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Shiv Nadar
Shiv Nadar (சிவ நாடார்) is an Indian industrialist and philanthropist who founded HCL in 1976 and the Shiv Nadar Foundation in 1994, repeatedly topping India's philanthropy rankings.
Shiv Panditt
Shiv Panditt (शिव पंडित), born 1984 in Nagpur, is an Indian actor known for Shaitan (2011), Khuda Haafiz, and Shershaah, and for returning to Tamil cinema with Nesippaya (2025) and Jason Sanjay's Sigma (2026). Not the Roadies personality Shiv.
Shiv Pillai
Shiv Pillai (Shiv Subramaniam Pillai) is an Indian-born American immunologist and physician-scientist at Harvard and the Ragon Institute who studies B cells and germinal centers.
Shiv Prasad Singh
Shiv Prasad Singh was a renowned Hindi author and professor from Banaras, Uttar Pradesh, who excelled in nearly every prose genre, notably the historical novel Neela Chand.
Shiv Rao
Shiv Rao is an American cardiologist and technology founder, the co-founder and CEO of Abridge, an AI medical documentation company founded in 2018 in Pittsburgh, while still practicing at UPMC.
Shiv Roy
Siobhan "Shiv" Roy, played by Sarah Snook, is Logan Roy's only daughter in HBO's Succession (2018–2023); her finale vote sells Waystar Royco to GoJo, making her husband Tom CEO.
Shiv Sena (शिवसेना)
Shiv Sena (शिवसेना), Maharashtra regional party founded by Bal Thackeray on 19 June 1966 for Marathi manoos interests; split in 2022 into Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena (bow-and-arrow symbol) and Uddhav Thackeray's Shiv Sena (UBT, flaming torch).
Shiv Thakare (शिव ठाकरे)
Shiv Thakare (शिव ठाकरे), born 1989 in Amravati, is an Indian reality TV personality: winner of Bigg Boss Marathi 2, runner-up of Bigg Boss 16, and champion of The 50 season 1 (2026).
Shiva (game)
Shiva (Kare, Karnun) is a Tiv alignment board game from Nigeria, played on a 5x6 or 6x6 board with twelve pieces per player; rows of exactly three win, longer rows are barred, distinct from chess-like Tiv games of the same name.
Shiva (Judaism)
Shiva, also known as sitting shiva, is the seven-day period of mourning in Judaism observed after the burial of a parent, child, sibling, or spouse, during which mourners stay home and receive visitors.
Shiva (शिव)
Shiva (शिव), also called Maheshvara, is one of the principal Hindu deities, dominant alongside Vishnu, depicted with a third eye, blue throat, and trident, and worshipped through the lingam.
Shiva (शिवा) (1990 film)
Shiva (शिवा), 1990 Hindi crime action film by Ram Gopal Varma, his remake of his Telugu debut Siva (1989), starring Nagarjuna, Amala, and Raghuvaran as Bhavani; Nagarjuna's Hindi debut, a cult classic about college violence.
Shiva (சிவா) (actor)
Mirchi Shiva (சிவா), Tamil actor and comedian born 1982, former Radio Mirchi RJ; lead debut in Chennai 600028 (2007), star of the spoof Thamizh Padam (2010) and Tamizh Padam 2 (2018).
Shiva Ayyadurai
Shiva Ayyadurai, also known as V. A. Shiva Ayyadurai, is an American systems scientist and entrepreneur known for his disputed claim to have invented email.
Shiva Baby
Shiva Baby is a 2020 American comedy, Emma Seligman's feature debut expanded from her 2018 NYU thesis short, starring Rachel Sennott as Danielle, a bisexual college student who runs into her sugar daddy and ex-girlfriend at a Jewish shiva.
Shiva Feshareki
Shiva Feshareki is a British-Iranian experimental composer and turntablist, born in London in 1987, who won a 2017 British Composer Award for innovation and premiered Daphne Oram's Still Point in 2016.
Shiva Keshavan (शिवा केशवन)
Shiva Keshavan (शिवा केशवन), born 1981, is India's first Olympic luger, a six-time Winter Olympian (1998-2018) and four-time opening-ceremony flagbearer who trained on Himalayan roads and later led the Indian Olympians Association.
Shiva laser
The Shiva laser was a 20-beam neodymium glass laser at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for inertial confinement fusion research, becoming the world's most powerful laser in 1977.
Shiva of Prambanan
The Shiva of Prambanan (Candi Siwa) is the central, largest temple of the ninth-century Prambanan complex in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva.
Shiva Purana
The Shiva Purana, also called Shiv mahapuran, is one of the eighteen Mahapuranas of Hinduism, a Sanskrit text devoted to Shiva that exists in several recensions totaling about 24,000 verses.
Shiva Rajkumar (ಶಿವ ರಾಜ್ಕುಮಾರ್)
Shiva Rajkumar (ಶಿವ ರಾಜ್ಕುಮಾರ್), also called Shivanna, Hat-trick Hero, or Karunada Chakravarthy, is a Kannada film actor, eldest son of Dr Rajkumar, debut Anand (1986), cult hit Om (1995), and Jailer (2023) cameo.
Shiva Rose
Shiva Rose (Shiva Rose Afshar / McDermott), born 1969 in Santa Monica, is an Iranian-American actress known for David & Layla (2005), later founder of The Local Rose blog and Shiva Rose skincare.
Shiva Shambho
Shiva Shambho (शम्भु) is a devotional name-chant addressed to the Hindu deity Shiva, meaning "O Shambhu," the source of happiness, used in kirtan, bhajan, and japa.
Shiva Sutras of Vasugupta
The Shiva Sutras of Vasugupta, also called the Vasugupta Shiva Sutras, are 77 Sanskrit aphorisms attributed to the ninth-century Kashmiri teacher Vasugupta that Kashmir Shaivism regards as its fountainhead text.
Shiva Tandava Stotra (शिवताण्डवस्तोत्रम्)
Shiva Tandava Stotra (शिवताण्डवस्तोत्रम्), also Shiv Tandav Stotram, is a rhythmically dense Sanskrit hymn praising Shiva's cosmic Tandava dance, traditionally attributed to Ravana via its own colophon, transmitted as an independent stotra outside the Ramayana and Puranas.
Shiva Valley
Shiva Valley is a beach shack and open-air psytrance party venue on Anjuna Beach in North Goa, India, best known for its Tuesday-night parties that run until sunrise.
Shivaay (शिवाय)
Shivaay (शिवाय) is a 2016 Hindi action thriller directed and produced by Ajay Devgn, starring Devgn, Abigail Eames, Erika Kaar, and Sayyeshaa; a mountaineer rescues his daughter from traffickers in Bulgaria, released 28 October 2016 against Ae Dil Hai Mushkil.
Shivadeva I
Shivadeva I (शिवदेव) was a Licchavi king of Nepal, reigning from about 590 to 605 CE as the nominal sovereign under his powerful feudatory Amshuvarman.
Shivadrishti
Shivadrishti (शिवदृष्टि, The Vision of Shiva) is a 9th-century Sanskrit philosophical treatise by Somānanda presenting the first systematic exposition of non-dual Shaivism and founding the Pratyabhijña school of Kashmir.
Shivaji
Shivaji (1630–1680) Bhonsle, founder of the Maratha kingdom and Chhatrapati crowned in 1674; built an independent state from the Pune jagir against Bijapur and the Mughals, with chauth and sardeshmukhi levies and the Ashtapradhan administration.