Giri may refer to:

People

Agam Singh Giri Agam Singh Giri (, 27 December 1927 – 31 January 1971) was an Indian Nepali language, Nepali poet and lyricist from Darjeeling, India. Agam Singh Giri, born on 27th December, 1927, he is generally regarded as the founding member of the Indian ...

(1927–1971), Indian Nepali poet and lyricist *

Anish Giri Anish Kumar Giri (; ; born 28 June 1994) is a Dutch chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves no hidden information and no elements of chance. It is played on ...

(born 1994), Dutch chess prodigy and grandmaster * Deepak Raj Giri, Nepalese actor, director, and producer * Gehendra Giri, Nepalese politician *

Haridhos Giri Swami Haridhos Giri (also Haridas Giri), affectionately called Guruji, was born in the month of Margazhi (December-January) in the Tamil calendar with the birth star of Utharattathi. Giri was born in the village of Thennangur, Tamil Nadu, South ...

, Hindu guru who disappeared in 1994 * Helen Giri, Indian musicologist and historian *

Kedar Prasad Giri Kedar Prasad Giri (May 7, 1944 - November 23, 2018) was a Nepalese judge who served as 18th Chief Justice of Nepal, in office from 5 October 2007 to 7 May 2009. He was appointed by Girija Prasad Koirala. He was preceded by Dilip Kumar Poudel ...

(1944–2018), 18th Chief Justice of Nepal *

Laxmi Giri Laxmi Giri (; born 19 January 1955) is a Nepalese actress whose career spans more than 35 years. She worked on stage, television and in feature films of Nepali, Newari, Maithili, Tamang and Bhojpuri languages. She appeared in more than 150 f ...

(born 1955), Nepali actress * Maya Giri (born 1929), athlete who competed for England * Neelam Giri, Indian pediatric hematologist/oncologist * Padam Giri, Nepali communist politician *

Puran Giri Puran Giri (born 22 April 1986) is an Indian cricketer. He made his first-class debut on 11 January 2020, for Sikkim in the 2019–20 Ranji Trophy The 2019–20 Ranji Trophy was the 86th season of the Ranji Trophy, the premier first-class c ...

, Indian cricketer *

Ram Bahadur Giri Ram Bahadur Giri (born 1960) is a Nepalese boxer. He competed in the men's bantamweight event at the 1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and officially branded as Seoul 1988 (), w ...

(born 1960), Nepalese boxer * Satyananda Giri (1896–1971), Indian monk and Yukteswar Giri's chief monastic disciple in India *

Sunan Giri Sunan Giri (also called Raden Paku or Joko Samudro), and Muhammad Ainul Yakin (born 1442 CE in Blambangan, which is now Banyuwangi) is considered one of the Wali Sanga (revered saints of Islam) in Indonesia. His family is from Hussani Sayid, ...

(born 1420), a ''Wali Sanga'' (Islamic saint) of Indonesia *

Tulsi Giri Tulsi Giri (; 26 September 1926 – 18 December 2018) was the Prime Minister of Nepal from 1975 to 1977, and chairman of the Council of Ministers (a ''de facto'' Prime Ministerial position) in 1963, and again in 1964 and 1965. He was born in Sir ...

(1926–2018), Prime Minister of Nepal from 1975 to 1977 * V. Mohini Giri (born 1938), Indian community service worker and activist *

V. V. Giri Varahagiri Venkata Giri (; 10 August 1894 – 24 June 1980), better known as V. V. Giri was an Indian statesman and activist who served as the president of India from 24 August 1969 to 24 August 1974. He also served as the vice president of ...

, Varahagiri Venkata Giri (1894–1980), President of India from 1969 to 1974

Places

Giri, Iran Giri (, also Romanized as Gīrī) is a village in Siyarastaq Yeylaq Rural District, Rahimabad District, Rudsar County, Gilan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in ...

, a village in Gilan Province, Iran *

Giri, Razavi Khorasan Gazi (, also Romanized as Gazī and Gezzī; also known as Gīrī) is a village in Tabadkan Rural District, in the Central District of Mashhad County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) a ...

, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran *

Giri River Giri River is a tributary of the Yamuna river that flows in the state of Himachal Pradesh in India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-lar ...

, a tributary of the Yamuna River in northern India * Giri or

Ngiri River The Ngiri River (or Giri River) is a tributary of the Ubangi River that flows southward through the Sud-Ubangi District of Équateur province, Democratic Republic of the Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the D ...

, a tributary of the Ubangi River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Other uses

* ''Giri'' (film), a 2004 Tamil film written and directed by Sundar C *

Giri (Japanese) is a Japanese value roughly corresponding to "duty", " obligation", or even "burden of obligation" in English. defines it as "to serve one's superiors with a self-sacrificing devotion". It is among the complex Japanese values that involve loya ...

, a Japanese value roughly corresponding to "duty", "obligation", or even "burden of obligation" *Giri or

Kire language Kire (Giri) is a Ramu language of Giri village () in Yawar Rural LLG, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. Phonology Out of all the Ramu languages The Ramu languages are a family of some thirty languages of Northern Papua New Guinea. They we ...

, spoken in Papua New Guinea *

Giri/Haji (, 'Duty/Shame') is a British crime drama television series that premiered on BBC Two in the United Kingdom on 17 October 2019, and was released internationally on Netflix on 10 January 2020. A co-production between the BBC and Netflix, the se ...

, a 2019 British television series *

Genetic Information Research Institute The Genetic Information Research Institute (GIRI) is a non-profit institution that was founded in 1994 by Jerzy Jurka. The mission of the institute "is to understand biological processes which alter the genetic makeup of different organisms, as a b ...

, a private, non-profit research institution based in Mountain View, California *

Cyclone Giri Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm Giri () ( IMD designation: BOB 04, JTWC designation 04B, also known as Cyclone Giri) was a powerful tropical cyclone in terms of 1-minute sustained wind speed which caused catastrophic damage in parts of Myanmar in ...

of the 2010 North Indian Ocean cyclone season

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