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Mohan (மோகன்) (actor)

Mohan (மோகன்), also Kokila Mohan and Mic Mohan, born 1956, is a Tamil film actor whose 1980s hits Payanangal Mudivathillai and Mouna Ragam won Filmfare Awards; he returned with Haraa (2024).

Mohan Agashe (मोहन आगाशे)

Mohan Agashe (मोहन आगाशे), Mohan Mahadeo Agashe, Indian psychiatrist and actor in Marathi and Hindi cinema and theatre; Nana Phadnavis in Ghashiram Kotwal, former FTII director, Padma Shri 1990, producer of National Award-winning Kaasav.

Mohan Babu

Mohan Babu (Manchu Bhakthavatsalam Naidu, born 1952), Telugu cinema actor, producer and educationist; debuted as villain in Swargam Narakam (1975); Padma Shri 2007, Filmfare Best Actor for Pedarayudu; Rajya Sabha MP 1995–2001.

Mohan Bhagwat

Mohan Madhukar Bhagwat (born 1950, Chandrapur, Maharashtra) is the sixth Sarsanghchalak (chief) of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh since March 2009; a veterinary doctor and former Sarkaryavah (2000) who became a pracharak during the 1975 Emergency.

Mohan Charan Majhi

Mohan Charan Majhi is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who has been Chief Minister of Odisha since 2024, the first Santhal tribal to hold the office.

Mohan Choti

Mohan Choti (मोहन चोटी), born Mohan Rakshakar (1935–1992), was an Indian comedian actor of Hindi cinema, named after his tea-shop-boy role in Musafir (1957), with roughly 280–300 films.

Mohan Gokhale (मोहन गोखले)

Mohan Gokhale (मोहन गोखले, 1953–1999), Indian Marathi-Hindi film, TV and theatre actor, brother of Vikram Gokhale. Best known as Yogesh Patel in Doordarshan's Mr Yogi (1989); died at 45 during Hey Ram shooting.

Mohan Joshi (मोहन जोशी)

Mohan Joshi (मोहन जोशी), born 1945 in Bengaluru, is an Indian Marathi and Hindi film, television, and theatre actor; National Award Special Mention for Gharabaher, Screen Award Best Villain for Mrityudand, known for Vaastav, Gunda, Gangaajal.

Mohan Koirala

Mohan Koirala (मोहन कोइराला; 1926–2007) was a Nepali poet, pioneer of the experimental stream in modern Nepali poetry, known for long, complex, symbolic prose poems and the Madan Puraskar winner Nadi Kinarka Majhi.

Mohan Lal (diplomat)

Mohan Lal, also known as Mohan Lal Kashmiri, was an Indian diplomat and intelligence agent who served the East India Company in Central Asia and the First Anglo-Afghan War.

Mohan Meakin

Mohan Meakin is an Indian brewery and distillery company, founded in 1855 by Edward Dyer. It is best known for its flagship product, Old Monk dark rum.

Mohan Patel

Mohan Patel (Mohan Magan Patel), New Zealand field hockey player born 1952 in Auckland; won gold in the men's tournament at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, brother of Ramesh Patel.

Mohan Raja (மோகன் ராஜா)

Mohan Raja (மோகன் ராஜா), also M. Raja or Jayam Raja, is a Tamil film director and screenwriter, son of editor Mohan and brother of Jayam Ravi, known for Telugu remakes like Jayam and the original hit Thani Oruvan (2015).

Mohan Rakesh

Mohan Rakesh (मोहन राकेश) was a leading twentieth-century Indian author who wrote in Hindi; his plays Ashadh Ka Ek Din and Adhe Adhure remain among the most performed works of modern Hindi theater.

Mohan Segal

Mohan Segal (Mohan Sehgal, 1921–2005), Hindi film director and producer of De Lux Films; directed New Delhi (1956) with Kishore Kumar and Sawan Bhadon (1970), which introduced Rekha and Navin Nischol.

Mohan Sharma

Mohan Sharma (മോഹൻ ശർമ), born 1948 in Thathamangalam, Palakkad, is a Malayalam-Tamil film actor, producer, and director, hero of Chattakkari (1974) and maker of the National Award-winning Gramam (2012), now living in a Tamil Nadu old age home.

Mohan Singh

Mohan Singh, born in 1909 near Sialkot, Punjab, was an Indian officer who founded the first Indian National Army in 1942 before his arrest by the Japanese.

Mohan Singh Bisht

Mohan Singh Bisht is an Indian politician and six-time BJP member of the Delhi Legislative Assembly, representing Karawal Nagar from 1998 to 2015 and elected Deputy Speaker in 2025.

Mohan Singh Oberoi

Mohan Singh Oberoi (Rai Bahadur M.S. Oberoi, 1898–2002), Indian hotelier, founder of The Oberoi Group and EIH Ltd; rose from Rs 50/month Cecil clerk to India's first five-star hotelier.

Mohan Trikha

Mohan Trikha is a software entrepreneur who founded Opplane, Inc., an enterprise-software company in Santa Clara, California, in 2018, and serves as its President and CEO.

Mohan Yadav

Mohan Yadav is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician serving as Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh since December 2023, previously the state's Higher Education Minister from 2020.

Mohan Yadav ministry

Mohan Yadav ministry, the BJP Council of Ministers of Madhya Pradesh formed December 2023 under Chief Minister Mohan Yadav with deputies Jagdish Devda and Rajendra Shukla; 28 ministers inducted 25 December 2023.

Mohanagar (মহানগর) (Bangladeshi TV series)

Mohanagar (মহানগর) is a Bengali-language crime thriller web series directed by Ashfaque Nipun and streamed on hoichoi, starring Mosharraf Karim as corrupt police officer OC Harun.

Mohanatarangini

Mohanatarangini (ಮೋಹನತರಂಗಿಣಿ) is a Kannada narrative poem in the Sangatya meter by the sixteenth-century saint-poet Kanakadasa, retelling the love story of Usha and Aniruddha, the grandson of Krishna.

Mohand al-Shehri

Mohand al-Shehri (1979-2001) was a Saudi al Qaeda muscle hijacker from Tanumah, Asir province, assigned to seat 2B of United Flight 175 on September 11, 2001; not a pilot, distinct from the unrelated al-Shehri brothers on Flight 11.

Mohandas

Mohandas is an Indian male given name meaning servant of Mohan, a name of the god Krishna, best known through independence leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, whose honorific was Mahatma.

Mohanlal

Mohanlal (മോഹൻലാൽ), born 1960 in Kerala, is an Indian actor, producer and playback singer of Malayalam cinema with over 360 films, five National Film Awards, the Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan, and the 2023 Dadasaheb Phalke Award.

Mohanlal Dayal Chauhan

Mohanlal Dayal Chauhan was an Indian businessman who founded the Parle confectionery business in Vile Parle, Mumbai, in 1929, the company known today as the maker of Parle-G biscuits.

Mohanlal filmography

Mohanlal filmography: screen record of Malayalam actor Mohanlal (മോഹൻലാൽ), from Thiranottam (1978) and Manjil Virinja Pookkal (1980) through about 400 films, five National Awards, Drishyam, and the Dadasaheb Phalke Award.

Mohave County

Mohave County, Arizona: northwestern county, county seat Kingman; one of Arizona's four original 1864 counties, second largest in the state at about 13,470 square miles; 228,102 residents (2025 est.); home of London Bridge, Route 66, Grand Canyon West.