Ravi is a male name. It means "sun" in Sanskrit.^[1]

People with the name include:

People

• Ravi (Ivar Johansen) (born 1976), a Norwegian artist
• Ravi Bharadwaj (born 1992), an Indian basketball player
• Ravi Bopara (born 1985), an English cricketer
• Ravi Hutheesing, musician (singer/songwriter, former guitarist of Hanson), aviator, lecturer
• Ravi Kant (disambiguation), several people
• Ravi Shankar (1920–2012), a sitar virtuoso
• Ravi (music director) (1926–2012), an Indian film music director
• Ravi Shankar (spiritual leader) (born 1956), a spiritual leader and founder of the Art of Living Foundation
• Ravi Shastri (born 1962), a former Indian cricketer
• Ravi Sood (born 1976), a Canadian-born financier
• Raja Ravi Varma (1848–1906), also known as Ravi Varma, Indian painter
• Ravi Zacharias (1946–2020), an Indian-born, Canadian-American evangelical Christian philosopher, apologist and evangelist
• Ravi Teja Bhupatiraju, an Indian actor who works mainly in Telugu films
• Ravi (rapper), stage name of Kim Won-sik, a member of the South Korean k-pop boy band VIXX
• Ravi Coltrane, American saxophonist and son of John Coltrane
• Ravi Ragbir, Trinidadian American immigration activist
• Ravi Narayana Reddy, founding member of the Communist Party of India and leader in the Telangana Rebellion
• Ravi Jagannathan, economist and professor
• Ravi Pushpakumara, Sri Lankan cricketer
• Ravi Ratnayeke, Sri Lankan cricketer
• Ravi Cabot-Conyers, American actor

Fictional characters

• The in-training bookman in the manga D.Gray-man, also known as "Lavi" or "Rabi"
• Ravi Ross, a character in the Disney Channel TV series Jessie (2011 TV series) and Bunk'd
• Dr. Ravi Chakrabarti, a character from iZombie (TV series)
• Ravi, a main character in Power Rangers Beast Morphers
• Ravi Panikkar, a recurring character on the first responders show 9-1-1.

References