Chawla

Chawla, also spelled Chowla, is a surname of Punjabi and Sindhi Hindus and Sikhs of India. It originates from the name of a clan of the Arora caste, likely stemming from the crop word chawal, which means rice.[1]

## Notable people

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Notable people with the surname, who may or may not be affiliated with the clan/religions, include:

* Anil Kumar Chawla, Indian Navy vice admiral
* Bhumika Chawla (born 1978), Indian actress
* Bobby Chawla (born 1982), Danish cricketer
* Devika Chawla, Indian pop singer
* Harcharan Chawla (1926–2001), Indian Urdu writer
* Harpinder Singh Chawla (born 1950), Indian dental surgeon and medical researcher
* Himani Chawla, Indian television actress
* Himanshu Chawla (born 1991), Indian cricketer
* Isha Chawla (born 1988), Indian film actress
* Juhi Chawla (born 1967), Indian actress
* Kailash Chawla (born 1948), Indian politician
* Kalpana Chawla (1962–2003), Indian-American astronaut killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster
* Keerthi Chawla (born 1981), Indian actress
* Laxmi Kanta Chawla, Indian politician
* Louise Chawla, American professor
* Mukesh Kumar Chawla, Pakistani politician
* Navin Chawla (born 1945), Indian civil servant and writer
* Neeraj Chawla (born 1979), Indian cricketer
* Nitesh Chawla, Indian American computer scientist
* Piyush Chawla (born 1988), Indian cricketer
* Prabhu Chawla (born 1946), Indian journalist and editor of India Today
* Pradeep Chawla, Indian cricketer
* Preetika Chawla, Indian film actress
* Rajendra Chawla, Indian actor
* Ram Nath Chawla (1903-1986), Indian pilot
* Ratna Bhagwandas Chawla, Pakistani politician and the first Hindu woman elected to the Pakistan Senate
* Sarvadaman Chowla (1907 - 1995), Indian American mathematician
* Shuchi Chawla, US-based Indian computer scientist
* Surveen Chawla, Indian actress
* Tarang Chawla (born 1987), Indian-born Australian activist and writer
* Yogesh Kumar Chawla, Indian medical doctor

## Other uses

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* Chawla (crater), a lunar crater named after Kalpana Chawla.
* Rakshata Chawla, a fictional character in the Japanese science fiction anime series Code Geass

## References

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1. ^ Hanks, Patrick; Coates, Richard; McClure, Peter, eds. (2016). The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland (1st ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 480\. ISBN 978-0-19-967776-4. "Chawla: ... Indian (Panjab): Hindu (Arora) and Sikh name, based on the name of a clan in the Arora community, which is apparently named with čāwəl 'rice'."

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