Raj (name)
Raj in different contexts means "rule", "king", "ruler", "emperor" or "royalty" and "power" in the Sanskrit language families of the Indian sub-continent, including Romanes, its closest Indo-European relative.
Given name or nickname
- Raj Ballav Koirala, Nepalese actor
- Raj Bhakta, American politician and businessman
- Raj Gupta, American business executive
- Raj Kamal Jha, Indian novelist and journalist
- Raj Kapoor, Indian actor, director and producer
- Raj Khosla, Indian director
- Raj Krishna, Indian economist
- Raj Manhas, American educator
- Raj Man Singh Chitrakar, Nepalese artist
- Raj Mohinder Singh Majitha, Indian politician
- Raj Mukherji, New Jersey lobbyist and real estate developer
- Raj Narain, Indian politician
- Raj Pannu, Canadian educator and politician
- Raj Patel, British-born academic, journalist, activist and writer
- Raj Pentiah, Mauritian politician
- Rajendra Persaud, British psychiatrist, broadcaster, and author
- Raj Pradhan, Nepalese cricketer
- Dabbala Rajagopal Raj Reddy, Indian-American pioneer in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
- Raj Rajaratnam, American former manager of the hedge fund Galleon Group, convicted in 2011 of insider trading
- Raj Rajeshwari Devi, queen consort and twice queen regent of Nepal
- Raj Shah, American political aide
- Raj Singh (disambiguation), several people
- Raj Thackeray, Indian politician
Surname
Indian
- Anil Raj, American human rights activist, Amnesty International board member, killed in 2019 in Kabul while working on the United Nations Development Programme
- Besant C. Raj, Indian expert and writer on financial management
- Charan Raj, Indian film actor, director, music director, film producer, and writer
- Jagdish Raj, Bollywood actor who holds a Guinness World Record for being the most typecast actor
- K. N. Raj, Indian economist
- Maria Venus Raj, Filipino beauty queen, TV personality, model, and actress
- Mithali Raj, Indian cricketer
- Prakash Raj or Raj, Indian actor and producer
- Subhashni Raj, Fijian activist
- Rhea Raj, American singer-songwriter
Hungarian
- , Hungarian Jewish confectioner
- , Hungarian rabbi and politician
Fictional characters
- Raj Koothrappali, on the American sitcom The Big Bang Theory
- Raj King, played by Aatif Nawaz in the British web series Corner Shop Show
- Roger "Raj" Thomas, on the American TV series What's Happening!! and What's Happening Now!!
- Raj, the neurotic Indian elephant on the American cartoon series Camp Lazlo
- Raj, the shop assistant who appears in every one of David Walliams novels except Awful Auntie
- Raj, The friend of Addison Cooke from the Addison Cooke books.
- Raj Malhotra, in the Bollywood movie Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge
- Raj Patil, in the American television drama Good Trouble
- Raj, one of the contestants in the 2003-2004 seasons of ''Total Drama''