Sankara
Sankara can refer to:

People
 Mariam Sankara (born 1953), First Lady of Burkina Faso, widow of Thomas Sankara
 Thomas Sankara (1949–1987), Marxist revolutionary leader of Burkina Faso (from 1983–1987)
 Adi Shankara (788–820), Hindu philosopher credited with reviving Hinduism
 Shiva, whom Hindus, especially Shaivites, worship as supreme God or their Supreme Being

Films
 Sankara (2007 film), a Sri Lankan film directed by Prasanna Jayakody
 Shankara (2016 film), a 2016 Indian Telugu-language action film by Tatineni Satya

Other
 Sankara, Burkina Faso, a village in Burkina Faso
 Sankara Eye Foundation, a US-based non-profit working to eradicate curable blindness in India
 Sankara Stones, magical rocks from the 1984 feature film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
 Sankhara, mental formations in Buddhist philosophy

