List of Agrawal people

This is a partial list of prominent Agrawals.

Contents 1 Freedom fighters 2 Businesspeople 3 Writers 4 Politicians 5 Sportspeople 6 Film & television personalities 7 Scientists 8 Engineers 9 Doctors 10 Lawyers 11 Journalists 12 Educationists 13 Academics 14 Others 15 Award winners 15.1 Bharat Ratna 15.2 Padam Vibhushan 15.3 Param Vishist Seva Medal 15.4 Ramon Magsaysay Award 15.5 Padma Bhushan 15.6 Padma Shree 15.7 Personalities in Guiness Book of World Records 16 Famous Agrawal Houses 17 See also 18 References 19 External links

Freedom fighters

• Lala Lajpat Rai: Freedom fighter
• Jamnalal Bajaj: Gandhian and industrialist
• Sri Prakasa, freedom fighter, governor, high commissioner
• Shiv Prasad Gupta
• Rammanohar Lohia
• Janaki Devi Bajaj
• Banarsi Das Gupta : Renowned Freedom Fighter, Former Chief Minister Haryana, MP, Minister, Speaker

Businesspeople

Agrawals are among the most influential and prosperous communities in India and have one of the largest shares of people with net worth in billions of dollars. Agrawals are present almost all over in the world and contribute a large account to world economy in terms of Business.

Rank	Name	Net Worth (Billion USD)	City	Company	Industry !
1	Lakshmi Mittal	31.1	London	ArcelorMittal	Steel
2	Sunil Mittal	12.5	Delhi	Bharti Enterprises	Conglomerate
3	Anil Agrawal	12.7	London	Vedanta Resources	Mining and Resources
4	Savitri Jindal	12.2	Delhi	Jindal Group	Conglomerate
5	Subhash Chandra Goel	2.80	Mumbai	Essel Group	Media conglomerate
6	Naresh Goyal	2.20	London	Jet Airways	Airline
8	Gautam Singhania	1.40	Mumbai	Raymond	Textiles
9	R. P. Goenka	1.30	Kolkata	RPG Group	Conglomerate
10	Vinod Goenka	1.18	Mumbai	DB Realty	Real estate
11	Rahul Bajaj	1.10	Pune	Bajaj Auto	Automobiles
12	Rakesh Jhunjhunwala	1.10	Mumbai	Rare Enterprises	Investment

Medival period:

• Nattal Sahu, merchant prince during the rule of Tomar Anangapal and patron of Vibudh Shridhar
• Sahu Todar, supervisor of royal mint and patron of scholars
• Raja Harsukh Rai, Mughal treasurer and builder of many Jain temples
• Ramji Das Gurwala, who donated large sums of money to Bahadur Shah Zafar during the 1857 revolt.
• Lala Ratan Chand

British period:

• Jamnalal Bajaj: Gandhian and industrialist
• Bhagwandas Bagla, First Marwari millionaire, popularized rasgulla
• Ramnath Goenka, founder of Indian Express
• O.P. Jindal, industrialist and politician
• Gujar Mal Modi-founder of Modi group and Padmabhushan awardee
• Raja Harsukh Rai
• Jayadayalji Goyandka, founder of Gita Press

Post Independence:

• Lakshmi Mittal, Arcelor Mittal, businessman, richest Indian billionaire in the world
• Subhash Chandra Goel :- The Chairman of the Agroha Vikas Trust & owner of Zee TV, billionaire
• Rahul Bajaj, Bajaj Auto, Member of Parliament, billionaire
• Vijaypat Singhania, Raymonds
• Naresh Goyal, Jet Airways, billionaire
• Anil Agarwal, Vedanta Resources, billionaire
• Sunil Bharti Mittal, Bharti Airtel, billionaire
• Indu Jain, billionaire
• Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, billionaire
• RP Goenka - Industrialist (RPG Group)
• Som Mittal, Indian telecom enterpreneur
• Anand Jain, Jai Corp Limited, billionaire
• Rajesh Agrawal, Chairman & CEO of RationalFX, *Venugopal Dhoot, Videocon, billionaire
• Rajat Gupta, Management Guru
• Vinod Agarwal, Businessman & Scientist
• Vinod Gupta, CEO of infoGROUP
• Ramesh Chandra Agarwal, Bhaskar group
• Sajjan Jindal, Jindal Steel, billionaire
• Anupam Mittal, founder of shaadi.com and People Group
• Vinod Goenka, DB Realty

