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Priya

Meaning

Means "beloved" in Sanskrit. In Hindu legend this is the name of a daughter of King Daksha.

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Name Personality

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Famous People Named Priya

Priya Sharma

Priya Kotecha (also Sharma) is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera, Emmerdale, played by Fiona Wade.

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Priya Kapoor

Priya Kapoor is a fictional character from the Australian television soap opera Neighbours, played by Menik Gooneratne.

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Priya Banerjee

Priya Banerjee is an Indian actress who works mainly in Hindi, Telugu and Tamil films.

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Priya Narasimhan

Priya Narasimhan is a Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Priya Davidar

Priya Davidar is an Indian scientific researcher, a conservation biologist, scholar and an author.

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