Nayak

Nayak may refer to:

Ethnic groups

• Nayak caste, a caste found in India
• Nayak, another name for the Charodi of Karnataka, India
• Nayak, name used by Gor Banjara community

Films

• Nayak (1966 film), a 1966 Indian Bengali film directed by Satyajit Ray
• Nayak (2001 Assamese film), a 2001 Indian Assamese film directed by Munin Barua
• Nayak: The Real Hero, a 2001 Indian Hindi film starring Anil Kapoor and Rani Mukerji
• Nayak (2019 film), an Indian film
• Yaare Koogadali, a 2012 Indian Kannada film titled Nayak: The Hero 2 in Hindi
• Preethsod Thappa, a 1998 Indian Kannada film titled Nayak: The Hero 3 in Hindi

People

• Bijay Kumar Nayak, Church of North India bishop
• Bangaru Thirumalai Nayak, a member of the Madurai Nayak royal family
• Daya Nayak, Indian police inspector
• Ghanashyam Nayak, Indian film and television actor
• Jawahar Nayak, Indian politician
• Raghunatha Nayak, a king of the Nayaks of Tanjore
• Sevappa Nayak, first ruler of the Nayaks of Tanjore
• Thirumalai Nayak, a king of the Madurai Nayak Dynasty
• Varunakulattan, also known as Khem Nayak, 17th-century feudal lord of the Jaffna Kingdom
• Viswanatha Nayak, founder of Madurai Nayak Dynasty

Other uses

• Naik (military rank), also spelt Nayak, a rank in the Indian and Pakistan armies
• Any of the Nayak dynasties, that arose from the fragmentation of the Vijayanagara Empire in South India
• Nayak (title), a title used across India
• Baba Nayak, fictional villain played by Rami Reddy in the 1995 Indian film Andolan

See also

• Nayakan (disambiguation)
• Naik (disambiguation)
• Neyak (disambiguation)
• Nyack (disambiguation)
• Hero (disambiguation)
• Naayak, a 2013 Indian Telugu-language film directed by V. V. Vinayak
• Khal Nayak (lit. 'Antihero'), a 1993 Indian film by Subhash Ghai