Ashoka (disambiguation)
Ashoka is a Sanskrit word that literally means "sorrow-less" or "without sorrow".
Ashok, Ashoka, or Aśoka as a person most frequently refers to Ashoka, a monarch of the Mauryan Empire of India.
Ashok or Ashoka may also refer to:
Fictional characters & literature
- Asok (Dilbert), a comic strip character
- Ahsoka Tano, a character from the Star Wars franchise
- Ashokavanam, the tentative title of a forthcoming Tamil language drama film being directed, written and produced by Mani Ratnam
- Ashoka the Great (Book), a book by Wytze Keuning (translated to English by J.E.Steur)
Films
- Asoka (1955 film), a 1955 Sri Lankan film directed by Sirisena Wimalaweera
- Asoka (2001 film), a 2001 Bollywood historical drama film directed by Santosh Sivan
- Ashoka (2008 film), a Tamil film directed by Prem
- Ashok (film), a 2006 Telugu film directed by Surender Reddy
People
- Ashok (actor) (born 1981), a South Indian actor and Bharatnatyam performer
- Ashok (Kannada actor), a Kannada film actor
- Ashok Amritraj, an Indian American film producer born 1956
- Ashok Banker (born 1964), Indian novelist and short story writer
- Ashok Chaturvedi, former chief of India's external intelligence agency, RAW (the Research and Analysis Wing)
- Ashok Chavan, Chief Minister of Maharashtra
- Ashok Gaikwad, an Indian film Director
- Ashok Desai, Attorney General of India, 1996 to 1998
- Ashok Gehlot (born 1951), chief minister of the Indian state of Rajasthan
- Ashok Kamte, Additional Commissioner of Mumbai Police for the East Region
- Ashok Kumar (1911–2001), Indian film actor
- Ashok Lokhande, an Indian film actor
- Ashok Mehta, an Indian film actor
- Ashok Saraf (born 1948), Indian actor and comedian, Marathi and Hindi
- Ashok Shinde, an Indian film actor
- Ashoka Mitran (born 1931), influential figure in post-independent Tamil literature
- Ashok Row Kavi (born 1947), Indian journalist and one of India's most prominent LGBT rights activists
- Asoka Rubener, dancer of Sujata and Asoka
- Ashok Saraf (born 1948), Indian actor and comedian, Marathi and Hindi
- Ashok Shinde, an Indian film actor
- R. Ashok, an Indian Politician and former Deputy Chief Minister of Indian State of Karnataka
Other uses
- Ashoka tree (disambiguation), the common name of two tree species:
- Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, an international citizen sector organization
- Ashoknagar, also Ashok Nagar, a city in Madhya Pradesh state of central India
See also
- Ashok Leyland, an Indian commercial vehicle manufacturing company
- Ashok Vatika, a mythical garden in Lanka, the Kingdom of King Ravana
- Ashoka Kumar Thakur vs. Union of India (Supreme Court Case), an Indian public interest litigation case challenging the conclusion of the Mandal Commission
- All pages with titles containing Ashoka
- All pages with titles containing Ashok
- All pages with titles containing Asoka
- Ashokan (disambiguation)
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