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Sankar or Shankar is a Sanskrit word meaning "beneficent" or "giver of bliss" and may refer to:

People

Shankar (name)
- Ravi Shankar, Indian sitarist and composer
- Shankar (actor), Indian actor
- Shankar (Tamil militant), Tamil rebel
- Shankar (cartoonist), Indian cartoonist
- Shankar (writer), Indian writer
- Shankar–Ganesh, an Indian music director duo who worked in Tamil, Telugu, and Kannada movies
- Shankar Dayal Sharma, President of India from 1992 to 1997
- K. Shankar or Shankar, Indian film director, screenwriter and editor
- S. Shankar or Shankar, Indian film director, film producer and screenwriter
- Shankar, fictional protagonist of the 1998 Indian film Gunda portrayed by Mithun Chakraborty

Places

Shankar, Jalandhar, a village located in Jallandhar, Punjab, India
Shankar, Iran, a village in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran

Shankar's International Dolls Museum, New Delhi
Shankar's Weekly, a magazine founded by K. Shankar Pillai
Shankar Party unofficial name given to the Adhyatmik Ishwariya Vishwa Vidyalaya
Shankar Guru (disambiguation)
Sankar (disambiguation)
Shankara (disambiguation)
Shanker, a surname
Sankara (disambiguation)
Shenkar (disambiguation)
Shankari (disambiguation)

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+{{wikt|Shankar}}
-'''Shankar''' is a [[Sanskrit]] word meaning "Beneficent" or "Giver of Bliss".
-Shankar is also name of Hindu God, lord Shiva (Shiva shankara) the south Indian version of the name Shankara also written sometimes as Sankara.
+'''Sankar''' or '''Shankar''' is a Sanskrit word meaning "beneficent" or "giver of bliss" and may refer to:
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 ==People==
+*[[Shankar (name)]]
-*[[S. Shankar]], Tamil film director
+**[[Ravi Shankar]], Indian sitarist and composer
+**[[Shankar (actor)]], Indian actor
-*[[Sankar (film director)|Shankar]] (V R Shankar), Malayalam  film director and writer.
-*[[K. Shankar]], Tamil film director
+**[[Shankar (Tamil militant)]], Tamil rebel
+**[[Shankar (cartoonist)]], Indian cartoonist
-*[[Anand Shankar]], Tamil film director and writer
-*[[N. Shankar]], Telugu Film director
+**[[Shankar (writer)]], Indian writer
+**[[Shankar–Ganesh]], an Indian music director duo who worked in Tamil, Telugu, and Kannada movies
-*[[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 Dayal Sharma]], President of India from 1992 to 1997
+**[[K. Shankar]] or Shankar, Indian film director, screenwriter and editor
-*Shankar Singh Raghuvanshi, half of the [[Shankar Jaikishan]] music-director duo
-*[[K. Shankar Pillai]] (1902-1989), Indian cartoonist
+**[[S. Shankar]] or Shankar, Indian film director, film producer and screenwriter
+**Shankar, fictional protagonist of the 1998 Indian film ''[[Gunda (1998 film)|Gunda]]'' portrayed by Mithun Chakraborty
-*[[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]], Nepalese town
-*[[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
-*[[Norah Jones|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
-*[[AIVV|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
 == See also ==
+*[[Shankar's International Dolls Museum]], New Delhi
+*''[[Shankar's Weekly]]'', a magazine founded by K. Shankar Pillai
+*[[AIVV|Shankar Party]] unofficial name given to the Adhyatmik Ishwariya Vishwa Vidyalaya
+*[[Shankar Guru (disambiguation)]]
 * [[Sankar (disambiguation)]]
 * [[Shankara (disambiguation)]]
+* [[Shanker]], a surname
 * [[Sankara (disambiguation)]]
+* [[Shenkar (disambiguation)]]
+* [[Shankari (disambiguation)]]
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+{{disambiguation|geo}}