The following is a list of notable people from Kerala

Kerala

or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....

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India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

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Though many personalities in this list are/were multi-faceted, their names are classified according to their major area of work.

Ancient rulers and kings

• Saamoothiri
  Saamoothiri
  Zamorin is the title used by the Hindu Eradi Samanthan kshatriya rulers of the erstwhile late medieval feudal kingdom of Kozhikode located in the present day state of Kerala, India....
  
    (Zamorin, സാമൂതിരി) - Rulers of Malabar from 14th and 18th century AD.
• Ayilyam Thirunal
  Ayilyam Thirunal
  Maharajah Ayilyam Thirunal Rama Varma was the ruler of the princely state of Travancore in India from 1860 to 1880. His reign was highly successful with Travancore gaining the appellation of "model state of India"...
  
    - Ruler of Travancore
  Travancore
  Kingdom of Travancore was a former Hindu feudal kingdom and Indian Princely State with its capital at Padmanabhapuram or Trivandrum ruled by the Travancore Royal Family. The Kingdom of Travancore comprised most of modern day southern Kerala, Kanyakumari district, and the southernmost parts of...
  
   from 1831 to 1880. Also known by his literary works.
• Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma
  Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma
  Chithira Thirunal Maharaja was the last ruling maharaja of the princely state of Travancore, in southern India...
  
   - Last King of Travancore
  Travancore
  Kingdom of Travancore was a former Hindu feudal kingdom and Indian Princely State with its capital at Padmanabhapuram or Trivandrum ruled by the Travancore Royal Family. The Kingdom of Travancore comprised most of modern day southern Kerala, Kanyakumari district, and the southernmost parts of...
  
  ; Rajpramukh
  Rajpramukh
  Rajpramukh was an administrative title in India which existed from India's independence in 1947 until 1956. Rajpramukhs were the appointed governors of certain of India's provinces and states....
  
   of Thiru-Kochi
  Travancore-Cochin
  Travancore-Cochin or Thiru-Kochi is a former state of India . It was created on 1 July 1949 by the merger of two former princely states, the kingdoms of Travancore and Cochin....
  
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• Dharma Raja
  Dharma Raja
  Dharma Raja Karthika Thirunal Rama Varma was the Maharajah of Travancore from 1758 until his death in 1798. He succeeded his uncle Marthanda Varma, who is credited with the title of "maker of modern Travancore"...
  
    - Ruler of Travancore from 1733 to 1798. Known for his Principles of Justice.
• Marthanda Varma
  Marthanda Varma
  Marthanda Varma , was the founder of the Indian Hindu feudal kingdom of Travancore from Venad SwaroopamHe ruled from 1729 till his death in 1758, having succeeded his maternal uncle Dharma Raja.King Marthanda Varma is usually credited as the "founder of Kingdom of Travancore" from...
  
    - Ruled in the 18th century. Generally referred to as "the maker of modern Travancore".
• Moolam Thirunal  - Ruler of Travancore. Famous for his educational reforms.
• Raja Kesavadas
  Raja Kesavadas
  Raja Kesavadas was the Dewan of Travancore during the reign of Dharma Raja Karthika Thirunal Rama Varma .-Early years:...
  
    - Dewan
  Dewan
  The originally Persian title of dewan has, at various points in Islamic history, designated various differing though similar functions.-Etymology:...
  
   of Travancore during the reign of Dharma Raja
  Dharma Raja
  Dharma Raja Karthika Thirunal Rama Varma was the Maharajah of Travancore from 1758 until his death in 1798. He succeeded his uncle Marthanda Varma, who is credited with the title of "maker of modern Travancore"...
  
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• Sakthan Thampuran
  Sakthan Thampuran
  Rama Varma Kunhjipilla Thampuran , or Rama Varma IX, popularly known as Sakthan Thampuran , was the ruler of Cochin. He was the King of Cochin and his palace was in Thrissur. Thrissur is the cultural capital of Kerala and Sakthan Thampuran is the very architect of Thrissur city. Thrissur Pooram was...
  
    - Ruler of Kingdom of Cochin
  Kingdom of Cochin
  Kingdom of Cochin was a late medieval Hindu kingdom and later Princely State on the Malabar Coast, South India...
  
   during 1751-1805.
• Sir Sri Rama Varma
  Sir Sri Rama Varma
  Sir Sri Rama Varma XV GCSI GCIE popularly known as The Rajarshi Of Cochin and as Abdicated Highness, was the ruler of the Kingdom of Cochin from 1895 to 1914.- Reign :...
  
    - Ruler of Kingdom of Cochin
  Kingdom of Cochin
  Kingdom of Cochin was a late medieval Hindu kingdom and later Princely State on the Malabar Coast, South India...
  
   and Father of Modern Cochin.
• Swathi Thirunal Rama Varma
  Swathi Thirunal Rama Varma
  Sri Swathi Thirunal Rama Varma was the Maharaja of the state of Travancore , in India. He reigned under the regency of his mother Maharani Gowri Lakshmi Bayi from 1813 till 1815 and henceforth under the regency of his aunt Maharani Gowri Parvati Bayi from 1815 till 1829...
  
   - Erstwhile king of Travancore and a great musician.
• Rama Varma Kulashekhara  - The last king of Chera empire and undivided Kerala in the 12th century and ruled for 36 years.
• Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja - He is known as the Lion of Kerala. He was a prince from the royal dynasty of Pazhassi Kottayam.

Business and commerce

• Reji Abraham
  Reji Abraham
  Reji Abraham is the managing director of Aban Group in India. He is on the 2009 Forbes list of the world's wealthiest people. His business empire was begun by his late father, M.A. Abraham, and he was listed on the 2008 Forbes list of the world's wealthiest people. He runs India's largest offshore...
  
   - Managing Director of ABAN Group of Companies.
• Kris Gopalakrishnan
  Kris Gopalakrishnan
  Senapathy Gopalakrishnan , popularly known as Kris Gopalakrishnan is the President of Infosys Technologies a global consulting and IT services company based in India. He is also one of its seven founders.- Early days :...
  
   - Co-Chairman and former CEO of Infosys Technologies.
• S. D. Shibulal
  S. D. Shibulal
  S.D. Shibulal, better known as Shibu, is the co-founder and current Chief Executive Officer of Infosys, a consulting and Consulting and IT services company based in India.Shibulal is a member of the Board of Directors of Infosys Limited...
  
   - CEO and former COO of Infosys Technologies.
• T K Kurien
  T K Kurien
  T K Kurien is the Chief Executive Officer of IT Business and Executive Director, Wipro Limited. TK is also a member of the Wipro Corporate Executive Council.-Career:...
  
   - CEO of Wipro
  Wipro
  Wipro Limited formally Western India Products Limited is a global IT services and consulting company headquartered in Bangalore, India. As of 2011, Wipro is the second largest IT services company by turnover in India and employs more than 120,000 people worldwide as of March 2011...
  
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• R Gopalakrishnan
  R Gopalakrishnan
  R Gopalakrishnan is an Executive Director with one of the largest Indian business groups - Tata Sons, a holding company to one of the largest Indian business groups The Tata Group.He was educated from the prestigious St. Xavier's College, Calcutta...
  
   - Executive Director of Tata Sons
  Tata Sons
  Tata Sons is a promoter of the key companies of the Tata Group and holds the bulk of shareholding in these companies. It was established as a trading enterprise by Group founder Jamsetji Tata in 1868...
  
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• Padmasree Warrior - CTO of Cisco Systems
  Cisco Systems
  Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in San Jose, California, United States, that designs and sells consumer electronics, networking, voice, and communications technology and services. Cisco has more than 70,000 employees and annual revenue of US$...
  
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• K. P. P. Nambiar - Former Chairman of Keltron
  Keltron
  Keltron, Kerala State Electronics Development Corporation Limited, is a public sector electronics company located in Kerala, a state in India. It is headquartered at the capital city of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram...
  
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• C.G. Krishnadas Nair - Former Chairman of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
  Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
  Hindustan Aeronautics Limited based in Bangalore, India, is one of Asia's largest aerospace companies. Under the management of the Indian Ministry of Defence, this state-owned company is mainly involved in aerospace industry, which includes manufacturing and assembling aircraft, navigation and...
  
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• George Alexander Muthoot
  George Alexander Muthoot
  George Alexander Muthoot is an Indian entrepreneur and businessman, he is currently the Managing Director of the Muthoot Group, a business conglomerate in India...
  
   - Managing Director of Muthoot Finance and Muthoot Group
• TPG Nambiar - Founder of British Physical Laboratories Group
  BPL group
  British Physical Laboratories Group is an Indian electronics company that deals with consumer appliances , home entertainment products and health care devices.-History:...
  
  
• Verghese Kurien
  Verghese Kurien
  Verghese Kurien is the founder of the Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation , an apex cooperative organization that manages the Amul food brand. He is recognised as the man behind the success of the Amul brand.He is credited with being the architect of Operation Flood – the largest dairy...
  
   - Founder Chairman of Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd.
• Thakiyudeen Wahid
  Thakiyudeen Wahid
  Thakiyudeen Abdul Wahid was a leading Indian entrepreneur and aviator. He was the Managing Director of the now-defunct East West Airlines.Mr. Wahid along with his brother, Mr. Nasirudeen A Wahid created East West Airlines, Indias first private airlines, from the success of a profitably run...
  
   - Owner of East West Airlines
• K.M. Mammen Mappilai - Founder of MRF Tyres
  Madras Rubber Factory
  Madras Rubber Factory, popularly known as MRF, is a major tyre manufacturing company located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.The name was later changed as "Manorama Rubber Factory". MRF is mainly involved in making vehicle tyres. It is India's largest tyre manufacturing company, and among the dozen...
  
   & Manorama
  Malayala Manorama
  Malayala Manorama is a daily news paper, in Malayalam language, published in the state of Kerala, India. It was first published as a weekly on 14 March 1890, and currently has a readership of over 16 million . The Malayalam word "manorama" roughly translates to "entertainer"...
  
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• C. P. Krishnan Nair
  C. P. Krishnan Nair
  Capt. Chittarath Poovakkatt Krishnan Nair is an Indian businessman, who founded Leela Lace Ltd., a textile company in 1957 and later became the Founder-Chairman of the Leela Group of Hotels, established in 1986...
  
   - Founder of the Leela Group of Hotels.
• Rajmohan Pillai
  Rajmohan Pillai
  Dr. J. Rajmohan Pillai is an Indian businessman, currently the Chairman of Beta Group.-Early life:Rajmohan Pillai was born in Kollam, Kerala, South India, and educated in the state capital Trivandrum.-Beta Group:...
  
