Siddhartha

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Siddharth or Siddhartha is the birth name of the founder of Buddhism, Gautama Buddha.

Siddhartha may also refer to:

Books

• Siddhartha (novel), a fictional book about the life of a man (not the Buddha) named Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse

Film and TV

• Siddhartha (1972 film), the 1972 film of the Hesse book, directed by Conrad Rooks
• Sidhartha (1998 film)
• Siddharth (2013 film), a 2013 Indian film
• Siddhartha (2015 film), a 2015 Indian Kannada film

Music

• Siddharta (band), a Slovenian rock band
• Siddhartha (opera), opera by Per Nørgård
• Siddhartha, orchestral suite by Claude Vivier (1948-1983)
• Siddhartha (musical), a 2007 original production by Chu Un Temple and BLIA Cebu
• "Siddhartha", a song by Jerry Cantrell on the album Degradation Trip Volumes 1 & 2

Organisations

• Siddartha University, the first and the only Buddhist university in Nepal

People

• Siddhartha Gautama Buddha
• King Siddartha, father of Mahavira, an important figure in Jain history

Given name

• Siddhartha of Kundagrama, father of Mahavira (24th Jain Tirthankara)
• Siddharth (actor) (born 1979), Indian actor
• Siddhartha (musician), Mexican musician
• Siddharth Anand, Indian film director
• Siddhartha Basu, Indian quiz master
• Sidharth Bharathan (born 1983), Malayalam film actor
• Siddharth Bhardwaj (born 1987), winner of MTV Splitsvilla 2
• Siddhartha Deb (born 1970), Indian author
• Siddharth Haldipur, music director and composer
• Siddharth Kak, Indian documentary maker, television producer, and presentet
• Siddharth Koirala, film actor
• Siddharth Lama (born 1985), Nepali film actor
• Sidharth Malhotra (born 1985), Indian film actor
• Siddharth Mallya (born 1987), Indian-American aspiring actor
• Siddharth Mahadevan, Indian playback singer and composer
• Siddharth Nigam (born 2000), Indian teen actor
• Siddhartha Mukherjee (born 1970), winner of 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
• Siddharth Sanghvi (born 1977), Indian author
• Siddhartha Shankar Ray (1920–2010), Indian politician belonging to the Indian National Congress
• Siddharth Nath Singh, Indian politician
• Sidhartha Siva (born 1985), Malayalam film actor, director and scenarist
• Siddharth Ashvin Shah, American physician, public health scientist and educator of South Asian origin
• Siddharth Sinha (born 1978), Indian film maker
• Siddharth Suchde (born 1985), professional squash player from India
• Siddharth Trivedi (born 1982), Indian cricketer who represents Gujarat
• Siddharth Varadarajan (born 1965), Strategic Affairs Editor of The Hindu and editor of Gujarat: The Making of a Tragedy
• Siddharth Venugopal (born 1985), actor

Surname

• Nikhil Siddharth (born 1985), actor in the Telugu film industry in India

Other

• SIDDHARTA, an experiment at DAFNE electron–positron collider in Italy