Nitin or Nithin (
Devanagari
Devanagari ( ; , , Sanskrit pronunciation: ), also called Nagari (),Kathleen Kuiper (2010), The Culture of India, New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, , page 83 is a left-to-right abugida (a type of segmental Writing systems#Segmental syste ...
:नितिन, नीतीन or नीतिन) is a male first name in India and Nepal that means ''one having the 'double art' in
Sanskrit
Sanskrit (; attributively , ; nominally , , ) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in South Asia after its predecessor languages had diffused there from the northwest in the late ...
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Nitin comes from the Sanskrit words 'niti' meaning 'art' and 'gna' or 'gyan' meaning imagination.
Notable people named Nitin
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Nitin Bose
Nitin Bose (26 April 1897 – 14 April 1986) was an Indian film director, cinematographer and screenwriter of the nation's film industry. He was born in Calcutta and died in the same city. In the 1930s and early 1940s, he worked with New Theatre ...
, Indian film director
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Nitin Chandrakant Desai
Nitin Chandrakant Desai is a noted Indian art director and production designer of Indian cinema turned film and television producer, most known for his work in Marathi and Hindi Films, World Cultural Festival 2016 at Delhi and films like, ''Hum ...
, Bollywood art director and production designer
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Nitin Gadkari
Nitin Jairam Gadkari (; born 27 May 1957) is an Indian politician from Maharashtra who is the current Minister for Road Transport & Highways in the Government of India. He is also the longest serving Minister for Road Transport & Highways cur ...
, Indian Transport minister, former President of the Bharatiya Janta party
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Nitin Ganatra
Nitin Chandra Ganatra (born 30 June 1967) is a Kenyan-born British actor. He is known for portraying Masood Ahmed in the BBC soap opera, ''EastEnders''.
Early and personal life
Ganatra was born on 30 June 1967 in Kenya. Both sides of Ganatra's ...
, British actor
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Nitin Kapoor
Nitin Kapoor was a producer in Bollywood Films. He was the husband of South Indian actress Jayasudha and a cousin of the renowned Bollywood actor Jeetendra.
With Jayasudha, whom he married in 1985, he has two sons, Nihar Kapoor and Shreayan Kap ...
, Indian producer
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Nitin Mukesh
Nitin Mukesh Mathur is an Indian playback singer known for his work as a playback singer in Hindi films as well as Bhajans. He has toured internationally, including to the United States in 1993, and a world tour in 2006 with his show ''Kal Ki Y ...
, Indian singer
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Neil Nitin Mukesh
Neil Nitin Mukesh Chand Mathur (born 15 January 1982) is an Indian actor, producer and writer who mainly works in Bollywood films . Born to singer Nitin Mukesh and grandson of Mukesh (singer), Mukesh, he debuted as a child artist in ''Vijay (19 ...
, Indian actor
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Nitin Nohria
Nitin Nohria (born February 9, 1962) is an Indian-American academic. He was the tenth dean of Harvard Business School. He is also the George F. Baker Professor of Administration. He is a former non-executive director of Tata Sons.
Early life and ...
, American business writer
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Nitin Pradhan
Nitin Pradhan ( mr, नितिन प्रधान;) was the Departmental Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the US Department of Transportation (DOT) as part of the Obama Administration from July 6, 2009 to August 31, 2012. After leaving US ...
, former Chief Information Officer for the US Department of Transportation
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Nitin Rakesh
Nitin Rakesh, an Indian-American businessman, author, and philanthropist, is currently the Chief Executive Officer and Director of Mphasis. Prior to that, Rakesh was Syntel's CEO and President, as well as CEO and Managing Director of Motilal ...
, businessman
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Nitin Raut
Nitin Kashinath Raut is an Indian politician and social activist from Maharashtra. He was a former Cabinet minister in the Uddhav Thackeray ministry, Government of Maharashtra. He is the Working President of the Indian National Congress part ...
, Indian politician
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Nitin Saini
Nitin Saini (born 28 October 1988) is a cricketer who plays for Haryana in Indian domestic cricket. He has also played for the Indian Premier League franchise team Kings XI Punjab. Saini is a right-hand wicket-keeper batsman who usually opens ...
, Cricket batsman
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Nitin Sahrawat
Nitin Sahrawat (Born 13 August 1981), is an Indian actor, a social activist, and the Editor in Chief of ''Atal Indians Magazine''. Sahrawat is the creator of Atal Indian Project, which aims at creating multiple Urban forest named Atal Vatika, in ...
, actor
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Nitin Sathya
Nithin Sathya (born 9 January 1980) is an Indian actor, film producer. He works primarily in Tamil Cinema.
He made his film debut in ''Kalatpadai'', directed by J. Ramesh, in 2003. He acted with Kamal Hassan in a small role in the Tamil comed ...
, Indian actor
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Nitin Sawhney
Nitin Sawhney , D.Mus (; born 1964) is a British musician, producer and composer. A recipient of the Ivor Novello Lifetime Achievement award in 2017, among multiple international awards throughout his career. Sawhney's work combines Asian ...
, Indian-British composer and musician
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Nitin Gadkari
Nitin Jairam Gadkari (; born 27 May 1957) is an Indian politician from Maharashtra who is the current Minister for Road Transport & Highways in the Government of India. He is also the longest serving Minister for Road Transport & Highways cur ...
. Indian minister of road and transport
See also
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Nithiin
Nithin Kumar Reddy (born 30 March 1983 ), known professionally as Nithiin, is an Indian actor and producer who works predominantly in Telugu cinema. Nithiin's work has earned him one Filmfare Award and two nominations for the Filmfare Award for ...
(born 1983), Indian film actor and producer predominantly in Telugu cinema
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Indian masculine given names