Shankar
Shankar is a Sanskrit word meaning "Beneficent" or "Giver of Bliss". Shankar is the Hindi/North Indian version of the name Shankara also written sometimes as Sankara.
People
- S. Shankar, Tamil film director
- Shankar (V R Shankar), Malayalam film director and writer.
- K. Shankar, Tamil film director
- Anand Shankar, Tamil film director and writer
- N. Shankar, Telugu Film director
- Shankar Panikkar (born 1960), Indian film actor and director popularly known as Shankar
- Shankar Mahadevan, singer and part of the Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy music-director trio
- Shankar Singh Raghuvanshi, half of the Shankar Jaikishan music-director duo
- K. Shankar Pillai (1902-1989), Indian cartoonist
- Shankar's Weekly, a magazine founded by him
- Shankar's International Dolls Museum, New Delhi
- L. Shankar (born 1950), Indian violinist
- Shankar Lamichhane, Nepalese Essayist
- Shankar Dayal Sharma (1918-1999), ninth President of India serving from 1992 to 1997
- Shankar Nagar
- Shankar Balasubramanian, UK Chemical Biologist
- Shankar Narayanan, Works at Athenahealth
- Mamata Shankar (born 1955), actress in the Bengali language film industry of India
- Uday Shankar (1900-1977), classical dancer
- Ravi Shankar (1920-2012), famous sitar player
- Geethali Norah Jones Shankar (Norah Jones, born 1979), American singer-songwriter, daughter of Ravi Shankar
- Anoushka Shankar (born-1981), Indian sitar player and composer in the United States, daughter of Ravi Shankar
- Ananda Shankar (1942-1999), Bengali musician best known for fusing Western and Eastern musical styles. He was married to Tanusree Shankar
- Colonel Shankar, the nom de guerre of Vaithilingam Sornalingam of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
- Mani Shankar Mukherjee, Bengali writer popularly known as Shankar
- Mani Shankar, Indian film-maker
- Ravi Shankar (poet), poet and faculty member of Central Connecticut State University
- Ramamurti Shankar, physicist
- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, guru and founder of the Art of Living movement
- Shankar Party unofficial name given to the Adhyatmik Ishwariya Vishwa Vidyalaya
- Naren Shankar, writer, producer and director of several television series
- Adrian Shankar, English cricketer
- Shankar Tucker, American clarinetist and music composer
Places
- Shankar, Jalandhar, a village located in Jallandhar, Punjab, India
- Shankar, Iran, a village in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran
Technology
- Shankar's Virus, a computer virus that infects Word documents
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