Ram (given name)
Ram is a masculine given name. In South Asia it is a variant of Rama, and in Hebrew it means high or senior, a biblical name, which is also sometimes used as a diminutive form of Avram. Notable persons with the name include:
People
- Ram Chandra Bharadwaj, a defendant in the Hindu–German Conspiracy Trial
- Ram Chandra Paudel, Nepalese politician and Third President of Nepal
- Ram Baran Yadav, First President of Nepal
- Ram Chiang, Hong Kong actor and singer
- Ram Prasad Bismil, Indian revolutionary
- Ram Bahadur Bomjon, Nepalese teenager televised meditating for days without moving
- Ram Charan (disambiguation)
- Ram Bahadur Thapa, Nepalese politician
- Guru Ram Das, fourth of the Ten Gurus of Sikhism
- Ram Etwareea, Mauritian politician
- Ram Gopal (disambiguation)
- Ram Herrera, Tejano musician
- Ram Kapoor, Indian television actor
- Ram Karmi, Israeli architect
- Ram Dass Katari, Indian Navy vice-admiral and Chief of the Naval Staff
- Ram Kumar (artist), Indian artist
- Ram Kumar (basketball), Indian basketball player
- Ram Krishna Kunwar, 18th century Nepalese military general
- Ram Loevy, Israeli television director and screenwriter
- Ram Madhav, Indian politician, writer, journalist and National General Secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party
- Ram Malla, also known as Kshetra, king of Mallabhum from 1185 to 1209
- Ram Narayan, Indian sarangi player
- Ram Pothineni, Indian Tollywood film actor
- Ram Prasad (disambiguation)
- Ram Mohan Roy, Indian reformer
- Ram Shah, King of Gorkha, Nepal
- Ram Vilas Sharma, Indian literary critic, linguist, poet and thinker
- Ram Soffer, Israeli chess Grandmaster
- Ram Singh (disambiguation)
- Ram Torten, Israeli Olympic competitive sailor
- Ram Gopal Varma, Indian Tollywood and Bollywood film director
- Ram Gopal Vijayvargiya, Indian painter
- Ramkumar, Indian actor
- Raam Mori, Gujarati language short story writer from India
- Ram Puneet Tiwary, a Singaporean Indian and alleged murderer of the 2003 Sydney double murders case
Biblical and fictional characters
- Ram (Biblical figure)
- Ram (comics), a Japanese DC Comics superhero
- Ram, in the 1982 American science-fiction film Tron
- Ram, in the 1999-2003 New Zealand/British TV series The Tribe
- Ram, in the 2011 Japanese role-playing video game Hyperdimension Neptunia Mk2
- Ram (Re:Zero), in the light novel series Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World
- Ram Singh, in the 2016 Doctor Who spinoff TV series Class
- Ram Sweeney, a character in the 1988 American black comedy film Heathers and its 2014 musical adaptation