This is a list of notable members of the Jat community.
List of notable Jats who were Indian independence activists or freedom fighters
List of notable Jats in the history of pre-independence India
List of Jats who had served in the cabinet of Government of India
List of Jats who had served in the Parliament of India (Lok Sabha or Rajya Sabha or both)
List of Jats who served in the state government’s
List of Jats who had served in politics outside India
List of notable Jats during the British era who hailed from royal families that ruled princely states
The news of the voyage to Vancouver under the leadership Gurdit Singh (1859–1954), a Jat Sikh from majha, reached the immigrant Sikhs in Howrah and Kolkata.
... Bhagat Singh (b. 1907)—a Punjabi Jat Sikh with avowedly socialist and atheist views on the nation and the world ...
All these rebels were people of different clans of Jats.
Ghasi Ram, the leading Jat zamindar of the place, was chiefly instrumental in stopping Colonel Burn's supplies and otherwise annoying his forces. His son, Mohar Singh, following in the paternal footsteps, was consequently hanged on account of similar achievements during the year 1857.
Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon was born at Algon on 18 March 1914 . His father and mother were descendants of the Dhillon and Dhariwal Sikh Jats
People were divided: Jat Raja Nahar Singh of Ballabhgarh was supporting Bahadur Shah, and the Jats of Ghaziabad were supporting the British.
She was born on 5 March 1902 in a wealthy and elite Jat family in Khekra town of Meerut district of the then United Province.
Vajpayee had also contested from Mathura where he lost to the Jat king, Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh, a Gandhian and a Nobel Peace Prize nominee of 1932.
Shah Mal, a Jat farmer, emerged from relative oblivion to lead the rebellion in Baraut locality in north-western India until he was killed in combat.
He was the son of Sar- dar Kishan Singh Sandhu Jat and Shrimati Vidyavati and nephew of Sardar Ajit Singh.
The Ghadr Movement as it came to be known, was spear headed by Har Dyal, a Hindu, and Sohan Singh Bhakhna, a Jat Sikh.
Teja Singh Swatantra (b.1901), a Jat Sikh of village Aluna (Gurdaspur district), was active in the Akali and Congress movements.
A Jat Sikh officer, Gill during his tenure as DGP lobbied with leaders of all sections against terrorism
It was founded by the Jat Sikh aristocrat Dyal Singh Majithia and was first published on 2 February 1881
My Jat origins and family were to come to my rescue on another occasion, this time in a rather bizarre incident
... I am full jat sikh.
"I am a Jat boy from Haryana ... ," says Darshan, ...
Do you think a Jaat boy like me would know the art of proposing?
I am a Jat Sikhni from Punjab.
Mallika chips in, "We Jats, Dharamji and I, will set the screens on fire!"
I am a Jat, so it came naturally.
Being a Jat, I have my ego.
I am a Jat Sikhni, born and brought up in Delhi.
I am a Jat from Delhi.
Vivek: I am a typical Jat ...
... मैं मेरठ से हूँ और जाट हूँ ...[... I am from Meerut and am a Jat ...]
... मैं 100% हरियाणवी जाट हूँ।[... I am 100% Haryanvi Jat.]
Heer and Ranjha, and Mirza and Sahiban belonged to the Jat caste.
Heer and Ranjha, was sung by minstrels throughout the Punjab. Ranjha was a handsome Muslim Jat who was smitten by love for the beautiful Heer, of the Sial clan from the Jhang in western Punjab
Mirza was the son of Banjal, a Kharal Jat Chief of Danabad in the Montgomery district. Sahiban was the daughter of the Jat Chief Khiva Khan belonging to the Syal clan
In 1669, under Gokula, a local Jat Zamindar, they raised banner of revolt.
... after the death of Jat ruler Jawahar Singh.
In 1685, Rajaram, a Jat zamindar at Sinsini, eighty kilometres west of Agra, strengthened a strongly defended fortress of hardened mud.
Ranjit Singh, the Jat chief, and Amir Khan, the chief of the Pindaris, to wean them away from Holkar.
Adequate monsoon was fundamental for the survival of the primarily agricultural Jat community to which Suraj Mal belonged.
The Jat Raja Suraj Mal advised the Marathas to conduct guerrilla warfare against Ahmad Shah for several reasons.
PHULA SINGH (c. 1761–1823). ... He was a Jat, son of an attendant at Akal Takhat, and upon joining the Akalis became their most famous leader.