   - Chairman of Beta Group.
• Kochouseph Chittilappilly
  Kochouseph Chittilappilly
  Kochouseph Chittilappilly is an Indian businessman and the Managing Director of V-Guard Industries Ltd and a chain of amusement parks like Veega Land, Kochi and Wonderla, Bangalore.-Early life:...
  
   - Managing Director of V Guard Industries Ltd.
• Reji Menon - Founder director of Asianet
  Asianet
  Asianet Communications Limited is an Indian media conglomerate jointly owned by STAR TV and Jupiter Entertainment. Formed in 1991 and headquartered in the city of Thiruvananthapuram in the south Indian state of Kerala, the company owns several television channels including Asianet, the first...
  
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• Dr Rajendran V - Founder Chairman of Capstocks and Securities (India) Pvt Ltd.
• Dr. Biju John - Founder President of ISEEC (International Society for Science, Education, Engineering, Electronics and Computing)
• Dr. Issac Mathai - Founder and Medical director of Soukya(International Holistic center) - International Holistic doctor.
• Raveendran Pillai - Director of Nasser S. Al Hajri Corporation, Saudi Arabia.
• PNC Menon - Founder of Sobha developers in Oman and UAE.
• M. A. Yousuf Ali - Founder of EMKE Group, Lulu Hypermarkets and Supermarkets in United Arab Emirates.
• C.C.Niyaz Ali - Managing Director and Co-Founder of Dulog Group of Companies, Part of the AW Rostamani Group in United Arab Emirates.
• Sunny Varkey - Founder and Chaiarman of GEMS Education
  GEMS Education
  GEMS Education is a global education company that owns and operates over 100 international schools providing high quality holistic education to over 100,000 students from 125 countries....
  
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Non-resident people of Kerala origin

• Mahathir bin Mohamad
  Mahathir bin Mohamad
  Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad . is a Malaysian politician who was the fourth Prime Minister of Malaysia. He held the post for 22 years from 1981 to 2003, making him Malaysia's longest serving Prime Minister. His political career spanned almost 40 years.Born and raised in Alor Setar, Kedah, Mahathir...
  
   - 4th Prime Minister of Malaysia
  Prime Minister of Malaysia
  The Prime Minister of Malaysia is the indirectly elected head of government of Malaysia. He is officially appointed by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, the head of state, who in HM's judgment is likely to command the confidence of the majority of the members of that House of Representatives , the...
  
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• Devan Nair
  Devan Nair
  Devan Nair a/l Chengara Veetil, also known as C. V. Devan Nair , was the third President of Singapore and was elected by Parliament on October 23, 1981. He served as President until his resignation on March 28, 1985.-Youth:Nair was born in Malacca, Malaysia, the son of an Indian immigrant I.V.K...
  
    - 3rd President of Singapore
  President of Singapore
  The President of the Republic of Singapore is Singapore's head of state. In a Westminster parliamentary system, as which Singapore governs itself, the prime minister is the head of the government while the position of president is largely ceremonial. Before 1993, the President of Singapore was...
  
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• Sundaresh Menon
  Sundaresh Menon
  Sundaresh Menon SC is Singapore's Attorney-General. He was sworn in on 1 Oct 2010. Menon graduated with first class honours from the law faculty of the National University of Singapore in 1986 and later obtained his LL.M. from Harvard University. He was appointed Senior Counsel in 2008. He served a...
  
    - Current Attorney-General of Singapore
  Attorney-General of Singapore
  The Attorney-General of Singapore is the legal adviser to the government of the Republic of Singapore and its public prosecutor.The office was founded in 1867 as the chief legal officer of the British crown colony of the Straits Settlements. The current requirements for appointment as...
  
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• Ravi Menon  - Current Managing Director of Monetary Authority of Singapore
  Monetary Authority of Singapore
  The Monetary Authority of Singapore is Singapore's central bank and financial regulatory authority...
  
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• Vanu Menon
  Vanu Gopala Menon
  Vanu Gopala Menon became the Permanent Representative of Singapore to the United Nations on September 16, 2004, a position he still held as at July 2010...
  
   - Former Permanent Representative of Singapore
  Singapore
  Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
  
   to the United Nations
  United Nations
  The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
  
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• Peter Varghese
  Peter Varghese
  Peter Joseph Noozhumurry Varghese AO is an Australian diplomat and public servant. An ethnic Malayali Indian, Varghese was born in Kenya to Indian parents, and emigrated to Australia as a child...
  
   - Current High Commissioner
  High Commissioner
  High Commissioner is the title of various high-ranking, special executive positions held by a commission of appointment.The English term is also used to render various equivalent titles in other languages.-Bilateral diplomacy:...
  
   of Australia to India.
• Sebastian Edathy
  Sebastian Edathy
  Sebastian Edathy is a German politician.Edathy was born in Hanover, the son of an immigrant from Kerala, India, and is a trained sociologist. He has been an SPD member of the German parliament since 1998...
  
   - Member of Deutscher Bundestag
  Bundestag
  The Bundestag is a federal legislative body in Germany. In practice Germany is governed by a bicameral legislature, of which the Bundestag serves as the lower house and the Bundesrat the upper house. The Bundestag is established by the German Basic Law of 1949, as the successor to the earlier...
  
  ; Current Chairman of the South Asian Parliamentary Group.
• Josef Winkler - Member of Deutscher Bundestag
  Bundestag
  The Bundestag is a federal legislative body in Germany. In practice Germany is governed by a bicameral legislature, of which the Bundestag serves as the lower house and the Bundesrat the upper house. The Bundestag is established by the German Basic Law of 1949, as the successor to the earlier...
  
  . (His mother is a Keralite who married a German national).

Members of the Indian Civil Service

• K P S Menon Sr. - 1st Foreign Secretary of India
  Indian Foreign Secretary
  An Indian Foreign Secretary is the top diplomat for Indian Foreign Relations, who is appointed in the Ministry of External Affairs Office. Foreign Secretaries are experienced IFS officers, who are ambassadors to foreign nations....
  
   and the 1st Ambassador of India to China.
• V. P. Menon
  V. P. Menon
  Vappala Pangunni Menon CIS CIE , also known as V. P. Menon, was an Indian civil servant who played a vital role during the partition of India and the integration of independent India, from the period 1945-1950....
  
   - Political Reforms Commissioner to the Viceroy of India Lord Louis Mountbatten.

Chiefs of Civil Services of India

• N. R. Pillai
  N. R. Pillai
  Narayanan Raghavan Pillai or Sir N R Pillai was the first Secretary of External Affairs, post and office he held from February 6, 1950 until May 13, 1953. He was later the first Secretary General or Cabinet Secretary of the Republic of India...
  
   - 1st Cabinet Secretary of India
  Cabinet Secretary (India)
  The head of executive officers of civil services of India is the Cabinet Secretary. The Cabinet Secretary is under the direct charge of the Prime Minister...
  
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• T.N.Seshan - 18th Cabinet Secretary of India
  Cabinet Secretary (India)
  The head of executive officers of civil services of India is the Cabinet Secretary. The Cabinet Secretary is under the direct charge of the Prime Minister...
  
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• K. M. Chandrasekhar - 29th Cabinet Secretary of India
  Cabinet Secretary (India)
  The head of executive officers of civil services of India is the Cabinet Secretary. The Cabinet Secretary is under the direct charge of the Prime Minister...
  
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Members of the Civil Services of India

Civil Services of India

The Civil Services of India refer to the civil service and the permanent bureaucracy of the Government of India...

• T. K. A. Nair - Current Advisor and Former Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India
  Prime Minister of India
  The Prime Minister of India , as addressed to in the Constitution of India — Prime Minister for the Union, is the chief of government, head of the Council of Ministers and the leader of the majority party in parliament...
  
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• Christy L. Fernandez - Current Secretary to the President of India
  President of India
  The President of India is the head of state and first citizen of India, as well as the Supreme Commander of the Indian Armed Forces. President of India is also the formal head of all the three branches of Indian Democracy - Legislature, Executive and Judiciary...
  
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• P.M. Nair - Former Secretary to the President of India
  President of India
  The President of India is the head of state and first citizen of India, as well as the Supreme Commander of the Indian Armed Forces. President of India is also the formal head of all the three branches of Indian Democracy - Legislature, Executive and Judiciary...
  
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• Shivshankar Menon - 26th Foreign Secretary of India
  Indian Foreign Secretary
  An Indian Foreign Secretary is the top diplomat for Indian Foreign Relations, who is appointed in the Ministry of External Affairs Office. Foreign Secretaries are experienced IFS officers, who are ambassadors to foreign nations....
  
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• Nirupama Rao
  Nirupama Rao
  Nirupama Menon Rao is a 1973 batch Indian Foreign Service officer who is the current Ambassador of India to the United States of America since August 2011...
  
   - 27th Foreign Secretary of India
  Indian Foreign Secretary
  An Indian Foreign Secretary is the top diplomat for Indian Foreign Relations, who is appointed in the Ministry of External Affairs Office. Foreign Secretaries are experienced IFS officers, who are ambassadors to foreign nations....
  
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• Ranjan Mathai
  Ranjan Mathai
  Ranjan Mathai is the current Indian Foreign Secretary. He assumed charge on August 1, 2011 with a two year term. Prior to this assignment, he served as the Indian Ambassador to France.-Early life:...
  
   - 28th Foreign Secretary of India
  Indian Foreign Secretary
  An Indian Foreign Secretary is the top diplomat for Indian Foreign Relations, who is appointed in the Ministry of External Affairs Office. Foreign Secretaries are experienced IFS officers, who are ambassadors to foreign nations....
  
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• Gopal Pillai
  Gopal Krishna Pillai
  Gopal Krishna Pillai or G. K. Pillai is an Indian Administrative Service officer and the former Home Secretary of India. He belongs to the Kerala cadre of the 1972 batch of I.A.S...
  
   - Former Home Secretary of India.
• Kavalam Panikkar
  Kavalam Madhava Panikkar
  His Excellency Sardar Kavalam Madhava Panikkar was an Indian scholar, journalist, historian, administrator and diplomat...
  
    - Former Home Secretary of India.
• R Gopalakrishnan - Current Additional Secretary to the Prime Minister of India
  Prime Minister of India
  The Prime Minister of India , as addressed to in the Constitution of India — Prime Minister for the Union, is the chief of government, head of the Council of Ministers and the leader of the majority party in parliament...
  
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• Hormis Tharakan - Current Member of the National Security Council
  National Security Council
  A National Security Council is usually an executive branch governmental body responsible for coordinating policy on national security issues and advising chief executives on matters related to national security...
  
