Grewal

Not to be confused with Gruel.

Grewal
Jat clan
Ethnicity	Punjabis
Religion	Sikhism, Hinduism and Islam

Grewal or Garewal is a family name historically used in India and Pakistan as a gotra (clan) of Jat people. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}

Notable people

• Alexi Grewal, Olympic gold medalist and cyclist;
• Gippy Grewal, singer, actor, and producer;
• Gurbir Grewal, former Attorney General of New Jersey and current director of enforcement for the SEC;
• Gurcharan Singh Grewal, Olympic gold medalist and field hockey player;
• Gurmant Grewal, former 3-term Member of Parliament in Canada and Deputy House Leader;
• Hardeep Grewal, Ontario MPP
• Inderpal Grewal, professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Yale University;
• J. S. Grewal, Indian writer, historian, and scholar;
• Mehtab Singh Grewal, Home minister in the court of Maharaja Hira Singh of Nabha State.
• Nina Grewal, former 4-term Member of Parliament in Canada. Nina and Gurmant Grewal were the first married couple to concurrently serve in the Canadian Parliament;
• Raj Grewal, former Member of Parliament in Canada from 2015 to 2019
• Sarla Grewal, Indian bureaucrat
• Zareena Grewal, historical anthropologist and documentary filmmaker

References

1. W. H. McLeod (2009). The A to Z of Sikhism - Page 171 via Google Books. ISBN   9780810863446 . Retrieved 14 January 2021.
2. Hari Dev Kohli (2010). Supreme Court On Hindu Law - Page 121 via Google Books. ISBN   9788175348226 . Retrieved 14 January 2021.
3. Surjit Singh Gandhi (2007). History of Sikh Gurus Retold: 1469-1606 C.E Page 812 via Google Books. ISBN   9788126908585 . Retrieved 14 January 2021.
4. Challenging the rule(s) of law : colonialism, criminology and human rights in India. Kalpana Kannabirān, Ranbir Singh. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Publications. 2008. p. 332. ISBN   978-81-321-0027-0. OCLC   501176322.
5. 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.