Viveka (disambiguation)

Viveka (Sanskrit: विवेक, translit. viveka) is a Sanskrit and Pali term translated into English as discernment or discrimination

Viveka, Viveca, or Vivica is a girl's name of Scandinavian origin meaning "alive, life, or place of refuge" and may also refer to:

People

• Viveca Lindfors (1920–1995), Swedish stage and film actress, and singer
• Viveca Novak, American journalist who has worked as the editorial and communications director at the Center for Responsive Politics since 2011
• Viveca Paulin (born 1969), Swedish actress and auctioneer
• Viveca Serlachius (1923–1993), a Finnish-born Swedish actress
• Viveca Sten (born 1959), Swedish novelist
• Viveca Vázquez, Puerto Rican dancer
• Viveka Babajee (1973–2010), Mauritian model and actress
• Viveka Davis (born 1969), American film and television actress
• Viveka Eriksson or Viveca Eriksson (born 1956), a politician on the autonomous Åland Islands and the former Premier of Åland from 2007 to 2011.
• Viveka (lyricist), Indian lyricist working on Tamil language films
• Viveka Seldahl (1944–2001), Swedish actress
• Vivica A. Fox (born 1964), American actress

Fictional characters

• Viveca, a character in the 2009 computer-animated fantasy film Barbie and the Three Musketeers

See also

• Dṛg-Dṛśya-Viveka, an Advaita Vedanta text attributed to Bĥaratī Tīrtha or Vidyaranya Swami
• G. Vivekanand, Indian politician
• Swami Vivekananda (disambiguation)
• Vivekachudamani, an eighth-century Sanskrit poem in dialogue form that addresses the development of viveka
• Vivekanandan, an Indian name that is mostly used in South India
• Vivekanandan version, a modern version of Akilam, the main religious text of the Tamil belief system Ayyavazhi
• Vivek, a masculine given name