# Ashwin (given name)

Ashwin or Asveen or Ashveen (Devanagari: अश्विन् ashwin) is an given name most commonly used in India. It is related to the name of the Ashvins, the divine twins of Vedic mythology, as well as to the name of the Hindu lunar month Ashvin.

## People with the name

* Ashwin Sanghi - Ashwin Sanghi (born 25 January 1969) is an Indian writer. His novels include The Rozabal Line, Chanakya's Chant, The Krishna Key, The Sialkot Saga, Keepers Of The Kalachakra, The Vault of Vishnu, and The Magicians of Mazda.
* Ashwin Mushran - Ashwin Mushran is an Indian actor and voice over artist. He has appeared in numerous movies and plays. He is also featured in the movie Quick Gun Murugan, as Dr. Django. He also lent his voice into dubbing several foreign media.
* Ashwin Kakumanu - Ashwin Kakumanu is an Indian actor, who is best known for his role as Ganeshan in Venkat Prabhu's Mankatha.
* Ashwin Dani - Ashwin Suryakant Dani (1943/1944 – 28 September 2023) was an Indian billionaire, businessman, and the non-executive chairman of Asian Paints Ltd, India's largest paint company. He was the vice chairman and managing director from December 1998 to March 2009. Ashwin was among the top 50 richest Indians.
* Ashwin Sood - Ashwin Sood (born 25 September 1967) is an English–born Canadian musician and drummer. He is best known for his musical association with his ex-wife Sarah McLachlan.
* Ashwin Shekhar - Ashwin is an Indian actor working in Tamil cinema. He is the son of actor-politician S. Ve. Sekhar.
* Ashwin Kumar - Ashwin Kumar is an Indian television and film actor. He is the grandson of K. A. Thangavelu. After beginning his career as a child artist, he has worked on series including Thamarai, Lakshmi Kalyanam and Tamil Selvi.
* Ashwin Adhin - Michael Ashwin Satyandre Adhin (born 10 June 1980) is a Surinamese educator, politician, and was the Vice President of Suriname between 2015 and 2020. He is a member of the National Democratic Party. At the age of 35, he became the youngest vice president in the history of Suriname to lead the Council of Ministers. Adhin is a Hindu of Indian descent.
* Ashwin Ram - Ashwin Ram (born July 27, 1960) is an Indian-American computer scientist. He was chief innovation officer at PARC from 2011 to 2016, and published books and scientific articles and helped start at least two companies.
* Ashwin Choksi - Ashwin Chimanlal Choksi (1944 – 19 September 2018) was an Indian billionaire businessman and the non-executive chairman of Asian Paints Ltd, India's largest paint company. He was among the top 100 richest Indians.
* Ashwin Srivastava - Ashwin Srivastava is an Indian venture capitalist who is the cofounder and member of the Board of Idein Ventures (founded Idein ventures in 2015.), a growth-stage private equity accelerator with operations in India, UAE, and Africa. He has been an entrepreneur since 2010. He is also the co-founder of Great Manager Institute and CEO of Sapio Analytics.
* Ashwin Batish - Ashwin Kumar Batish (Hindi: अश्विन कुमार बातिश) (born 1 January 1951 in Bombay, India) is an Indian sitar and tabla player.
* Ashwin Sundar - Ashwin Sundar (27 July 1985 – 18 March 2017) was a race driver from India. Most active during 2005 winning several titles in karting, single seater Formula Cars, Two Wheeler racing and Saloon car races.
* Ashwin Chitale - Ashwin Chitale is an Indian actor. He won the national award for best child actor for his performance in the film Shwaas (2004) a Marathi language film. He has played the role of Govinda in the Nagesh Kukunoor directed Hindi movie Aashayein. The other Hindi films in which he acted are Zor Lagaa Ke...Haiya! (2009) and Ahista Ahista (2006). He also played the role of Rishabh Shastri, son of Raghav Shastri (Nana Patekar) in Taxi No. 9211 (2006).
* Ashwin Mahesh - Ashwin Mahesh is an urbanist, journalist, politician and social technologist based in Bangalore. After his education in atmospheric science (PhD) and astronomy (MS), he worked as a climate scientist at NASA before switching to a career in urban development across state, market and society. He is a co-founder of the public affairs journal, India Together. He also co-founded the social technology firm, Mapunity in 2006, and the electric vehicles-based transportation company, Lithium, in 2014. He is currently the CEO of his latest initiative, LVBL Accelerator, founded in 2023.
* Ashwin Navin - Ashwin Navin (born c.1977) is an American entrepreneur, who is the CEO and co-founder of Samba TV, a data and analytics service that measures television viewership using opt-in data from Internet-connected devices and set-top boxes. The company has been compared to more traditional TV measurement firms like Nielsen which rely on the people meter to gather viewership data.
* Ashwin Hebbar - Ashwin Hebbar (born 15 November 1995) is an Indian first-class cricketer who plays for Andhra Pradesh. He was the leading run-scorer for Andhra in the 2018–19 Vijay Hazare Trophy, with 299 runs in eight matches. In February 2022, he was bought by the Delhi Capitals in the auction for the 2022 Indian Premier League tournament.
* Ashwin Balrak - Ashwin Balrak (born 17 May 1975) is a Surinamese-Dutch professional kickboxer and lawyer.
* Ashwin Gumaste - Ashwin Gumaste is an Indian computer engineer and institute chair professor at the department of computer science and engineering of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He is known for his work on Carrier Ethernet Switch routers—the largest technology transfer between any IIT and industry.
* Ashwin Joshi - Ashwin Joshi is an Indian politician and member of the Indian National Congress. Joshi was a member of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly from the Indore-3 constituency in Indore district. He represented the constituency for three consecutive terms from 1998 to 2013. He is the nephew of veteran Congress leader Mahesh Joshi, who also represented Indore-3 (Vidhan Sabha constituency) from 1980 to 1990. He is well known for his poetic style speeches.
* Herbert Ashwin Budd - Herbert Ashwin Budd (1881–1950) was a British painter who painted portraits and landscapes in oils.
* Ashwin Willemse - Ashwin Willemse (born 8 September 1981 in Caledon, Cape Province) is a retired South African rugby union player. He played at wing for the national team, the Springboks.
* Ashwin Balachand Mehta - Ashwin Balachand Mehta is an Indian cardiologist and one of the pioneers of interventional cardiology in India. He is the director of Cardiology department at Jaslok Hospital, Mumbai and also serves Breach Candy Hospital, as a consultant. He is reported to have performed the first Cardiac catheterization and Angiography in newborn babies in India, in 1973, the year when he introduced Bundle Electrography in the country. He is also credited with the performance or supervision of over 35,000+ angioplasties and over 75,000+ angiographies.
* Ashwin Das - Ashwin Das (born 16 December 1995) is an Indian cricketer. He made his first-class debut for Madhya Pradesh in the 2016–17 Ranji Trophy on 27 October 2016.
* Ashwin Yadav - Ashwin Yadav (10 September 1987 – 24 April 2021) was an Indian cricketer. He played fourteen first-class matches for Hyderabad between 2007 and 2009.
* Ashwin Scott - Ashwin Robert Scott (born 2 June 1985) is a South African rugby union footballer. He plays mostly as a winger. He represents the SWD Eagles in the Currie Cup and Vodacom Cup having previously played for the Pumas.