Krishnan is a common name in
South India. Krishnan refers to the Hindu deity
Krishna. Krishnan is also combined with other names into a single name such as Ananthakrishnan, Balakrishnan, Gopalakrishnan, Jayakrishnan, Muralikrishnan, Ramakrishnan, Radhakrishnan, Unnikrishnan, and Venkatakrishnan.
Notable people with the name Krishnan
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Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan
Sir Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan, FRS, (4 December 1898 – 14 June 1961) was an Indian physicist. He was a co-discoverer of Raman scattering, for which his mentor C. V. Raman was awarded the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Early life
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(1898–1961), Indian physicist who codiscovered Raman scattering with his mentor C. V. Raman
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M. S. Krishnan, Professor of Business Information Technology at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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Madhaviah Krishnan (1912–1996), Indian naturalist, photographer and writer
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Maharajapuram Seetharaman Krishnan (geologist) (1898–1970), Indian geologist and geophysicist
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Nagercoil Sudalaimuthu Krishnan (1908–1957), Tamil film comedian
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Ramanathan Krishnan (born 1937), tennis player from Chennai
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Ramesh Krishnan (born 1961), tennis player from Chennai, son of Ramanathan Krishnan
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Ramya Krishnan
Ramya Krishnan (born 15 September 1970), also credited as Ramya Krishna (in the Telugu and Kannada film industries) is an Indian actress. She has appeared in over 260 films in five languages: Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, and Hindi. Ramy ...
(born 1967), South Indian film actor
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Trisha Krishnan, South Indian film actor
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Krishnan Guru-Murthy (born 1970), British journalist of Indian descent
See also
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Krishna (disambiguation)
Krishna is a Hindu deity.
Krishna may refer to:
Hinduism
:The name comes from a Sanskrit word (कृष्ण, ''kṛṣṇa'') that means 'black' or 'dark blue'. Certain other figures within Hinduism also have names transliterated as Krishna. ...
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