Welcome to the world of Brahmins. The word brahmin is anglicized from the word Brahman from sanskrit which means the Supreme or the Universe. Thus a true brahmin is the spirit of the Brahm. A brahmin is required to lead the society to establish rule of law in a fair, just and equitable manner particularly for the weak and the poor. The brahmins have led from the front for the country and its people.
Medieval period Hindu kings such as King Porus of the Punjab, Samrat Hem Chandra Vikramaditya, also called Hemu, had established 'Hindu Raj' in North India after defeating Akbar's forces at Agra and Delhi, and had his coronation at Purana Quila in Delhi on 7th October, 1556.
Mangal Pandey, Nana Sahib Peshwa, Rani Laxmibai of Jhansi, Tatya Tope led the first war of Independence in 1857 against the British. Balgangadhar Tilak, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Rajguru, Ramprasad Bismil, Chandrashekhar Azad Tej Bahadur Sapru, Motilal Nehru, Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya, Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Jawaharlal Nehru are the unforgettable heroes of India’s freedom struggle.
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Morarji Desai, P. V. Narasimha Rao and Atal Behari Vajpayee were the Prime Minister of Independent India. Brahmin Presidents of India include V. V. Giri, R. Venkataraman, S. Radhakrisnan and Shankar Dayal Sharma.
Well known saints and scholors include Panini, Patanjali, Kalidas, Chanakya, Banabhatta, Goswami Tulsidas, SurDas, Saint Dnyaneshwar, Eknath, Rabindranath Tagore, Rahul Sankrityayan, Subramanya Bharathy, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Adi Shankaracharya,Ramanuja, Madhwacharya, Vallabacharya, Ramakrishna Paramhansa, Ramana Maharshi and Shree Kripalu Maharaj. Swami Prabhupada,
Scientists from the Brahmin fold include Varahamihira, Brahmagupta, Sir C.V.Raman a Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, M. S. Swaminathan, and the modern genius of mathematics are Srinivasa Ramanujan, Shakuntala Devi and C. P. Ramanujam.
Saint musician wereThyagaraja, Tansen, Baiju Bawra. Bhimsen Joshi, Pandit Ravi Shankar, Veena Doreswamy Iyengar, Mangalampalli Balamurali Krishna (popularly Dr. Balamurali Krishna), Pandit Jasraj, Shivkumar Sharma are contemporary musicians.
In entertainment, Usha Uthup, Mithun Chakraborty, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Hema Malini, Ashok Kumar, Kishore Kumar, Mukesh,[Shreya Ghoshal],Udit Narayan, Kumar Sanu[kedarnath bhattacharya], Alka Yagnik, Madhuri Dixit, Amrita Rao, Sharmila Tagore,Aditi Govitrikar, Gayatri Joshi, Sonali Bendre, Rani Mukherjee, Kajol, Vidya Balan, Sonali Kulkarni, Sadhana Saragan (original surname is 'Ghanekar') Sunil Dutt, Sanjay Dutt, Kamal Hassan, Mausumi Chatterji, Chunki Pande, Rekha and Meenakshi Sheshadri,Mani Ratnam are prominent brahmins so as famous cartoonist R. K. Laxman
Modern business leaders include the founder of Infosys, N. R. Narayana Murthy,UB Group Vijay Mallya, Jaypee group, the Cognizant.
In sports the brahmins include Vishwanathan Anand, Sunil Manohar Gavaskar, Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Sourav Ganguly, Dilip Balwanth Vengsarkar, Ajit Wadekar, Srinivasan Venkatraghavan, Erapalli Anandrao S Prasanna, Bagawath Subramania Chandrashekhar, Gundappa Vishwanath, , Ravi Shastri, Krishnamachari Srikkanth, Anil Kumble, Javagal Srinath, Venkatesh Prasad, Dinesh Karthik, Murali Kartik, Rohit Sharma, Ishant Sharma, Amit Mishra, Subramaniam Badrinath, Suresh Raina, Maneesh Pandey, Sadagoppan Ramesh, Ajit Agarkar.
The names above are not the only one we know. There are many more you know who have contributed to the well being of the people. Please do write and share with us the information you have.