Writers

• Vibudh Shridhar, author and poet, composer of several texts
• Bharatendu Harishchandra Hindi pioneer
• Babu Gulabrai, Hindi writer and philosopher
• Hanuman Prasad Poddar, editor of Kalyan
• Kaka Hathrasi real name (Prabhulal Garg)
• Kedarnath Agarwal
• Sita Ram Goel - historian, writer and publisher
• Jinendra Varni compiler of 5 volume "Jainendra Siddhanta Kosha" and Saman Suttam compilation.^[1]

Politicians

• Banarsi Das Gupta- former Chief Minister of Haryana, Founder All India Vaish Federation, Agroha Vikas Trust, Agroha Devp. Board, Chief Pattron All India Agarwal Sammelan
• Rammanohar Lohia, humanist politician
• Pawan Kumar Bansal, Minister of state in Ministry of Finance.
• Bobby Jindal, Current Governor of Louisiana, USA
• Naveen Jindal: MP from Kurukshetra and an industralist
• Satish Chandra Agrawal- state minister in Morarji Desai government
• Krishana Kumar Goyal-state minister in Desai government
• Ved Prakash Goyal- cabinet minister in Vajpayee government
• Vijay Goel- former minister
• Ramdas Agarwal-BJP national Treasurer
• Ram Prakash Gupta-UP CM
• Chaman Lal Gupta- minister
• Chandra Bhanu Gupta- Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister.
• Dharma Vira-governor
• Dhirendra Agarwal-M.P.
• Lt.Kalicharan Agrawal-MLA & Ex Minister U.P. Government
• Surendra Prakash Goyal-M.P.
• Jai Parkash Aggarwal- Member, Rajya Sabha & President, New Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee
• Jay Goyal, Member of the Ohio House of Representatives, US
• Victor Agarwal, Labour's sole remaining Councillor on Surrey County Council - The first Asian to be elected to Surrey County Council
• Rajeev Bindal- Health Minister, Himachal Pradesh, India (BJP)
• Kalicharan Saraf- MLA and Former Minister, Rajasthan
• Ashok Singhal- International President of Vishwa Hindu Parishad

Sportspeople

• Sandhya Agarwal- Test cricketer
• Asha Agarwal-Marathon champion
• S. K. Bansal- former Test and One Day International cricket umpire from India
• Neha Aggarwal-Olympian
• Om Agarwal-Billiards
• Pushpendra Garg-rowing
• Suresh Goel-badminton champion
• Abhinn Shyam Gupta-
• Abhijeet Gupta-Chess master
• Rajinder Goel- Cricketer, Ranji player with most wickets
• Ankit Aggarwal-cricketer
• Sandip Gupta
• Karan Goel- Opening batsman, Kings XI Punjab Indian Premier League
• Subhash Agarwal
• Harmeet Singh Bansal

Film & television personalities

• Devendra Goel, Bollywood film director and producer, started one of the oldest film production houses in India.^[2]
• Shubha Mudgal, Indian singer
• Aarti Agarwal, actress, Telugu film industry
• Surily Goel, fashion designer
• Sanjay Gupta, Bollywood director
• Neena Gupta, actress
• Vipasha Agarwal, model & actress
• Anu Agarwal, actress
• Kajal Agarwal, actress
• Sonia Agarwal, actress
• Shruti Agrawal, model & actress
• Additi Gupta, actress
• Sooraj Barjatya, director
• Rajendra Gupta, director
• Ravi Agarwal, producer
• Megha Gupta, actress

Scientists

• Bhagwan Das Indian theosophist, awarded Bharat Ratna
• Ram Narain Agarwal - known as father of the Agni missile system.^[3]

