Vinod
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Vinod is a male first name used in India. Vinod means Happy or Joyful in Sanskrit
Sanskrit
Sanskrit , is a historical Indo-Aryan language and the primary liturgical language of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism.Buddhism: besides Pali, see Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Today, it is listed as one of the 22 scheduled languages of India and is an official language of the state of Uttarakhand...

. In Hindi
Hindi
Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...

 , Tamil
Tamil language
Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and in the Indian union territory of Pondicherry. Tamil is also an official language of Sri Lanka and Singapore...

 and other Indian languages, this word is taken as such with the same meaning.

Vinodhan,a common name in Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu is one of the 28 states of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu lies in the southernmost part of the Indian Peninsula and is bordered by the union territory of Pondicherry, and the states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh...

 state in India, is a modified or evolutionary form of the name Vinod.

Notable people named Vinod

  • Vinod Khosla
    Vinod Khosla
    Vinod Khosla is an Indian-born American venture capitalist and an influential personality in Silicon Valley....

     (born 1955), one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems
  • Vinod Dham
    Vinod Dham
    Vinod Dham is an Inventor, Entrepreneur and Venture Capitalist. He is popularly known as the Father of the Pentium chip. for his contribution to the development of highly successful Pentium Processors from Intel...

     (born 1950), Father of the Pentium chip
  • Vinod Khanna
    Vinod Khanna
    -Early life:Khanna was born to Kamla and Kishanchand Khanna, a textiles, dyes and chemicals businessman of Hindu Punjabi Khatri origin, on 6 October 1946, in Peshawar, British India . He has three sisters and one brother...

     (born 1946), Indian film actor of the 70-80s
  • Vinod Mehra
    Vinod Mehra
    Vinod Mehra was an Indian actor in Bollywood films. He started out as a child actor in a few films in the late 1950s and early 1960s before starting his adult film career in 1971 acting in over 100 films throughout the 1970s through to the 1990s...

     (born 1945), Indian film actor of the 70-80s
  • Vinod Kambli
    Vinod Kambli
    Vinod Ganpat Kambli is a former Indian cricketer, who played for India as a middle order batsman, as well as for Mumbai and Boland, South Africa.He is childhood friend of ace cricketer Sachin Tendulkar...

     (born 1972), Indian cricketer
  • Vinod Gupta
    Vinod Gupta
    Vinod Gupta is the former Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of infoGROUP . Mr. Gupta served as CEO of the company from the time of its incorporation in 1972 until September 1997 and from August 1998 to August 2008...

    , CEO LingfoGROUP
  • Vinod Rathod
    Vinod Rathod
    Vinod Rathod, the son of singer Pandit Chhaturbhuj Rathod, is a Bollywood playback singer. He has sung in numerous popular Bollywood films including Chal Mere Bhai, Lage Raho Munna Bhai, Mission Kashmir and Baazigar....

    , A Bollywood playback singer
  • Vinod Shekar
    Vinod Shekar
    Datuk Vinod Balachandra Sekhar is president and group chief executive of Petra Group and Chairman of the Sekhar Foundation, based in Kuala Lumpur. He is also the CEO of Green Rubber. He was named by Forbes Magazine as Malaysia's 16th richest man for 2008....

    , prominent Malaysian businessman and philanthropist
  • Vidhu Vinod Chopra
    Vidhu Vinod Chopra
    Vidhu Vinod Chopra is an Indian director and producer. Chopra is the head of his own company, Vinod Chopra Productions, and is particularly known for producing the Munna Bhai films and 3 Idiots.-Early life:Born in a Punjabi family of Kashmir,...

     (born 1956), Indian film director and producer
  • Sri Vinodabihari Brahmacari Kritiratna Prabhu
    Prajnana Kesava
    Bhakti Prajnana Kesava Goswami - was a disciple of Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura and the founder of Gaudiya Vaishnava religious organization Gaudiya Vedanta Samiti, formed in Calcutta in 1940. Bhakti Prajnana Kesava was also known as a friend of A. C...

     (1898–1968), Vaisnava Acarya and Bhakti Yoga Master.
  • Vinod ER
    Vinod ER
    Vinod was a famous Music Director of 1950's. In 1949, he gave a popular Music score Lara Lappa Lara Lappa sung by Mohammed Rafi and Lata Mangeshkar, in the film Ek Thi Ladki....

    , Indian Film Music Director of 50s
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