Prashant or Prasant is a common male name in

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. It is derived from the word "shanth" which means patience, calm, quiet, or tranquil.

People with the given name

Prashanth Prashanth Thiagarajan (born 6 April 1973), known professionally as Prashanth, is an Indian actor, businessman, playback singer and film producer known for his works predominantly in Tamil cinema. Besides Tamil films, he has also appeared in f ...

- Indian Tamil Film actor. *

Prashant Bhushan Prashant Bhushan (born 15 October 1956) is an Indian author and a public interest lawyer in the Supreme Court of India. He was a member of the faction of the India Against Corruption (IAC) movement known as Team Anna which supported Anna Ha ...

- Indian lawyer, activist and politician. *

Prashant Bose Prashant Bose, commonly known by his nom de guerre Kishan or Kishan ''da'' is an Indian politician who is a senior Politburo member of the Communist Party of India (Maoist). He has previously used Nirbhay Mukherjee, Kajal, Kishan-da and Mahesh ...

- Indian politician. *

Prashant Damle Prashant Damle (born 5 April 1961) is an Indian actor and comedian who has acted in numerous Marathi dramas, films and soap operas for over 35 years. He has been associated with Marathi theatre since 1983 and till date has performed in 27 diff ...

- Indian actor. *

Prashant Pandey Prashant Pandey is a Mumbai-based writer director. He started his career writing Amitabh Bachchan's critically acclaimed '' Sarkar Raj'' (2008) featuring Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai. Educated at Hansraj College Univer ...

- Indian writer, director. *

Prashant Pathak Prashant Shanker Pathak (born 1972) is a Canadian investor and businessman who lives in Toronto. He is the CEO of Ekagrata Inc., a private investment and diversified holding company with assets in food, agriculture, infrastructure, food-security ...

- Canadian investor, businessman and philanthropist. *

Prashant Singh Rawat Prashant Singh Rawat (born 15 August 2000) is an Indian professional basketball player, last playing for Uttarakhand of the National Basketball Championship. Personal Prashant Singh Rawat is the son of Narendra Singh Rawat, a former India na ...

- Indian basketball player. *

Prashant Shah Prashant Shah is a film producer based in Las Vegas, Los Angeles and the UK. He is the CEO and founder of Bollywood Hollywood Production Inc., a film and television production company that produces and shoots Bollywood movies in the UK, India ...

- Bollywood producer. *

Prashant Singh Prashant Singh (born 26 October 1986) is an Indian politician. As of 2017, he is a member of Samajwadi Party. He represented the Handia Constituency in Allahabad as a member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly The Uttar Pradesh ...

- Indian politician. *

Prashant Tamang Prashant Tamang (born 4 January 1983) is an Indian singer and film actor based in Kathmandu. He was the winner of ''Indian Idol Season 3'' in 2007.Prashanta Nanda Prashanta Nanda (born 2 May 1947) is an Indian director, actor and politician from the state of Odisha. He is currently a Member of Parliament at Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament, for Odisha. He had worked predominantly in ...

- Indian film actor *

- Indian actor *

Prashanthini Prashanthini is an Indian playback singer, singing predominantly in Tamil. She is the daughter of Malaysia Vasudevan and the sister of Yugendran. Career Prashanthini first began her playback career with Harris Jayaraj for the movie '' 12B''. H ...

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