Shankar
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Shankar is a common name in India.
Shankar may refer to:
- Shiva, Hindu god who is referred to by many names
- Adi Shankara, Hindu philosopher(guru) of around the ninth century
Shankar may also refer to:
- Members of the family of Indian musicians/dancers of whom the most well known are
- Uday Shankar (classical dancer)
- Ravi Shankar (sitar player)
- Geethali Norah Jones Shankar (Norah Jones), The multi-Grammy winning American pianist and singer-songwriter
- Anoushka Shankar
- Abhinav Shanker
- Shankar Mahadevan, singer and part of the Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy music-director trio.
- Kiruba Shankar, an Indian blogger
- K. Shankar Pillai (1902–1989), Indian cartoonist. Founder of Shankar's Weekly and Shankar's International Dolls Museum, New Delhi.
- L. Shankar, Indian violinist (brother of L. Subramaniam, no relation to Ravi Shankar)
- Mani Shankar Mukherjee, Bengali writer popularly known as Shankar
- Mani Shankar, Indian Film-maker
- Ravi Shankar, poet and faculty member of Central Connecticut State University
- S. Shankar, director of Tamil films
- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, guru and founder of the Art of Living movement
- Kunnesseri Shankar, director