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

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The name is derived from Sanskrit, where its primary meaning is "invincible", "irresistible", "unsurpassed".[1] 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.[1]

## People

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* Ajith v p (born 1997), Kerala
* Ajith Kumar (born 1996), Tamilnadu
* Ajit Agarkar (born 1977), Indian cricketer and commentator
* Ajith Amerasekera, American electrical engineer
* Ajit Andhare, Indian businessman
* Ajit Anjum (born 1969), Indian journalist and editor
* Ajeet Bajaj (born 1965), Indian adventurer
* Ajit Balakrishnan, Indian entrepreneur, business executive, and administrator
* Ajit Bandyopadhyay, Bengali actor and director
* Ajit Kumar Banerjee (1931–2014), Indian environmentalist
* Ajit Kumar Basu (1912–1986), Indian cardiac surgeon
* Ajit Bhandari (born 1994), Nepalese footballer
* Ajit Bharihoke, Indian judge
* Ajit Bhatia (born 1936), Indian cricketer
* Ajit Bhattacharjea (1924–2011), Indian journalist, newspaper editor, The Hindustan Times, The Times of India and The Indian Express
* Ajit Bhoite (born 1976), Indian cricketer
* Ajit Kumar Bhuyan (born 1952), Indian politician
* Ajit Chahal (born 1995), Indian cricketer
* Ajit Kumar Chakravarty (1886–1918), Bengali writer
* Ajit Chandila (born 1983), Indian cricketer
* Ajit Chandra Chatterjee (born 1923), Indian civil servant
* Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi, Indian professor and education administrator
* Ajit Das (1949–2020), Indian actor, director, and playwright
* Ajit Das Gupta (1924–2011), Indian cricketer
* Ajit Doval (born 1945), Indian politician
* Ajit Dutta (1907–1979), Bengali poet, writer, essayist, and professor
* Ajit George, Indian-American activist and game designer
* Ajit Kumar Guha (1914–1969), Bengali educationist
* Ajit Gulabchand (born 1948), Indian industrialist
* Ajit Gupta, Indian entrepreneur
* Ajit Narain Haksar (1925–2005), Indian businessman
* Ajit Hutheesing (1936–2017), Indian businessman
* Ajit Jain (born 1951), Indian-American businessman
* Ajit Jayaratne, Sinhalese businessman
* Ajit Jogi (1946–2020), Indian politician
* Ajit Johnson, Indian cancer geneticist
* Ajit Kadkade, Indian singer
* Ajit Kembhavi (born 1950), Indian astrophysicist
* Ajita Kesakambali, Indian philosopher
* Ajit Khan (1922–1998), screen name of Indian film actor Hamid Ali Khan
* Ajith Kumar (born 1971), Indian Tamil actor
* Ajit Lakra (born 1966), Indian field hockey player
* Ajit Kumar Maiti (born 1928), Indian neurophysiologist
* Ajit Manocha, Indian-American businessman
* Ajit Kumar Mehta (born 1932), Indian politician
* Ajit Merchant, Indian music composer and director
* Ajit Mohan (born 1974/1975), Indian businessman
* Ajit Narayanan (born 1981), Indian inventor
* Ajit Ninan (born 1955), Indian political cartoonist
* Ajit Kumar P, Indian Navy Admiral
* Ajit Pai (born 1973), American attorney and former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission
* Ajit Pai (born 1945), Indian cricketer
* Ajit Kumar Panja (1936–2008), Indian politician
* Ajith C. S. Perera (born 1956), Sri Lankan disability activist, former cricket umpire
* Ajit Kumar Saha, Indian politician
* 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 Iqbal Singh (born 1943), Indian mathematician
* Ajit Wadekar (born 1941), a former Indian cricketer and captain of the Indian national cricket tea

## Fictional characters

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* Ajit Bandyopadhyay (character), companion of Byomkesh Bakshi

## See also

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* All pages with titles containing Ajit
* All pages with titles containing Ajith

## References

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1. ^ a b Monier-Williams, Monier (1899). A Sanskrit-English Dictionary: Etymologically and Philologically Arranged with Special Reference to Cognate Indo-European Languages. Oxford: Clarendon Press. OCLC 685239912.

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