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 Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara (; 21 December 1949 – 15 October 1987) was a Burkinabè military officer, Marxist and Pan-Africanist revolutionary who served as the President of Burkina Faso from 1983, following his takeover in a coup, until ...

(1949–1987), Marxist revolutionary leader of Burkina Faso (from 1983–1987) *

Adi Shankara Adi Shankara (8th c. CE), also called Adi Shankaracharya (, ), was an Indian Vedanga, Vedic scholar, Hindu philosophy, philosopher and teacher (''acharya'') of Advaita Vedanta. Reliable information on Shankara's actual life is scant, and h ...

(788–820), Hindu philosopher credited with reviving Hinduism *

Shiva Shiva (; , ), also known as Mahadeva (; , , Help:IPA/Sanskrit, ɐɦaːd̪eːʋɐh and Hara, is one of the Hindu deities, principal deities of Hinduism. He is the God in Hinduism, Supreme Being in Shaivism, one of the major traditions w ...

, 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 ''

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'' * Sankhara, mental formations in Buddhist philosophy

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