Ashoka (disambiguation)

Ashoka (died 232 BC) was a monarch of the Mauryan Empire of India.

Ashoka, Asoka, or Ashok may also refer to:

Entertainment

 * Ashok (film), a 2006 Telugu film directed by Surender Reddy
 * Ashoka (2006 film), a 2006 Kannada film directed by Shivamani
 * Ashoka (2008 film), a 2008 Tamil film directed by Prem
 * Asoka (1955 film), a 1955 Sri Lankan film directed by Sirisena Wimalaweera
 * Aśoka (film), a 2001 Bollywood historical drama film directed by Santosh Sivan
 * Ashoka the Great (book), a 2011 book by Wytze Keuning
 * Ashoka the Hero, a 2011 Indian animated film
 * Ashok, a fictional character portrayed by Danny Denzongpa in his 1980 Indian film Phir Wohi Raat

Actors

 * Ashok Kumar (Tamil actor) (born 1981), South Indian actor and Bharatnatyam performer
 * Ashok Kumar (1911–2001), Indian film actor
 * Ashok Lokhande (born 1950), Indian film actor
 * Ashok Mehta (1947–2012), Indian film actor
 * Ashok Saraf (born 1947), Indian actor and comedian, Marathi and Hindi
 * Ashok Selvan (born 1989), Indian actor
 * Ashok Shinde, Indian film actor
 * Ashok (Kannada actor) (born 1951), Kannada film actor

Chief Ministers of Indian states

 * Ashok Chavan (born 1958), Chief Minister of Maharashtra
 * Ashok Gehlot (born 1951), chief minister of the Indian state of Rajasthan
 * R. Ashok, former Deputy Chief Minister of Indian State of Karnataka

Cricketers

 * Ashok Upadhyay (born 1953), Indian cricketer
 * Asoka de Silva (cricketer) (born 1956), Sri Lankan Sinhala cricketer

Film-related

 * Ashok Amritraj (born 1956), Indian American film producer
 * Ashok Gaikwad (born 1962), Indian film director

Law and enforcement

 * Ashok Chaturvedi (born 1947), former chief of India's external intelligence agency
 * Ashok Desai, Attorney General of India, 1996 to 1998
 * Asoka de Silva (judge) (born 1946), Sri Lankan Sinhala judge, Chief Justice
 * Ashok B. Hinchigeri, Indian judge
 * Ashok Kamte (1965–2008), Additional Commissioner of Mumbai Police for the East Region

Literature

 * Ashok Banker (born 1964), Indian novelist and short story writer
 * Ashokamitran (1931–2017), influential figure in post-independent Tamil literature

Others

 * Ashoka (Gonandiya), a king of Kashmir
 * Ashok Captain (born 1960), Indian herpetologist
 * Ashok Row Kavi (born 1947), Indian journalist and LGBT rights activist

Other uses

 * Ashoka (non-profit organization), an international citizen sector organization
 * Ashoknagar (disambiguation) or Ashok Nagar, the name of various places in India
 * Ashok Leyland, an Indian commercial vehicle manufacturer founded in 1948 based in Chennai