Anil (given name)

Anil (Sanskrit: अनिल) is an Indian masculine given name originating in the name of the Vedic deity Anila. It means wind in the Sanskrit language. Notable persons with this name include:

• Anil Ambani (born 1959), Indian business baron
• Anil Baijal, Lieutenant Governor of Delhi
• Anil Baluni, Indian politician and national spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party
• Anil Basu (born 1946), Indian politician and a former member of the Communist Party of India
• Anil Bhardwaj (born 1967), Director of the Physical Research Laboratory
• Anil Bhoyrul, British journalist
• Anil Biswas (composer), (born 1914) Indian music director
• Anil Bordia (1934–2012), Indian educationist
• Anil Chatterjee (1929–1998), Indian film actor
• Anil Chaudhary (born 1965), Indian cricket umpire
• Anil Chitrakar (born 1961), Nepalese social entrepreneur
• Anil Dalpat (born 1963), Pakistani cricketer
• Anil Dash (born 1975), American blogger, entrepreneur, and technologist
• Anil Devgan (born 1949), Indian film director
• Anil Dhawan, Indian film actor
• Anil Goonaratne, a Sri Lankan judge and lawyer
• Anil Gupta (writer) (born 1974), British comedy writer
• Anil K. Rajvanshi (born 1950), Indian academic
• Anil Kakodkar (born 1943), Indian nuclear scientist
• Anil Kapoor (born 1959), Indian actor
• Anil Kohli, Indian dental surgeon
• Anil Kumar (disambiguation), several people
• Anil Kumar Mandal, Indian ophthalmologist
• Anil Kumble (born 1970), Indian cricket player
• Anil Mohile (died 1991), Indian music director
• Anil Sharma (director), Indian film director
• Anil Srinivasan (born 1977), Indian pianist
• Anil Tissera, main character in the novel Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
• P. Anil, Indian film director

See also

• Anil (disambiguation)
• Anil Agarwal (disambiguation)
• Anil Biswas (disambiguation)
• Anil Jain (disambiguation)