Bābā Dīp Singh was a Jat from Lahore district, ...
Baghel Singh, a Dhaliwal jat,9 was the resident of Dhariwal which is situated adjacent to Jhabal near Amritsar.
Bhangi misl was one of the 12 misls or 18th-century principalities. The founder of the misl was Chhajja Singh of Panjwar village, near Amritsar, who had converted to Sikhism. He was succeeded by Bhuma Singh, a Dhillon Jat of the village of Hung, near Badhni in the present-day Moga district.
The founder of the Bhangi Misal, Chajja Singh, a Jat, was a native of Panjwar village, eight kos from Amritsar.
Some of the other Jat chiefs having their possessions in the Rachna Doab were, Jai Singh Kanhiya, Jhanda Singh and Ganda Singh Bhangi and Jassa Singh Dulu.
... Hari Singh Bhangi, a Dhillon Jat from the village Panjwar near Amritsar.
Hira Singh, a Sandhu Jat of village Baharwal ...
... Jai Singh, a Sandhu Jat of village Kanha Kachha, ...
BHAGO, MAI (fl. 1699–1708), ... Hers was a family of the Dhillon clan of the jat ...
Mai Bhago, une Jat du clan Dhillon, s'illustra au début du XVIIIe siècle en combattant les armées mogholes pour le compte de Gourou Gobind Singh.[Mai Bhago, a Jat of the Dhillon clan, distinguished herself at the beginning of the 18th century by fighting the Mughal armies on behalf of Guru Gobind Singh.]
Another important figure was Kapur Singh, a Virk Jat from a family of rural zamindars who became an influential political and military leader.
It is obvious that their leadership was largely in Jaṭ hands and eventually it was a Jaṭ misldār, Rañjīt Siṅgh, who secured total ascendancy.
Young Ranjit Singh's willingness to become a king revealed boldness, for it went against his Jat background and against Sikh tradition as well.
Although the maximum area of Punjab was occupied for only a short period of time under the leadership of the famed Jat Maharaja Ranjit Singh ...
The chief of Phillaur, Tara Singh, was a Kang Jat like his namesake Tara Singh Dallewalia, and had made joint conquests with him.
Mutawassil Khan Bahadur Rustam Jang, son of Hifz Ullah, son of Sa'd Ullah Khan Shahjahani
Sadullah Khan was the son of Amir Bakhsh a cultivator of Chiniot. He belongs to Jat family.
For this Aulakh Jat, ...
The Jats of Punjab have produced many men of renown. One of the most illustrious was Maharaja Ranjit Singh (1780–1839). ... In the Services are former Air Chief Marshal Arjan Singh and Lt Gen Harbakhsh Singh who played a major role in the 1965 War. Nirmaljit Singh won the first Param Vir Chakra for the IAF.
Badlu Singh was a Hindu Jat, ...
... Chhelu Ram who had been mortally wounded at the crisis of the fighting. ... For unparalleled courage and leadership, this Jat from Dhenod Village, Bhiwani, Hissar District earned for his Battalion the second 'Victoria Cross' of the war.
Naik GIAN SINGH, 4/15th Punjab Regiment (Jat Sikh)
A Jat from the Sisana village in Rohtak district, Hoshiar Singh was in command of the left forward company of his battalion.
... these circumstances changed when command was given to J. F. Ribeiro and K. P. S. Gill, both known for their courage and leadership. The fact that Gill was a Jat Sikh was an added advantage because the Jat Sikhs were leading the insurgency in Punjab.
Mohan Singh (b.1909) of village Ugoke (Sialkot district), a Jat of Ghuman sub-caste, joined the army in 1927 as a common sepoy.
Havildar PARKASH SINGH, 5/8th Punjab Regiment (Jat Sikh)
Even as the troops led by Lt Gen Ranjit Singh Dyal, a Jat Sikh officer, stormed the temple complex where Bhindranwale and Amrik Singh were holed up, ...
A Jat from village Barda in the Narnoul Tehsil of Patiala, Richpal Ram, by his superb gallantry earned for his Regiment and the Division the first Victoria Cross of the War.
It was here that Subadar Richpal Ram, a Jat from Patiala State, earned the first of the four Victoria Crosses won by 4th Indian Division during the war, another of which also went to the 4th/6th Rajputana Rifles.
He belonged to a marginal Jat Sikh farming family ...
Shahbeg Singh, a Jat Sikh, had a distinguished career in the Indo-Pakistan war of 1971 when he trained the Mukti Bahini guerilias.
