Famous People with Name Chanda

Chanda Rubin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Chanda Rubin: is a professional tennis player from the United States.Throughout her long career, she has been ranked as high as No. 6 in the world even though she has been plagued by injuries. Rubin was the third African-American woman in the Open era to reach the top ten after Zina Garrison and Lori McNeil.

Chanda Sandipan            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Chanda Sandipan: is a chess Grandmaster hailing from the city of Kolkata (Calcutta) in the Indian state of West Bengal. Chanda became grandmaster in 2003.

Chanda Kochhar            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Chanda Kochhar: currently the Managing Director (MD) of ICICI Bank and Chief Executive Officer (CEO). ICICI Bank is India's largest private bank and overall second largest bank in the country.[1][2] She also heads the Corporate Centre of ICICI Bank. Kocchar has also consistently figured in Fortune's list of "Most Powerful Women in Business" since 2005. Currently, she ranks at number 25.

Nayan Chanda            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Nayan Chanda: a former correspondent and editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review and co-author of numerous books on Asian politics, security and foreign policy issues. He is best known for his seminal book, Brother Enemy: The War after the War. He is currently the Director of Publications at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, and editor of the YaleGlobal Online, a webzine devoted to exploring globalization.Chanda graduated with a degree in History at the prestigious Presidency College, Kolkata. He stood first in his class during his post-graduate degree in history from Jadavpur University. Between 1971 and 1974 he continued his studies in International Relations at the Sorbonne. In 1974 he was working on his thesis in the Sorbonne on the domestic roots of Cambodian foreign policy under Norodom Sihanouk when he was offered the job of Indochina correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review based out of Saigon. Curious to find out more about the Vietnam War, he decided to become a journalist to see history being made. In April 1975, Chanda decided to stay behind after the fall of Saigon.

Mulenga Chanda            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Mulenga Chanda: is a Danish mixed martial artist, fighting out of Aarhus, Denmark. He is also known for appearing on the Danish television program "Go'morgen Danmark".

Umagiliya Durage Upul Chandana            Origin/Culture/Country: Sri-Lankan

Umagiliya Durage Upul Chandana: is a former Sri Lankan cricketer. He was more specifically a leg spin bowler and was also an outstanding fielder. Chandana was considered to be one of the best leg spinners in Sri Lanka. He was also a competent lower-order batsman, having scored a total o

Sophie Chandauka            Origin/Culture/Country: Zimbabwe

Sophie Chandauka: is a Zimbabwe born Corporate Lawyer and Head of Strategic Risk Projects at Virgin Money in London. Prior to that, she was a Senior Associate in the Corporate Finance team of Baker & McKenzie in London. Sophie is also involved in the community as an advocate for education and empowerment of women and young people. Upon completion of her year in Canada, the Board of Trustees of Lake Superior State University (LSSU) in Michigan awarded Chandauka an academic scholarship for her undergraduate degree. In her third year of undergraduate study whilst undertaking an internship with the Association of Flight Attendants in Washington, D.C., she was awarded a further scholarship as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar to the United Kingdom where she attended the University of Birmingham for a year. On returning to LSSU, Chandauka was awarded a Bachelor of Science with highest academic distinction (summa cum laude) and was also selected as the commencement speaker for LSSU's graduating class of the year 2000. In May 2000, Chandauka returned to the United Kingdom where she commenced legal studies at the The College of Law of England and Wales and the Oxford Institute of Legal Practice of Oxford University and Oxford Brookes University before commencing her apprenticeship in September 2003 and qualifying, in September 2005, as a corporate lawyer with Baker & McKenzie in London.

Sir Narayan Ganesh Chandavarkar            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Sir Narayan Ganesh Chandavarkar: was an early Indian National Congress politician and Hindu reformer. He was regarded by some as the "leading Hindu reformer of western India" He was elected the president of the annual session of the Indian National Congress in 1900 and one year later he