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". 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.

People

• Ajit Agarkar (born 1977), Indian cricketer
• Ajeet Bajaj (born 1965), Indian adventurer
• Ajit Bandyopadhyay (actor), a Bengali actor
• Ajit Bhattacharjea (1924–2011), newspaper editor, The Hindustan Times, The Times of India and The Indian Express
• Ajit Jain (born 1951), an Indian-born businessman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance Group
• Ajit Jogi (born 1946), a member of the Indian parliament
• Ajita Kesakambali, ancient Indian philosopher
• Ajith Kumar (born 1971), Tamil film actor
• Ajit Khan (1922–1998), screen name of Indian film actor Hamid Ali Khan
• Ajith C. S. Perera (born 1956), Sri Lankan disability activist, former cricket umpire
• 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 Pai (born 1973), American attorney and former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission
• Ajit Pai (cricketer) (born 1945), Indian cricketer
• Ajit Wadekar (born 1941), a former Indian cricketer and captain of the Indian national cricket tea

Fictional characters

• Ajit Bandyopadhyay (character), fictional character in the detective series Byomkesh Bakshi

See also

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