Sekhon is a surname and a

Jat The Jat people (, ), also spelt Jaat and Jatt, are a traditionally agricultural community in Northern India and Pakistan. Originally pastoralists in the lower Indus river-valley of Sindh, many Jats migrated north into the Punjab region in l ...

clan in the

Punjab region Punjab (; ; also romanised as Panjāb or Panj-Āb) is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia. It is located in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising areas of modern-day eastern Pakistan and no ...

. Notable people with the surname, who may or may not be associated with the clan, include: *

Nirmal Jit Singh Sekhon Flying Officer Nirmal Jit Singh Sekhon, Param Vir Chakra, PVC (17 July 1943 – 14 December 1971) was an officer of the Indian Air Force. He was posthumously awarded the Param Vir Chakra, India's highest military decoration during war time, in ...

, Indian Air Force officer *

Sahaij Sekhon Sahaij Pratap Singh Sekhon (born 1 September 2001), is an Indian professional basketball player. Early life As a kid, Sahaij Sekhon started out playing cricket, wanting to be a batsman. In second grade, he shifted to soccer. It was while play ...

, Indian basketball player *

Sant Singh Sekhon Sant Singh Sekhon (1908–1997) was an Indian playwright and fiction writer associated with Punjabi literature. He is part of the generation of Indian authors who mark the transition of India into an independent nation, scarred by the tragedies ...

, Indian writer *

Janmeja Singh Sekhon Janmeja Singh Sekhon is an Indian politician and belongs to the Shiromani Akali Dal. He was Minister for PWD in the Punjab Government. He has been holding this post since 2007. Personal life His father's name is Gurdit Singh. His brother Just ...

, Indian politician *

Kathleen Sekhon Kathleen Sekhon (born May 19, 1948) is an American politician and educator. Sekhon grew up in Pipestone, Minnesota. She received her bachelor's degree in elementary education from the University of Minnesota Duluth. She lived with her husband and ...

, American educator and politician *

Harrobindeep Sekhon Harrobindeep Sekhon (born 10 September 1998) is a Canadian cricketer. In October 2019, he was named in Canada's squad for the 2019–20 Regional Super50 tournament in the West Indies. He made his List A debut on 11 November 2019, for Canada again ...

, Canadian cricketer * Jasjeet S. Sekhon, Canadian statistician *

Ricky Sekhon Ricky S. Sekhon (born 15 March 1983) is an English actor. Early life Sekhon was born in Southall, London, the son of Punjabi people, Punjabi Sikh, jat parents. He has two older sisters. He graduated from the Royal Holloway, University of Lond ...

, English actor *

Gurcharan Singh Sekhon Colonel (RET) Gurcharan Singh Sekhon (Punjabi: , born 1937) is a retired Singaporean army officer. Nicknamed "Father of the Engineers", he is a pioneer of the Singapore Armed Forces, credited with setting up the Singapore Combat Engineers. He se ...

, Singaporean Army officer *

Harinder Singh Sekhon Harinder Singh Sekhon, also known as Harinder Sekhon and Harinder Singh Sekhon (born April 9, 1991) is a two time World record holder for the highest standing jump (one leg). and the highest seated box jump. He is a Malaysian international cric ...

, Malaysian cricketer *

Shweta Sekhon Shweta Sekhon (born Shwetajeet Kaur Sekhon, 6 November 1997), is a Malaysian model and beauty pageant titleholder. She was crowned as Miss World Malaysia 2016 and Miss Universe Malaysia 2019. She represented Malaysia at the Miss Universe 2019 ...

, Malaysian supermodel

Popular culture

* DSP Dilsher Sekhon of Singham Khurd in the

Punjabi language Punjabi, sometimes spelled Panjabi, is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language native to the Punjab region of Pakistan and India. It is one of the most widely spoken native languages in the world, with approximately 150 million native sp ...

film ''

Singham ''Singham'' is a 2011 Indian Hindi-language action film directed by Rohit Shetty and produced by Reliance Entertainment, based on a script by writers Yunus Sajawal and Farhad-Sajid. It serves as the first installment of Shetty's Cop Univer ...

'', who sets out to end the drug addiction among the youth of Punjab.

References

{{Surname Surnames of Indian origin Jat clans of Punjab