Sawant is a surname of Maratha Caste

Notable people

People with this surname include: *

Abhijeet Sawant Abhijeet Sawant is an Indian singer, television actor, anchor and the winner of first season of ''Indian Idol''. He was the first runner up of ''Jo Jeeta Wohi Super Star'' and finished third in '' Asian Idol''. Early life Sawant was born on 7 ...

, singer *

Arvind Sawant Arvind Ganpat Sawant (born 31 December 1951) is an Indian politician from the Shiv Sena party. He had been the Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises since 2019 and a Member of Lok Sabha since 2014. On 11 November 2019, Sawant qui ...

, Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises *

Ashlesha Sawant Ashlesha Sawant (born 24 September 1984) is an Indian television actress. She played Meera in ''Kumkum Bhagya'', Preeti Sameer Deshpande in Star Plus's soap opera '' Pyaar Ka Dard Hai Meetha Meetha Pyaara Pyaara'', Tara in '' Saat Phere: Salon ...

(born 24 September 1972), Indian television actress *

Deepak Sawant Deepak Sawant is a member of Maharashtra Legislative Council, belonging to the Shiv Sena. He represents the Mumbai graduate constituency. He was elected to office in July, 2006 for a term of six years and then reelected in July 2012. However he ...

, politician *

Govind Sawant Govind Sawant (28 November 1935 – 8 September 2001) was an Indian field hockey player. He was born in Gujarat. He won a silver medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics ( it, Giochi Olimpici estivi del 1960), officially k ...

, field hockey player *

Kamlesh Sawant Kamlesh Sawant is an Indian actor who works in Marathi cinema. He has had roles in the movies ''Force'', ''Bhoothnath Returns'', and ''Drishyam ''Drishyam'' () is a 2013 Indian Malayalam-language crime thriller film written and directed ...

, actor *

Kshama Sawant Kshama Sawant (; born October 17, 1973) is an Indian-American politician and economist who has served on the Seattle City Council since 2014. She is a member of Socialist Alternative, the first and only member of the party to date to be elected ...

, U.S. economics professor and politician * Kunal Sawant, football goalkeeper *

Nirmiti Sawant Nirmiti Sawant is a Marathi actress, who mainly acts in Marathi films, television and dramas. She became popular after her performance in daily TV soap ''Kumari Gangubai Non-Matric'' along with Pandharinath Kamble. This was followed by a seri ...

, actress *

P. B. Sawant P. B. Sawant (30 June 1930 – 15 February 2021) was an Indian judge of the Supreme Court of India. After obtaining his law degree (LL.B.) from Bombay University, Sawant started practicing as an advocate initially at the Bombay High Court and ...

, Indian Supreme Court judge *

Pandharinath Sawant Pandharinath Sawant (Marathi: पंढरीनाथ सावंत ) is a journalist from the state of Maharashtra in India who worked closely with Prabodhankar Thackeray and Bal Thackeray. Work He covered the 1972 famine in Maharashtra. ...

, journalist *

Pooja Sawant Pooja Sawant (born 25 January 1990) is an Indian dancer, performer, film actress. She works in Marathi and Hindi movies. She is best known for her role in the 2015 blockbuster hit ''Dagadi Chawl''. Career Before starting her career in films, ...

, actress *

Prajakta Sawant Prajakta Sawant (born 28th October, 1992) is a badminton player from India. She was the national women's doubles champion in 2010 and 2011 and also won the mixed doubles title in 2010. In 2013, she won the Bangladesh International tournament par ...

, badminton player *

Pramod Sawant Pramod Sawant (born 24 April 1973) is an Indian politician and the 11th and current Chief Minister of Goa. Sawant represents the Sanquelim constituency in the Goa Legislative Assembly and is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is an a ...

, Chief Minister of Goa *

Rakhi Sawant Rakhi Sawant (born Neeru Bheda; 25 November 1978) is an Indian dancer, model, actress and television talk show host, who has appeared in many Hindi and a few Kannada, Marathi, Odia, Telugu and Tamil films and was a contestant on the first ...

, Indian film actress, talk show host *

Shivaji Sawant Shivaji Sawant (31 August 1940 – 18 September 2002) was an Indian novelist in the Marathi language. He is known as Mrutyunjaykaar (meaning Author of ''Mrutyunjay'') for writing the famous Marathi novel - ''Mrutyunjay''. He was the first Marathi ...

, writer *

Sudhir Sawant Sudhir Sawant is an Indian politician. He is Honorary Brigadier (Retd.) from Territorial Army. He was actively involved in Party Politics till Late 2019, currently heading Sainik Federation and actively involved with grassroot level social activ ...

, politician, lawyer and brigadier in Indian Army *

Tejaswini Sawant Tejaswini Sawant (born 12 September 1980) is an Indian shooter from the Maharashtrian city of Kolhapur. Her father Ravindra Sawant was an officer in the Indian Navy. Biography Tejaswini born to father Ravindra and mother Sunita in Kolhapur. Sh ...

, shooter *

Trupti Sawant Trupti Prakash Sawant is a Bharatiya Janata Party politician from Mumbai, Maharashtra Maharashtra (; , abbr. MH or Maha) is a states and union territories of India, state in the western India, western peninsular region of India occupyi ...

, politician *

Vishram Sawant Vishram Shivram Sawant is an Indian film director. He made his directorial debut with '' D'', which is about the meteoric rise of a fictional underworld don, ''Deshu'' (played by Randeep Hooda), which appears to be loosely based upon Dawood Ibra ...

, author

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''Siva Chhatrapati''

''The castes and tribes of H.E.H. the Nizam's dominions''
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