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• K Madhavan Nair - Current Member of the Central Board for Direct Taxes
  Central Board for Direct Taxes
  Since 1 January 1964 the Central Board of Direct Taxes has been charged with all matters relating to various direct taxes in India and it derives its authority from Central Board of Revenue Act 1963. The CBDT is a part of Department of Revenue in the Ministry of Finance...
  
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• Letika Saran
  Letika Saran
  Letika Saran is the former Director General of Police, Tamil Nadu, India. Earlier she served as the 36th Commissioner of Police in Chennai. She is the only woman to head a metropolitan police organisation in India. Before that she was an Additional Director-General of Police .-Biography:Saran was...
  
   - Current Director General of Police
  Director General of Police
  In India the director general of police or inspector general of police is a three-star rank and the highest ranking police officer in Indian States & Union Territories. All DGPs/IGPs are Indian Police Service officers. The DGP/IGP is usually the head of the state police force in every Indian state...
  
   of Tamil Nadu
  Tamil Nadu
  Tamil Nadu is one of the 28 states of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu lies in the southernmost part of the Indian Peninsula and is bordered by the union territory of Pondicherry, and the states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh...
  
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• P. J. Thomas
  P. J. Thomas (Indian administrative officer)
  Polayil Joseph Thomas is an 1973 batch Indian Administrative Service officer from Kerala cadre. He was appointed as the 14th Chief Vigilance Commissioner of India, in an appointment that came under Supreme Court's review and later to be annulled by court as "non-est" in law...
  
   - 14th Central Vigilance Commissioner
  Central Vigilance Commission
  Central Vigilance Commission is an apex Indian governmental body created in 1964 to address governmental corruption. It has the status of an autonomous body, free of control from any executive authority, charged with monitoring all vigilance activity under the Central Government of India, and...
  
   of India.
• SSN Moorthy- Former Chairman of the Central Board for Direct Taxes
  Central Board for Direct Taxes
  Since 1 January 1964 the Central Board of Direct Taxes has been charged with all matters relating to various direct taxes in India and it derives its authority from Central Board of Revenue Act 1963. The CBDT is a part of Department of Revenue in the Ministry of Finance...
  
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• N. Krishnan - Former Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations
  United Nations
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• T.P. Sreenivasan - Former Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations
  United Nations
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• R.B. Sreekumar
  R.B. Sreekumar
  R.B. Sreekumar is former Gujarat State Director-General of Police. He came to limelight by exposing the alleged role of Gujarat government and its Chief Minister Narendra modi in Gujarat violence 2002 by preventing the police from carrying out their duties...
  
   - Former Director General of Police
  Director General of Police
  In India the director general of police or inspector general of police is a three-star rank and the highest ranking police officer in Indian States & Union Territories. All DGPs/IGPs are Indian Police Service officers. The DGP/IGP is usually the head of the state police force in every Indian state...
  
   of Gujarat.
• M Madhavan Nambiar - Former Secretary in the Ministry of Civil Aviation; now a Honorary Fellow at the University of Cambridge.
• K P S Menon Jr. - Former Ambassador of India to Japan.
• K. T. Chacko - Current Director-General of Foreign Trade (DGFT).
• Moorkoth Ramunni
  Moorkoth Ramunni
  Moorkoth Ramunni is the elder son of Moorkoth Kumaran and was also a follower of Sree Narayana Guru like his father. He hailed from respected Thiyya family from Kannur. He was also a good cricketer and a hockey player. He was against the castism that existed in the Kerala society at that time...
  
   - 4th Administrator of Lakshadweep
  Administrator of Lakshadweep
  The Administrator of Lakshadweep is the Head of the Union Territory of Lakshadweep. He is also the Chairman of Lakshadweep Development Corporation and SPORTS...
  
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• S. George IPS- Additional Director General of Police
  Director General of Police
  In India the director general of police or inspector general of police is a three-star rank and the highest ranking police officer in Indian States & Union Territories. All DGPs/IGPs are Indian Police Service officers. The DGP/IGP is usually the head of the state police force in every Indian state...
  
   (Law and Order) of Tamil Nadu
  Tamil Nadu
  Tamil Nadu is one of the 28 states of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu lies in the southernmost part of the Indian Peninsula and is bordered by the union territory of Pondicherry, and the states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh...
  
  

Members of the United Nations

United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...

• Vijay K. Nambiar
  Vijay K. Nambiar
  Vijay Nambiar is a veteran Indian diplomat and the Chef de Cabinet under UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon since 1 January 2007. He holds the rank of Under-Secretary-General and is a member of the Secretary-General's Senior Management Team....
  
   - Current Chef de Cabinet
  Chef de Cabinet
  Chef de Cabinet is the head of an office in the United Nations Secretariat, appointed by the Secretary-General, or in the European Commission, appointed by an individual European Commissioner for his personal cabinet. The position's rank and responsibilities are equivalent to a chief of staff....
  
   and Special Advisor to the Secretary General of the United Nations
  United Nations
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• Chandran Nair - Former Director
  Executive officer
  An executive officer is generally a person responsible for running an organization, although the exact nature of the role varies depending on the organization.-Administrative law:...
  
   and Mediator
  Mediation
  Mediation, as used in law, is a form of alternative dispute resolution , a way of resolving disputes between two or more parties. A third party, the mediator, assists the parties to negotiate their own settlement...
  
   of UNESCO
  UNESCO
  The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations...
  
   in Paris
  Paris
  Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
  
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Members of the Indian Armed Forces

Indian Armed Forces

The Indian Armed Forces are the military forces of the Republic of India. They consist of the Army, Navy and Air Force, supported by three paramilitary forces and various inter-service institutions such as the Strategic Forces Command.The President of India is...

• General
  General
  A general officer is an officer of high military rank, usually in the army, and in some nations, the air force. The term is widely used by many nations of the world, and when a country uses a different term, there is an equivalent title given....
  
   Sundararajan Padmanabhan
  Sundararajan Padmanabhan
  Sundararajan Padmanabhan was the Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army Padmanabhan succeeded General V.P. Malik on September 30, 2000.General Padmanabhan was schooled at the Rashtriya Indian Military College...
  
   - 22nd General of the Indian Army
  Indian Army
  The Indian Army is the land based branch and the largest component of the Indian Armed Forces. With about 1,100,000 soldiers in active service and about 1,150,000 reserve troops, the Indian Army is the world's largest standing volunteer army...
  
   and Chief of Army Staff
  Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army
  The Chief of the Army Staff is the commander and usually the highest-ranking officer of the Indian Army. The position is abbreviated as COAS in Indian Army cables and communication....
  
   of the Indian Army
  Indian Army
  The Indian Army is the land based branch and the largest component of the Indian Armed Forces. With about 1,100,000 soldiers in active service and about 1,150,000 reserve troops, the Indian Army is the world's largest standing volunteer army...
  
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• Lieutenant General
  Lieutenant General
  Lieutenant General is a military rank used in many countries. The rank traces its origins to the Middle Ages where the title of Lieutenant General was held by the second in command on the battlefield, who was normally subordinate to a Captain General....
  
   G.M. Nair
  G.M. Nair
  Lt General G.M. Nair is the current Military Secretary of India. He took charge on 1 February 2010. Prior to his new assignment, Lt General Nair was General officer Commanding in Chief of the Kangra based 9 Corps. Nair replaced Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash who is under investigation for his...
  
   - Current Military Secretary of India.
• Lieutenant General
  Lieutenant General
  Lieutenant General is a military rank used in many countries. The rank traces its origins to the Middle Ages where the title of Lieutenant General was held by the second in command on the battlefield, who was normally subordinate to a Captain General....
  
   Thomas Mathew - Adjutant General, Integrated Headquarters of Ministry of Defence.
• Lieutenant General
  Lieutenant General
  Lieutenant General is a military rank used in many countries. The rank traces its origins to the Middle Ages where the title of Lieutenant General was held by the second in command on the battlefield, who was normally subordinate to a Captain General....
  
   K.P. Candeth
• Lieutenant General
  Lieutenant General
  Lieutenant General is a military rank used in many countries. The rank traces its origins to the Middle Ages where the title of Lieutenant General was held by the second in command on the battlefield, who was normally subordinate to a Captain General....
  
   Mathew Mammen - Former Engineer-in-Chief of the Indian Armed Forces
  Indian Armed Forces
  The Indian Armed Forces are the military forces of the Republic of India. They consist of the Army, Navy and Air Force, supported by three paramilitary forces and various inter-service institutions such as the Strategic Forces Command.The President of India is...
  
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• Lieutenant General
  Lieutenant General
  Lieutenant General is a military rank used in many countries. The rank traces its origins to the Middle Ages where the title of Lieutenant General was held by the second in command on the battlefield, who was normally subordinate to a Captain General....
  
   Satish Nambiar
  Satish Nambiar
  Lieutenant General Chenicheri Satish Nambiar is an Indian general who achieved international recognition as the first Force Commander and Head of Mission of UNPROFOR, the United Nations Protection Force in the former Yugoslavia, between March 1992 and March 1993...
  
   - Former Head of Mission of the United Nations Protection Force
  United Nations Protection Force
  The United Nations Protection Force ', was the first United Nations peacekeeping force in Croatia and in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Yugoslav wars. It existed between the beginning of UN involvement in February 1992, and its restructuring into other forces in March 1995...
  
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• Vice Admiral
  Vice Admiral
  Vice admiral is a senior naval rank of a three-star flag officer, which is equivalent to lieutenant general in the other uniformed services. A vice admiral is typically senior to a rear admiral and junior to an admiral...
  
   M.P. Muralidharan - Current Chief of Personnel of the Indian Navy
  Indian Navy
  The Indian Navy is the naval branch of the armed forces of India. The President of India serves as the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy. The Chief of Naval Staff , usually a four-star officer in the rank of Admiral, commands the Navy...
  
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• Vice Admiral
  Vice Admiral
  Vice admiral is a senior naval rank of a three-star flag officer, which is equivalent to lieutenant general in the other uniformed services. A vice admiral is typically senior to a rear admiral and junior to an admiral...
  
   Krishnan Nair Sushil - Current Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Southern Naval Command of the Indian Navy
  Indian Navy
  The Indian Navy is the naval branch of the armed forces of India. The President of India serves as the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy. The Chief of Naval Staff , usually a four-star officer in the rank of Admiral, commands the Navy...
  
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• Vice Admiral
  Vice Admiral
  Vice admiral is a senior naval rank of a three-star flag officer, which is equivalent to lieutenant general in the other uniformed services. A vice admiral is typically senior to a rear admiral and junior to an admiral...
  
