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Ahuja

Surname of Indic origin

Ahuja is an Indian (Punjabi and Sindhi) surname, held by Hindus and Sikhs of the Arora, Jat, and Amil Lohana communities. Ahuja means "descendant of Ahu".

01Notable people

Administration

  • Deepak Ahuja (born 1963), former CFO at Tesla
  • Kiran Ahuja (born 1971), American attorney and activist serving as the director of the United States of America Office of Personnel Management
  • Ravi Ahuja (born 1971), American business executive

Armed Forces

  • Ajay Ahuja (1963-1999), Indian fighter pilot martyred during the Kargil War

Art

Athletics

  • Davinder Ahuja, badminton bronze medalist at the 1974 Asian Games
  • Kanika Ahuja (born 2002), Indian cricketer
  • Neha Ahuja (born 1981), Indian alpine skier and first Indian woman to qualify for the Winter Olympics
  • Suraj Ahuja (born 1999), Indian cricketer, former captain of the India national under-19 cricket team

Bollywood

Journalism

  • Anjana Ahuja, British Indian science journalist and a former columnist for The Times
  • Maneet Ahuja, American author, journalist, television news producer and hedge fund specialist

Politics

Science, medicine and academia

  • Kamal Ahuja (born 1954), physiologist and the managing and scientific director of JD Healthcare
  • M. M. S. Ahuja (1929-1998), Indian physician and endocrinologist
  • Narendra Ahuja, Indian-American computer scientist
  • Nita Ahuja, American surgeon and the Chair of the Department of Surgery at Yale School of Medicine
  • Ravindra K. Ahuja (born 1956), Indian-American computer scientist and entrepreneur and CFO of Optym
  • Sunil Kumar Ahuja (born 1961), professor of medicine at the University of Texas
  • V. K. Ahuja (born 1967), professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi, India and is presently serving as the Vice-Chancellor of National Law University, Assam, India

Social work

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