Aarav Dengla is an Indian chess grandmaster, born on July 25, 2009 - India's 93rd grandmaster and the third from Mumbai. He began rated tournaments at six, first coached by grandmaster Pravin Thipsay and later by Vishnu Prasanna. He is the youngest winner of the Grand Paris Masters Championship, a title he took in 2024.

His norms came at Bijeljina in 2022, the Zupanja round-robin in Croatia in 2025, and a return to Bijeljina for the final one - along the way collecting gold at the 2024 FIDE World Schools Rapid and Blitz.