Islam Museum Islam Museum islam.museum
Search ⌕ ARENUR
Accessibility
Text size 100%

Saved on this device only — nothing is sent anywhere.

Fatima Sana Shaikh

People Living

فاطمة سنا شيخ

Indian actress (born 1992) at Hyderabad who began as a child artist in Chachi 420 (1997) and rose to fame as the wrestler Geeta Phogat in Dangal (2016), the highest-grossing Indian film; she later starred in Ludo (2020) and portrayed Indira Gandhi in Sam Bahadur (2023).

Depth

At a glance

Roles
actress
Region
South Asia
Identifiers
Wikidata

Life in time

1900192519501975200020252050
The Colonial Era · The Contemporary Era · The Modern Era Contemporaries: Abbas-Ali Amid Zanjani · Abbas Kiarostami · Abd al-Aziz al-Ghumari · Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghudda · Abd al-Rahman Badawi

Place in the story

    atheist-or-sceptic (self-identified)

    Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

    In the Modern Islam Browser

    Modern Islam BrowserFigures of the last fifty years1992

    Sources

    • Fatima Sana Shaikh — English Wikipedia
    • Fatima Sana Shaikh — Arabic Wikipedia
    • Fatima Sana Shaikh — Urdu Wikipedia
    • Fatima Sana Shaikh — Wikidata
    • Fatima Sana Shaikh — The Quint interview (2020)
    • Fatima Sana Shaikh — The Siasat Daily (2020)
    Cite this page

    islam.museum contributors. “Fatima Sana Shaikh”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/fatima-sana-shaikh/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-06.

    Improve this page on GitHub · Report an error · JSON

    Wing

    People

    Prophets, companions, scholars, rulers, scientists, poets, travelers: women and men who shaped the story.