title: Avtar
text: # Avtar
  
  Avtar is a given name. Notable people with this name include:
  
  * Avtar Singh Atwal, Deputy Inspector General of Police in Punjab Police
  * Avtar Singh Bhadana (born 1957), member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India
  * Avtar Singh Cheema (1933–1989), the first Indian to lead a successful expedition that climbed Mount Everest
  * Avtar Gill, Indian Television and film actor
  * Avtar Gill (darts player), Canadian darts player
  * Avtar Singh Kang, Punjabi singer and Punjabi Folk contributor
  * Avtar Singh Karimpuri, Indian politician of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)
  * Avtar Lit, the owner and chairman of Sunrise Radio Group
  * Avtar Singh Malhotra (1917–2005), Punjabi politician belonging to the Communist Party of India
  * Avtar Singh Paintal M.D. Ph.D. (1925–2004), medical scientist who made pioneering discoveries
  * Avtar Singh Rikhy (born 1923), former Secretary-General of Lower House of Parliament of India
  * Avtar Saini, microprocessor designer and developer
  * Avtar Singh Sandhu (1950–1988), poet of the Naxalite movement in the Punjabi literature of the 1970s
  * Avtar Singh (judoka) (born 1992), Indian judoka at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil
  * Avtar Singh (politician), Indian politician, member of the Sixth Legislative Assembly of Delhi of India
  