Narayan
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Narayan may refer to:
- NarayanaNarayanaNarayana or Narayan or Naraina is an important Sanskrit name for Vishnu, and in many contemporary vernaculars a common Indian name. Narayana is also identified as the original man, Purusha. The Puranas present divergent views on Narayana...
, an Indian name, an important Sanskrit name for Vishnu - Narayanan, an Indian name
- Narain, an Indian name
People
- Aditya NarayanAditya NarayanAditya Narayan Jha , born 6 August 1987, in Mumbai, India, commonly known as Aditya Narayan, is an actor, television host and music composer. He is the only child of Indian playback singer Udit Narayan and Deepa Narayan.-Early life:...
, Indian television show host - Anand NarayanAnand NarayanAnand Narayan is a television personality and an upcoming playback singer, from India.He shot into fame as a presenter-cum-performer on Amrita TV Let's Dance , the first-ever dance reality show for pairs on malayalam television...
, Indian television personality - Arvind NarayanArvind NarayanArvind Narayan is a former football player from Japan. He is best known for being one of the few players of Indian origin....
, Indian football player - Badri NarayanBadri NarayanBadri Narayan is an eminent Indian artist, illustrator, author and story-teller.He started painting with no formal training, and his first public showing was in 1949, followed by a solo show in 1954...
, Indian artist - Brij NarayanBrij NarayanBrij Narayan is an Indian classical musician who plays the string instrument sarod. Narayan was born in the Indian state Rajasthan and began to study sarod from a young age under his father Ram Narayan and other teachers. He won the All India Radio instrumentalist competition in 1967 and...
, Indian sarod player - Irene Jai NarayanIrene Jai NarayanIrene Jai Narayan, was an Indian born teacher and politician, who had a significant influence on politics in Fiji. She came to Fiji, in 1959, after marrying Jai Narayan, a well known school Principal in Suva, and began her career as a teacher...
, Fiji Indian politician - Jagaddipendra NarayanJagaddipendra NarayanJagaddipendra Narayan Bhup Bahadur was Maharaja of Cooch-Behar, in India. He served in British forces during World War II and ceded full ruling powers to the Government of India in 1949....
, Maharaja of Cooch Behar - Jayaprakash NarayanJayaprakash NarayanJayaprakash Narayan , widely known as JP Narayan, Jayaprakash, or Loknayak, was an Indian independence activist and political leader, remembered especially for leading the opposition to Indira Gandhi in the 1970s and for giving a call for peaceful Total Revolution...
, Indian independence activist and politician - Jayaprakash Narayan (Lok Satta)Jayaprakash Narayan (Lok Satta)Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan , widely known as JP, is a noted Indian politician, social reformer, TV commentator and columnist. He is the President of Lok Satta Party and currently a Member of the Legislative Assembly from Kukatpally constituency in Andhra Pradesh.http://www.loksatta.org/cms/index.php?...
, Indian politician - Kunwar NarayanKunwar NarayanKunwar Narain is a poet and a presence in Indian literature, often regarded as the leading living poet in Hindi. He has read and traveled widely, written over the last six decades and is among the few intellectuals who combine an international modern sensibility with a grounding in their...
, Indian poet - Manu NarayanManu NarayanManu Narayan is an American actor. He has been hailed as a "promising young star...a compelling actor and outstanding singer who can light up a stage with sheer force of personality." Manu has starred on Broadway, and co-stars as Rajneesh alongside Mike Myers in the Paramount Pictures' Film The...
, American actor - Nara NarayanNara NarayanMaharaja Naranarayan was the third and last ruler of the undivided Koch kingdom of Kamata. He succeeded his father Biswa Singha. Under him the Koch kingdom reached its cultural and political zenith. He introduced a silver coin, called the Narayani, that greatly influenced the numismatics of Assam...
, ruler of Koch kingdom - Opendra NarayanOpendra NarayanOpendra "Bill" Narayan was an AIDS researcher at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the University of Kansas Medical Center. A veterinarian, Narayan researched animal models of HIV...
, Indian-American AIDS researcher - Paresh NarayanParesh NarayanProfessor Paresh Kumar Narayan , is an academic of Fiji Indian origin, who is Australia's youngest Professor of Finance and is now the chair of finance at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia.- Early life and education:...
, Fiji Indian academic - Prema NarayanPrema NarayanPrema Narayan is a Bollywood actress-dancer. She was the Miss India first runner-up in 1971 and represented India at Miss World 1971.-Career:Prema Narayan was an English teacher in a convent school. She also did modeling for part time....
