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Shankar or Shamkar ( Sanskrit lang|sa|????IAST|Sha?kara , "?? + ??, meaning Welfare + Bestower") is a Sanskrit noun, and means "Beneficent" or "Giver of Bliss".
It generally refers to a Hindu descriptions of one of the chief gods, Lord Shiva .
It may also refer to:
People
Infobox Given Name| name = Shankar | gender = Male | region = | origin = | footnotes = | wikt = Shankar is a common name in India . It generally refers to:
Shiva , Hindu god who is referred to by numerous names
Adi Shankara , Hindu philosopher (guru) of Advaita circa ninth century
in Brahma Kumaris religion where it means bodiless state of soul .
Shankar is also the given name or family name of the following individuals:
Members of the family of Indian musicians/dancers of whom the most well known are
* Norah Jones|Geethali Norah Jones Shankar (Norah Jones, born 1979), American singer-songwriter
* Anoushka Shankar (born 1981), Indian sitar player and composer in the United States. She is the daughter of Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar player, and Sukanya Rajan, a bank employee. Through her father, she is the half-sister of Grammy Award winner Norah Jones
* Ananda Shankar (1942–1999), Bengali musician best known for fusing Western and Eastern musical styles. He was married to Tanusree Shankar
* Mamata Shankar (born 1955), actress in the Bengali language film industry of India
* Shankar (actor) a (South, born 1960), Indian Film actor
Colonel Shankar , the nom de guerre of Vaithilingam Sornalingam of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
Shankar Mahadevan , singer and part of the Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy music-director trio
Shankar, part of the Shankar Jaikishan music-director duo
K. Shankar Pillai (1902–1989), Indian cartoonist
* Shankar's Weekly , a magazine founded by him
* Shankar's International Dolls Museum , New Delhi
L. Shankar (born 1950), Indian violinist
Shankar Panikkar (born 1960), Indian film actor and director popularly known as Shankar
Mani Shankar Mukherjee , Bengali writer popularly known as Shankar
Mani Shankar , Indian film-maker
Ravi Shankar (poet) , poet and faculty member of Central Connecticut State University
Ramamurti Shankar , physicist
S. Shankar (born 1963), Tamil film director
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar , guru and founder of the Art of Living movement
AIVV|Shankar Party unofficial name given to the Adhyatmik Ishwariya Vishwa Vidyalaya
Shankar Lamichhane , Nepalese Essayist
Shankar Vedantam , Author and Journalist
Shankar Dayal Sharma (1918–1999), ninth President of India serving from 1992 to 1997
Shankar Nagar
Naren Shankar , writer, producer and director of several television series
Virendra Dev Dixit ,
Adrian Shankar , English cricketer
The name "Shankar" exists in the Sanskrit language and is not related to the colloquial Tamil language|Tamil word "Sankar" which means cyclone. given name|type=both
Places
Shankar, Jalandhar , a village located in Jallandhar, Punjab, India
Technology
Shankar's Virus , a computer virus that infects Word documents
