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Vikram may refer to:
- Vikram (name), a male name in the Hindu community
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Vikramāditya, legendary king of India
- Vikram, a character in Baital Pachisi, identified with Vikramāditya
- Vikram Samvat (Vikram's Era, "V.S." or "B.S."), a popularly used calendar in India and the official calendar of Nepal, established by Vikramaditya
- Vikram Pandit (born 1957), CitiGroup CEO
- Vikram (actor) (born 1966), a Tamil-language Indian film actor
- Vikram Gokhale (born 1940) a Hindi and Marathi language Indian film, theatre and television actor
- Vikram Sarabhai (1919–1971), Indian scientist
- Vikram (1986 Tamil film), a 1986 Tamil-language Indian film
- Vikram (1986 Telugu film), a 1986 Telugu-language Indian film
- Vikram Seth (born 1952), Indian novelist and poet
Vikram, also Vickram or Vickrum, is a male name in the Hindu community. The most common understanding of the name Vikram is valorous—one who is wise, brave and strong as well as victorious. Like many Hindu names, the name Vikram has number of significant interpretations and connections.
Vikram (born as Kennedy John Victor on 17 April 1966) is an Indian film actor who predominantly appears in Tamil language films and has won seven Filmfare Awards as well as one National Film Award and Tamil Nadu State Film Award amongst other recognitions and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the People's University of Milan in May 2011.
He made his debut in the 1990 film En Kadhal Kanmani, which was followed by a series of small-budget Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu films in the 1990s, many of which went unnoticed. However the success of Bala's tragedy film Sethu (1999), in which Vikram appeared as a rogue turned lover, started Vikram's successful career as an actor. In the early 2000s, Vikram appeared in a series of masala films, with Dhill (2001), Gemini (2002), Dhool (2003) and Saamy (2003) becoming commercially successful ventures. During the period, Vikram also appeared in diverse roles and received critical acclaim for his performance as a blind villager in Kasi and a Robin Hood-esque figure in Samurai. In 2003, Vikram's performance as a gravedigger with autism spectrum disorders in Bala's Pithamagan saw him win the National Film Award for Best Actor, with his character only speaking a couple of lines of dialogue in the entire film. His appearance as an idealistic lawyer with multiple personality disorder in Shankar's blockbuster Anniyan (2005) also won critical acclaim, as did his appearance as a superhero in Kanthaswamy (2009). Vikram's portrayal of Veeraiya, a tribal leader inspired by the Ramayana character Ravana, in Mani Ratnam's Raavanan saw him secure further accolades, as did his appearance as a mentally challenged adult with the maturity of a six-year-old boy in Deiva Thirumagal (2011). He consequently appeared in multiple get-ups as a bodybuilder and a crippled hunchback, losing up to 35 kilograms for sequences, during the making of Shankar's romantic thriller I (2015) and won rave reviews from critics for his performance. It is currently the third highest-grossing Tamil film of all time.
Vikram has promoted various social causes and appeared as the Youth Envoy for the United Nations Human Settlements Programme in 2011. He has been a brand ambassador of Sanjeevani Trust and a school for special children, Vidya Sudha, which he stayed at during the making of Deiva Thirumagal as well as having long-term associations with the Kasi Eye Care and running his own welfare association through the Vikram Foundation. In 2016, he produced and directed the video to the flood relief anthem, Spirit of Chennai, as a tribute to the city's volunteers following the 2015 South Indian floods.
Vikram is a 1986 Indian Tamil-language action- adventure film directed by Rajasekhar, starring Kamal Haasan, Sathyaraj, Amjad Khan, Ambika, Dimple Kapadia, Lizy, Charuhasan and Janagaraj.
Vikram is a 1986 Telugu film. directed by V. Madhusudhana Rao, produced by Akkineni Venkat on Annapurna Studios. Akkineni Nagarjuna and Sobhana played the lead roles and music is composed by Chakravarthy. The film was a remake of the 1983 Hindi film, Hero, it is the first debut of Akkineni Nagarjuna as a hero. The film recorded as Hit at box-office.