List of people from Coimbatore
The following is a list of notable people who were either born in, are current residents of, or are otherwise closely associated with or from the city of Coimbatore, India.
A
- K. V. Subrahmanya Aiyar - historian[1]
B
- balasubramaniam - tennis player[2]
C
- T. S. Avinashilingam Chettiar - educationist and politician[3]
- R. K. Shanmukham Chetty - industrialist and politician[4]
D
- G R Damodaran - educationist[5]
G
- Goundamani - film actor[6]
- V. C. Palanisami Gounder - politician[7]
H
- H. V. Hande - politician[8]
- Hiphop Tamizha - music director, actor , motivational speaker, social activist.
- Githa Hariharan - author[9]
- Andrew Harvey - author, religious speaker[10]
K
- Karthick Naren- tamil filmmaker, writer, producer & actor
- K. V. Kandaswamy - politician[11]
- Sundaram Karivardhan - motor racing pioneer and entrepreneur[12]
- Narain Karthikeyan - motor racing driver[13]
- D. Sreeram Kumar - Indian Army major[14]
- V. R. Naren Kumar - motorsport driver[15]
L
- C. S. Lakshmi - writer[16]
- K. G. Lakshminarayan - cricket umpire[17]
M
- Manivannan - actor and director[18]
- Charles McCarthy - cricketer[19]
- C. S. Ratnasabhapathy Mudaliar - industrialist[20]
- Pithukuli Murugadas - singer[21]
- Arunachalam Muruganantham - entrepreneur[22]
N
- Gopalswamy Doraiswamy Naidu - inventor and engineer[23]
- P. Nagarajan - politician[24]
- S. M. Sriramulu Naidu - film producer[25]
- V. Nanammal - fitness evangelist and yoga teacher
- Jagadeesan Narayan - cricketer[26]
- Karthick Naren - film director
- P.R. Natarajan - politician
O
- Om Prakash - cinematographer[27]
P
- Sai Pallavi - actress
- K. C. S. Paniker - painter[28]
- Rajshree Pathy - businesswoman[29]
- Arogyaswami Paulraj - scientist[30]
- C. K. Prahalad - economist[31]
R
- P. L. Raj - choreographer[32]
- C. T. Rajakantham - actor[33]
- K V Ramachandran - music critic[34]
- G. Ramaswamy - chartered accountant[35]
- C. P. Radhakrishnan - politician[36]
S
- S. V. Sahasranamam - actor[37]
- Amit Sareen - author[38]
- Sathyaraj - actor and comedian[39]
- Adam Sinclair - hockey player[40]
- Sivakumar - actor and public speaker[41]
- Aushik Srinivas - cricketer[42]
- T. R. Sundaram - actor[43]
- V. A. Sundaram - independence activist[44]
- Suriya - actor and film producer[45]
V
- Nirupama Vaidyanathan - tennis player[46]
- G. R. Vaishnav - volleyball player[47]
- S. M. Velusamy - politician[48]
- Adhithya Venkatapathy - rapper who forms a part of the Tamil hip-hop group Hiphop Tamizha[49]
- Siddharth Venugopal - actor[50]
- Swamikannu Vincent - cinema producer and pioneer[51]
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