Kumar (name)
Kumar (Sanskrit: कुमार), meaning child, may be used as a personal title, a given name or a family name. It was also the name of Kartikeya, the son of the Hindu god Shiva.[1]
People
First name
- Kumar Bhattacharyya, Baron Bhattacharyya (born 1940), Indian-British engineer and politician
 - Kumar Mangalam Birla (born 1967), Indian businessman
 - Kumar Dharmasena (born 1971), Sri Lankan cricketer
 - Kumar Gandharva (1924–1992), Indian singer
 - Kumar Gaurav (born 1960), Indian film actor
 - Kumar Indrajitsinhji (born 1937), Indian cricketer
 - Kumar Malavalli, Indian businessman
 - Kumar Pallana (born 1918), Indian film actor
 - Kumar Ponnambalam (1940–2000), Sri Lankan lawyer and politician
 - Kumar Sangakkara (born 1977), Sri Lankan cricketer
 - Kumar Sanu (born 1957), Indian playback singer
 - Kumar Shahani, Indian film director
 - Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji (1905–1959), Indian cricketer
 - Kumar Vishwas, Hindi-language performance poet
 
Middle name
- Shiv Kumar Batalvi (1936–1973), Indian poet
 - Pawan Kumar Chamling (born 1950), Indian politician
 - Suniti Kumar Chatterji (1890–1977), Indian linguist
 - Akshay Kumar Datta (1820–1886), Bengali writer
 - Sunil Kumar Desai, Indian film director
 - Ananth Kumar Hegde (born 1968), Indian politician
 - Krishna Kumar Kunnath (born 1970), Indian playback singer
 - Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay (1920–1989), Indian singer, composer and producer
 - Sushil Kumar Modi, Indian politician
 - Braj Kumar Nehru (1909–2001), Indian politician and diplomat
 - Madhav Kumar Nepal (born 1953), Nepalese politician
 - Roop Kumar Rathod (born 1973), Indian playback singer and music director
 - Tapan Kumar Pradhan (born 1972), Indian bank, activist and poet
 - C. Kumar N. Patel (born 1938), Indian engineer and inventor
 - Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal (born 1942), Indian judge
 - Srinivas Kumar Sinha (born 1926), Indian military officer
 - Devendra Kumar Joshi (born 1954), 21st Chief of Naval Staff of the Indian Navy
 - Nani Kumar Ghanta (born 1984), Indian Telugu film actor
 
Last name
A
- Ajith Kumar (born 1971), Indian film actor and car racer
 - Akhil Kumar (born 1981), Indian boxer
 - Akshay Kumar (born 1967), Indian film actor
 - Amit Kumar (born 1952), Indian film actor, playback singer and director
 - Anant Kumar (born 1969), is a German author of Indian descent
 - Ananth Kumar (born 1959), Indian politician
 - Anil Kumar (discus thrower) (born 1975), Indian discus thrower
 - Anoop Kumar (1926–1997), Indian film actor
 - Anup Kumar (actor) (1930–1998), Indian film actor
 - Anup Kumar (politician), Fijian politician
 - Anurag Kumar, Indian engineer
 - Ashok Kumar (1911–2001), Indian film actor
 - Ashok Kumar (British politician) (born 1956), Indian-British politician
 
B–F
- Bhushan Kumar, Indian film producer
 - Deepak Kumar (historian) (born 1952), Indian historian and philosopher
 - Digendra Kumar (born 1969), Indian military officer
 - Dilip Kumar (born 1922), Indian film actor and politician
 - Dinesh Kumar (boxer) (born 1988), Indian boxer
 - Dinesh Kumar (choreographer), Indian choreographer
 - Divya Khosla Kumar, Indian actress
 
G–J
- Girish Kumar (born 1989), Indian film actor
 - Gulshan Kumar (1956–1997), Indian film producer
 - Guran Ditt Kumar, Indian revolutionary
 - G. V. Prakash Kumar (born 1987), Indian music score composer
 - Hri Kumar, Singaporean politician
 - Indra Kumar, Indian film director and producer
 - Jainendra Kumar (1905–1988), Indian writer
 - Jitender Kumar (middleweight boxer) (born 1977), Indian boxer
 - Jitender Kumar (flyweight boxer) (born 1988), Indian boxer
 
