Sankara can refer to:
- Shiva, whom Hindus, especially Shaivites, worship as supreme God or their Supreme Being
- Adi Sankara, Hindu philosopher of roughly 800 CE credited with reviving Hinduism
- Sankhara, mental formations in Buddhist philosophy
- Sankara Stones, magical rocks from the 1984 film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- Sankara (film), a 2006 film
- Sankara (Introspection), the debut film by Sri Lankan film director Prasanna Jayakody
- Thomas Sankara (1949-1987), Marxist revolutionary leader of Burkina Faso (from 1983-1987)
- Sankara, a village in Burkina Faso
- Sankara Eye Foundation, a US-based non-profit working to eradicate curable blindness in India