Ajit (given name)
Ajit, variously spelled Ajith, Agith, or Ajeet (Sanskrit: अजित ajita) is a common male given name. It is used in its various forms throughout India and also in Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. A related name is Ajay.
Etymology
The name is derived from Sanskrit, where its primary meaning is "invincible", "irresistible", "unsurpassed".[1] The literal meaning is "unconquered", from the prefix a- "not", and jita "conquered". It has variously been used to refer to a number of ideological figures, including Shiva and Vishnu in Hinduism, Maitreya in Buddhism and the second of the Arhats in Jainism among others.[1]
People
- Ajit Agarkar (born 1977), Indian cricketer
- Ajeet Bajaj (born 1965), Indian adventurer
- Ajit Bandyopadhyay (actor), a Bengali actor
- Ajit Bhattacharjea (1924–2011), newspaper editor, The Hindustan Times, The Times of India and The Indian Express
- Ajit Jain (born 1951), an Indian-born businessman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance Group
- Ajit Jogi (born 1946), a member of the Indian parliament
- Ajita Kesakambali, ancient Indian philosopher
- Ajith Kumar (born 1971), Tamil film actor
- Ajit Khan (1922–1998), screen name of Indian film actor Hamid Ali Khan
- Ajith C. S. Perera (born 1956), Sri Lankan disability activist, former cricket umpire
- Ajeet Singh Kharkhari (born 1965), Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party
- Ajit Singh (disambiguation), several people
- Ajith Kumar Siriwardena, Sri Lankan Briton professor of hepato-pancreatico-biliary surgery
- Ajit Pai (born 1973), American attorney and chairman of the Federal Communications Commission
- Ajit Pai (cricketer) (born 1945), Indian cricketer
- Ajit Wadekar (born 1941), a former Indian cricketer and captain of the Indian national cricket tea
Fictional characters
- Ajit Bandyopadhyay (character), fictional character in the detective series Byomkesh Bakshi
See also
- All pages with titles containing Ajit
- All pages with titles containing Ajith
References
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