Jayashankar is an Indian given name and surname. It is formed from the Sanskrit words () 'victorious' and () 'beneficent'. The latter word is a reference to Shiva (see

Shankar Shankar may refer to: People * Shankar (name), including a list of people with the name * Sankar (writer) (Mani Shankar Mukherjee), Bengali writer * L. Shankar, Indian violinist *S. Shankar, Indian film director commonly credited as Shankar * San ...

). By the process of schwa syncope, becomes in many modern Indian languages, resulting in the name also being spelled Jaishankar. People with these names include: * Jaishankar Bhojak (1889–1975), Indian actor and director of Gujarati theatre * Jaishankar Prasad (1889–1937), Indian writer prominent in modern Hindi literature *

Kothapalli Jayashankar Kothapalli Jayashankar (6 August 1934 – 21 June 2011), popularly known as Professor Jayashankar, was an Indian academic and social activist. He was a leading ideologue of the Telangana Movement. He fought for a separate state beginning in 195 ...

(1934–2011), Telangana movement activist * Jaishankar (1938–2000), Indian actor known for his work in Tamil cinema * Thiruvizha Jayashankar (born 1940), Indian classical musician *

S. Jaishankar Subrahmanyam Jaishankar (born 9 January 1955) is an Indian diplomat and politician serving as the Minister of External Affairs of the Government of India since 30 May 2019. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and a Member of Parliame ...

(born 1955), Indian diplomat *

Jaishankar Menon Jaishankar Menon (born: 09 August 1956) is an Indian-American computer scientist and researcher. Life and career Menon joined IBM's research team in San Jose, California, in 1982, where he developed RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) ...

(born 1956), Indian-born American computer scientist *

A. Jayashankar A. Jayashankar (born 21 September 1962) is an Indian lawyer, social critic, political analyst, and journalist from Kerala who is a former member of the Communist Party of India. He is known for his sarcastic articles published in ''Madhyamam Wee ...

(born 1962), Indian lawyer based in Kerala *

M. Jaishankar M. Jaishankar (1977 – February 27, 2018), nicknamed Psycho Shankar, was an Indian criminal, sexual predator, and serial killer, notorious for a series of rapes and murders during 2008–2011. It is believed that he was involved in about 30 ...

(1977–2018), Indian serial killer *

Shvetha Jaishankar Shvetha Jaishankar (born 11 December 1978) is an Indian model, author, entrepreneur, beauty pageant titleholder, writer, and a trained Bharatanatyam dancer. She won the title at the Femina Miss India International 1998 and later was crowned as ...

(born 1978), Indian model and businesswoman *

Karuppannan Jaishankar Karuppannan Jaishankar is the founding Principal Director & Professor of Criminology and Crime Sciences at the International Institute of Crime & Security Sciences (IICSS) (A Not-for-Profit Academic Institution and Independent Policy Think Tank ...

, Indian criminologist * Vedam Jaishankar, Indian cricket correspondent from Karnataka

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