Shashi
# Shashi

Shashi may refer to:

## Places and jurisdictions

### China

* Shashi City (沙市市), Hubei from 1949 to 1994
* Shashi District (沙市区), Jingzhou, Hubei (historically, Shashi City) since 1994
   * Apostolic Prefecture of Shashi
   * Jingmen–Shashi railway, single-track railway in Hubei province, China
* Shashi, Liuyang (沙市镇), town in Hunan province
* Shashi, Shaodong (砂石镇), town of Shaodong County, Hunan province

### Africa

* Shashi River or Shashe River, major left-bank tributary of the Limpopo River in Zimbabwe

## People

Shashi is an Indian and Nepali male and female name, abstracted from ancient Sanskrit language, meaning "Moon".

### Politics

* Shashi Kumar (born 1965), actor and politician from Karnataka, India
* Shashi Shrestha, Nepalese politician, Central Committee member of Janamorcha Nepal
* Shashi Tharoor (born 1956), Indian Minister of State for Human Resource Development

### Culture, science and entertainment

* Shashi Caan, American architect, designer, advocacy icon, founder of The Shashi Caan Collective
* Shashibhusan Dasgupta (1911–1964), Bengali scholar of philosophy, languages and literature
* Shashi Deshpande (born 1938), Indian novelist
* Shashi Gupta (born 1964), Indian Test and One Day International cricketer
* Shashi Isaac (born 1982), football player (midfielder) from Saint Kitts & Nevis
* Shashikala (1933–2021), Indian actress
* Shashi Kapoor (1938–2017), Indian film actor, director and producer
* Shashi P. Karna (born 1956), Indian-American nanotechnology
* Shashi Naidoo (born 1980), South African actress, model and television anchor
* Shashi Nambisan, Indian-born director of the Center for Transportation Research and Education at Iowa State University
* Shashi Puri, Hindi film actor
* Shashi Warrier, Indian author of Hangman's Journal

## Other

* Shashi language or Ikizu language, a Bantu language spoken by the Ikizu peoples of Tanzania
