Siva may refer to:

Film and television

Siva (director) Sivakumar Jayakumar (born 12 August 1977), known professionally by his mononym Siva or also as Siruthai Siva, is an Indian film director, screenwriter, lyricist and cinematographer who works primarily in Tamil cinema. Siva started his film car ...

, Indian cinematographer and director * ''Siva'' (1989 Tamil film), a film starring Rajinikanth as the title character * ''Siva'' (1989 Telugu film), an action film

Music and dance

* "Siva" (song), a song by the Smashing Pumpkins *

Siva Samoa Siva Samoa is the Samoan term for a Samoan dance. It is practiced in Samoa, and around the world by the Samoan diaspora. There are siva schools in New Zealand, Australia, and the United States. Traditional Samoan dancing is one area of the culture ...

, a type of Samoan dance often performed at weddings

Companies

* Siva Power, a Californian solar power startup

Science

Siva (protein) Apoptosis regulatory protein Siva is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ''SIVA1'' gene. This gene encodes a protein with an important role in the apoptotic (programmed cell death) pathway induced by the CD27 antigen, a member of the tumor ...

, a pro-apoptotic signaling protein * Siva (rebreather), an oxygen rebreather *''Siva'', the monotypic bird genus of the

blue-winged minla The blue-winged minla (''Actinodura cyanouroptera''), also known as the blue-winged siva, is a species of bird in the family Leiothrichidae. It has in the past been placed in the genus ''Minla'' and also in the monotypic ''Siva''. It is found i ...

People with the name

Peyton Siva Peyton Robert Siva Jr. (born October 24, 1990) is an American professional basketball player for the Illawarra Hawks of the National Basketball League (NBL). He played college basketball for Louisville, leading the school to two Final Fours in ...

(born 1990), American basketball player * Siva Chinnatamby (c.1921/3 - 2000), Sri Lankan obstetrician *Siva Kaneswaran, member of boy band

The Wanted The Wanted are a British-Irish boy band consisting of group members Max George, Siva Kaneswaran, Jay McGuiness and Nathan Sykes and, until his death in 2022, Tom Parker. The group was formed in 2009 and signed a worldwide contract to ...

Other uses

Siva (river) The Siva (russian: Сива) is a river in Udmurt Republic and Perm Krai in Russia, a :wikt:right bank:right tributary of the Kama. The river is long, and its drainage basin A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface w ...

, a tributary of the Kama in Russia * Siva (rural locality), a list of rural localities in Russia * 1170 Siva, an asteroid named after the Hindu god *

Shanghai Institute of Visual Art Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts (SIVA) (上海视觉艺术学院) is a public university in Songjiang District of Shanghai, China. SIVA was established in September 2005 with the approval of the Ministry of Education. The school was founded a ...

, a public university in China *

Simplified individual voluntary arrangement In the United Kingdom, a simplified IVA (SIVA) was a proposed new form of IVA ( individual voluntary arrangement), which would have been a formal alternative of clearing debt without being declared bankrupt. The new regime was likely to have been ...

, a pending UK insolvency process *SIVA or the

Industrial Development Corporation of Norway The Industrial Development Corporation of Norway or SIVA ( no, Selskapet for industrivekst) is a Norwegian state enterprise responsible for government investment in incubators, science parks, industrial parks and real estate through partial own ...

*Śiva or

Shiva Shiva (; sa, शिव, lit=The Auspicious One, Śiva ), also known as Mahadeva (; ɐɦaːd̪eːʋɐ, or Hara, is one of the principal deities of Hinduism. He is the Supreme Being in Shaivism, one of the major traditions within Hindu ...

, a Hindu god *Šiva or

Živa (goddess) Živa may refer to: *Živa (mythology), fertility and love goddess in Slavic mythology * Živa (Vajska), small settlement near Vajska, Serbia *Živa (journal), journal founded by Jan Evangelista Purkyně Jan Evangelista Purkyně (; also written ...