කුමාර

කුමාර (; Sanskrit: कुमार) යනු හින්දු , බෞද්ධ පොදු පුද්ගල නාමයකි.middle name, or a family name found in Soth Asia, Mainly in India, sri lanka, Nepal though not specific to any caste or community. It is a generic title which variously means son, boy, prince, chaste. It is the 8th most common family name in the world.http://forebears.co.uk/surnames/kumar Kumar Surname at Forebears It is more common in Northern India and the most common family name in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Haryana, Delhi, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry.

 ඉතිහාසය 
The origin of kumar can be traced back to early development of Hinduism and its origin in India. The first usage of Kumar was for the Four Kumāras, the four sons of Brahma from the Puranic texts of Hinduism named Sanaka, Sanatana, Sanandana, and Sanat.

In Skanda Purana, the largest Mahapurana, a genre of eighteen Hindu religious texts, the text is devoted mainly to the leelas of Kartikeya, son of Shiva and Parvati. "Kumar" is used to refer Kartikeya.

 Notable people 

 First name 

 Kumar Basnet, (born 1943) Nepalese folk singer
 Kumar Kashyap Mahasthavir, Nepalese Buddhist monk
 Colonel Kumar Lama, Nepalese military officer
 Kumar Gaurav, Indian film actor
 Kumar Pradhan, Nepalese scholar
 Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji, cricketer who played for England
 Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji, AKA K. S. Ranjitsinhji, Indian prince, maharaja and Test cricketer
 Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lankan cricketer and a former captain of the Sri Lanka national cricket team
 Kumar Sanu, Indian Bollywood playback singer
 Kumar Vishwas, Hindi-language performance poet
 Kumar Dharmasena, Sri Lankan cricketer , International cricket umpire

 Middle name 

 Ajith Kumar Siriwardena, Sri Lankan Briton professor of hepato-pancreatico-biliary surgery
 Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri, a leading physicist
 Amrit Kumar Bohara, Nepalese politician
 Anil Kumar Jha, (born 1969) Nepalese politician
 Anjani Kumar Sharma, Nepalese surgeon
 Arjun Kumar Basnet, (born 1975) Nepalese marathon runner
 General Arunkumar Vaidya, the former Chief of Indian Army
 Bijay Kumar Gachchhadar, Nepalese politician
 Devendra Kumar Joshi, the Indian Chief of Naval Staff
 Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay, a Bengali singer, composer and producer
 Inder Kumar Gujral, an Indian politician who served as the 12th Prime Minister of India
 Keshav Kumar Budhathoki, Nepali politician
 Madhav Kumar Nepal, Former Prime Minister of Nepal
 Pawan Kumar Chamling, an Sikkimese politician who served as the 5th Chief Minister of Sikkim
 Pradip Kumar Rai known as Byakul Maila, Nepalese poet
 Prem Kumar Dhumal, chief minister of Indian state
 Roop Kumar Rathod, an Indian playback singer and music director
 Shailendra Kumar Upadhyaya, Nepalese diplomat
 Shiv Kumar Batalvi, a Punjabi language poet
 Sunil Kumar Yadav, Nepalese politician
 Suniti Kumar Chatterji, an Indian linguist, educationist and litterateur
 Tej Kumar Shrestha, Nepalese zoologist
 Vijay Kumar Pandey, Nepalese journalist
 Vijay Kumar Singh, Indian politician and a retired four star general in the Indian Army
 Vinod Kumar Shukla, modern Hindi writer

 Last name 

 Aanchal Kumar, Indian model and actress
 Ajith Kumar, an Indian film actor who works mainly in Tamil cinema
 Akhil Kumar, an Indian boxer who has won several international and national boxing awards
 Akshay Kumar, stage name of Indian-Canadian film actor, producer and martial artist, Rajiv Bhatia
 Amit Kumar, Indian film playback singer, actor, and director
 Amitava Kumar, Indian writer, journalist, professor
 Anand Kumar, Indian mathematician
 Anil Kumar, businessman, consultant
 Ashok Kumar, AKA Dadamoni in Bengali, Indian film actor
 Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Indian pace bowler
 Darshan Kumar, Indian actor
 Dilip Kumar, one of The Greatest Indian (Bollywood)film actor known as the 'Tragedy King' and a former Member of Parliament
 Girish Kumar, Indian film actor
 G. V. Prakash Kumar, Indian film score and soundtrack composer and singer
 Gulshan Kumar, T-Series music label owner
 Indra Kumar, an Indian film director and producer
 Jitender Kumar (flyweight boxer), an Indian flyweight boxer
 Kishore Kumar, Indian film playback singer, actor, lyricist, composer, producer, director, screenwriter and scriptwriter
 Manoj Kumar (boxer), Indian boxer who won a gold medal in the light welterweight division at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
 Manoj Kumar, an award-winning Indian actor and director in the Bollywood
 Meira Kumar, an Indian politician and a five time Member of Parliament
 Nirmalya Kumar, professor and businessman
 Nish Kumar, British comedian
 Nitish Kumar, Indian politician
 Pawan Kumar, several people, including:
 Pawan Kumar (director), Indian film director, actor, producer, and screenwriter
 Pawan Kumar (wrestler), Indian wrestler
 Praveen Kumar, Indian medium-pace swing bowler
 Raaj Kumar, Indian film actor
 Ritu Kumar, Indian fashion designer
 Sanjay Kumar, former CEO of Computer Associates
 Shashi Kumar, or Shashikumar, Indian actor and politician
 Srini Kumar, Indian Entrepreneur and publisher, founder of unamerican.com
 Sushil Kumar, several people, including:
 Sushil Kumar (scholar), Gandhian scholar
 Sushil Kumar (wrestler), Indian World Champion wrestler
 Tulsi Kumar, an Indian playback singer for Bollywood films
 Uttam Kumar, The Greatest actor of Indian (Bengali) cinema and contemporary of Dilip Kumar, the Bollywood legend
 Uttar Kumar, famous actor in north India
 Venkatesh Kumar, Hindustani vocalist.
 Vijay Kumar (sport shooter), Indian champion shooter, Olympic 2012 silver medalist
 Vinay Kumar, Indian cricket player
 Vinay Kumar (pathologist), the Alice Hogge & Arthur Baer Professor of Pathology at the University of Chicago

 other 
in Sri Lanka title "Kumar" writing as a "Kumara"

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