Chandra (disambiguation)
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Chandra may refer to:
- Chandra, a Hindu lunar deity
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, an Indian-American astrophysicist known for formulating the Chandrasekhar limit
- The Chandra X-ray Observatory, a satellite launched by NASA in 1999, and named after Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.
- Chandra Shekhar, former Prime Minister of India
- Bhagwat Chandrasekhar, a former Indian cricketer
- Ranjit Chandra, a Indian-Canadian immunologist accused of academic fraud [1]
- Dr. Sivasubramanian Chandrasegarampillai (Dr. R. Chandra), a character in Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey series
- Chandra Levy, a murder victim whose disappearance made national headlines in 2001.
- King Chandragupta Maurya is sometimes known as as Chandra Gupta Maurya.
- King Chandragupta I is sometimes known as Chandra Gupta I.
- King Chandragupta II is sometimes known as Chandra Gupta II.
