Historical
- Mahendra of Nepal - king of Nepal from 1955 to 1972
- Mahendra or Mahinda - the son of Emperor Ashoka and a promoter of Buddhism
- Mahendra Sūri - 14th century Jain astronomer who wrote the Yantraraja, the first Indian treatise on the astrolabe
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