Sankar or Shankar is a Sanskrit word meaning "beneficent" or "giver of bliss" and may refer to:
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Shankar (name) Sankar is a Sanskrit word meaning "beneficent" or "giver of bliss". Shankar is also the name of Hindu god, Lord Shiva (Shiva shankara). The south Indian version of Shankara is sometimes written as "Sankara".
Notable people with this name include:
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Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar (; born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury, sometimes spelled as Rabindra Shankar Chowdhury; 7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012) was an Indian sitarist and composer. A sitar virtuoso, he became the world's best-known export of North Ind ...
, Indian sitarist and composer
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Shankar (actor), Indian actor
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Shankar (Tamil militant)
Vaithilingam Sornalingam (September 1949 – 26 September 2001; ta, வைத்தியலிங்கம் சொர்ணலிங்கம், alternative spellings include Vythilingam Sornalingam; often referred to by his ''nom de guerr ...
, Tamil rebel
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Shankar (cartoonist)
Kesava Shankar Pillai (31 July 1902 – 26 December 1989), better known as Shankar, was an Indian cartoonist. He is considered the father of political cartooning in India. He founded ''Shankar's Weekly'', India's ''Punch'' in 1948. ''Shankar's ...
, Indian cartoonist
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Shankar (writer), Indian writer
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Shankar–Ganesh, an Indian music director duo who worked in Tamil, Telugu, and Kannada movies
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Shankar Dayal Sharma
Shankar Dayal Sharma (; 19 August 1918 – 26 December 1999) was an Indian lawyer and politician from the state of Madhya Pradesh who served as the ninth President of India, from 1992 to 1997.
Born in Bhopal, Sharma studied at Agra, Allahaba ...
, President of India from 1992 to 1997
**Shankar, fictional protagonist of the 1998 Indian film ''
Gunda
''Gunda'' is a genus of moths of the family Bombycidae (silk moths). The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1862. It is primarily an Oriental genus, found in India, China and South-east Asia.
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*''Gunda aroa'' Bethune-Baker, 1904
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Shankar, Jalandhar
''Shankar'' is a village in the Nakodar tehsil of Jalandhar district in Punjab, India.
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Shankar is a large size village that lies on the Nakodar- Jandiala Road. The nearest railway station to this village is Shankar Railway station abo ...
, a village located in Jallandhar, Punjab, India
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Shankar, Iran
Shankar ( fa, شنکر; also known as Shankī) is a village in Ladiz Rural District, in the Central District of Mirjaveh County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also cal ...
, a village in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran
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Shankar's International Dolls Museum
The International Dolls Museum is a large collection of dolls in Delhi, India. It was set up by K. Shankar Pillai, a political cartoonist. Housed in the Children's Book Trust building on Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, accessed through a separate ent ...
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Shankar's Weekly
''Shankar's Weekly'' was an Indian satirical magazine published between 1948 and 1975. It was founded and run by Keshav Shankar Pillai, a pioneering political cartoonist. The magazine has been compared to the UK's ''Punch''.
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'', a magazine founded by K. Shankar Pillai
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Shankar Party unofficial name given to the Adhyatmik Ishwariya Vishwa Vidyalaya
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Sankar (disambiguation) Sankar generally refers to a Hindu god, Lord Shiva, and may also refer to:
People
* Sankar (writer & director) (V R Sankar, born 1981), Malayalam film director and writer
* Shankar–Ganesh (born 1943), Indian music director duo
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Shankara (disambiguation)
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Sankara (disambiguation)
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