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 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 ...

. In this form he married the goddess

Parvati Parvati (, , IPA: /Sanskrit phonology, pɑɾʋət̪iː/), also known as Uma (, , IPA: Sanskrit phonology, /ʊmɑː/) and Gauri (, , IPA: /Sanskrit phonology, gə͡ʊɾiː/), is one of the principal goddesses in Hinduism, revered as the Devi, ...

. 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 Chandra Shekhar Sitaram Tiwari (23 July 1906 – 27 February 1931), popularly known as Chandra Shekhar Azad, was an Indian revolutionary who reorganised the Hindustan Republican Association (HRA) under its new name of Hindustan Socialist Rep ...

(1906–1931), known as Azad ("The Free"), Indian revolutionary who organised the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army (HSRA) *

Chandrashekhar Azad (politician) Chandrashekhar Azad (born 3 December 1986; ), also known as Chandrashekhar Azad alias 'Ravan', is an Indian politician, social activist, Ambedkarite and lawyer. He is serving as a Member of Parliament of the 18th Lok Sabha from Nagina since J ...

, Indian activist and politician, founder of

Bhim Army The Bhim Army, alternatively Bheem Army ( lit."Ambedkar Army") or the Bheem Army Bharat Ekta Mission (translation: "Ambedkar Army Indian Unity Mission") is an Ambedkarite and Dalit rights organisation in India. It was founded by Satish Kumar, ...

and

Azad Samaj Party Azad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram) ( ASP(KR)), commonly known as Azad Samaj Party ASP), is an Indian registered, unrecognised political party in the state of Uttar Pradesh. It was founded by Chandrashekhar Azad. History Precursor The Azad Samaj ...

* K. M. Chandrasekhar (born 1948), Indian Cabinet Secretary *

Sripati Chandrasekhar Sripati Chandrasekhar (22 November 1918, Rajahmundry - 14 June 2001, San Diego, California) was a well-known Indian demographer, economist, sociologist, and scholar who has published extensively on demographics, especially related to India. Ch ...

(1918–2001), Indian demographer and politician * Chandra Shekhar Dubey (born 1946), member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India *

Chandrashekhar B. Patil Chandrashekhar Basavaraj Patil (born 24 December 1970) is a member of the Karnataka Legislative Council who belongs to the Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party, or simply the Con ...

(born 1970), Member of the Karnataka Legislative Council *

Chandrashekhar S. Patil Chandrashekhar Sangashetty Patil (, ; 25 January 1918 – 22 December 1960) was an Indian freedom fighter and politician who served as Member of the Legislative Assembly (India), Member of the Legislative Assembly who belonged to the Indian Na ...

(1918–1960), Member of the Legislative Assembly of India * Chandrashekhar Prasad (died 1997), assassinated Indian student activist *

Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao (born 17 February 1954), frequently known by his initials KCR, is an Indian politician currently representing the Gajwel Assembly constituency and serving as the leader of the opposition in the Telangana Legislati ...

(born 1954), known as K.C.R., Indian politician and the first Chief Minister of Telangana *

Chandra Shekhar Singh Chandra Shekhar (17 April 1927 – 8 July 2007), also known as Jananayak, was an Indian politician and the Prime Minister of India, prime minister of India, between 10 November 1990 and 21 June 1991. He headed a minority government of a breakaw ...

, 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 Chandrashekhar Singh (17 August 1927 – 9 July 1986) was a member of the Indian National Congress and served as the 16th Chief Minister of Bihar from August 1983 to March 1985. He also held a number of Union State Minister positions in the Mi ...

, member of the Indian National Congress, Chief Minister of Bihar 1983–85

Sports

Bhagwat Chandrasekhar Bhagwat Subramanya Chandrasekhar (informally Chandra; born 17 May 1945) is an Indian former cricketer who played as a leg spinner. Considered among the top echelon of leg spinners, Chandrasekhar along with E.A.S. Prasanna, Bishen Singh Bedi a ...

(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 Rajesh Chandrasekar (born 25 February 1989) is an Indian male road and track cyclist. On the road he competed at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. At the track he competed in the scratch event at the 2013 UCI Track Cycling World Championships The ...

(born 1989), Indian male road and track cyclist *

Chandrasekhar Gadkari Lt. Col. Chandrasekhar Vaman Gadkari (3 February 1928 – 11 January 1998) was an Indian Test cricketer and army officer. Gadkari was an attacking batsman, medium-pace bowler and a great fielder. He made a fine impression as a fielder in the ...

(1928–1998), Indian cricketer * Chinta Chandrashekar Rao (born 1988), Indian football player * Venugopal Chandrasekhar, Indian table tennis player

Arts and entertainment

Chandrashekar Bandiyappa Chandrashekar Bandiyappa is a South Indian film director who was born in Ummadahalli, a small village from Mandya district. With an academic qualification of M.Sc. from Mysore University, LLB from KSLU, and B.Ed. from Bangalore University and a ...

