Mani (name)

Mani (Sanskrit for "jewel, gem"), is a common proper name in South Asia. It is most common in Pakistan and India.

Given name

• Mani Madhava Chakyar, performer and Sanskrit scholar
• Mani Ratnam, Tamil Indian film director, producer, and writer

Surname

• Ehsan Mani, Pakistani President of the International Cricket Council
• K. M. Mani, Indian politician and the leader of Kerala Congress
• Kalabhavan Mani, South Indian actor
• Ko. Si. Mani, Indian politician and minister in the Tamil Nadu state of India
• Mahadeva Subramania Mani, Indian entomologist
• Vettam Mani, scholar and author of two books in Malayalam
• VS Mani, Indian pioneer in International Space Law
• Priya Vasudev Mani Iyer, Indian actress

Homonymy

There are a number of unrelated names also spelled Mani, some of them hypokoristic, such as German Mani for Manfred.

• Mani (prophet); 3rd century Iranian prophet, founder of Manichaean religion
• Giuseppe Mani, Italian archbishop
• Myriam Léonie Mani, Cameroonian athlete who specialized in the 100 and 200 metres
• Sapol Mani, Togolese football midfielder
• Mani Neumeier, frontman of a German Krautrock-band Guru Guru
• K C S Mani for K Chidambara Subrahmania Iyer, Indian communist activist.

See also

• Mani Bhavan

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