   P.J. Jacob - Former Vice Chief of Naval Staff.
• Air Vice-Marshal
  Air Vice-Marshal
  Air vice-marshal is a two-star air-officer rank which originated in and continues to be used by the Royal Air Force. The rank is also used by the air forces of many countries which have historical British influence and it is sometimes used as the English translation of an equivalent rank in...
  
   Narayan Menon - Former Air Vice-Marshal.

Presidents, Vice Presidents and Prime Ministers of India

• K.R. Narayanan
  K. R. Narayanan
  Kocheril Raman Narayanan , also known as K. R. Narayanan, was the tenth President of India. He was the first Dalit, and the first Malayali, to have been President....
  
   - 10th President of India
  President of India
  The President of India is the head of state and first citizen of India, as well as the Supreme Commander of the Indian Armed Forces. President of India is also the formal head of all the three branches of Indian Democracy - Legislature, Executive and Judiciary...
  
   and 9th Vice-President of India
  Vice-President of India
  The Vice-President of India is the second-highest ranking government official in the executive branch of the Government of India, after the President...
  
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Federal Cabinet Ministers

• A.K. Antony  - Current Union Cabinet Minister for Defence
  Defence Minister of India
  The Ministry of Defence is India's federal department allocated the largest level of budgetary resources and charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government relating directly to national security and the Indian armed forces.The Indian Armed Forces ; the...
  
   of India.
• Vayalar Ravi
  Vayalar Ravi
  Vayalar Ravi is a prominent Indian politician, currently the Union Cabinet Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs and Minister of Civil Aviation. He is a member of the Rajya Sabha.-Political Life:...
  
   - Current Union Cabinet Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs of India and Minister of Civil Aviation.
• K C Venugopal - Current Minister of State for Power.
• Mullappally Ramachandran
  Mullappally Ramachandran
  Mullappally Ramachandran The union Minister of State for Home Affairs is the a member of the Parliament of India from the Vadakara constituency. He is one of the present Vice Presidents of Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee. He was a member of the Parliament of India from Cannanore during 1984 to...
  
   - Current Minister of State for Home Affairs.
• E. Ahamed - Current minister of state for railways.
• Sashi Tharoor  - Former Minister of State for External Affairs; former UN Under Secretary General.
• John Mathai
  John Mathai
  John Matthai was an economist who served as India's first Railway Minister and subsequently as India's Finance Minister, taking office shortly after the presentation of India's first Budget, in 1948. Mathai graduated in economics from Madras Christian College. He served as a part-time professor in...
  
   - First Railway Minister of the Republic of India.
• V. K. Krishna Menon  - First Union Cabinet Minister for Defence
  Defence Minister of India
  The Ministry of Defence is India's federal department allocated the largest level of budgetary resources and charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government relating directly to national security and the Indian armed forces.The Indian Armed Forces ; the...
  
   of Republic of India.
• Panampilly Govinda Menon
  Panampilly Govinda Menon
  Panampilly Govinda Menon was an Indian politician, freedom fighter, and lawyer. He was born at Chalakudy and started his lawyer practice there as a junior to Adv. M. C. Joseph . He was the first treasurer of Kerala Yukthivadi Sangham. He moved his practice to Ernakulam afterwards...
  
   - Former Railway Minister of Republic of India

Governors of States

• K. Sankaranarayanan
  K. Sankaranarayanan
  Kateekal Sankaranarayanan is the current governor of the Indian state of Maharashtra and Goa. He had also served as the Governor of Nagaland and Jharkhand. Prior to his appointment as Governor, he had served as a Minister in several Congress led governments of Kerala headed by Chief Ministers A....
  
   - Current 21st Governor of Maharashtra
  Governors of Maharashtra
  This is a list of governors of the erstwhile Bombay State and Maharashtra :-See also:* Government of Maharashtra* Governors of India* Kateekal Sankaranarayanan...
  
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• M. K. Narayanan - Current 24th Governor of West Bengal
  Governor of West Bengal
  The Governor of West Bengal is a nominal head and representative of the President of India in the state of West Bengal. The Governor is appointed by the President for a term of five years. H.E. Mayankote Kelath Narayanan is the current governor...
  
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• Vakkom Purushothaman
  Vakkom Purushothaman
  -Early life:Shri Vakkom B. Purushothaman, veteran Congress leader and Advocate, was born at Vakkom, Thiruvanathapuram district, Kerala, India on April 12, 1928 as the son of Shri Bhanu Panicker and Smt. Bhavani. Beginning his political life as an active worker of students Congress in 1946, he...
  
   - Current 11th Governor of Mizoram.
• P.C. Alexander
  P. C. Alexander
  Padinjarethalakal Cherian Alexander of Mavelikkera, India was an Indian politician and civil servant who served as the Governor of Tamil Nadu from 1988 to 1990 and as the Governor of Maharashtra from 1993 to 2002. He was considered as a candidate for the post of the President of India in 2002...
  
   - Former 17th Governor of Maharashtra
  Governors of Maharashtra
  This is a list of governors of the erstwhile Bombay State and Maharashtra :-See also:* Government of Maharashtra* Governors of India* Kateekal Sankaranarayanan...
  
  , 7th Governor of Goa and 9th Governor of Tamil Nadu.
• Pattom Pillai
  Pattom A. Thanu Pillai
  Pattom A. Thanu Pillai was a participant in the Indian independence movement who later served as the Chief Minister of Kerala from 22 February 1960 to 25 September 1962....
  
   - Former 4th Governor of Punjab and 4th Governor of Andhra Pradesh.
• K.C. Abraham - Former 11th Governor of Andhra Pradesh.

Kerala State Ministers and others

• K. Karunakaran -Former Union Cabinet Minister for Industries of Government of India and former Kerala Chief Minister.
• Lakshmi N. Menon
  Lakshmi N. Menon
  Lakshmi N. Menon was born in Thiruvananthapuram, and is the child of Rama Varma Thampan and Madhavikutty Amma. In 1930 she married Professor V.K...
  
    - Former First woman Minister of State for External Affairs of India (1957–1966).
• O. Rajagopal
  O. Rajagopal
  O. Rajagopal is an Indian public figure and former Union Minister who is associated with the Bharatiya Janata Party . Due to the low odds of election in the state of Kerala, Rajagopal represented Madhya Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha from 1992 until 2004-Early life:He was born on September 15, 1929...
  
   - Former Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs in Vajpayees ministry.
• C.P.Mathen
  Chalakuzhy Paulose Mathen
  Chalakuzhy Paulose Mathen or C. P. Mathen, was a banker in Kerala, founder of the Quilon Bank Ltd which merged with another bank and formed The Travancore National and Quilon Bank....
  
   - Member of Parliament; Former Indian Ambassador to Sudan.
• M. G. Ramachandran
  M. G. Ramachandran
  Maruthur Gopalan Ramachandran , popularly known by his initials , was an Indian film actor, director, producer and politician....
  
   - Former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu.
• Janaki Ramachandran
  Janaki Ramachandran
  Janaki Ramachandran , popularly known as V.N. Janaki , was an Indian Tamil actress and politician. She was born to Rajagopal Iyer and Narayani Amma in the town of Vaikom in Kerala State. She had a brother P. Narayanan who was an educationalist...
  
   - Former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu..
• Joseph Mundassery
  Joseph Mundassery
  Joseph Mundassery was a renowned literary critic and Indian politician from Kerala state. He was one among the towering literary critics in the Malayalam language and literature...
  
   - First Education Minister of Kerala.
• C. Achutha Menon
  C. Achutha Menon
  Chelat Achutha Menon was a senior leader of the Communist Party of India . He was the Chief Minister of Kerala state for two terms. The first term was from 1 November 1969 to 1 August 1970 and the second 4 October 1970 to 25 March 1977. Achutha Menon is widely considered as the best Chief Minister...
  
  -Former Kerala Chief Minister.
• V.S. Achuthanandan  - Former Chief Minister of Kerala.
• C.H. Mohammed Koya
  C.H. Mohammed Koya
  C.H. Mohammed Koya was an Indian politician and the tenth Chief Minister of Kerala. He served from October 12, 1979 to December 1, 1979.-Early days:...
  
   - Former Chief Minister of Kerala.
• A.K. Gopalan (AKG) - Communist party leader and the father of Indian Coffee Houses.
• K.Damodaran- One of the founders of communist movement in Kerala.
• P. Krishna Pillai
  P. Krishna Pillai
  P. Krishna Pillai was a Communist revolutionary from Kerala, India, Kerala's First Communist, Founder of the Communist movement in Kerala, and poet....
  
   - Founder of communist movement in Kerala.
• Azhikodan Raghavan
  Azhikodan Raghavan
  Azhikodan Raghavan was a leader of Communist Party of India /CPI.He was born on July 1, 1919 at South Bazar, Kannur. He had his primary education from the 'Model Primary School' attached to Kannur Govt. Training school.After passing Vth std he was forced to discontinue his formal education...
  
   was Communist Party Leader in Kerala.
• C. Kesavan
  C. Kesavan
  C. Kesavan was the Chief Minister of Travancore-Cochin during 1951–1952.-External links:*...
  
   - Chief Minister of erstwhile state of Travancore-Cochin from 1951-52.
• E.K. Nayanar  - Former Chief Minister of Kerala and a noted Communist leader.
• E.M.S. Namboodiripad  - First Chief Minister of unified Kerala State. Headed the first elected communist government in the world.
• Joseph Mundassery
  Joseph Mundassery
  Joseph Mundassery was a renowned literary critic and Indian politician from Kerala state. He was one among the towering literary critics in the Malayalam language and literature...
  
   - Education Minister in the first communist ministry of Kerala.
• Mathai Manjooran
  Mathai Manjooran
  Mathai Manjooran was an Indian independence activist from Kerala, socialist revolutionary, Member of Parliament, Minister of Labour in the second E.M.S...
  
   - A freedom fighter, socialist revolutionary an a member of the Indian Parliament.
• M.A. Baby
  M. A. Baby
  M. A. Baby is an Indian politician. He is the former Education Minister of Kerala State. He is also a Central Committee Member of Communist Party of India .-Early life:...
  
   - Leading leftist and former Education Minister.
• M.P. Veerendrakumar - Writer and a noted politician.
• Mathew T Thomas - Former minister of transport in LDF government 2006-2011.
• Monce Joseph
  Monce Joseph
  Monce Joseph, is an Indian politician, MLA and advocate, was the youngest minister in Kerala's present Left Democratic Front ministry in India. He belongs to Kerala Congress party led by P. J. Joseph, and represents Kaduthuruthy legislative Assembly of Kerala. He had been the Minister for Public...
  
