Shankar

Sankar or Shankar is a Sanskrit word meaning "beneficent" or "giver of bliss" and may refer to:

Religion

• Shiva, a Hindu deity

People

• Shankar (name)
• Ravi Shankar, Indian sitarist and composer
• Shankar (actor), Indian actor
• Shankar (Tamil militant), Tamil rebel
• Shankar (cartoonist), Indian cartoonist
• Shankar (writer), Indian writer
• Shankar–Ganesh, an Indian music director duo who worked in Tamil, Telugu, and Kannada movies
• Shankar Dayal Sharma, President of India from 1992 to 1997
• K. Shankar, Indian film director, screenwriter and editor
• S. Shankar or Shankar, Indian film director, film producer and screenwriter
• Shankar, fictional protagonist of the 1998 Indian film Gunda portrayed by Mithun Chakraborty

Places

• Shankar, Jalandhar, a village located in Jallandhar, Punjab, India
• Shankar, Iran, a village in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran
• Shankar Vihar, neighborhood of Delhi, India
• Shankar Vihar metro station

See also

• Shankar's International Dolls Museum, New Delhi
• Shankar's Weekly, a magazine founded by K. Shankar Pillai
• Shankar Party unofficial name given to the Adhyatmik Ishwariya Vishwa Vidyalaya
• Shankar Guru (disambiguation)
• Sankar (disambiguation)
• Shankara (disambiguation)
• Shanker, a surname
• Sankara (disambiguation)
• Shenkar (disambiguation)
• Shankari (disambiguation)