Gayatri (disambiguation)
Gayatri (Sanskrit: गायत्री, gāyatrī) is the feminine form of gāyatra, a Sanskrit word for a song or a hymn. It may refer to:
- The name of a Vedic poetic meter of 24 syllables (three lines of eight syllables each).
- Any hymn composed in this meter.
- in particular, the Hindu Gayatri mantra
- Hindu goddess Gayatri as a personification of that mantra
- Gayathripuzha River, a river in Kerala, India
- Gaayathri, a 1977 Tamil film
- Gayathri (film), a 1973 film
- Gayatri River having a source at Mahabaleshwar, Maharashtra, India
People
Actress
- Gayatri Joshi, a model turned Bollywood actress
- Gayatri Jayaraman, a South Indian film actress
- Gayathri Raguram, a Tamil film actress
- Gayathrie, a Tamil film actress
- Gayathri Mudigonda, a Swedish actress
- Dhini Gayatri, an Indonesian actress
Music
- Gayatri Asokan, an Indian playback singer, working primarily in Malayalam
- Gayatri Iyer, an Indian playback singer, working primarily in Bollywood
- Gayathri Girish, a Carnatic singer
- Gayathri Venkataraghavan, a Carnatic singer
- Siti Gayatri, member of JKT48
Others
- Gayatri Rajapatni, 13th century queen consort of Majapahit empire
- Gayatri Devi, the third princess of Jaipur, a politician
- Gayatri Devi (politician), an Indian politician from Madhya Pradesh
- Gayatri Devi Vasudev, an Indian astrological writer
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, an Indian literary theorist, philosopher
- Gayathri Govindaraj, an Indian athlete
- Gayatri (full name Putri Gayatri Pertiwi), wife of George Galloway
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