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Shweta ( Deva, श्वेता) is an Indian Hindu feminine
given name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a f ...
. The Sanskrit word ' literally means "white".
The
Hindu
Hindus (; ; also known as Sanātanīs) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism, also known by its endonym Sanātana Dharma. Jeffery D. Long (2007), A Vision for Hinduism, IB Tauris, , pp. 35–37 Historically, the term has also be ...
goddess of knowledge
Saraswati
Saraswati (, ), also spelled as Sarasvati, is one of the principal Devi, goddesses in Hinduism, revered as the goddess of knowledge, education, learning, arts, speech, poetry, music, purification, language and culture. Together with the godde ...
is also known as "Shwetambara".
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Notable people
Shweta
* Shweta Bhardwaj
Shweta Bhardwaj is an Indian actress and model who has acted in Hindi and Telugu language films. She made her acting debut in the 2008 action Hindi film '' Mission Istanbul'', starring Vivek Oberoi & Zayed Khan. She has been a Gladrags Model. ...
(born 1985), Indian actress and model
* Shweta Chaudhary
Shweta Chaudhry (born 3 July 1986), also known as Shweta Singh, is an Indian Shooting sports, sport shooter who competes in the 10 metre air pistol and 25 metre sports pistol events.
In 2014, at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, Chaudhary won ...
(born 1986), Indian shooter
* Shweta Gulati
Shweta Gulati is an Indian television actress best known for playing the role of Tiya Ahuja in '' Remix'' and Dr. Nikita Malhotra in '' Dill Mill Gayye''.
Career
Her first advertisement was directed by Prahlad Kakkar. Later more commercial ...
(born 1979), Indian television actress
* Shweta Kawatra
Shweta Kawatra (born 10 February 1976) is an Indian actress, model and television presenter.
Personal life
She is married to TV actor Manav Gohil. They participated in the dance competition show Nach Baliye where Manav was awarded best dance ...
(born 1976), Indian actress
* Shweta Menon
Shwetha Menon (born 23 April 1974) is an Indian actress, model, television anchor and beauty pageant titleholder. She has won '' Femina Miss India Asia Pacific 1994''. She has predominantly acted in Malayalam and Hindi language films, besides ap ...
(born 1974), Indian actress and model
* Shweta Mohan
Shweta Mohan (born 19 November 1985) is an Indian playback singer. She has recorded songs for films and albums in all the four south Indian cinema namely Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada, besides few Hindi films and has established hersel ...
(born 1986), Indian singer
* Shweta Munshi, Indian television actress
* Shweta Pandit
Shweta Pandit (born 7 July 1986) is an Indian singer and actress who primarily works in Hindi cinema. She has also recorded popular songs for films in Telugu and Tamil and many other Indian languages.
Early life
She is the younger daughter ...
(born 1986), Indian singer
* Shweta Prasad
Shweta Basu Prasad (born 11 January 1991) is an Indian actress known for her works in television, Hindi cinema, Telugu cinema and Tamil cinema. She won the National Film Award for Best Child Artist for her role in ''Makdee'' (2002). After ''Iq ...
(born 1991), Indian film actress
* Shweta Rathore
Shweta Rathore is an international physique Athlete . She is the first female from India who won the medal in world championship (she won bronze medal in 2014 at 6th WBPF World Championship).She won the 49th Asian championship. She is Miss Worl ...
(born 1988), Indian bodybuilder
* Shweta Salve
Shveta Salve is an Indian television actress and model, best known as the 1st runner-up of the dance reality show '' Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 1''.
Early life and education
Born in Chembur, Mumbai to Deepak and Hema Salve, sister of Sharvil. She stu ...
, Indian television actress and model
* Shweta Sekhon
Shweta Sekhon (born Shwetajeet Kaur Sekhon, 6 November 1997), is a Malaysian model and beauty pageant titleholder. She was crowned as Miss World Malaysia 2016 and Miss Universe Malaysia 2019. She represented Malaysia at the Miss Universe 2019 ...
(born 1997), Malaysian model and beauty pageant titleholder
* Shweta Shetty
Shweta Shetty (also known as Shwetaa in nickname) is an Indian-born German pop singer known for her albums and for her contributions to Bollywood film soundtracks.
Life and career
Shetty's album, ''Johnny Joker'', was a success. She was awarde ...
(born 1969), Indian singer
* Shweta Subram
Kantimathi Subramanian Iyer, known professionally as Shweta Subram, is a Canadian playback singer, known for singing in the song " Jalebi Baby" (2020). She primarily sings in Hindi, as well as Punjabi, Sindhi, Tamil, English and other langua ...
, Indo-Canadian Bollywood playback singer
* Shweta Taneja
Shweta Taneja is an Indian author of novels, short fiction, graphic novels, nonfiction and comic books. Her work includes fantasy fiction series ''The Rakta Queen: An Anantya Tantrist Mystery'', ''The Matsya Curse: An Anantya Tantrist Mystery'', ...
, Indian novelist, graphic novelist and journalist
* Shweta Tiwari
Shweta Tiwari (born 4 October 1980) is an Indian actress who primarily works in Hindi television. One of the highest paid television actress, Tiwari is widely known for her portrayal of Prerna Sharma in '' Kasautii Zindagii Kay''. In 2010, she ...
, Indian film and television actress
Shwetha
* Shwetha Bandekar
Shwetha Bandekar is an Indian film and Tamil television actress who has appeared in Tamil and Telugu films and Tamil serials. She has appeared in films including '' Aalwar'', Valluvan Vasuki, as well as in the Sun TV series Chandralekha.
Per ...
, actress in Tamil and Telugu cinema
* Shwetha Chengappa
Swetha Changappa is a Kannada television actress who has acted in various tele-serials and films. She is well known for her role "Rani" in Majaa Talkies.
Career
She debuted her acting career through ''Sumathi'', a serial directed by S. Naraya ...
, actress in Kannada cinema
* P. Shwetha, actress in Tamil cinema
* Shwetha Srivatsav
Shwetha Srivatsav is an Indian actress, known for her work in Kannada cinema and television. She began her career in theatre, before moving to television, where she received recognition for her role in T. N. Seetharam's ''Manvantara''. She su ...
, actress in Kannada cinema
See also
* ''Oxyopes shweta
''Oxyopes shweta'' is a species of lynx spider
Lynx spiders (Oxyopidae) is a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1870. Most species make little use of webs, instead spending their lives as hunting spiders on p ...
'', a species of lynx spider
* ''Sweta
''Sweta'' is a genus of leafhopper in the subfamily Typhlocybinae, with two species. The genus name is derived from the Sanskrit word for white, the type species
In International_Code_of_Zoological_Nomenclature, zoological nomenclature, a typ ...
'', a genus of leafhopper in the subfamily Typhlocybinae
* Svetlana
Svetlana () is a common Orthodox Slavic languages, Slavic feminine given name, deriving from the East Slavic languages, East and South Slavic languages, South Slavic root ''svet'' (), meaning "light", "shining", "luminescent", "pure", "blessed", ...
, a Slavic cognate
References
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