Shastri or Shastry is a Brahmin surname. The word ''shastri'' translates to 'scholar'. It is derived from Sanskrit and means one who is proficient in the Shastras (Ancient Indian Texts). Notable people with the surname include:

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* Anant Maral Shastri (1912–1999), freedom fighter, and scholar *

Dahyabhai Shastri Dahyabhai Shastri is an Indian scholar of Sanskrit and the founder of ''Brahmarshi Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya'', Nadiad. He is also a former president of the Gujarat state unit of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad. Born in Vasai Dabhla, a small village in ...

, Indian scholar *

Heera Lal Shastri Pandit Hiralal Shastri (24 November 1899 – 28 December 1974) was an Indian politician and the first chief minister of Rajasthan state in northern India. He was in office from 7 April 1949 to 5 January 1951. Early life Hiralal Shastri was b ...

(1899–1974), Indian politician and the first chief minister of Rajasthan state * Keshavram Kashiram Shastri (1905–2006), founding leader of Vishwa Hindu Parishad *

Lal Bahadur Shastri Lal Bahadur Shastri (; 2 October 1904 – 11 January 1966) was an Indian politician and statesman who served as the 2nd Prime Minister of India from 1964 to 1966 and 6th Home Minister of India from 1961 to 1963. He promoted the White R ...

(1904–1966), second Prime Minister of the Republic of India *

Narayani Shastri Narayani Shastri is an Indian television and theatre actress known for her roles in ''Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi'' as Kesar Anupam Kapadia, ''Piya Ka Ghar (TV series), Piya Ka Ghar'' as Rimjhim Avinash Sharma, ''Namak Haraam (TV series), Na ...

(born 1968), television and theatre actress *

Pandurang Shastri Athavale Rev. Pandurang Shastri Athavale (19 October 1920 – 25 October 2003), also known as Dada /Dadaji, which literally translates as "elder brother" in Marathi, was an Indian activist, philosopher, spiritual leader, social revolutionary, and religi ...

(1920–2003), Indian philosopher also known as ''Dada-ji'' * Prakash Vir Shastri (1923–1977), noted Member of the Parliament of India (Sansad) * Rajaram Shastri (1904–1991) * Ram Nath Shastri (1914–2009), Dogri poet, Sahitya Akademi Fellow * Ram Shastri (died 1772), Chief Justice in the apex court of the Maratha Empire * Ratan Shastri (died 1998) * Ravi Shastri (born 1962), former Indian Test cricketer * Satya Vrat Shastri (born 1930), Sanskrit scholar *

Shukraraj Shastri Shukra Raj Shastri (Nepali: ) (born Shukra Raj Joshi) (1894–24 January 1941) was a Nepalese intellectual and fighter for democracy who was executed by the autocratic Rana dynasty. He is one of the four martyrs of the Nepalese revolution that t ...

(1894–1941), pre-eminent Nepalese intellectual * Shyama Shastri (1762–1827), Renowned composers of Carnatic music and oldest among the Trinity of Carnatic music * Sirivennala Sitarama Shastri (born 1955), Telugu and Sanskrit Poet * Vagish Shastri (born 1934), Sanskrit Grammarian, who discovered a short cut way of learning

Sanskrit Sanskrit (; attributively , ; nominalization, nominally , , ) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in South Asia after its predecessor languages had Trans-cul ...

* Vishnu Kant Shastri (1929–2005), Indian politician who served as the governor of Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh

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Anant Krishna Shastry A. K. Shastry (Anant Krishna Shastry) was an Indian historian in the state of Karnataka, India. Life Shastry was the first scholar to extensively study and research manuscripts called Kadata. He also studied more than a hundred thousand pal ...

(born 1940), Indian historian * Archana Shastry, Indian film actress *

B. Sriram Shastry Balajapalli Sriram Shastry (born 26 November 1950 in Akola, India) is an Indian-American condensed matter physicist, specializing in strongly-correlated Fermi systems, quantum integrable systems, and statistical mechanics. Biography B. Sriram ...

(born 1950), Indian-American physicist *

Chamu Krishna Shastry Chamu Krishna Shastry (born 23 January 1956) is an Indian Educationist who has been working for the revival of the Sanskrit language. He is the trustee and Secretary of :sa:संस्कृतसंवर्धनप्रतिष्ठा ...

(born 1956), Indian language activist *

H. Ramachandra Shastry H. Ramachandra Shastry (1906 – 1992) was an Indian Carnatic flautist. He belonged to the bani (music school) of Sarabha Sastri and learned music from Palladam Sanjiva Rao, a direct disciple of Sastri]. Shastry taught Carnatic flute at Ka ...

(1906–1992), Indian Carnatic flautist * Kala Nath Shastry (born 1936), Indologist, writer, and linguist *

Su. Rudramurthy Shastry Sugganahalli Rudramurthy Shastry ( kn, ಸುಗ್ಗನಹಳ್ಳಿ ರುದ್ರಮೂರ್ತಿ ಶಾಸ್ತ್ರಿ) (born 11 November 1948), is a Kannada novelist and lyricist whose works are popular in state of Karnataka, Ind ...

(born 1984), Indian novelist

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