Chandra (disambiguation)
Appearance
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Chandra is a Hindu lunar deity.
Chandra may also refer to:
People
[edit]- Ambrish Chandra, Indian-Canadian engineer
- Ashok K. Chandra, Indian computer scientist
- Bhagwat Chandrasekhar, Indian cricketer
- Bipan Chandra, Indian historian
- Lokesh Chandra, Indian Buddhist scholar
- Ranjit Chandra, Indian-Canadian immunologist accused of academic fraud
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-American astrophysicist who formulated what was later called the Chandrasekhar limit
- Vikram Chandra (novelist), an Indian author
- Chandra Bahadur Dangi, the world's shortest person
- Chandra Ford, an American public health academic
- Chandra Levy, an American murder victim whose disappearance made national headlines in 2001
- Chandra Pasma, Canadian politician
- Chandra Prakash Gharti, Nepalese politician
- Chandra Shekhar, 8th Prime Minister of India
- Chandra West, Canadian actress
- Chandra Wickramasinghe, British-Sri Lankan astronomer
- Chandra Wilson, American actress
- Chandraprakash Dwivedi, Indian film director and writer
- Satish Chandra, an Indian name
Astronomy
[edit]- Chandra X-ray Observatory, a satellite launched by NASA in 1999, and named after Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- 1958 Chandra, an asteroid named after Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
History
[edit]- Chandravamsha (Lunar dynasty), a mythical Hindu dynasty
- Chandragupta Maurya or Chandra Gupta Maurya, founder of the Indian Mauryan Empire
- Chandragupta I or Chandra Gupta I, king of the ancient Indian Gupta Empire
- Chandragupta II or Chandra Gupta II, king of the ancient Indian Gupta Empire
- Chandradeva, 12th century Gahadavala king of medieval India
- Chandar (Chach Nama), king of Sindh and Buddhist ascetic
Geography
[edit]- Chandra, Comoros, a village
- Chandra, Paschim Medinipur, a village in West Bengal, India
- Chandra Taal, a lake in the Himalayas
Entertainment
[edit]- Chandra (film), 2013 Indian film by Roopa Iyer
- Dr. Sivasubramanian Chandrasegarampillai, Dr. R. Chandra, a character in Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey series
- Chandra Nalaar, a character in the card game Magic: The Gathering
- Dr. Chandra Suresh, a character in the American TV drama series Heroes
- "Chandra" (song), from the 2022 Indian Marathi-language film Chandramukhi
- Chandra, a song by a progressive rock band Snovi
- Chandra, a character from the Upside-Down Magic (film)
See also
[edit]- Chanda (disambiguation)
- Chandu (disambiguation)
- Chandrapur (disambiguation)
- Chandrayaan programme, Indian lunar exploration mission