Shiva or Shiv or Sivan or Shivan is one of the principal deities of Hinduism.
Shiva, Sheeva, or Siva may also refer to:
Religion
- Shiva (Judaism), the Jewish ritual of mourning for seven ("shiva") days after the burial of an immediate relative
- Shiva, the supreme soul of Brahma Kumaris religion
- Shivā (ending with long 'a'), another name of Parvati, Shiva's consort
Places
People
- Shiva (actor) (born 1983), Tamil actor
- Shiva (rapper) (born 1999), Italian rapper
- Vandana Shiva (born 1952), physicist, philosopher, ecofeminist, environmental activist, and writer
- Cosma Shiva Hagen (born 1981), German actress
- Shiva Ahmadi (born 1975), Iranian-born American visual artist
- Shiva Ayyadurai (born 1963), Indian-born American scientist and entrepreneur
- Shiva Raichandani (born 1993), British dancer
Fictional entities
- Shiva (Āstraverse), main protagonist of an Indian film franchise, portrayed by Ranbir Kapoor
- Sheeva, a Mortal Kombat character
- Shiva (Final Fantasy), a summonable ice elemental in the Final Fantasy franchise
- Shiva (Streets of Rage character), a character in the Streets of Rage video game series
- Shiva, a fictitious strain of Ebola virus from Tom Clancy's novel Rainbow Six
- Shiva, a Bengal tiger cared for and befriended by King Ezekiel in The Walking Dead franchise
- Shivans, the main antagonistic race in the Freespace series
- Lady Shiva, a DC Comics character
- Neosapien General Shiva, a character from the cartoon TV series Exosquad
- Shiva (Marvel Comics), a robotic Weapon X enforcer in Marvel Comics
- The Shiva, the award given to the league winners on the television series The League
- Shiva, the main character of Japanese manga series The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún
Films
Literature
- Shiva trilogy, by Amish Tripathi, comprises: The Immortals of Meluha, The Secret of the Nagas, and The Oath of the Vayuputras
- Shiva, a book by A. B. Yehoshua
Television
Music
Computing
Science
- Shiva Hypothesis, scientific theory concerning impact events
- Shiva laser, built at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the late 1970s
- Shiva Star, a high-powered plasma weapon research
Other uses
See also
Topics referred to by the same term
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