List of people from Guntur

This gives a rough list of People of importance from (or related to) the Guntur City and its Region/District (of India) in the last 2200 years. Some of these have international, national recognition and many other with local importance.

Pre-Medieval

Acharya Nagarjuna (Philosopher)
Ammaraja (Chalukyan King)

Medieval

Jayapa Nayudu - Kakatiya military commander and writer on Indian Dance forms.
Pierre Jules César Janssen (Detected first evidence of Helium during solar eclipse in Guntur)
Sri Narayana Tirtha (Advaita Philosopher)
Sri Thikkana somayaji, Andhra Mahabharatam
Tenali Ramakrishna (One of the Ashtadiggajas)
Vasireddy Venkatadri Nayudu - Ruler of Amaravati.

Recent

Amma Anasuyadevi of Jillellamudi(Philosopher)
Bhavanam Venkatarami Reddy Former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh
Chakrapani (Motion Pictures)
Chadalavada Umesh Chandra (IPS)
Chittor V. Nagaiah (Motion Pictures)
Dhulipala (Motion Pictures)
Ghantasala Balaramayya (Motion Pictures)
Krishna (actor) (Motion Pictures)
Gurram Joshua (Poet)
Jandhyala Papayya Sastry (Poet)
Jagarlamudi Kuppuswamy (Philanthropist)
Kodavatiganti Kutumbarao (Literature)
Konda Venkatappayya (Freedom fighter, Philanthropist)
Gummadi Venkateswara Rao (Motion Pictures)
Jamuna Ramanarao (Motion Pictures)
Kanchanamala (Motion Pictures)
Kongara Jaggayya (Motion Pictures)
Kosaraju Raghavaiah - Writer and poet
Eelapata Raghuramaiah - Cine and Stage Actor
Maddi Sudarsanam Freedom Fighter,Philanthropist,Politics and Industrialist
Mukkamala (Motion Pictures)
N.G. Ranga (Politics)
Bhanumathi Ramakrishna (Motion Pictures)^[1]
Rayaprolu Subba Rao(poet)
Satyam Sankaramanchi Amaravati Kathalu
Savitri Kommareddy (Motion Pictures)
S. V. L. Narasimham (Trade Union activist, First MP of Guntur City^[2]^[3])
Tripuraneni Ramaswamy "Kaviraju" (Poet)
Tummala Seetharama Murthy "Tenugulenka" (Poet)
Vasireddy Seethadevi - Novelist
Tripuraneni Gopichand - Novelist and Movie Director
Y. Nayudamma- Renowned scientist

Current

Brahmanandam (Motion Pictures)
D. Ramanaidu (Motion Pictures)
Dr. Reddy Entrepreneur of Pharma labs ^[4]
Yarlagadda Nayudamma - Renowned Pediatric Surgeon
K.Rosaiah (Former Chief Minister of AP).
Kasinadhuni Viswanath (Motion Pictures)
Chinna Jeeyar Swamy - Sitanagaram (Philosopher)^[5]
S. Janaki (Motion Pictures)
Ravuri bharadhwaja - (Jnanapith award winner)
Boyapati Srinu -Film director
Ambati Rayudu -Indian cricketer
Sunitha Upadrashta -Film Singer
Murali Sharma - Bollywood actor

References

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