title: Shashi
text: # Shashi
  
  Shashi may refer to:
  
  ## Places and jurisdictions
  
  ### China
  
  * Shashi City (沙市市), Hubei from 1949 to 1994
  * Shashi District (沙市区), Jingzhou, Hubei (historically, Shashi City) since 1994
     * Apostolic Prefecture of Shashi
     * Jingmen–Shashi railway, single-track railway in Hubei province, China
  * Shashi, Liuyang (沙市镇), town in Hunan province
  * Shashi, Shaodong (砂石镇), town of Shaodong County, Hunan province
  
  ### Africa
  
  * Shashi River or Shashe River, major left-bank tributary of the Limpopo River in Zimbabwe
  
  ## People
  
  Shashi is an Indian and Nepali male and female name, abstracted from ancient Sanskrit language, meaning "Moon".
  
  ### Politics
  
  * Shashi Kumar (born 1965), actor and politician from Karnataka, India
  * Shashi Shrestha, Nepalese politician, Central Committee member of Janamorcha Nepal
  * Shashi Tharoor (born 1956), Indian Minister of State for Human Resource Development
  
  ### Culture, science and entertainment
  
  * Shashi Caan, American architect, designer, advocacy icon, founder of The Shashi Caan Collective
  * Shashibhusan Dasgupta (1911–1964), Bengali scholar of philosophy, languages and literature
  * Shashi Deshpande (born 1938), Indian novelist
  * Shashi Gupta (born 1964), Indian Test and One Day International cricketer
  * Shashi Isaac (born 1982), football player (midfielder) from Saint Kitts & Nevis
  * Shashikala (1933–2021), Indian actress
  * Shashi Kapoor (1938–2017), Indian film actor, director and producer
  * Shashi P. Karna (born 1956), Indian-American nanotechnology
  * Shashi Naidoo (born 1980), South African actress, model and television anchor
  * Shashi Nambisan, Indian-born director of the Center for Transportation Research and Education at Iowa State University
  * Shashi Puri, Hindi film actor
  * Shashi Warrier, Indian author of Hangman's Journal
  
  ## Other
  
  * Shashi language or Ikizu language, a Bantu language spoken by the Ikizu peoples of Tanzania
  