Nikhil () is a male name of

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origin. It is predominantly found in

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, and the diaspora of these countries. The name means "complete" or "whole".

Notable people

Nikhil Advani Nikkhil Suresh Advani (born 28 April 1971) is an Indian director, producer and screenwriter who works in Hindi cinema. He along with his sister, Monisha Advani and Madhu Bhojwani, co-founded the entertainment company Emmay Entertainment. Early ...

, Hindi film director *

Nikhil Banerjee Pandit Nikhil Ranjan Banerjee (14 October 1931 – 27 January 1986) was an Indian classical sitarist of the Maihar Gharana. Along with Pandit Ravi Shankar and Ustad Vilayat Khan, he emerged as one of the leading exponents of the sitar. ...

, sitar player *

Nikhil Chopra Nikhil Chopra (born 19 August 1973) is a retired Indian cricketer. He played as a right-handed batsman and a right-arm offbreak bowler. A One Day International (ODI) specialist, he was part of the Indian team at the 1999 Cricket World Cup ...

, retired cricketer *

Nikhil D'Souza Nikhil D'Souza (born 21 November 1981) is a singer, songwriter and guitarist from Mumbai, India, and is now signed to East West Records of Warner Music UK. Early life Nikhil D'Souza was born and brought up in Mumbai and majored in Geology from ...

, Indian singer * Nikhil Dwivedi, Hindi actor * Nikhil Kadam, football player *

Nikhil Kanetkar Nikhil Kanetkar (born 13 May 1979) is an Indian former badminton player from Pune. Born in a Maharashtrian family, Kanetkar played badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's singles, defeating Sergio Llopis of Spain in the first round. I ...

, Olympic badminton player *

Nikhil Kumar (actor) Nikhil Kumaraswamy (born 22 January 1988) is an Indian actor and politician known for his work in Kannada films. He made his acting debut with the Kannada-Telugu bilingual film ''Jaguar'' (2016). Personal life Nikhil Kumarswamy is the son of ...

, Indian actor and politician *

Nikhil Kumar (chess player) Nikhil Kumar (born 2004) is an American chess international master. His peak rating was 2479. He was also the under 12 World Youth Chess Championship in 2016. He won the U12 World Youth Chess Championship in 2016, beating grandmaster Rameshbabu ...

, American chess player *

Nikhil Kumar (governor) Nikhil Kumar (born 15 July 1941) is a retired IPS officer and statesman hailing from Bihar who was Governor of Nagaland from 2009 to 2013 and Governor of Kerala from 2013 to 2014. One of country's well known IPS officers of 1963 batch from th ...

, IPS officer-turned politician, governor of Nagaland, and of Kerala *

Nikhil Kumar (table tennis) Nikhil Kumar (born January 1, 2003) is an American table tennis player. He competed in the men's singles event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan. In 2019, he won the gold medal in the men's team event at the Pan American Games ...

, American table tennis player *

Nikhil Nanda Nikhil Nanda (born 18 March 1974) is an Indian businessman residing in UK. He is the Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Escorts Kubota Limited (formerly Escorts Limited), an Indian multinational engineering conglomerate that specialises ...

, industrialist *

Nikhil Paul George Nikhil Paul George is a British-Indian music producer, singer, composer, and guitarist who is recognised for his efforts working under Indian Music Composer Pritam exclusively for a decade. He is known for collaborating with musicians from all ...

, music producer *

Nikhil Rathi Nikhil Rathi (born 5 August 1979) is the chief executive of the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Early life Rathi is of Indian descent, and grew up in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, the son of Madhu and Dr Rajendra Rathi, a local magistrat ...

, chief executive of the UK's Financial Conduct Authority *

Nikhil Siddhartha Nikhil Siddhartha (born 1 June 1985) is an Indian actor who works in Telugu cinema. He played supporting roles in various films before being cast in ''Happy Days'' (2007) as one of the four male leads. The film was successful and became his bre ...

, Indian actor in Telugu-language cinema *

Nikhil Seetharam Nikhil Seetharam, also known as Kromatik, is a multi-platinum, Grammy-winning Canadian composer and record producer from Toronto, Ontario. He has worked with Drake, Kendrick Lamar, Nicki Minaj, and DJ Khaled. Nikhil composes film and television sc ...

, Canadian composer *

Nikhil Srivastava Nikhil Srivastava is an associate professor of Mathematics at University of California, Berkeley. In July 2014, he was named a recipient of the Pólya Prize with Adam Marcus and Daniel Spielman. Early life and education Nikhil Srivastava was bo ...

, Indian scientist *

Nikhil Tandon Nikhil Tandon is an Indian endocrinologist, medical academic and the head of the department of endocrinology, metabolism and diabetes at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. He is a recipient of Dr. B. C. Roy Award, the highest Indian m ...

, Professor of Endocrinology at AIIMS, New Delhi *

Nikhil Thakur Nikhil Thakur (born 08 September 2003) is a hacker and Internet activist. He is popular for exposing scams in Madhya Pradesh. At the age of 13 he hacked the Madhya Pradesh BSNL website and later on he hacked the India BSNL website. He hacked the ...

, Indian Internet activist

References

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