Chand (name)

Chand means Moon in Hindi.

Chand is also a given name, middle name and a surname of North Indians and Nepalese. Notable people with the name include:

• Chand Bardai, Indian poet
• Chand Bibi, Indian ruler and warrior
• Chand Burke, Indian actor in Hindi and Punjabi language films
• Chand Kaur, ruler of the Sikh Empire
• Chand Nawab (born 1963), Pakistani journalist
• Chand Sadagar, rich river and sea merchant of Champaknagar in Eastern India
• Chand Usmani (1933–1989), Indian actress

• Amir Chand (1889–1970), Indian physician and teacher of medicine
• Anand Chand (1913–1983), 44th Raja of Bilaspur
• Aakash Chand, Nepali cricketer, medium pace bowler
• Bhuwan Chand (born 1949), Nepali actress
• Bidhi Chand (1579–1638), Sikh religious preacher
• Binayadhoj Chand, Nepalese politician
• Dashrath Chand (1941–?), Nepalese politician and martyr
• Dhyan Chand (1905–1979), Indian field hockey player
• Dutee Chand (born 1996), Indian sprinter
• Ganesh Chand, Fijian academic and politician of Indian descent
• Hari Chand (1953–2022), Indian long distance runner
• Lokendra Bahadur Chand (born 1940), Nepali politician, speaker of Rastriya Panchayat, prime minister four times between 1983 and 2003
• Meira Chand (born 1942), British novelist of Swiss-Indian parentage
• Mukesh Chand (1923–1976), Indian playback singer
• Nar Bahadur Chand, member of 2nd Nepalese Constituent Assembly belonging to Nepali Congress
• Nek Chand (1924–2015), Indian artist
• Nihâl Chand (1710–1782), Indian painter and poet
• Parmod Chand (born 1955/1956), Fijian politician, member of the Fijian Parliament
• Prithvi Chand, Indian politician
• Ramesh Chand (born 1974), Indian politician
• Rohit Chand (born 1992), Nepalese Footballer
• Sansar Chand (c. 1765 – 1824), Rajput ruler of the state of Kangra in what is now the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh
• Sri Chand (1494–1629), founder of the ascetic sect of Udasin and son of Guru Nanak, first guru and founder of Sikhism
• Tara Chand (archaeologist), Vice-Chancellor of Allahabad University, India
• Tara Chand (Himachal Pradesh politician), member of the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly
• Tara Chand (Jammu-Kashmir politician) (born 1963), member of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly
• Tara Chand (Pakistani politician), former Provincial Minister of Balochistan
• Tapan Kumar Chand (born 1959), Indian mining veteran, executive and author
• Unmukt Chand (born 1993), Indian cricketer

• Chand (disambiguation)

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