Chandra (disambiguation)
Chandra is a Hindu lunar deity.
Chandra may also refer to:
People
- Ashok K. Chandra, a computer scientist
- Bipan Chandra, an Indian historian
- Lokesh Chandra, a Buddhist scholar
- Ranjit Chandra, an Indian-Canadian immunologist accused of academic fraud
- Vikram Chandra, an Indian author
- Chandra Levy, an American murder victim whose disappearance made national headlines in 2001
- Chandra Shekhar, former Prime Minister of India
- Chandra West, a Canadian actress
- Chandra Wickramasinghe, an astronomer
- Chandra Wilson, an American actress
- Bhagwat Chandrasekhar, a former Indian cricketer
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, an Indian-American astrophysicist who formulated what was later called the Chandrasekhar limit
- Dr. Chandraprakash Dwivedi, an Indian film director and script writer
Astronomy
- Chandra X-ray Observatory, a satellite launched by NASA in 1999, and named after Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- 1958 Chandra, an asteroid named after Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
History
- Chandra dynasty
- King Chandragupta Maurya, sometimes known as Chandra Gupta Maurya
- King Chandragupta I, sometimes known as Chandra Gupta I
- King Chandragupta II, sometimes known as Chandra Gupta II
- Chandradeva, 12th century Gahadavala king
- Chandar, king of Sindh and Buddhist ascetic
Geography
- Chandra, Comoros, a village
- Chandra Taal, a lake in the Himalayas
Entertainment
- Chandra (film)
- Dr. Sivasubramanian Chandrasegarampillai, Dr. R. Chandra, a character in Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey series
- Chandra Nalaar, a character in the card game Magic: The Gathering
- Dr. Chandra Suresh, a character in the American TV drama series Heroes
- Chandra, a song by a progressive rock band Snovi
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