Shastri
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Shastri or Shastry is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Shastri
- Anant Maral Shastri (1912–1999), freedom fighter, and scholar
- Dahyabhai Shastri, Indian scholar
- Heera Lal Shastri (1899–1974), Indian politician and the first chief minister of Rajasthan state
- Keshavram Kashiram Shastri (1905–2006), founding leader of Vishwa Hindu Parishad
- Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904–1966), second Prime Minister of the Republic of India
- Narayani Shastri (born 1968), television and theatre actress
- Pandurang Shastri Athavale (1920–2003), Indian philosopher also known as Dada-ji
- Prakash Vir Shastri (1923–1977), noted Member of the Parliament of India (Sansad)
- Rajaram Shastri (1904–1991)
- Ram Nath Shastri (1914–2009), Dogri poet, Sahitya Akademi Fellow
- Ram Shastri (died 1772), Chief Justice in the apex court of the Maratha Empire
- Ratan Shastri (died 1998)
- Ravi Shastri (born 1962), former Indian Test cricketer
- Satya Vrat Shastri (born 1930), Sanskrit scholar
- Shukraraj Shastri (1894–1941), pre-eminent Nepalese intellectual
- Shyama Shastri (1762–1827), Renowned composers of Carnatic music and oldest among the Trinity of Carnatic music
- Sirivennala Sitarama Shastri (born 1955), Telugu and Sanskrit Poet
- Vagish Shastri (born 1934), Sanskrit Grammarian, who discovered a short cut way of learning Sanskrit
- Vishnu Kant Shastri (1929–2005), Indian politician who served as the governor of Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh
Shastry
- Anant Krishna Shastry (born 1940), Indian historian
- Archana Shastry, Indian film actress
- Chamu Krishna Shastry (born 1956), Indian language activist
- H. Ramachandra Shastry (1906–1992), Indian Carnatic flautist
- Kala Nath Shastry (born 1936), Indologist, writer, and linguist
- Su. Rudramurthy Shastry (born 1984), Indian novelist