List of people from Guntur
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This gives a rough list of People of importance from (or related to) the Guntur City and its Region/District (of India) in the last 2200 years. Some of these have international, national recognition and many other with local importance.
Pre-Medieval
- Acharya Nagarjuna (Philosopher)
- Ammaraja (Chalukyan King)
Medieval
- Jayapa Nayudu - Kakatiya military commander and writer on Indian Dance forms.
- Pierre Jules César Janssen (Detected first evidence of Helium during solar eclipse in Guntur)
- Sri Narayana Tirtha (Advaita Philosopher)
- Sri Thikkana somayaji, Andhra Mahabharatam
- Tenali Ramakrishna (One of the Ashtadiggajas)
- Vasireddy Venkatadri Nayudu - Ruler of Amaravati.
Recent
- Amma Anasuyadevi of Jillellamudi(Philosopher)
- Bhavanam Venkatarami Reddy Former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh
- Chakrapani (Motion Pictures)
- Chadalavada Umesh Chandra (IPS)
- Chittor V. Nagaiah (Motion Pictures)
- Dhulipala (Motion Pictures)
- Ghantasala Balaramayya (Motion Pictures)
- Krishna (actor) (Motion Pictures)
- Gurram Joshua (Poet)
- Jandhyala Papayya Sastry (Poet)
- Jagarlamudi Kuppuswamy (Philanthropist)
- Kodavatiganti Kutumbarao (Literature)
- Konda Venkatappayya (Freedom fighter, Philanthropist)
- Gummadi Venkateswara Rao (Motion Pictures)
- Jamuna Ramanarao (Motion Pictures)
- Kanchanamala (Motion Pictures)
- Kongara Jaggayya (Motion Pictures)
- Kosaraju Raghavaiah - Writer and poet
- Eelapata Raghuramaiah - Cine and Stage Actor
- Maddi Sudarsanam Freedom Fighter,Philanthropist,Politics and Industrialist
- Mukkamala (Motion Pictures)
- N.G. Ranga (Politics)
- Bhanumathi Ramakrishna (Motion Pictures)[1]
- Rayaprolu Subba Rao(poet)
- Satyam Sankaramanchi Amaravati Kathalu
- Savitri Kommareddy (Motion Pictures)
- S. V. L. Narasimham (Trade Union activist, First MP of Guntur City[2][3])
- Tripuraneni Ramaswamy "Kaviraju" (Poet)
- Tummala Seetharama Murthy "Tenugulenka" (Poet)
- Vasireddy Seethadevi - Novelist
- Tripuraneni Gopichand - Novelist and Movie Director
- Y. Nayudamma- Renowned scientist
Current
- Brahmanandam (Motion Pictures)
- D. Ramanaidu (Motion Pictures)
- N. T. Rama Rao Jr (Motion Pictures)
- Dr. Reddy Entrepreneur of Pharma labs [4]
- Yarlagadda Nayudamma - Renowned Pediatric Surgeon
- K.Rosaiah (Former Chief Minister of AP).
- Kasinadhuni Viswanath (Motion Pictures)
- Chinna Jeeyar Swamy - Sitanagaram (Philosopher)[5]
- S. Janaki (Motion Pictures)
- Ravuri bharadhwaja - (Jnanapith award winner)
- Boyapati Srinu -Film director
- Ambati Rayudu -Indian cricketer
- Sunitha Upadrashta -Film Singer
- Murali Sharma - Bollywood actor
