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{{Infobox given name
| name = Arun
| gender = [[Male]]
| region = [[India]]
| languageorigin = [[Sanskrit language|Sanskrit]]
| derivation = {{wikt-lang|sa|अरुण}}
| meaning = "reddish brown" or "dawn"
| related names = [[Aruna (given name)]]
}}
'''Arun''' is an Indian male given name meaning [[dawn]] in [[Sanskrit]]. The name derives from [[Aruna (Hinduism)|Aruna]], the aspect of dawn and charioteer of [[Surya]].

The following is a list of notable people with "Arun" as their first, middle or last name.

==Academia, art & literature==
* [[Arun Agrawal]] (born 1962), a [[political scientist]] in the School of Natural Resources & Environment at the [[University of Michigan]].
* [[Arun G. Phadke]], Distinguished Professor emeritus in the Department of Electrical Engineering at [[Virginia Tech]].
* [[Arun Joshi]] (1939–1993), an [[India]]n writer.
* [[Arun K. Pati]], an Indian [[physicist]] notable for his research in [[quantum information]] and [[quantum computation|computation]].
* [[Arun Kolatkar]] (1932–2004), Indian [[poet]].
* [[Arun Krushnaji Kamble]] (1953–2009), a [[Marathi language|Marathi]] writer and [[Dalit]] activist.
* [[Arun Kumar Basak]], a Bangladeshi physicist and [[Professor Emeritus]] in the Department of Physics, [[University of Rajshahi]].
* [[Arun Majumdar]], a [[materials science|materials scientist]], engineer and [[University of California, Berkeley]] graduate who was [[President of the United States|President]] [[Barack Obama|Obama's]] nominee for [[Under Secretary of Energy for Energy and Environment|Under Secretary of Energy]].
* [[Arun Midha]] (born 1964), a British academic.
* [[Arun Mitra]] (1909–2000), a [[Bengali people|Bengali]] poet.
* [[Arun Netravali]] (1945–2021), Indian–American computer scientist.
* [[Arun Nigavekar]], an [[educationist]] and ex Chairperson & Vice-Chairperson of [[University Grants Commission (India)|UGC]].
* [[Arun Prasad]], a historian specialized in the History of [[Bangalore]].
* [[Arun Rai]], an Indian born American scientist.
* [[Arun Sarma]] (1931–2017), a contemporary writer of [[Assam]].
* [[Arun Sundararajan]], is the NEC Faculty Fellow, Professor of Information, Operations & Management Sciences and Doctoral Coordinator at the [[Stern School of Business]], [[New York University|NYU]].
* Arun Schaechter Viswanath, translator into [[Yiddish]] of novels about [[Harry Potter]] and [[Pippi Longstocking]].<ref>''[[Wall Street Journal]]'': https://www.wsj.com/articles/translating-harry-potter-into-yiddish-isnt-totally-meshugge-11582649480</ref><ref>https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-young-translator-of-sold-out-harry-potter-yiddish-is-truly-his-mamaloshen</ref><ref>https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/harry-potter-translated-yiddish</ref><ref>https://jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com/here-comes-pipi-langshtrimp/</ref>
* [[Madhuvanti Arun]], an Indian educational promoter.
* [[Vinod Bala Arun]], a Hindi, Sanskrit and Indian Philosophy scholar.

[[File:Indian Ambassador Arun Kumar Singh.jpg|thumb|right|150px|[[Arun Kumar Singh]]]]

==Bureaucracy and administration==
* [[Arun Jaitley]], Union Finance Minister of India.
* [[Arun Bhatnagar]] (born 1944), former [[Indian Administrative Service]] officer.
* [[Arun Kumar Gupta]], an Indian police officer.
* [[Arun Kumar Mishra]] (born 1955), a judge of the [[Supreme Court of India]].
* [[Arun Kumar Purwar]], [[Chairman of State Bank of India]].
* [[Arun Kumar Singh]], an [[India]]n diplomat and [[Indian Ambassador to the United States]].

[[File:Arun Shourie.jpg|thumb|right|150px|[[Arun Shourie]]]]

==Business==
* [[Arun Firodia]], an Indian businessman and chairman of [[Kinetic Engineering Limited|Kinetic Group]].
* [[Arun Katiyar]], a media expert from India.
* [[Arun Nayar]], an Indian businessman and ex-husband of [[Elizabeth Hurley]].
* [[Arun Pudur]], an Indian businessman, entrepreneur and investor.
* [[Arun Purie]], an Indian businessman who is the founder-publisher and editor-in-chief of [[India Today]].
* [[Arun Raha]] (born 1959), Executive Director and Chief Economist for the [[State of Washington]].
* [[Arun Sarin]] (born 1954), an [[India]]n-born American telecommunications executive.
* [[Arun Shourie]] (born 1941), an Indian journalist, author and politician.