   - The youngest minister in Kerala's present Left Democratic Front ministry.
• Oommen Chandy
  Oommen Chandy
  Oommen Chandy is an Indian politician and the current Chief Minister of Kerala. He has held the Chief Minister of Kerala position earlier from 2004 to 2006, and was the Leader of the Opposition in the Kerala Legislative Assembly from 2006 to 2011.-Early life:Oommen Chandy or 'Kunjoonju' was born...
  
   - Current Chief Minister of the state.
• Paloli Mohammed Kutty
  Paloli Mohammed Kutty
  Paloli Mohammed Kutty is an Indian politician and social worker. He is the current Minister for Local Administration in the Government of Kerala and a member of both State and Central Committee of Communist Party of India...
  
   - Minister for Local Govt.
• P.K. Kunhalikkutty - Former State Industries Minister, Secretary of Kerala State Committee of IUML.
• Pinarai Vijayan - CPI(M) Secretary, State Committee, Kerala and member of the Politburo.
• Prakash Karat
  Prakash Karat
  Prakash Karat , born on February 7, 1948 in Letpadan, Burma is a communist politician in India and the current General Secretary of the Communist Party of India since 2005.-Education and early career:...
  
    - General Secretary, CPI(M) National Committee.
• P. J. Joseph
  P. J. Joseph
  P. J. Joseph is an Indian politician, the leader of the Kerala Congress party in Kerala, and an MLA, representing the Thodupuzha assembly constituency. Since 1990 his party has been part of the Left Democratic Front as an alliance. He has also held various ministerial positions with the Government...
  
   - Kerala Congress (J) leader.
• R. Sankar
  R. Sankar
  R. Sankar was an Indian politician and the third Chief Minister of Kerala. He was born on April 30, 1909 in Kuzhikkalidavaka village in Kottarakkara.-Education and public life:...
  
   - Former Chief Minister of Kerala.
• Sayeed Thangal
  Panakkad Sayeed Mohammedali Shihab Thangal
  Panakkad Syed Mohammedali Shihab Ba-Alawi Al-Hussainy was a politician who dominated Kerala politics for over three decades, the former supremo of the E. K. Sunni faction of Muslims of Kerala and one of the most famous Islamic scholars from the Indian state of Kerala. He was the President of the...
  
   - President of the Kerala state committee of the IUML.
• Ramesh Chennithala
  Ramesh Chennithala
  Ramesh Chennithala is an Indian politician. He is the son of late Ramakrishnan Nair. He was elected a Member of Parliament thrice and was also a Kerala State Cabinet Minister at the age of 27 under mentor ship of late K. Karunakaran...
  
   - President, Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee. Former Lok Sabha MP.
• K. R. Gowri Amma
  K. R. Gowri Amma
  K. R. Gowri Amma heads the Janathipathiya Samrakshana Samithy , a political party based in Kerala, India. Prior to the formation of JSS she was a prominent figure in the communist movement in Kerala...
  
   - Founder of JSS. Was a leading leftist and the first revenue minister of Kerala.
• K.M. Mani
  K. M. Mani
  Karingozhakkal Mani Mani is a veteran Indian politician and the leader of Kerala Congress , one of the factions of the Kerala Congress. He holds the records of having presented the maximum number of eight budgets in the Kerala Legislative Assembly as Finance Minister and also as the...
  
   - Leader of Kerala Congress (M) and former Minister.
• P.K. Vasudevan Nair
  P. K. Vasudevan Nair
  Padayatt Kesavapillai Vasudevan Nair , March 2, 1926 Kidangoor, Kottayam - July 12, 2005 AIIMS, New Delhi), popularly known as PKV,was the 9th Chief Minister of Kerala and a senior leader of the Communist Party of India ....
  
   - Former Chief Minister of Kerala.
• Dr. George Thomas, Former MLA and publisher

Judges of the Supreme Court of India

• P. Govinda Menon - Former Judge of the Supreme Court of India.
• Kuttyil Kurien Mathew - Former Judge of the Supreme Court of India.
• V. Balakrishna Eradi - Former Judge of the Supreme Court of India.
• Dr. T.K. Thommen - Former Judge of the Supreme Court of India.
• M. Fathima Beevi - Former Judge (1st woman Judge) of the Supreme Court of India.
• K. S. Paripoornan - Former Judge of the Supreme Court of India.
• V.R. Krishna Iyer - Former Judge of the Supreme Court of India.
• K.T. Thomas - Former Judge of the Supreme Court of India.

Ancient Scientists

• Jyeshtadeva
  Jyeshtadeva
  Jyeṣṭhadeva was an astronomer-mathematician of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics founded by Sangamagrama Madhava . He is best known as the author of Yuktibhāṣā,...
  
   - Mathematician; author of Yuktibhāṣā
  Yuktibhasa
  Yuktibhāṣā also known as Gaṇitanyāyasaṅgraha , is a major treatise on mathematics and astronomy, written by Indian astronomer Jyesthadeva of the Kerala school of mathematics in about AD 1530...
  
  , a treatise on calculus
  Calculus
  Calculus is a branch of mathematics focused on limits, functions, derivatives, integrals, and infinite series. This subject constitutes a major part of modern mathematics education. It has two major branches, differential calculus and integral calculus, which are related by the fundamental theorem...
  
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• Madhava of Sangamagrama
  Madhava of Sangamagrama
  Mādhava of Sañgamāgrama was a prominent Kerala mathematician-astronomer from the town of Irińńālakkuţa near Cochin, Kerala, India. He is considered the founder of the Kerala School of Astronomy and Mathematics...
  
   - A 14th-century mathematician.

Faculty

• George Sudarsan - Emeritus professor at University of Texas at Austin
  University of Texas at Austin
  The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university located in Austin, Texas, USA, and is the flagship institution of the The University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is located approximately from the Texas State Capitol in Austin...
  
  . He has been nominated for the Nobel prize multiple times for his contributions to diverse areas of theoretical physics ranging from Particle Physics
  Particle physics
  Particle physics is a branch of physics that studies the existence and interactions of particles that are the constituents of what is usually referred to as matter or radiation. In current understanding, particles are excitations of quantum fields and interact following their dynamics...
  
   to Quantum Optics
  Quantum optics
  Quantum optics is a field of research in physics, dealing with the application of quantum mechanics to phenomena involving light and its interactions with matter.- History of quantum optics :...
  
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• Thomas Kailath
  Thomas Kailath
  Thomas Kailath is an Indian electrical engineer, information theorist, control engineer, entrepreneur and the Hitachi America Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, at Stanford University...
  
   - Hitachi America Professor of Engineering, Emeritus
  Emeritus
  Emeritus is a post-positive adjective that is used to designate a retired professor, bishop, or other professional or as a title. The female equivalent emerita is also sometimes used.-History:...
  
  , at Stanford University
  Stanford University
  The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
  
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• George Varghese
  George Varghese
  George Varghese is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California San Diego where he leads the Internet Algorithms Lab and also works with the Center for Network Systems and the Center for Internet Epidemiology...
  
   - Professor of Computer Science at the University of California San Diego.
• Philip Varghese - Department Chair of Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics at University of Texas at Austin
  University of Texas at Austin
  The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university located in Austin, Texas, USA, and is the flagship institution of the The University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is located approximately from the Texas State Capitol in Austin...
  
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• Varghese S. Jacob - Senior Associate Dean and Professor of Management Science and Information Systems at University of Texas at Dallas
  University of Texas at Dallas
  The University of Texas at Dallas, also referred to as UT Dallas or UTD, is a public research university in the University of Texas System. The main campus is in the heart of the Richardson, Texas, Telecom Corridor, north of downtown Dallas...
  
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• K. Mani Chandy
  K. Mani Chandy
  Kanianthra Mani Chandy is the Simon Ramo Professor of Computer Science at the California Institute of Technology. He has been the Executive Officer of the Computer Science Department twice, and he has been a professor at Caltech since 1989....
  
   - Simon Ramo Chair Professor and Professor of Computer Science at California Institute of Technology
  California Institute of Technology
  The California Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Pasadena, California, United States. Caltech has six academic divisions with strong emphases on science and engineering...
  
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• Tomy Varghese - Professor of Medical Physics at University of Washington School of Medicine
  University of Washington School of Medicine
  The University of Washington School of Medicine is a public medical school located in Seattle, Washington.-Overview:UWSOM is a graduate school affiliated with the University of Washington, and is the only medical school in the states of Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho...
  
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• Mathai Varghese
  Mathai Varghese
  Mathai Varghese is a mathematician and an Australian Research Council Australian Professorial Fellow at the University of Adelaide. His most influential contribution to date is the Mathai-Quillen formalism, which he formulated together with Daniel Quillen, and which has since found applications in...
  
   - Professor of Mathematics
  Mathematics
  Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
  
   at University of Adelaide
  University of Adelaide
  The University of Adelaide is a public university located in Adelaide, South Australia. Established in 1874, it is the third oldest university in Australia...
  
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• Pulickel Ajayan
  Pulickel Ajayan
  Pulickel Madhavapanicker Ajayan , known as P. M. Ajayan, is the Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor in Engineering at Rice University. His primary appointment at Rice University is in the Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science department but also holds joint appointments with...
  
   - Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor in Engineering at Rice University
  Rice University
  William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University or Rice, is a private research university located on a heavily wooded campus in Houston, Texas, United States...
  
  
• S. Venkateswaran, Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science at UCLA.
• Thomas Zacharia
  Thomas Zacharia
  Thomas Zacharia is an Indian-American computer scientist. He received his bachelors degree in Mechanical engineering from National Institute of Technology Karnataka in 1980 and a master’s degree in Materials Science from the University of Mississippi in 1984...
  
   - Computer Scientist and Deputy Laboratory Director at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  Oak Ridge National Laboratory is a multiprogram science and technology national laboratory managed for the United States Department of Energy by UT-Battelle. ORNL is the DOE's largest science and energy laboratory. ORNL is located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, near Knoxville...
  
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• Sarada G. Rajeev - Professor of Physics
  Physics
  Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...
  
   at University of Rochester
  University of Rochester
  The University of Rochester is a private, nonsectarian, research university in Rochester, New York, United States. The university grants undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional degrees. The university has six schools and various interdisciplinary programs.The...
  
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• V.Parameswaran Nair - Professor of Physics
  Physics
  Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...
  
   at City College of New York
  City College of New York
  The City College of the City University of New York is a senior college of the City University of New York , in New York City. It is also the oldest of the City University's twenty-three institutions of higher learning...
  
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• George Sebastian - architecture student at Salem School Of Architecture
• Vasundara Varadan - Billingsley Chair and Distinguished Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering
  Electrical engineering
  Electrical engineering is a field of engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical...
  
   of University of Arkansas
  University of Arkansas
  The University of Arkansas is a public, co-educational, land-grant, space-grant, research university. It is classified by the Carnegie Foundation as a research university with very high research activity. It is the flagship campus of the University of Arkansas System and is located in...
  
