List of people from Madurai
The following is a list of notable people from Madurai, India.
Kings and Queens
Religious figures
- Manikkavacakar
- Mangayarkkarasiyar
- Kulachirai Nayanar
- Santhananda
- Bodhisena
- Chithalai Chathanar
- Nathakuthanaar of Kundalakesi
Scholars
Dancers
- Rukmini Devi Arundale - Bharatanatyam Dancer, Founder Kalakshetra
- Narthaki Nataraj [1]Bharatanatyam Dancer,First transwoman to receive Sangeet Natak Akademi award.[2]
- Anita Ratnam - Indian classical and contemporary dancer.
Entrepreneurs and business leaders
- Karumuttu Thiagarajan Chettiar- Indian independence activist, industrialist and the founder of Thiagarajar College of Engineering and Thiagarajar school of management
- Sundar Pichai - CEO of Google Inc.
Journalists and Authors
- Chitra Bharucha-Former Vice Chairman of the BBC Trust[3]
- Rangaraj Pandey (Thanthi TV Chief News Editor)[4]
Social Activists
- Gopi Shankar Madurai[5]
Literature
Music
- M.S. Subbulakshmi
- T. N. Seshagopalan
- Madurai T. Srinivasan
- Madurai Mani Iyer
- T. M. Soundararajan
- Ramnad Raghavan
Film Industry
- Bharathiraja
- Maniratnam
- Ameer (director)
- Bala (director)
- Cheran (director)
- Chimbu Deven
- Kanika
- Karthik Subbaraj
- Ramarajan
- M. Sasikumar
- Shaam
- Susi Ganeshan
- Vivek (actor)
- Vadivelu
- Vijayakanth
- Samudrakani
- G. Gnanasambandam
- Pattimandram Raja
- C. V. Kumar
- Karthik Subbaraj
- Soori (actor)
- Srinivasan (Tamil actor) Aka Powerstar.
- Velraj
- Shanmugarajan
- Ganja Karuppu
- Pandi (actor)
- Meenal
- Jayam Ravi
- Robo Shankar
- Atlee (director)
Politicians and Public Servants
- Mayandi Bharathi
- P. T. Rajan
- Palanivel Rajan
- Jana Krishnamurthi
- Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Ministry of Commerce & Industry
- R. Chidambara Bharathi
- P. Mohan
- Angidi Chettiar - Former Vice President of Mauritius.
- A. Vaidyanatha Iyer
- Sellur K. Raju
- S. K. Balakrishnan
- S. Muthu
- Pazha Nedumaran
- S.M.Muhammed Sheriff, The first elected Muslim League MP from Tamil Nadu in independent India[6]
Sportsmen
References
- ↑ Narthaki Nataraj
- ↑ http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/dance-of-change/article2738168.ece
- ↑ http://www.sajaforum.org/2007/01/ditn_chitra_bha.html
- ↑ "Rangaraj Pandey, Chief NEWS Editor, Thanthi TV". ICTACT.
- ↑ "One Who Fights For an Other". The New Indian Express.
- ↑ http://indianunionmuslimleague.in/iuml-mps-since-beginning
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