Pandit (surname)

Pandit or Pandith is an Indian and Nepalese Brahmin surname.

Usage

When prefixed to a name, it denotes a scholar, for example, Pandita Ramabai or Pandit Nehru. A Hindu priest is also respectfully called Pandit ji.

Film

• Anand Pandit, Indian film producer
• Ashoke Pandit (born 1966), Indian filmmaker and social activist
• Chetan Pandit, Bollywood actor
• Gaurie Pandit Dwivedi (born 1982), Indian actress
• Jatin Pandit, Bollywood film composer
• Kalpana Pandit (born 1967), Indian film actress, model, and emergency physician
• Radhika Pandit (born 1984), Indian actress
• Ridhima Pandit (born 1990), Indian actress and model
• Santhosh Pandit (born 1973), Malayalam film actor, singer
• Shiv Panditt (born 1984), Indian actor
• Shraddha Pandit (born 1982), Indian playback singer
• Shweta Pandit (born 1986), Indian actress and singer
• Sulakshana Pandit (born 1954), Indian actress and singer
• Surbir Pandit, Nepalese actor
• Tejaswini Pandit (born 1990), Indian actress
• Vijayta Pandit (born 1967), Indian actress
• Yash Pandit (born 1981), Bollywood actor

Sports

• Arjun Pandit (athlete) (born 1959), Nepalese marathon runner
• Chandrakant Pandit (born 1961), Indian cricketer
• Krishna Pandit (born 1998), Indian footballer
• Nitin Pandit (born 1975), Indian cricketer
• Ravinder Pandit (born 1959), Indian cricketer
• Rohan Pandit (born 1981), Indian cricketer
• Ronak Pandit (born 1985), Indian shooter
• Shobha Pandit (born 1956), Indian cricketer

Other

• Agam Manohar Pandit (born 1981), Indian cricketer and entrepreneur
• Balraj Pandit, Indian playwright in Hindi and Punjabi
• Bansi Pandit (born 1942), Indian writer and speaker on Hinduism
• Devaki Pandit (born 1965), Indian playback singer
• Farah Pandith (born 1968), American academic
• Korla Pandit (1921–1998), American musician, composer and TV personality
• Lal Babu Pandit, Nepalese politician
• M. P. Pandit (1918–1993), Indian spiritualist, teacher and Sanskrit scholar
• Rahul Pandit (born 1956), Indian physicist
• Rajani Pandit (born 1962), Indian private investigator
• Sarat Chandra Pandit (1879–1968), commonly known as 'Dada Thakur' — Indian columnist and satirist
• Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (1900–1990), Indian diplomat and politician
• Vikram Pandit (born 1957), Indian-American banker
• Yadav Pandit, Nepalese research scholar

See also

• Pandita (disambiguation)
• Bhat

Sources

• Brower, Barbara; Johnston, Barbara Rose (2016). Disappearing Peoples?: Indigenous Groups and Ethnic Minorities in South and Central Asia. Routledge. ISBN 9781315430393.