Pant (surname)

Pant or Panta/Pantha (Hindi: पंत) (Nepali: पन्त/पन्थ) are a group of surnames which are prevalent in India and Nepal. Panta were part of Thar Ghar(थर घर) aristocracy which assisted the rulers of Gorkha Kingdom.^[1]

In Nepal

• Bhagirath Panta, First Army Chief of Shah dynasty of Gorkha Kingdom
• Maheshwar Panta, Army General of Gorkha Kingdom
• Anju Panta; Nepali Famous Singer
• Sunil Babu Pant; Social Activist In Nepal
• Garima Panta; Nepali Actress
• Yadav Pant, Former Governor of Nepal Rastra Bank
• Deepa Panta

In India

• Aditi Pant First Indian Lady to visit Antartica
• Govind Ballabh Pant, the first Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
• Hemad Pant Prime Minister of Seuna (Yadava) dynasty
• K. C. Pant, former Indian Member of Parliament
• M. C. Pant, Indian radiation oncologist and Padma Shri recipient
• Meghna Pant, fiction author and financial journalist
• Muktesh Pant, businessman
• Prakash Pant Uttarakhand Politician
• Pushpesh Pant, academic, food critic and historian
• Rishabh Pant, Indian cricketer
• Sheila Irene Pant, wife of the first Prime Minister of Pakistan
• Shivani, Gaura Pant, story writer for women's magazines
• Sorabh Pant Indian standup comic and writer
• Sumitranandan Pant, poet and philosopher
• Tanay Pant, Indian non-fiction author

In Spain

• Jorge Panta, Spanish tennis player

References

Bibliography

• Pradhan, Kumar L. (2012), Thapa Politics in Nepal: With Special Reference to Bhim Sen Thapa, 1806–1839, New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company, p. 278, ISBN 9788180698132