Shukla

For other uses, see Shukla (disambiguation).

Shukla (Sanskrit: शुक्ल) is a word of Sanskrit origin that means "bright" or "white".^[1] A variant of the name is Sukul.

Notable people with the name include:

• Abhay Shukla, Indian TV actor known for his role as Inspector Nikhil in TV series CID
• Abhinav Shukla (producer), Indian film and TV producer
• Abhinav Shukla, Indian actor
• Abhishek Shukla (Indian Geriatrician and Palliative Care Physician)
• Ajai Shukla, Indian army officer, journalist and defense analyst
• Amarjeet Shukla, Indian actor
• Anand Shukla, Indian cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1960 to 1978
• Anand Swaroop Shukla, Indian politician and a member of 17th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh state of India
• Anjuli Shukla, Indian film director and cinematographer, first and till date the only Indian woman to win the National Film Award for Best Cinematography
• Amitabh Shukla, Indian film editor, most known for his work in Chak De! India, Krrish, Holiday and Chalte Chalte
• Amitesh Shukla, INC Politician, member Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly and former Minister of Rural Development in the Government of Chhattisgarh
• Aseem Shukla, Director of Minimally Invasive Surgery in the Department of Urology at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA
• Ashish Shukla, Indian author on geopolitics and terrorism, former editor of Cricket Samrat
• Ashthabhuja Prasad Shukla, Indian politician, member of the 10th Lok Sabha (Lower House) of the Indian Parliament
• Avay Shukla, Indian Administrative Service officer, environmentalist and writer
• Baikuntha Shukla, Indian nationalist and revolutionary
• Balkrishna Khanderao Shukla, Indian politician and Member of Parliament of the 15th Lok Sabha (Lower House) of the Indian Parliament from Vadodara
• Balram Shukla, Indian poet and academic
• Bhagwati Prasad Shukla, Indian politician and member of the Bharatiya Janata Party from Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
• Chakrapani Shukla, Member of Parliament, India
• Champa Devi Shukla, activist from Bhopal, India and recipient of the Goldman Environmental Prize, 2004
• Chandra Prakash Shukla, Indian politician and a member of 17th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh state of India
• Chitra Shukla, Indian actress who works in Telugu-Kannada language films
• Daisy Irani (actress) (Daisy Irani Shukla), Indian actress in Hindi and Telugu language films
• Deepak Shukla, American molecular virologist with expertise in herpesviruses
• Haimanti Sukla, Bengali singer
• Jagadish Shukla, Indian meteorologist, professor at George Mason University, Virginia
• Jang Bahadur Shukla, Indian mathematician
• Jhanak Shukla, Indian actress
• Jyoti Kiran (Jyoti Kiran Shukla), Indian politician, activist, educationist, strategist and Chair of Rajasthan's 5th State Finance Commission
• Kamlesh Shukla, Indian politician from the BJP and a member of 17th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh of India
• Karuna Shukla, member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India, representing Janjgir constituency of Chhattisgarh
• Krishna Kant Shukla, Indian physicist, musician, poet, ecologist and educator
• Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Indian cricketer and politician
• Mahendra Shukla, Indian first-class cricketer
• Manoj Muntashir, Indian lyricist, poet and screenwriter
• Mukesh Shukla, or Mukesh, businessman and politician in Uganda
• Munna Shukla, Kathak guru and choreographer of Lucknow Gharana
• Narayan Shukla (also known as SN Shukla), judge of the Allahabad High Court
• Nikesh Shukla, British author and screenwriter
• Padma Kant Shukla (1950–2015), Indian physicist, university professor in several countries
• Pratibha Shukla, Indian politician and member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly from Akbarpur-Raniya constituency
• Pravina Shukla, professor of folklore at Indiana University Bloomington
• Rahul Shukla, Indian first-class cricketer from Jaunpur district who plays for Jharkhand in domestic cricket
• Raj Shukla, Lieutenant General, YSM, SM, currently serving as General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C) Army Training Command (ARTRAC)
• Raj Kumar Shukla, Indian freedom fighter, who convinced Mahatma Gandhi to visit Champaran for the Champaran Satyagraha
• Rajeev Shukla, Indian politician, journalist, political commentator and the former chairman of Indian Premier League. Presently, VP of BCCI
• Rajendra Shukla (poet), Gujarati poet
• Rajendra Shukla (politician), Indian politician and MLA from Madhya Pradesh
• Rajendra Prasad Shukla, politician from Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, who also served as Speaker of both states' Legislative Assembly
• Rajesh Shukla, Indian politician and member of the Bharatiya Janata Party from Uttarakhand State
• Rajesh Shukla (statistician), Indian researcher, author and applied statistician
• Rakesh Shukla (animal welfare activist), Indian entrepreneur, motivational speaker and animal welfare activist
• Rakesh Shukla (cricketer), Indian cricketer, cricket consultant and commentator
• Ram Chandra Shukla (1925–2016), Indian painter and art critic
• Ram Kishore Shukla, Indian National Congress leader
• Ramchandra Shukla (1884–1941), known as Acharya Shukla, Indian historian of Hindi literature
• Ravishankar Shukla, premier of CP & Berar and the first Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh
• Ravikant Shukla, Indian first class cricketer, former captain of India U19 national cricket team
• Ravi Kishan, or Ravindra Shyamnarayan Shukla, Indian actor, politician and TV personality; MP (Lok Sabha) from Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh
• Richa Moorjani (nee Shukla), Indian-American actress who is best known for her role as Kamala in the series Never Have I Ever
• Rishi Kumar Shukla, Indian Police Service officer and director of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)
• Rishabh Shukla, Indian film and television actor and a voice-dubbing artist
• Riya Shukla, Indian television actress and model who made her film debut with Nil Battey Sannata
• Rohit Shukla, Major at the Indian Army, Shaurya Chakra awardee
• Samridhii Shukla, Indian TV actress
• Sanyam Shukla, Indian badminton player
• S.N.Shukla, Indian politician
• Sandeep Shukla, Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
• Saurabh Shukla, Indian actor
• Shilpa Shukla, Indian actress
• Shivakant Shukla, Indian cricketer
• Shiv Pratap Shukla, Governor of Himachal Pradesh, Former Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha), former Minister of State for Finance, Government of India
• Shyama Charan Shukla, three-term Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, irrigation visionary and aviator
• Sidharth Shukla, Indian actor and model.
• Shrilal Shukla (1925–2011), Hindi writer, recipient of the Jnanpith Award
• Shri Prakash Shukla, Indian gangster and contract killer
• Supriya Shukla, Indian television and film actress
• Umesh Shukla, Indian movie director, best known for Oh My God
• Vidya Charan Shukla, Indian cabinet minister
• Vidya Dhar Shukla, Chief Hindu Priest of Thailand
• Vijai Shukla, Indian-Danish food scientist
• Vijay Kumar Shukla, or Munna Shukla, former Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from Bihar, India
• Vikramaditya Shukla, Indian film actor who has appeared in Tamil and Telugu language films
• Vinay Shukla, Indian film writer and director, producer of Godmother
• Vinod Kumar Shukla, modern Hindi writer and recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award
• Yogendra Shukla, Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, among the founders of Hindustan Socialist Republican ASSOCIATION

Others

• Shuklaganj, a suburb of Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, situated on the banks of holy river Ganges