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Rajesh Dharmani

Rajesh Dharmani is an Indian National Congress politician from Ghumarwin, elected three times to the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly, who became a state cabinet minister in December 2023.

Rajesh Exports

Rajesh Exports, also known as Rajesh Exports Ltd, is a Bengaluru gold company that operates a Swiss refinery and a retail chain. It was founded in 1989 by Rajesh Mehta.

Rajesh Gopinathan

Rajesh Gopinathan is an Indian business executive who led Tata Consultancy Services, Asia's largest IT services firm, as CEO and Managing Director from 2017 to 2023.

Rajesh Khanna (राजेश खन्ना)

Rajesh Khanna (राजेश खन्ना), born Jatin Chunnilal Khanna (1942–2012), was an Indian Hindi-film actor, producer, and Congress politician called Indian cinema's first superstar, with hits like Aradhana and Anand.

Rajesh Khattar (राजेश खट्टर)

Rajesh Khattar (राजेश खट्टर), born 1966 in Delhi, is an Indian actor, screenwriter, and Hindi dubbing artist, the Hindi voice of Iron Man, Jack Sparrow, and Berlin, and father of actor Ishaan Khattar.

Rajesh Kumar Pandey

Rajesh Kumar Pandey (राजेश कुमार पाण्डेय), born 1961, retired IPS officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre (2003 SPS batch), founding member of UP STF and ATS, key figure in Operation Bazooka against gangster Shriprakash Shukla, four gallantry medals, retired as Inspector General in 2021.

Rajesh Kumar Singh (civil servant)

Rajesh Kumar Singh (श्री राजेश कुमार सिंह), born 1964, is a 1989-batch Kerala-cadre IAS officer and India's Defence Secretary since 1 November 2024, formerly DPIIT Secretary, with additional charge as DRDO Chairman from May 2026.

Rajesh Magow

Rajesh Magow is an Indian business executive and chartered accountant who co-founded MakeMyTrip, led its 2010 Nasdaq listing, and has been its group CEO since 2020.

Rajesh Mishra

Rajesh Mishra, born in 1957, is an Indian politician and a Member of the Lok Sabha for the Sidhi constituency of Madhya Pradesh, representing the BJP since 2024.

Rajesh Nataranga

Rajesh Nataranga (ರಾಜೇಶ್ ನಟರಂಗ) is an Indian actor and writer in Kannada-language television and films, known for playing police officers in Kendasampige (2015) and Operation Alamelamma (2017).

Rajesh P.N. Rao

Rajesh P.N. Rao is a computational neuroscientist and computer scientist at the University of Washington, known for the Rao–Ballard predictive coding model and the first human brain-to-brain interface.

Rajesh Parmanand Shukla

Rajesh Parmanand Shukla, also known as Rajubhai Shukla, is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who was elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Gujarat in 2026.

Rajesh Pilot (राजेश पायलट)

Rajesh Pilot (राजेश पायलट), born Rajeshwar Prasad (1945–2000), was an Indian Air Force squadron leader turned Congress leader, six-time Lok Sabha MP from Bharatpur and Dausa, Union minister under Rajiv Gandhi and Narasimha Rao, and 1997 challenger for the Congress presidency.

Rajesh R. Mandawewala

Rajesh R. Mandawewala is an Indian businessman and qualified chartered accountant who serves as Executive Vice Chairman of Welspun World, holding company of the Mumbai-based Welspun Group.

Rajesh Raju

Rajesh Raju is an Indian venture capital investor and Managing Director at Kalaari Capital, a Bengaluru-based early-stage firm he joined in 2012, known for investing in direct-to-consumer companies.

Rajesh Ram

Rajesh Ram is an Indian National Congress politician who has led the Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee since 2025 and served as MLA from Kutumba, elected in 2015 and 2020.

Rajesh Ramanath

Rajesh Ramanath (ರಾಜೇಶ್ ರಾಮನಾಥ್) is an Indian film score composer, born in Chennai, who has worked chiefly in Kannada cinema since 1995, debuting with Shubha Lagna and Lady Police.

Rajesh Roshan (राजेश रोशन)

Rajesh Roshan, born Rajesh Roshan Lal Nagrath, is an Indian music director who won Filmfare Awards for Julie (1975) and Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai (2000).

Rajesh Swaminathan

Rajesh Swaminathan is a venture capital investor and Partner at Khosla Ventures since 2020, investing in renewables, industrial decarbonization, advanced manufacturing, and critical minerals, after leading Applied Ventures.

Rajesh T. Gandhi

Rajesh T. Gandhi, also published as Rajesh Gandhi, is an American infectious-diseases physician-researcher in Boston, a Harvard Medical School professor known for HIV reservoir and cure research.

Rajesh Thakker

Rajesh V. Thakker is a British endocrinologist known for defining the molecular basis of calcium homeostasis disorders and MEN1; he was May Professor of Medicine at Oxford from 1999 to 2023.

Rajesh Verma (Indian politician)

Rajesh Verma is an Indian politician of the Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) who has represented Khagaria in Bihar in the Lok Sabha since 2024, after serving as Deputy Mayor of Bhagalpur.

Rajeshbhai Chudasama

Rajeshbhai Chudasama, born in 1982, is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party who has represented Junagadh, Gujarat, in the Lok Sabha since 2014.

Rajeshwari Sachdev (राजेश्वरी सचदेव)

Rajeshwari Sachdev (राजेश्वरी सचदेव), Indian film, television and stage actress born 1975 in Mumbai; National Film Award winner for Sardari Begum, frequent Shyam Benegal collaborator, married to actor Varun Badola.

Rajgad Fort (राजगड)

Rajgad Fort (राजगड), literally "Ruling Fort," is a hill fort in Pune district, Maharashtra, captured by Shivaji in 1647 and the first capital of his Swarajya.

Rajgir (राजगृह)

Rajgir, known in ancient sources as Rajagriha, is a town in Nalanda district, Bihar, India, that served as the first capital of Magadha and remains a major Buddhist and Jain pilgrimage center.

Rajgir Mound

Rajgir Mound: mounds of ancient Rajagriha (Rajgir), Nalanda district, Bihar, early capital of Magadha, with 6th-5th century BCE cyclopean walls, Buddhist and Jain monuments, and ASI excavations from 1861-62 onward.

Rajib Bhattacharjee

Rajib Bhattacharjee is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who has represented Tripura in the Rajya Sabha since 2024, after leading the party's Tripura state unit.

Rajidae

Rajidae, hardnose skates, is a family of Rajiformes skates (Blainville 1816) with 18 genera and about 165 species, found benthically in all oceans from Arctic to Antarctic waters, oviparous with mermaid's-purse egg cases.

Rajiformes

Rajiformes is the order of skates within Batoidea, also historically applied to batoid rays broadly; about 290 living species in 38 genera, four molecular families, oviparous benthic fishes with divided pelvic fins and tail electric organs.