Famous People with Name Desai

Jignesh Harshadrai Desai            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jignesh Harshadrai Desai: is a cricketer who represented the United States cricket team in four matches from 2003-04 to 2004. His record includes one first-class game in the 2004 ICC Intercontinental Cup and three one-day games, the last one of which was in the first ever One Day

Morarji Ranchhodji Desai            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Morarji Ranchhodji Desai: as an Indian independence activist and the Prime Minister of India from 1977-79. He was the first Indian Prime Minister who did not belong to the Indian National Congress.

Meghnad Jagdishchandra Desai, Baron Desai            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Meghnad Jagdishchandra Desai, Baron Desai: is a British economist, writer and Labour politician.

Mahadev Desai            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Mahadev Desai: was an Indian independence activist and nationalist writer; he was most famously known for being the personal secretary of Mahatma Gandhi.Desai was a young lawyer in Ahmedabad when he decided to join Gandhi along with Narhari Parikh, Mohanlal Pandya and R

Anita Mazumdar Desai            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Anita Mazumdar Desai: an Indian novelist and Emeritus John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has been shortlisted for the Booker prize three times. Her daughter, the author Kiran Desai, won the 2006 Booker prize.She published her first novel in 1963, Cry The Peacock. She considers Clear Light Of Day (1980) her most autobiographical work as it is set during her coming of age and also in the same neighborhood in which she grew up [3]. In 1984 she published In Custody - about an Urdu poet in his declining days - which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In 1993 she became a creative writing teacher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology[4]. Her latest novel published in 2004, The Zigzag Way, is set in 20th-century Mexico.