| H V Hande | |
| Office: | Minister for Health, Tamil Nadu |
| Term Start: | 9 June 1980 |
| Term End: | 21 October 1986 |
| 1Blankname: | Chief Minister |
| 1Namedata: | M. G. Ramachandran |
| Predecessor: | R. Soundararajan |
| Successor: | P. U. Shanmugam |
| Office1: | 1st Deputy General Secretary of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam |
| Predecessor1: | Position established |
| Birth Date: | 1927 11, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu |
| Occupation: | Medical practitioner, politician |
H. V. Hande (born 28 November 1927) is an Indian medical practitioner and a politician. He was elected to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly from Park Town constituency as a Swatantra Party candidate in the 1967 and 1971 elections.[1] [2] He is known as 'ever genial Mangalorian' because of his ancestral roots in Mangalore.[3]
In the 1980 elections, Hande stood from the Anna Nagar constituency as a candidate of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and lost by a margin of 699 votes to M. Karunanidhi. He also contested in the 2006 elections from Anna Nagar as a candidate of the Bharatiya Janata Party[4] but could only garner 9000 votes. He was National Council member of Bharatiya Janata Party in 2004.[5]
He is also a writer having written books on Ramayana, Dr. Ambedkar and other topics.[6] [7] He has opened Hande Hospitals in 1984 at Shenoy Nagar, Chennai.[8]