Ram is a masculine
given name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a f ...
. In
South Asia
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it is a variant of
Rama
Rama (; , , ) is a major deity in Hinduism. He is worshipped as the seventh and one of the most popular avatars of Vishnu. In Rama-centric Hindu traditions, he is considered the Supreme Being. Also considered as the ideal man (''maryāda' ...
, and in
Hebrew
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it means high or senior, a biblical name (
Ram
Ram, ram, or RAM most commonly refers to:
* A male sheep
* Random-access memory, computer memory
* Ram Trucks, US, since 2009
** List of vehicles named Dodge Ram, trucks and vans
** Ram Pickup, produced by Ram Trucks
Ram, ram, or RAM may also ref ...
, son of
Hezron), which is also sometimes used as a diminutive form of
Avram
Abraham (originally Abram) is the common Hebrews, Hebrew Patriarchs (Bible), patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In Judaism, he is the founding father who began the Covenant (biblical), covenanta ...
(a variant of
Abraham
Abraham (originally Abram) is the common Hebrews, Hebrew Patriarchs (Bible), patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In Judaism, he is the founding father who began the Covenant (biblical), covenanta ...
). Notable persons with the name include:
People
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Ram Chandra Bharadwaj (died 1918), a defendant in the Hindu–German Conspiracy Trial
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Ram Chandra Paudel, Nepalese politician and Third
President of Nepal
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Ram Baran Yadav, First
President of Nepal
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Ram Chiang, Hong Kong actor and singer
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Ram Prasad Bismil (1897–1927), Indian revolutionary
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Ram Bahadur Bomjon (born c. 1990), Nepalese teenager televised meditating for days without moving
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Ram Charan (disambiguation)
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Ram Bahadur Thapa, Nepalese politician
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Guru Ram Das
Guru Ram Das (Gurmukhi: ਗੁਰੂ ਰਾਮ ਦਾਸ, pronunciation: ; 24 September 1534 – 1 September 1581), sometimes spelled as Guru Ramdas, was the fourth of the ten Sikh gurus. He was born to a family based in Lahore, who ...
(1534–1581), fourth of the Ten Gurus of Sikhism
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Ram Gopal (disambiguation)
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Ram Herrera, Tejano musician
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Ram Kapoor
Ram Kapoor (; born 1 September 1973) is an Indian actor who primarily works in Hindi films and television. One of the highest paid television actor in India, he is known for portraying Jai Walia in ''Kasamh Se'' and Ram Kapoor in ''Bade Achhe L ...
(born 1973), Indian television actor
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Ram Karmi (born 1931), Israeli architect
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Ram Krishna Kunwar, 18th century Nepalese military general
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Ram Dass Katari (1911–1983), Indian Navy vice-admiral and Chief of the Naval Staff
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Ram Kumar (artist) (born 1924), Indian artist
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Ram Kumar (basketball) (born 1964), Indian basketball player
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Ram Madhav (born 1964), Indian politician, writer, journalist and National General Secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party
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Ram Malla, also known as Kshetra, king of Mallabhum from 1185 to 1209
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Ram Narayan (born 1927), Indian sarangi player
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Ram Pothineni (born 1988), Indian Tollywood film actor
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Ram Prasad (disambiguation)
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Ram Mohan Roy
Raja Ram Mohan Roy (22 May 1772 – 27 September 1833) was an Indian reformer and writer who was one of the founders of the Brahmo Sabha in 1828, the precursor of the Brahmo Samaj, a socio-religious reform movement in the Indian subcontinen ...
(1772–1833), Indian reformer
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Ram Shah (1606–1641), King of Gorkha, Nepal
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Ram Vilas Sharma (1912–2000), Indian literary critic, linguist, poet and thinker
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Ram Soffer (born 1965), Israeli chess Grandmaster
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Ram Singh (disambiguation)
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Ram Torten (born 1966), Israeli Olympic competitive sailor
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Ram Gopal Varma
Penmetsa Ram Gopal Varma (born 7 April 1962), often referred to by his initials RGV, is an Indian film director, screenwriter and producer, primarily known for his work in Hindi cinema, Hindi and Telugu cinema, Telugu films.**
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* Varma has dir ...
(born 1962), Indian Tollywood and Bollywood film director
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Ram Gopal Vijayvargiya (1905–2003), Indian painter
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Ramkumar, Indian actor
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Raam Mori (born 1993), Gujarati language short story writer from India
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Ram Puneet Tiwary (born 1979), a Singaporean Indian and alleged murderer of the 2003
Sydney double murders case
Biblical and fictional characters
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Ram (Biblical figure)
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Ram (comics), a Japanese DC Comics superhero
* Ram, in the 1982 American science-fiction film ''
Tron
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''
* Ram, in the 1999-2003 New Zealand/British TV series ''
The Tribe''
* Ram, in the 2011 Japanese role-playing video game ''
Hyperdimension Neptunia Mk2''
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Ram (''Re:Zero''), a character in the light novel series ''Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World''
* Ram Singh, in the 2016 Doctor Who spinoff
Class
Class, Classes, or The Class may refer to:
Common uses not otherwise categorized
* Class (biology), a taxonomic rank
* Class (knowledge representation), a collection of individuals or objects
* Class (philosophy), an analytical concept used d ...
* Ram Sweeney, a character in the 1988 American black comedy film ''
Heathers'' and it's 2014
musical adaptation
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Indian masculine given names
Masculine given names