Famous People with Name Prakash

Prakash Mehra            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Prakash Mehra: was a Bollywood film producer and director.Born on 13 July 1939 at Bijnaur, Uttar Pradesh, India, Mehra started in the late 1950s as a production controller. In 1968, he directed Shashi Kapoor who played a double role in Haseena Maan Jayegi. This was followed by the 1971 hit Mela starring the Khan brothers (Feroz Khan and Sanjay Khan) together. In 1973, he produced and directed Zanjeer. This mega blockbuster with Amitabh Bachchan started a relationship that spanned 7 more films. It also launched the career of Mr Bachchan (along with Mr Mehra), as a top Director/Actor duo.

Prakash Amritraj            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Prakash Amritraj: a professional tennis player. He turned professional in 2003 after winning the National Championships at the University of Southern California.Amritaj is the son of Vijay Amritraj, who played at Wimbledon for 17 years and in the Davis Cup for 20 years, and the cousin of Stephen Amritraj, whose father was also a professional player. He also has one brother, Vikram who was born in 1993. He is a non-resident Indian who represents India in tournaments and the Davis Cup. He played tennis for the University of Southern California where he majored in business.

Prakash Padukone            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Prakash Padukone: a badminton player from Karnataka, India, who was awarded the Padma Sri in 1982.Prakash was initiated into the game at a tender age by his father Ramesh Padukone, who was the Secretary of the Mysore Badminton Association for many years.Padukone's first official tournament was the Karnataka state junior championship in 1962. Though he lost in the very first round, two years later he managed to win the state junior title. He changed his playing style into a more aggressive style in 1971, and won the Indian national junior title in 1972. He also won the senior title the same year. He won the Indian national title consecutively for the next seven years, until 1979. In 1978, he won his first major international title, the men's singles gold medal at the Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Canada. In 1979, he won the Evening of Champions at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Prakash Shetty            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Prakash Shetty: a famous Indian cartoonist. He was born in Mangalore, Karnataka. He began cartooning in 1975 at the age of 15. He worked as a staff cartoonist for Kannada Publications. Kitoo, a comic serial with a boy as the main character, has been published in several different magazines for 15 years. He joined The Week as a cartoon illustrator in the 1990's and left in 2001.

Prakash Rajguru            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Prakash Rajguru: was an Indian cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm off-break bowler who played for Maharashtra. Rajguru made his cricketing debut for Maharashtra Schools during the 1956-57 Cooch Behar Trophy season - later playing for the victorious Wes

Adoor Prakash            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Adoor Prakash: is a Minister of Kerala State. He came to active politics through the Student movement of Kerala Students Union. He was elected to the Kerala Legislative Assembly consecutively from Konni Constituency in 1996, 2001, 2006 and 2011 General Elections as a ca

Surendra Prakash            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Surendra Prakash: is an Indian politician. He stood for the 2004 Lok Sabha elections on the Indian National Congress (INC) ticket and won from Ghaziabad. He was defeated by the president of BJP Rajnath Singh in the next general elections in 2009.

Dr. Ram Prakash            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Dr. Ram Prakash: is an Indian politician and a leader of Indian National Congress party. He is Member of the Parliament of India representing Haryana in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament. Being close to the Haryana Chief Minister, Bhupinder Singh H

Jai Prakash            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Jai Prakash: is an Indian politician for the Mohanlalganj (Lok Sabha Constituency) in Uttar Pradesh.

Ravi Prakash            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Ravi Prakash: is an Indian politician for the Kheri (Lok Sabha constituency) in Uttar Pradesh. In the 2009 Parliamentary Elections, Zafar Ali Naqvi of Indian National Congress defeated Ravi Prakash Verma. verma stands at 4th position in this election.it is said by loca