Anil (Sanskrit: अनिल) is an Indian masculine given name originating in the name of the Vedic deity Anila. It means wind in the Sanskrit language. Notable persons with this name include:
- Anil Ambani (born 1959), Indian business baron
- Anil Baijal, Lieutenant Governor of Delhi
- Anil Baluni, Indian politician and national spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party
- Anil Basu (born 1946), Indian politician and a former member of the Communist Party of India
- Anil Bhardwaj (born 1967), Director of the Physical Research Laboratory
- Anil Bhoyrul, British journalist
- Anil Bordia (1934–2012), Indian educationist
- Anil Chatterjee (1929–1998), Indian film actor
- Anil Chaudhary (born 1965), Indian cricket umpire
- Anil Chitrakar (born 1961), Nepalese social entrepreneur
- Anil Dalpat (born 1963), Pakistani cricketer
- Anil Dash (born 1975), American blogger, entrepreneur, and technologist
- Anil Devgan (born 1949), Indian film director
- Anil Dhawan, Indian film actor
- Anil Goonaratne, a Sri Lankan judge and lawyer
- Anil Gupta (writer) (born 1974), British comedy writer
- Anil K. Rajvanshi (born 1950), Indian academic
- Anil Kakodkar (born 1943), Indian nuclear scientist
- Anil Kapoor (born 1959), Indian actor
- Anil Kohli, Indian dental surgeon
- Anil Kumar (disambiguation), several people
- Anil Kumar Mandal, Indian ophthalmologist
- Anil Kumble (born 1970), Indian cricket player
- Anil Mohile (died 1991), Indian music director
- Anil Sharma, Indian film director
- Anil Srinivasan (born 1977), Indian pianist
- Anil Tissera, main character in the novel Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
- P. Anil, Indian film director
- Anil Shrestha, Nepali name
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