* 1920 – Ravi Shankar, Indian musician and composer

Reputed names in the domain of Indian classical music like Ravi Shankar, Vilayat Khan, Ali Akbar Khan and Ram Narayan have also composed music for films.

These artists ' collaboration with Indian musicians such as Ravi Shankar and Zakir Hussain have led to the development of raga rock.

SSCMS was founded in 2001 under the vision and guidance of His Holiness Ravi Shankar ( spiritual leader ), the founder of Art of Living Foundation, an educational non-governmental organization ( NGO ).

* 1956 – Ravi Shankar, Indian spiritual leader, founded the Art of Living Foundation

* Ravi Shankar, musician, survived

** Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Indian guru

* April 7 – Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar player

* From the Sitar to the Guitar – The 1995 concerts featuring Yehudi Menuhin and Ravi Shankar

* Passages ( Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass album ), a 1990 album

The show later took a different turn, featuring Ravi Shankar as a guest and having Krusty howl a drugged-out version of The Doors ' " Break on Through ( To the Other Side )" in 1973.

Used widely throughout the Indian subcontinent, the sitar became known in the western world through the work of Ravi Shankar beginning in the late 1950s and early 1960s after The Kinks ' top 10 single " See My Friends " featured a low tuned drone guitar which was widely mistaken to be the instrument.

A sitar can have 21, 22, or 23 strings, among them six or seven played strings which run over the frets: the Gandhaar-pancham sitar ( used by Vilayat Khan and his disciples ) has six playable strings, whereas the Kharaj-pancham sitar, used in the Maihar gharana, to which Ravi Shankar belongs, and other gharanas such as Bishnupur, has seven.

The two popular styles are the " gayaki style " sitars ( sometimes called " Vilayat Khan style sitars ") and the full decorated " instrumental style " sitars ( sometimes called " Ravi Shankar style sitars ").

Close-up of the red & white engraved celluloid decoration on a toon wood " Ravi Shankar Style " Sitar

In one or more of the more common tunings ( used by Ravi Shankar, among others, called " Kharaj Pancham " sitar ) the playable strings are strung in this fashion:

Shankar shortened the Sanskrit version of his first name, Ravindra, to Ravi, for " sun ".

George Harrison, U. S. President Gerald Ford, and Ravi Shankar in the Oval Office in December 1974

The American jazz saxophonist John Coltrane named his son Ravi Coltrane after Shankar.

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* Ravi ( Ivar Johansen ) ( born 1976 ), a Norwegian artist

* Ravi Bopara ( born 1985 ), an English cricketer

* Ravi Shankar ( born 1920 ), a sitar virtuoso

* Ravi Shankar ( spiritual leader ) ( born 1956 ), a spiritual leader and founder of the Art of Living Foundation

* Ravi Shastri ( born 1962 ), a former Indian cricketer

* Ravi Sood ( born 1976 ), a Canadian-born financier

* Ravi Zacharias ( born 1946 ), an Indian-born, Canadian-American evangelical Christian philosopher, apologist and evangelist

* Ravi Shankar ( born 1920 ), musician and composer best known for his work on the sitar.

* DJ Ravi ( Ivar Johansen ) is born and raised in the town.

Jones was born in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York, to Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar and American concert producer Sue Jones.

Ravi Sethi ( born 1947 ) is an Indian computer scientist retired from Bell Labs and president of Avaya Labs Research.

Ravi Shankar, colloquially known as Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, was born Ravi Shankar Ratnam on 13 May 1956.

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** Ravi Shankar ( born 1920 ), sitar player

* Ravi Coltrane ( born 1965 ), jazz saxophonist, son of John Coltrane

Raja Ravi Varma was born as Ravi Varma Koil Thampuran of Kilimanoor palace, in the erstwhile princely state of Travancore ( Thiruvithankur ) in Kerala.

Raveena Tandon was born in Mumbai, to filmmaker Ravi Tandon and Veena.

Jeetendra born Ravi Kapoor is an Indian actor and television producer.

## HRH Prince ( Anak Anga Machas ) Norodom Ravichak ( Naradhama Ravi Chakra ), born on January 1, 1974

Ravi Arimilli ( born 1963 ) is an IBM Fellow and Chief Architect.

Pooja Batra was born to Ravi Batra, an army colonel who was wounded in the 1971 war between India and Pakistan.