List of people from Tiruchirappalli
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The following people were born or based their life in Tiruchirappalli, earlier known as Trichinopoly.
Contents
Arts
- Alex, Tamil film actor and magician
- S. A. Ashokan, Tamil film actor
- M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar, Tamil film actor
- Bharath, Indian film actor
- Anu Hasan, actress and television host
- Musiri Subramania Iyer, carnatic musician
- Srirangam Kannan, carnatic musician
- Krish, Indian playback singer
- Vanitha Krishnachandran, South Indian film actress
- T. G. Lingappa, Indian film music composer
- T. A. Madhuram, Tamil film actress
- P. Madhuri, Indian playback singer
- T. L. Maharajan, Tamil playback singer
- Gautham Menon, Indian film director and screenwriter
- S. M. Sriramulu Naidu, Indian film producer and director
- Napoleon, Indian film actor
- Santhosh Narayanan, Tamil film composer
- Sivakarthikeyan, Tamil film actor
- A. K. C. Natarajan, carnatic musician
- Prasanna, Indian film actor
- T. K. Ramamoorthy, Indian film composer
- G. Ramanathan, Indian film composer
- Vanitha Rangaraju, animator, Industrial Light & Magic[1]
- Ranjan, Tamil film actor
- Renuka, Indian film actress[2]
- Roshini, Indian playback singer[3]
- Javar Seetharaman, Tamil writer, playwright and Tamil film actor
- Gunasekaran Sundarraj, miniature artist, social worker
- Vaali, Tamil film lyricist, screenwriter
- James Vasanthan, Tamil film composer
Literature
- V. V. S. Aiyar, Indian independence activist, Tamil writer
- Madhan, cartoonist, journalist, writer and film critic
- Manushyaputhiran (S. Abdul Hameed), poet, writer, lyricist, publisher
- Samuel Vedanayagam Pillai, Tamil poet, novelist and social worker
- T. S. Murugesan Pillai, Telugu writer, poet and translator
- Kundalam Rangachariar, Sanskrit scholar
- Sujatha Rangarajan, Tamil writer, engineer, novelist, Tamil film screenwriter
- Kalki Sadasivam, co-founder of Kalki
Military
- Valentine Munbee McMaster, British military personnel, recipient of the Victoria Cross
- Mariappan Saravanan, Indian military personnel, recipient of Vir Chakra
Politics and administration
- F. G. Natesa Iyer, Indian National Congress leader from South India, Tamil dramatist
- M. R. Sethuratnam Iyer, former Minister of Development in the Madras Presidency
- T. V. Seshagiri Iyer, Indian lawyer and politician
- T. S. S. Rajan, Indian independence activist, Minister of Public Health and Religious Endowments in the Madras Presidency from 1937 to 1939
- Nirmala Sitharaman, BJP spokesperson and incumbent Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Commerce & Industry and Finance
- K. Subrahmanyam, former strategic affairs analyst of India and journalist
- P. Rathinavelu Thevar, Chairperson of the Trichinopoly Municipality from 1924 to 1946 and former Vice-President of the Justice Party
- K. A. P. Viswanatham, Tamil scholar, activist and General secretary of Justice Party until 1940
Science
- Pulney Andy, first Indian to receive a British medical degree
- N. Mathrubootham, medical practitioner, counselor and psychiatrist
- C. V. Raman, Nobel laureate in Physics and Bharat Ratna recipient[4]
Sports
- Charles Cornelius, former Indian hockey goalkeeper and Olympic medallist
- Leslie Fernandez, former Indian hockey goalkeeper
- Francis Monkland, former English first-class cricketer
- Francis Wyatt, former English first-class cricketer[5]
- Rajagopal Sathish, Indian first-class all rounder, captain of Indian World Team in the former Indian Cricket League Twenty20 competition. [6]
See also
References
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