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• T. Pradeep
  T. Pradeep
  Thalappil Pradeep is a professor in at .- Research summary :Pradeep’s work is in the area of molecular materials and surfaces. In his formative years, he measured the very first vibrationally resolved photoelectron spectrum of Ar2 and discovered a novel transition metal ion, NiH2+. These days most...
  
   - Professor of Chemistry
  Chemistry
  Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....
  
   at Indian Institute of Technology Madras
  Indian Institute of Technology Madras
  The Indian Institute of Technology Madras is an engineering and technology school in Chennai in southern India. It is recognized as an Institute of National Importance by the Government of India...
  
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• Komattil Govind Menon - Professor of Physics at Troy University.
• P. N. Vinayachandran - Associate Professor of Oceanography at Indian Institute of Science
  Indian Institute of Science
  Indian Institute of Science is a research institution of higher learning located in Bangalore, India. It was established in 1909.-History:After a chance meeting between Jamsetji N...
  
  , Bangalore
  Bangalore
  Bengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...
  
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• Thanu Padmanabhan
  Thanu Padmanabhan
  Thanu Padmanabhan is an Indian theoretical physicist. He is currently Distinguished Professor at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, at Pune, India. His principal fields of research are Cosmology and the interface between Gravity and Quantum theory...
  
   - Distinguished Professor at Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics
  Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics
  The Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics is an autonomous institution set up by the University Grants Commission to promote nucleation and growth of active groups in astronomy and astrophysics in Indian universities...
  
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• G. Balakrish Nair
  G. Balakrish Nair
  G. Balakrish Nair is an eminent Indian microbiologist. At present, he is the Director of National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Diseases , Kolkata, India...
  
   - Director of National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Diseases.

Medical Sciences

• Abraham Verghese
  Abraham Verghese
  Abraham Verghese is Professor for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at Stanford University Medical School and Senior Associate Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine. He was born in Ethiopia to parents from Kerala, India who worked as teachers. He is a Syro-Malabar Christian...
  
   - Professor of Medicine
  Medicine
  Medicine is the science and art of healing. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....
  
   and Senior Associate Chair of Department of Internal Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine
  Stanford University School of Medicine
  Stanford University School of Medicine is a leading medical school located at Stanford University Medical Center in Stanford, California. Originally based in San Francisco, California as Cooper Medical College, it is the oldest continuously running medical school in the western United States...
  
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• P. Jacob Varghese - Associate Director of cardiology division at George Washington University School of Medicine.
• Mani Menon
  Mani Menon
  Mani Menon in Trichur, India, is an American surgeon and the director of the Vattikuti Urology Institute at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, MI. Menon is widely regarded as a pioneer in the development of robotic surgery techniques for the treatment of patients with prostate cancer. In May...
  
   - Director of the Vattikuti Urology Institute
  Vattikuti Urology Institute
  The Vattikuti Urology Institute at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan is a clinical and research center for urological care. The VUI is notable for being the first institute to establish robotic surgery as a treatment for patients with prostate cancer. To date, the VUI has performed more...
  
   at the Henry Ford Hospital
  Henry Ford Hospital
  Henry Ford Hospital, the flagship facility for , is an 805-bed tertiary care hospital, education and research complex located in Detroit ....
  
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• K.S.Nair - Professor of Medicine
  Medicine
  Medicine is the science and art of healing. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....
  
   at Mayo Clinic
  Mayo Clinic
  Mayo Clinic is a not-for-profit medical practice and medical research group specializing in treating difficult patients . Patients are referred to Mayo Clinic from across the U.S. and the world, and it is known for innovative and effective treatments. Mayo Clinic is known for being at the top of...
  
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• Dr Thomas Thomas  - First Indian to become Cardio-Thoracic surgeon.
• M. Krishnan Nair
  M. Krishnan Nair (doctor)
  M. Krishnan Nair is a leading oncologist working in India. He is the founding director of the Regional Cancer Centre, Thiruvananthapuram, a director of the S.U.T. Institute of Oncology in Thiruvananthapuram and a professor at the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences & Research in Kochi...
  
   - Leading oncologist
• M. S. Valiathan
  M. S. Valiathan
  Marthanda Varma Sankaran Valiathan, more commonly known as M. S. Valiathan, is an Indian cardiac surgeon and a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. Valiathan received his initial medical education in India, and specialized training in cardiac surgery in UK and US...
  
  , Cardiac surgeon, Former Vice Chancellor, Manipal University.
• R. Kesavan Nair
  R. Kesavan Nair
  Dr R Kesavan Nair was the Professor of Surgery at Thiruvananthapuram Medical College and first Superintendent of the Medical College Hospital.Kerala's first civil surgeon. The road from Medical College junction to Murinjapalam is to be named in his honour.He is the first Superintendent of...
  
   - Renowned surgeon
• John A. Kalapurakal - Associate professor of Radiation Oncology and Neurosurgery
  Neurosurgery
  Neurosurgery is the medical specialty concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of disorders which affect any portion of the nervous system including the brain, spine, spinal cord, peripheral nerves, and extra-cranial cerebrovascular system.-In the United States:In...
  
   at Northwestern University
  Northwestern University
  Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....
  
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Scientists and technocrats

• Jai Menon - Vice-President of Technical Strategy at IBM
  IBM
  International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...
  
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• K. N. Raj
  K. N. Raj
  Kakkadan Nandanath Raj was born in Thrissur district, the Cultural Capital of Kerala. He is popularly known as K. N. Raj, an Indian economist who played an important role in India's planned development, drafting sections of India's first Five Year Plan, specifically the introductory chapter when...
  
    - One of co-founder of the Delhi School of Economics
  Delhi School of Economics
  Delhi School of Economics , commonly referred to as DSE or D School, is a centre of post graduate learning of the University of Delhi. The centre is situated in the university's North Campus in Maurice Nagar, and is surrounded by a host of other prestigious academic institutions of the country...
  
  ; played a key role in India's first Five Year Plan.
• K. Radhakrishnan
  K. Radhakrishnan (scientist)
  K. Radhakrishnan is an Indian scientist and the Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation . He also served as the director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre , Thiruvananthapuram. He was born in Kerala, India...
  
   - Current Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation
  Indian Space Research Organisation
  The Indian Space Research Organisation is an independent Indian governmental agency established in 1969 for the research and development of vehicles and activities for the exploration of space within and outside of Earth’s atmosphere. Headquartered in Bangalore...
  
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• G. Madhavan Nair
  G. Madhavan Nair
  G. Madhavan Nair is the former Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation and Secretary to the Department of Space, Government of India since September 2003. He is also the Chairman, Space Commission and acts as the Chairman of Governing Body of the Antrix Corporation, Bangalore...
  
    - Former Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation
  Indian Space Research Organisation
  The Indian Space Research Organisation is an independent Indian governmental agency established in 1969 for the research and development of vehicles and activities for the exploration of space within and outside of Earth’s atmosphere. Headquartered in Bangalore...
  
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• E. Sreedharan
  E. Sreedharan
  Elattuvalapil Sreedharan is the managing director of Delhi Metro.-Early life:E. Sreedharan was born in a family of Palakkad district, Kerala. His family hails from Karukaputhoor in Palakkad district of Kerala...
  
   - Managing Director of Delhi Metro
  Delhi Metro
  Delhi Metro is a rapid transit system serving Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida and Ghaziabad in the National Capital Region of India. It is one of the largest metro networks in the world. The network consists of six lines with a total length of with 142 stations of which 35 are underground...
  
   and Chairman of Konkan Railway Project.
• Dr Eby Mathew - Director of Studies, Kingston International College, Australia.
• G. N. Ramachandran - Indian Biophysicist, known for Ramachandran plot
  Ramachandran plot
  -Introduction and early history:A Ramachandran plot , originally developed in 1963 by G. N. Ramachandran C. Ramakrishnan and V...
  
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• K. C. Sreedharan Pillai
  K. C. Sreedharan Pillai
  K C Sreedharan Pillai was an Indian statistician who was known for his works on multivariate analysis and probability distributions....
  
   - Indian mathematician.
• K.T.Jacob - Plant-Geneticist, Took over the work of Sir. Jagadish Chandra Bose.
• Laurie Baker
  Laurie Baker
  Laurence Wilfred "Laurie" Baker was an award-winning British-born Indian architect, renowned for his initiatives in cost-effective energy-efficient architecture and for his unique space utilisation and simple but beautiful aesthetic sensibility...
  
   - Eco-friendly architect and engineer.
• M. G. K. Menon - Mambalikalathyl Govindan Kumar Menon, physicist who worked in the field of Cosmic Rays and as Director of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
  Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
  The Tata Institute of Fundamental Research is a research institution in India dedicated to basic research in mathematics and the sciences. It is a Deemed University and works under the umbrella of the Department of Atomic Energy of the Government of India. It is located at Navy Nagar, Colaba, Mumbai...
  
  . Later became Union Minister for Science and Technology.
• P. K. Venugopalan Nambiar
  P. K. Venugopalan Nambiar
  P. K. Venugopalan Nambiar was an Indian agricultural scientist credited with the development of the first hybrid variety of black pepper in the world, Panniyur-1...
  
   - Indian agricultural scientist credited with the development of the first hybrid variety of black pepper in the world.
• Rajesh Gopakumar
  Rajesh Gopakumar
  Rajesh Gopakumar is a theoretical physicist at Harish-Chandra Research Institute , Allahabad, India. He hails from the state of Kerala and was the 1987 topper in IIT-JEE.-Career:...
  
   - Theoretical Physicist at Harish-Chandra Research Institute
  Harish-Chandra Research Institute
  The Harish-Chandra Research Institute is a research institution, named after the mathematician Harish-Chandra, located in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. It is an autonomous institute, funded by the Department of Atomic Energy of the Government of India...
  
  , Allahabad
  Allahabad
  Allahabad , or Settled by God in Persian, is a major city of India and is one of the main holy cities of Hinduism. It was renamed by the Mughals from the ancient name of Prayaga , and is by some accounts the second-oldest city in India. It is located in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh,...
  
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• Remi Chandran
  Remi Chandran
  Remi Chandran is an environmental policy researcher who developed the Wildlife Enforcement Monitoring System while working with the United Nations University , Tokyo in 2005...
  
   - UN researcher renowned for his work on Wildlife Enforcement Monitoring System Project.
• Thekkethil Kochandy Alex - Director ISRO Satellite Centre, Major contributions to Chandrayaan-1 mission.
• Sardar K.M. Panikkar
  Kavalam Madhava Panikkar
  His Excellency Sardar Kavalam Madhava Panikkar was an Indian scholar, journalist, historian, administrator and diplomat...
  
