Khanna (clan)

Khanna is a clan and surname of the Khatri community. They belong to Dhai Ghar family of the Khatri Hindus.

The Khanna clan originates from the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent.

Origin
Khanna Khatris are believed to be descendents of an ancestor named Chand Khan.

Activists

 * Prem Krishna Khanna, Indian freedom fighter who was arrested in the Kakori conspiracy case against the British Empire, and was prosecuted

Actors

 * Akshaye Khanna, Indian actor
 * Chahat Khanna, Indian actress
 * Gaurav Khanna, Indian actor
 * Mukesh Khanna, Indian actor who played the role of Shaktimaan
 * Padma Khanna (born 1949), Indian actress
 * Paul Khanna, British actor
 * Raashi Khanna, Indian actress
 * Ragini Khanna, Indian actress
 * Rahul Khanna, Indian actor
 * Rajesh Khanna, Indian actor
 * Ravi Khanna, Indian actor, journalist and writer
 * Rinke Khanna, Indian actress
 * Shalini Khanna, Indian actress
 * Sucheta Khanna, Indian actress
 * Tarun Khanna, Indian actor
 * Twinkle Khanna, Indian actress
 * Vinod Khanna, Indian actor

Athletes

 * Anilkumar Khanna, Indian cricketer
 * Dinesh Khanna, Indian badminton player who was first and only Indian to win a gold medal in the Badminton Asia Championships. He also won bronze medal in the Asian Games.
 * Gaurav Khanna, Indian para-badminton Team Head National Coach
 * Pooja Khanna, India's first ever Paralympic Archery player. She debuted at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
 * Satish Khanna, Indian cricketer
 * Surinder Khanna, Indian cricketer

Civil servants

 * Rajinder Khanna, former chief of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), the external intelligence agency of India, former Deputy National Security Advisor of India, and current additional National Security Advisor of India.

Creatives

 * Amit Khanna (photographer), film director, writer, film producer, actor and fashion photographer
 * Anamika Khanna, Indian fashion designer
 * Balraj Khanna, Indian author and artist
 * Bishamber Khanna, Indian painter and enamellist.
 * Krishen Khanna, Padma Bhushan winning Indian artist
 * Derek Khanna, American conservative political commentator and columnist.
 * Ranjana Khanna, literary critic and theorist recognized for her interdisciplinary, feminist and internationalist contributions
 * Radhika Khanna, Indian fashion designer
 * Shipra Khanna, Indian celebrity chef who won the second season of the Indian television show MasterChef
 * Usha Khanna, Indian music director in Hindi cinema.
 * Vikas Khanna, Indian celebrity chef

Businesspeople and financiers

 * Aditya Khanna, Indian entrepreneur, financier and philanthropist
 * Amit Khanna, He was the founder chairman of Reliance Entertainment and former president of the Producers Guild of India
 * Navin Khanna, Indian businessman and former polo player
 * Nitin Khanna, Indian-born entrepreneur settled in Portland, Oregon, United States. He is the founder of MergerTech.
 * Shanti Lal Khanna, Indian businessman and doctor
 * Vinod Khanna, Indian businessman
 * Vipin Khanna, Indian businessman, financier and Indian Army officer

Executives

 * Gopal Khanna, Minnesota's first Chief Information Officer (CIO)
 * Roma Khanna, television and digital media executive. She has previously served as the CEO of Revolt TV

Lawyers

 * Hans Raj Khanna, Judge in Supreme Court of India
 * Sanjiv Khanna, Judge of the Supreme Court of India.
 * Vikramaditya Khanna, Indo-American lawyer and professor of law at the University of Michigan Law School

Politicians

 * Arvind Khanna, Indian politician, businessman, investor and philanthropist
 * Avinash Rai Khanna, Indian politician who served as Vice Chairman, Indian Red Cross Society and Vice President of Bhartiya Janta Party.
 * Harish Khanna, Indian politician
 * Mehr Chand Khanna, Indian politician who served as the Union Minister for Rehabilitation from 1954 to 1962
 * Ro Khanna (born 1976), American politician
 * Suresh Kumar Khanna, Indian politician
 * Tejendra Khanna, former Lieutenant Governor of Delhi
 * Todar Mal, finance minister of Mughal Emperor Akbar.

Scientists

 * Faqir Chand Khanna, Indian nuclear physicist who was awarded the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society
 * Gaurav Khanna, Indian-American black hole physicist, supercomputing innovator, academic and researcher.
 * Kum Kum Khanna, Indian molecular biologist and professor. She has made discoveries in identifying single-stranded DNA binding proteins, hSSB1 and hSSB2
 * Parag Khanna, Indian American specialist in geopolitics and globalization
 * Rajnish Khanna, Indian-American photobiologist and research scientist at Stanford University.
 * Renu Khanna Chopra, Indian scientist
 * Sanjeev Khanna, Indian-American computer scientist
 * Tarun Khanna (born 1968), Indian-born American academic, author, and an economic strategist. He is currently the Jorge Paulo Lemann professor at Harvard Business School