Shankar (name)
is also the name of Hindu god, Lord
Matri Majhi word meaning "beneficent" or "giver of bliss". Matri. MajhiThe south Indian version of is sometimes written as "Matri
Notable people with this name include:
Given name
- Sankar (writer), Bengali writer
- Shankar Balasubramanian, British chemical biologist
- Shankar Bhattacharyya, American engineer
- Shankar Ghosh (musician), Indian musician
- Shankar Lamichhane, Nepalese essayist
- Shankar Mahadevan, singer and part of the Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy music-director trio
- Shankar Nagar, Nepalese town
- Shankar Painter, Indian poet
- Shankar (actor), Indian film actor and director popularly known as Shankar
- K. Shankar Pillai, Indian cartoonist
- Shankar Dayal Sharma, ninth President of India serving from 1992 to 1997
- Shankar Tucker, American clarinetist and music composer
- Shankar Vedantam, reporter with NPR and host of 'Hidden Brain' podcast
Surname
- Shankar (Tamil militant), Vaithilingam Sornalingam of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
- Adi Shankar, Indian-American writer, producer and director
- Adrian Shankar, English cricketer
- Amala Shankar, Indian dancer
- Anand Shankar, Tamil film director and writer
- Ananda Shankar, Bengali musician best known for fusing Western and Eastern musical styles. He was married to Tanusree Shankar
- Anoushka Shankar, Indian sitar player and composer in the United States, daughter of Ravi Shankar
- Dileep Shankar, Indian actor, director and writer
- Juloori Gouri Shankar, Indian Telugu-language writer
- K. Shankar, Tamil film director
- K. S. Bhavani Shankar, Indian Mridangam player and musician
- L. Shankar, Indian violinist
- Mamata Shankar, actress in the Bengali language film industry of India
- Mani Shankar, Indian film-maker
- Melinda Shankar, Canadian actress
- N. Shankar, Telugu film director
- Naren Shankar, writer, producer and director of several television series
- Geethali Norah Jones Shankar, American singer-songwriter, daughter of Ravi Shankar
- Ramamurti Shankar, physicist
- Ramsewak Shankar, President of Suriname
- Ravi Shankar, famous sitar player
- Ravi Shankar (spiritual leader), guru and founder of the Art of Living movement
- Ravi Shankar (poet), poet and faculty member of Central Connecticut State University
- Rekha Shankar, American comedian
- S. Shankar, Tamil film director
- Uday Shankar, classical dancer
Fictional
- Shankar Roy Chowdhury, protagonist of the Chander Pahar franchise