Gandhi (; hi, गाँधी) is an Indian surname.
Gandhi may also refer to:
Family of Mahatma Gandhi
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (; ; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948), popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi, was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist Quote: "... marks Gandhi as a hybrid cosmopolitan figure who transformed ... anti- ...
(1869–1948), known as the
Mahatma
Mahatma (English pronunciation: , sa, महात्मा, translit=mahātmā) is an honorific used in India.
The term is commonly used for Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who is often referred to simply as "Mahatma Gandhi". Albeit less frequen ...
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Kasturba Gandhi
Kasturbai Mohandas Gandhi (, born Kasturbai Gokuldas Kapadia; 11 April 1869 – 22 February 1944) was an Indian political activist. She married Mohandas Gandhi, more commonly known as Mahatma Gandhi, in 1883. With her husband and her eldest so ...
(1869–1944), wife
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Harilal Gandhi
Harilal Mohandas Gandhi (born Hiralal Mohandas Gandhi; 23 August 1888 – 18 June 1948) was the eldest son of Mahatma Gandhi and Kasturba Gandhi. He had three younger brothers: Manilal Gandhi, Ramdas Gandhi and Devdas Gandhi.
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(1888–1948), eldest son
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Manilal Gandhi
Manilal Mohandas Gandhi (28 October 1892 – 5 April 1956) was the second son of Mohandas Gandhi and Kasturba Gandhi.
Biography
Manilal was born in Rajkot, British India, the second of four sons of Mohandas Gandhi and Kasturba Gandhi. He had ...
(1891–1956), second son
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Ela Gandhi
Ela Gandhi (born 1 July 1940), is a South African peace activist and former politician. She served as a Member of Parliament in South Africa from 1994 to 2004, where she aligned with the African National Congress (ANC) party representing the Ph ...
(born 1940), South African politician
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Arun Gandhi
Arun Manilal Gandhi (born April 14, 1934) is an Indian-American author, socio-political activist and son of Manilal Gandhi, thus a grandson of nationalist leader Mahatma Gandhi. Although he has followed in the footsteps of his grandfather as an ac ...
(born 1934), head of M. K. Gandhi Institute for Non-violence
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Tushar Gandhi
Tushar Arun Gandhi (born 17 January 1960) is an Indian author and son of Arun Manilal Gandhi, thus great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi. In March 2005, he led the 75th anniversary re-enactment of the Dandi March. From 2007 to 2012, he was the Good ...
(born 1960), Indian politician and peace activist
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Ramdas Gandhi
Ramdas Mohandas Gandhi (2 January, 1897 – 14 April, 1969) was the third son of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. He was a freedom activist in his own right.
Biography
Ramdas was born in the Colony of Natal, the third son of Mahatma Gandhi and Kast ...
(1897–1969), third son
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Devdas Gandhi
Devdas Mohandas Gandhi (22 May 1900 – 3 August 1957) was the fourth and youngest son of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. He was born in the Colony of Natal and came to India with his parents as a grown man. He became active in his father's movem ...
(1900–1957), youngest son
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Rajmohan Gandhi
Rajmohan Gandhi (born 7 August 1935) is an Indian biographer, historian, and research professor at the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US. His paternal grandfather is Mahatma Gandhi, ...
(born 1935), biographer
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Gopalkrishna Gandhi
Gopalkrishna Devadas Gandhi (born 22 April 1945) is a former administrator and diplomat who served as the 22nd Governor of West Bengal serving from 2004 to 2009. He is the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and C. Rajagopalachari (Rajaji). As a former ...
(born 1945), Indian administrator, former Governor of West Bengal and Bihar
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Ramchandra Gandhi
Ramchandra Gandhi (9 June 1937 – 13 June 2007) was an Indian philosopher.
He was the son of Devdas Gandhi ( Mahatma Gandhi's youngest son) and Lakshmi (daughter of Rajaji) and also brother of Rajmohan Gandhi, Gopalkrishna Gandhi and Tara Ga ...
(1937–2007), Indian philosopher
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Leela Gandhi (born 1966), postcolonial theorist
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Samaldas Gandhi
Samaldas Gandhi (1897-1953) was a journalist and Indian independence activist who headed the ''Aarzi Hakumat'' or ''Provisional Government'' of the erstwhile princely state of Junagadh. He was a nephew of Mahatma Gandhi.
Early life
Samaldas ...
(1897–1953), cousin who led the ''Arzi Hukumat'' during the Junagadh crisis
Family of Feroze Gandhi and Indira Gandhi
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Feroze Gandhi
Feroze Gandhi (born Feroze Jehangir Ghandy;: "Feroze Gandhi was also from the Nehrus' home town, Allahabad. A Parsi by faith, he at first spelt his surname 'Ghandy'. However, after he joined the national movement as a young man, he changed th ...
(1912–1960), husband of Indira Gandhi, real name Feroze Ghandy, Zoroastrian by religion
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Indira Gandhi (1917–1984), daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru and wife of Feroze Gandhi; former Prime Minister of India (1966–1977; 1980–1984)
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Rajiv Gandhi (1944–1991), son of Feroze & Indira Gandhi; former Prime Minister of India (1984–1989)
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Sonia Gandhi (born 1946), widow of Rajiv Gandhi; leader of the INC party (1998–2017, 2019–present)
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Rahul Gandhi
Rahul Gandhi ( ; born 19 June 1970) is an Indian politician and a member of the Indian Parliament, representing the constituency of Wayanad, Kerala in the 17th Lok Sabha. A member of the Indian National Congress, he served as the president o ...
