Dhillon
Jat clan from Punjab
Dhillon | |
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Jat clan | |
Ethnicity | Punjabi |
Location | Punjab |
Language | Punjabi |
Religion | Sikhism, Hinduism, Islam |
Dhillon (Punjabi: ਢਿੱਲੋ (Gurmukhi); ڈھلون (Shahmukhi) pronunciation: [ʈi˨llõː]) is one of the largest Jat clans found in the Punjab region of India and Pakistan.[1][2][page needed][3] Dhillon sardars (chiefs) ruled the Bhangi Misl (sovereign state) in the Sikh confederacy.[4][page needed]
Notable peoples
Notable people who bear the name, who may or may not be affiliated with the tribe, include:
- Amritpal Singh Dhillon, an Indian-born Canadian singer, rapper, songwriter and record producer
- Bob Singh Dhillon, Canadian businessman and property owner
- Chhajja Singh Dhillon, 18th-century founder of the Bhangi Misl
- Gurinder Singh Dhillon, guru of Radha Soami Satsang Beas
- Gurdial Singh Dhillon (1915–1992), Speaker of Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India
- Hari Singh Dhillon, 18th-century maharaja
- Harmeet Dhillon (born 1969), American lawyer and political official
- Janet Dhillon, American lawyer and business executive, chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission 2019–2021
- Jarnail Singh Dhillon, former Indian football player
- Jhanda Singh Dhillon, 18th-century maharaja
- Joginder Singh Dhillon (1914–2003), officer in the British Indian Army and Indian Army
- Kanwal Jeet Singh Dhillon, is a retired Lieutenant General Officer of the Indian Army
- Navneet Kaur Dhillon, Femina Miss India 2013 and Bollywood and television actress
- Poonam Dhillon, Bollywood and television actress
- Rukshar Dhillon, British actress
- Uttam Dhillon, American attorney and law enforcement official, husband of Janet Dhillon
- Vic Dhillon, Canadian politician
- Zulfiqar Ahmad Dhillon (born 1948), Pakistan Army brigadier
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Surname list
This page lists people with the surname Dhillon. If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name(s) to the link.
See also
- Dillon (disambiguation)
References
- ^ Hanks, Patrick; Coates, Richard; McClure, Peter, eds. (2016). The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland (1st ed.). Oxford University Press (OUP). p. 717. ISBN 978-0199677764. Retrieved 5 August 2019.
Indian (Panjab): Sikh, unexplained. Further information: The Dhillon are one of the largest and most widely distributed Jat tribes in the Panjab.
- ^ Pettigrew, Joyce J. M. (2023). "Chapter 4 Patterns of allegiance I". ROBBER NOBLEMEN a study of the political system of the sikh jats. [S.l.]: ROUTLEDGE. ISBN 978-1-000-85849-5. OCLC 1367232807.
- ^ Singh, Kumar Suresh (1996). "Appendix B". Communities, Segments, Synonyms, Surnames and Titles. People of India: National series. Vol. 8 (Illustrated ed.). Delhi: Anthropological Survey of India. pp. 1355–1357. ISBN 0-19-563357-1. OCLC 35662663.
- ^ Sidhu, Kuldip Singh (1994). Ranjit Singh's Khalsa darbar and Attariwala sardars. Delhi: National Book Shop. ISBN 978-81-7116-165-2.
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