Krishan

Krishan is a given name and surname. Notable persons with that name include:

People with the given name

 * Krishan Bheel (born 1968), Pakistani politician
 * Krishan Chander (1914–1977), Urdu and Hindi Afsaana Nigaar, or short story writer
 * Krishan Dev Sethi, the current general secretary of Democratic Conference Jammu and Kashmir
 * Krishan Dinidu (born 1990), Sri Lankan cricketer
 * Krishan Imdika (born 1976), Sri Lankan cricketer
 * Krishan Kant, the tenth vice president of India from 1997 until his death
 * Krishan Kant Saini (born 1931), Indian Airforce helicopter pilot who achieved the world's highest altitude helicopter landing
 * Krishan Kumar (sociologist) (born 1942), British sociologist
 * Krishan Kumar (actor), Indian film actor and producer
 * Krishan Kumar Modi, (born 1940), Indian businessman and head of Modi Enterprises
 * Krishan Kumar Sharma "Rasik" (born 1983), Hindi, Punjabi, English and Urdu poet and writer
 * Krishan Lal Balmiki (1942–2010), Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party, member of the Parliament of India representing Rajasthan
 * Krishan Sabnani (born 1954), senior vice president of the Networking Research Laboratory at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs in New Jersey
 * Maharaj Krishan Kaushik (1955–2021), former member of the India men's national field hockey team and former coach
 * Predhiman Krishan Kaw, Indian plasma physicist, currently the director of the Institute for Plasma Research
 * Raj Krishan Gaur (born 1931), Agricultural minister from Himachal
 * Vikas Krishan Yadav (born 1992), Indian male boxer from Bhiwani district in Haryana, won a gold medal in the 2010 Asian Games

People with the surname

 * Gopal Krishan, Indian musician and player of the vichitra veena
 * Guru Har Krishan (1656–1664), the eighth of the Eleven Gurus of Sikhism
 * Kewal Krishan (1923–2008), Indian medical practitioner and politician
 * Rajendra Krishan (1919–1988), Indian poet, lyricist and screenwriter