[[File:Ishita Arun 2010 - still 113962 crop.jpg|thumb|right|150px|[[Ishitta Arun]]]]

==Film, Television & Media==
* [[Adith Arun]], an [[Actor|Indian film actor]] who has appeared in [[Tamil language|Tamil]] and [[Telugu language|Telugu]] language films.
* [[Arun Alat]], an Indian playback singer and musician.
* [[Arun Bakshi]], an Indian film and television actor and singer.
* [[Arun Bali]] (1942–2022), an Indian actor.
* [[Arun Bannerjee]], an Indian Bengali film actor.
* [[Arun Bhatt]], an Indian former film director (of Hindi and Gujarati cinema).
* [[Arun Chaudhary]], first official videographer of the [[White House]].
*[[Arun Cherukavil]], an Indian [[Malayalam film]] Actor.
* [[Arun Date]] (1934–2018), a [[Marathi language|Marathi]] singer of [[Bhavageete]].
* [[Arun Govil]] (born 1958), an Indian actor, producer and director.
* [[Arun Kashalkar]], an Indian classical vocalist of the Agra-Gwalior Gharana.
* [[Arun Kaul]] (1933–2007), a noted [[Kashmiri people|Kashmiri]] film maker and screenwriter.
* [[Arun Kumar Ahuja]] (1917–1998), an Indian actor and producer.
* [[Arun Kumar Aravind]] (born 1977), Indian film director, editor and producer.
* [[Arun Maini]] (born 1995), British [[YouTuber]] known as Mrwhosetheboss.
* Arun Mukherjee ([[:bn:%E0%A6%85%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%A3_%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%96%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%BF|bn]]), Bengali [[playwright]] and actor.
* [[Arun Muraleedharan]], an Indian music composer.
* [[Arun Nalawade]], an Indian film and theater personality.
* [[Arun Pandyan]], an Indian actor, [[film director|director]], [[film producer|producer]] and politician.
* [[Arun Paudwal]] (died 1991), music composer in [[Bollywood]] in India.
* [[Arun Rath]], a prominent radio producer and broadcast journalist.
* [[Arun Sagar]] (born 1980), Indian film actor, art director and comedian.
* [[Arun Saha (actor)]] (born 1983), a [[Bangladeshi]] actor and musician.
* [[Arun Sarnaik]] (1935–1984), an actor and singer from Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India.
* [[Arun Shenoy]] (born 1978), a [[composer]] and [[music producer]] of Indian origin, based in [[Singapore]].
* [[Arun Thapa]] (1952–1999), Nepali singer and songwriter.
* [[Arun Vaidyanathan]], an [[Indian-American]] film director, producer and screenwriter.
* [[Arun Vijay]] (born 1974), an Indian actor, playback singer & [[stunt coordinator]].
* [[Ila Arun]], Indian actress, TV personality and singer.
* [[M. D. Pallavi Arun]], a singer from [[Karnataka]], India.
* [[P. A. Arun Prasad]] (born 1967), an [[Indian film]] director, screenwriter and producer.
* [[Priya Arun]], an actress in the [[Marathi language|Marathi]] language film industry.
[[File:Arun Prakash.jpg|thumb|right|150px|[[Admiral]] [[Arun Prakash]]]]

==Indian Armed Forces==
* [[Arun Khetarpal]] (1950–1971), an officer of the [[Indian Army]] and a posthumous recipient of the [[Param Vir Chakra]].
* [[Arun Prakash]] (born 1944), a retired [[four-star rank|Four-Star]] [[Admiral]] who served as the [[Chief of the Naval Staff (India)|Chief of the Naval Staff]] of the [[Indian Navy]].
* [[Arun Shridhar Vaidya]] (1926–1986), 13th [[Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army|Chief of Army Staff]] (CoAS) of the [[Indian Army]].

