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

• Ajith Kumar (born 1996), Tamilnadu
• Ajit Agarkar (born 1977), Indian cricketer and commentator
• Ajith Amerasekera, American electrical engineer
• Ajit Andhare, Indian businessman
• Ajit Anjum (born 1969), Indian journalist and editor
• Ajeet Bajaj (born 1965), Indian adventurer
• Ajit Balakrishnan, Indian entrepreneur, business executive, and administrator
• Ajit Bandyopadhyay, Bengali actor and director
• Ajit Kumar Banerjee (1931–2014), Indian environmentalist
• Ajit Kumar Basu (1912–1986), Indian cardiac surgeon
• Ajit Bhandari (born 1994), Nepalese footballer
• Ajit Bharihoke, Indian judge
• Ajit Bhatia (born 1936), Indian cricketer
• Ajit Bhattacharjea (1924–2011), Indian journalist, newspaper editor, The Hindustan Times, The Times of India and The Indian Express
• Ajit Bhoite (born 1976), Indian cricketer
• Ajit Kumar Bhuyan (born 1952), Indian politician
• Ajit Chahal (born 1995), Indian cricketer
• Ajit Kumar Chakravarty (1886–1918), Bengali writer
• Ajit Chandila (born 1983), Indian cricketer
• Ajit Chandra Chatterjee (born 1923), Indian civil servant
• Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi, Indian professor and education administrator
• Ajit Das (1949–2020), Indian actor, director, and playwright
• Ajit Das Gupta (1924–2011), Indian cricketer
• Ajit Doval (born 1945), Indian politician
• Ajit Dutta (1907–1979), Bengali poet, writer, essayist, and professor
• Ajit George, Indian-American activist and game designer
• Ajit Kumar Guha (1914–1969), Bengali educationist
• Ajit Gulabchand (born 1948), Indian industrialist
• Ajit Gupta, Indian entrepreneur
• Ajit Narain Haksar (1925–2005), Indian businessman
• Ajit Hutheesing (1936–2017), Indian businessman
• Ajit Jain (born 1951), Indian-American businessman
• Ajit Jayaratne, Sinhalese businessman
• Ajit Jogi (1946–2020), Indian politician
• Ajit Johnson, Indian cancer geneticist
• Ajit Kadkade, Indian singer
• Ajit Kembhavi (born 1950), Indian astrophysicist
• Ajita Kesakambali, Indian philosopher
• Ajit Khan (1922–1998), screen name of Indian film actor Hamid Ali Khan
• Ajith Kumar (born 1971), Indian Tamil actor
• Ajit Lakra (born 1966), Indian field hockey player
• Ajit Kumar Maiti (born 1928), Indian neurophysiologist
• Ajit Manocha, Indian-American businessman
• Ajit Kumar Mehta (born 1932), Indian politician
• Ajit Merchant, Indian music composer and director
• Ajit Mohan (born 1974/1975), Indian businessman
• Ajit Narayanan (born 1981), Indian inventor
• Ajit Ninan (born 1955), Indian political cartoonist
• Ajit Kumar P, Indian Navy Admiral
• Ajit Pai (born 1973), American attorney and former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission
• Ajit Pai (born 1945), Indian cricketer
• Ajit Kumar Panja (1936–2008), Indian politician
• Ajith C. S. Perera (born 1956), Sri Lankan disability activist, former cricket umpire
• Ajit Kumar Saha, Indian politician
• 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 Iqbal Singh (born 1943), Indian mathematician
• Ajit Wadekar (born 1941), a former Indian cricketer and captain of the Indian national cricket tea

Fictional characters

• Ajit Bandyopadhyay (character), companion of Byomkesh Bakshi

See also

• All pages with titles containing Ajit
• All pages with titles containing Ajith