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Hariharan may refer to:
- Hariharan (singer) (born 1955), ghazal and playback singer from Mumbai
- Hariharan (director), Malayalam film director
- K. Hariharan, Tamil film director
- Githa Hariharan (born 1954), Indian author and editor based in New Delhi. Her first novel, The Thousand Faces of Night, won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 1993.
- Hariharan Srinivasan (born 1929), born on September 7, 1929, in South India and was an Indian orthopedic surgeon who worked primarily with leprosy. He retired in 2008.
- Krishna Hariharan (born 1955), Indian Test cricket umpire
- Sruthi Hariharan (born 1989), is an Indian actress and model.
Hariharan (born April 3, 1955) is an Indian playback and ghazal singer, whose songs have been featured mainly in Tamil and Hindi movies. He has also sung many songs in other languages including Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi, Bhojpuri and Telugu films. He is an established ghazal singer and one of the pioneers of Indian fusion music. In 2004, he was honoured with the Padma Shri by the Government of India and is a two-time National Award winner.
Hariharan, associating with Lesle Lewis, formed Colonial Cousins, a two-member band. They have cut many private music albums and also scored music for few feature films in Tamil cinema and Bollywood cinema.
Hariharan is a veteran Indian film director who has directed over 50 Malayalam films. His movies mainly revolve around the cultural and relational aspects of a typical Keralite society. His notable works include Pazhassi Raja, Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha, Sargam, Parinayam, Amrutham Gamaya and Nakhakshathangal, which won him national and international acclaim.