Raj (name)

Raj (राज,, রাজ) in different contexts means "rule", "king", "ruler", "emperor" or "royalty" and "power" in the Sanskrit language families of the Indian sub-continent, including Romanes, its closest Indo-European relative.

Given name or nickname

 * Raj Ballav Koirala (born 1982), Nepalese actor
 * Raj Gupta, American business executive
 * Raj Kamal Jha (born 1966), Indian novelist and journalist
 * Raj Kapoor (1924–1988), Indian actor, director and producer
 * Raj Kaul, 18th-century ancestor of Jawahar Lal Nehru
 * Raj Khosla (1925–1991), Indian director
 * Raj Krishna, Indian economist
 * Raj Manhas, American educator
 * Raj Man Singh Chitrakar, Nepalese artist
 * Raj Mohinder Singh Majitha, Indian politician
 * Raj Mukherji, New Jersey lobbyist and real estate developer
 * Raj Narain (1917–1986), Indian politician
 * Raj Pannu (born 1934), Canadian educator and politician
 * Raj Patel (born 1972), British-born academic, journalist, activist and writer
 * Rajendra Persaud (born 1963), British psychiatrist, broadcaster, and author
 * Raj Pradhan, Nepalese cricketer
 * Dabbala Rajagopal Raj Reddy (born 1937), Indian-American pioneer in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
 * Raj Rajaratnam (born 1957), American former manager of the hedge fund Galleon Group, convicted in 2011 of insider trading
 * Raj Rajeshwari Devi (died 1806), queen consort and twice queen regent of Nepal
 * Raj Singh (disambiguation), several people
 * Raj Thackeray (born 1968), Indian politician
 * Raj Desai (Born 1998) Indian Ayurvedic Doctor

Surname

 * Anil Raj (1984–2019), American human rights activist, Amnesty International board member, killed in 2019 in Kabul while working on the United Nations Development Programme
 * Besant C. Raj (1933–2018), Indian expert and writer on financial management
 * Charan Raj (born 1958), Indian film actor, director, music director, film producer, and writer
 * Jagdish Raj (1928–2013), Bollywood actor who holds a Guinness World Record for being the most typecast actor
 * K. N. Raj (1924–2010), Indian economist
 * Maria Venus Raj (born 1988), Filipino beauty queen, TV personality, model, and actress
 * Mithali Raj (born 1982), Indian cricketer
 * Prakash Raj or Raj (born 1965), Indian actor and producer
 * Subhashni Raj (born 1986), Fijian activist
 * Rhea Raj (born 2000), American singer-songwriter
 * Lara Raj (born 2005), American singer, producer and member of global pop group KATSEYE

Fictional characters

 * Raj Koothrappali, on the American sitcom The Big Bang Theory
 * Raj King, played by Aatif Nawaz in the British web series Corner Shop Show
 * Roger "Raj" Thomas, on the American TV series What's Happening!! and What's Happening Now!!
 * Raj, the neurotic Indian elephant on the American cartoon series Camp Lazlo
 * Raj, the shop assistant who appears in every one of David Walliams novels except Awful Auntie
 * Raj, The friend of Addison Cooke from the Addison Cooke books.
 * Raj Malhotra, in the Bollywood movie Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge
 * Raj Patil, in the American television drama Good Trouble