Amrita's childhood was quite eventful. After her eighth birthday, Amrita's father, Umrao Singh Sher-Gil Majithia, a Jat Sikh aristocrat
Jats of Punjab have produced many men of renown. One of the most illustrious was Maharaja Ranjit Singh ( 1780-1839 ). One of India's greatest modern painters, Amrita Sher - Gil, was the daughter of a Jat father
Here lived a small land-owning class of Jat farmers, by caste known as Tataley. They addressed themselves as Chaudhry, from which we know that the given name of the poet was Chaudhry Faiz Ahmed.
... Qadiryar (1802–90) who was born in the village of Machhike, Panjab (now in West Panjab, Pakistan). He was Sandhu Jatt.
SUKHPAL VIR SINGH, 'HASRAT' (Punjabi; b. 1936) was born at Khanewal, now in Pakistan, in a Jat Sikh family of Bajwas.
Jaswant Kanwal was very proud of being a Jat, whereas Sujan Singh belonged to a backward class.
Virk himself belongs to a jat family and is conscious of it, and yet he has made no attempt at idealising the jat.
Virk's background resembles that of Sandhu and Sekhon to a remarkable degree. ... All three are Jat Sikhs who went on to get Master's degrees in English and secure government-dependent jobs (Sandhu and Virk have worked in agriculture and communications for the government almost all of their lives, Sekhon was a Principal in government aided colleges).
"... I am from a jat caste and have explored caste issues as they are played out in Britain and how we view India. ..." Nagra says.
... Charan Singh, who as a Jat became India's first non-Brahman prime minister.
... the two chief ministers of Haryana, Bansi Lal and Devi Lal (both Jat by caste), ...
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Beant Singh, a Jatt Sikh, was elected as Chief Minister ...
मैं जट्ट सिख बिरादरी से आता हूँ जिसको पंजाब में जाट कहते हैं।[I come from Jatt Sikh community which is called Jat in Punjab.]
"I am a Jat. ... " Hooda said.
Gyan Singh Rarewala (b.1901), a Cheema Jat of village Rara in Patiala state, was chief minister of PEPSU; ...
The present Congress Chief Minister (Darbara Singh) and the earlier Chief Ministers (Gurnam Singh, Lachhman Singh Gill and Parkash Singh Badal) have come from the Jat-Sikh community.
Mr. Zail Singh, it may be noted, is not averse to a Congress (I)-Akali electoral alliance as it would help him ward off the joint attack of three factions led by Mr. Darbara Singh, Mr. Gurdial Singh Dhillon, Mr Harcharan Singh Brar – all Jats – against his supremacy in the Punjab Congress (I).
Similarly, in Haryana, except for Bhagwat Dayal Sharma and Banarsi Das Gupta, whose combined tenure lasted two years, all the CMs have been Jat (Bansi Lal, Devi Lal, Om Prakash Chautala, Hukam Singh, Bhupinder Singh Hooda), Bishnoi (Bhajan Lal), or Ahir (Rao Birendra Singh).
In fact, barring Giani Zail Singh, all the other chief ministers (Justice Gurnam Singh, Lachaman Singh Gill, Prakash Singh Badal, Surjit Singh Barnala, Darbara Singh, Beant Singh, H. S. Brar, Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, and Capt. Amrinder Singh) belonged to the Jat Sikh community.
... Partap Singh Kairon, a Jat, who was Congress chief minister of Punjab ...
The selection of a Jat, Sahib Singh Verma as chief minister in 1996, ...
Surjit Singh is a Dhaliwal Jat born in the village of Atali (District Gurgaon) in 1925.
Ajit Singh, a Jat by caste, is the alliance candidate from Muzaffarnagar and will be up against BJP MP Sanjeev Baliyan, who is a prominent Jat leader.
BALDEV SINGH (1902–1961). A Jat and an Akali politician prominent in the negotiations for India's independence.
Two Jat deputy ministers, Kamla Beniwal (Jaipur district) and Daulat Ram Saran (Churu district) announced their resignations at the same time.
Of the four other ministers who served in both periods, two were the Jat leaders—Kumbharam Arya and Nathu Ram Mirdha—and the third was ...
मैं हूँ भरतपुर का जाट ...[I am a Jat of Bharatpur ...]
Swaran Singh was a Jat Sikh lawyer from Jullundur. He was elected to the Punjab Assembly for the first time in 1946, and at the age of only twenty nine was the youngest member of the Government.
