Pawar (also spelled as Pavar
and Puar) is an Indian surname found among the
Maratha
The Marathi people (Marathi: मराठी लोक) or Marathis are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group who are indigenous to Maharashtra in western India. They natively speak Marathi, an Indo-Aryan language. Maharashtra was formed as a ...
, Mahar or Koli people, Koli people in Maharashtra.
Notable people bearing the Pawar name or its variants include:
*Ajit Pawar (born 1959), Indian politician; deputy chief minister of Maharashtra and nephew of Sharad Pawar
*Ameya Pawar (born 1980), American politician and City of Chicago Alderman
*Anand Pawar, Indian badminton player
*Anjali Pawar, Indian social worker
*Bharati Pawar, Indian politician
*Dagdu Maruti Pawar, Indian Dalit author
*Hemendra Singh Rao Pawar, titular Maharaja of Dhar State)
*Krishnajirao III, Krishnaji Rao III Puar, Maharaja of Dewas Senior and Indian politician
*Kuldeep Pawar, Indian actor in the Marathi language, Marathi language film industry
*Lalita Pawar (1916-1998), popular Hindi TV & Marathi actress
*Narayan Rao Pawar (1925-2010), Indian independence activist and member of Arya Samaj who plotted to kill the last Nizam of Hyderabad
*Rajendra Singh Pawar, Indian businessman, chairman of NIIT
*Rajesh Pawar (born 1979), Indian cricketer
*Sharad Pawar (born 1940), Indian politician
*Suraj Pawar, Indian actor
*Tukoji Rao Pawar, Tukoji Rao IV Puar, Maharaja of Dewas Senior and Indian politician from Madhya Pradesh, belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party
*Tukojirao III, Tukoji Rao III Puar, Maharaja of Dewas Senior
*Urmila Pawar (born 1945), Indian Marathi-language writer
*Uttamsingh Pawar, Indian politician
*Vikram Singh Rao II Puar, titular Maharaja of Dewas Senior
See also
* Parmar (clan)
* Parmar (disambiguation), Parmar
References
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Surnames of Indian origin
Maratha clans
Mahar
Koli clans