Rahul
Rahul is a popular male name in India and may be derived from the name Rahula, the name given to the son of the Buddha according to certain Buddhist traditions. The name Rahula in turn is derived from the name Rahu, a Hindu mythological figure that causes eclipses. In some traditions, the name Rahula was bestowed on the Buddha's son, meaning either fetter, chain, or bond, representing his obstruction of the Buddha's Enlightenment, while other traditions claim that the name means eclipse or obstruction, and was given to him as he was born on the night of a lunar eclipse.
People named Rahul
Arts
- Rahul Banerjee (actor), Indian Bengali actor
- Rahul Bhatt, Indian fitness trainer and actor
- Rahul Bose, Indian Bengali actor, director, screenwriter, social activist
- Rahul Deshpande, Indian classical singer
- Rahul Dev, Indian actor and model
- Rahul Dev Burman, Indian composer and music director
- Rahul Dholakia, Indian film director, producer, and screenwriter
- Rahul Khanna, Indian Hindi actor
- Rahul Kohli, English actor
- Rahul Madhav, Indian Malayalam actor
- Rahul Nambiar, Indian singer
- Rahul Pandey, Indian Bollywood musician
- Rahul Raj, Indian composer
- Rahul Ram, Indian musician
- Rahul Ramakrishna, Indian actor, writer and journalist
- Rahul Ravindran, Indian actor
- Rahul Rawail, Indian film director
- Rahul Roy, Indian Hindi actor, producer and model
- Rahul Vaidya, Indian singer
Politics
- Rahul Daulatrao Aher, Indian politician from Maharashtra
- Rahul Gandhi, Indian politician
- Rahul Mahajan (politician), son of Late Pramod Mahajan, a prominent Indian politician
Science
- Rahul Mukerjee, Indian academic and statistician
- Rahul Pandit, Indian physicist
- Rahul Potluri, Indian-British physician and researcher
- Rahul Sarpeshkar, American bio-engineer
Sports
- Rahul Banerjee (archer), Indian archer
- Rahul Bheke, Indian footballer
- Rahul Chahar, Indian cricketer
- Rahul Dravid, Indian cricketer
- K. L. Rahul, Indian cricketer
- Rahul Kanwat, Indian cricketer
- Rahul Sanghvi, Indian cricketer
- Rahul Yadav (cricketer), Indian cricketer
- Rahul Yadav Chittaboina, Indian badminton player
- Rahul KP, Indian footballer
Other fields
- Rahul Bajaj, industrialist
- Rahul Chandran, 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), Indian accountant
- Rahul Sankrityayan, Indian historian, religious scholar, philosopher, writer and polymath
- Rahul Sood, Canadian business executive
- Rahul Yadav, Indian entrepreneur
Multiple people
- Rahul Kumar (disambiguation), several people
- Rahul Prasad (disambiguation), several people
- Rahul Sharma (disambiguation), several people
- Rahul Singh (disambiguation), several people