Ashok
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Ashok is a given name.
It may refer to:
Actors
- Ashok Kumar (Tamil actor) (born 1981), South Indian actor and Bharatnatyam performer
- Ashok Kumar (1911–2001), Indian film actor
- Ashok Lokhande (born 1950), Indian film actor
- Ashok Mehta (1947–2012), Indian film actor
- Ashok Saraf (born 1947), Indian actor and comedian, Marathi and Hindi
- Ashok Selvan (born 1989), Indian actor
- Ashok Shinde, Indian film actor
- Ashok (Kannada actor) (born 1951), Kannada film actor
Chief Ministers of Indian states
- Ashok Chavan (born 1958), Chief Minister of Maharashtra
- Ashok Gehlot (born 1951), chief minister of the Indian state of Rajasthan
- R. Ashok, former Deputy Chief Minister of Indian State of Karnataka
Cricketers
- Ashok Upadhyay (born 1953), Indian cricketer
- Asoka de Silva (cricketer) (born 1956), Sri Lankan Sinhala cricketer
Film-related
- Ashok Amritraj (born 1956), Indian American film producer
- Ashok Gaikwad (born 1962), Indian film director
- Ashok, a fictional character portrayed by Danny Denzongpa in his 1980 Indian film Phir Wohi Raat
Law and enforcement
- Ashok Chaturvedi (born 1947), former chief of India's external intelligence agency
- Ashok Desai, Attorney General of India, 1996 to 1998
- Asoka de Silva (judge) (born 1946), Sri Lankan Sinhala judge, Chief Justice
- Ashok B. Hinchigeri, Indian judge
- Ashok Kamte (1965–2008), Additional Commissioner of Mumbai Police for the East Region
Literature
- Ashok Banker (born 1964), Indian novelist and short story writer
- Ashokamitran (1931–2017), influential figure in post-independent Tamil literature
Others
- A. H. Asoka de Silva - Sri Lanka Navy officer
- Ashok Captain (born 1960), Indian herpetologist
- Ashok Row Kavi (born 1947), Indian journalist and LGBT rights activist
- Ashok (powerlifter)
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