Rahul

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| meaning =Conqueror of all miseries, Bondage, Traveler

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| origin = India

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Rahul is a popular male name in India and has a variety of meanings. The earliest meaning found in the Upanishads is "conqueror of all miseries."{{Cite book|last=Nikhilananda|first=Swami|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BQxXk7pAx0cC&q=conqueror+of+all+miseries+upanishad&pg=PA127|title=The Principal Upanishads|date=2003-01-01|publisher=Courier Corporation|isbn=978-0-486-42717-1|language=en}} {{Citation needed|date=November 2024}} Later use of the word is attributed to the Buddha, who named his son Rahula as he felt that family ties could be an obstacle in the path to renunciation and nirvana. Buddha uttered Rahul when he first saw his son and gave a new meaning "relationship" and "bondage" to this name.{{Citation |last1=Powers |first1=John |authorlink1=John Powers (academic) |title=A Concise Encyclopedia of Buddhism |year=2013 |publisher=Oneworld Publications |isbn=978-1-78074-476-6 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=kZycAwAAQBAJ }} Rahul means Moon, Able/efficient in Sanskrit and Pali. Rahul also means "Traveler" in Arabic.

People named Rahul

=Arts=

Rahul Banerjee (actor) (born 1983), Indian Bengali actor
Rahul Bhatt (born 1982), Indian fitness trainer and actor
Rahul Bose (born 1967), Indian Bengali actor, director, screenwriter, social activist
Rahul Deshpande (born 1979), Indian classical singer
Rahul Dev (born 1968), Indian actor and model
Rahul Dev Burman (1939–1994), Indian composer and music director
Rahul Dholakia, Indian film director, producer, and screenwriter
Rahul Khanna (born 1972), Indian Hindi actor
Rahul Kohli (born 1985), English actor
Rahul Madhav, Indian Malayalam actor
Rahul Nambiar, Indian singer
Rahul Pandey, Indian Bollywood musician
Rahul Raj (born 1980), Indian composer
Rahul Ram, Indian musician
Rahul Ramakrishna (born 1991), Indian actor, writer and journalist
Rahul Ravindran, Indian actor
Rahul Rawail (born 1951), Indian film director
Rahul Roy (born 1968), Indian Hindi actor, producer and model
Rahul Vaidya (born 1987), Indian singer

=Politics=

Rahul Daulatrao Aher (born 1975), Indian politician from Maharashtra
Rahul Gandhi (born 1970), Indian politician
Rahul Mahajan (politician) (born 1975), son of Late Pramod Mahajan, a prominent Indian politician

=Science=

Rahul Mukerjee (born 1956), Indian academic and statistician
Rahul Pandit (born 1956), Indian physicist
Rahul Potluri (born 1983), Indian-British physician and researcher
Rahul Sarpeshkar, American bio-engineer

=Sports=

Rahul Banerjee (archer) (born 1986), Indian archer
Rahul Bheke (born 1990), Indian footballer
Rahul Chahar (born 1999), Indian cricketer
Rahul Dravid (born 1973), Indian cricketer
K. L. Rahul (born 1991), Indian cricketer
Rahul Kanwat (born 1974), Indian cricketer
Rahul Sanghvi (born 1974), Indian cricketer
Rahul Yadav (cricketer) (born 1989), Indian cricketer
Rahul Yadav Chittaboina (born 1998), Indian badminton player
Rahul KP (born 2000), Indian footballer

=Other fields=

Rahul Bajaj (born 1980), industrialist
Rahul Chandran (born 1976), policy analyst
Rahul Easwar, Indian author and activist
Rahul Ligma, fictional ex-employee of Twitter played by an amateur actor
Rahul Mahajan (blogger), noted American blogger and author
Rahul Roy (accountant) (1963–2009), Indian accountant
Rahul Sankrityayan (1893–1963), Indian historian, religious scholar, philosopher, writer and polymath
Rahul Sood (born 1973), Canadian business executive
Rahul Yadav (born 1988), Indian entrepreneur

=Multiple people=

Rahul Kumar (disambiguation), several people
Rahul Prasad (disambiguation), several people
Rahul Sharma (disambiguation), several people
Rahul Singh (disambiguation), several people