Tiwana or Tiwana is a Jatt clan from the Punjab region of India. The Tiwanas in

East Punjab East Punjab (known simply as Punjab from 1950) was a province and later a state of India from 1947 until 1966, consisting of the parts of the Punjab Province of British India that went to India following the partition of the province betwee ...

are mostly Sikhs, while the Tiwanas of

West Punjab West Punjab ( pnb, ; ur, ) was a province in the Dominion of Pakistan from 1947 to 1955. The province covered an area of 159,344 km2 (61523 sq mi), including much of the current Punjab province and the Islamabad Capital Territory, but exclu ...

are almost all Muslims. Notable people with this surname include: * Dalip Kaur Tiwana (born 1935), Indian writer. *

Harpal Tiwana Harpal Singh Tiwana (8 August 1935 - 19 May 2002) was an Indian playwright and film and theatre director known for his Punjabi-language plays and films. His two ventures into film making '' Long Da Lishkara'' and ''Diva Bale Sari Raat'' became l ...

(born 1935), Indian playwright. * Malik Fateh Khan Tiwana (died 1848), Punjabi landowner and politician during the Sikh Empire. *

Malik Khizar Hayat Tiwana Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Malik Khizar Hayat Tiwana KCSI, OBE ( pa, ; 7 August 1900 – 20 January 1975) was an Indian statesman, army officer, and landowner who served as the prime minister of the Punjab Province of British India between 1942 a ...

(1900–1975), Pakistani Muslim military officer and politician. * Justice CS Tiwana (born 1921), legendary judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, author Tiwana Commission Report which exposed police torture in Indian Punjab in the 1980s. * Hardeep Singh Tiwana (born 1960), Indian hotelier and philanthropist. * Sukhvir Singh Tiwana (born 1965), Indian advocate.

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