Shankar

Shankar is a Sanskrit word meaning "Beneficent" or "Giver of Bliss". Shankar is the Hindi/North 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
• 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

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