Ram is a masculine given name. In South Asia it is a variant of Rama, and in Hebrew it means high or senior, a biblical name (Ram, son of Hezron), which is also sometimes used as a diminutive form of Avram (a variant of Abraham). Notable persons with the name include:

People

• Ram Chandra Bharadwaj (died 1918), a defendant in the Hindu–German Conspiracy Trial
• Ram Chandra Paudel, Nepalese politician and Third President of Nepal
• Ram Baran Yadav, First President of Nepal
• Ram Chiang, Hong Kong actor and singer
• Ram Prasad Bismil (1897–1927), Indian revolutionary
• Ram Bahadur Bomjon (born c. 1990), Nepalese teenager televised meditating for days without moving
• Ram Charan (disambiguation)
• Ram Bahadur Thapa, Nepalese politician
• Guru Ram Das (1534–1581), fourth of the Ten Gurus of Sikhism
• Ram Etwareea, Mauritian politician
• Ram Gopal (disambiguation)
• Ram Herrera, Tejano musician
• Ram Kapoor (born 1973), Indian television actor
• Ram Karmi (1931–2013), Israeli architect
• Ram Dass Katari (1911–1983), Indian Navy vice-admiral and Chief of the Naval Staff
• Ram Kumar (artist) (1924–2018), Indian artist
• Ram Kumar (basketball) (born 1964), Indian basketball player
• Ram Krishna Kunwar, 18th century Nepalese military general
• Ram Loevy (1940–2025), Israeli television director and screenwriter
• Ram Madhav (born 1964), Indian politician, writer, journalist and National General Secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party
• Ram Malla, also known as Kshetra, king of Mallabhum from 1185 to 1209
• Ram Narayan (1927–2024), Indian sarangi player
• Ram Pothineni (born 1988), Indian Tollywood film actor
• Ram Prasad (disambiguation)
• Ram Mohan Roy (1772–1833), Indian reformer
• Ram Shah (1606–1641), King of Gorkha, Nepal
• Ram Vilas Sharma (1912–2000), Indian literary critic, linguist, poet and thinker
• Ram Soffer (born 1965), Israeli chess Grandmaster
• Ram Singh (disambiguation)
• Ram Torten (born 1966), Israeli Olympic competitive sailor
• Ram Gopal Varma (born 1962), Indian Tollywood and Bollywood film director
• Ram Gopal Vijayvargiya (1905–2003), Indian painter
• Ramkumar, Indian actor
• Raam Mori (born 1993), Gujarati language short story writer from India
• Ram Puneet Tiwary (born 1979), a Singaporean Indian and alleged murderer of the 2003 Sydney double murders case

Biblical and fictional characters

• Ram (Biblical figure)
• Ram (comics), a Japanese DC Comics superhero
• Ram, in the 1982 American science-fiction film Tron
• Ram, in the 1999-2003 New Zealand/British TV series The Tribe
• Ram, in the 2011 Japanese role-playing video game Hyperdimension Neptunia Mk2
• Ram (Re:Zero), in the light novel series Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World
• Ram Singh, in the 2016 Doctor Who spinoff TV series Class
• Ram Sweeney, a character in the 1988 American black comedy film Heathers and its 2014 musical adaptation

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