| T. V. Ramasubbaiyer | |
| Birth Name: | Thazhuviya Ramasubbaiyer |
| Parents: | Ramalinga Iyer, Bhagavathi |
| Birth Place: | Thazhuvia Mahadevar Koil, Vadasery, Nagercoil, Kanyakumari District, India |
| Birth Date: | 2 October 1908 |
| Occupation: | Dinamalar newspaper founder and Philanthropist |
| Children: | 5 sons and 2 daughters |
Thazhuvia Ramasubbaiyer (2 October 1908 – 21 July 1984), popularly referred to as TVR, was a philanthropist and founder of the popular Tamil daily newspaper Dinamalar.[1]
Ramasubbaiyer was born to a brahmin family[2] on 2 October 1908 at Thazhuvia Mahadevar Koil village in the then Nanjilnadu, Nagercoil, (present-day Kanyakumari District).
Ramasubbaiyer started a Tamil periodical Dinamalar[3] on 6 September 1951 at Trivandrum. He later spread his operations to Tamil Nadu.
TVR died on 21 July 1984.
TVR’s son, Shri R Lakshmipathy, later became the Chairman of the Press Trust of India, and another son, Late Shri R Krishnamurthy became the President of the Numismatic Society.