Dwivedi
Dwivedi or Duvedi or Diwedi or Dubay or Dubey or Dube or Dobé is an Indian surname meaning versed in two Vedas.The surname is used by Brahmins in northern India.[1][2]
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Notable people with the surname Dwivedi
- Bal Govind Dwivedi - Hindi poet
- Chandraprakash Dwivedi - Indian film director and script writer
- Major General G. G. Dwivedi
- Hazari Prasad Dwivedi - Hindi novelist
- Janardan Dwivedi - Politician from Indian National Congress party
- Kapil Deva Dvivedi - Sanskrit Scholar Padma Shri
- Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi - Indian writer
- Manilal Dwivedi (1858–1898) - Gujarati writer and philosopher
- Nikhil Dwivedi - Bollywood actor
- O.P. Dwivedi - Professor emeritus, Order of Canada, Royal Society of Canada
- Ragini Dwivedi - Kannada actress and model
- Ram Chandra Dwivedi - (AKA Kavi Pradeep) - Poet and songwriter
- Rewa Prasad Dwivedi - Sanskrit scholar and poet
- Satyendra Dubey- Project Director for NHAI, murdered for fighting against corruption
- Seema Dwivedi, Indian politician
- Sharada Dwivedi - Mumbai-based historian and researcher
- Sudhakara Dvivedi - Mathematician
References
- Bedh Prakash Upreti (1975). Analysis of Change in Limbu-Brahmin Interrelationships in Limbuwan, Nepal. University of Wisconsin--Madison. p. 29.
- Janaki Ballabha Mohanty (1991). Vrajanatha Vadajena. Sahitya Akademi. p. 33.
At the king's behest came the brahmins with various surnames — Nanda, Misra, Mohapatra, Kar, Rath, Acharya, Sharangi, Bhatta, Dwivedi, Tripathy, Pari Chakravarthi,Rajguru...the Brahmins of North India.
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