Bhaskaran is a

given name A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a fa ...

or a patronymic surname with its origin in Sanskrit meaning "the sun". Notable people with the surname include: * Bhaskaran Ramprakash (born 1966), Indian cricketer *

K. Bhaskaran K. Bhaskaran is an Indian Carnatic music flautist. Early life K. Bhaskaran was born on 30 April 1961 to Lakshmi Krishnamurthi and K. Krishnamurthi, and brought up in Mylapore, in the city of Chennai. Bhaskaran started formally learning the flut ...

, Indian Carnatic music flautist * M. Bhaskaran, Indian Communist politician * Nellikode Bhaskaran, Indian Malayalam actor *

P. Bhaskaran Pulloottupadathu Bhaskaran alias as P. Bhaskaran (21 April 1924 – 25 February 2007), was a Malayalam poet, lyricist of Malayalam film songs, and filmmaker. He penned more than 3000 songs for about 250 films. He also directed 44 Malayalam fea ...

(1924–2007), Malayalam poet and film song lyricist *

Vasudevan Baskaran Vasudevan Baskaran (born 17 August 1950) is a former field hockey player and coach from Tamil Nadu, India. He captained the India, which won the gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, then part of the Soviet Union. Thereafter he c ...

, Indian hockey player

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