Ahuja is a surname, mainly in the Punjab and Sindh region. It is held by Hindus and Sikhs of the Arora Khatri community. The Ahuja means "descendant of Ahu".[1]

Notable people

Administration

  • Deepak Ahuja, former CFO at Tesla
  • Kiran Ahuja, American attorney serving as the director of the United States Office of Personnel Management
  • Sudhir Ahuja, vice president of joint ventures at Alcatel-Lucent
  • Sanjiv Ahuja, chairman and CEO of Tillman Global Holdings

Armed Forces

  • Ajay Ahuja, Indian fighter pilot martyred during Kargil War

Art

Athletics

  • Davinder Ahuja, badminton bronze medalist in 1974 Asian Games
  • Neha Ahuja, Indian alpine skier and first Indian woman to have qualified for the Winter Olympics
  • Suraj Ahuja, 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

Politics

Science, medicine and academia

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

Social work

References

  1. Hanks, Patrick (2003). Dictionary of American Family Names. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. xcvii, 15.
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