List of people from Madurai
The following is a list of notable people from the Indian city of Madurai, Tamil Nadu.
Religious figures
Scholars
Dancers
- Rukmini Devi Arundale – Bharatanatyam dancer; founder of the Kalakshetra Foundation, an art and cultural academy
- Anita Ratnam – classical and contemporary dancer
Entrepreneurs and business leaders
- Chitra Bharucha – former vice chairman of the BBC Trust[1]
- Rajashree Birla – wife of Aditya Vikram Birla
- Karumuttu Thiagarajan Chettiar – Indian independence activist, industrialist and the founder of Thiagarajar College of Engineering and Thiagarajar School of Management
- Sundar Pichai – chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc. and its subsidiary Google Inc.
Social activists
- Narayanan Krishnan
- Gopi Shankar Madurai[2] – The Commonwealth Awardee,[3][4] youngest candidate in the Tamil Nadu Assembly election and also the first openly intersex and genderqueer person to do so[5][6][7][8]
- S. Swapna – first Indian transgender to take the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission (TNPSC) recruitment examination for public-service employees in the Tamil Nadu state
Literature
Music
Film industry
- Ameer (director)
- Atlee (director)
- Bala (director)
- Bharathiraja
- Cheran (director)
- Chimbu Deven
- Susi Ganeshan
- G. Gnanasambandam
- Ilaiyaraaja
- Kanika
- Ganja Karuppu
- C. V. Kumar
- Maniratnam
- Meenal
- Pandi (actor)
- Solomon Pappaiah
- Mohan Raja
- Pattimandram Raja
- Ramarajan
- Jayam Ravi
- Samudrakani
- M. Sasikumar
- Vijay Sethupathi
- Shaam
- Robo Shankar
- Shanmugarajan
- Soori (actor)
- Srinivasan (Tamil actor)
- Karthik Subbaraj
- Vadivelu
- Velraj
- Vijayakanth
- Vivek (actor)
Politicians and public servants
- P. Amudha
- S. K. Balakrishnan
- Mayandi Bharathi
- R. Chidambara Bharathi
- Angidi Chettiar – former vice president of Mauritius
- A. Vaidyanatha Iyer
- Jana Krishnamurthi
- P. Mohan
- S. Muthu
- Pazha Nedumaran
- P. T. Rajan
- Palanivel Rajan
- S. M. Muhammed Sheriff – former Consecutive Member of Parliament
- Nirmala Sitharaman – Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Ministry of Commerce & Industry
- Palanivel Thiagarajan
Sportsmen
Software
References
- ^ "DITN: Chitra Bharucha, Acting Head of the BBC". Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
- ^ Vasudevan, Shilpa Kappur (13 April 2015). "One Who Fights For an Other". The New Indian Express. Archived from the original on 19 May 2015.
- ^ "Finalists of 2016 Commonwealth Youth Worker Awards Announced". Commonwealth Secretariat. 27 October 2016. Retrieved 2 March 2025.
- ^ Veerappan, Devanathan (21 October 2016). "Gender Rights Activist Shortlisted for International Award". The Times of India. Retrieved 2 March 2025.
- ^ "Intersex Person to Contest from Madurai North". The Hindu. 30 April 2016. Retrieved 2 March 2025.
- ^ Menon, Priya (22 April 2016). "3rd Gender Gets a New Champion in Tamil Nadu Poll Ring". The Times of India. Retrieved 2 March 2025.
- ^ "Intersex Candidate Alleges Harassment". The Times of India. 10 May 2016. Retrieved 2 March 2025.
- ^ Mathew, Pheba (24 April 2016). "This Intersex Person Is Contesting TN Polls, 'Ze' Wants to Change Your Mind on Sexual Minorities". The News Minute. Retrieved 2 March 2025.