Bakshi

Bakshi may refer to:

Indian title

Bakshi is a historical title used in India, deriving from Persian word for "paymaster", and originating as the title of an official responsible for distributing wages in Muslim armies.

Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad, Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir from 1953 to 1964.
Bakshi Tirath Ram Vaid, a soldier of British India.

Indian surname

Kashmir

Bakshi is a surname used by Kashmiri Pandits native to the Kashmir Valley of Jammu and Kashmir, India.

Odisha

In Odisha Bakshi (Odia: ବକ୍ସି) surname mainly used by Zamindar Karanas.

Punjab

Derived from the historical title, "Bakshi" came to be used as a surname among Punjabi Hindus and Sikhs, used by the Brahmin and Jatt castes respectively, in the Punjab region in India.

Amit Singh Bakshi (1925–2024), Indian hockey player
Anand Bakshi, Indian songwriter
Chandrakant Bakshi, Indian author
G. D. Bakshi, Major General of Indian Army
Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi, New Zealand member of parliament
Padumlal Punnalal Bakshi, Indian Hindi-language writer
Praveen Bakshi, Lieutenant general of Indian army
Ramprasad Bakshi (1894–1989), Gujarati writer
Rohit Bakshi (actor), Indian actor
Rohit Bakshi (neurologist), American academic
Sachindra Bakshi, Indian freedom fighter participated in kakori train robbery
Tirath Singh Bakshi Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG Police) during the British Raj
Zorawar Chand Bakshi (1921–2018) Indian general

Jewish surname

Bakshi is also a Jewish surname, from the Turkish word for garden.[citation needed]

Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron, a former Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel
Ralph Bakshi, American animator and film director

Other surname

Aleksandre Bakshi, Georgian tennis player

Fictional characters

Brad Bakshi, one of the main characters in Mythic Quest.
Byomkesh Bakshi, a fictional Indian-Bengali detective created by author Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay.
Hrundi V. Bakshi, the main character in the 1968 film The Party.