Mahakavi

The word Mahakavi or Maha Kavi is an honorific and means "Great Poet." Below are prominent poets to whom this title has been bestowed upon: -

• K.V. Simon (7 February 1883 – 1944)
• Bammera Potana, a 16th-century Telugu poet.
• Kālidāsa, a 5th-century Sanskrit playwright and epic poet
• P. C. Devassia, (1906–2006), a Sanskrit scholar and poet
• Kumaran Asan, a Malayali poet.
• Laxmi Prasad Devkota, a Nepali poet.
• G. Sankara Kurup, a Malayali poet.
• Srirangam Srinivasarao or Sri Sri, a Telugu poet.
• Subramanya Bharathy, a Tamil poet.
• Vallathol Narayana Menon, a Malayali poet.
• Vidyapati, (1352–1448), also known as the Maithil Kokil Vidyapati (Vidyapati, the cuckoo of Maithili), famous for his poems in Maithili language.
• Puthencavu Mathan Tharakan (1903–1993), a Malayalam Poet, writer and lyricist
• Oothukkadu Venkata Subbayyar (1700), a prolific music composer of South India with his Classical Compositions in poetic Sanskrit and Tamil
• Oottukkadu Venkata Kavi (c.1700 - 1765 CE)