The following is a list of notable people from Madurai, India.
Religious figures
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
Software
References
- ↑ "DITN: Chitra Bharucha, acting head of the BBC". Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
- ↑ "One Who Fights For an Other". The New Indian Express.
- ↑ "Finalists of 2016 Commonwealth Youth Worker Awards announced - The Commonwealth". thecommonwealth.org.
- ↑ "Gender rights activist shortlisted for international award - Times of India". The Times of India.
- ↑ "Intersex person to contest from Madurai North". 30 April 2016 – via The Hindu.
- ↑ "3rd gender gets a new champion in Tamil Nadu poll ring - Times of India".
- ↑ "Intersex candidate alleges harassment - Times of India".
- ↑ "This intersex person is contesting TN polls, 'ze' wants to change your mind on sexual minorities". 24 April 2016.
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