Engineers

• Sir Ganga Ram: often referred to as the ‘Father of modern Lahore’^[4][5] First modern engineer in India and a leading philanthropist and agriculturist of his times. He built Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in Lahore in 1921, Lady Mclagan School and Renala Khurd Power House with his own money.
• Jai Krishna - Earthquake specialist

Doctors

• Sanjay Gupta, CNN Medical Correspondent & Neurosurgeon
• B.K.Goyal - Heart surgeon

Lawyers

• Shanti Bhushan

Journalists

• Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-Chief The Indian Express
• Manoj Tibrewal Aakash Indian TV Journalist, Doordarshan News, New Delhi. Anchor of the chat show Ek Mulaqat

Educationists

• Shiv Prasad Gupta
• Pandita Brahmacharini Chandabai, women's education pioneer

Academics

• Manindra Agrawal - prize-winning computer scientist and mathematician.
• Bina Agarwal
• Anant Agarwal
• Divyakant Agrawal - IEEE and ACM Fellow, Professor at University of California, Santa Barbara

Others

• Arvind Kejriwal - Indian social activist
• Jagmohan Dalmiya - cricket administrator
• Bimal Jalan - RBI governor
• Dharma Vira - former Governor of Jammu and Kashmir
• Sudarshan Agarwal - governor of Sikkim and Uttarakhand
• Anil Agarwal (environmentalist)
• Anil K. Rajvanshi - director of Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute
• D. P. Agrawal - Indologist, archaeologist
• S. P. Gupta - Indologist, archaeologist
• Aditya Mittal
• Raghubir Goyal, White House correspondent
• Anu Garg, author, engineer, and founder of Wordsmith.org online community
• Naresh Goyal, American born Indian businessman and founder …
• Jay Goyal, Majority Whip of the Ohio House of Representatives.
• Megh R. Goyal, an engineer and professor in Puerto Rico.
• Ashok Singhal - VHP leader

Award winners

Bharat Ratna

Bhagwan Das

Padam Vibhushan

• Laxmi Mittal Year-2008 Field-Trade & Industry

Param Vishist Seva Medal

• Lt Gen R P Agarwal Year 1991 For distinguished service of exceptional order

Ramon Magsaysay Award

• Arvind Kejriwal for Emergent Leadership in 2006, for activating India's Right to Information movement at grassroots and social activities to empower the poorest citizens to fight corruption by holding the government answerable to the people

Padma Bhushan

• Janaki Devi Bajaj Field-Social Work Year-1956 State-Madhya Pradesh Country-India
• Shri Gujarmal Modi Field-Trade & Industry Year-1968 State-Uttar Pradesh Country-India
• Shri Rahul Bajaj Field-Trade & Industr Year-2001 State-Maharashtra Country-India
• Shri Vishnu Prabhakar Field-Literature & Education Year-2004 State-Delhi Country-India
• Shri Sunil Bharti Mittal Field-Trade & Industry Year-2007 State-Delhi Country-India
• Shekhar Gupta Field-Journalism Year-2009 State-Delhi Country-India

Padma Shree

• Atma Ram Field-Trade & Industry Year-1959 State-West Bengal Country-India
• Kaka Hathrasi Field-Literature & Education Year-1985 State-Uttar Pradesh Country-India

Personalities in Guiness Book of World Records

• Shri Vijaypat Singhania :- Who has made record by flying from to London to Delhi by his Micro Light Aeroplane

Famous Agrawal Houses

Some Agrawal families have been prominent for several generations, in most cases they became prominent in 1930s. These include

• Bagla
• Bajaj
• Dalmia
• Goenka
• Garodia
• Mittal
• Sahu JainSome of the others, like the Birla (Maheshwari), Sarabhai *Shrimal Jain), Walchand Hirachand (Humad) are not Agrawal, but share similar backgrounds and values.

See also

• All pages with titles containing "Agrawal"
• All pages with titles containing "Aggrawal"

References

External links

• Great Personalities Of Agrawal Community
• Great Personalities Of Agrawal Community