Rājīv ( Devanagari: राजीव,

Bengali script Bengali or Bengalee, or Bengalese may refer to: *something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia * Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region * Bengali language, the language they speak ** Bengali alphabet, the w ...

: রাজীব) is a popular Indian, Bangladeshi,

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

n and Nepalese male name, also spelt Rajeev, Rajive, Rajib, Rajeeb, Rajiva and Rajiba. It is said that the lotus flower ('' Nelumbo nucifera''), though it grows in muddy water, doesn't accumulate the mud particles onto it; such is the quality described as ''rājīv''. Today, in several Indian languages, including Hindi,

Telugu Telugu may refer to: * Telugu language, a major Dravidian language of India *Telugu people, an ethno-linguistic group of India * Telugu script, used to write the Telugu language ** Telugu (Unicode block), a block of Telugu characters in Unicode S ...

Bengali Bengali or Bengalee, or Bengalese may refer to: *something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia * Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region * Bengali language, the language they speak ** Bengali alphabet, the w ...

Madheshi Madheshi people ( ne, मधेशी) is a term used for several groups of people living in the Terai region of Nepal, literally meaning the people of ''Madhesh''. It has also been used as a political pejorative term by the Pahari people of Nep ...

Nepali Nepali or Nepalese may refer to : Concerning Nepal * Anything of, from, or related to Nepal * Nepali people, citizens of Nepal * Nepali language, an Indo-Aryan language found in Nepal, the current official national language and a language spoken ...

Assamese Assamese may refer to: * Assamese people, a socio-ethnolinguistic identity of north-eastern India * People of Assam, multi-ethnic, multi-linguistic and multi-religious people of Assam * Assamese language, one of the easternmost Indo-Aryan language ...

Marathi Marathi may refer to: *Marathi people, an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group of Maharashtra, India *Marathi language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people *Palaiosouda, also known as Marathi, a small island in Greece See also * * ...

and Kannada, ''rājīv'' is the word for "lotus flower". In the '' Rāmāyaṇa'', Rāma's

epithet An epithet (, ), also byname, is a descriptive term (word or phrase) known for accompanying or occurring in place of a name and having entered common usage. It has various shades of meaning when applied to seemingly real or fictitious people, di ...

s include ''Rājīv-Lochan'', meaning "one whose eyes are like lotus flowers".

Notable people named Rajiv, Rajive or Rajeev

* Akshay Kumar, Indian-Canadian actor and martial artist (birth name Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia) *

Rajeev Rājīv (Devanagari: राजीव, Bengali script: রাজীব) is a popular Indian, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan and Nepalese male name, also spelt Rajeev, Rajive, Rajib, Rajeeb, Rajiva and Rajiba. It is said that the lotus flower (''Nelumbo nuc ...

, Indian Tamil language actor *

Rajiv Anchal Rajiv Anchal (born 20 December 1956) is a film director, screenwriter, and sculptor who works in Malayalam language cinema. In 1997, he made ''Guru'', India's official submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. His firs ...

, film director *

Rajive Bagrodia Rajive Bagrodia, Ph.D. is an Indian-American computer scientist and entrepreneur. He is the Founder and Chief Technical Officer of Scalable Network Technologies as well as an emeritus professor of computer science at UCLA. Education and researc ...

, American computer scientist *

Rajiv Bapna Rajiv Kumar Bapna is the founder of Amkette, first-ever domestic manufacturer of floppy diskettes in India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the sec ...

, founder and director of Amkette *

Rajeev Bikram Shah Rajeev Bikram Shah ( ne, राजीव विक्रम शाह) is a Nepalese politician. He was elected as a member of Constituent Assembly from second Constitutional Assembly election held on 19 November 2013 from Jajarkot Constituency ...

, Nepalese politician *

Rajiv Dixit Rājīv (Devanagari: राजीव, Bengali script: রাজীব) is a popular Indian, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan and Nepalese male name, also spelt Rajeev, Rajive, Rajib, Rajeeb, Rajiva and Rajiba. It is said that the lotus flower (''Nelumbo nuc ...

, Indian social activist and associated with Swadeshi movement *

Rajiv Gandhi Rajiv Gandhi (; 20 August 1944 – 21 May 1991) was an Indian politician who served as the sixth prime minister of India from 1984 to 1989. He took office after the 1984 assassination of his mother, then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, to beco ...

, former Prime Minister of India *

Rajiv Goswami Rajiv Goswami (12 June 1971 - 24 February 2004) was a commerce student at the Deshbandhu College, Delhi University who came into prominence when he attempted self-immolation on 19 September 1990 to protest against Prime Minister V.P. Singh's imp ...

, political activist *

Rajiv Gupta (technocrat) Rajiv Gupta is an engineer, a repeat entrepreneur and currently an executive at McAfee. Early life Gupta earned a bachelor's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur around 1984. He received his Ph.D. in compiler optimization fro ...

