Nilkanth, Neelkanth, or Nīlakaṇtha () is another name or characteristic of the Hindu deity Shiva. It may also refer to:
People Mahipatram Rupram Nilkanth, Gujarati educationist, reformer, novelist and biographer Neelakantha Chaturdhara, seventeenth-century commentator on the Mahābhārata Neelkanth Ganjoo, judge in the Jammu and Kashmir High Court, India Neelkanth Tiwari, Minister of State in Government of Uttar Pradesh in Yogi Adityanath ministry Nilakantha Daivajna, 16th-century astronomer-astrologer Nilakantha Somayaji, mathematician of the Kerala school Nilkanth Singh Munda, member of the Legislative Assembly of India from Khunti constituency Ramanbhai Nilkanth, Gujarati writer Swaminarayan, known as Nilkanth Varni during his teenage years and founder of the Swaminarayan Sampradaya religious movement Vidyagauri Nilkanth, Gujarati social reformer, educationist, and writer
Animals Indian roller, a bird of the family Coraciidae, known as nilkanth in Hindustani Nilakantha (spider), a genus of jumping spiders
Places Nilkantha (mountain), a peak of the Garhwal division of the Himalayas, in Uttarakhand, India Nilkantha, Nepal, in Dhading District, Bagmati Province
Other uses Nilakanta (Hinduism), the specific epithet used by Shiva Neelkanth (film), a 2012 Indian Gujarati film Nīlakantha dhāranī, a Mahayana Buddhist mantra
See also Bluethroat, a species of songbird