Anil (given name)

Anil (Sanskrit: अनिल) is a unisex Turkish and male Indian name. In Turkish, it means “Righteous Ruler”, “Just Emperor” and “To Be Remembered Forever”. In the Indian Sanskrit language it can be defined as the “The God of the Air and the Wind”. Notable persons with this name include:

Anil Ambani (born 1959), Indian business baron
Anil Baijal, Lieutenant Governor of Delhi
Anil Baluni, Indian politician and national spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party
Anil Basu (born 1946), Indian politician and a former member of the Communist Party of India
Anil Bhardwaj (born 1967), Director of the Physical Research Laboratory
Anil Bhoyrul, British journalist
Anil Biswas (composer), (born 1914) Indian music director
Anil Bordia (1934–2012), Indian educationist
Anil Chatterjee (1929–1998), Indian film actor
Anil Chaudhary (born 1965), Indian cricket umpire
Anil Chitrakar (born 1961), Nepalese social entrepreneur
Anil Dalpat (born 1963), Pakistani cricketer
Anil Dash (born 1975), American blogger, entrepreneur, and technologist
Anil Devgan (born 1949), Indian film director
Anil Dhawan, Indian film actor
Anil Goonaratne, a Sri Lankan judge and lawyer
Anil Gupta (writer) (born 1974), British comedy writer
Anil K. Rajvanshi (born 1950), Indian academic
Anil Kakodkar (born 1943), Indian nuclear scientist
Anil Kapoor (born 1959), Indian actor
Anil Kohli, Indian dental surgeon
Anil Kumar (disambiguation), several people
Anil Kumar Mandal, Indian ophthalmologist
Anil Kumble (born 1970), Indian cricket player
Anil Mohile (died 1991), Indian music director
Anil Sharma (director), Indian film director
Anil Srinivasan (born 1977), Indian pianist
Anil Tissera, main character in the novel Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
P. Anil, Indian film director

Anil (given name)

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