Nilkanth (disambiguation)

Nilkanth, Neelkanth, or Nīlakaṇtha (lit. 'blue throat') is another name or characteristic of the Hindu deity Shiva. It may also refer to:

People

 * Mahipatram Rupram Nilkanth, Gujarati educationist, reformer, novelist and biographer
 * Neelakantha Chaturdhara, seventeenth-century commentator on the Mahābhārata
 * Neelkanth Ganjoo, judge in the Jammu and Kashmir High Court, India
 * Neelkanth Tiwari, Minister of State in Government of Uttar Pradesh in Yogi Adityanath ministry
 * Nilakantha Daivajna, 16th-century astronomer-astrologer
 * Nilakantha Somayaji, mathematician of the Kerala school
 * Nilkanth Singh Munda, member of the Legislative Assembly of India from Khunti constituency
 * Ramanbhai Nilkanth, Gujarati writer
 * Swaminarayan, known as Nilkanth Varni during his teenage years and founder of the Swaminarayan Sampradaya religious movement
 * Vidyagauri Nilkanth, Gujarati social reformer, educationist, and writer

Animals

 * Indian roller, a bird of the family Coraciidae, known as nilkanth in Hindustani
 * Nilakantha (spider), a genus of jumping spiders

Places

 * Nilkantha (mountain), a peak of the Garhwal division of the Himalayas, in Uttarakhand, India
 * Nilkantha, Nepal, in Dhading District, Bagmati Province

Other uses

 * Nilakanta (Hinduism), the specific epithet used by Shiva
 * Neelkanth (film), a 2012 Indian Gujarati film
 * Nīlakantha dhāranī, a Mahayana Buddhist mantra