Famous People with Name Govind

Govind Nihalani            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Govind Nihalani: one of Indian cinema's foremost directors, cinematographer, and also a screenwriter and film producer. He has been directing Hindi films since the late seventies, and worked in the television medium.Nihalani was born on 1940 August 19 in Karachi (now in Pakistan) and his family migrated to India during the partition of 1947. He started out as a cinematographer, graduating in cinematography from the Shree Jaya Chamrajendra polytechnic in Bangalore in 1962. He was associated with all the earlier films of Shyam Benegal and with the cinematography of Richard Attenborough's Oscar-winning epic Gandhi. Nihalani and Benegal are well known for their socially relevant films.

Govind Purushottam Deshpande            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Govind Purushottam Deshpande: a Marathi playwright and academic.He taught Chinese Studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi for many years. Currently retired, he lives in Pune with his wife Kalindi, a women's movement activist. He writes a column in the Economic and Political Weekly, Mumbai.He is a well-known essayist and critic. His collection of essays on culture and politics was published in 2006 (Dialectics of Defeat: Problems of Culture in Post-Colonial India, Seagull, Kolkata, 2006), and he also recently published a collection of poems, Ityadi Ityadi Kavita (Etc. etc. poems).

Govind Chandra Pande            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Govind Chandra Pande: one of India's best known historians of the Vedic and the Buddhist periods[citation needed]. He has served a professor of ancient history and vice-chancellor at Jaipur and Allahabad universities. He was also the chairman of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Simla for several years, the Chairman of Allahabad museum Society and the Chairman of Central Tibetan Society, Sarnath Varanasi.

Govind Ballal Deval            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Govind Ballal Deval: was an eminent Marathi playwright from Maharashtra, India.

K. N. Govindacharya            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

K. N. Govindacharya: is an Hindu activist, environmental activist, Social activist, Thinker. He was formerly associated with BJP. 1974 was a turning point in the history of Indian politics when Shri Jayaprakash Narayan gave the call of Sampurna Kranti (Total Revolution).

Sirkazhi Govindarajan            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Sirkazhi Govindarajan: was one of leading vocalists in Carnatic Music.Govindarajan, born in Sirkali in Madras Presidency) on January 19, 1933, started performing at the age of eight in Tirupurasundari Temple.He graduated from the Tamil Isai College in Chennai in 1949 and learnt music from Thiruppampuram Swaminatha Pillai. He was conferred the Padma Shri award by the Government of India.Govindarajan had also done playback singing in Tamil and Telugu films. [1] Madras University conferred a doctorate (Honoris Causa) on him in 1983. He died in 1988, aged 55.

Palanivel Govindasamy            Origin/Culture/Country: Malaysian

Palanivel Govindasamy: commonly known as Dato' G. Palanivel, held his last position in the Malaysian Government as the Deputy Minister of Wellfare and Family Development of Malaysia. In the March 8, 2008 general elections, he was defeated in his bid for another five year term as a Member of Parliament. He continues to be the deputy president of the Malaysian Indian Congress, the party claiming to represent the rights of the Indian community in Malaysia and is a member of the ruling coalition Barisan Nasional.