K–O
- Karthik Kumar (born 1977), Indian theatre and film actor
 - Kiran Kumar, Indian film actor
 - Kishore Kumar (1929–1987), Indian film actor and playback singer
 - Krishan Kumar (sociologist) (born 1942), British sociologist
 - Krishan Kumar (actor), Indian film actor and producer
 - Krishna Kumar (actor), Indian film actor
 - Manoj Kumar (born 1937), Indian film actor and director
 - Meira Kumar (born 1945), Indian politician
 - Mukesh Kumar (field hockey) (born 1970), Indian field hockey player
 - Naresh Kumar (born 1928), Indian tennis player
 - Nish Kumar, British stand-up comedian
 - Nikhil Kumar (disambiguation)
 - Nitish Kumar (born 1951), Indian politician
 
P–R
- Pawan Kumar (director), film Director, actor and screenwriter
 - Pooja Kumar (model), American film actress and model
 - Pradeep Kumar (1925–2001), Bengali film actor
 - Praveen Kumar (Delhi politician) (born 1986), Indian cricketer
 - Prem Kumar (Malayalam actor) (born 1967), Indian film actor in Malayalam films
 - Prem Kumar (Kannada actor), Indian film actor in Kannada films
 - Prem Kumar (footballer) (born 1989), Indian footballer
 - Prem Kumar (politician) (born 1960), Indian politician
 - R. Sarath Kumar (born 1954), Indian film actor and politician
 - Raaj Kumar (1926–1996), Indian film actor
 - Rajeev Kumar (IPS) (born 1966), Indian Police Service officer and administrator
 - Rajendra Kumar (1929–1999), Indian film actor
 - Rajesh Kumar (actor), Indian actor
 - Ram Kumar (artist) (born 1924), Indian painter and writer
 - Ravinder Kumar, Indian historian
 - Ravish Kumar (born 1974), Indian Journalist
 - Ritu Kumar, (born 1944), Indian fashion designer
 
S
- Sajjan Kumar (born 1945), Indian politician
 - Salesh Kumar (born 1981), Fijian footballer
 - Salim Kumar (born 1969), Indian film actor
 - Sanjay Kumar (born 1962), Sri Lankan businessman
 - Sanjeev Kumar (1938–1985), Indian film actor
 - Santosh Kumar, real name: Syed Musa Raza (1925–1982), Pakistani film actor
 - Satish Kumar (born 1936), Indian Jain monk and nuclear disarmament advocate
 - Shabbir Kumar, Indian playback singer
 - Shalini Kumar (born 1980), Indian film actress
 - Shanta Kumar (born 1934), Indian politician
 - Shivrajkumar (born 1961), Indian film actor
 - Shyam Kumar, Indian cricketer
 - Sujit Kumar (1934-2010), Indian film actor and producer
 - Sushil Kumar (admiral) (1940–2019), Indian Navy admiral
 - Sushil Kumar (wrestler) (born 1983), Indian wrestler
 
T–U
- Tarun Kumar (born 1983), Indian film actor
 - Tulsi Kumar, Indian playback singer
 - Uttam Kumar (1926–1980), Bengali film actor, director and producer
 - U. Vimal Kumar, Indian badminton player
 
V–Z
- Vaman Kumar (born 1935), Indian cricketer
 - Vedhika Kumar (born 1982), Indian film actress
 - Vijender Kumar (born 1985), Indian boxer
 - Vijay Kumar (sport shooter), Indian sport shooter
 - Vineet Kumar, Indian theatre, television and film actor
 - V. Kumar (1934–1996), Indian film score composer
 - V. R. Naren Kumar, Indian rally driver
 - Yukteshwar Kumar (born 1970), Indian sinologist
 
See also
References
- ^ Sharma, Tej Ram. Personal and Geographical Names in the Gupta Inscriptions. Concept Publishing. p. 63.