, known as CSB, South Indian film director * Bala Devi Chandrashekar, American

Bharatanatyam ''Bharatanatyam'' is a Indian classical dance form that came from Tamil Nadu, India. It is a classical dance form recognized by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, and expresses South Indian religious themes and spiritual ideas of Hinduism and Jainism.< ...

dancer *

Hitha Chandrashekar Hitha Chandrashekhar is an Indian actress who works in Kannada cinema, Kannada films. She made her debut in 2016 with Kannada cinema, Kannada Film ''Kempammana Court Case''. Career Hitha completed an acting course from Roshan Taneja School of A ...

, Indian film actress who works in Kannada films *

Jay Chandrasekhar Jayanth Jambulingam Chandrasekhar (born April 9, 1968) is an American comedian, film director, screenwriter, actor and editor. He is best known for his work with the sketch comedy group Broken Lizard and for directing and starring in the Broken ...

(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 Lakshmi Chandrashekar is an Indian actress in the Kannada film industry, and a Theatre of India, theatre artist in Karnataka, India. Some of the notable films of Lakshmi Chandrashekar as an actress include ''Atithi (2002 film), Atithi'' (2002), ...

, Indian film actress in the Kannada film industry, and a theatre artist in Karnataka, India *

Nagathihalli Chandrashekhar Nagathihalli Chandrashekhar is an Indian director, actor, screenwriter and a lyricist who predominantly works in Kannada film industry, Kannada Cinema. He made his film debut as a screenplay writer in ''Kadina Benki'' (1986) which won the Natio ...

, Indian director, actor, screenwriter and lyricist working predominantly in Kannada cinema *

Vagai Chandrasekhar Chandrasekhar (born 3 May 1956), also known as Vagai Chandrasekhar, is an Indian actor and politician working in Tamil language films, known for his wikt:histrionics, histrionics. He is currently the Chairman of Tamil Nadu Eyal Isai Nataka Mandra ...

(known simply as Chandrasekhar), Tamil film actor *

Chandrashekhar Dubey Chandrashekhar Dubey (4 September 1924 – 28 September 1993) commonly referred to as C. S. Dubey was an Indian actor and radio personality. He was born in Kannod and appeared in over 150 Hindi films as a character actor starting in 1950s, wi ...

(1924–1993), Indian actor and radio personality *

Chandrashekhara Kambara Chandrashekhara Basavanneppa Kambara (born 2 January 1937) is a prominent Indian poet, playwright, folklorist, film director in Kannada language and the founder-vice-chancellor of Kannada University in Hampi also president of the Sahitya Akade ...

(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 Chandra Sekhar Yeleti (born 4 March 1973) is an Indian film director known for his works in Telugu cinema. He made his directorial debut with the Neo-noir crime film, ''Aithe'', which received the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Te ...

(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 Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar FNA, FRS (6 August 1930 – 8 March 2004) was an Indian physicist who won the Royal Medal in 1994. He was the founder-president of the International Liquid Crystal Society. Chandrasekhar was born on 6 August 1 ...

(1930–2004), Indian physicist * Srinivasan Chandrasegaran, pioneer in genome editing * Srinivasan Chandrasekaran (born 1945), Indian chemist *

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (; 19 October 1910 – 21 August 1995) was an Indian Americans, Indian-American theoretical physicist who made significant contributions to the scientific knowledge about the structure of stars, stellar evolution and ...

(1910–1995), British Indian-American astrophysicist and Nobel laureate in physics, after whom the astrophysics formula

Chandrasekhar limit The Chandrasekhar limit () is the maximum mass of a stable white dwarf star. The currently accepted value of the Chandrasekhar limit is about (). The limit was named after Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. White dwarfs resist gravitational collapse pr ...

and quantity

Chandrasekhar number The Chandrasekhar number is a dimensionless quantity used in magnetic convection to represent ratio of the Lorentz force to the viscosity. It is named after the Indian astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. The number's main function is as a ...

are named * Tavarekere Kalliah Chandrashekar (born 1956), Indian bioinorganic chemist, former director of National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science & Technology *

Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman ( ; ; 7 November 1888 – 21 November 1970) was an Indian physicist known for his work in the field of light scattering. Using a spectrograph that he developed, he and his student K. S. Krishnan discovered tha ...

(1888–1970), Indian physicist and Nobel laureate in physics *

Chandrashekhar Khare Chandrashekhar B. Khare, (born 1968) is a professor of mathematics at the University of California Los Angeles. In 2005, he made a major advance in the field of Galois representations and number theory by proving the level 1 Serre conjecture, ...

, 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 Chandrashekhar Govind Agashe (14 February 18889 June 1956) was an Indian industrialist, lawyer, educator, and philanthropist, best remembered as the founder of the Brihan Maharashtra Sugar Syndicate Ltd. He served as the managing agent of the ...