List of Famous people named Ashwini

Ashwini Vaishnav is a former Indian Administrative Service officer and the current Union Minister of Railways and Information Technology. He is an Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Since 28 June 2019, he is the member of the Parliament of India representing Odisha State in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house. He became Union Minister and was given Railway Ministry and Information Technology minister position on July 2021. He is a resident of Jodhpur.

Ashwini Ponnappa Machimanda is an Indian badminton player who represents the country at the international badminton circuit in both the women's and mixed doubles disciplines. She had a successful partnership with Jwala Gutta as the pair has won many medals in international events including a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games and bronze medals at the Uber Cup and the Asian Badminton Championships. They were consistently ranked among the top 20 in the BWF World Ranking reaching as high as no. 10. Ponnappa and Gutta also won the bronze medal at the BWF World Championships in 2011, becoming the first Indian pair and women and only the second overall to win a medal at the World Championships.