Ashwin or Asveen (
Devanagari
Devanagari ( ; , , Sanskrit pronunciation: ), also called Nagari (),Kathleen Kuiper (2010), The Culture of India, New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, , page 83 is a left-to-right abugida (a type of segmental Writing systems#Segmental syste ...
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Ashvins, the divine twins of
Vedic mythology, as well as to the name of the Hindu lunar month
Ashvin.
People with the name
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Ravichandran Ashwin
Ravichandran Ashwin () (born 17 September 1986) is an Indian international cricketer who plays for the Indian cricket team as a bowling All-rounder who bats right-handed and bowls right-arm off-break, he plays for Tamil Nadu in domestic cricke ...
, Indian cricketer
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Ashwin Sanghi
Ashwin Sanghi (born 25 January 1969) is an Indian writer and author of the novels: '' The Rozabal Line'', ''Chanakya's Chant'', ''The Krishna Key'', Sialkot Saga, Keepers Of The Kalachakra, The Vault of Vishnu and The Magicians of Mazda.
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, Indian writer
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Ashwin Mushran
Ashwin Mushran is an Indian actor and voice over artist. He has appeared in numerous movies and plays. He is also featured in the movie ''Quick Gun Murugan'', as Dr. Django. He also lent his voice into dubbing several foreign media.
Education
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, Actor
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Nag Ashwin
Nag Ashwin Reddy is an Indian film director and screenwriter known for his works in Telugu cinema. He made his directorial debut in 2015 with the coming-of-age philosophical drama film ''Yevade Subramanyam''.
In 2018, he directed the biographic ...
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Ashwin Kakumanu
Ashwin Kakumanu is an Indian actor, who is best known for his role as Ganeshan in Venkat Prabhu's ''Mankatha''.
Career
Ashwin initially auditioned for a role in ''Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa''. The director, Gautham Vasudev Menon, was close to g ...
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Ashwin Dani
Ashwin Suryakant Dani is an Indian billionaire businessman, and the non-executive chairman of Asian Paints Ltd, India's largest paint company with operations in 16 countries. He was the vice chairman and managing director from December 1998 to ...
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Sumanth Ashwin
Sumanth Ashwin is an Indian actor who appears in Telugu films. Son of film producer and director M. S. Raju, Ashwin made his debut in 2012 with ''Tuneega Tuneega'' under his father's direction, for which he won CineMAA Awards Best Male Debut. ...
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Ashwin Sood
Ashwin Sood (born 25 September 1967) is an English–born Canadian musician and drummer. He is best known for his musical association with his ex-wife, Sarah McLachlan.
Sood was born in the United Kingdom to Indian immigrant parents, and grew u ...
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Ashwin Shekhar
Ashwin is an Indian actor working in Tamil cinema. He is the son of actor-politician S. Ve. Sekhar.
Personal life
Ashwin got engaged to Shruti Venkatraman at the Convention Centre at GRT on Chennai on 8 May 2011. Shruthi is the daughter of C ...
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Ashwin Kumar
Ashwin Kumar is an Indian film and television actor.
Career
In 2012, Kumar finished working on a coming-of-age film titled ''Hi Da'' directed by Brindha Das, which had music composed by Vishal Chandrasekhar.Though the soundtrack and an officia ...
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Ashwin Sanghi
Ashwin Sanghi (born 25 January 1969) is an Indian writer and author of the novels: '' The Rozabal Line'', ''Chanakya's Chant'', ''The Krishna Key'', Sialkot Saga, Keepers Of The Kalachakra, The Vault of Vishnu and The Magicians of Mazda.
B ...
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Murugan Ashwin
Murugan Ashwin (born 8 September 1990) is an Indian cricketer who plays for Tamil Nadu.
Domestic career
Ashwin made his List A debut on 11 December 2015 in the 2015–16 Vijay Hazare Trophy. He made his Twenty20 debut on 2 January 2016 in the ...
