekha made her debut in Gautham Vasudev Menon's 2012 ''Ne ...

(born 1991), Indian film actress and theatre performer *

Vimala Raman Vimala Raman is an Australian actress and former model who has worked in Indian cinema. She appears in Malayalam, Telugu and Tamil language films. Born and brought up in Australia, she made her debut in 2006 with the Tamil film ''Poi''. An esta ...

(active from 2006), Indian film actress, model and Bharatanatyam dancer * Woorkeri Raman (born 1965), Indian international cricketer

Given name: Indian origin

* Laxmi Raman Acharya (191497), Indian politician *

Raman Bedi Raman Bedi (BDS (Bristol), MSc (Manchester), DDS and DSc (Bristol), FDSRCS (Edinburgh and England), FGDP, FPHM) is Professor of Transcultural Oral Health at King's College London and was the Chief Dental Officer of England from 2002 to 2005. He ...

(active from 1996), English academic and organiser in the field of dental care *

Raman Bhardwaj Raman Bhardwaj is a Scottish broadcast journalist, television presenter and producer. He is currently the Sports Editor & presenter for the Central Scotland edition of ''STV News at Six''. Bhardwaj's work entails presenting the sports section of ...

(active from 1997), Scottish broadcast journalist, television presenter and producer *

Yussif Raman Chibsah Yussif Raman Chibsah (born 10 March 1993) is a Ghanaian professional Association football, footballer who plays as a midfielder for Super League Greece club Ionikos F.C., Ionikos. He represented the Ghana national football team, Ghana national t ...

(born 1993), Ghanaian footballer * Raman Ghosh (active 1960s1970s), Indian badminton player * Raman Kalyan (active 2015), Indian Carnatic flute player *

Rewati Raman Khanal Rewati Raman Khanal (9 July 1935 – 27 October 2020) was a Nepalese law scholar and writer. He served as the chief secretary of the Narayanhiti Palace for 35 years. He wrote multiple books on the legal and bureaucratic system of Nepal and recei ...

(active 2014), Nepali litterateur *

Raman Lamba Raman Lamba (; 2 January 1960 – 23 February 1998) was an Indian cricketer. Raman had played in four Tests and 32 One Day Internationals, mainly as a batsman. He was a popular player in Bangladesh's Dhaka Premier League and has also represent ...

(196098), Indian international cricketer *

Raman Mahadevan Raman Mahadevan is an Indian playback singer, known for his Bollywood songs. He released an indipop album, ''Ramanasia'', in 2007. Career Raman Mahadevan was born in Mumbai. After completing his studies at New Bombay High School and ICL college ...

(active from 2003), Indian playback singer *

Raman Malhotra Raman Malhotra is a British ophthalmologist and oculoplastic surgeon. He is a consultant ophthalmic surgeon and head of the Corneoplastic unit, Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead. Education and early career Born on 13 September 1968 at Isl ...

(born 1968), British ophthalmologist and oculoplastic surgeon *

Raman Maroo Raman Maroo is an Indian film producer. He is the Managing Director of Shemaroo Entertainment. Filmography * Ishqiya ''Ishqiya'' () is a 2010 Indian black comedy film starring Vidya Balan, Naseeruddin Shah, Arshad Warsi and Salman Shahi ...

(active 2010), Indian film producer *

Raman Mundair Raman Mundair (Punjabi: ਰਮਨ ਮੰਡੈਰ) is a British poet, writer, artist and playwright. She was born in Ludhiana, India and moved to live in the UK at the age of five. She is the author of two volumes of poetry, ''A Choreographer's ...

(active from 1998), Indian-born British poet, writer, artist and playwright * Vaisravanath Raman Namboothiri (active 196090), Indian Sanskrit scholar and activist * Erkkara Raman Nambudiri (18981983), Indian priest and scholar who helped revive the ancient Vedam-Yajnam traditions in Kerala *

Raman Osman Sir Abdool Raman Mahomed Osman, GCMG, CBE (29 August 1902 – 16 November 1992) was the third governor-general of Mauritius from 27 December 1972 to 31 October 1977. He was knighted in 1973, and was the first non-British Mauritian governor gen ...

(190292), Governor General of Mauritius 197277 * Raman Parimala (born 1948), Indian mathematician * C. V. Raman Pillai (18581922), Indian novelist, playwright and journalist in Malayalam * Chenganoor Raman Pillai (18861980), Indian Kathakali artist *

Kappazhom Raman Pillai Kappazhom Raman Pillai was from Nair community who served as the Dewan Peshkar of the Government of Travancore. As Dewan Peishcar, he held the powers of the Collector, the Magistrate and the Superintendent of Police. Interests Using 'Angadan' as ...

(18681924), Indian civil servant in Travancore who achieved the office of Dewan Peishcar *

Raman Raghav Raman Raghav, also known as Sindhi Talwai, Anna, Thambi, and Veluswami, was a serial killer active during the mid-1960s, labelled by many as ''Jack the Ripper of India''. Raghav went on a killing spree for over three years, with the first rou ...