[[File:Arun Jaitley, Minister.jpg|thumb|right|150px|[[Arun Jaitley]]]]

==Politics==
* [[Arun Chandra Guha]] (1892–?), an Indian politician.
* [[Arun Jaitley]] (1952–2019), a [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] politician. [[Minister of Finance (India)|Minister for Finance]], [[Ministry of Corporate Affairs|Corporate Affairs]], Information, and Broadcasting, in the [[Government of India]].
* [[Arun Kumar Sarmah]] (born 1956), an Indian politician and member of the [[14th Lok Sabha]].
* [[Arun Kumar (Uttar Pradesh politician)]] (born 1948), an Indian politician from [[Bareilly district]].
* [[Arun Kumar (Bihar politician)]] (born 1959), an Indian politician from [[Bihar]].
* [[Arun Nehru]] (1944–2013), an Indian politician.
* [[Arun Pathak (Bihar politician)]], an Indian politician.
* [[Arun Pathak (Uttar Pradesh politician)]], an Indian politician.
* [[Arun Pathak]] (born 1975), an Indian politician.
* [[Arun Sao]] (born 1968), Indian politician from [[Chhattisgarh]].
* [[Arun Singh (politician, born 1944)|Arun Singh]] (born 1944), Indian politician and former union minister of state for defence in the [[Government of India]].
* [[Arun Singh (politician, born 1965)|Arun Singh]] (born 1965), Indian politician from [[Uttar Pradesh]].
* [[Arun Subhashchandra Yadav]] (born 1974), member of 14th and 15th [[Lok Sabha]]s of India.
* [[Arun Verma]] (born 1986), an Indian politician.
* [[M. Arun Subramanian]], Indian politician. Member of the [[Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly]] from the [[Tiruttani (State Assembly Constituency)|Tiruttani constituency]].
* [[Sangram Arun Jagtap]], Indian politician and member of the 13th [[Maharashtra Legislative Assembly]].
* [[Undavalli Aruna Kumar]] (born 1954), an Indian politician.

===Convicted politician===
* [[Arun Gawli]] (born 1955), a gangster-turned-politician in [[Mumbai]], India.

[[File:Arun Vishnu 2014-05-04 07-35.png|thumb|right|150px|[[Arun Vishnu]]]]

==Sports==
* [[Arun Bhardwaj]], an [[ultramarathon]] runner from [[New Delhi]], India.
* [[Arun Harinath]] (born 1987), an English [[cricket]]er.
* [[Arun Karthik]] (born 1986), an Indian cricketer.
* [[Arun Khurana]], an Indian former cricketer.
* [[Arun Lal (cricketer, born 1985)]], a Pakistani [[first-class cricket]]er who plays for [[Quetta cricket team]].
* [[Arun Lal]] (born 1955), an [[India cricket team|Indian]] [[cricket]]er, and a [[cricket commentator]].
* [[Arun Murugesan]], an [[India]]n [[Powerlifting|Weightlifter]].
* [[Arun Muthukrishnan]], an Indian [[motorcycle racing|motorcycle racer]].
* [[Arun Panchia]], a New Zealand [[field hockey]] player.
* [[Arun Poulose]], an Indian cricketer.
* [[Arun Sharma (Services cricketer)|Arun Sharma]], an Indian [[first-class cricket]]er.
* [[Arun Singh (cricketer)]], an Indian former cricketer.
* [[Arun Singla]], an Indian cricketer.
* [[Arun Vishnu]] (born 1988), an [[India]]n [[badminton]] player.
* [[Bharat Arun]], an [[Indian cricket team|Indian]] [[Test cricket]]er.
* [[Subramanian Arun Prasad]] (born 1988), an Indian Chess Grandmaster.

==Others==
* [[Arun Arora]] (born 1971), British Anglican priest and former Director of Communications of the Church of England
* [[Arun Barun O Kiranmala]], a [[Bengali language|Bengali]] [[Fantasy film]].
* [[Arun Garg]] (born 1946), an [[Indo-Canadian]] physician in [[British Columbia]] who is recognized for contributing linkages between [[Canada]] and [[India]].
* [[Arun Krishnamurthy]] (born 1986), an Indian [[environmental activist]] who initiated campaign cleaning various [[lake]]s across India.
* [[Arun Kumar Chanda]] (1899–1947), an Indian independence activist from [[Cachar]] district of [[Assam]].
* [[Arun Luthra]], a [[jazz]] musician (saxophonist, [[konnakol]] artist, composer and arranger) based in [[New York City]].
* [[Arun Maira]] (born 1943), a management consultant and former member of [[Planning Commission of India]].
* [[Arun Manilal Gandhi]], an Indian-American socio-political activist, and the fifth grandson of [[Mohandas Gandhi|Gandhi]].
* [[Arun Netravali]] (born 1946), an [[Indian-American]] computer engineer credited with major contributions in digital technology including [[HDTV]].
* [[Arun Sadhu]] (1941–2017), a writer and a freelance journalist from Maharashtra, India.
* [[Tushar Arun Gandhi]], son of journalist [[Arun Manilal Gandhi]], grandson of [[Manilal Gandhi]] and great-grandson of [[Mahatma Gandhi]].

==See also==
*[[Arun (disambiguation)]]
*[[Aaron]]
*[[Kumar]]

==References==
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