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Shweta Bachchan Nanda (श्वेता बच्चन नंदा)

Shweta Bachchan Nanda (श्वेता बच्चन नंदा), born 1971, is an Indian columnist, author of Paradise Towers (2018), and co-designer of the MXS label with Monisha Jaising; she is the daughter of Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan and wife of Nikhil Nanda.

Shweta Basu Prasad

Shweta Basu Prasad (born 1991, Jamshedpur) is an Indian actress, National Film Award Best Child Artist winner for Makdee (2002), known for Iqbal, Kotha Bangaru Lokam, Criminal Justice, and Maharani 4.

Shweta Gulati

Shweta Gulati, Indian television actress (born 1979, Bombay), best known as Tia Ahuja in Remix (2004) and Dr. Nikita in Dill Mill Gayye; later Tera Yaar Hoon Main, Main Hoon Aparajita, and the stage play Ananya.

Shweta Gupta

Shweta Gupta is an Indian politician of the Janata Dal (United), a physician who won the Sheohar seat in 2025 and became Bihar's social welfare minister in 2026.

Shweta Kawatra (श्वेता कवात्रा)

Shweta Kawatra (श्वेता कवात्रा), also spelled Kawaatra, Indian television actress and model, best known as antagonist Pallavi Agarwal in STAR Plus's Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii; films include My Brother Nikhil, Murder 2, and Ram Setu.

Shweta Mohan

Shweta Mohan (ശ്വേത മോഹൻ), born 1985 in Chennai, is an Indian playback singer, daughter of Sujatha Mohan, with over 700 songs in four south Indian languages, four Filmfare Awards South, and hits like Vaa Vaathi.

Shweta Pandit (श्वेता पंडित)

Shweta Pandit (श्वेता पंडित), born 1986 in Mumbai, is an Indian playback singer of the Mewati gharana who debuted in Mohabbatein (2000) and won a 2009 Filmfare Award.

Shweta Tiwari (श्वेता तिवारी)

Shweta Tiwari (श्वेता तिवारी), born 1980 in Pratapgarh, is an Indian television and film actress, Prerna in Kasautii Zindagii Kay (2001–2008) and the first woman to win Bigg Boss (Season 4).

Shweta Tripathi

Shweta Tripathi (श्वेता त्रिपाठी), born 1985 in Delhi, Indian actress and producer known as Shaalu in Masaan, Golu Gupta in Mirzapur and Mirzapur: The Movie (2026), and producer of Mujhe Jaan Na Kaho Meri Jaan.

Shwezigon Pagoda

Shwezigon Pagoda is a gilded Buddhist stupa at Nyaung-U, near Bagan, Myanmar, begun by King Anawrahta and completed by King Kyansittha in the late eleventh century.

Shy (novella)

Shy is Max Porter's fourth book, a short 2023 novel (Graywolf, Faber) about a troubled 15-year-old who sneaks out of the Last Chance institution in 1995 England with a rucksack of rocks, told as a polyphonic collage of voices set to drum'n'bass.

Shy FX

Shy FX is the stage name of Andre Williams, a London-born jungle and drum and bass DJ and producer whose hit "Original Nuttah" charted in 1994.

Shy Girl

Shy Girl, horror novel by Mia Ballard, self-published on Amazon February 2025, acquired by Hachette (Wildfire UK, Orbit US). Cancelled March 2026 after Pangram flagged up to 78% AI-generated text; first major-publisher novel pulled over AI use.

Shy Glizzy

Shy Glizzy, stage name of Marquis Amonte King (born 1992), is a Washington, D.C. rapper blending go-go and trap; breakout hit "Awwsome" (2014), platinum feature on "Crew" (2016), and albums Fully Loaded, Flowers, and I Was Actually Being Humble.

Shyam Benegal

Shyam Benegal (1934–2024), Indian director and pioneer of Parallel Cinema; maker of Ankur, Nishant, the crowdfunded Manthan, Bhumika, and the 53-episode Bharat Ek Khoj; 24 features, Padma Shri 1976.

Shyam Bihari Jaiswal

Shyam Bihari Jaiswal is an Indian politician from Chhattisgarh and a Bharatiya Janata Party cabinet minister holding the Health and Family Welfare portfolio since December 2023.

Shyam Mohan

Shyam Mohan (ശ്യാം മോഹൻ), Malayalam actor from Thiruvananthapuram, born 1986. Known as Aadhi, the 'Just Kidding' antagonist of Premalu (2024); also Amaran, The Pet Detective, Telugu debut Takshakudu.

Shyam Prabhakar

Shyam Prabhakar is a computational and systems biologist at the Genome Institute of Singapore, A*STAR, known for the BANKSY spatial omics algorithm and the Asian Immune Diversity Atlas.

Shyam Singh Rana

Shyam Singh Rana is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party who represents Radaur in the Haryana Legislative Assembly and became a cabinet minister in October 2024.

Shyam Singha Roy (శ్యామ్ సింఘా రాయ్)

Shyam Singha Roy (శ్యామ్ సింఘా రాయ్) is a 2021 Telugu reincarnation drama directed by Rahul Sankrityan, starring Nani in a dual role with Sai Pallavi, released 24 December 2021, set in Hyderabad and 1970s Bengal, streaming on Netflix.

Shyam Sundar (Indian physician)

Shyam Sundar (born 1953) is an Indian infectious diseases physician and professor at Banaras Hindu University whose clinical trials changed the treatment of visceral leishmaniasis, or kala-azar, in South Asia.

Shyam Sundar Das

Shyam Sundar Das (श्यामसुंदर दास, 1875–1945) was a Hindi literary critic and linguist who co-founded the Nagari Pracharini Sabha and edited Hindi Shabdsagar, the first standard dictionary of Hindi.

Shyam Sunder Bhartia

Shyam Sunder Bhartia is an Indian businessman who, with his younger brother Hari, founded and chairs the New Delhi-based Jubilant Bhartia Group, active in pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and food service.

Shyama

Shyama (শ্যামা) is a Bengali dance drama by Rabindranath Tagore, first published in 1939 and adapted from his poem Parishodh, about a court dancer who saves a merchant at a fatal cost.

Shyama Sangeet

Shyama Sangeet (শ্যামাসংগীত) is a Bengali genre of devotional songs addressed to the goddess Kali, begun in the 18th century by Ramprasad Sen and Kamalakanta Bhattacharya.

Shyamala Gopalan (ஷ்யாமலா கோபாலன்)

Shyamala Gopalan (ஷ்யாமலா கோபாலன்), 1938–2009, Indian-American breast cancer researcher at Lawrence Berkeley Lab, mother of Kamala Harris; MK-Ultra claims debunked.

Shyamala Maheswaran

Shyamala Maheswaran (S. Maheswaran) is a cancer biologist and Harvard Medical School professor at Massachusetts General Hospital known for circulating tumor cell research and liquid biopsy.

Shyamaldas

Shyamaldas (श्यामलदास), known as Kaviraj Shyamaldas, was a 19th-century court poet and historian of Mewar who served Maharana Sajjan Singh and wrote the Vir Vinod.

Shyamchi Aai (श्यामची आई)

Shyamchi Aai (श्यामची आई), Shyam's Mother, is P.K. Atre's 1953 Marathi film based on Sane Guruji's autobiographical novel; it won the first President's Gold Medal for Best Feature Film at the 1954 National Film Awards.

Shyamji Krishna Varma

Shyamji Krishna Varma (श्यामजी कृष्ण वर्मा) was an Indian scholar, barrister, and revolutionary who founded India House and the Indian Home Rule Society in London in 1905.