Shankar
Appearance
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.
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, 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
- 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