Chaman Lal is a British Labour Party politician and former Lord Mayor of Birmingham.

He is the first person of British Indian origin to be elected for this designation.

[1][2] Chaman Lal was born in a Ravidassia Sikh[3][4] family in Village Pakhowal in Hoshiarpur District as a son of Sardar Harnam Singh, a British Indian army officer who served in Italy during the Second World War and his mother Sardarni Jai Kaur.

His uncle, Sardar Ram Singh was also a British Indian army officer who was killed in the Burma campaign.

[5] Lal married his wife Vidya in 1971, and they had three daughters and two sons.