Mohan (given name)
Mohan is a given name and surname. Notable people with this name include:
Sole name
- Mohan, another name for Krishna, a major Hindu deity
- Mohan , Kollywood film actor
- Mohan, Indian director of Malayalam films
- Mohanlal, South Indian film actor
- Crazy Mohan, popular Tamil comedy actor, script writer and playwright
Given name
- Mohan Agashe, Indian actor
- Mohan Babu, born Manchu Bakthavatsalam Naidu, actor, producer, politician from Andhra Pradesh
- Mohan Baidya, chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal Revolutionary Maoist
- Mohan Bam, Nepalese judoka
- Mohan Bhagwat, veterinary doctor and the current Sarsanghachalak of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
- Mohan Bhandari, Indian film and television actor
- Mohan Chand Sharma, Indian Police Inspector who served in the Delhi Police, Special Cell
- Mohan Choti, Indian film actor
- Mohan Das, more commonly known as Lotan Baba, an Indian holy man promoting peace by rolling his body along the ground when he travels
- Mohan Dharia, Indian lawyer, Union minister, and social worker
- Mohan Ellawala, governor of Sabaragamuwa Province in Sri Lanka from October 2, 2008 up until his death in 2009
- Mohan al-Furayji, Iraqi Army general who planned the 2008 operation against militias in Basra
- Mohan Galot, Kenyan businessman
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, better known as Mahatma Gandhi
- Mohan Gokhale, Indian film, television and theater actor who has worked in art films such as Sparsh, Bhavni Bhavai and Mirch Masala
- Mohan Krishna Indraganti, award-winning Telugu film director from India
- Mohan Jena, member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India representing the Jajpur constituency of Orissa, and a member of the Biju Janata Dal political party
- Mohan Joshi, Indian actor
- Mohan Kanda, retired Indian Administrative Service officer and a member of the National Disaster Management Authority
- Mohan Kapoor, Indian actor
- G. Mohan Kumar, retired Indian Administrative Service and former Defence Secretary and Defence Production Secretary of India
- Mohan Kumar, Indian film director
- Mohan Kumar , Indian killer called "Cyanide Mohan"
- Mohan Kumaramangalam, Indian politician and communist theorist who was a member of the Indian National Congress, and later, the Communist Party of India
- Mohan Lal Grero, Sri Lankan educationist and politician, currently a member of the Provincial Councillor of the Western Province
- Mohan Lal Jhikram, leader of Indian National Congress from Madhya Pradesh, India
- Mohan Lal Kashmiri, spy, diplomat, and author
- Mohan Lal Sukhadia, political and social leader who served as Chief Minister of Rajasthan for seventeenyears
- Mohan Maharishi, Indian theatre director, actor and a playwright
- Mohan Munasinghe, Sri Lankan physicist
- Mohan Patel, former field hockey player from New Zealand, who was a member of the national team that won the Gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal
- Mohan Kumar Raja, Indian sprinter
- Mohan Rakesh, major figure of 20th-century Hindi literature
- Mohan Rawale, member of the 14thLok Sabha of India representing the Mumbai South Central constituency of Maharashtra and a member of the Shiv Sena political party
- Ram Mohan Roy, founder of Brahmo Samaj, a 19th-century spiritual and religious reformation
- Mohan Sharma, Indian film actor in Malayalam films of Chattakari fame
- Manmohan Singh, Prime minister of India
- Mohan Singh , Indian military officer and member of the Indian Independence Movement
- Mohan Singh, Indian politician, former general secretary of the Samajwadi Party
- Mohan Bikram Singh, often referred to as MBS, party name Gharti, a Nepalese politician
- Mohan Singh Kohli, Indian mountaineer
- Mohan Sinha Mehta, founder of Vidya Bhavan group of institutions and Sewa Mandir in Udaipur in Rajasthan
- Mohan Singh Oberoi, widely regarded as the father of 20thcentury India's hotel business
- Mohan Sithara, Malayalam film music composer in Kerala
- Mohan Sivanand, Indian journalist and artist
- Mohan Upreti, Indian theatre director, playwright and a music composer, considered one of the pioneers in Indian theatre music
Surname
- A. G. Mohan, Indian yoga teacher, yoga therapist and author
- Ananthula Madan Mohan, Indian politician
- Balaji Mohan, Indian film director
- C. Mohan, computer scientist and IBM Fellow
- Chander Mohan, former Deputy Chief Minister of Haryana State in India
- Chander Mohan , Indian journalist
- Chandra Mohan
- Chinta Mohan, member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India representing the Tirupathi constituency of Andhra Pradesh, and a member of the Indian National Congress
- Dominic Mohan, British journalist originally from Bristol, England
- Duvvasi Mohan, Telugu comedian
- Earl Mohan, American film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 50 films between 1915 and 1927
- John Mohan, American bridge player
- Keith Mohan, English cricketer who played for Derbyshire in the County Championship in 1957 and 1958
- Kim Mohan, American author and editor
- Mac Mohan, Indian character actor in Hindi language films
- Madan Mohan
- Manjima Mohan, Indian film actress
- Monica Mohan, American artist
- Murali Mohan, South Indian film actor, producer and politician
- N. M. Mohan, an Indian comics writer
- Narendra Mohan, Indian industrialist, chairman and managing director of the Rs 874-crore Jagran Prakashan publisher for India's largest selling Hindi newspaper Dainik Jagran
- Nicky Mohan, English former professional footballer who played in defence
- Pantam Gandhi Mohan, Indian politician
- Radha Mohan, Tamil movie director
- Raja Mohan, Indian academic, journalist and foreign policy analyst
- Rakesh Mohan, Indian economist and former Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India
- Ram Mohan, veteran in the Indian animation industry
- Saira Mohan, fashion model of Indian, Irish and French heritage
- Saranya Mohan, Indian film actress who has acted in Malayalam and Tamil films such as Yaaradi Nee Mohini and Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu
- Shweta Mohan, Indian playback singer who has sung in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada languages, daughter of Sujatha Mohan
- Sujatha Mohan, Indian playback singer who has sung in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi movies
- Vinu Mohan, Indian actor in Malayalam cinema, son of actress Sobha Mohan