Sudhir is an Indian masculine given name. The Sanskrit word sudhīra means "very wise", "resolute".^[1]

Notable people with the name include:

• Sudhir (Pakistani actor) (1922–1997), Pakistani actor
• Sudhir (Hindi actor) (1944–2014), Bollywood actor
• Sudhir, Indian Para Powerlifter
• Sudhir Chaudhary (journalist), Indian journalist
• Sudhir Dalvi (born 1939), Indian actor
• Sudhir Joshi (1948–2005), Indian Marathi actor and comedian
• Sudhir Kakar (born 1938), Freudian psychoanalyst and writer
• Sudhir Kumar Baliyan, Indian politician
• Sudhir Kumar Chaudhary (born 1983), fan of the Indian cricket team
• Sudhir Kumar Chitradurga, Indian weightlifter
• Sudhir Kumar Giri, Indian politician
• Sudhir Kumar Saxena, Tabla artist and professor
• Sudhir Mishra, Indian film director and screenwriter
• Sudhir Naik (born 1945), Indian cricketer
• Sudhir Pandey, Indian film and serial television actor
• Sudhir Phadke (1919–2002), Marathi singer-composer from India
• Sudhir Ranjan Majumdar (1934–2009), Chief Minister of Tripura, India, 1988–1992
• Sudhir Ruparelia (born 1956), businessman and entrepreneur in Uganda
• Sudhir Tailang (1960–2016), Indian cartoonist
• Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh (born 1966), Indian sociologist and urban ethnographer
• Sudhir Kumar (Researcher) (born 1967), Indian-born American scientist researching evolutionary biology and genomic medicine