Vivek

Vivek (or Bibek/Bivek in some regions) (विवेक in Devanagari script) is a masculine given name that is popular in South Asia, particularly India and Nepal. It is of Sanskrit origin and means "wisdom" and/or "knowledge".

Vivek may refer to:

• Vivek (actor) (born 1961), Tamil film actor
• Vivek Borkar (born 1954), Indian electrical engineer and mathematician
• Vivek Chibber, American sociologist and Marxist theorist
• Vivek Dahiya (born 1984), Indian television actor
• Vivek Gupta (businessman) (born 1960s), Indian-born American businessman
• Vivek Harshan (born 1981), Tamil film editor
• Vivek Kar, Bollywood composer
• Vivek Kundra (born 1974), US Federal CIO
• Vivek Lall (born 1969), Famous aerospace leader
• Vivek (lyricist) (born 1985), Tamil film lyricist
• Vivek Mahbubani (born 1982), Hong Kong stand-up comedian
• Vivek Murthy (born 1977), 19th Surgeon General of the United States
• Vivek Oberoi (born 1976), Bollywood actor
• Vivek Ranade (born 1963), Indian chemical engineer, entrepreneur and a professor
• Vivek Ranadivé (born 1957), American CEO
• Vivek Shraya (born 1981), Canadian musician, writer, and visual artist
• Vivek Singh (disambiguation), several
• Vivek Tiwary (born 1973), American Broadway theater producer and writer/producer of The Fifth Beatle graphic novel
• Vivek Wadhwa, Indian-American technology entrepreneur and an academic

See also

• Dṛg-Dṛśya-Viveka, an Advaita Vedanta text attributed to Bĥaratī Tīrtha or Vidyaranya Swami
• Swami Vivekananda (disambiguation)
• Vivekachudamani, an eighth-century Sanskrit poem in dialogue form that addresses the development of viveka
• Viveka (disambiguation)
• Vivek Nagar
• Vivek Vihar subdivision
• Impatient Vivek, a 2011 Bollywood romantic comedy film
• Vivek Express, a chain of express trains on the Indian Railways network
• Vivek (character of C.I.D.)