Shankar
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Sankar or Shankar is a Sanskrit word meaning "beneficent" or "giver of bliss" and may refer to:
People
- Shankar (name)
- Ravi Shankar, Indian sitarist and composer
- Shankar (actor), Indian actor
- Shankar (Tamil militant), Tamil rebel
- Shankar (cartoonist), Indian cartoonist
- Shankar (writer), Indian writer
- Shankar–Ganesh, an Indian music director duo who worked in Tamil, Telugu, and Kannada movies
- Shankar Dayal Sharma, President of India from 1992 to 1997
- K. Shankar or Shankar, Indian film director, screenwriter and editor
- S. Shankar or Shankar, Indian film director, film producer and screenwriter
- Shankar, fictional protagonist of the 1998 Indian film Gunda portrayed by Mithun Chakraborty
Places
- Shankar, Jalandhar, a village located in Jallandhar, Punjab, India
- Shankar, Iran, a village in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran
- Shankar Vihar, neighborhood of Delhi, India
See also
- All pages with titles containing Shankar
- Shankar's International Dolls Museum, New Delhi
- Shankar's Weekly, a magazine founded by K. Shankar Pillai
- Shankar Party unofficial name given to the Adhyatmik Ishwariya Vishwa Vidyalaya
- Shankar Guru (disambiguation)
- Sankar (disambiguation)
- Shankara (disambiguation)
- Shanker, a surname
- Sankara (disambiguation)
- Shenkar (disambiguation)
- Shankari (disambiguation)