Mohan (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 (1952–2019), 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), Indian 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, Indian revolutionary, President of the Indian National Congress
 * 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, 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), Indian Administrative Service officer and a member of the National Disaster Management Authority
 * Mohan Kapoor (born 1965), Indian actor
 * G. Mohan Kumar (born 1955), Indian Administrative Service and former Defence Secretary and Defence Production Secretary of India
 * Mohan Kumar (director) (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), Indian spy, diplomat, and author
 * Mohan Lal Sukhadia (1916–1982), Indian political and social leader, Chief Minister of Rajasthan 1954–1971
 * Mohan Maharishi, Indian theatre director, actor and a playwright
 * Mohan Munasinghe, Sri Lankan physicist
 * Mohan Patel (born 1952), field hockey player from New Zealand, member of the 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 14thLok 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), Indian hotelier, founder and chairman of Oberoi Hotels & Resorts
 * 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), American 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), several people
 * 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), several people
 * 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), 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
 * Neal Mohan, CEO of YouTube since February 2023
 * 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
 * Swati Mohan, Indian-American aerospace engineer
 * Vinu Mohan (born 1985), Indian actor in Malayalam cinema, son of actress Sobha Mohan