Ashok

Ashok is a given name.

It may refer to:

Actors

• Ashok Kumar (Tamil actor) (born 1981), South Indian actor and Bharatnatyam performer
• Ashok Kumar (1911–2001), Indian film actor
• Ashok Lokhande (born 1950), Indian film actor
• Ashok Mehta (1947–2012), Indian film actor
• Ashok Saraf (born 1947), Indian actor and comedian, Marathi and Hindi
• Ashok Selvan (born 1989), Indian actor
• Ashok Shinde, Indian film actor
• Ashok (Kannada actor) (born 1951), Kannada film actor

Chief Ministers of Indian states

• Ashok Chavan (born 1958), Chief Minister of Maharashtra
• Ashok Gehlot (born 1951), chief minister of the Indian state of Rajasthan
• R. Ashok, former Deputy Chief Minister of Indian State of Karnataka

Cricketers

• Ashok Upadhyay (born 1953), Indian cricketer
• Asoka de Silva (cricketer) (born 1956), Sri Lankan Sinhala cricketer

Film-related

• Ashok Amritraj (born 1956), Indian American film producer
• Ashok Gaikwad (born 1962), Indian film director
• Ashok, a fictional character portrayed by Danny Denzongpa in his 1980 Indian film Phir Wohi Raat

Law and enforcement

• Ashok Chaturvedi (born 1947), former chief of India's external intelligence agency
• Ashok Desai, Attorney General of India, 1996 to 1998
• Asoka de Silva (judge) (born 1946), Sri Lankan Sinhala judge, Chief Justice
• Ashok B. Hinchigeri, Indian judge
• Ashok Kamte (1965–2008), Additional Commissioner of Mumbai Police for the East Region

Literature

• Ashok Banker (born 1964), Indian novelist and short story writer
• Ashokamitran (1931–2017), influential figure in post-independent Tamil literature

Others

• A. H. Asoka de Silva - Sri Lanka Navy officer
• Ashok Captain (born 1960), Indian herpetologist
• Ashok Row Kavi (born 1947), Indian journalist and LGBT rights activist

See also

• Ashok (film), a 2006 Telugu film directed by Surender Reddy
• Ashok Leyland, an Indian commercial vehicle manufacturer founded in 1948 based in Chennai
• Ashoknagar (disambiguation) or Ashok Nagar, the name of various places in India
• Ashok Vihar, neighborhood of North West Delhi, Delhi, India
  • Ashok Vihar metro station, Delhi Metro
• Asok (disambiguation)
• Ashoka (disambiguation)