Ahuja

Ahuja is a Punjabi Hindu and Sikh surname. It is held by Sikhs and Hindus of the Jat, Arora and Amil Lohana communities. Ahuja means "descendant of Ahu".[1][2]

Notable people

Administration

  • Deepak Ahuja, former CFO at Tesla
  • Kiran Ahuja, American attorney serving as the director of the United States of America Office of Personnel Management

Armed Forces

  • Ajay Ahuja, Indian fighter pilot martyred during the Kargil War

Art

  • Ameena Ahmad Ahuja, Indian painter, calligrapher, writer and linguist
  • Hamisha Daryani Ahuja, Indian-Nigerian actress and producer
  • Mequitta Ahuja, contemporary painter
  • Naman Ahuja, art historian and curator
  • Rita Rani Ahuja, American actress
  • Sachin Ahuja, Indian music producer and music composer
  • Varun Ahuja, Indian composer, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
  • Simran B Ahuja, famous model

Athletics

  • Davinder Ahuja, badminton bronze medalist at the 1974 Asian Games
  • Kanika Ahuja, Indian cricketer
  • Neha Ahuja, Indian alpine skier and first Indian woman to have qualified for the Winter Olympics
  • Suraj Ahuja, former captain of the India national under-19 cricket team

Bollywood

Journalism

  • Anjana Ahuja, British Indian science journalist and a former columnist for The Times
  • Maneet Ahuja, American author, journalist, television news producer

Politics

Science, medicine and academia

  • Kamal Ahuja, physiologist and the managing and scientific director of JD Healthcare
  • M. M. S. Ahuja, Indian physician and endocrinologist
  • Narendra Ahuja, Indian-American computer scientist
  • Nita Ahuja, surgeon and the Chair of the Department of Surgery at Yale School of Medicine
  • Ravindra K. Ahuja, Indian-American computer scientist and entrepreneur and CFO of Optym
  • Sunil Kumar Ahuja, professor of medicine at the University of Texas
  • V. K. Ahuja, professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi, India and is presently serving as the Vice-Chancellor of National Law University, Assam, India

Social work

References

  1. ^ Hanks, Patrick (2003). Dictionary of American Family Names. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. xcvii, 15.
  2. ^ Thakur, U.T. (1959). Sindhi Culture. University of Bombay. pp. 85, 87.
Surname list
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