Ravi
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Ravi means 'The Sun' or 'The Sun God' (in Hindi). Ravi may refer to:

• Ravi (god), a Hindu solar deity
• Ravi River (pronounced "Raavi"). A 720 km river that originates in the Himalayas (India) and joins the Chenab river in Pakistan

Ravi is also a common name of Indian origin. Some well-known people with this name include –

• Ravi Baichwal, journalist
• Jayam Ravi, a South Indian film actor
• Pandit Ravi Shankar, a sitar virtuoso
• Ravi (music director) (also known as Bombay Ravi), an Indian film music director
• Ravi (Ivar Johansen), a Norwegian artist
• Ravi Zacharias, an Indian-born, Canadian-American evangelical Christian philosopher, apologist and evangelist
• Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, a spiritual leader and founder of the Art of Living Foundation
• Raja Ravi Varma - Indian painter
• Ravi Shastri, a former Indian cricketer

Fictional characters with name "Ravi" include:

• Ravi, a planeswaker from the Magic: The Gathering fictional multiverse
• The in-training bookman in the manga D.Gray-man, also known as "Lavi" or "Rabi"

Ravi is also used as a short name for Indian names such as Ravindra (or Rabindra), Ravinder, Ravikanth etc:

• Rabindranath Tagore, a Bengali poet, philosopher, visual artist, playwright, novelist, and composer; first Asian Nobel laureate
• Ravinder Bopara, an English cricketer
• Ravindra Jain, an Indian music composer

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