Anil (given name)
Anil 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, Indian business baron
- Anil Baijal, Lieutenant Governor of Delhi
- Anil Baluni, Indian politician and national spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party
- Anil Basu, Indian politician and a former member of the Communist Party of India
- Anil Bhardwaj, Director of the Physical Research Laboratory
- Anil Bhoyrul, British journalist
- Anil Bordia, Indian educationist
- Anil Chatterjee, Indian film actor
- Anil Chaudhary, Indian cricket umpire
- Anil Chitrakar, Nepalese social entrepreneur
- Anil Dalpat, Pakistani cricketer
- Anil Dash, American blogger, entrepreneur, and technologist
- Anil Devgan, Indian film director
- Anil Dhawan, Indian film actor
- Anil Goonaratne, a Sri Lankan judge and lawyer
- Anil Gupta , British comedy writer
- Anil K. Rajvanshi, Indian academic
- Anil Kakodkar, Indian nuclear scientist
- Anil Kapoor, Indian actor
- Anil Kohli, Indian dental surgeon
- Anil Kumar, several people
- Anil Kumar Mandal, Indian ophthalmologist
- Anil Kumble, Indian cricket player
- Anil Mohile, Indian music director
- Anil Sharma, Indian film director
- Anil Srinivasan, Indian pianist
- Anil Tissera, main character in the novel Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
- P. Anil, Indian film director
- Anil Shrestha, Nepali name
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