Giri
Giri may refer to:
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People[edit]
Giri is an Indian surname, which literally means 'hill'. It is subcaste of Goswami Brahmin or Gosains Caste. Giri is among the 10 surname of goswami community Bharti, Giri, Puri, Saraswati, Aashram, Parvat, Sagar, Van, Aranya, tirth.
Notable people with the surname include:
- Agam Singh Giri (1927–1971), Indian Nepali poet and lyricist
- Anish Giri (born 1994), Dutch chess prodigy and grandmaster
- Deepak Raj Giri, Nepalese actor, director, and producer
- Gehendra Giri, Nepalese politician
- Haridhos Giri, Hindu guru who disappeared in 1994
- Helen Giri, Indian musicologist and historian
- Kedar Prasad Giri (1944–2018), 18th Chief Justice of Nepal
- Laxmi Giri (born 1955), Nepali actress
- Maya Giri (born 1929), athlete who competed for England
- Neelam Giri, Indian pediatric hematologist/oncologist
- Padam Giri, Nepali communist politician
- Puran Giri, Indian cricketer
- Ram Bahadur Giri (born 1960), Nepalese boxer
- Satyananda Giri (1896–1971), Indian monk and Yukteswar Giri's chief monastic disciple in India
- Sunan Giri (born 1420), a Wali Sanga (Islamic saint) of Indonesia
- Tulsi Giri (1926–2018), Prime Minister of Nepal from 1975 to 1977
- V. Mohini Giri (born 1938), Indian community service worker and activist
- V. V. Giri, Varahagiri Venkata Giri (1894–1980), President of India from 1969 to 1974
Places[edit]
- Giri, Iran, a village in Gilan Province, Iran
- Giri, Razavi Khorasan, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
- Giri River, a tributary of the Yamuna River in northern India
- Giri or Ngiri River, a tributary of the Ubangi River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Other uses[edit]
- Giri (film), a 2004 Tamil film written and directed by Sundar C
- Giri (Japanese), a Japanese value roughly corresponding to "duty", "obligation", or even "burden of obligation"
- Giri or Kire language, spoken in Papua New Guinea
- Giri/Haji, a 2019 British television series
- Genetic Information Research Institute, a private, non-profit research institution based in Mountain View, California
- Cyclone Giri of the 2010 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
See also[edit]
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