title: Krishan
text: # Krishan
  
  Krishan is a given name and surname. Notable persons with that name include:
  
  ## People with the given name
  
  * Krishan Bheel (born 1968), Pakistani politician
  * Krishan Chander (1914–1977), Urdu and Hindi Afsaana Nigaar, or short story writer
  * Krishan Dev Sethi, the current general secretary of Democratic Conference Jammu and Kashmir
  * Krishan Dinidu (born 1990), Sri Lankan cricketer
  * Krishan Imdika (born 1976), Sri Lankan cricketer
  * Krishan Kant, the tenth vice president of India from 1997 until his death
  * Krishan Kant Saini (born 1931), Indian Airforce helicopter pilot who achieved the world's highest altitude helicopter landing
  * Krishan Kumar (sociologist) (born 1942), British sociologist
  * Krishan Kumar (actor), Indian film actor and producer
  * Krishan Kumar Modi, (born 1940), Indian businessman and head of Modi Enterprises
  * Krishan Kumar Sharma "Rasik" (born 1983), Hindi, Punjabi, English and Urdu poet and writer
  * Krishan Lal Balmiki (1942–2010), Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party, member of the Parliament of India representing Rajasthan
  * Krishan Sabnani (born 1954), senior vice president of the Networking Research Laboratory at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs in New Jersey
  * Maharaj Krishan Kaushik (1955–2021), former member of the India men's national field hockey team and former coach
  * Predhiman Krishan Kaw, Indian plasma physicist, currently the director of the Institute for Plasma Research
  * Raj Krishan Gaur (born 1931), Agricultural minister from Himachal
  * Vikas Krishan Yadav (born 1992), Indian male boxer from Bhiwani district in Haryana, won a gold medal in the 2010 Asian Games
  
  ## People with the surname
  
  * Gopal Krishan, Indian musician and player of the vichitra veena
  * Guru Har Krishan (1656–1664), the eighth of the Eleven Gurus of Sikhism
  * Kewal Krishan (1923–2008), Indian medical practitioner and politician
  * Rajendra Krishan (1919–1988), Indian poet, lyricist and screenwriter
  