List of people from Madurai
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The following is a list of notable people from Madurai, India.
Kings and Queens
Religious figures
- Manikkavacakar
- Mangayarkkarasiyar
- Kulachirai Nayanar
- Santhananda
- Bodhisena
- Chithalai Chathanar
- Nathakuthanaar of Kundalakesi
Scholars
Dancers
- Rukmini Devi Arundale - Bharatanatyam Dancer, Founder Kalakshetra
- Narthaki Nataraj [1]Bharatanatyam Dancer,First transwoman to receive Sangeet Natak Akademi award.[2]
- Anita Ratnam - Indian classical and contemporary 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 Google Inc.
Journalists and Authors
- Chitra Bharucha-Former Vice Chairman of the BBC Trust[3]
- Rangaraj Pandey (Thanthi TV Chief News Editor)[4]
Social Activists
- Gopi Shankar Madurai[5] - The Commonwealth Youth Worker Asia Finalist,[6][7] Youngest candidate in the Tamil Nadu Assembly election and also the first openly Intersex & Genderqueer person to do so.[8][9][10][11]
Literature
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
- Vijayakanth
- Samudrakani
- G. Gnanasambandam
- Pattimandram Raja
- C. V. Kumar
- Soori (actor)
- Srinivasan (Tamil actor)
- Velraj
- Shanmugarajan
- Ganja Karuppu
- Pandi (actor)
- Meenal
- Jayam Ravi
- Robo Shankar
- Atlee (director)
Politicians and Public Servants
- Mayandi Bharathi
- P. T. Rajan
- Palanivel Rajan
- Palanivel Thiagarajan
- 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
- Sellur K. Raju
- S. K. Balakrishnan
- S. Muthu
- Pazha Nedumaran
- S.M.Muhammed Sheriff, The first elected Muslim League MP from Tamil Nadu in independent India[12]
Sportsmen
References
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- ^ "Dance of change". 22 December 2011 – via The Hindu.
- ^ "DITN: Chitra Bharucha, acting head of the BBC".
- ^ "Rangaraj Pandey, Chief NEWS Editor, Thanthi TV". ICTACT.
- ^ "One Who Fights For an Other". The New Indian Express.
- ^ http://thecommonwealth.org/media/news/finalists-2016-commonwealth-youth-worker-awards-announced
- ^ http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/madurai/Gender-rights-activist-shortlisted-for-international-award/articleshow/54968127.cms
- ^ "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.
- ^ league, indian union muslim. "IUML MPs Since Beginning - A Website on Indian Union Muslim League - IUML - Muslim League".