Shankar
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Shankar is a common name in India. It generally refers to:
- Shiva, Hindu god who is referred to by many names
- Adi Shankara, Hindu philosopher (guru) of around the ninth century
Shankar is also the given name or family name of the following individuals:
- Members of the family of Indian musicians/dancers of whom the most well known are
- Uday Shankar, classical dancer
- Ravi Shankar, sitar player
- Geethali Norah Jones Shankar (Norah Jones), American singer-songwriter
- Anoushka Shankar
- Abhinav Shanker
- Colonel Shankar, the nom de guerre of Vaithilingam Sornalingam of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
- Shankar Mahadevan, singer and part of the Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy music-director trio.
- Shankar, part of the Shankar-Jaikishan music-director duo.
- Kunnesseri Shankar, director
- K. Shankar Pillai (1902–1989), Indian cartoonist
- Shankar's Weekly, a magazine founded by him
- Shankar's International Dolls Museum, New Delhi
- L. Shankar, Indian violinist
- Mani Shankar Mukherjee, Bengali writer popularly known as Shankar
- Mani Shankar, Indian Film-maker
- Rajeswaran, Shankar, World famous biologist famous for his discoveries near the coast of Papua New Guinea
- Ramamurti Shankar, Textbook author and physics professor at Yale University
- Ravi Shankar, poet and faculty member of Central Connecticut State University
- S. Shankar, Tamil film director
- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, guru and founder of the Art of Living movement
- Shankar Party unofficial name given to the Adhyatmik Ishwariya Vishwa Vidyalaya
- Shankar Lamichhane, Nepalese Essayist
- Shankar, Ludhiana, Village located in Ludhiana, Punjab
