Shiva may refer to:
Religion
- Shiva or Śiva or Shiv, Hindu God
- Shaivism, types of Hinduism devoted to Shiva
- Shivā (ending with long 'a'), another name of Parvati, Shiv's consort
- Shiva (Judaism), Jewish ritual of mourning
Science
- Shiva (strain), strain of Cannabis sativa subsp. indica
- Shiva laser, built at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the late 1970s
- Shiva Star or Shiva, high-powered plasma weapon research project
- Shiva crater, an apparent impact crater in the Indian Ocean, possibly associated with the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event; unrelated to the
- Shiva Hypothesis, scientific theory concerning impact events
Computing
Music
People
- Shivaji, the founder of the Maratha Empire
- Vandana Shiva, physicist, philosopher, ecofeminist, environmental activist, and writer
Fiction
- Shiva, a fictitious strain of Ebola virus from the novel Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy
- Shiva, a summonable ice elemental in the Final Fantasy series
- Shiva (film), 1989 Telugu film by Ram Gopal Varma
- Shiva (2006 film), 2006 Hindi film by the same director.
- Shiva (2008 film), 2008 film by Ronit Elkabetz and Shlomi Elkabetz
- Shiva (Marvel Comics), Marvel Comics program designed to destroy Weapon X experiments like Wolverine
- Lady Shiva, DC Comics character
- Kaiyanwang, fictional character from 3×3 Eyes, was also called Shiva
- Sheeva, Mortal Kombat character
- Shiva, the ultimate villain in the anime Shurato
- Shiva, a major boss in the D&D 3.5 server Bonds of Blood of Neverwinter Nights.
- Shiva's Guard, a powerful artifact in the Warcraft III game Defense of the Ancients.
Miscellaneous
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