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Ajit Deol, also known as Ajit Singh Deol, was the younger brother of the Hindi film star Dharmendra and the father of the actor Abhay Deol. He was the son of Kewal Kishan Singh Deol and Satwant Kaur and grew up with his elder brother in the Ludhiana district of Punjab, later settling in Bombay, where the family's film career was based. The two brothers remained close, and Abhay Deol grew up in the extended Deol famil…
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Gen 3 · b. 1956
Sunny Deol, born Ajay Singh Deol in 1956, is a Hindi film actor, director and producer and the elder son of Dharmendra and his first wife Prakash Kaur. He made his debut opposite Amrita Singh in Betaab (1983) and became one of the leading action stars of Hindi cinema. For Ghayal (1990) he won the Filmfare Award for Best Actor and a National Film Award Special Jury Award, and he won the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor for Damini (1993). His other major films include Border (1997), Gadar: Ek Prem Katha (2001) and its sequel Gadar 2 (2023). He directed Dillagi (1999) and Pal Pal Dil Ke Paas (2019), which launched his son Karan Deol. He served as Member of Parliament for Gurdaspur from 2019 to 2024. He is the brother of Bobby Deol and father of Karan and Rajveer Deol.
Gen 3 · b. 1969
Bobby Deol, born Vijay Singh Deol on 27 January 1969, is a Hindi film actor and the younger son of Dharmendra and Prakash Kaur. He made his debut opposite Twinkle Khanna in Barsaat (1995), produced by the family banner Vijayta Films, winning the Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut, and went on to star in films such as Gupt (1997), Soldier (1998) and Humraaz (2002). After a quieter period, his career was revived by the web series Aashram (2020) and by his widely praised role as the villain Abrar Haque in Animal (2023). He appeared alongside his father and brother Sunny Deol in Apne (2007) and the Yamla Pagla Deewana films. He married Tania Ahuja in 1996.
Gen 3 · b. 1981
Esha Deol, born on 2 November 1981 in Mumbai, is a Hindi film actress and the elder daughter of Dharmendra and Hema Malini. Trained in classical dance like her mother, she made her film debut in Koi Mere Dil Se Poochhe (2002), which won her the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut. She went on to appear in films including Dhoom (2004), Yuva (2004) and No Entry (2005), and later returned to the screen in web series. She is the younger half-sister of Sunny Deol and Bobby Deol and the elder sister of Ahana Deol. She married the businessman Bharat Takhtani in 2012, and the couple announced their separation in 2024.
Gen 2 · b. 1948
Hema Malini, born on 16 October 1948 in Ammankudi, Tamil Nadu, is one of the most celebrated actresses of Hindi cinema, popularly known as the Dream Girl. After her Hindi film debut opposite Raj Kapoor in Sapnon Ka Saudagar (1968), she starred in hits such as Seeta Aur Geeta, for which she won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress, and Sholay, in which she played Basanti. She is a trained Bharatanatyam dancer and has also directed films. She married her frequent co-star Dharmendra in 1980, and they have two daughters, Esha Deol and Ahana Deol. She received the Padma Shri in 2000 and has represented Mathura in the Lok Sabha since 2014, after earlier serving in the Rajya Sabha.
Gen 4 · b. 1990
Karan Deol, born in 1990, is a Hindi film actor, the elder son of Sunny Deol and the grandson of Dharmendra and Prakash Kaur. He made his screen debut in the romantic drama Pal Pal Dil Ke Paas (2019), directed by his father, becoming the third generation of the Deol family to play a leading role in Hindi cinema. He followed it with the comedy Velle (2021), in which he starred alongside his father's cousin Abhay Deol. He is the elder brother of the actor Rajveer Deol and the nephew of Bobby Deol and Esha Deol. He married Drisha Acharya in 2023, in a wedding widely covered by the Indian media.
Gen 4
Rajveer Deol is a Hindi film actor, the younger son of Sunny Deol and a grandson of Dharmendra and Prakash Kaur. He made his debut in the romantic drama Dono (2023), produced by Rajshri Productions and directed by Avnish Barjatya, in which he starred opposite Paloma Dhillon. The film made him, like his elder brother Karan Deol, part of the third generation of the Deol family to act in Hindi cinema, following his grandfather Dharmendra and his father Sunny Deol. He is the nephew of the actors Bobby Deol and Esha Deol.
