Chandra (disambiguation)

Chandra is a Hindu lunar deity.

Chandra may also refer to:

People

• Ambrish Chandra, Indian-Canadian engineer
• Ashok K. Chandra, Indian computer scientist
• Bhagwat Chandrasekhar, Indian cricketer
• Bipan Chandra, Indian historian
• Lokesh Chandra, Indian Buddhist scholar
• Ranjit Chandra, Indian-Canadian immunologist accused of academic fraud
• Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-American Nobel Prize winning astrophysicist who formulated what was later called the Chandrasekhar limit
• Vikram Chandra (novelist), an Indian author
• Chandra Bahadur Dangi, the world's shortest person
• Chandra Ford, an American public health academic
• Chandra Levy, an American murder victim whose disappearance made national headlines in 2001
• Chandra Pasma, Canadian politician
• Chandra Prakash Gharti, Nepalese politician
• Chandra Shekhar, 8th Prime Minister of India
• Chandra West, Canadian actress
• Chandra Wickramasinghe, British-Sri Lankan astronomer
• Chandra Wilson, American actress
• Chandraprakash Dwivedi, Indian film director and writer
• Satish Chandra, an Indian name

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

• Chandravamsha (Lunar dynasty), a mythical Hindu dynasty
• Chandragupta Maurya or Chandra Gupta Maurya, founder of the Indian Mauryan Empire
• Chandragupta I or Chandra Gupta I, king of the ancient Indian Gupta Empire
• Chandragupta II or Chandra Gupta II, king of the ancient Indian Gupta Empire
• Chandradeva, 12th century Gahadavala king of medieval India
• Chandar (Chach Nama), king of Sindh and Buddhist ascetic

Geography

• Chandra, Comoros, a village
• Chandra, Paschim Medinipur, a village in West Bengal, India
• Chandra Taal, a lake in the Himalayas

Entertainment

• Chandra (film), 2013 Indian film by Roopa Iyer
• 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" (song), from the 2022 Indian Marathi-language film Chandramukhi
• Chandra, a song by a progressive rock band Snovi
• Chandra, a character from the Upside-Down Magic (film)

See also

• Chandni (disambiguation)
• Chanda (disambiguation)
• Chandu (disambiguation)
• Chandrakala (disambiguation)
• Chandrapur (disambiguation)
• Chandrayaan programme, Indian lunar exploration mission
  • Chandrayaan-1
  • Chandrayaan-2
  • Chandrayaan-3