Ashok
Ashok is a given name.
It may refer to:
Actors
- Ashok Kumar (Tamil actor), South Indian actor and Bharatnatyam performer
- Ashok Kumar, Indian film actor
- Ashok Lokhande, Indian film actor
- Ashok Mehta, Indian film actor
- Ashok Saraf, Indian actor and comedian, Marathi and Hindi
- Ashok Selvan, Indian actor
- Ashok Shinde, Indian film actor
- Ashok (Kannada actor), Kannada film actor
Chief Ministers of Indian states
- Ashok Chavan, Chief Minister of Maharashtra
- Ashok Gehlot, chief minister of the Indian state of Rajasthan
- R. Ashok, former Deputy Chief Minister of Indian State of Karnataka
Cricketers
- Ashok Upadhyay, Indian cricketer
- Asoka de Silva (cricketer), Sri Lankan Sinhala cricketer
Film-related
- Ashok Amritraj, Indian American film producer
- Ashok Gaikwad, Indian film director
- Ashok, a fictional character portrayed by Danny Denzongpa in his 1980 Indian film ''Phir Wohi Raat''
Law and enforcement
- Ashok Chaturvedi, former chief of India's external intelligence agency
- Ashok Desai, Attorney General of India, 1996 to 1998
- Asoka de Silva (judge), Sri Lankan Sinhala judge, Chief Justice
- Ashok B. Hinchigeri, Indian judge
- Ashok Kamte, Additional Commissioner of Mumbai Police for the East Region
Literature
- Ashok Banker, Indian novelist and short story writer
- Ashokamitran, influential figure in post-independent Tamil literature
Others
- A. H. Asoka de Silva - Sri Lanka Navy officer
- Ashok Captain, Indian herpetologist
- Ashok Row Kavi, Indian journalist and LGBT rights activist
- Ashok (powerlifter)