title: Meenakshi (name)
text: # Meenakshi (name)
  
  Meenakshi is an Indian given name, usually feminine. Meenakshi (Sanskrit: Mīnākṣī; Tamil: Mīṉāṭci; sometimes spelled as Minakshi; also known as Aṅgayaṟkaṇṇi Mīnāṭci and Taḍādakai), is a Hindu goddess who is considered an avatar of the Goddess Parvati.
  
  Notable people (female unless otherwise noted) with the name include:
  
  ## Given name
  
  * Meenakshi (Nayak queen) (1700-1736), queen regnant of the Madurai Nayak Kingdom 1731–1736
  * Meenakshi Amma (born 1941), Indian martial artist
  * Meenakshi Anoop (born 2005), Indian actress in Malayalam films
  * Meenakshi Arora, Indian lawyer
  * Meenakshi Banerjee, Indian cyanobacteriologist
  * Meenakshi Chaudhary (born 1997), Indian actress and model
  * Meenakshi Chitharanjan, Indian classical dancer and choreographer
  * Meenakshi Dixit (born 1993), Indian actress in Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam, and Kannada films
  * Meenakshi Gigi Durham, Indian-American professor of communication studies
  * Meenakshi Gopinath, Indian educationist, political scientist, and writer
  * Meenakshi Goswami (born 1933), Indian actress mainly in Bengali films
  * Meenakshi Jain, Indian political scientist and historian
  * Meenakshi Lekhi (born 1967), Indian politician
  * Meenakshi Madan Rai (born 1964), Indian judge
  * Meenakshi Mukherjee (1936/7–2009), Indian writer and educator
  * Meenakshi Narain (1964–2022), Indian-American physicist
  * Meenakshi Natarajan (born 1973), Indian politician
  * Meenakshi Pahuja (born 1978), Indian lecturer and marathon swimmer
  * Meenakshi Patel, Indian politician
  * Meenakshi Sundaram Pillai (1815–1876), Indian male Tamil scholar and teacher
  * Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan, Indian blogger who writes under the pseudonym eM
  * Meenakshi Sargogi (1944–2020), Indian industrialist
  * Meenakshi Shinde, Indian politician
  * Meenakshi Srinivasan (born 1971), Indian classical dancer and choreographer
  * Meenakshi Thampan, Indian politician
  * Meenakshi Thapar (1984/5–2012), Indian actress in Hindi-language films
  * Meenakshi Vijayakumar, Indian firefighter; first Indian woman fire officer
  * Meenakshi Wadhwa, American planetary scientist
  
  ## Pseudonym
  
  * Meenakshi (actress), Pinky Sarkar (born 1982), Indian actress in Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam language films
  * Meenakshi (Malayalam actress), Maria Margaret Sharmilee (born 1985), Indian actress in Malayalam films
  * Meenakshi Sheshadri, Shashikala Sheshadri (born 1963), Indian actress in Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu films
  * Meenakshi Shirodkar, Ratan Pednekar (1916–1997), Indian actress mainly in Marathi films
  