 Mayawati, former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, chooses to use only a single name.Several Indian film personalities, such as Asin, Biswajit, Dharmendra, Govinda, Kajol, Pran, Rajnikanth, Rekha and Tabu, are also mononymous.Govindjee, Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Plant Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, an Indian-American and an authority on photosynthesis, publishes his research under his singular name.