List of people from Madurai explained

The following is a list of notable people from Madurai, India.

Religious figures

• Manikkavacakar
• Mangayarkkarasiyar
• Kulachirai Nayanar
• Santhananda
• Bodhisena
• Chithalai Chathanar

Scholars

• Vida Dutton Scudder
• Augustus De Morgan
• S. Subramania Iyer
• Solomon Pappaiah
• Ganapathy Baskaran
• Sridhar Sundar Raman

Dancers

• Rukmini Devi Arundale - Bharatanatyam Dancer, Founder Kalakshetra
• Anita Ratnam - Indian classical and contemporary dancer.
• Sridhar Sundar Raman - Classical Belly 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 Alphabet Inc. and its subsidiary Google Inc.
• RajaShree Birla -wife of Adhitya Birla

Journalists and authors

• Chitra Bharucha-Former Vice Chairman of the BBC Trust^[1]

Social activists

• Gopi Shankar Madurai^[2] - The Commonwealth Awardee,^{[3] [4]} Youngest candidate in the Tamil Nadu Assembly election and also the first openly Intersex & Genderqueer person to do so.^{[5] [6] [7] [8]}
• S. Swapna - first Indian transgender to take the TNPSC recruitment exam for public service employees in the Tamil Nadu state
• Narayanan Krishnan

Literature

• Karmegha Konar
• S. Abdul Rahman
• S. Venkatesan
• Kausalya Hart
• Mu. Metha
• Ba.Venkatesan
• Dr.S.Tamilarasan (Madurai Sellur Upaathiyaayar)

Music

• M.S. Subbulakshmi
• T. N. Seshagopalan
• Madurai T. Srinivasan
• Madurai Mani Iyer
• T. M. Soundararajan
• Ramnad Raghavan

Film industry

• Bharathiraja
• Ilaiyaraaja
• Maniratnam
• Ameer (director)
• Bala (director)
• Cheran (director)
• Chimbu Deven
• Kanika
• Karthik Subbaraj
• Ramarajan
• M. Sasikumar
• Shaam
• Susi Ganeshan
• Vivek (actor)
• Vadivelu
• Vijay Sethupathi
• Vijayakanth
• Samudrakani
• G. Gnanasambandam
• Pattimandram Raja
• C. V. Kumar
• Soori (actor)
• Srinivasan (Tamil actor)
• Velraj
• Shanmugarajan
• Ganja Karuppu
• Pandi (actor)
• Meenal
• Jayam Ravi
• Mohan Raja
• Robo Shankar
• Atlee (director)
• Shanmuga Bharathi (Writer, Vellaipookal)
• Solomon Pappaiah

Politicians and public servants

• Mayandi Bharathi
• P. T. Rajan
• Palanivel Rajan
• Palanivel Thiagarajan
• S.M.Muhammed Sheriff Former Consecutive Member of Parliament
• 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
• S. K. Balakrishnan
• S. Muthu
• Pazha Nedumaran
• P. Amudha

Sportsmen

• A. Palanisamy
• Magesh Chandran Panchanathan
• Mohan Ukkrapandian

Software

• Sundar Pichai

Notes and References

1. Web site: DITN: Chitra Bharucha, acting head of the BBC. 16 July 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20160305064457/http://www.sajaforum.org/2007/01/ditn_chitra_bha.html. 5 March 2016. dead.
2. Web site: One Who Fights For an Other. https://web.archive.org/web/20150519130306/http://www.newindianexpress.com/education/edex/One-Who-Fights-For-an-Other/2015/04/13/article2756559.ece. dead. 19 May 2015. The New Indian Express.
3. Web site: Finalists of 2016 Commonwealth Youth Worker Awards announced - The Commonwealth. thecommonwealth.org.
4. Web site: Gender rights activist shortlisted for international award - Times of India. The Times of India.
5. Web site: Intersex person to contest from Madurai North. 30 April 2016. The Hindu.
6. Web site: 3rd gender gets a new champion in Tamil Nadu poll ring - Times of India.
7. Web site: Intersex candidate alleges harassment - Times of India.
8. Web site: This intersex person is contesting TN polls, 'ze' wants to change your mind on sexual minorities. 24 April 2016.