Puri (surname) explained
Puri is an Indian Punjabi Surname of Kshatriya Varna derived from a Chandravanshi Indo Aryan Puru tribe of King Porus.
The Dictionary of American Family Names notes that puri means a small town in Punjabi but it is uncertain whether this is related to the surname.[1] Another theory derives it from the Purus,[2] the mythological Indo-Aryan tribe.
Buddha Prakash, professor of history and of Ancient Indian history, culture and archaeology, director of the Institute of Indic Studies, said:
Notable people
Bankers
Businessmen and Managers
Film actors
- Aarti Puri, Indian actress and model
- Akanksha Puri, Indian actress
- Akash Puri, Indian actor
- Amrish Puri, Bollywood and Hollywood film actor
- Amrita Puri, Bollywood film actress
- Chaman Puri (1914-1988), Indian actor
- Koel Purie, Indian actress, producer and TV presenter
- Madan Puri, Bollywood film actor
- Mayur Puri, Indian screenwriter, lyricist, actor and film-maker
- Neeta Puri, Indian actress and model
- Om Puri, Bollywood and Hollywood film actor
- Pearl V Puri, Indian television actor
- Preeti Puri, Indian actress
- Rajesh Puri, Indian actor
- Satyajeet Puri, Indian actor
- Shashi Puri, Indian actor
- Vardhan Puri, Indian actor
- Vibhu Puri, Indian film director, writer and lyricist
Independence activists and martyrs
Journalists
- Balraj Puri, Journalist, writer and human rights activist
- Belle Puri, Canadian journalist
- Kavita Puri, British journalist, radio broadcaster, and author
- Narottam Puri, Indian sports journalist and broadcaster
- Pratima Puri, Indian journalist best known for being Doordarshan's first newsreader
- Rajinder Puri, Indian cartoonist, veteran columnist and political activist
Politicians
- Hardeep Singh Puri, Indian cabinet minister
- Lakshmi Puri, former assistant secretary-general at the United Nations and the former deputy executive director of UN Women.
- Manjeev Singh Puri, Indian civil servant of the Indian Foreign Service cadre and the former Ambassador of India to Nepal
- Raghunath Sahai Puri, Minister for Housing & Urban Development in Punjab Government
- Ranjeev Puri, American state representative
Singers
- Sanam Puri, lead vocalist of the independent music band SANAM, and Bollywood singer
- Samar Puri, guitarist in the band SANAM, popularly known as 'Flying Guitarist'; the sibling of Sanam Puri
Science and academia
- Baij Nath Puri, Indian historian and author
- Harish Puri, Indian political scientist and historian
- Ishwar Puri, Indian-American and Canadian scientist, engineer, and academic
- Jyoti Puri, professor of sociology at Simmons University
- Madan Lal Puri, Indian-American mathematician and statistician
- Manju Puri, Indian-American economics professor at Duke University and editor at the Review of Financial Studies. Currently he is the director of the American Finance Association.
- Munish Chander Puri, professor emeritus of mathematics at IIT Delhi
- Neel Kamal Puri, Indian author and teacher
- Ruchir Puri, Indian American scientist
- Sanjay Puri, Indian statistical physicist
Spirituality
Sports
See also
Notes and References
- Book: Dictionary of American Family Names . 2013 . Oxford University Press .
- Book: Kosambi, Damodar Dharmanand . 1966 . Ancient India: A History of its Culture and Civilisation . Pantheon Books . Delhi . 81–83.
