Siddhartha

Siddhartha or Siddharth is the birth name of the founder of Buddhism, Gautama Buddha.

Siddhartha may also refer to:

Books

• Siddhartha (novel), about a fictional contemporary of the Buddha, by Hermann Hesse

Film and TV

• Siddhartha (1972 film), a 1972 American film
• Sidhartha (1998 film), a 1998 Indian Malayalam film
• Siddharth (2013 film), a 2013 Indian-Canadian film
• Siddhartha (2015 film), a 2015 Indian Kannada film

Music

• Siddharta (band), a Slovenian rock band
• Siddhartha (band), an American rock band
• Siddhartha (opera), opera by Per Nørgård
• Siddhartha (1976), orchestral suite by Claude Vivier (1948-1983)
• Siddhartha (musical), a 2007 original production by Chu Un Temple and BLIA Cebu
• "Siddhartha", a song by Jerry Cantrell on the album Degradation Trip Volumes 1 & 2
• "Siddhartha", a song by Art Farmer from Crawl Space

Organisations

• Siddhartha University, the first and the only Buddhist university in Nepal

People

Given name

• Sidharto Suryodipuro, Indonesian Ambassador to India since 2017
• Siddhartha of Kundagrama, father of Mahavira (24th Jain Tirthankara)
• Siddharth (actor) (born 1979), Indian actor
• Siddhartha (musician), Mexican musician
• Siddharth Anand, Indian film director
• Siddhartha Basu, Indian quiz master
• Sidharth Bharathan (born 1983), Malayalam film actor
• Siddharth Chandekar, Indian Marathi actor
• Siddhartha Deb (born 1970), Indian author
• Siddharth Gupta, Indian actor
• Siddharth Haldipur, music director and composer
• Siddhartha Jadhav (born 1981), Marathi film actor
• Siddharth Kak, Indian documentary maker, television producer and presenter
• Siddharth Koirala, film actor
• Siddharth Lama (born 1985), Nepali film actor
• Sidharth Malhotra (born 1985), Indian film actor
• Siddharth Mallya (born 1987), Indian-American aspiring actor
• Siddharth Mahadevan, Indian playback singer and composer
• Siddharth Menon (actor) (born 1989), Indian actor
• Siddharth Menon (born 1989), Indian playback singer
• Siddharth Nigam (born 2000), Indian teen actor
• Siddhartha Mukherjee (born 1970), winner of 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
• Siddharth Ray (1963-2004), Indian film actor
• Siddharth Sanghvi (born 1977), Indian author
• Siddhartha Shankar Ray (1920–2010), Indian politician belonging to the Indian National Congress
• Siddharth Nath Singh, Indian politician
• Sidhartha Siva (born 1985), Malayalam film actor, director and scenarist
• Sidharth Shukla (born 1980-2021), Indian film actor
• Siddharth Sinha (born 1978), Indian film maker
• Siddharth Suchde (born 1985), professional squash player from India
• Siddharth Trivedi (born 1982), Indian cricketer who represents Gujarat
• Siddharth Varadarajan (born 1965), Strategic Affairs Editor of The Hindu and editor of Gujarat: The Making of a Tragedy
• Siddharth Venugopal (born 1985), actor

Surname

• Manimaran Siddharth (born 1998), Indian cricketer
• Nikhil Siddharth (born 1985), actor in the Telugu film industry in India

Fictional characters

• Hayden Siddhartha "Sidd" Finch, fictitious baseball player invented as an April Fools' hoax
• Siddharth aka Appu, main protagonist in Raajakumara, portrayed by Puneeth Rajkumar
• Siddhartha “Sid” Pakam, a character in the Netflix series Grand Army

Other

• SIDDHARTA, an experiment at DAFNE electron–positron collider in Italy

See also

• Siddha (disambiguation)
• Arth (disambiguation)