, former general manager of Hewlett Packard's E-speak project *

Rajiv Gauba Rajiv Gauba (born 15 August 1959; IAST: ) is an Indian civil servant serving as the current Cabinet Secretary of India since 2019. He is an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer belonging 1982 batch of Jharkhand (erstwhile Bihar) cadre. P ...

(born 1959), Indian Administrative Service and Home Secretary of India * Rajeev Goyle, United States Congressional candidate from Kansas * Rajeev Khandelwal, Indian actor * Rajiv Joseph, American playwright * Rajiv Kapoor, Indian actor *

Rajive Kumar Rajive Kumar (born 28 June 1958) is a retired 1981 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer belonging to the Uttar Pradesh cadre. Kumar is currently serving as the chairperson of the Uttar Pradesh Real Estate Regulatory Authority and p ...

(born 1958), Indian Administrative Service officer and former Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh *

Rajiv Kulkarni Rajiv Ramesh Kulkarni (born 25 September 1962) is a former Indian cricketer. He played domestic cricket for Mumbai cricket team, Bombay as a pace bowling, pace and swing bowling, swing bowler (cricket), bowler. He took 8 for 111 in the semi- ...

, Indian former cricketer *

Rajib Lochan Pegu Rajib Lochan Pegu is an Indian politician who was the member of Assam Legislative Assembly from Majuli Assembly constituency (no 99) in Majuli district. He was Minister of water resources in Tarun Gogoi Tarun Gogoi (11 October 1936 – 23 No ...

, Indian politician *

Rajiv Mehrotra Rajiv Mehrotra is an Indian writer, television producer-director, documentary film maker, a personal student of the Dalai Lama for whom he manages as Trustee/Secretary The Foundation for Universal Responsibility (www.furhhdl.org) established with ...

, Indian journalist * Rajiv Menon, Indian cinematographer and director *

Rajeev Motwani Rajeev Motwani (Hindi: राजीव मोटवानी , March 24, 1962 – June 5, 2009) was an Indian American professor of Computer Science at Stanford University whose research focused on theoretical computer science. He was an early ad ...

, Indian professor of computer science * Rajiv Ouseph, English professional badminton player * Rajeev Paul, Indian actor *

Rajiv Patel Rajiv Patel is a musician and virtuoso solo-guitarist from Mesa, Arizona. Story Patel's Bands Soon after Before Braille recorded its debut LP, '' The Rumor'', Rajiv Patel was recruited and joined the band as its new lead guitarist.Dominic, Seren ...

, musician * Rajiv Rai, director *

Rajeev Ram Rajeev Ram ( ; born March 18, 1984) is an American professional tennis player who is a former world No. 1 in doubles. Ram is a five-time major champion, having won the 2020 Australian Open, the 2021 US Open, and the 2022 US Open in men's d ...

, American tennis player * Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Bharatiya Janata Party politician *

Rajiv Satyal Rajiv Satyal (born 1976) is an American comedian. He is the first person ever to perform standup comedy on all seven continents. Early life Rajiv Satyal was born in Hamilton, Ohio to Indian parents. He graduated from Fairfield High School in 1 ...

, Indian-American comedian * Rajiv Shah, American government official *

Rajiv Singh Delhi Land & Finance (DLF Limited) is a commercial real estate developer. It was founded by Chaudhary Raghvendra Singh in 1946 and it is based in New Delhi, India. DLF developed residential colonies in Delhi such as, Model Town, Rajouri Garden, ...

(born 1958 or 1959), Indian businessman * Rajeev Suri, chief executive officer of Nokia

Notable people named Rajib or Rajeeb

* Rajib Ghosh, Indian footballer *

Rajib Ghorui Rajib Ghorui (born 8 October 1995 in Dakshineswar) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Aryan FC in the Calcutta Football League. Career Early career Ghorui was born in Dakshineswar and started playing football ...

, Indian footballer * Rajib Banerjee, Indian politician *

Rajib Boro Rajib Boro (born 10 March 1994) is an Indian footballer who plays as a midfielder for NF Railway's football team. Career ONGC Boro made his debut for ONGC F.C. of the I-League on 23 September 2012 during the 2012 Indian Federation Cup against ...

, Indian footballer *

, Indian politician * Rajib Dutta (born 1971), Indian former cricketer * Rajib Dutta (born 1980), Indian former cricketer * Rajeeb Dey, British entrepreneur *

Rajeeb Samdani Rajeeb Samdani (born 28 March 1974) is a Bangladeshi industrialist and art collector. As of 2021, he is the managing director of Golden Harvest Group, a Bangladeshi conglomerate, and the founder and trustee of Samdani Art Foundation which produc ...

, Bangladeshi industrialist and art collector

Notable people named Rajiva

* Rajiva Wijesinha, Sri Lankan writer Indian masculine given names