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Shantanu (शांतनु)
Shantanu (शांतनु), also Śantanu, is the Kuru king of Hastinapura in the Mahabharata, father of Bhishma by Ganga and of Chitrangada and Vichitravirya by Satyavati; his second marriage triggers Bhishma's celibacy vow and the dynasty's succession crisis.
Shantanu Maheshwari
Shantanu Maheshwari (born 1991, Calcutta) is an Indian actor-dancer, Swayam in Dil Dosti Dance, Bollywood debut Gangubai Kathiawadi (2022), Khatron Ke Khiladi 8 winner, and World of Dance gold medalist with Desi Hoppers.
Shantanu Moitra
Shantanu Moitra (शांतनु मोइत्रा) is an Indian music composer for Hindi and Bengali cinema, known for Parineeta (2005), Lage Raho Munna Bhai (2006), and 3 Idiots (2009).
Shantanu Narayen
Shantanu Narayen is an Indian-American business executive who led Adobe as CEO from December 2007 and chairman from 2017, shifting the company from boxed software to cloud subscriptions.
Shantanu Thakur
Shantanu Thakur is an Indian BJP politician, a Union Minister of State for Ports, Shipping, and Waterways and the Lok Sabha member for Bangaon, West Bengal.
Shantarakshita
Shantarakshita (शान्तरक्षित), c. 725–788, was an Indian Buddhist philosopher-monk and abbot of Nalanda who synthesized Madhyamaka, Yogacara, and Buddhist logic and carried the system to Tibet.
Shantaram (novel)
Shantaram, 2003 semi-autobiographical novel by Gregory David Roberts; narrator Lin, an escaped Australian convict, runs a Bombay slum clinic and joins the mafia under Khader Khan; Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best First Book 2004, 936 pages, adapted as a 2022 Apple TV+ series.
Shantaram (TV series)
Shantaram is a 2022 American drama series on Apple TV+, adapted from Gregory David Roberts' novel, created by Steve Lightfoot and Eric Warren Singer and starring Charlie Hunnam.
Shantata! Court Chalu Ahe
Shantata! Court Chalu Ahe (शांतता! कोर्ट चालू आहे; "Silence! The Court Is in Session") is a Marathi play by Vijay Tendulkar, first performed in 1967, in which amateur actors' mock trial becomes a real inquisition.
Shantel & Bucovina Club Orkestar
Shantel & Bucovina Club Orkestar is a German-led Balkan brass and electronica project fronted by Frankfurt DJ Shantel (Stefan Hantel), whose 2007 hit Disko Partizani! spread across Europe.
Shantel VanSanten
Shantel VanSanten (Shantel Yvonne VanSanten), American actress born 1985 in Luverne, Minnesota; known for One Tree Hill's Quinn James, Shooter, The Boys, For All Mankind, and FBI SA Nina Chase in the FBI franchise.
Shanthanu Bhagyaraj
Shanthanu Bhagyaraj (Shanthnu), born 1986, Chennai, is a Tamil film actor, son of K. Bhagyaraj; child artist in Vettiya Madichu Kattu (1998), lead debut Sakkarakatti (2008), later Master (2021), Blue Star (2024), Balti (2025).
Shanthi Krishna (ശാന്തി കൃഷ്ണ)
Shanthi Krishna (ശാന്തി കൃഷ്ണ) is an Indian actress and trained classical dancer, a leading star of Malayalam and Tamil cinema in the 1980s and 1990s.
Shanthini Sockanathan
Shanthini Sockanathan is a Malaysian-born molecular neurobiologist and professor of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins who joined HHMI in 2025 and is known for discovering GDE2, an enzyme that triggers motor neuron differentiation.
Shanti Dave
Shanti Dave (born 1931) is an Indian modernist painter, a pioneer of calligraphic abstraction who created large encaustic murals for Parliament House and Air India offices.
Shanti Devi (शांति देवी)
Shanti Devi (शांति देवी, 1926–1987), Delhi girl claiming past life as Lugdi Devi of Mathura; 1935–36 Gandhi-linked committee verified her statements; skeptics Nahata and later writers disputed the evidence.
Shanti People
Shanti People is a music project from Kyiv, Ukraine, founded in 2008, that mixes psytrance and techno with Sanskrit mantras, fronted by the vocalist Uma.
Shanti Purana
Shanti Purana (ಶಾಂತಿಪುರಾಣ, Shantipurana) is a tenth-century Kannada Jain epic by the poet Ponna that narrates the life of Shantinatha, the sixteenth Jain Tirthankara, and earned Ponna the title Kavichakravarthi.
Shantidas Jhaveri
Shantidas Jhaveri (શાંતિદાસ ઝવેરી) was the first nagarsheth, or chief merchant-spokesman, of Ahmedabad, who lent money to the Mughal emperors, financed the Peacock Throne, and built Jain temples.
Shantideva
Shantideva (शान्तिदेव) was an Indian Mahayana Buddhist monk and philosopher of the eighth century, traditionally placed at Nalanda, best known as the author of the Bodhicaryavatara and the Shikshasamuccaya.
Shantiniketan (শান্তিনিকেতন)
Shantiniketan (শান্তিনিকেতন), "abode of peace," is a West Bengal town founded by Rabindranath Tagore: a 1901 open-air school, home of Visva-Bharati University (1921), and a UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed in 2023 under criteria (iv) and (vi).
Shāntipur
Shantipur (শান্তিপুর), also spelled Santipur, is a city and municipality in Ranaghat subdivision, Nadia district, West Bengal, India, on the Hooghly River, famed for Santipuri tant handloom sarees, its 1864 municipality, and Mughal-era and temple landmarks.
Shantivarma
Shantivarma (शान्तिवर्मा) was a king of the Kadamba dynasty of Banavasi, Karnataka, who reigned from about 450 to 475 CE and installed the Talagunda pillar inscription.
Shantivarman
Shantivarman (ಶಾಂತಿವರ್ಮ), also written Santivarman or Shantivarma, was a Kadamba dynasty king who ruled from Vaijayanti (Banavasi) in Karnataka from about 450 to 475, son of Kakusthavarma.
Shantou (汕头)
Shantou (汕头, Swatow) is a prefecture-level city in eastern Guangdong, China, a treaty port opened in 1860 and one of China's original special economic zones, with 5.58 million residents and a 2025 GDP of 302.4 billion yuan.
Shantou Fengsheng power station
Shantou Fengsheng power station (华电丰盛汕头电厂) is a coal-fired power station in Haimen Town, Shantou, Guangdong, China, operating two 680 MW ultra-supercritical units commissioned in 2023.
Shantou Institute of Ultrasonic Instrument
超研股份, also known as Shantou Institute of Ultrasonic Instrument Co., Ltd., is a Chinese medical imaging and industrial ultrasound equipment maker based in Shantou, Guangdong.
Shantou power station
Shantou power station (华能国际汕头电厂) is a 1,200 MW coal-fired power station in Haojiang District, Shantou, Guangdong, China, owned by Huaneng Power International, with three units built between 1996 and 2005.
Shanty town
Shanty town: self-built, unplanned urban housing on occupied land, a term alongside slum, favela, and informal settlement. 1.16 billion urban residents lived in such settlements in 2024; UN-Habitat defines slum households by five deprivations.
Shanu Modi
Shanu Modi is a Canadian-trained breast medical oncologist and attending physician at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, known for leading the pivotal trastuzumab deruxtecan trials.