Ravi

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