Gauri
Language(s)Sanskrit
Origin
Region of originIndia

Gauri, occasionally spelt Gowri or Gouri, is a given name of India. It is derived from gaurī 'white', 'shining, brilliant',[1] which is used as an epithet of the goddess Parvati, especially in the Mahagauri manifestation.

List of persons with the name

  • Gauri Pradhan Tejwani (born 16 September 1964), Indian television actress
  • Gauri Shinde, Indian ad-film and feature film director
  • Gauri Karnik, Hindi and Marathi film actress
  • Gauri Khan, Indian Film Producer and Interior Designer
  • Gauri Shankar, Indian chess player and FIDE Master
  • Gauri Malla, Nepali actress
  • Gauri Ma (1857 – 1938), Indian disciple of Ramakrishna, companion of Sarada Devi
  • Gauri Deshpande (1942–2003), novelist, short story writer, and poet from Maharashtra, India
  • Gauri Ayyub (1931 – 1998), social worker, activist, writer and teacher based in Kolkata (Calcutta
  • Gauri Pradhan, social activist and human rights defender in Nepal as well as in South Asia
  • Gauri Shankar Pandey, veteran Indian politician and a former Minister of Bihar
  • Protima Gauri (1948 – 1998), Indian model turned odissi exponent
  • Gauri Shankar Kalita (1955 – 2010), Indian journalist
  • Gauri Shankar Rai, member of the Sixth Lok Sabha during 1977-79 representing Ghazipur constituency of Uttar Pradesh
  • Gauri Shankar Shejwar, medical doctor by profession and one of the senior leaders of Bharatiya Janata Party in Madhya Pradesh
  • Gauri Shankar Khadka, Nepalese politician, belonging to the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)

References

  1. Monier-Williams, Monier (1899). "gaurī". A Sanskrit-English Dictionary: Etymologically and Philologically Arranged with Special Reference to Cognate Indo-European Languages. Oxford: Clarendon Press. OCLC 685239912.

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with Gauri
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