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{{Infobox gotra|name=Grewal|type=Jat clan|ethnicity=[[Punjabis]]|religion=[[Sikhism]], [[Hinduism]] and [[Islam]]}}

'''Grewal''' or '''Garewal''' is a family name historically used in [[India]] and [[Pakistan]] as a [[gotra]] (clan) of [[Jat people]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vgixwfeCyDAC&dq=Grewal+Jats&pg=PA171 |title=The A to Z of Sikhism - Page 171 via Google Books|author=W. H. McLeod|date=2009|isbn=9780810863446 |access-date=14 January 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jQOqIjSrEEwC&dq=Grewal+Jats&pg=PA121 |title=Supreme Court On Hindu Law - Page 121 via Google Books|author=Hari Dev Kohli|date=2010 |isbn=9788175348226 |access-date=14 January 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vZFBp89UInUC&q=Grewal+Jats |title=History of Sikh Gurus Retold: 1469-1606 C.E Page 812 via Google Books|author=Surjit Singh Gandhi |date=2007|isbn=9788126908585|access-date=14 January 2021}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/501176322 |title=Challenging the rule(s) of law : colonialism, criminology and human rights in India |date=2008 |publisher=SAGE Publications |others=Kalpana Kannabirān, Ranbir Singh |isbn=978-81-321-0027-0 |location=Thousand Oaks, Calif. |pages=332 |oclc=501176322}}</ref><ref name=":6">{{Cite book |last=Singh |first=Kumar Suresh |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35662663 |title=Communities, Segments, Synonyms, Surnames and Titles |date=1996 |publisher=Anthropological Survey of India |isbn=0-19-563357-1 |edition=Illustrated |series=People of India: National series |volume=8 |location=Delhi |pages=1355–1357 |chapter=Appendix B |oclc=35662663}}</ref>

== Notable people ==
*[[Alexi Grewal]], an Olympic Gold medalist and cyclist;
*[[Gippy Grewal]], a singer, actor, and producer;
*[[Gurbir Grewal]], the former Attorney General of [[New Jersey]] and current director of enforcement for the SEC;
*[[Gurcharan Singh Grewal]], an Olympic Gold medalist and field hockey player;
*[[Gurmant Grewal]], a former 3-term Member of Parliament in Canada and Deputy House Leader;
*[[Hardeep Grewal]], Ontario MPP
*[[Inderpal Grewal]], a professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Yale University;
*[[J. S. Grewal]], an Indian writer, historian, and scholar;
*[[Mehtab Singh Grewal]], royal Home minister in the court of Maharaja [[Hira Singh]] of [[Nabha State]].
*[[Nina Grewal]], a former 4-term Member of Parliament in Canada. Nina and Gurmant Grewal were the first married couple to concurrently serve in the Canadian Parliament;
*[[Raj Grewal]], former Member of Parliament in Canada from 2015 to 2019
*[[Sarla Grewal]], Indian bureaucrat
*[[Zareena Grewal]], historical anthropologist and documentary filmmaker

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