    - Eminent historian.
• Father V.C. Samuel - World-renowned theologian, historian, author and multilinguist. He is a Post Doctoral Research Scholar at University of Chicago
  University of Chicago
  The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
  
   and a Rockefeller Fellow.
• Abraham Jacob - Esteemed FMC Engineer. First Person to make a GSM to Wifi handover in the state of New York.

Independence activists

• Sir Chettur Sankaran Nair - President of the Indian National Congress
  Indian National Congress
  The Indian National Congress is one of the two major political parties in India, the other being the Bharatiya Janata Party. It is the largest and one of the oldest democratic political parties in the world. The party's modern liberal platform is largely considered center-left in the Indian...
  
   (1897–1898).
• Sir C. Madhavan Nair - Judge of the Privy Council in London.
• Lakshmi Sehgal - As Captain Lakshmi, he commanded the Jhansi Rani Regiment of the INA under Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
• N.P. Nayar - Freedom fighter and Administrator of Azad Hind Dal
  Azad Hind Dal
  The Azad Hind Dal was a branch of the Indian Independence League that was formed during World War II to take administrative control of the Indian territories to fall to the Indian National Army starting with the latter's Imphal campaign...
  
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• Ammu Swaminathan
  Ammu Swaminathan
  Ammu Swaminathan was an Indian social worker and a prominent political activist during the Indian independence movement. After independence, she served as a member of the Constituent Assembly of India and later, as a member of the Rajya Sabha from Madras State...
  
   - Freedom fighter.
• Mohammed Rahiman
  Mohammed Abdul Rahiman
  Muhammad Abdur Rahiman was a Muslim politician from Kerala, India and a leader of the Khilafat Movement. He was born at Azhikode, Ernakulam, Kodungallur in 1898, in the Kingdom of Cochin, India. Abdul Rahiman Sahib was an orator and writer.-Education:His Primary education was from Veniyambadi and...
  
    - Freedom fighter and former KPCC President.
• Vakkom Majeed
  Vakkom Majeed
  S. Abdul Majeed known as Vakkom Majeed, was a veteran Freedom fighter and a former member of Travancore-Cochin State Assembly. Majeed was a politician-extraordinary in the socio-political realm of Kerala in the 20th Century...
  
   - Freedom fighter, former Member of Travancore-Cochin
  Travancore-Cochin
  Travancore-Cochin or Thiru-Kochi is a former state of India . It was created on 1 July 1949 by the merger of two former princely states, the kingdoms of Travancore and Cochin....
  
   State Assembly.
• T. M. Varghese, Thandaneth - Founder member of the Travancore State Congress. Minister of Travancore-Cochin.
• C. Kesavan
  C. Kesavan
  C. Kesavan was the Chief Minister of Travancore-Cochin during 1951–1952.-External links:*...
  
   - Chief Minister of Travancore-Cochin
  Travancore-Cochin
  Travancore-Cochin or Thiru-Kochi is a former state of India . It was created on 1 July 1949 by the merger of two former princely states, the kingdoms of Travancore and Cochin....
  
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• K. Kelappan
  K. Kelappan
  K. Kelappan was born in the small village Muchukunnu in Calicut in Kerala. He studied in Calicut and Madras and graduated from the University of Madras. He began his career as a teacher at in St. Berchmans High School, Changanassery and was the founder President of the Nair Service Society. Later...
  
   - Leader of the Payyannur Salt Satyagraha and the Guruvayur Satyagraha
  Guruvayur Satyagraha
  Guruvayur Satyagraha took place in and was a Satyagraha in present Thrissur, then part of Ponnani Taluk of Malabar district, now part of Kerala, seeking entry for untouchables into the Guruvayur Temple. It was led by K. Kelappan who undertook a fast unto death for 12 days however it was given up...
  
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• K.P. Kesava Menon
  K. P. Kesava Menon
  Kizhakke Potta Kesava Menon was a patriot, idealist and Indian independence activist. He had born in Tharoor village of Palakkad as the grandson of the Maharajah of Palghat and as the son of Bhiman Achan. He graduated in Arts from Madras University and Bar-at-law from Middle Temple...
  
   - Freedom fighter, Founder-Editor of the Mathrubhumi
  Mathrubhumi
  Mathrubhumi is a Malayalam language newspaper that is published from Kerala, India. Mathrubhumi was founded by K. P. Kesava Menon, an active volunteer in the Indian freedom struggle against the British.-History:...
  
   newspaper.
• K.P. Kuttikrishnan Nair - He was the prominent leader of the Trade Union Movement in India. Former KPCC Vice President, AICC Secretary, Home Minister of Madras Presidency and Member of Parliament.
• A. K. Gopalan
  A. K. Gopalan
  Ayillyath Kuttiari Gopalan , 1 October 1904 to March 22, 1977, popularly known as A. K. Gopalan or AKG, was an Indian communist leader and first leader of opposition of India.- Early life and education :...
  
   - Founder leader of the Communist Party of India
  Communist Party of India
  The Communist Party of India is a national political party in India. In the Indian communist movement, there are different views on exactly when the Indian communist party was founded. The date maintained as the foundation day by CPI is 26 December 1925...
  
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• A.V. Kuttimalu Amma - Freedom fighter.
• Velu Thampi Dalava - Fought the East India Company at a time they were grabbing power in princely states.
• Ammu Swaminathan
  Ammu Swaminathan
  Ammu Swaminathan was an Indian social worker and a prominent political activist during the Indian independence movement. After independence, she served as a member of the Constituent Assembly of India and later, as a member of the Rajya Sabha from Madras State...
  
   - Freedom fighter.
• Nettur. P. Damodaran- Eminent freedom fighter and social worker.
• Moidu Moulavi
  Moidu Moulavi
  E. Moidu Moulavi is a freedom fighter of Malabar, born at Maranchery in Ponnani.-Early years:E Moidu Moulavi was born in 1890 to the family of Malayankulathel Marakkar Musliyar Maranchery, a scholar and freedom activist from Ponnani. He did his primary schooling at the Kodenchery Dars religious...
  
   - Freedom Fighter and leader of Indian National Congress.

Social reformers

• Adi Sankara (788 - 820) - Saint, poet, philosopher and reviver of Hinduism
  Hinduism
  Hinduism is the predominant and indigenous religious tradition of the Indian Subcontinent. Hinduism is known to its followers as , amongst many other expressions...
  
   in India. Propounded the doctrine of Advaita (non-duality), which identified the Supreme with the Self. He is revered as the Shankaracharya.
• Mitavadi C. Krishnan - Kerala's Leading Social Reformer - 1913-1938 (See http://www.mitavadi-ckrishnan.org/)
• Ayyankali
  Ayyankali
  Ayyankali was a leader of the Indian lower caste Dalits known as the Untouchables. He pioneered many reforms to improve the lives of the Dalits. In 1937 he was praised by Mahatma Gandhi when he visited Venganoor, Ayyankali's home town...
  
  - The leader of the backward casts in Kerala
  Kerala
  or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....
  
  
• Chattampi Swamikal
  Chattampi Swamikal
  Sree Vidyadhiraja Parama Bhattaraka Chattampi Swamikal was a Hindu sage and social reformer. His thoughts and work influvenced the launching of many social, relegious, literary and political organizations and movements in Kerala and for the first time gave voice to those who were...
  
   (1853–1925) - was one of Kerala's famed social reform activists and learned men.
• C. Kesavan
  C. Kesavan
  C. Kesavan was the Chief Minister of Travancore-Cochin during 1951–1952.-External links:*...
  
   - The Chief Minister of erstwhile state of Travancore-Cochin from 1951-52.
• K. M. Moulavi - An active leader of the Khilafat movement
  Khilafat Movement
  The Khilafat movement was a pan-Islamic, political campaign launched by Muslims in British India to influence the British government and to protect the Ottoman Empire during the aftermath of World War I...
  
   and the first president of Kerala Nadvathul Mujahideen
  Kerala Nadvathul Mujahideen
  Kerala Nadwathul Mujahideen is a Salafi Islamic organization and movement within Sunni Islam in Kerala, India. One faction of the organization is working in co-operation with Ahl al-Hadith , an all-Subcontinental Islahi outfit...
  
   (1950), which is responsible for fighting social evils like dowry, superstition, and promoting education and protecting rights of women among the Muslim population in Kerala.
• Lalithambika Antharjanam  - Social reformer and writer.
• K. P. Kesava Menon
  K. P. Kesava Menon
  Kizhakke Potta Kesava Menon was a patriot, idealist and Indian independence activist. He had born in Tharoor village of Palakkad as the grandson of the Maharajah of Palghat and as the son of Bhiman Achan. He graduated in Arts from Madras University and Bar-at-law from Middle Temple...
  
   - Well known patriot and active volunteer of the freedom fight against the British. Founder of Mathrubhumi
  Mathrubhumi
  Mathrubhumi is a Malayalam language newspaper that is published from Kerala, India. Mathrubhumi was founded by K. P. Kesava Menon, an active volunteer in the Indian freedom struggle against the British.-History:...
  
   daily.
• Mathai Manjooran
  Mathai Manjooran
  Mathai Manjooran was an Indian independence activist from Kerala, socialist revolutionary, Member of Parliament, Minister of Labour in the second E.M.S...
  
   (1912–1970) - A gallant freedom fighter, socialist revolutionary, member of the Indian Parliament, Labor Minister in the 2nd EMS communist ministry, and above all the staunchest advocate towards the formation of Kerala State.
• Mannathu Padmanabhan
  Mannathu Padmanabhan
  Mannathu Padmanabhan was a social reformer and a freedom fighter from the State of Kerala, India. He is recognised as the founder of the organisation called the Nair Service Society. This organisation represents the Nair community which constitutes almost 14.5% of the population of the state...
  
    - Founder of Nair Service Society.
• M. C. Joseph  - Rationalist, founding editor of Yukthivadi
  Yukthivadi
  Yukthivadi was the first rationalist/atheist journal published in Malayalam. The contribution made by Yukthivadi to the renaissance of Kerala, India is phenomenal....
  
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• Nawab Rajendran
  Nawab Rajendran
  T.A. Rajendran popularly known as Nawab Rajendran was a social activist and journalist from Kerala. With his sensational newspaper Nawab, and through his prolific use of public interest litigation, he stirred the conscience of society for nearly three decades.T.A. Rajendran was born in 1950 as...
  
