Chandra (disambiguation)

Chandra is a Hindu lunar deity.

Chandra may also refer to:

People

• Ashok K. Chandra, a computer scientist
• Bipan Chandra, an Indian historian
• Lokesh Chandra, a Buddhist scholar
• Ranjit Chandra, an Indian-Canadian immunologist accused of academic fraud
• Vikram Chandra, an Indian author
• Chandra Levy, an American murder victim whose disappearance made national headlines in 2001
• Chandra Shekhar, former Prime Minister of India
• Chandra West, a Canadian actress
• Chandra Wickramasinghe, an astronomer
• Chandra Wilson, an American actress
• Bhagwat Chandrasekhar, a former Indian cricketer
• Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, an Indian-American astrophysicist who formulated what was later called the Chandrasekhar limit
• Dr. Chandraprakash Dwivedi, an Indian film director and script writer

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

• Chandra dynasty
• King Chandragupta Maurya, sometimes known as Chandra Gupta Maurya
• King Chandragupta I, sometimes known as Chandra Gupta I
• King Chandragupta II, sometimes known as Chandra Gupta II
• Chandar, king of Sindh and Buddhist ascetic

Geography

• Chandra, Comoros, a village
• Chandra Taal, a lake in the Himalayas

Entertainment

• Chandra (film)
• 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, a song by a progressive rock band Snovi