Chandra (disambiguation)

Chandra is a Hindu lunar deity.

Chandra may also refer to:

People

 * Ambrish Chandra, Indian-Canadian engineer
 * Ashok K. Chandra, Indian computer scientist
 * Bhagwat Chandrasekhar, Indian cricketer
 * Bipan Chandra, Indian historian
 * Lokesh Chandra, Indian Buddhist scholar
 * Ranjit Chandra, Indian-Canadian immunologist accused of academic fraud
 * Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-American astrophysicist who formulated what was later called the Chandrasekhar limit
 * Vikram Chandra (novelist), an Indian author
 * Chandra Bahadur Dangi, the world's shortest person
 * Chandra Ford, an American public health academic
 * Chandra Levy, an American murder victim whose disappearance made national headlines in 2001
 * Chandra Pasma, Canadian politician
 * Chandra Prakash Gharti, Nepalese politician
 * Chandra Shekhar, 8th Prime Minister of India
 * Chandra West, Canadian actress
 * Chandra Wickramasinghe, British-Sri Lankan astronomer
 * Chandra Wilson, American actress
 * Chandraprakash Dwivedi, Indian film director and writer
 * Satish Chandra, an Indian name

Astronomy

 * Chandra X-ray Observatory, a satellite launched by NASA in 1999, and named after Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
 * 1958 Chandra, an asteroid named after Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

History

 * Chandravamsha (Lunar dynasty), a mythical Hindu dynasty
 * Chandragupta Maurya or Chandra Gupta Maurya, founder of the Indian Mauryan Empire
 * Chandragupta I or Chandra Gupta I, king of the ancient Indian Gupta Empire
 * Chandragupta II or Chandra Gupta II, king of the ancient Indian Gupta Empire
 * Chandradeva, 12th century Gahadavala king of medieval India
 * Chandar (Chach Nama), king of Sindh and Buddhist ascetic

Geography

 * Chandra, Comoros, a village
 * Chandra, Paschim Medinipur, a village in West Bengal, India
 * Chandra Taal, a lake in the Himalayas

Entertainment

 * Chandra (film), 2013 Indian film by Roopa Iyer
 * Dr. Sivasubramanian Chandrasegarampillai, Dr. R. Chandra, a character in Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey series
 * Chandra Nalaar, a character in the card game Magic: The Gathering
 * Dr. Chandra Suresh, a character in the American TV drama series Heroes
 * "Chandra" (song), from the 2022 Indian Marathi-language film Chandramukhi
 * Chandra, a song by a progressive rock band Snovi
 * Chandra, a character from the Upside-Down Magic (film)