Famous People with Name Gopichand

T.Gopichand            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

T.Gopichand: more popularly known as Gopichand, is a popular Telugu film actor. He is son of revolutionary filmmaker T Krishna - broke into the scene with Toli Valapu as hero. Then he did powerful villain roles in Jayam, Nijam and Varsham before getting a break as hero with Yagnam.He was 8 years old when his father expired. He completed his studies in Chennai. There was no direct influence of his father in his childhood. He got his engineering degree from Russia. He was not interested in films at that time. His elder brother Premchand was working as an associate to Muthyala Subbayya. Premchand made his debut as director and started working on a film under his home banner,

Pullela Gopichand            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Pullela Gopichand: an Indian Badminton player.He won the All England Open Badminton Championships in 2001 defeating Chen Hong of China in the finals by 15-12,15-6. He became the second Indian to achieve this feat after Prakash Padukone, who won it in 1980. He was awarded the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award for the year 2000-2001. But later on, his game was affected due to injuries and his ranking dropped to 126 in the year 2003. In the year 2002, he refused to endorse a soft drink major as it meant that he would be encouraging people to consume a product which he himself thought was unsafe. In 2005, he was awarded the Padma Shri.