Shankar (name)

Sankar is a Sanskrit word meaning "beneficent" or "giver of bliss". Shankar is also the name of Hindu god, Lord Shiva (Shiva shankara). The south Indian version of Shankara is sometimes written as "Sankara".

Notable people with this name include:

Given name[]

Sankar (writer) (Mani Shankar Mukherjee), Bengali writer
Shankar Balasubramanian, UK Chemical Biologist
Shankar Bhattacharyya (born 1946), American engineer
Shankar Lamichhane, Nepalese Essayist
Shankar Mahadevan, singer and part of the Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy music-director trio
Shankar Nagar, Nepalese town
Shankar Narayanan, Works at Athenahealth
Shankar Painter (1946–2020), Indian poet
Shankar (actor) (Shankar Panikkar, born 1960), Indian film actor and director popularly known as Shankar
K. Shankar Pillai (1902–1989), Indian cartoonist
Shankar Singh Raghuvanshi, half of the music-director duo
Shankar Dayal Sharma (1918–1999), ninth President of India serving from 1992 to 1997
Shankar Tucker, American clarinetist and music composer
Shankar Vedantam, reporter with NPR and host of 'Hidden Brain' podcast

Surname[]

Adrian Shankar, English cricketer
Amala Shankar (1919–2020), Indian danseuse
Anand Shankar, Tamil film director and writer
Ananda Shankar (1942–1999), Bengali musician best known for fusing Western and Eastern musical styles. He was married to Tanusree Shankar
Anoushka Shankar (born 1981), Indian sitar player and composer in the United States, daughter of Ravi Shankar
Shankar (Tamil militant) (Colonel Shankar, nom de guerre), Vaithilingam Sornalingam of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
K. Shankar, Tamil film director
L. Shankar (born 1950), Indian violinist
Mamata Shankar (born 1955), actress in the Bengali language film industry of India
Mani Shankar, Indian film-maker
Melinda Shankar (born 1992), Canadian actress
N. Shankar, Telugu film director
Naren Shankar, writer, producer and director of several television series
Geethali Norah Jones Shankar (Norah Jones, born 1979), American singer-songwriter, daughter of Ravi Shankar
Ramamurti Shankar, physicist
Ramsewak Shankar (1937), President of Suriname
Ravi Shankar (1920–2012), famous sitar player
Ravi Shankar (poet), poet and faculty member of Central Connecticut State University
S. Shankar, Tamil film director
Ravi Shankar (spiritual leader), guru and founder of the Art of Living movement
Uday Shankar (1900–1977), classical dancer
Sankar (writer & director) (V. R. Shankar), Malayalam film director and writer

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