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Sudhir is a common Indian male name. It may refer to:
- Sudhir (Indian Actor) (1944–2014) Bollywood actor cum villain
- Sudhir Kumar Dubey(Software Engineer) (2011 to present) Software Engineer cum Social worker
- Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh (born 1966), Indian sociologist and urban ethnographer
- Sudhir Dalvi (born 1939), Indian actor
- Sudhir Joshi (1948–2005), Indian Marathi actor and comedian
- Sudhir Kakar (born 1938), Freudian psychoanalyst and writer
- Sudhir Kumar Chaudhary (born 1983), fan of the Indian cricket team.
- Sudhir Kumar Chitradurga, Indian weightlifter
- Sudhir (actor) (1922–1997) Pakistani Actor
- Sudhir Mishra, Indian film director and screenwriter
- Sudhir Naik (born 1945), Indian cricketer
- Sudhir Phadke (1919–2002), Marathi singer-composer from India
- Sudhir Ranjan Majumdar (1934–2009), Chief Minister of Tripura in India, 1988–1992
- Sudhir Ruparelia (born 1956), businessman and entrepreneur in Uganda
- Sudhir Tailang (1960–2016), Indian cartoonist
- Sudhir Pandey, Indian film and serial television actor
Shah Zaman Khan Afridi better known as Sudhir or Lala Sudhir (older brother in Pushto language) was a Pakistani film actor, director and producer. He is the only actor of early Pakistani cinema whose film career has been preserved. He is known as the first action hero of Pakistani cinema. His film roles symbolized valour and bravery. Like Sultan Rahi, he appeared in the highest grossing films of Pakistan.
Pandit Sudhir (born 17 February 1974) is an Indian sitar player of Hindustani classical music. He is known for the vocalistic phrasing of his raga improvisations. He has learnt sitar from the Imdadkhani Gharana, popularly known as the Etawah Gharana.
He is the son of Sampat Lal, a tabla player of Central India. His grandfather, Badri Prasad, was the court musician of the former principality of Raigarh state, situated in the modern state of Chhattisgarh.
Bhagwandas Mulchand Luthria aka Sudhir (1944 – 12 May 2014) was a Bollywood film actor. He was best known for his role in the film Satte Pe Satta with Amitabh Bachchan. He acted in over 200 films in a career spanning from 1962 to 2009. He was one of Bollywood’s best known baddies from the 1970s through to the 1990s.
He is best known as co-star to actor and villain Ranjeet in movie Dharmatma. The duo were famously known as rapist of Bollywood movies.
He would usually play the second-in-command sidekick to villains Ajit, Premnath and Pran or the torturous police inspector or a sleazy man. He was most known for his shrill voice, long moustache and sideburns. He starred in at least a dozen Amitabh Bachchan movies, such as Majboor (1974 film), Sharaabi, Satte Pe Satta and Shaan. His biggest claim to fame was probably in Feroz Khan's 1974 hit Khote Sikkay, as the handicapped thief in Dev Anand's Hare Rama Hare Krishna (1971) and in Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Baadshah (1999) to Humraaz (2002 film). His recent and last film appearances were in Jhoom Barabar Jhoom (2007) and Victoria House (film)|Victoria House (2009). He was also filmmaker Milan Luthria's paternal uncle. He died on 12 May 2014 at the age of 70. He had long been suffering from a lung infection.