Who is Gupta (Baniya) ?

गुप्त या गुप्ता एक प्रमुख वैश्य उपनाम

Gupta /ˈɡuːptə/ (Hindi: गुप्ता) is a common surname of Indian origin of Vaishya Bania Community, Gupt or Gupta always use as a surname of vaishya community.

According to some academicians, the name Gupta is derived from Sanskrit goptri, meaning military governor. A more direct translation of the Sanskrit word gupta is 'secret' or 'hidden'. According to prominent historian R. C. Majumdar, the surname Gupta was adopted by several different vaishya communities in northern and eastern India at different times. In south vaishya communities use sur name chetty, shetty, setty, settigar etc.

In northern India, the surname Gupta has been adopted mainly by the Agarwal communities.

Below is a list of various Vaishya communities which adopt the surname Gupta

Agarwal : Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Delhi

Barnwal: Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan

Kesarwani : Uttar Pradesh

Khandelwal: Rajasthan

Mahajan: Jammu, Punjab, Himachal 

Mahawar: Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Delhi

Maheshwari: Rajasthan

Mathur: Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan

Dhromer: Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi

Porwal: Rajasthan

Rastogi: Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan

Rauniyar or Roniyar: Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Nepal,

Varshney: Western Uttar Pradesh, Eastern Rajasthan

Omer : Southern Uttar Pradesh

Agrahari: Uttar Pardesh, Rajasthan, Bihar, West Bengal

List of people with the name Gupta

Monarchs

Chandragupta Maurya, founder of the Mauryan Empire

Maharaja Sri-Gupta, founder of the Gupta Empire

Ghatotkacha (Gupta Ruler), father of Chandragupta I

Chandragupta I, first Gupta emperor

Samudragupta

Chandragupta II, also known as Chandragupta Vikramaditya

Kumaragupta I

Skandagupta 

Vishnugupta (Gupta Empire)

Scientists

Brahmagupta (589–668), Indian mathematician and astronomer

Academics

Aghore Nath Gupta, an Indian scholar of Buddhism and a preacher of the Brahmo Samaj

Akhil Gupta, professor at the University of California, Los 

Angeles, in the field of social and cultural anthropology

Amar Gupta, professor and scientist

Amlan Das Gupta, Indian professor of English in Jadavpur University, Kolkata

M K Das Gupta, Indian professor and scientist

Modadugu Vijay Gupta, Indian biologist

S. P. Gupta, Indian archaeologist and art historian

Suraj N. Gupta, Indian-American physicist

In business and management

Mahendra Mohan Gupta, owner of the Dainik Jagran group of Hindi newspapers

N. C. Sen Gupta, eleventh Governor of the Reserve Bank of India

Raj Gupta, CEO and president of Rohm and Haas

Rajat Gupta, United Nations special advisor on management reforms, former director of Goldman Sachs and former head of McKinsey Consulting

Rajiv Gupta, general manager of Hewlett Packard's E-speak project

S. K. Gupta, vice president of Lockheed Martin Corporation

Vinod Gupta, chairman and CEO of infoUSA

Subodh Gupta, chairman and CEO of HemtroN Lightings,www.rouniyar.com,Rouniyar Sewa Sansthan Delhi

In entertainment

Aditi Gupta, Indian television actress

Anil Gupta, British writer and producer (radio and television)

Buddhadev Das Gupta, Indian classical sarod musician and teacher

Neena Gupta, Indian film and television actress

Rajendra Gupta, actor in cinema for good character roles.

Partho Sen-Gupta, Indian film director and script writer

Puja Gupta, winner of Miss India Universe in 2007

Tanika Gupta, British playwright of Indian origin

Sanjay Gupta (director), Bollywood director

Yana Gupta, Indian model-actress of Czech-origin

Dr. Sanjay Gupta, American teleneurosurgeon and CNN senior medical correspondent

Eesha Gupta, Film Actress

In journalism

Shekhar Gupta, editor-in-chief of Indian Express

Rajat Gupta, Editor Dainik Jagran 

In literature

Maithili Sharan Gupt, Indian Hindi poet

Baldev Raj Gupta, Indian writer

Ishwar Chandra Gupta, Indian Bengali poet and writer

Jagadish Gupta, Bengali poet and writer

Mahendranath Gupta, Indian spiritual writer and disciple of 

Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

Shashibhusan Dasgupta, Bengali scholar in philosophy, languages and literature

In politics

Banarsi Das Gupta, former chief minister of Haryana

Indrajit Gupta, Indian Communist leader, Union Minister for Home Affairs during 1996-98

Ram Prakash Gupta, Indian politician; former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh and governor of Madhya Pradesh

Shyama Charan Gupta, Indian politician

Badal Gupta, Indian revolutionary

Dinesh Gupta, Indian revolutionary

Ram Prakash Gupta, Indian social worker and participant in the Indian Independence movement and Bhoodan movement

Manmath Nath Gupta, Indian revolutionary and author of autobiographical, historical and fictional books in Hindi, English and Bengali

Niranjan Sen Gupta, Indian revolutionary

Nolini Kanta Gupta, Indian revolutionary, linguist, scholar, critic, poet, philosopher and mystic

In sports

 Famous Mathur Vaishya Players :-

Abhinn Shyam Gupta, Indian badminton player

Pankaj Gupta, Indian sports administrators

Sandip Gupta, Kenyan cricketer

Abhijeet Gupta, Indian chess player