Devendra
Devendra is a common Indian masculine given name. It comes from Sanskrit देवेन्द्र devendra 'chief of the gods', which has been used as an epithet of the Vedic god Indra.[1]
A list of persons with the name[]
- Devendra Banhart, Venezuelan/American musician
- Devendra Bishoo, West Indies cricketer
- Devendra Fadnavis, Indian politician
- Devendra Goel, Indian filmmaker
- Devendra Jhajharia, Indian javelin thrower
- Devendra Kumar Joshi, the Indian Chief of Naval Staff
- Devendra Pandey, an Indian politician who is best known for hijacking an airplane in 1978
- Devendra Prabhudesai, Indian biographer
- Devendra Prasad Gupta, Indian academic
- Debendra Prasad Ghosh, Indian writer
- Devendra Prasad Yadav, Indian politician
- Dev Alahan, a fictional character in ITV soap Coronation Street
- Devendra Singh, Indian Banker and a versatile personality
References[]
- ^ Monier-Williams, Monier (1899). A Sanskrit-English Dictionary: Etymologically and Philologically Arranged with Special Reference to Cognate Indo-European Languages. Oxford: Clarendon Press. OCLC 685239912.
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