Pant (surname)

Pant or Panta/Pantha (Hindi: पंत) (Nepali: पन्त/पन्थ) are a group of surnames which are prevalent in India and Nepal.

Pant is part of a compound of North Indian and Marathi surnames of people with a Hindu Brahmin background. The Pant surname is derived from the title pandit, symbolizing the community's traditional commitment to scholarship.

People with Pant in their surname belong to the Marathi Brahmin and Kumauni Brahmin community, originally centered in Uttarakhand and to a lesser extent, Nepal. The ancestors of these families migrated from the western India, particularly from the Konkan area of Karnataka/Maharashtra to their current Himalayan home. Brahmins in Konkan area still retain "Pant" title in the middle names to indicate ancestral claims to ministership or high scholarship.

In Nepal

Panta were part of Thar Ghar(थर घर) aristocracy which assisted the rulers of Gorkha Kingdom.^[1]

• Maheshwar Panta, Army General of Gorkha Kingdom
• Yadav Prasad Pant, Nepalese economist, politician and former Governor (Fifth) of Nepal Rastra Bank
• Ram Raj Pant, Linguist of the Nepali language, literary writer and promoter of legal education in Nepal
• Anju Panta; Nepali Famous Singer
• Sunil Babu Pant; Social Activist In Nepal
• Garima Panta; Nepali Actress
• Yadav Pant, Former Governor of Nepal Rastra Bank
• Deepa Panta, Nepalese
• Raghuji Pant, CPN-UML politician

Pant is part of a compound of North Indian and Marathi surnames of people with a Hindu Brahmin background. The Pant surname is derived from the title pandit, symbolizing the community's traditional commitment to scholarship.

People with Pant in their surname belong to the Marathi Brahmin and Kumauni Brahmin community, originally centered in Uttarakhand and to a lesser extent, Nepal. The ancestors of these families migrated from the western India, particularly from the Konkan area of Karnataka/Maharashtra to their current Himalayan home. Brahmins in Konkan area still retain "Pant" title in the middle names to indicate ancestral claims to ministership or high scholarship.

In India

• Aditi Pant First Indian Lady to visit Antartica
• Govind Ballabh Pant, the first Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
• Hargovind Pant Indian Freedom Fighter
• Hemad Pant Prime Minister of Seuna (Yadava) dynasty
• K. C. Pant, former Indian Member of Parliament
• Kamla Pant , Women Activist, uttrakhand mahila manch, prominent role in making uttrakhand
• Manoj Pant Director, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade
• M. C. Pant, Indian radiation oncologist and Padma Shri recipient
• Meghna Pant, fiction author and financial journalist
• Muktesh Pant, businessman
• Prakash Pant Uttarakhand Politician
• Ranjan Pant , CEO Advisor and Global Strategy Management Consultant
• Pushpesh Pant, academic, food critic and historian
• Rishabh Pant, Indian cricketer
• Shivani, Gaura Pant, story writer for women's magazines
• Sorabh Pant Indian standup comic and writer
• Sumitranandan Pant, poet and philosopher

In Pakistan

• Sheila Irene Pant, 10th Governor of Sindh, wife of the first Prime Minister of Pakistan

In Spain

• Jorge Panta, Spanish tennis player

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