, Indian actress and dancer - R. K. NarayanR. K. NarayanR. K. Narayan , shortened from Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami Tamil: ) , Madras Presidency, British India. His father was a school headmaster, and Narayan did some of his studies at his father's school...
, Indian author - Rajan NarayanRajan NarayanRajan Narayan is an Indian journalist residing in Goa. He is the current editor of the Goan Observer, and formerly edited the Herald, a newspaper formerly known as O Heraldo between 1983 and 2003....
, Indian journalist - Rajee NarayanRajee NarayanGuru Smt. Rajee Narayan is a dancer musician and a composer living in Mumbai, India. She is the founder-director of Nritya Geetanjali, a premier dance school in Mumbai which trains students in bharatanatyam, carnatic music and nattuvangam in addition to courses on make-up and hairstyling for...
, Indian dancer and musician - Ram NarayanRam NarayanRam Narayan , often referred to by the title Pandit, is an Indian musician who popularized the bowed instrument sarangi as a solo concert instrument in Hindustani classical music and became the first internationally successful sarangi player....
, Indian sarangi player - Ramesh NarayanRamesh NarayanRamesh Narayan is a Hindustani vocalist from Kerala in south India, and is also an acclaimed film music director. He has given concerts in several parts of his country and abroad...
, Indian classical singer - Rudy NarayanRudy NarayanRudy Narayan was a former barrister and civil rights activist in Britain.Narayan was born in Guyana then British Guiana and was the ninth of his parent's ten children....
, British barrister - Shoba NarayanShoba NarayanShoba Narayan is an award winning author of Monsoon Diary: A Memoir with Recipes .She received her Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Women's Christian College, studied fine arts as a Foreign Fellow at Mount Holyoke College and received a Master of Arts from the Columbia University Graduate...
, Indian journalist - Shovana NarayanShovana NarayanShovana Narayan is best known as one of the best Kathak danseuses in the world. She performs in India and around the world, and has been awarded the Padma Shri. Her guru is Birju Maharaj....
, Indian Kathak dancer - Siddharth NarayanSiddharth NarayanSiddharth Suryanaraynan , popularly known and credited as Siddharth, is an Indian film actor, playback singer and screenplay writer. After his business management studies, Siddharth chose to work in film making and worked as an assistant director before making his acting debut in the 2003 Tamil...
, Indian actor and singer - Udit NarayanUdit Narayan-Career:King of melody, Udit Narayan Jha was born on 1 December, 1955 in a village called Bhardaha in the Saptari district , Nepal. His father was Hare Krishna Jha and his mother was Bhuwaneshwari Devi.Narayan studied at P.B...
, Indian playback singer - Uma NarayanUma NarayanUma Narayan is a feminist scholar, and Chair of Philosophy at Vassar College. She is the author of Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions and Third World Feminism in which Narayan disputes feminism as a solely Western notion, while challenging assumptions that East Indian feminism is based...
, Indian feminist scholar
Media and entertainment
- Narayan, a song by The ProdigyThe ProdigyThe Prodigy are an English electronic dance music group formed by Liam Howlett in 1990 in Braintree, Essex. Along with Fatboy Slim, The Chemical Brothers, and other acts, The Prodigy have been credited as pioneers of the big beat genre, which achieved mainstream popularity in the 1990s and 2000s...
on their album The Fat of the LandThe Fat of the LandThe Fat of the Land is the third studio album by The Prodigy. The album was released by XL Recordings on 30 June 1997 and on 1 July 1997 in the United States by Maverick Records... - Narayan, age in the video game Myst III: ExileMyst III: ExileMyst III: Exile is the third title in the Myst series of first person adventure video games. While the preceding games in the series, Myst and Riven, were produced by Cyan and published by Brøderbund, Exile was developed by Presto Studios and published by Ubisoft...
- Narayan, lead character of the 2005 film Water
Other
- Lakshmi Narayan, a Hindu deity
- Changu NarayanChangu NarayanChangu Narayan is the name of the deity enshrined in the Changu Narayan Temple, located near the Changunarayan village in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. The temple is one of the oldest Hindu temples of the valley, and is believed to have been constructed in the 4th century. Changu Narayan is the name...
, another name for VishnuVishnuVishnu is the Supreme god in the Vaishnavite tradition of Hinduism. Smarta followers of Adi Shankara, among others, venerate Vishnu as one of the five primary forms of God....