Mohan (given name)

Mohan is a given name and surname. Notable people with this name include:

Sole name

• Mohan, another name for Krishna, a major Hindu deity
• Mohan (actor) (born 1956), Kollywood film actor
• Mohan (director), Indian director of Malayalam films
• Mohanlal (born 1960), South Indian film actor
• Crazy Mohan (1949-2019), popular Tamil comedy actor, script writer and playwright

Given name

• Mohan Agashe (born 1947), Indian actor
• Mohan Babu (born 1950), born Manchu Bakthavatsalam Naidu, actor, producer, politician from Andhra Pradesh
• Mohan Baidya, chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal Revolutionary Maoist
• Mohan Bam (born 1991), Nepalese judoka
• Mohan Bhagwat (born 1950), veterinary doctor and the current Sarsanghachalak of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
• Mohan Bhandari (1937-2015), Indian film and television actor
• Mohan Chand Sharma (1965–2008), Indian Police Inspector who served in the Delhi Police, Special Cell
• Mohan Choti (1939–1992), Indian film actor
• Mohan Das, more commonly known as Lotan Baba (or "rolling saint"), an Indian holy man promoting peace by rolling his body along the ground when he travels
• Mohan Dharia (1925–2013), Indian lawyer, Union minister, and social worker
• Mohan Ellawala (1948–2009), governor of Sabaragamuwa Province in Sri Lanka from October 2, 2008 up until his death in 2009
• Mohan al-Furayji, Iraqi Army general who planned the 2008 operation against militias in Basra
• Mohan Galot (born 1945), Kenyan businessman
• Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869–1948), better known as Mahatma Gandhi
• Mohan Gokhale (1954–1999), Indian film, television and theater actor who has worked in art films such as Sparsh, Bhavni Bhavai and Mirch Masala
• Mohan Krishna Indraganti, award-winning Telugu film director from India
• Mohan Jena (born 1957), member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India representing the Jajpur constituency of Orissa, and a member of the Biju Janata Dal political party
• Mohan Joshi (born 1945), Indian actor
• Mohan Kanda (born 1945), retired Indian Administrative Service officer and a member of the National Disaster Management Authority
• Mohan Kapoor (born 1965), Indian actor
• G. Mohan Kumar (born 1955), retired Indian Administrative Service and former Defence Secretary and Defence Production Secretary of India
• Mohan Kumar (1934–2017), Indian film director
• Mohan Kumar (serial killer) (born 1963), Indian killer called "Cyanide Mohan"
• Mohan Kumaramangalam (1916–1973), Indian politician and communist theorist who was a member of the Indian National Congress, and later, the Communist Party of India
• Mohan Lal Grero, Sri Lankan educationist and politician, currently a member of the Provincial Councillor of the Western Province
• Mohan Lal Jhikram (1919–2010), leader of Indian National Congress from Madhya Pradesh, India
• Mohan Lal Kashmiri (1812–1877), spy, diplomat, and author
• Mohan Lal Sukhadia (1916–1982), political and social leader who served as Chief Minister of Rajasthan for seventeen years (1954–1971)
• Mohan Maharishi, Indian theatre director, actor and a playwright
• Mohan Munasinghe, Sri Lankan physicist
• Mohan Patel (born 1952), former field hockey player from New Zealand, who was a member of the national team that won the Gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal
• Mohan Kumar Raja (born 1996), Indian sprinter
• Mohan Rakesh (1925–1972), major figure of 20th-century Hindi literature
• Mohan Rawale (born 1948), member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India representing the Mumbai South Central constituency of Maharashtra and a member of the Shiv Sena (SS) political party
• Ram Mohan Roy (1774–1833), founder of Brahmo Samaj, a 19th-century spiritual and religious reformation
• Mohan Sharma, Indian film actor in Malayalam films of Chattakari fame
• Manmohan Singh (born 1932), Prime minister of India
• Mohan Singh (general) (1909–1989), Indian military officer and member of the Indian Independence Movement
• Mohan Singh (1945–2013), Indian politician, former general secretary of the Samajwadi Party
• Mohan Bikram Singh (born 1935), often referred to as MBS, party name Gharti, a Nepalese politician
• Mohan Singh Kohli (born 1931), Indian mountaineer
• Mohan Sinha Mehta (1895–1986), founder of Vidya Bhavan group of institutions and Sewa Mandir in Udaipur in Rajasthan
• Mohan Singh Oberoi (1898–2002), widely regarded as the father of 20th century India's hotel business
• Mohan Sithara (born 1959), Malayalam film music composer in Kerala
• Mohan Sivanand (born 1951), Indian journalist and artist
• Mohan Upreti (1925–1997), Indian theatre director, playwright and a music composer, considered one of the pioneers in Indian theatre music

Surname

• A. G. Mohan (born 1945), Indian yoga teacher, yoga therapist and author
• Ananthula Madan Mohan (1931–2004), Indian politician
• Balaji Mohan (born 1987), Indian film director
• C. Mohan (born 1955), computer scientist and IBM Fellow
• Chander Mohan, former Deputy Chief Minister of Haryana State in India
• Chander Mohan (journalist) (born 1946), Indian journalist
• Chandra Mohan (disambiguation)
• Chinta Mohan (born 1954), member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India representing the Tirupathi constituency of Andhra Pradesh, and a member of the Indian National Congress
• Dominic Mohan (born 1969), British journalist originally from Bristol, England
• Duvvasi Mohan, Telugu comedian
• Earl Mohan (1889–1928), American film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 50 films between 1915 and 1927
• John Mohan (born 1939), American bridge player
• Keith Mohan (born 1935), English cricketer who played for Derbyshire in the County Championship in 1957 and 1958
• Kim Mohan (born 1949), American author and editor
• Mac Mohan (1938–2010), Indian character actor in Hindi language films
• Madan Mohan (disambiguation)
• Manjima Mohan (born 1993), Indian film actress
• Monica Mohan, American artist
• Murali Mohan (born 1940), South Indian film actor, producer and politician
• N. M. Mohan (1949-2012), an Indian comics writer
• Narendra Mohan (1934–2002), Indian industrialist, chairman and managing director of the Rs 874-crore Jagran Prakashan publisher for India's largest selling Hindi newspaper Dainik Jagran
• Nicky Mohan (born 1970), English former professional footballer who played in defence
• Pantam Gandhi Mohan, Indian politician
• Radha Mohan (born 1965), Tamil movie director
• Raja Mohan, Indian academic, journalist and foreign policy analyst
• Rakesh Mohan (born 1948), Indian economist and former Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India
• Ram Mohan (born 1931), veteran in the Indian animation industry
• Saira Mohan (born 1978), fashion model of Indian, Irish and French heritage
• Saranya Mohan (born 1989), Indian film actress who has acted in Malayalam and Tamil films such as Yaaradi Nee Mohini and Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu
• Shweta Mohan (born 1985), Indian playback singer who has sung in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada languages, daughter of Sujatha Mohan
• Sujatha Mohan (born 1964), Indian playback singer who has sung in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi movies
• Vinu Mohan (born 1985), Indian actor in Malayalam cinema, son of actress Sobha Mohan