(AKA Psycho Raman; 192995), Indian serial killer *

Dilli Raman Regmi Dilli Raman Regmi ( ne, डिल्लीरमण रेग्मी) (17 December 1913 – 30 August 2001) was a scholar, iconic political figure and historian of Nepal. He dedicated his life to research, study, writing and politics. He was one ...

(19132001), Nepali scholar, political figure and historian *

Raman Subba Row Raman Subba Row (born 29 January 1932) is a former cricketer who played for England, Cambridge University, Surrey and Northamptonshire. Life and career Born in Streatham, Surrey, England to an Indian father Panguluri Venkata Subba Rao, of B ...

(born 1932), English international cricketer * Raman Sharma (194599), Indian cricket umpire * Radha Raman Shastri (born 1943), Indian politician, former Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Himachal Pradesh *

Raman Sukumar Raman Sukumar is an Indian ecologist best known for his work on the ecology of the Asian elephant and wildlife-human conflict. He also works on climate change, and tropical forest ecology. He was born in India in 1955. In 1986, Sukumar helped to d ...

(born 1965), Indian ecologist * Raman Pratap Singh (born before 1994), Fijian lawyer and politician *

Raman Singh Dr. Raman Singh (born 15 October 1952) is an Indian politician and Former Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh. Currently, he is the National Vice-President of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is also an ayurvedic practitioner. He is also the longest s ...

(born 1952), Indian politician *

Rewati Raman Singh Kunwar Rewati Raman Singh (born 5 October 1943) is an Indian politician from the Allahabad Lok Sabha Constituency in Uttar Pradesh. He played a major role in the establishment of the Samajwadi Party with SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav, Beni Pr ...

(born 1943), Indian politician * Raman Patrick Sisupalan (born 1980), English footballer *

Raman Sundrum Raman Sundrum (born 1964) is an Indian-American theoretical particle physicist. He contributed to the field with a class of models called the Randall–Sundrum models, first published in 1999 with Lisa Randall. Sundrum is a Distinguished Universi ...

(born before 1990), American theoretical physicist after whom the RandallSundrum model is named * Raman Srivastava (born before 1973), former Director General of the Indian Border Security Force *

Raman Vijayan Raman Vijayan (born 4 June 1973) is a former Indian football player, founder of Noble Football Academy And RamanVijayan Soccer School. He also worked as commentator for the Indian Super League on Star Sports Tamil. Raman is one of two Indian f ...

(born 1977), Indian association football manager and former player

Given name: Belarusian origin

* Raman Astapenka (born 1980), Belarusian professional footballer * Raman Hrabarenka (AKA Roman Graborenko; born 1992), Belarusian professional ice hockey player * Raman Jaraš (born 1978), Belarusian musician *

Raman Kirenkin Raman Kirenkin ( be, Раман Кірэнкін; russian: Роман Киренкин; born 20 February 1981) is a former Russian-born Belarusian football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ba ...

(born 1981), Belarusian international footballer * Raman Makarau (active 2004), Belarusian paralympic swimmer who competed in the 2004 Paralympic Games *

Raman Piatrushenka Raman Ivanavich Piatrushenka or Roman Petrushenko ( be, Раман Іванавіч Пятрушэнка; born 25 December 1980) is a Belarusian sprint canoeist who has competed since 2000. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won four medals ...

(AKA Roman Petrushenko; born 1980), Belarusian sprint canoer who has competed in three Summer Olympics *

Raman Pratasevich Roman Dmitriyevich Protasevich (russian: Роман Дмитриевич Протасевич; born 5 May 1995), or Raman Dzmitryyevich Pratasyevich ( be, Раман Дзмітрыевіч Пратасевіч, translit=Raman Dzmitryjevič Prat ...

(or Roman Protasevich; born 1995), Belarusian journalist * Raman Ramanau (born 1994), Belarusian professional racing cyclist *

Raman Skirmunt Raman (Roman) Skirmunt ( be, Раман Скірмунт; 7 May 1868 – 7 October 1939) was a Belarusian and Polesian statesman, aristocrat and landlord. Patron, significant landowner, vice-chairman (1907-1917, 1918-?) of the Minsk Agricultu ...

(18681939), Belarusian statesman, aristocrat and landlord * Raman Stsyapanaw (born 1991), Belarusian footballer *

Raman Tsishkou Raman Tsishkou (born 2 December 1994) is a Belarusian professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Continental team . He rode at the 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. Major results ;2014 : 1st Time trial, National Under� ...

(born 1994), Belarusian professional racing cyclist. * Raman Vasilyuk (born 1978), Belarusian footballer

Given name: Other or uncertain origin

Raman Hui Raman Hui Shing-Ngai (Traditional Chinese: 許誠毅, born 4 July 1963) is a Hong Kong animator, film director, and film producer. He is best known for directing the films ''Monster Hunt'' and ''Monster Hunt 2''. Early life Hui was born in Ho ...

(born 1963), Hong Kong animator and film director {{given name, type=both Surnames of Indian origin Indian unisex given names Belarusian masculine given names