Gen 2
Prakash Kaur is the first wife of the Hindi film actor Dharmendra and the mother of the actors Sunny Deol and Bobby Deol. She married Dharmendra in Punjab in 1954, when he was nineteen and several years before he moved to Bombay and entered films. The couple had four children: the sons Sunny and Bobby, and two daughters. She has remained largely out of public life throughout her husband's and sons' careers, rarely giving interviews or appearing at film events, and is the grandmother of Sunny Deol's sons Karan Deol and Rajveer Deol, both of whom have followed the family into acting.
Gen 3 · b. 1985
Ahana Deol, born in 1985 in Mumbai, is the younger daughter of the actor Dharmendra and the actress Hema Malini. Unlike her elder sister Esha Deol she chose not to pursue a career as a film actress, instead training in Odissi classical dance and performing on stage, including in dance productions alongside her mother and sister. She has also worked behind the camera as an assistant director in Hindi films. She is the half-sister of the actors Sunny Deol and Bobby Deol and the cousin of Abhay Deol. She married the businessman Vaibhav Vohra in 2014 and has largely kept a lower public profile than the rest of the family.
The Belgian royal family, formally the House of Belgium and dynastically a branch of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, is the reigning family of Belgium, founded when the German prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld accepted the throne of the newly independent kingdom in 1831 and continuing today through King Philippe and his heir, Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant. Belgium became independent from the Netherlands in 1830 and chose a constitutional monarchy. Its National Congress looked abroad for a sovereign who could balance French and British interests, and settled on Leopold, a widowed, well-connected and famously cautious prince who had already turned down the crown of Greece. He took the constitutional oath on 21 July 1831, still the Belgian national day. Seven monarchs have reigned since: Leopold I, Leopold II, Albert I, Leopold III, Baudouin, Albert II and Philippe. ## Origins The dynasty's roots are in the small Thuringian duchy of Saxe-Coburg, whose princes married into half the thrones of nineteenth-century Europe. Leopold I was the uncle of both Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert, and his second marriage, to Louise-Marie of Orleans, daughter of the French king Louis Philippe I, tied the new kingdom to Paris as well as London. The crown did not pass in a straight line: Leopold II's only son died at the age of nine, so the succession moved to Leopold II's brother Philippe, Count of Flanders, and then to Philippe's son, Albert I. Every Belgian monarch since 1909 descends from that collateral branch. ## Notable members Leopold II is the most studied and most criticised figure in the family, remembered for the industrial boom and monumental building of his reign and, above all, for his personal rule over the Congo Free State. Albert I and Queen Elisabeth of Bavaria became wartime symbols of Belgian resistance behind the Yser in 1914. Leopold III's surrender in 1940 and his conduct under occupation triggered the political crisis known as the Royal Question and ended in his abdication. Baudouin reigned for 42 years and presided over Congolese independence and Belgium's transformation into a federal state. Daughters of the house carried its blood outward: Charlotte became Empress Carlota of Mexico, Marie-Jose was the last Queen of Italy, and Josephine-Charlotte was Grand Duchess of Luxembourg. ## Significance In a country divided by language, the monarchy has been the one institution claimed by both Flemish and Walloon Belgians, and the king's role in brokering coalition governments remains politically real rather than ceremonial. The family has also changed with the country: equal succession was introduced in 1991, making Princess Elisabeth the first female Duchess of Brabant and the future first queen regnant of the Belgians, and in 2020 a court recognised Delphine of Saxe-Coburg as a daughter of Albert II. | Fact | Details | | --- | --- | | Dynasty | House of Belgium (Saxe-Coburg and Gotha) | | Country | Kingdom of Belgium | | Founder | Leopold I, King of the Belgians (1790-1865) | | Reigning since | 21 July 1831 | | Monarchs to date | Seven, from Leopold I to Philippe | | Current head | King Philippe (born 1960), reigning since 2013 | | Heir apparent | Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant (born 2001) | | Principal residences | Royal Palace of Brussels, Castle of Laeken | | Motto | L'union fait la force / Eendracht maakt macht |
