Kher or Khar is a Kashmiri Pandit and Karhade Brahmin clan or surname, native to the Kashmir Valley in Jammu and Kashmir and Maharashtra, India.
Usage Kher/Khar as a last name is used by Kashmiri Brahmins and Karhade Brahmins.
Multiple Kashmiri surnames have been attached to a Kashmiri person because of the appearance of any of their ancestors in past with any animal or a bird, which later became the family's surname.
Notable people B. G. Kher (1888–1957), politician Govind Ballal Kher (1710–1760), Military of Peshwas in Bundelkhand Anupam Kher, actor Saiyami Kher, actor
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