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of the Sun. Notable people with the name include: * Dinesh, Indian film actor *

Dinesh Baboo Dinesh Baboo (also known as Dinesh Babu) is an Indian film director, cinematographer, actor and screenwriter who works predominantly in Kannada cinema. In a career spanning five decades he has directed more than 40 films, filmed more than 20 fil ...

, Indian film director, cinematographer, producer, actor and screenwriter *

Dinesh Chand Dinesh Chand (born 6 February 1972) is a Fijian professional golfer who plays mainly on the Japan Golf Tour. Professional career At the end of 2009, he lost his full playing rights for the Japan Golf Tour and so decided to play on the developme ...

, Fijian golfer *

Dinesh Chandimal Lokuge Dinesh Chandimal (; born 18 November 1989) is a professional Sri Lankan cricketer and a former captain of the Sri Lanka national cricket team. A handy right-handed middle order batter who sometimes plays as the wicket-keeper, Chandimal ...

, Sri Lankan cricketer *

Dinesh Chandra Sen Rai Bahadur Dinesh Chandra Sen () (3 November 1866 – 20 November 1939)Sengupta, Subodh Chandra (ed.) (1988) ''Sansad Bangali Charitabhidhan'' (in Bengali), Kolkata: Sahitya Sansad, p.208 was a Bengali writer, educationist and researcher of ...

, Indian researcher on Bengali folklore *

Dinesh D'Souza Dinesh Joseph D'Souza (; born April 25, 1961) is an American Right-wing politics, right-wing political commentator, conspiracy theorist, author, and filmmaker. He has made several films and written over a dozen books, several of them The New Y ...

, Indian-American political commentator *

Dinesh Gunawardena Dinesh Chandra Rupasinghe Gunawardena (, ; born 2 March 1949) is a Sri Lankan politician who served as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 2022 to 2024. He also held the positions of Ministry of Home Affairs (Sri Lanka), Minister of Public Administ ...

, Sri Lankan politician *

Dinesh Gupta Dinesh Chandra Gupta ( ''Dinesh Chôndro Gupto'') or Dinesh Gupta (6 December 1911 – 7 July 1931) was an Indian revolutionary against British rule in India, who is noted for launching an attack on the Secretariat Building - the Writers' Buil ...

, Indian freedom fighter and revolutionary *

Dinesh Hingoo Dinesh Hingoo (born 13 April 1940) is an Indian actor who played comic and supporting roles in Hindi films. He has appeared in over 300 films, from ''Taqdeer (1967)'' to ''Be Careful (film), Be Careful (2011)'', and is known for his laughter an ...

, Indian actor *

Dinesh Karthik Krishnakumar Dinesh Karthik (born 1 June 1985) is a former Indian professional cricketer, coach, and Sports commentator, commentator. Karthik played for the India national cricket team and also captained Tamil Nadu cricket team, Tamil Nadu in ...

, Indian cricketer * Dinesh Kumar, Indian choreographer *

Dinesh Lamba Dinesh Lamba is an Indian actor mainly acting in Bollywood. He is primarily seen in supporting roles and has appeared in over 60 Hindi and Tamil Tamil may refer to: People, culture and language * Tamils, an ethno-linguistic group native to ...

, Indian actor *

Dinesh Mongia Dinesh Mongia (born 17 April 1977) is a former Indian cricketer and politician. Mongia has appeared in limited over internationals for India. With India, Mongia was a member of the Indian team that was one of the joint-winners of the 2002 ICC ...

, Indian cricketer *

Dinesh Nandan Sahay Dinesh Nandan Sahay (2 February 1936 – 28 January 2018), also known as D.N. Sahay, was a police officer turned politician who served as DGP of Bihar and later as the Governor of Tripura and the first Governor of Chhattisgarh. Early lif ...

, Indian governor *

Dinesh Nayak V. R. Dinesh Nayak (born 17 May 1972 in Ernakulam, Kerala) is a field hockey defender from India, who made his international debut for the Men's National Team in 1993 during the test series against Kenya. Nicknamed ''Kaka'', Nayak rep ...

, Indian Hockey player *

Dinesh Patel Dinesh Kumar Patel (born 8 May 1989) is an Indian right-handed baseball pitcher who played in the Pittsburgh Pirates organization. Along with Rinku Singh, he was the first Indian player ever to sign a contract with a major American baseball t ...

, Indian professional baseball player *

Dinesh Prasad Singh Dinesh Prasad Singh is an Indian politician from Janata Dal (United). He is the member of the Bihar Legislative Council from Muzaffarpur. His wife Veena Devi is a Member of Parliament from Vaishali lokasabha constituency of Bihar. Early li ...

, Indian politician *

Dinesh Rambally Pandit Dinesh Rambally is a Trinidadian and Tobagonian politician, attorney, and Hindu priest from the United National Congress and an executive member of the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha. He represented Chaguanas West in the House of Representati ...

, Trinidadian politician *

Dinesh Sharma Dinesh Sharma may refer to: * Dinesh Sharma (politician) (born 1964), Indian politician * Dinesh Sharma (academic), social scientist, psychologist and author * Dinesh Sharma (actor) (born 1970), Nepalese film actor, producer and director {{hndi ...

, Indian politician * Dinesh Singh, Indian politician * Dinesh Singh, Punjab politician *

Dinesh Subasinghe Dinesh (Devanagari: ') is a common Hindu male given name. The Sanskrit Sanskrit (; stem form ; nominal singular , ,) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose i ...

, Sri Lankan composer, violinist and music producer *

Dinesh Padala Dinesh (Devanagari: ') is a common Hindu male given name. The Sanskrit word ' is a compound of ' 'day' and ' 'lord', meaning 'day-lord', an epithet of the Sun. Notable people with the name include: * Dinesh, Indian film actor * Dinesh Baboo, In ...

,A famous person in india,andhra pradesh,vijayawada * Dinesh Jajem,A famous person in rajasthan,jaipur

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