The Rothschilds are a European banking dynasty founded in Frankfurt am Main by Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1812), whose five sons established banking houses in Frankfurt, Vienna, Naples, London and Paris and together built the most powerful private financial network of the nineteenth century. ## Origins Mayer Amschel Rothschild was born in 1744 in the Judengasse, the walled Jewish street of Frankfurt am Main, where the family took its name from the red shield that had marked an ancestor's house. He began as a dealer in rare coins and medals, became court factor to Crown Prince Wilhelm of Hesse-Kassel in 1769, and turned that position into a banking business handling loans, bullion and government paper. With his wife Gutle Schnapper he had ten children who reached adulthood, five sons and five daughters. ## The five houses Mayer Amschel's decisive act was to place his sons in five cities so that the family could move money and news across borders as a single firm. Amschel Mayer stayed in Frankfurt, Salomon went to Vienna, Nathan to London, Carl to Naples and James to Paris. The brothers financed the allied campaigns against Napoleon, then the governments, railways and industries of nineteenth century Europe. The Naples house closed in 1860 with Italian unification, Frankfurt in 1901 for want of an heir, and Vienna in 1938 after the Anschluss. London and Paris survived, and their successors trade today as Rothschild and Co and the Edmond de Rothschild Group. ## Notable members Nathan Mayer Rothschild founded N M Rothschild and Sons and made London the centre of international lending. His son Lionel broke the bar on Jews sitting in Parliament, taking his Commons seat in 1858, and his grandson Nathan Mayer became the first Jewish member of the House of Lords in 1885. James Mayer de Rothschild dominated French finance under three regimes and bought Chateau Lafite, while his son Edmond funded the first Jewish agricultural settlements in Palestine. The family also produced naturalists and collectors rather than only bankers: Walter, 2nd Baron Rothschild, the zoologist to whom the Balfour Declaration was addressed in 1917; his brother Charles, the flea specialist who founded British nature conservation; Charles's daughter Dame Miriam Rothschild, a Fellow of the Royal Society; and another daughter, Nica, the patron of Thelonious Monk. Jacob, 4th Baron Rothschild, built RIT Capital Partners and chaired the trustees of the National Gallery. ## Significance The Rothschilds were the first banking family to operate as a genuinely international partnership, and for much of the nineteenth century they were the principal lenders to European states. Their name is attached to railways, mines, hospitals, museums, nature reserves, Bordeaux first growths and a long tradition of Jewish philanthropy. Repeated marriages between first cousins kept capital and control inside the family, which is why the branches of this tree cross back into one another so often. | Fact | Details | | --- | --- | | Founder | Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1812) | | Matriarch | Gutle Schnapper (1753-1849) | | Origin | The Judengasse, Frankfurt am Main | | Children of the founder | Ten, five sons and five daughters | | The five houses | Frankfurt, Vienna, Naples, London, Paris | | Motto | Concordia, Integritas, Industria | | Principal firms | N M Rothschild and Sons, de Rothschild Freres, S. M. von Rothschild | | Still active today | Rothschild and Co, Edmond de Rothschild Group | | Known for | Government finance, railways, wine estates, natural history, art collections, philanthropy |
The House of Bourbon is a European royal dynasty, descended in the male line from the Capetian kings of France, that ruled France from 1589 to 1792 and again from 1814 to 1848, and that still reigns in Spain today under King Felipe VI. Over four centuries its members also held the thrones of Navarre, Naples and Sicily, Parma and Etruria, which makes it one of the most widely established royal houses in European history. ## Origins The family takes its name from the lordship of Bourbon in the Auvergne, centred on Bourbon-l'Archambault. Its royal line descends from Robert, Count of Clermont, a younger son of King Louis IX of France, whose marriage to Beatrice of Burgundy, heiress of Bourbon, carried the name into the Capetian house in 1272. For three centuries afterwards the Bourbons were powerful French princes of the blood rather than kings. That changed with Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Vendome, whose marriage to Jeanne d'Albret, queen regnant of Navarre, produced Henry of Navarre. When the Valois line died out in 1589, Henry was the senior Capetian heir, and he took the French throne as Henry IV. ## Notable members Henry IV ended the French Wars of Religion and issued the Edict of Nantes in 1598. His son Louis XIII, guided by Cardinal Richelieu, built the centralised state that Louis XIV, the Sun King, carried to its height across a reign of seventy-two years, the longest of any European sovereign, and to the palace of Versailles. Louis XV and then Louis XVI inherited that system, and Louis XVI and his queen, Marie Antoinette, were swept away by the French Revolution in 1792. The dynasty returned with Louis XVIII in 1814 and Charles X in 1824, and in 1830 the crown passed to Louis Philippe I of the cadet House of Orleans, the last king to rule in France. ## The Spanish branch In 1700 the childless Charles II of Spain left his crown to Philip, Duke of Anjou, a grandson