Mahatama Hansraj was an Indian educationist and a follower of Arya Samaj movement founder, Swami Dayanand.
Hansraj was born in Bajwara, Hoshiarpur district, Punjab, British India into a Punjabi Hindu Khatri family on 19 April 1864.
(Dayanand Anglo Vedic) school, along with a fellow Arya Samaji, Gurudatta Vidyarthi.
Later he became the Principal of the Dayanand Anglo-Vedic College, Lahore, and president of the provincial Arya Pradeshik Pratinidhi Sabha, the D.A.V.
He is credited of proposing Ashok Dharma Chakra in the middle of the Indian National Flag.