# Krishan

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**Krishan** is a given name and surname. Notable persons with that name include:

## People with the given name

- [Krishan Bheel](/source/Krishan_Bheel) (born 1968), Pakistani politician
- [Krishan Chander](/source/Krishan_Chander) (1914–1977), Urdu and Hindi Afsaana Nigaar, or short story writer
- [Krishan Dev Sethi](/source/Krishan_Dev_Sethi), the current general secretary of Democratic Conference Jammu and Kashmir
- [Krishan Dinidu](/source/Krishan_Dinidu) (born 1990), Sri Lankan cricketer
- [Krishan Imdika](/source/Krishan_Imdika) (born 1976), Sri Lankan cricketer
- [Krishan Kant](/source/Krishan_Kant), the tenth vice president of India from 1997 until his death
- [Krishan Kant Saini](/source/Krishan_Kant_Saini) (born 1931), Indian Airforce helicopter pilot who achieved the world's highest altitude helicopter landing
- [Krishan Kumar (sociologist)](/source/Krishan_Kumar_(sociologist)) (born 1942), British sociologist
- [Krishan Kumar (actor)](/source/Krishan_Kumar_(actor)), Indian film actor and producer
- [Krishan Kumar Modi](/source/Krishan_Kumar_Modi), (born 1940), Indian businessman and head of Modi Enterprises
- [Krishan Kumar Sharma "Rasik"](/source/Krishan_Kumar_Sharma_%22Rasik%22) (born 1983), Hindi, Punjabi, English and Urdu poet and writer
- [Krishan Lal Balmiki](/source/Krishan_Lal_Balmiki) (1942–2010), Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party, member of the Parliament of India representing Rajasthan
- [Krishan Sabnani](/source/Krishan_Sabnani) (born 1954), senior vice president of the Networking Research Laboratory at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs in New Jersey
- [Maharaj Krishan Kaushik](/source/Maharaj_Krishan_Kaushik) (1955–2021), former member of the [India men's national field hockey team](/source/India_men's_national_field_hockey_team) and former coach
- [Predhiman Krishan Kaw](/source/Predhiman_Krishan_Kaw), Indian plasma physicist, currently the director of the Institute for Plasma Research
- [Raj Krishan Gaur](/source/Raj_Krishan_Gaur) (born 1931), Agricultural minister from Himachal
- [Vikas Krishan Yadav](/source/Vikas_Krishan_Yadav) (born 1992), Indian male boxer from Bhiwani district in Haryana, won a gold medal in the 2010 Asian Games
- [Krishan Kumar Vijay](https://in.linkedin.com/in/krishan-kumar-vijay) (Born 1995), digital marketing professional and educator, offering free courses, internships in digital marketing.

## People with the surname

- [Gopal Krishan](/source/Gopal_Krishan), Indian musician and player of the [vichitra veena](/source/Vichitra_veena)
- [Guru Har Krishan](/source/Guru_Har_Krishan) (1656–1664), the eighth of the Eleven Gurus of Sikhism
- [Kewal Krishan](/source/Kewal_Krishan) (1923–2008), Indian medical practitioner and politician
- [Rajendra Krishan](/source/Rajendra_Krishan) (1919–1988), Indian poet, lyricist and screenwriter

## See also

- [Krischan](/source/Krischan)
- *[Krishan Avtaar](/source/Krishan_Avtaar)*, 1993 Hindi-language Indian feature film
- [Krishan Nagar](/source/Krishan_Nagar), part of the Islampura neighbourhood of Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
- [Shaheed Krishan Chand Memorial Stadium](/source/Shaheed_Krishan_Chand_Memorial_Stadium) (previously known as the Paddal Ground), a cricket ground in Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India
- [Shri Krishan Institute Of Engineering & Technology](/source/Shri_Krishan_Institute_Of_Engineering_%26_Technology), private engineering institute in Kurukshetra, Haryana, India

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