Siva may refer to:

Film and television

Siva (director) Sivakumar Jayakumar (born 12 August 1977), known professionally by his mononym Siva or Siruthai Siva, is an Indian film director, screenwriter, cinematographer, and lyricist who works in Tamil cinema, Tamil and Telugu cinema, Telugu films. Siv ...

, Indian cinematographer and director * ''Siva'' (1989 Tamil film), a film starring Rajinikanth as the title character * ''Siva'' (1989 Telugu film), an action film

Music and dance

* ''Siva'' (soundtrack), soundtrack album by Ilaiyaraaja for the 1989 Telugu film * "Siva" (song), a song by the Smashing Pumpkins * Siva Samoa, a type of Samoan dance often performed at weddings

Companies

* Siva Motor Car Company, a British automobile manufacturer active in the 1970s *

Siva Power Siva Power, Inc. is an American solar power company that developed thin-film technology. The company designed and manufactured copper indium gallium deselenide (CIGS) photovoltaics. Siva Power is based in San Jose, California. Bruce Sohn is CEO ...

, a Californian solar power startup founded in 2006

Science

Siva (protein) Apoptosis regulatory protein Siva is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ''SIVA1'' gene. This gene encodes a protein with an important role in the apoptotic (programmed cell death) pathway induced by the CD27 antigen, a member of the tumor ...

, a pro-apoptotic signaling protein * Siva (rebreather), an oxygen rebreather *''Siva'', the monotypic bird genus of the

blue-winged minla The blue-winged minla (''Actinodura cyanouroptera''), also known as the blue-winged siva, is a species of bird in the family Leiothrichidae. It has in the past been placed in the genus ''Minla'' and also in the monotypic ''Siva''. It is found i ...

People with the name

* Peyton Siva (born 1990), American basketball player * Siva Chinnatamby (c.1921/3 – 2000), Sri Lankan obstetrician *Siva Kaneswaran, member of boy band

The Wanted The Wanted are a British-Irish boy band formed in 2009, and originally consisted of members Max George, Siva Kaneswaran, Jay McGuiness, Tom Parker, and Nathan Sykes. The group signed a worldwide contract to Universal Music, Island Reco ...

Ambalavaner Sivanandan Ambalavaner Sivanandan (20 December 1923 – 3 January 2018), commonly referred to as A. Sivanandan or "Siva", was a Sri Lankan Tamil and British novelist, activist and writer, emeritus director of the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), a Londo ...

, commonly known as Siva (1923–2018), Sri Lankan writer and activist

Other uses

* Siva (river), a tributary of the Kama in Russia * Siva (rural locality), a list of rural localities in Russia *

1170 Siva 1170 Siva, provisional designation , is a stony Phocaea asteroid and large Mars-crosser from the innermost regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 10 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 29 September 1930, by Belgian astronomer Eug ...

, an asteroid named after the Hindu god *

Shanghai Institute of Visual Art Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts (SIVA) (上海视觉艺术学院) is a public university in Songjiang District of Shanghai, China. SIVA was established in September 2005 with the approval of the Ministry of Education. The school was founded ...

, a public university in China *

Simplified individual voluntary arrangement In the United Kingdom, a simplified IVA (SIVA) was a proposed new form of IVA (individual voluntary arrangement), which would have been a formal alternative of clearing debt without being declared bankrupt. Tiers The simplified IVA (SIVA) was like ...

, a pending UK insolvency process *SIVA or the

Industrial Development Corporation of Norway The Industrial Development Corporation of Norway or SIVA () is a Norwegian state enterprise responsible for government investment in incubators, science parks, industrial parks and real estate through partial ownership of other companies. Th ...

*Śiva or

Shiva Shiva (; , ), also known as Mahadeva (; , , Help:IPA/Sanskrit, ɐɦaːd̪eːʋɐh and Hara, is one of the Hindu deities, principal deities of Hinduism. He is the God in Hinduism, Supreme Being in Shaivism, one of the major traditions w ...

, a Hindu god *Šiva or

Živa (goddess) Živa may refer to: *Živa (mythology), fertility and love goddess in Slavic mythology *Živa (Vajska), small settlement near Vajska, Serbia *Živa (journal), journal founded by Jan Evangelista Purkyně Jan Evangelista Purkyně (; also written ...