Venkatesh is a given name and family name from the Indian subcontinent derived from
Venkateswara
Venkateswara, also known by various other names, is a form of the Hindu god Vishnu. Venkateswara is the presiding deity of the Tirumala Venkateswara Temple, located in Tirupati, Sri Balaji District, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Etymology
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, a Hindu deity.
Notable persons with the name include:
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A. Venkatesh Naik
A. Venkatesh Naik (6 June 1936 – 24 August 2015) was an Indian politician and a member of the Indian National Congress (INC) political party, with whom he had been a member for nearly 50 years. He was elected to the 10th Lok Sabha in 1991 fr ...
(born 1936), member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India
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A. Venkatesh (director)
A. Venkatesh is an Indian film director and actor working in Tamil cinema. Beginning his career as an assistant, he directed his first film, ''Mahaprabhu (film), Mahaprabhu'', in 1996.
Career
Initially, he worked as an assistant to director K. ...
, Tamil film director
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Akshay Venkatesh
Akshay Venkatesh (born 21 November 1981) is an Australian mathematician and a professor (since 15 August 2018) at the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study. His research interests are in the fields of counting, equidistrib ...
(born 1981), Australian mathematician of Indian descent
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G. K. Venkatesh (1927–1993), composer of film music in Kannada cinema during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s
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Marthand K. Venkatesh
Marthand K. Venkatesh is an Indian film editor who mostly works for Telugu films, and is the winner of four Nandi Awards.
Life and career
Venkatesh is son of noted Telugu film editor K. A. Marthand. He used to assist his father in editing for ...
, Indian film editor in Tollywood
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Mukta Venkatesh
Mukta Venkatesh (1902-2003) was an Indian painter. She is best known for her intricate floral paintings.
Life
Mukta Venkatesh was born as Muthulakshmi in Madras, Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is a state in southern India. It is the te ...
(1902–2003), Indian painting artist
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Masti Venkatesh Iyengar
Masti Venkatesha Iyengar (6 June 1891 – 6 June 1986) was a well-known writer in Kannada language. He was the fourth among Kannada writers to be honored with the Jnanpith Award, the highest literary honor conferred in India. He was popularly r ...
, Kannada writer
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Poojashree Venkatesh, Indian tennis player
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Venkatesh Geriti
Venkatesh Geriti is an Indian classical liberal, anti-corruption activist, and social entrepreneur. He is the founder of Swatantrata Center and India's Future Foundation, an educational organization in Hyderabad, and a scholar at Atlas Summit. V ...
, Indian political activist
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Pramod Venkatesh Mahajan
Pramod Vyankatesh Mahajan (30 October 1949 – 3 May 2006) was an Indian politician from Maharashtra. A second-generation leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), he belonged to a group of relatively young "technocratic" leaders. At the time ...
, Indian politician
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Venkatesh Iyer
Venkatesh Iyer (born 25 December 1994) is an Indian cricketer who plays for Madhya Pradesh in domestic cricket and Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League (IPL).
Domestic career
Iyer made his Twenty20 debut against Railways cric ...
, Indian cricketer
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S. P. Venkatesh
S. P. Venkatesh (also credited as Sangeetharajan; born 5 March 1955) is an Indian music director and composer who primarily works in Malayalam films. He was at his prime in the late 80s and 90s, being reputed for his background scores and song ...
, Indian music composer
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Shanmugam Venkatesh (born 1977), Indian football player
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Shridhar Venkatesh B. Ketkar (1857–1930), Marathi scholar and astronomer
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Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh
Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh (born 1966) is an American sociologist and urban ethnographer. He is William B. Ransford Professor of Sociology & African-American Studies at Columbia University, a position he has held continuously since 1999. In his ...
, modern sociologist and urban ethnographer, American of Indian descent
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T. G. Venkatesh
T. G. Venkatesh (born 16 May 1950) is an Indian businessman and politician. He served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (India), Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) in the Legislative Assembly of Andhra Pradesh from 1999 to 2004 and ...
, Indian businessman and politician
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Venkatesh (actor)
Daggubati Venkatesh (born 13 December 1960) is an Indian actor known for his works predominantly in Telugu cinema and a few hindi films. Venkatesh debuted with the 1986 film ''Kaliyuga Pandavulu'' for which he won his first Nandi Award. In a c ...
(born 1960), aka Victory Venkatesh, Indian film actor of Telugu films
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Venkatesh Kabde
Dr. Venkatesh Kabde (born 4 September 1940) is an Indian politician who is representing the former Member of Parliament for Nanded constituency of Maharashtra and was a member of the Janata Dal
Janata Dal ( ...
, Indian politician
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Venkatesh Kulkarni
Venkatesh Srinivas Kulkarni (1945 – May 3, 1998) was an Indian-American novelist and academic.
Early life and education
Kulkarni was born in India and graduated from university at age 17. He was originally scheduled to go to medical scho ...
(1945–1998), American novelist and academic
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Vyankatesh Madgulkar
Venkatesh Digambar Madgulkar (5 April 1927 - 27 August 2001) was one of the most popular Marathi writers of his time. He became well-known mainly for his realistic writings about village life in a part of southern Maharashtra called Maandesh, set ...
(1927–2001), Marathi writer
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Venkatesh Prasad
Bapu Krishnarao Venkatesh Prasad (; born 5 August 1969), is a former Indian cricketer, Cricket Coach , Commentator who played Tests and ODIs. He made his debut in 1994. Primarily a right-arm medium-fast bowler, Prasad was noted for his bowling ...
(born 1969), Indian cricketer
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