Krishan
# Krishan

Krishan is a given name and surname. Notable persons with that name include:

## People with the given name

* Krishan Bheel (born 1968), Pakistani politician
* Krishan Chander (1914–1977), Urdu and Hindi Afsaana Nigaar, or short story writer
* Krishan Dev Sethi, the current general secretary of Democratic Conference Jammu and Kashmir
* Krishan Dinidu (born 1990), Sri Lankan cricketer
* Krishan Imdika (born 1976), Sri Lankan cricketer
* Krishan Kant, the tenth vice president of India from 1997 until his death
* Krishan Kant Saini (born 1931), Indian Airforce helicopter pilot who achieved the world's highest altitude helicopter landing
* Krishan Kumar (sociologist) (born 1942), British sociologist
* Krishan Kumar (actor), Indian film actor and producer
* Krishan Kumar Modi, (born 1940), Indian businessman and head of Modi Enterprises
* Krishan Kumar Sharma "Rasik" (born 1983), Hindi, Punjabi, English and Urdu poet and writer
* Krishan Lal Balmiki (1942–2010), Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party, member of the Parliament of India representing Rajasthan
* Krishan Sabnani (born 1954), senior vice president of the Networking Research Laboratory at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs in New Jersey
* Maharaj Krishan Kaushik (1955–2021), former member of the India men's national field hockey team and former coach
* Predhiman Krishan Kaw, Indian plasma physicist, currently the director of the Institute for Plasma Research
* Raj Krishan Gaur (born 1931), Agricultural minister from Himachal
* Vikas Krishan Yadav (born 1992), Indian male boxer from Bhiwani district in Haryana, won a gold medal in the 2010 Asian Games

## People with the surname

* Gopal Krishan, Indian musician and player of the vichitra veena
* Guru Har Krishan (1656–1664), the eighth of the Eleven Gurus of Sikhism
* Kewal Krishan (1923–2008), Indian medical practitioner and politician
* Rajendra Krishan (1919–1988), Indian poet, lyricist and screenwriter