of Louis XIV. Philip became Philip V, the first Bourbon king of Spain, at the cost of the War of the Spanish Succession, which ended with his renunciation of any claim to the French throne. His descendants include the reforming Charles III, Ferdinand VII, Isabella II, Alfonso XII and Alfonso XIII, who left Spain in 1931. The monarchy was restored in 1975 under Juan Carlos I, grandson of Alfonso XIII, who presided over Spain's transition to democracy and abdicated in 2014 in favour of his son Felipe VI. Felipe's elder daughter Leonor, Princess of Asturias, is heir to the throne. ## Significance No other family links the absolute monarchy of Versailles to a working constitutional monarchy in twenty-first century Madrid. Bourbon marriages tied the house to the Habsburgs of Austria and Spain, the dukes of Savoy, the Medici of Florence and the British royal family, so a Bourbon family tree doubles as a map of European dynastic politics from the Reformation to the present day. | Fact | Details | | --- | --- | | Family name | House of Bourbon (Maison de Bourbon, Casa de Borbon) | | Place of origin | Bourbon-l'Archambault, Auvergne, France | | Founder of the line | Robert, Count of Clermont (1256-1317), son of Louis IX | | First king of France | Henry IV, reigned 1589 to 1610 | | Last king to rule France | Louis Philippe I, reigned 1830 to 1848 | | First king of Spain | Philip V, reigned 1700 to 1746 | | Head of the house in Spain | King Felipe VI, since 2014 | | Heir in Spain | Leonor, Princess of Asturias | | Principal seats | Versailles, Fontainebleau, the Louvre, the Royal Palace of Madrid |
The Rockefeller family is an American business and philanthropic dynasty founded on the Standard Oil fortune of John D. Rockefeller, whose descendants have shaped American banking, conservation, medicine, modern art and national politics across five generations. From a modest upstate New York farmhouse the family rose to control the largest industrial enterprise of the Gilded Age, then spent the twentieth century converting that fortune into foundations, museums, parks and public office. ## Origins The line begins with William Avery Rockefeller (1810-1906), a traveling salesman from Granger, New York, and his wife Eliza Davison (1813-1889), who married in 1837 and raised six children in Richford, Moravia and Owego before the family moved to Ohio. Their eldest son, John D. Rockefeller, began as a Cleveland bookkeeper, entered oil refining in 1863 and incorporated the Standard Oil Company in 1870 together with his younger brother William Rockefeller. By the 1880s Standard Oil refined the great majority of American petroleum, until the Supreme Court ordered its dissolution in 1911. ## Notable members John D. Rockefeller and Laura Spelman Rockefeller had four children who reached adulthood, among them the Chicago arts patron Edith Rockefeller McCormick and the family's only son, John D. Rockefeller Jr. With Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, a co-founder of the Museum of Modern Art, John Jr. had six children who defined the family's public face: Abby "Babs" Rockefeller Mauze, the philanthropist John D. Rockefeller III, Nelson Rockefeller, who served four terms as Governor of New York and then as Vice President of the United States, the conservationist and venture capitalist Laurance Rockefeller, Winthrop Rockefeller, Governor of Arkansas, and the banker David Rockefeller of Chase Manhattan. Their children, known within the family as the Cousins, include Senator Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, the Asmat art collector Michael Rockefeller, Lieutenant Governor Winthrop Paul Rockefeller of Arkansas, the economist Neva Goodwin and the Synergos founder Peggy Dulany. ## Significance The family's lasting mark is institutional rather than dynastic. The Rockefeller Foundation, the University of Chicago, Rockefeller University, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Rockefeller Center, the Museum of Modern Art, Colonial Williamsburg, Lincoln Center, the Asia Society and several national parks all trace their founding or their endowment to a Rockefeller. Few American families have moved so completely from industrial fortune to organized philanthropy and elected office within three generations. | Fact | Details | | --- | --- | | Surname | Rockefeller | | Origin | Richford, New York, United States | | Founder | John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937) | | Family business | Standard Oil, later Chase Manhattan Bank | | Known for | Standard Oil, the Rockefeller Foundation, Rockefeller Center, the Museum of Modern Art | | Public offices held | Vice President of the United States, Governor of New York, Governor of Arkansas, United States Senator | | Generations covered | Five, from William Avery Rockefeller to the fourth-generation Cousins |
Ajit Deol's recorded parents are Kewal Kishan Singh Deol, Satwant Kaur.
Ajit Deol has 1 recorded child: Abhay Deol.
Ajit Deol has 1 recorded sibling: Dharmendra Deol.
Ajit Deol's recorded native place is Ludhiana district, Punjab, India.
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