Rahul
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People named Rahul
Arts
- Rahul Banerjee (actor) (born 1983), Indian Bengali actor
- Rahul Bhatt (born 1982), Indian fitness trainer and actor
- Rahul Bose (born 1967), Indian Bengali actor, director, screenwriter, social activist
- Rahul Deshpande (born 1979), Indian classical singer
- Rahul Dev (born 1968), Indian actor and model
- Rahul Dev Burman (1939–1994), Indian composer and music director
- Rahul Dholakia, Indian film director, producer, and screenwriter
- Rahul Khanna (born 1972), Indian Hindi actor
- Rahul Kohli (born 1985), English actor
- Rahul Madhav, Indian Malayalam actor
- Rahul Nambiar, Indian singer
- Rahul Pandey, Indian Bollywood musician
- Rahul Raj (born 1980), Indian composer
- Rahul Ram, Indian musician
- Rahul Ramakrishna (born 1991), Indian actor, writer and journalist
- Rahul Ravindran, Indian actor
- Rahul Rawail (born 1951), Indian film director
- Rahul Roy (born 1968), Indian Hindi actor, producer and model
- Rahul Vaidya (born 1987), Indian singer
Politics
- Rahul Daulatrao Aher (born 1975), Indian politician from Maharashtra
- Rahul Gandhi (born 1970), Indian politician
- Rahul Mahajan (politician) (born 1975), son of Late Pramod Mahajan, a prominent Indian politician
Science
- Rahul Mukerjee (born 1956), Indian academic and statistician
- Rahul Pandit (born 1956), Indian physicist
- Rahul Potluri (born 1983), Indian-British physician and researcher
- Rahul Sarpeshkar, American bio-engineer
Sports
- Rahul Banerjee (archer) (born 1986), Indian archer
- Rahul Bheke (born 1990), Indian footballer
- Rahul Chahar (born 1999), Indian cricketer
- Rahul Dravid (born 1973), Indian cricketer
- K. L. Rahul (born 1991), Indian cricketer
- Rahul Kanwat (born 1974), Indian cricketer
- Rahul Sanghvi (born 1974), Indian cricketer
- Rahul Yadav (cricketer) (born 1989), Indian cricketer
- Rahul Yadav Chittaboina (born 1998), Indian badminton player
- Rahul KP (born 2000), Indian footballer
Other fields
- Rahul Bajaj (born 1980), industrialist
- Rahul Chandran (born 1976), policy analyst
- Rahul Easwar, Indian author and activist
- Rahul Ligma, fictional ex-employee of Twitter played by an amateur actor
- Rahul Mahajan (blogger), noted American blogger and author
- Rahul Roy (accountant) (1963–2009), Indian accountant
- Rahul Sankrityayan (1893–1963), Indian historian, religious scholar, philosopher, writer and polymath
- Rahul Sood (born 1973), Canadian business executive
- Rahul Yadav (born 1988), Indian entrepreneur
Multiple people
- Rahul Kumar (disambiguation), several people
- Rahul Prasad (disambiguation), several people
- Rahul Sharma (disambiguation), several people
- Rahul Singh (disambiguation), several people
References
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See also
- Raul, a given name in Romance languages
- Rahula (disambiguation)
- Raoul (disambiguation)
- Rasul (disambiguation)
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