Sekhon
Sekhon is a Jat clan in the Punjab region,[1] especially found in Amritsar and Ludhiana districts of Punjab and Jind district of Haryana in India, and in Gujranwala district of Pakistan.[2]
Notable people with the surname Sekhon
- Nirmal Jit Singh Sekhon, Indian Air Force officer
- Sahaij Sekhon, Indian basketball player
- Sant Singh Sekhon, Indian playwright
- Janmeja Singh Sekhon, Indian politician
- Kathleen Sekhon, American educator and politicuan
- Harrobindeep Sekhon, Canadian cricketer
- Jasjeet S. Sekhon, Canadian statistician
- Ricky Sekhon, English actor
- Gurcharan Singh Sekhon, Singaporean Army officer
- Harinder Singh Sekhon, Malaysian cricketer
- Shweta Sekhon, Malaysian supermodel
Popular culture
- DSP Dilsher Sekhon of Singham Khurd in the Punjabi language film Singham, who sets out to end the drug addiction among the youth of Punjab.
References
- Grover, Neelam; Singh, Kashi N. (2004). Cultural Geography, Form and Process: Essays in Honour of Prof. A.B. Mukerji. Concept Publishing Company. p. 144. ISBN 978-81-8069-074-7.
- A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province. Atlantic Publishers & Dist. 1997. pp. 394, 395, 408. ISBN 978-81-85297-68-2.
Further reading
- Sher Singh Sher (1965). The Sansis of Punjab. ISBN 8121504198.
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