(born 1970), son of Sonia Gandhi & Rajiv Gandhi; leader of the INC party (2017–2019)
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Priyanka Gandhi Vadra
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (''née'' Gandhi; born 12 January 1972) is an Indian politician and the general secretary of the All India Congress Committee in charge of Uttar Pradesh. She is the daughter of former Prime minister of India Rajiv Gandhi ...
(born 1971), daughter of Sonia Gandhi & Rajiv Gandhi.
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Sanjay Gandhi
Sanjay Gandhi (14 December 1946 23 June 1980) was an Indian politician and the younger son of Indira Gandhi and Feroze Gandhi. He was a member of parliament, Lok Sabha and the Nehru–Gandhi family. During his lifetime, he was widely expected ...
(1946–1980), son of Feroze & Indira Gandhi
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Maneka Gandhi
Maneka Sanjay Gandhi (also spelled Menaka; ''née'' Anand) (born 26 August 1956) is an Indian politician, animal rights activist, and environmentalist. She is a member of the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian parliament and a member of ...
(born 1956), widow of Sanjay Gandhi
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Varun Gandhi
Varun Gandhi (born 13 March 1980) is an Indian author, politician, and a third-term member of Parliament for Lok Sabha from the Pilibhit constituency. He is also member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and was inducted into Rajnath Singh's team ...
(born 1980), son of Sanjay & Maneka Gandhi
Other notable people
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Anand Gandhi
Anand Gandhi (born Anand Modi, 26 September 1980) is an Indian filmmaker, entrepreneur, media producer, innovator and systems researcher. He is also the founder/CEO of the Mumbai-based new media studio and systems think tank Memesys Culture Lab ...
(born 1980), an Indian filmmaker
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Bhogilal Gandhi
Bhogilal Chunilal Gandhi (26 January 1911 – 10 June 2001) was an Indian scholar, poet, critic, translator, and independence activist from Gujarat, India. He edited ''Vishvamanav'', a Gujarati-language literary-socio-political journal. He wrote ...
(1911–2001), Indian writer and independence activist from Gujarat
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Devang Gandhi (born 1971), an Indian cricketer
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Dharamvir Gandhi
Dharamvir Gandhi (born 1 June 1951) is an Indian politician and was earlier a member of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). He was a Member of Parliament from Patiala.
Career
During his college days, Gandhi was detained for a month in Amritsar, for prot ...
(born 1951), an Indian politician and physician
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James Gandhi (born 1993), British actor, producer and writer
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Jonita Gandhi
Jonita Gandhi is a Canadian playback singer of Indian descent. She has recorded songs predominantly in Hindi and Tamil languages with few in Punjabi, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Kannada and Malayalam languages. Some of her most ac ...
(born 1989), Canadian playback singer
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Kancheepuram (Kanchi) Natarajan Gandhi (born 1948), Senior Nomenclature Registrar and Bibliographer at Harvard University
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Kiran Gandhi (born 1989), a musician who also performs as "Madame Gandhi"
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Lalit Mohan Gandhi (1952–2016), an Indian Nation Congress politician, Minister of planning and coordination
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Meera Gandhi
Meera Teresa Gandhi (born 28 January 1963) is the founder and CEO of The Giving Back Foundation.
Early life and education
Gandhi was born in Mumbai, India to an Irish mother and an Indian father. At the age of 16, she met Mother Teresa and work ...
(born 1963), founder of The Giving Back Foundation
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Nari Gandhi (1934–1993), an Indian architect
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Nikhita Gandhi
Nikhita Gandhi (born 1 October 1991) is an Indian playback singer who has worked in Indian films in four different languages. She has worked on Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Bengali, and Kannada film projects.
She sang as the face of Deepika Padukone ...
(born 1991), Indian playback singer
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Pooja Gandhi
Pooja Gandhi (born Sanjana Gandhi in 1983) is an Indian actress, who mainly works in Kannada, Hindi and Tamil films. Pooja Gandhi after starring in the commercially successful 2006 film ''Mungaru Male'', became one of the most popular and high ...
(born 1983), a Kannada film actress
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Pratik Gandhi
Pratik Gandhi is an Indian actor. He worked in Gujarati theatre before entering Gujarati cinema. He received wide acclaim for portraying Harshad Mehta in Sony LIV series ''Scam 1992''. He acted in several Hindi films thereafter.
Early life
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(born 1989), a Gujarati / Hindi actor
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Bhavya Gandhi
Bhavya Gandhi (born 20 June 1997) is an Indian actor who mainly works in Hindi YouTube and Gujarati films. He made his acting debut with and is best known for his role of Tipendra Jethalal Gada a.k.a. Tapu in the Indian sitcom Taarak Mehta Ka O ...
(born1997), an Indian actor
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Rustom K. S. Ghandhi (1924–2014), an Indian Navy Admiral
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Shanta Gandhi
Shanta Kalidas Gandhi (20 December 1917 – 6 May 2002) was an Indian theatre director, dancer and playwright who was closely associated with IPTA, the cultural wing of the Communist Party of India. She studied with Indira Gandhi at a residen ...
(1917–2002), theatre director and playwright
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Sorab K. Ghandhi (1928–2018), professor Emeritus in electrical engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Virchand Gandhi
Virachand Raghavji Gandhi (25 August 1864 – 7 August 1901) was a Jain scholar who represented Jainism at the first World Parliament of Religions in 1893. A barrister by profession, he worked to defend the rights of Jains, and wrote and lectur ...
(1864–1901), Jain representative at the first World Parliament of Religions in Chicago, 1893
See also
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Gandhi (disambiguation)
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Gandy (surname)
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Ghandy (surname)
References
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