Famous People with Name Sahni

Balraj Sahni            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Balraj Sahni: a famous Hindi film actor. His real name was Yudhishthir Sahni. He belonged to a Punjabi Khokhran family from Bhera now in Pakistan Punjab .Sahni was always interested in acting. He started his film career in Mumbai with the film Insaaf(1946)followed by Dharti Ke Lal in 1946, Door Chaleinin 1946, and other films. But it was in 1953, with Bimal Roy's classic Do Bigha Zameen, that his true forte as an actor was first recognised. The film won the international prize at the Cannes Film Festival.He followed it up with an encore in the 1911 classic Kabuliwala penned by Tagore.Sahni's wife Damayanti passed away at a young age in 1947,who was the heroine of his film Gudiya(1947) and two years later he married his first cousin, Santosh Chandhok, later known as an author and television writer.

Birbal Sahni            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Birbal Sahni: an Indian paleobotanist who studied the fossils of the Indian subcontinent, was also a geologist who took an interest in archaeology. He founded the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany[1] in Lucknow, India. [2]In 1917, Sahni joined Professor Seward to work on a 'Revision of Indian Gondwana plants' (1920, Palaeontologica Indica). In 1919 he briefly worked in Munich under the German plant morphologist Goebel. In 1920 he married Savitri Suri, daughter of Sunder Das Suri who was an Inspector of Schools in Punjab

Baljit Singh Sahni            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Baljit Singh Sahni: is an Indian football player. He is currently playing for JCT FC in the I-League in India as a Striker. Sahni has been playing for JCT FC since past 5 years.He played key role in JCT FC's battle to avoid relegation and was eventually called up to Indian p