Ravi Shankar (known then as Rabindra) played the Dilruba in the 1930s, as a member of the dance group of his older brother Uday Shankar.
Ravi Shankar | Uday Hussein | Shankar Jaikishan | Shankar Mahadevan | Shankar | Anoushka Shankar | Naren Shankar | L. Shankar | Uday Shankar | Uday Prakash | Shankar Ramakrishnan | Shankar Dayal Sharma | Shankar (actor) | Lakshmi Shankar | Gudumba Shankar | Girija Shankar Bajpai | Gingger Shankar | Gauri Shankar | Ananda Shankar | Uday Kotak | Uday Chopra | Tanusree Shankar | Shankar (director) | Ravi Shankar (spiritual leader) | Ravi Shankar Prasad | P. Shiv Shankar | P. Shankar Rao | Pawan Shankar | Mani Shankar Mukherjee | Mahadev Shankar |
The lyricist Prasoon Joshi, the artist Uday Shankar, Mohan Upreti, and many other artistic gems have their roots in Almora.
He also collaborated with noted dancer, Uday Shankar to write a libretto for first Indian ballets, performed by Anna Pavlova and Uday Shankar himself.