Shankar

Sankar or Shankar is a Sanskrit word meaning "beneficent" or "giver of bliss" and may refer to:

People

 * Shankar (name)
 * Ravi Shankar, Indian sitarist and composer
 * Shankar (actor), Indian actor
 * Shankar (Tamil militant), Tamil rebel
 * Shankar (cartoonist), Indian cartoonist
 * Shankar (writer), Indian writer
 * Shankar–Ganesh, an Indian music director duo who worked in Tamil, Telugu, and Kannada movies
 * Shankar Dayal Sharma, President of India from 1992 to 1997
 * Shankar, fictional protagonist of the 1998 Indian film Gunda portrayed by Mithun Chakraborty

Places

 * Shankar, Jalandhar, a village located in Jallandhar, Punjab, India
 * Shankar, Iran, a village in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran