Shankar
Sankar or Shankar is a Sanskrit word meaning "beneficent" or "giver of bliss" and may refer to:

People
Shankar (name)
Shankar (actor), Indian actor
Shankar (Tamil militant), Sri Lanakan Tamil rebel
Shankar (cartoonist), Indian cartoonist
Shankar (writer), Indian writer
Shankar Dayal Sharma, President of India from 1992 to 1997
Shankar, fictional protagonist of the 1998 Indian film Gunda portrayed by Mithun Chakraborty

Places 
Shankar, Jalandhar, a village located in Jallandhar, Punjab, India
Shankar, Iran, a village in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran