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Ashwin Adhin
Michael Ashwin Satyandre Adhin (born 10 June 1980) is a Surinamese educator, politician, and was the Vice President of Suriname between 2015 and 2020. He is a member of the National Democratic Party. At the age of 35, he became the youngest vice p ...
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Ashwin Ram
Ashwin Ram (born July 27, 1960) is an Indian-American computer scientist. He was chief innovation officer at PARC from 2011 to 2016, and published books and scientific articles and helped start at least two companies.
Biography
Ashwin Ram was ...
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Ashwin Choksi
Ashwin Chimanlal Choksi (1944 – 19 September 2018) was an Indian billionaire businessman and the non-executive chairman of Asian Paints Ltd, India's largest paint company. He was among the top 100 richest Indians.
Early life
Ashwin Choksi was ...
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Ashwin Srivastava
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Ashwin Batish
Ashwin Kumar Batish Hindi: अश्विन कुमार बातिश (born 1 January 1951 in Bombay, India) is a sitar and tabla player.
Childhood and Training
Ashwin's mother, Shanta Devi Batish, was an All India Radio artist and sta ...
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Ashwin Sundar
Ashwin Sundar (27 July 1985 – 18 March 2017) was a race driver from India. Most active during 2005 till recent years winning several national titles in Go-Kart, Single Seater Formula Cars, Two Wheelers and Saloon cars.
He was born on 27 Jul ...
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Ashwin Chitale
Ashwin Chitale is an Indian actor. He won the national award for best child actor for his performance in the film Shwaas (2004) a Marathi language movie. Chitale belongs to Pune. He has played the role of Govinda in the Nagesh Kukunoor directed Hi ...
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Ashwin Mahesh
Ashwin Mahesh is an urbanist, journalist, politician and social technologist based in Bangalore. After his education in atmospheric science (PhD) and astronomy (MS), he worked as a climate scientist at NASA before switching to a career in govern ...
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Ashwin Navin
Ashwin Navin is an Indian-American entrepreneur, who is the CEO and co-founder of Samba TV, a data and analytics service that measures television viewership using opt-in data from Internet-connected devices and set-top boxes. The company has bee ...
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Ashwin Hebbar
Ashwin Hebbar (born 15 November 1995) is an Indian first-class cricketer who plays for Andhra Pradesh. He was the leading run-scorer for Andhra in the 2018–19 Vijay Hazare Trophy, with 299 runs in eight matches. In February 2022, he was bought ...
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Ashwin Balrak
Ashwin Balrak (born 17 May 1975) is a Surinamese-Dutch professional kickboxer and lawyer.
Career and recent arrest
Balrak was a former WPKL European Kickboxing champion who also competed in K-1. He made his K-1 debut in 2007 at K-1 Fighting Ne ...
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Ashwin Gumaste
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Chris Ashwin
Chris Ashwin born 19 November 1987 in England is a rugby union player who played for Bristol in the Guinness Premiership. He plays as a fly-half
In the game of rugby union, there are 15 players on each team, comprising eight forwards (wearin ...
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Ashwin Joshi
Ashwin Joshi is an Indian politician and member of the Indian National Congress. Joshi was a member of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly from the Indore-3 constituency in Indore district. He represented the constituency for three consec ...
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Herbert Ashwin Budd
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Ashwin Willemse
Ashwin Willemse (born 8 September 1981 in Caledon, Cape Province) is a retired South African rugby union player. He played at wing for the national team, the Springboks.
After winning an IRB Under-21 World Cup gold medal for South Africa in 2 ...
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Ashwin Balachand Mehta
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Ashwin Das
Ashwin Das (born 16 December 1995) is an Indian cricketer. He made his first-class debut for Madhya Pradesh in the 2016–17 Ranji Trophy
The 2016–17 Ranji Trophy was the 83rd season of the Ranji Trophy, the premier first-class cricket t ...
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Ashwin Yadav
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Ashwin Scott
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