India
India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...
n origin. Among
Agrawal
Agrawal (Agarwal, Agerwal, Agrawala, Agarwala, Agarwalla, Aggarwal, Agarawal'', ''Agarawala'', or Aggrawal) is a Bania caste. The Banias of northern India are a cluster of several communities, of which the Agrawal Banias, Maheshwari Banias, Osw ...
s and
Baranwal
Baranwal (also spelled Barnwal, Burnwal, Varnwal, Warnwal or Barnawal) is a part of the larger Bania (caste), Bania community of northern India. They originated in north India in the regions today comprising Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Uttarakhand, Jh ...
s, it is the name of a
gotra
In Hindu culture, the term gotra (Sanskrit: गोत्र) is considered to be equivalent to lineage. It broadly refers to people who are descendants in an unbroken male line from a common male ancestor or patriline. Generally, the gotr ...
Binny Bansal
Binny Bansal (born 1982/1983) is an Indian billionaire Internet entrepreneur. As of February 2024, his net worth was estimated at US$1.4 billion. In 2007 he co-founded the e-commerce platform Flipkart. He was the chief operating officer until ...
, businessman and co-founder of
Flipkart
Flipkart Inc. is an Indian e-commerce company, headquartered in Bangalore, and incorporated in Singapore as a private limited company. The company initially focused on online book sales before expanding into other product categories such as con ...
AppDynamics
AppDynamics is a full-stack application performance management (APM) and IT operations analytics (ITOA) company based in San Francisco. The company focuses on managing the performance and availability of applications across cloud computing envir ...
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Keshav Bansal
Keshav Bansal is an Indian entrepreneur. He is the director of Intex Technologies, an Indian consumer durables, which is India's second-largest selling mobile phone and IT accessories manufacturer company. He was the owner of the dissolved Rajk ...
, businessman and owner of
Gujarat Lions
Gujarat Lions was a franchise cricket team based in the city of Rajkot, that represented the Indian state of Gujarat in the Indian Premier League (IPL). The team played in the IPL, along with Rising Pune Supergiant for two season between 2016 ...
Pawan Kumar Bansal
Pawan Kumar Bansal (born 16 July 1948) is an Indian National Congress politician, who was appointed as the interim treasurer in November 2020 and a former minister in the Manmohan Singh government. He represented Chandigarh constituency in the ...
(born 1948), Indian politician
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Pratima Bansal
Pratima "Tima" Bansal is a Canadian economist and management professor. She is a professor of strategy at the Ivey Business School and director of Ivey's Centre on Building Sustainable Value. She is the founder and executive director of the Net ...
, Canadian economist
* Preeta D. Bansal (born 1965), American lawyer
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Rohit Bansal
Rohit Bansal is an Indian entrepreneur, co-founder and COO of e-commerce company Snapdeal.
Early life
Bansal was born in Malout, Punjab India. He completed his school education at Delhi Public School (DPS) New Delhi and got his bachelor's ...
, businessman and co-founder of
Snapdeal
Snapdeal is an Indian e-commerce company, based in New Delhi, India. It was founded in February 2010 by Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal.
Snapdeal is one of the top 5 online marketplaces in India. Snapdeal targets the value e-commerce segment, w ...
* S. K. Bansal (born 1940), Indian cricket umpire
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Sachin Bansal
Sachin Bansal (born 5 August 1981) is an Indian entrepreneur. He is best known as the founder of Flipkart During his over 11 year career at Flipkart, Bansal was CEO and chairman. In 2018, Bansal exited Flipkart following the Walmart deal.
In ...
, businessman and co-founder of Flipkart
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Sanju Bansal
Sanju K. Bansal is an Indian-American businessman, the co-founder of MicroStrategy, a worldwide provider of enterprise software platforms for business intelligence (BI), mobile software, big data and cloud-based services. He served as the compa ...
, American businessman
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Smita Bansal
Smita Bansal (born 21 February 1977) is an Indian television actress. Her notable roles include the Zee TV's '' Amanat'', '' Aashirwad,'' '' Sarhadein'' and Sony SAB's ''Aladdin – Naam Toh Suna Hoga''. She has also acted in the 2008 Bollywoo ...
(born 1967), Indian actress
* Suresh Bansal, member of the
16th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh
The Sixteenth Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh (a.k.a. Sixteenth Vidhan Sabha of Uttar Pradesh) was constituted on 15 March 2012 as a result of 2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election held between 8 Feb to 3 March 2012. The Sixtee ...
of India
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Vinod Kumar Bansal
Vinod Kumar Bansal or VK Bansal (26 October 1949 – 3 May 2021) was an Indian educationist and the founder of the Bansal Classes in Kota, Rajasthan, Kota, Rajasthan. He made Kota famous throughout India for Joint Entrance Examination, IIT-JEE ...
, Indian businessman
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Vishesh Bansal
Vishesh Bansal (born 3 October 2004) is an Indian actor. He was brought up in Mumbai, India. He is known for portraying Child Karn in Suryaputra Karn and Harshal Gupta in ''Yeh Meri Family'' and in crime thriller TV series Asur (web series), As ...
, Indian actor
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Pawan Bansal
Pawan Kumar Bansal (born 16 July 1948) is an Indian National Congress politician, who was appointed as the interim treasurer in November 2020 and a former minister in the Manmohan Singh government. He represented Chandigarh constituency in the ...
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Peyush Bansal
Peyush Bansal (born 26 April 1985) is an Indian entrepreneur, business executive and angel investor. He is the co-founder and CEO of Lenskart, an Indian multinational eyewear retail chain, based in Gurugram. He is also a "shark" at the show '' ...
, co founder of Lenskart
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Sikandar Bansal
Sikandar (sometimes Sikander) is Persian for "defender" or "warrior". When Alexander of Macedonia conquered Persia, the Persians called him Sikandar lidi, a variant of ''Iskandar.''
People Rulers
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