List of Iyengars explained

Iyengars are an ethnoreligious group with origins in the Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.

Actors

Vasundhara Das (b. 1977) – Indian actress and singer^[1]
Akshara Haasan (b. 1991) - Indian actress
Charu Haasan (b. 1931) - Indian actor
Kamal Haasan (b. 1954) Indian actor^[2]
Shruti Haasan (b. 1986) - Indian actress
Anu Hasan (b. 1970) - Indian actress and talk show host
Amrutha Iyengar (b. 1996) - Indian actress
Kalyan Kumar(1928-1999)- Indian actor
R. Madhavan (b. 1970)- Indian actor
Y. G. Mahendran (b.1950)-Tamil film actor
Hema Malini (b. 1948) – Indian actress and Bharathnatyam exponent^[3]
Suhasini Maniratnam (b. 1961) - Indian actress
T. G. Raghavachari - Filmmaker
Major Sundarrajan (b.1931)-Tamil film actor
Vyjayanthimala (b. 1936) - Indian actress

Politicians and bureaucrats

J. Jayalalithaa (1948 - 2016) – Indian actress and politician, former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu^[4]
C. Rajagopalachari - The last governor general of India & Chief Minister of Madras
Raghuram Rajan - 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India
C. Rangarajan - 19th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India
Srinivas Varadachariar - 1st Indian Chief Justice of Federal Court of India
H. V. R. Iengar - 6th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India
C. V. Rungacharlu, the 14th diwan of Mysore
M. A. Ayyangar (1891 - 1978) - 1st Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha, 2nd Speaker of the Lok Sabha, 5th Governor of Bihar
N. Gopalaswami, 10th Chief Election Commissioner of India
K. Santhanam, 1st Minister of Railways (Minister of State)
T. T. Krishnamachari - 4th Minister of Finance
N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar - 2nd Minister of Defence
Mohan Parasaran - 22nd Solicitor General of India
Madhavachari Srinivasan - Judge of Supreme Court of India
Nirmala Sitharaman - Current Finance Minister of India, Bharatiya Janata party.^[5]
C. Vijayaraghavachariar – President, Indian National Congress.^[6]
Gopalaswami Parthasarathy (diplomat) - 7th Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations
E. S. L. Narasimhan - 1st Governor of Telangana
K. Parasaran - 6th Attorney-General for India

Musicians

Doreswamy Iyengar - Indian Carnatic Vainika
N. Ravikiran - Gottuvadhyam Musician and Proposer of Melharmony
T. M. Krishna - Indian Carnatic vocalist
Latha Rajinikanth - Film producer and playback singer
Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar - Indian Carnatic vocalist and Sangeet Natak Akademi Award and Padma Bhushan recipient
Narayan Iyengar - Gottuvadhyam Musician
Anirudh Ravichander - Film music composer
T. N. Seshagopalan - Harikatha Exponent
Tiger Varadachariar - Indian Carnatic Vocalist
Chitravina Narasimhan - Gottuvadhyam Musician
P. T. Narasimhachar - Padma Shri Awardee, Playwright and Kannada Navodaya poet

Scholars and academics

B. K. S. Iyengar (1918 - 2014) - Founder of Iyengar Yoga
Tirumalai Krishnamacharya (1888 - 1989) - Yoga teacher, often referred to as the "Father of modern Yoga"
Indira Parthasarathy (b 1930) - writer, playwright, scholar
Raghavan Varadarajan - Indian biophysicist and a professor at the Indian Institute of Science
Veeravalli S. Varadarajan - Onsager Medal Awardee and Professor of Mathematics at University of California, Los Angeles
S. Ramanan - Indian Mathematician and TWAS Prize in Mathematics and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology Awardee
M. S. Narasimhan - Padma Bhushan, Ordre national du Mérite, King Faisal International Prize for Science Awardee. Pioneer in the study of moduli spaces of holomorphic vector bundles on projective varieties
Usha Vijayaraghavan - Indian microbiologist
C. S. Seshadri - Founder of Chennai Mathematical Institute
Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887 - 1920) - mathematician who made significant contributions to mathematical analysis, infinite series, number theory, and continued fractions
P. T. Narasimhan pioneers of computational chemistry in India and a professor at the IIT Kanpur
Kavita Ramanan - Guggenheim Fellowship Awardee and probability theorist
P. K. Iyengar - Indian nuclear physicist and former director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre and chairman of Atomic Energy Commission of India
T. R. Govindachari - natural product chemist known for studies on the synthesis of isoquinolines and phenanthridines and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology Awardee
S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan - Padma Vibhushan, Leroy P. Steele Prize, Abel Prize and Birkhoff Prize awardee known for his contributions to probability theory. 7th Director of Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Govindan Sundararajan - Indian American Mathematician
M. S. Raghunathan - Director of National Centre for Mathematics, IIT Bombay
Shobhana Narasimhan - Computational Nano scientist and Indian Academy of Sciences Fellow
K. R. Parthasarathy (probabilist) - TWAS Prize in Mathematics Awardee and pioneer of quantum stochastic calculus

Sportspersons

Krishnamachari Srikkanth - Indian cricketer
Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan - Indian cricket captain and international umpire
Sumvruta Iyengar - American Tennis Player

References

Web site: Sify Movies – Vasundhara Das Interview . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20151209174330/http://www.sify.com/movies/malayalam/interview.php?id=6005413&cid=2408 . 9 December 2015 . 3 January 2013 . . I’m a Tamil Hebbar girl.
News: Gupta . Priya . I get devastated at the idea of marriage: Shruti Haasan . Times of India . 13 December 2021.
Book: India Today International . Living Media International Limited . 2004 . 23
Hema Malini self identifies her Iyengar Brahmin ancestry, says "I'm a pukka Iyengar Brahmin...".
Web site: Simi Garewal – Jayalalithaa interview . https://web.archive.org/web/20161206151636/http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/tamil-nadu/2016/dec/06/i-dont-think-anyone-has-taken-more-criticism-than-i-have-jaya-told-simi-garewal-1546016.html . dead . 6 December 2016 . newindianexpress.com.
News: 21 July 2014 . A power couple whom AP looks up to | Hyderabad News - Times of India . .
Web site: Ramaswami . C Vijayaraghavachariar, (1852–1944), President-Nagpur, 1920 . 26 December 2012 . Congress Sandesh.