Chandrashekhar

Chandrasekhar, Chandrashekhar or Chandra Shekhar is an Indian name and may refer to a number of individuals. The name comes from the name of an incarnation of the Hindu god Shiva. In this form he married the goddess Parvati. Etymologically, the name comes from the Sanskrit words "चन्द्र (chandra)", meaning "moon", and "शेखर (śekhara)", meaning "crest" or "crown", which is an epithet of the Shiva.

Notable people with this name

Politics and activism:

Chandra Shekhar Azad (1906–1931), known as Azad ("The Free"), Indian revolutionary who organised the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army (HSRA)
Chandrashekhar Azad (politician), Indian activist and politician, founder of Bhim Army and Azad Samaj Party
K. M. Chandrasekhar (born 1948), Indian Cabinet Secretary
Sripati Chandrasekhar (1918–2001), Indian demographer and politician
Chandra Shekhar Dubey (born 1946), member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India
Chandrashekhar B. Patil (born 1970), Member of the Karnataka Legislative Council
Chandrashekhar S. Patil (1918–1960), Member of the Legislative Assembly of India
Chandrashekhar Prasad (died 1997), assassinated Indian student activist
Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao (born 1954), known as K.C.R., Indian politician and the first Chief Minister of Telangana
Chandra Shekhar Singh, known as Chandra Shekhar (1927–2007), eighth Prime Minister of India (1990–91)
Chandrasekhar Singh (1915–1976), deputy leader of the Communist Party of India
Chandrashekhar Singh, member of the Indian National Congress, Chief Minister of Bihar 1983–85

Sports:

Bhagwat Chandrasekhar (B. S. Chandrasekhar, informally "Chandra"; born 1945), Indian cricketer
H. Chandrashekar (nicknamed "Chandru"), Indian footballer
O. Chandrashekar, former Indian professional footballer
Raghavendra Chandrashekar (born 1982), Indian cricketer
Rajesh Chandrasekar (born 1989), Indian male road and track cyclist
Chandrasekhar Gadkari (1928–1998), Indian cricketer
Chinta Chandrashekar Rao (born 1988), Indian football player
Venugopal Chandrasekhar, Indian table tennis player

Arts and entertainment:

Chandrashekar Bandiyappa, known as CSB, South Indian film director
Bala Devi Chandrashekar, American Bharatanatyam dancer
Hitha Chandrashekar, Indian film actress who works in Kannada films
Jay Chandrasekhar (born 1968), American film actor, director and writer
Joseph Vijay Chandrashekar (known simply as Vijay), Indian film actor and playback singer who works in Tamil cinema (Kollywood)
Lakshmi Chandrashekar, Indian film actress in the Kannada film industry, and a theatre artist in Karnataka, India
Nagathihalli Chandrashekhar, Indian director, actor, screenwriter and lyricist working predominantly in Kannada cinema
Vagai Chandrasekhar (known simply as Chandrasekhar), Tamil film actor
Chandrashekhar Dubey (1924–1993), Indian actor and radio personality
Chandrashekhara Kambara (born 1937), Indian poet, playwright, and professor
Chandrashekar "Champa" Patil (1939–2022), Indian poet and playwright
Chandrashekhar Vaidya (known simply as Chandrashekhar; 1922–2021), Bollywood film actor
Chandra Sekhar Yeleti (born 1973), Tollywood film director

Science and academia:

Hariharan Chandrashekar (born 1956), Indian environmental economist, eco-entrepreneur, writer, and policy advocate and urban analyst
Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar (1930–2004), Indian physicist
Srinivasan Chandrasegaran, pioneer in genome editing
Srinivasan Chandrasekaran (born 1945), Indian chemist
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910–1995), British Indian-American astrophysicist and Nobel laureate in physics, after whom the astrophysics formula Chandrasekhar limit and quantity Chandrasekhar number are named
Tavarekere Kalliah Chandrashekar (born 1956), Indian bioinorganic chemist, former director of National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science & Technology
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (1888–1970), Indian physicist and Nobel laureate in physics
Chandrashekhar Khare, professor of mathematics at the University of California Los Angeles
Chandra Sekhar Sankurathri, founder of free Sarada Vidyalayam School and Srikiran Institute of Ophthalmology
Y. S. Chandrashekhar, Indian-American cardiologist

Business:

Chandrashekhar Agashe (1888–1956), Indian industrialist