Sardar Swaran Singh (b. 1907) is a Jat Sikh from Jullundur District.
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... former agriculture minister and Lok Sabha Speaker Balram Jakhar, a Jat leader, who ...
In 1984, the Congress chose Jat leader Choudhary Bharat Singh as its Lok Sabha candidate for Outer Delhi ...
Choudhary Bharat Singh, Congress (I) nominee and Tarif Singh of Dalit Mazdoor Kisan Party, both Jats of Outer Delhi with rural background contested the Lok Sabha election for the first time from this constituency.
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Jagdev Singh, born 1927, is a Gill Jat from the village of Talwandi (District Ludhiana). ... Harchand Singh (1934–85) was a Diya Jat from the village of Gideryani (District Sangrur).
... Ranbir Singh Hooda, who was a freedom fighter and an influential Jat leader.
Chhotu Ram, the leading Hindu Jat politician, encouraged ...
Mr. Kaswan's grandfather, Deep Chand Kaswan, was a freedom fighter and an MP, while his mother, Kamla Kaswan, has also been an MLA from Sadulpur. The Kaswan family wields a significant influence in Churu district, just like the politically influential Ola family in Jhunjhunu, Mirdha family in Nagaur and the Maderna clan in Jodhpur.
Soon the leadership of Master Tara Singh (a non-Jat urban Sikh) was replaced by that of Sant Fateh Singh, a rural Jat.
Sant Harchand Singh Longowal (1934–85) was a Jat Sikh whose induction into politics was through the religious network.
In 1989, Devi Lal invited Surjeet, a fellow Jat, to contest ...
Lyallpuri, Jagjit Singh (b. 1917–). Sikh Jat; Dist. Lyallpur; ...
The "saab" of Jat-land is no more. One of the strongest Jat leaders of Rajasthan, 88-year-old Parasram Maderna.
Yes, I am a proud Jat, ...
It is primarily a Jat-dominated constituency and the erstwhile Jat royals Raja Man Singh, his daughter Krishnendra Kaur and Arun Singh have been winning from here for years now.
Chaudhary was a prominent Jat leader and was elected to the state assembly seven times, starting from 1967. He served as cabinet minister and as the leader of opposition.
Of course, a lot of Jats are politicians. Ch Shujat Hussain has been PM, and Ch Pervez Elahi Deputy PM. Both are Jats. As is former President Rafiq Tarar. And Ashir Azeem might take heart from the DG ISPR, Lt Gen Asim Bajwa, being one too.
However, during a post-hearing media talk, Gill said he was a Jatt and would retaliate with more force.
The Unionists chose Sikander Hayat to succeed Fazl as their leader. A Khattar Jat from Wah, Sikander was a son of the Muhammad Hayat who had served as Nicholson's aide in 1857 before rising in the ranks of Punjab's rural gentry.
In the contest, Nawabzada Asghar Ali (MLA, 1943-1956; MWPA, 1965), the traditional head of the Gujjar Tribes, and QML candidate, was defeated by Chaudhury Zahur Illahi of the CML. The latter is a Waraich Jat by social background and a prominent industrialist by occupation.
I am proud to be part of Jat Sikh family
BUDDHA, BHAI or BABA (trad. 1506–1631). A Jat from Kathu Nangal, who was originally called Bura Randhava.
Dhannā or Dhanā (c. 1500). ... He was a farmer of the Jāṭ caste from the Ajmer region.
... the narrator of the Bala Janamsakhi, Bhai Bala, a Sandhu Jat and ...
MANI SINGH (1673–1738). A Jat Sikh born in a village near Patiala.
BIDHĪ CHAND, BHĀĪ (d. 1640), warrior as well as religious preacher of the time of Gurū Hargobind, was a Chhīnā Jaṭṭ of the village of Sūrsiṅgh, 34 km south of Amritsar ...
DHARAM SINGH (1666–1708). One of the Panj Piare. A Jat Sikh who, based on 18th-century Sikh manuscripts, was at least at this time considered to be an avatar of the Jat Bhagat Dhanna.
The famous saint Garibdas was born in 1717 in a Jat family in a village named Chhudani in Jhajjar district
Garibdas of Chhudani (Rohtak) was the most famous. Born in 1717, he was a Jat by caste.
... , Karma Bai was born into the Jāt jātī, ...
RANDHIR SINGH (1878–1961). A Grewal Jat from Narangwal near Ludhiana ...
