Ravi (name)

Ravi is a male name. It means 'sun' in Hindi, ^[1] one of the names of Surya, the Sun deity in Hinduism. People with the name include:

People

• Ravi (Ivar Johansen) (born 1976), a Norwegian artist
• Ravi Bharadwaj (born 1992), an Indian basketball player
• Ravi Bopara (born 1985), an English cricketer
• Ravi Hutheesing (born 1971), musician (singer/songwriter, former guitarist of Hanson), aviator, lecturer
• Ravi Kant (disambiguation), several people
• Ravi Madasamy (born 1969), also known as M Ravi, Singaporean lawyer and activist
• Ravi Namade, Indian film director
• Ravi Chandran Philemon (born 1968), Singaporean politician
• Ravi Shankar (1920–2012), a sitar virtuoso
• Ravi (music director) (1926–2012), an Indian film music director
• Ravi Shankar (spiritual leader) (born 1956), a spiritual leader and founder of the Art of Living Foundation
• Ravi Shastri (born 1962), a former Indian cricketer
• Ravi Sood (born 1976), a Canadian-born financier
• Raja Ravi Varma (1848–1906), also known as Ravi Varma, Indian painter
• Ravi Zacharias (1946–2020), an Indian-born, Canadian-American evangelical Christian philosopher, apologist and evangelist
• Ravi Teja Bhupatiraju (born 1968), an Indian actor who works mainly in Telugu films
• Ravi (rapper) (born 1993), stage name of Kim Won-sik, a member of the South Korean k-pop boy band VIXX
• Ravi Coltrane (born 1965), American saxophonist and son of John Coltrane
• Ravi Ragbir, Trinidadian American immigration activist
• Ravi Narayana Reddy (1908–1991), founding member of the Communist Party of India and leader in the Telangana Rebellion
• Ravi Jagannathan, economist and professor
• Ravi Pushpakumara (born 1975), Sri Lankan cricketer
• Ravi Ratnayeke (born 1960), Sri Lankan cricketer
• Ravi Cabot-Conyers (born 2011), American actor

Fictional characters

• The in-training bookman in the manga D.Gray-man , also known as "Lavi" or "Rabi"
• Ravi Ross, a character in the Disney Channel TV series Jessie (2011 TV series) and Bunk'd
• Dr. Ravi Chakrabarti, a character from iZombie (TV series)
• Ravi, a main character in Power Rangers Beast Morphers
• Ravi Panikkar, a recurring character on the first responders show 9-1-1.
• Ravi Singh, a main character in the book series “A Good Girl's Guide to Murder”. Sal Singh’s younger brother and helps Pip Fitz-Amobi solve the Andie Bell case.
• Ravi, a character from the Backrooms Web Series.
• Ravi, a character from the movie Gladiator II. He is a former gladiator from India who earned his freedom and then chose to serve as a doctor to wounded combatants.

References

1. Campbell, Mike. "Meaning, origin and history of the name Ravi". Behind the Name. Retrieved 2021-10-21.