Ajit (given name)

Ajit, variously spelled Ajith, Agith, or Ajeet (अजित ) is a common male given name. It is used in its various forms throughout India and also in Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. A related name is Ajay.

Etymology
The name is derived from Sanskrit, where its primary meaning is "invincible", "irresistible", "unsurpassed". The literal meaning is "unconquered", from the prefix a- "not", and jita "conquered". It has variously been used to refer to a number of ideological figures, including Shiva and Vishnu in Hinduism, Maitreya in Buddhism and the second of the Arhats in Jainism among others.

People

 * Ajith v p (born 1997),Kerala
 * Ajith Kumar (born 1996),Tamilnadu
 * Ajit Agarkar (born 1977), Indian cricketer and commentator
 * Ajith Amerasekera, American electrical engineer
 * Ajit Andhare, Indian businessman
 * Ajit Anjum (born 1969), Indian journalist and editor
 * Ajeet Bajaj (born 1965), Indian adventurer
 * Ajit Balakrishnan, Indian entrepreneur, business executive, and administrator
 * Ajit Bandyopadhyay, Bengali actor and director
 * Ajit Kumar Banerjee (1931–2014), Indian environmentalist
 * Ajit Kumar Basu (1912–1986), Indian cardiac surgeon
 * Ajit Bhandari (born 1994), Nepalese footballer
 * Ajit Bharihoke, Indian judge
 * Ajit Bhatia (born 1936), Indian cricketer
 * Ajit Bhattacharjea (1924–2011), Indian journalist, newspaper editor, The Hindustan Times, The Times of India and The Indian Express
 * Ajit Bhoite (born 1976), Indian cricketer
 * Ajit Kumar Bhuyan (born 1952), Indian politician
 * Ajit Chahal (born 1995), Indian cricketer
 * Ajit Kumar Chakravarty (1886–1918), Bengali writer
 * Ajit Chandila (born 1983), Indian cricketer
 * Ajit Chandra Chatterjee (born 1923), Indian civil servant
 * Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi, Indian professor and education administrator
 * Ajit Das (1949–2020), Indian actor, director, and playwright
 * Ajit Das Gupta (1924–2011), Indian cricketer
 * Ajit Doval (born 1945), Indian politician
 * Ajit Dutta (1907–1979), Bengali poet, writer, essayist, and professor
 * Ajit George, Indian-American activist and game designer
 * Ajit Kumar Guha (1914–1969), Bengali educationist
 * Ajit Gulabchand (born 1948), Indian industrialist
 * Ajit Gupta, Indian entrepreneur
 * Ajit Narain Haksar (1925–2005), Indian businessman
 * Ajit Hutheesing (1936–2017), Indian businessman
 * Ajit Jain (born 1951), Indian-American businessman
 * Ajit Jayaratne, Sinhalese businessman
 * Ajit Jogi (1946–2020), Indian politician
 * Ajit Johnson, Indian cancer geneticist
 * Ajit Kadkade, Indian singer
 * Ajit Kembhavi (born 1950), Indian astrophysicist
 * Ajita Kesakambali, Indian philosopher
 * Ajit Khan (1922–1998), screen name of Indian film actor Hamid Ali Khan
 * Ajith Kumar (born 1971), Indian Tamil actor
 * Ajit Lakra (born 1966), Indian field hockey player
 * Ajit Kumar Maiti (born 1928), Indian neurophysiologist
 * Ajit Manocha, Indian-American businessman
 * Ajit Kumar Mehta (born 1932), Indian politician
 * Ajit Merchant, Indian music composer and director
 * Ajit Mohan (born 1974/1975), Indian businessman
 * Ajit Narayanan (born 1981), Indian inventor
 * Ajit Ninan (born 1955), Indian political cartoonist
 * Ajit Kumar P, Indian Navy Admiral
 * Ajit Pai (born 1973), American attorney and former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission
 * Ajit Pai (born 1945), Indian cricketer
 * Ajit Kumar Panja (1936–2008), Indian politician
 * Ajith C. S. Perera (born 1956), Sri Lankan disability activist, former cricket umpire
 * Ajit Kumar Saha, Indian politician
 * Ajeet Singh Kharkhari (born 1965), Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party
 * Ajit Singh (disambiguation), several people
 * Ajith Kumar Siriwardena, Sri Lankan Briton professor of hepato-pancreatico-biliary surgery
 * Ajit Iqbal Singh (born 1943), Indian mathematician
 * Ajit Wadekar (born 1941), a former Indian cricketer and captain of the Indian national cricket tea

Fictional characters

 * Ajit Bandyopadhyay (character), companion of Byomkesh Bakshi