Dinesh

Dinesh
Pronunciation	Di'neh sh
Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	India
Meaning	"lord of the day", "Sun" in Hindu Mythology
Region of origin	South Asia
Other names
Anglicisation(s)	Dennis
Related names	Suraj, Surya

Dinesh (Devanagari: दिनेश dineśa) is a common Hindu male given name. The Sanskrit word dineśa is a compound of dina 'day' and īśa 'lord', meaning 'day-lord', an epithet of the Sun.^[1]

Notable persons with this name

For persons not listed here, see All pages with titles containing Dinesh

• Dinesh Chand, Fijian golfer
• Dinesh Chandra Sen, Indian researcher on Bengali folklore
• Dinesh D'Souza, Indian-American Christian apologist
• Dinesh Gunawardena, Sri Lankan politician
• Dinesh Gupta, Indian freedom fighter and revolutionary
• Dinesh Karthik, Indian cricketer
• Dinesh Kumar, several people
• Dinesh Lamba, Indian actor
• Dinesh Mongia, Indian cricketer
• Dinesh Karthik, Indian cricketer
• Dinesh Nandan Sahay, Indian governor
• Dinesh Nayak, Indian Hockey player
• Dinesh Patel, Indian-American professional baseball player
• Dinesh Prasad Singh, Indian Politian
• Dinesh Singh, Indian politician
• Dinesh Singh, Punjab politician
• Dinesh Chandimal, Sri Lankan cricketer
• Denesh Ramdin, Trinidadian cricketer

References

1. Monier-Williams, Monier (1899). A Sanskrit-English dictionary : etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages. Oxford: Clarendon Press.