Sankara

Sankara can refer to:

People

 * Danladi Abdullahi Sankara (born 1954), Nigerian politician and senator
 * Mariam Sankara (born 1953), First Lady of Burkina Faso, widow of Thomas Sankara
 * Thomas Sankara (1949–1987), Marxist revolutionary leader of Burkina Faso (from 1983–1987)
 * Adi Shankara (788–820), Hindu philosopher credited with reviving Hinduism
 * Shiva, whom Hindus, especially Shaivites, worship as supreme God or their Supreme Being

Films

 * Sankara (2007 film), a Sri Lankan film directed by Prasanna Jayakody
 * Shankara (2016 film), a 2016 Indian Telugu-language action film by Tatineni Satya

Other

 * Sankara, Burkina Faso, a village in Burkina Faso
 * Sankara Eye Foundation, a US-based non-profit working to eradicate curable blindness in India
 * Sankara Stones, magical rocks from the 1984 feature film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
 * Sankhara, mental formations in Buddhist philosophy