Sunil
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Language(s) | Hindi Bangla Kannada Marathi Sanskrit Tamil Telugu Malayalam Urdu |
| Origin | |
| Region of origin | India |
Sunil (सुनील) is a first name for males, often found in the South Asian community. The Sanskrit word sunīla means "dark", "very black/blue".[1] and is also an epithet of Krishna.[citation needed]
Notable people named Sunil
- Sunil, Indian actor
- Sunil Indukuri (actor) (born 1974), Indian actor
- Sunil (director), Indian Malayalam film director
- Sunil Kumar Ahuja (born March 13, 1961), American scientist
- Sunil Ambwani (born August 23, 1952), Indian judge
- Sunil Ariyaratne (born July 28, 1949), Sri Lankan director, lyricist, poet and writer
- Sunil Barve (born October 6, 1966), Indian actor and producer
- Sunil Batta (born June 12, 1961), Indian cameraman, director, producer and scriptwriter
- Sunil Chhetri (born August 3, 1984), Indian footballer
- Sunil Deshmukh (born May 28, 1958), Indian doctor and member of Legislative Assembly.
- Sunil Dhaniram (born October 17, 1968), Canadian cricketer
- Sunil Dutt (born June 6, 1929 – died May 25, 2005), Indian actor, director, politician and producer
- Sunil Edirisinghe (born December 19, 1949), Sri Lankan musician
- Sunil Gaikwad (born June 19, 1970), Indian politician
- Sunil Gangopadhyay (born September 7, 1934 – died October 23, 2012), Indian novelist and poet.
- Sunil Ganguly (born January 1, 1936 – died June 14, 1999), Indian Steel Guitarist
- Sunil Gavaskar (born July 10, 1949), Indian cricketer
- Sunil Grover (born August 13, 1977), Indian actor
- Sunil Gulati (born July 30, 1959), American-Indian president of the United States Soccer Federation
- Sunil Handunnetti (born October 19, 1970), Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka
- Sunil Hettiarachchi (born 1937), Sri Lankan actor
- Sunil Jadhav (born December 21, 1992), Indian cricketer
- Sunil Janah (born April 17, 1918 — died June 21, 2012), Indian photojournalist and photographer
- Sunil Jayasinghe (born July 15, 1955 - died 20 April 1995), Sri Lankan cricketer
- Sunil Jogi (born January 1, 1971), Indian poet and writer
- Sunil Joshi (born June 6, 1970), Indian cricketer
- Sunil Kanoria (born May 4, 1965), Indian entrepreneur
- Sunil Khan (born August 28, 1947), Indian politician
- Sunil Khedekar, Indian film director
- Sunil Mahato (born January 11, 1966 – died March 4, 2007) was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India
- Sunil Maitra (born February 1, 1927 – died September 18, 1996) Indian politician and member of the 7th Lok Sabha of India
- Sunil Mukhi (born November 20, 1956), Indian physicist and theorist
- Sunil Mittal (born October 23, 1957), Indian entrepreneur, philanthropist and founder and chairman of Group CEO of Bharti Enterprises
- Sunil Narine (born May 26, 1988), Trinidadian cricketer
- Sunil Oasis (born April 3, 1973), Indian cricketer
- Sunil Babu Pant (born 1972), Nepalese politician
- Sunil Padwal (born 1968), Indian painter
- Sunil Pandey (born May 5, 1966), Indian politician
- Sunil Prajapati (born November 7, 1994), Nepali politician
- Sunil Paul (born November 12, 1964), Indian entrepreneur
- Sunil Perera (born September 14, 1952), Sri Lankan composer, guitarist, songwriter and vocalist
- Sunil Pradhan (born June 25, 1957), Indian doctorn neurologist, researcher and writer
- Sunil Raoh (born September 4, 1980) Indian actor, lyricist and singer
- Sunil Santha (born April 14, 1915 – died April 11, 1981), Sri Lankan composer, lyricist and singer
- Sunil Sawney (born December 30, 1962), English cricketer
- Sunil Shanbag (born October 7, 1956), Indian actor and screenwriter
- Sunil Shetty (born 11 August 1961), Indian film actor, businessman, entrepreneur and producer
- Sunil Tagare (born 1962), Indian entrepreneur
- Sunil Thakur (born October 15, 1984), Indian footballer
- Sunil Thapa (born May 19, 1957), Nepalese actor
- Sunil Vaidyanathan (born 1976), Indian photojournalist and photographer
- Sunil Valson (born October 2, 1958), Indian cricketer
- Sunil Kumar Verma (born September 28, 1974), Indian biologist, scientist and zoologist
- Sunil Wettimuny (born February 2, 1949), Sri Lankan cricketer
Fictional characters
- Sunil Markesh (known as "Mobley"), from the television series Mr. Robot
- Sunil Bakshi (portrayed by Simon Kassianides), a high-ranking member of Hydra in Season 2 of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D..
- Sunil Nevla, from the cartoon Littlest Pet Shop
- Lucky Sunil, a BBC Screen Two production from 1988
References
- ^ Monier-Williams, Monier (1899). "sunīla". A Sanskrit-English Dictionary: Etymologically and Philologically Arranged with Special Reference to Cognate Indo-European Languages. Oxford: Clarendon Press. OCLC 685239912.
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