| Birth Name: | Korada Ramakrishnaiya |
| Birth Date: | 1891 10, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Amalapuram, India |
| Death Place: | Tirupati, India |
| Education: | M.A. |
| Alma Mater: | Nobel College, Machilipatnam, Madras University |
| Occupation: | Telugu faculty at Noble College, Machilipatnam, Maharaja College, Vizayanagarm, Madras University, and Oriental Research Institute, Tirupati |
| Notable Works: | Sandhi, Desi, Dravidian Cognates, Andhra Bharata Kavita Vimarshanamu |
| Spouse: | Annapurna |
Korada Ramakrishnaiya (2 October 1891 - 28 March 1962) was a Dravidian Philologist and litterateur.[1] He was the first Telugu scholar to publish research works on Comparative Dravidian Linguistics (CDL). He published the first Literary Criticism based on modern methods 'Andhra Bharata Kavita Vimarshanamu'.[2]
Ramakrishnaiya authored works of fundamental importance and extended the borders of Research in Telugu Literary Criticism,[3] [4] History of Telugu language,[5] [6] Philological interpretation of Telugu grammar,[7] Cognate Dravidian vocabulary,[8] Comparative Dravidian grammar,[9] and Comparative Dravidian prosody.