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Sanjay Yadav (Bihar politician)

Sanjay Yadav is an Indian Rashtriya Janata Dal politician and a Rajya Sabha member from Bihar since 2024, earlier a political advisor to Tejashwi Yadav for over a decade.

Sanjaya

Sanjaya, titled Rakai Mataram Sang Ratu Sanjaya, was an 8th-century king of Central Java who founded the Old Mataram kingdom; his Canggal inscription of 732 records a Shiva linga.

Sanjaya Baru

Sanjaya Baru, Indian economist, journalist, and author of The Accidental Prime Minister; media adviser to PM Manmohan Singh 2004-2008; wrote on Narasimha Rao and the 1991 reforms.

Sanjaya Belatthiputta

Sanjaya Belatthiputta (संजय बेलट्ठिपुत्त) was an Indian ascetic philosopher in Magadha, one of six sectarian teachers contemporary with the Buddha, and the first teacher of Sariputta and Moggallana.

Sanjaya dynasty

The Sanjaya dynasty (Wangsa Sanjaya) was a Shaivite dynasty of central Java, founded by Sanjaya in 732, that ruled the Old Mataram kingdom alongside the Buddhist Sailendras.

Sanjaya Malakar

Sanjaya Malakar (born 1989) is an American singer, seventh-place finalist on American Idol season 6 in 2007, famous for his ponyhawk hairstyle, Simon Cowell's criticism, and Vote for the Worst support.

Sanjaya Rajaram

Sanjaya Rajaram (1943–2021) was an Indian-born Mexican wheat breeder who succeeded Norman Borlaug at CIMMYT, developed more than 480 wheat varieties, and won the 2014 World Food Prize.

Sanjeeda Sheikh (سنجیدہ شیخ)

Sanjeeda Sheikh (سنجیدہ شیخ), also spelled Sanjeeda Shaikh, is an Indian actress, dancer, and presenter known for Kyaa Hoga Nimmo Kaa, Ek Hasina Thi, and Heeramandi, and for winning Nach Baliye 3 in 2007.

Sanjeev Arora (computer scientist)

Sanjeev Arora is an American theoretical computer scientist at Princeton University, one of the architects of the PCP theorem, and founding director of Princeton Language and Intelligence.

Sanjeev Arora (Punjab politician)

Sanjeev Arora is an Indian politician of the Aam Aadmi Party, a Punjab cabinet minister and MLA for Ludhiana West who earlier served in the Rajya Sabha.

Sanjeev Barnwal

Sanjeev Barnwal is an Indian technology entrepreneur who co-founded the Bengaluru-based e-commerce company Meesho in 2015, serves as its chief technology officer, and took it public in December 2025.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

Sanjeev Bhaskar, also known as Sanjeev Bhaskar OBE, is a British actor, comedian and writer born in 1963, co-creator of Goodness Gracious Me and The Kumars at No. 42, and DI Sunny Khan in ITV's Unforgotten since 2015.

Sanjeev Kapoor (संजीव कपूर)

Sanjeev Kapoor (संजीव कपूर), Indian celebrity chef and entrepreneur, host of Khana Khazana, Asia's longest-running cookery show; founder of Wonderchef, FoodFood, and restaurants; Padma Shri awardee.

Sanjeev Kohli

Sanjeev Kohli, also credited as Sanjeev Singh Kohli, is a Scottish actor and comedy writer born in London in 1971, best known as shopkeeper Navid in Still Game (2002-2019) and co-writer/co-star of Radio 4's Fags, Mags and Bags, and brother of Hardeep Singh Kohli.

Sanjeev Krishna

Sanjeev Krishna is a British physician-scientist, Professor of Molecular Parasitology and Medicine at St George's, University of London, known for work on artemisinin antimalarials and malaria diagnostics.

Sanjeev Kumar (संजीव कुमार)

Sanjeev Kumar (संजीव कुमार), born Harihar Jethalal Jariwala (1938–1985), was a Hindi film actor, two-time National Film Award Best Actor winner for Dastak and Koshish, known for Sholay, Angoor, and nine roles in Naya Din Nai Raat.

Sanjeev Prakash Sharma

Sanjeev Prakash Sharma (born 1964), Indian High Court judge on the Rajasthan, Patna, and Punjab and Haryana High Courts; Acting Chief Justice of Rajasthan from September 2025 to his retirement on 26 September 2026, amid a 2026 controversy with Supreme Court Justice Sandeep Mehta.

Sanjeev Sachdeva (संजीव सचदेवा)

Sanjeev Sachdeva (संजीव सचदेवा), Indian judge born 1964; Delhi High Court judge 2013-2024, Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court from July 2025, elevated to the Supreme Court of India on 2 June 2026.

Sanjeev Sanyal

Sanjeev Sanyal is an Indian economist and author who served five years as Principal Economic Adviser and is now a Member of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council.

Sanji (One Piece)

Sanji (サンジ), also Black Leg Sanji, is the cook of the Straw Hat Pirates in Eiichiro Oda's One Piece, joined at the Baratie in chapter 68, a kick fighter, third Vinsmoke prince, bounty 330 million berries, voiced by Hiroaki Hirata, ranked 3rd in the 2nd world popularity poll.

Sanjia Fumai Tang

三甲复脉汤 (Sanjia Fumai Tang), a nine-herb classical Chinese medicine formula from Wu Jutong's Wen Bing Tiao Bian (1798), derived from Zhi Gancao Tang by adding oyster, turtle, and tortoise shells to nourish yin and subdue wind.

Sanjib Chandra Chattopadhyay

Sanjib Chandra Chattopadhyay (সঞ্জীবচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়; 1834–1889) was a Bengali writer, poet, and journalist, best known as the elder brother of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay and author of Palamau, a pioneering Bengali travelogue.

Sanjib Chattopadhyay

Sanjib Chattopadhyay (সঞ্জীব চট্টোপাধ্যায়), born 1934 in Kolkata, is an Indian Bengali novelist known for humorous prose, the novel Lotakambal, and the children's Boro Mama series.

Sañjikaputta

Sañjikaputta (सञ्जीकपुत्त) was a young brahmin and friend of the lay devotee Bodhirājakumāra, known from two episodes: inviting the Buddha to the Kokanada palace and warning its architect of a murder plot.

Sanjit K. Mitra

Sanjit K. Mitra (born 1935) is an Indian-American signal processing engineer and professor emeritus at UC Santa Barbara, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003.

Sanjit Kumar Mitra

Sanjit Kumar Mitra, born 1935, is an Indian-American signal processing engineer, professor emeritus at UC Santa Barbara and USC, known for signal processing research and widely used textbooks.

Sanjit S. Jolly

Sanjit S. Jolly is an interventional cardiologist and clinical trialist at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, who led the TOTAL trial of thrombectomy and the RIVAL trial of radial versus femoral access.

Sanjit Seshia

Sanjit A. Seshia is a computer scientist, the Cadence Founders Chair Professor at UC Berkeley, known for the UCLID SMT solver and formal methods for cyber-physical systems.

Sanjith Hegde

Sanjith Hegde (ಸಂಜಿತ್ ಹೆಗ್ಡೆ) is an Indian playback singer and composer who rose to fame on Sa Re Ga Ma Pa and has recorded over 300 film songs.

Sanjiv Bhatt (સંજીવ ભટ્ટ)

Sanjiv Bhatt (સંજીવ ભટ્ટ), 1988-batch Gujarat IPS officer, filed a 2011 Supreme Court affidavit against Narendra Modi over the 2002 Gujarat riots; dismissed in 2015, sentenced to life in a 1990 custodial death case and 20 years in a 1996 NDPS case.