Ashoka (disambiguation)

Ashoka (died 232 BC) was a monarch of the Mauryan Empire of India.

Ashoka, Asoka, or Ashok may also refer to:

Entertainment

• Ashok (film), a 2006 Telugu film directed by Surender Reddy
• Ashoka (2006 film), a 2006 Kannada film directed by Shivamani
• Ashoka (2008 film), a 2008 Tamil film directed by Prem
• Asoka (1955 film), a 1955 Sri Lankan film directed by Sirisena Wimalaweera
• Aśoka (film), a 2001 Bollywood historical drama film directed by Santosh Sivan
• Ashoka the Great (book), a 2011 book by Wytze Keuning

People

Actors

• Ashok Kumar (Tamil actor) (born 1981), South Indian actor and Bharatnatyam performer
• Ashok Kumar (1911–2001), Indian film actor
• Ashok Lokhande (born 1950), Indian film actor
• Ashok Mehta (1947–2012), Indian film actor
• Ashok Saraf (born 1947), Indian actor and comedian, Marathi and Hindi
• Ashok Selvan (born 1989), Indian actor
• Ashok Shinde, Indian film actor
• Ashok (Kannada actor) (born 1951), Kannada film actor

Chief Ministers of Indian states

• Ashok Chavan (born 1958), Chief Minister of Maharashtra
• Ashok Gehlot (born 1951), chief minister of the Indian state of Rajasthan
• R. Ashok, former Deputy Chief Minister of Indian State of Karnataka

Cricketers

• Ashok Upadhyay (born 1953), Indian cricketer
• Asoka de Silva (cricketer) (born 1956), Sri Lankan Sinhala cricketer

Film-related

• Ashok Amritraj (born 1956), Indian American film producer
• Ashok Gaikwad (born 1962), Indian film director

Law and enforcement

• Ashok Chaturvedi (born 1947), former chief of India's external intelligence agency
• Ashok Desai, Attorney General of India, 1996 to 1998
• Asoka de Silva (judge) (born 1946), Sri Lankan Sinhala judge, Chief Justice
• Ashok Kamte (1965–2008), Additional Commissioner of Mumbai Police for the East Region

Literature

• Ashok Banker (born 1964), Indian novelist and short story writer
• Ashokamitran (1931–2017), influential figure in post-independent Tamil literature

Others

• Ashoka (Gonandiya), a king of Kashmir
• Ashok Captain (born 1960), Indian herpetologist
• Ashok Row Kavi (born 1947), Indian journalist and LGBT rights activists

Other uses

• Ashoka (non-profit organization), an international citizen sector organization
• Ashoknagar (disambiguation) or Ashok Nagar, the name of various places in India
• Ashok Leyland, an Indian commercial vehicle manufacturer founded in 1948 based in Chennai

See also

• Ahsoka
• Ashok Kumar (disambiguation)
• Ashoka tree (disambiguation)
• Ashokan (disambiguation)
• Asoka de Silva (disambiguation)
• Asok (disambiguation)