List of Jats

The Jat people are a community native to North India and the Punjab Province of Pakistan. The following is a list of notable Jats.

Cinema

• Simran Mundi^[1]
• Dara Singh^[2]
• Mallika Sherawat^[3]
• Sunny Deol^[4]
• Dharmendra Singh Deol^[5]
• Shafqat Cheema
• Swaran Lata
• Amrita Singh
• Randeep Hooda
• Jimmy Shergill

Religion

• Dhanna Bhagat (Dhaliwal Jat) - a Hindu Bhakti saint and disciple Ramananda, worshiper of Rama, whose poems are in the Guru Granth Sahib
• Bhai Bala (Sandhu Jat) - follower and companion of Guru Nanak (first Guru of Sikhism) and one of the most revered in Sikhism^[6]
• Baba Buddha (Randhawa Jat) - companion of the guru Nanak and one of the most revered saints in Sikhism.^[7]
• Bhai Bidhi Chand Chhina^[8][9] - renowned Sikh warrior and preacher, famed for the recovery of the horses, Dilbagh and Gulbagh for Guru Hargobind^[10][11]
• Garib Das (1717–1778)- A revered saint and reformer noted for his piety and poetry. Founder 'Gribdasi sect' and composer of the granth called 'Garib Das ki granth Sahib'.

Revolutionaries and freedom fighters

• Bhagat Singh^[12]
• Achhar Singh Chhina^[13]
• Rai Ahmed Nawaz Khan Kharal, Pakistani freedom fighter who was one of the greatest in the Indian rebellion of 1857.^[14][15]

Rulers

• Suraj Mal of Bharatpur in Rajasthan in India. He has been described by a contemporary historian as "the Plato of the Jat people" and by a modern writer as the "Jat Ulysses"
• According to some historians, Maharaja Ranjit Singh, Maharaja of Punjab also known as Sher-e-Punjab (The Lion of the Punjab) was born into a Jat family.^[16][17] Though some claim that he was born into a Sansi family^[18]
• Kharak Singh. descendent of Ranjit Singh (to whom some consider a Jat)
• Nau Nihal Singh. descendent of Ranjit Singh (to whom some consider a Jat)
• Bhupinder Singh was the ruling Maharaja of the princely state of Patiala from 1900 to 1938.^[17][19]
• Badan Singh was the formal founder of the princely state of Bharatpur.He was born in a Hindu Jat family.
• Churaman was Zamindar of Sinsini and the said to be real founder of Jat state of Bharatpur.
• Kirat Singh
• Baldeo Singh
• Balwant Singh
• Kishan Singh
• Brijendra Singh
• Kehri Singh
• Nawal Singh
• Ram Singh of Bharatpur
• Randhir Singh
• Ranjit Singh of Bharatpur
• Ratan Singh
• Girraj Kaur
• Kishori
• Raja Maldeo - Ruler in Jangladesh
• Kirat Singh
• Pohap Singh
• Bhagwant Singh
• Nihal Singh
• Ram Singh
• Udaybhanu Singh
• Jawahar Singh
• Raja Ram Jat^[20]
• Raja Nahar Singh
• Jujhar Singh Nehra
• Raja Mahendra Pratap - Mursan^[21]
• Ranbir Singh of Jind
• Raghubir Singh of Jind
• Swarup Singh of Jind
• Nawab Kapur Singh Virk, leader of Singhpur Misl.^[16][17]
• Hari Singh Dhillon, leader of the Bhangi misl, Ruler of Lahore & Amritsar.^[16][17]
• Yadavindra Singh of Patiala.^[17][19]
• Rajinder Singh of Patiala.^[17][19]
• Girdhar Pratap Singh
• Kirat Singh
• Bhim Singh Rana
• Chhatar Singh

Sports

Vijender Singh Beniwal.

Wrestlers

Sushil kumar

• Jakhar Geetika^[22]
• Dara Singh^[23]
• Geeta Phogat

Boxers

• Vijender Singh Beniwal,^[24]

Athletes

• Krishna Poonia,^[25] Discus Thrower

Historians

• Thakur Deshraj

Social reformers

• Foolabai
• Ranabai
• Swami Keshwanand^[26]

Politics

India

• Chhotu Ram
• Charan Singh, the sixth Prime Minister of India.^[27]
• Chaudhari Devi Lal^[28]
• Bansi Lal^[29]
• Harkishan Singh Surjeet^[30] - Bassi clan.
• Balram Jakhar^[31]
• Partap Singh Kairon^[32]
• Amarinder Singh, Sidhu clan and direct descendent of Maharaja Patiala.^[33]
• Daulatram Saran^[34]
• Gyan Prakash Pilania^[35]
• Harlal Singh^[36]
• Sahib Singh Verma^[37]
• Pravesh Verma^[38]

Pakistan

• Chaudhry Mumtaz Jajja - Former member of national and provincial assemblies.^[39]
• Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain
• Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi
• Hina Rabbani Khar
• Saira Afzal Tarar

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