Vinay is an Indian name typically meaning guidance, good behaviour, genuinity, politeness, modesty and smart in Sanskrit. It has its origins in the
Sanskrit
Sanskrit (; stem form ; nominal singular , ,) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in northwest South Asia after its predecessor languages had Trans-cultural ...
language origin. Most Indian languages spell and pronounce the name as is in Sanskrit but in a few other languages such as
Bengali and
Odiya, changes either in spelling or pronunciation or both occur. For example, it may be used as, Binay in Bengali-speaking and Odia- speaking regions. Feminine form of the name is Vinaya or Vinayaa.
Binay is also a surname popular in Philippines.
Vinay may refer to:
People
Academics
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Vinay V. Deodhar, a professor of mathematics at Indiana University
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Vinay Kumar (pathologist), Professor of Pathology at the University of Chicago
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Vinay Kumar Pathak, Indian academic
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Vinay Lal, Indian historian
Arts and entertainment
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Vinay Anand, Indian actor
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Vinay Apte, Indian actor
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Vinay Chandra Maudgalya, Indian classical musician
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Vinay Forrt
Vinay Kumar (born 13 January 1983), professionally credited as Vinay Forrt is an Indian film and stage actor. He is from Fort Kochi, Kerala and has a postgraduate in acting from Film and Television Institute of India in Pune, India. He made hi ...
, Indian actor
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Vinay Govind, Indian film director
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Vinay Pathak, Indian actor
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Vinay Rai, Indian actor
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Vinay Rajkumar
Vinay Rajkumar (born 7 May 1989) is an Indian actor who works in Kannada cinema. The grandson of actor Rajkumar and son of film producer and former actor Raghavendra, he made his debut as a lead actor in 2014 with '' Siddhartha''.
Early lif ...
, Indian actor
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Vinay Rohrra, Indian actor
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Vinay Saynekar
Vinay Saynekar is a type designer, calligrapher and a design educator. He completed his graduation from Sir J.J. Institute of Applied Art, Mumbai University and joined a paper company, Chimanlal’s Pvt Ltd, as Chief Design Consultant in 1981. He ...
, Indian type designer, calligrapher
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Vinay Shukla, Indian film writer and director
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Winai Kraibutr, Thai actor
Business
*Vinay Maloo, Indian businessman, chairman of
Enso Group
Enso Group is a Multinational corporation, multinational diversified Conglomerate (company), conglomerate. The group was founded in 2005 by Chairman Vinay Maloo. It was started with a cluster of oil and gas exploration and production companie ...
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Vinay Nair
Vinay Nair is a serial entrepreneur and academic. He is involved as an advisor or board member in several companies in financial services, across investment management, venture capital and fintech. He is the founder and chairman of TIFIN, an AI ...
, American investor
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Vinay Nadkarni
Vinay Nadkarni (Hindi:विनय नाडकर्णी ''Vinay Nadkaranī'', born: 1962) is an Indian banker at Mumbai, and a voice actor that specializes in dubbing foreign animated media.
He is best known for being the official Hindi d ...
, Indian banker
Politics and government
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Vinay Bhaskar
Dasyam Vinay Bhaskar ( Telugu: డి వినయ భాస్కేర్) (born 22 November 1964) is an Indian politician and Member of Legislative Assembly in Telangana representing Telangana Rashtra Samithi a.k.a. T.R.S. and Government Chi ...
, Indian politician
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Vinay Katiyar
Vinay Katiyar (born 11 November 1954) is a politician and
the founder-president of Bajrang Dal, the youth wing of the Hindu nationalist organisation Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) in India. He has served as an All India General Secretary of the ...
, Indian politician
*Vinay Kore, Indian politician
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Vinay Kumar Pandey
Vinay Kumar Pandey (born 18 June 1964) was a member of the 15th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Shrawasti constituency of Uttar Pradesh and is a member of the Samajwadi Party political party.
Education and background
Pandey was born in ...
, Indian politician
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Vinay Kumar Sorake
Vinay Kumar Sorake is an Indian politician of Indian National Congress
The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party, or simply the Congress, is a political parties in India, political party in India with deep roots ...
, Indian politician
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Vinay Sahasrabuddhe
Vinay Prabhakar Sahasrabuddhe is an Indian politician. He was a Member of the Parliament of India and represented the state of Maharashtra in the Rajya Sabha from 2016 to 2022. He has also served as National Vice President of Bharatiya Janata Pa ...
, Indian politician
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Winai Senniam
Winai Senniam (; August 22, 1958 - October 20, 2009) was a Thai politician and parliamentarian who served in the House of Representatives of Thailand. Winai was a member of the Democrat Party of Thailand.
Winai was the younger brother of the ...
, Thai politician
Science and technology
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Vinay Prasad
Vinayak "Vinay" Kashyap Prasad is an American hematologist-oncologist and health researcher. He is a professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He is the author of the books '' Ending Me ...
, American hematologist-oncologist
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Winai Dahlan
Winai Dahlan () (born on 7 January 1952) is the Founder Director of the Halal Science Center Chulalongkorn University. He is also the Head of The Lipid and Fat Science Research as well as International Graduate Program Chair in Food and Nutritio ...
, Thai Scientist
Sports
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Vinay Bhat, American chess Grandmaster
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Vinay Kumar, Indian cricketer
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Vinay Singh, Indian footballer
Others
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21644 Vinay, a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1370.4239593 days (3.75 years)
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Jean-Baptiste-Maximien Parchappe de Vinay, French psychiatrist
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Ranvir Vinay Aur Kaun?'', Indian Hindi talk show
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Vinay, Isère, commune in the Isère department in southeastern France
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Vinay, Marne, commune in the Marne department in north-eastern France
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