Tējaji was a Jāt of Karnala near Nagaur, in Marwar
... sometime after 1691, which saw the first king of Patiala rise to power – the Jat Sikh Baba Ala Singh.
The more successful among them even rose to the status of minor kings, as we saw with the Jat ruler Badan Singh of Bharatpur.
... resulted in the capture of Gohad and the expulsion of its Jat ruler, Rana Bhim Singh.
... Bhupinder Singh of Patiala, who as a Jat Sikh ...
... , Maharaja Brijendra Singh, was the last of the Sinsinwar Jats to rule Bharatpur, ...
At the same time, the British also helped the Jats led by Rana Kirat Singh, to win the Gohad region from the Scindias. As part of an arrangement made by the Company, Rana Kirat Singh was given Dholpur and the former took over Gohad. Thus, the Dholpur state was formed and Rana Kirat Singh was declared its ruler in 1805.
... and Kishen Singh the Jat ruler of Bharatpur.
Pratap Singh Malvendra Bahadur was born a Jat Sikh of the Sidhu clan, the son of Maharaja Ripudaman Singh, in 1919.
Salam was the son of Chaudhri Muhammad Husain, a schoolteacher of Jhang and Hajirah who belonged to Faizullah Chak near Batala Muhammad Husain was a jat and Hajirah a Kakkezai.
Kahn Singh was a Dhillon Jat ...
KAHN SINGH NABHA (1861–1938). ... Born a Jat, he took his name from the town of Nabha ...
I was born into an orthodox family of Jat Sikhs, and raised as a Sikh
"Haan mai Jaat Hoon" at 19:55
Many people in Punjab said that I got scared and went to Dubai. 'He left from there, but a true jatt would have never left' - Jatt toh asli hi hain, konsa nakli hain [I am a true Jatt, who am I then]?
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Under the leadership of a charismatic Jat, Mahendra Singh Tikait, the BKU undertook its first large scale agitation in January 1987
The impetus for social innovation also came from among Jat Sadhus ... A number of these religious leaders were active in the creation of schools and community associations. One, Swami Keshwanand, was instrumental in the founding of the Sangaria School ...
Born into a Punjabi Jat family in Pakistan's Punjab, he is the third-oldest among eight siblings. Nadeem made his debut at the Olympics at the 2020 Summer Olympics, which were held in 2021.
transl. ..And most importantly, she (Mallika Sherawat) is also a Jat!..
Former India medium-pacer Balwinder Singh Sandhu cracked a few jokes. "... You see, he is a Jat and so am I.
On top of that I was Punjabi, a Jatt.
तुम्हें पता नहीं है ये जाट है, जैसे मैं जाट हूँ ...[You don't know she is Jat, like I am Jat...]
"No if, no but, it's only Jat" — this dialogue from Jo Bole So Nihal comes in handy for BJP's sitting MP Navjot Singh Sidhu, who hastens to add "and vote for this Jat" while campaigning in his constituency.
I think Jaideep Ahlawat, because woh bhi Jaat hain, main bhi Jaat hoon.
मुझे गर्व है मैं जाट हूँ।[I am proud to be Jat.]
Dhawan's nickname amongst his peers is Jaat-jee, which comes from his Jaat heritage.
"I appeal to all my brothers to give up violence and present their demands in a constitutional manner. We are saviours, not destroyers," Sehwag, who is himself a jat, tweeted.
I am a Jat Sikh ...
Since Mamta Kharab is a Jat and I am also a Jat, she was talked about in our house.
I am Jatt Sikh and I am proud of my heritage.
The lives of 'revolver dadis' Chandro Tomar and Prakashi Tomar is proof enough of that. ... Coming from a patriarchal jat family, their accomplishments paved the way for women in and around Baghpat to take up the sport.
I am illiterate and belong to a typical Jat joint family ...
... हमारी जो जाट कौम है वो लड़कियों के बारे में ध्यान जरूर दे ...[... our Jat community must pay attention to the girls ...]
Guru Chandgi Ram and Mahavir Phogat had the advantage of being in positions of power. ... And they were both Jats, who had a say in the khap.
... the big-built Jat ...
Being a Jat myself, ...
Justice (retd) Devi Singh Tewatia, who was the chief justice of Calcutta high court in 1988, happens to be the only jat to have become an HC chief justice
... Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, a Jat Sikh from southern Punjab, ...
I was a Jaat! I realized for the first time that caste politics played a very important role in the political scenario.