Pawar

Pawar (also spelled as Pavar^[1] and Puar) is an Indian surname found among the Maratha, Mahar or Koli people in Maharashtra.^[2]^[3]^[1]

Notable people bearing the Pawar name or its variants include:

Ajit Pawar (born 1959), Indian politician; deputy chief minister of Maharashtra and nephew of Sharad Pawar
Ameya Pawar (born 1980), American politician and City of Chicago Alderman
Anand Pawar, Indian badminton player
Anjali Pawar, Indian social worker
Bharati Pawar, Indian politician
Dagdu Maruti Pawar, Indian Dalit author
Hemendra Singh Rao Pawar, titular Maharaja of Dhar State)
Krishnaji Rao III Puar, Maharaja of Dewas Senior and Indian politician
Kuldeep Pawar, Indian actor in the Marathi language film industry
Lalita Pawar (1916-1998), popular Hindi TV & Marathi actress
Narayan Rao Pawar (1925-2010), Indian independence activist and member of Arya Samaj who plotted to kill the last Nizam of Hyderabad
Rajendra Singh Pawar, Indian businessman, chairman of NIIT
Rajesh Pawar (born 1979), Indian cricketer
Sharad Pawar (born 1940), Indian politician
Tukoji Rao IV Puar, Maharaja of Dewas Senior and Indian politician from Madhya Pradesh, belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party
Tukoji Rao III Puar, Maharaja of Dewas Senior
Urmila Pawar (born 1945), Indian Marathi-language writer
Uttamsingh Pawar, Indian politician
Vikram Singh Rao II Puar, titular Maharaja of Dewas Senior

See also