Chandrashekhar

In politics and activism:

• Chandra Shekhar Azad (1906–1931), known as Azad ("The Free"), Indian revolutionary who organised the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army (HSRA)
• K. M. Chandrasekhar (born 1948), Indian Cabinet Secretary
• Sripati Chandrasekhar (1918–2001), Indian demographer and politician
• Chandra Shekhar Dubey (born 1946), member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India
• Chandrashekhar B. Patil (born 1970), Member of the Karnataka Legislative Council
• Chandrashekhar S. Patil (1918–1960), Member of the Legislative Assembly of India
• Chandrashekhar Prasad (died 1997), assassinated Indian student activist
• Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao (born 1954), known as K.C.R., Indian politician and the first Chief Minister of Telangana
• Chandra Shekhar Singh, known as Chandra Shekhar (1927–2007), eighth Prime Minister of India (1990–91)
• Chandrasekhar Singh (1915–1976), deputy leader of the Communist Party of India
• Chandrashekhar Singh, member of the Indian National Congress, Chief Minister of Bihar 1983–85

In sports:

• Bhagwat Chandrasekhar (B. S. Chandrasekhar, informally "Chandra"; born 1945), Indian cricketer
• H. Chandrashekar (nicknamed "Chandru"), Indian footballer
• O. Chandrashekar, former Indian professional footballer
• Raghavendra Chandrashekar (born 1982), Indian cricketer
• Rajesh Chandrasekar (born 1989), Indian male road and track cyclist
• Chandrasekhar Gadkari (1928–1998), Indian cricketer
• Chinta Chandrashekar Rao (born 1988), Indian football player
• Venugopal Chandrasekhar, Indian table tennis player

In arts and entertainment:

• Chandrashekar Bandiyappa, known as CSB, South Indian film director
• Bala Devi Chandrashekar, American Bharatanatyam dancer
• Hitha Chandrashekar, Indian film actress who works in Kannada films
• Jay Chandrasekhar (born 1968), American film actor, director and writer
• Joseph Vijay Chandrashekar (known simply as Vijay), Indian film actor and playback singer who works in Tamil cinema (Kollywood)
• Lakshmi Chandrashekar, Indian film actress in the Kannada film industry, and a theatre artist in Karnataka, India
• Nagathihalli Chandrashekhar, Indian director, actor, screenwriter and lyricist working predominantly in Kannada cinema
• Vagai Chandrasekhar (known simply as Chandrasekhar), Kollywood film actor
• Chandrashekhar Dubey (1924–1993), Indian actor and radio personality
• Chandrashekhara Kambara (born 1937), Indian poet, playwright, and professor
• Chandrashekar "Champa" Patil (1939–2022), Indian poet and playwright
• Chandrashekhar Vaidya (known simply as Chandrashekhar; 1922–2021), Bollywood film actor
• Chandra Sekhar Yeleti (born 1973), Tollywood film director

In science and academia:

• Hariharan Chandrashekar (born 1956), Indian environmental economist, eco-entrepreneur, writer, and policy advocate and urban analyst
• Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar (1930–2004), Indian physicist
• Srinivasan Chandrasegaran, pioneer in genome editing
• Srinivasan Chandrasekaran (born 1945), Indian chemist
• Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910–1995), British Indian-American astrophysicist and Nobel laureate in physics, after whom the astrophysics formula Chandrasekhar limit and quantity Chandrasekhar number are named
• Tavarekere Kalliah Chandrashekar (born 1956), Indian bioinorganic chemist, former director of National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science & Technology
• Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (1888–1970), Indian physicist and Nobel laureate in physics
• Chandrashekhar Khare, professor of mathematics at the University of California Los Angeles
• Chandra Sekhar Sankurathri, founder of free Sarada Vidyalayam School and Srikiran Institute of Ophthalmology
• Y. S. Chandrashekhar, Indian-American cardiologist

In business:

• Chandrashekhar Agashe (1888–1956), Indian industrialist

• Anna University K B Chandrashekar Research Centre in the Madras Institute of Technology (MIT)
• Chandrahar
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