Vivek (or Bibek/Bivek in some regions) is a masculine given name that is popular in South Asia, particularly in India and Nepal. It is of Sanskrit origin and means "wisdom" and/or "conscience".

Vivek may refer to:

People

  • Vivek (actor) (1961–2021), Indian Tamil film actor
  • Vivek Borkar (born 1954), Indian electrical engineer and mathematician
  • Vivek Chibber, American sociologist and Marxist theorist
  • Vivek Dahiya (born 1984), Indian television actor
  • Vivek Gupta (business executive) (born 1960s), Indian-born American businessman
  • Vivek Harshan (born 1981), Indian Tamil film editor
  • Vivek Kanthan (born 2009), American racing driver
  • Vivek Kar, Bollywood composer
  • Vivek Kundra (born 1974), US Federal CIO
  • Vivek Lall (born 1969), Famous aerospace leader
  • Vivek (lyricist) (born 1985), Indian Tamil film lyricist
  • Vivek Mahbubani (born 1982), Hong Kong stand-up comedian
  • Vivek–Mervin, are an Indian musical duo
  • Vivek Murthy (born 1977), 19th Surgeon General of the United States
  • Vivek Oberoi (born 1976), Bollywood actor
  • Vivek Ramaswamy (born 1985), American politician, entrepreneur, and 2024 Presidential candidate
  • Vivek Ranade (born 1963), Indian chemical engineer, entrepreneur and professor
  • Vivek Ranadivé (born 1957), American CEO
  • Vivek Shraya (born 1981), Canadian musician, writer, and visual artist
  • Vivek Singh (disambiguation), several people
  • Vivek Tiwary (born 1973), American Broadway theater producer and writer/producer of The Fifth Beatle graphic novel
  • Vivek Wadhwa, Indian-American technology entrepreneur and an academic

Characters

  • Vivek (character of C.I.D.)

Places

  • Vivek Nagar
  • Vivek Vihar

Other uses

  • Impatient Vivek, a 2011 Bollywood romantic comedy film
  • Vivek Express, a chain of express trains on the Indian Railways network

See also

  • Dṛg-Dṛśya-Viveka, an Advaita Vedanta text attributed to Bĥaratī Tīrtha or Vidyaranya Swami
  • Swami Vivekananda (disambiguation)
  • Vivekanandan (disambiguation)
  • Vivekachudamani, an eighth-century Sanskrit poem in dialogue form that addresses the development of viveka
  • Viveka (disambiguation)