List of people from Gujarat

This is a list of notable people whose ancestry has been traced to Gujarat, India.

Arts and entertainment

Gujarat's British royalty connection

In June 2013, Gujarat came to the media fore when it was discovered that the British monarchy have Indian mitochondrial DNA traced through Princess Diana which has been maternally inherited by both her sons, Prince William and Prince Harry. The connection traces back eight generations, to Eliza Kewark, who was housekeeper to Prince William's ancestor Theodore Forbes, born in 1788, a Scottish merchant from a landowning family who had travelled to India to work for the East India Company in Surat, a port north of Bombay. The DNA was passed down through Eliza's daughters and granddaughters to Princess Diana. Eliza is variously described in contemporary documents as "a dark-skinned native woman", "an Armenian woman from Bombay", and "Mrs. Forbesian". Genealogist William Addams Reitwiesner assumed she was Armenian. In June 2013, BritainsDNA announced that genealogical DNA tests on two of William's distant cousins in the same direct maternal line confirm that Eliza Kewark was of Indian descent, via her direct maternal line.

See also

• List of Gujarati poets
• Lists of Indians by state
• List of Parsis

References

1. List of chief ministers of Gujarat
2. Lists of Indian people
3. List of companies in Gujarat
4. Gujarat Legislative Assembly
5. Gujarati people
6. List of Rajya Sabha members from Gujarat
7. History of Gujarat
8. 2022 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election
9. Gujarat
10. 2007 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election
11. List of people from Uttar Pradesh
12. List of people banned from entering the United States
13. List of people from Prayagraj
14. List of people from Bihar
15. 2002 Gujarat riots
16. Baloch people
17. List of people from Kerala
18. List of people from Rajasthan
19. 2001 Gujarat earthquake
20. Government of Gujarat