    - Social activist who stirred the conscience of the society for three decades.
• Sree Narayana Guru
  Narayana Guru
  Sri Nārāyana Guru , also known as Sree Nārāyana Guru Swami, was a Hindu saint, sadhuand social reformer of India. The Guru was born into an Ezhava family, in an era when people from backward communities like the Ezhavas faced much social injustices in the caste-ridden Kerala society...
  
   (1856–1928) - Social reformer, scholar, teacher, saint and Vedantin. One of India's greatest sons
• Sahodaran Ayyappan
  Sahodaran Ayyappan
  Sahodaran Ayyappan was a social reformer, thinker, journalist, and politician of Kerala, India. He was one of the outspoken followers of Sree Narayana Guru.-Overview:...
  
   - Social reformer, follower of Sri Narayana Guru. He proclaimed "Jati Venda, Matham Venda, Daivam Venda Manusyanu" (No caste, No religion and No God for Human being" as a rejoinder to the famous words of his philosopher-guide Narayana Guru who said: "One Caste, One Religion and One God for Human Being".
• Nataraja Guru
  Nataraja Guru
  Nataraja Guru was a direct disciple of Narayana Guru, a sage and social reformer of India. Nataraja Guru founded Narayana Gurukulam, a worldwide contemplative community based on the teachings of Narayana Guru. He translated into English and wrote commentaries on all the major works of Narayana Guru...
  
   - Disciple of Narayana Guru. He is a great sage and social reformer of India. Nataraja Guru founded Narayana Gurukulam.
• Vakkom Abdul Khadir Moulavi
  Vakkom Moulavi
  Vakkom Muhammed Abdul Khadir Moulavi, popularly known as Vakkom Moulavi was a social reformer, teacher, prolific writer, Muslim scholar, journalist, freedom fighter and newspaper proprietor in Travancore, a princely state of the present day Kerala, India...
  
   (1877–1933) - A visionary social reformer and educationist, a prolific writer and fearless journalist, a noted scholar and linguist and, above all, a patriot.
• Muttathil Sivarama Menon (1900–1983) A Visionary social reformer, teacher, writer, Social activist. Simplified the social studies school text books for 6th-11th grade for Kerala schools.

Hinduism

• Narayana Guru
  Narayana Guru
  Sri Nārāyana Guru , also known as Sree Nārāyana Guru Swami, was a Hindu saint, sadhuand social reformer of India. The Guru was born into an Ezhava family, in an era when people from backward communities like the Ezhavas faced much social injustices in the caste-ridden Kerala society...
  
   - Founder of Sivagiri Mutt and social reformer of India.
• Chattampi Swamikal
  Chattampi Swamikal
  Sree Vidyadhiraja Parama Bhattaraka Chattampi Swamikal was a Hindu sage and social reformer. His thoughts and work influvenced the launching of many social, relegious, literary and political organizations and movements in Kerala and for the first time gave voice to those who were...
  
  - Hindu sage and social reformer.
• Brahmasree Neelakanta Gurupadar (1898–1965)- Mystic Saint and recluse.
• Swami Sathyananda Saraswathi
  Swami Sathyananda Saraswathi
  Swami Sathyananda Saraswathi also known as Chenkottukonam Swamiji, was a Hindu spiritual teacher, orator, historian and religious scholar. He was the founder of Hindu Aikya Vedi, and remained its chairman until his death....
  
   (1935–2006) - Founder Chairman of Hindu Aikya Vedi
  Hindu Aikya Vedi
  The Hindu Aikya Vedi or Hindu Ikyavedi or Hindu United Front is a "platform to bring all Hindu organizations together", active in the state of Kerala in India. The group is dedicated to bringing in various sections in Kerala Hindu society such as the Nairs and the Ezhavas under a single umbrella...
  
   and known as the greatest karma
  Karma
  Karma in Indian religions is the concept of "action" or "deed", understood as that which causes the entire cycle of cause and effect originating in ancient India and treated in Hindu, Jain, Buddhist and Sikh philosophies....
  
   yogi to uphold Sanatana Dharma since Swami Vivekananda
  Swami Vivekananda
  Swami Vivekananda , born Narendranath Dutta , was the chief disciple of the 19th century mystic Ramakrishna Paramahansa and the founder of the Ramakrishna Math and the Ramakrishna Mission...
  
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• Tapovan Maharaj
  Tapovan Maharaj
  Swami Tapovan Maharaj was a Hindu Sannyasi and Vedanta scholar who taught both Swami Chinmayananda, the founder of the Chinmaya Mission Movement and Swami Sundaranand....
  
   - Teacher of Swami Chinmayananda and Swami Sundaranand
  Swami Sundaranand
  Swami Sundaranand is a Yogi, photographer, and mountaineer who lectures widely in India on threats to the Ganges river and the loss of Himalayan glaciers due to global warming....
  
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• Swami Ranganathananda
  Swami Ranganathananda
  Swami Ranganathananda born Shankaran Kutty was a Hindu monk of the Ramakrishna Math order. He served as the 13th president of the Ramakrishna Math and Mission.- Biography :...
  
   - 13th president of the Ramakrishna Math and Mission.
• Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha - Spiritual Leader and the Founder of Narayanashrama Tapovanam
  Narayanashrama Tapovanam
  Narayanashrama Tapovanam is an Ashram located at Venginissery village, 10km South-West of Thrissur city, in Kerala state, India. It was founded by Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha in 1963. The Ashram, which is located in the hillock of Pandava Giri, is a centre for learning and practising Brahmavidya and...
  
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• Karunakara Guru
  Karunakara Guru
  Nava Jyothi Sree Karunakara Guru was born in Chandiroor, Alappuzha district, Kerala. The humility, dignity and calm poise of this ascetic attracted to this young aspirant the devotees who came in large numbers to the institution of Sivagiri Madom of Sri Narayana Guru.Before long, in the year 1957,...
  
  
• Nitya Yati
  Nitya Chaitanya Yati
  Nitya Chaitanya Yati was a philosopher, psychologist, author and poet. His writings have made him one of the world’s leading exponents of Advaita Vedanta including how it dovetails with modern scientific discoveries.-Biography:...
  
   - World’s leading exponents of Advaita Vedanta
  Advaita Vedanta
  Advaita Vedanta is considered to be the most influential and most dominant sub-school of the Vedānta school of Hindu philosophy. Other major sub-schools of Vedānta are Dvaita and ; while the minor ones include Suddhadvaita, Dvaitadvaita and Achintya Bhedabheda...
  
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• Amritanandamayi
  Mata Amritanandamayi
  Mātā Amṛtānandamayī Devī , primarily known simply as Amma ["Mother"], is a Hindu spiritual leader and guru, who is revered as a saint by her followers. She is widely respected for her humanitarian activities...
  
   - Spiritual leader and guru.
• Swami Chinamayananda
  Chinmayananda
  Swami Chinmayananda , born Balakrishna Menon , was a Hindu Indian spiritual leader, and teacher, who inspired the formation of Chinmaya Mission in 1953 to spread the message of Vedanta...
  
   - Founder of Chinmaya Mission
  Chinmaya Mission
  Chinmaya Mission was founded in 1953 by the devotees of Swami Chinmayananda to 'give organizational structure and cohesiveness to the work and activities initiated by Swami Chinmayananda' . It is administered from Central Chinmaya Mission Trust, Mumbai...
  
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Islam

• Panakkad Thangal - Former supremo of the E. K. faction Sunnis
  E. K. Sunni
  E. K. Sunni is one of the powerful traditional Sunni factions of Muslims in Kerala, South India under the Chelari Samastha. They belong to Sunni-Shafi school of law. It is largest Muslim faction in Kerala in terms of number of followers and was named after the cleric E.K...
  
   of Kerala
  Kerala
  or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....
  
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• Kanthapuram A. P. Musalyar - Supremo of the A. P. faction Sunnis
  A. P. Sunni
  A. P. Sunni is one of the powerful and influential traditional Sunni factions of Muslims in Kerala, South India under the Karanthur Markaz. They belong to the Sunni-Shafi branch of Islam. It was named after the cleric Kanthapuram A.P. Aboobacker Musliar, general secretary of All-India Jamiyyathul...
  
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• E.K. Aboobacker Musliar
  E.K. Aboobacker Musliar
  E.K. Aboobacker Musliar was a Sunni Muslim scholar and religious leader from Paramblikadavu, near Kozhikkode, Kerala state, South India. E. K. Sunni, the largest Muslim faction in Kerala in terms of number of followers, is named after E.K...
  
   - Former leader of the E. K. faction Sunnis
  E. K. Sunni
  E. K. Sunni is one of the powerful traditional Sunni factions of Muslims in Kerala, South India under the Chelari Samastha. They belong to Sunni-Shafi school of law. It is largest Muslim faction in Kerala in terms of number of followers and was named after the cleric E.K...
  
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• TP Abdulla Koya Madani - Leader of A. P. faction of Mujahids
  Kerala Nadvathul Mujahideen
  Kerala Nadwathul Mujahideen is a Salafi Islamic organization and movement within Sunni Islam in Kerala, India. One faction of the organization is working in co-operation with Ahl al-Hadith , an all-Subcontinental Islahi outfit...
  
   in Kerala
  Kerala
  or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....
  
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• Hussain Madavoor, the leader of Madavoor faction of Mujahids
  Kerala Nadvathul Mujahideen
  Kerala Nadwathul Mujahideen is a Salafi Islamic organization and movement within Sunni Islam in Kerala, India. One faction of the organization is working in co-operation with Ahl al-Hadith , an all-Subcontinental Islahi outfit...
  
   in Kerala
  Kerala
  or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....
  
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• T. Arifali - Leader of the Kerala unit of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind
  Jamaat-e-Islami Hind
  Jamaat-e-Islami Hind is one of the influential and hardline Islamic organization and movement within Sunni Islam in India...
  
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• Cherussery Musliyar
  Cherussery Sainudheen Musliyar
  Cherussery Zainudheen Musliyar is a Sunni Muslim religious scholar from the Indian state of Kerala. He is the current General Secretary of Samastha Kerala Jamiyyathul Ulama, the religious organisation of E. K. Sunni faction Muslim scholars and clerics. Called as the Shining Scholar by followers he...
  
   - A prominent E. K. Sunni leader.
• KT Manu Musliar
  KT Manu Musliar
  K.T. Mohammed Musliyar, who was known as K.T. Manu Musliyar was an islamic scholar and general secretary of Samastha Kerala Islam Matha Vidyabhyasa Board, which is the biggest organisation for giving islamic education to Muslim children of Kerala, of the E. K. Sunni faction. He also was a great...
  
  , a prominent E. K. Sunni leader.
• Kalambadi Muhammad Musliyar
  Kalambadi Muhammad Musliyar
  Kalambadi Muhammad Musliyar is a Sunni Muslim religious scholar from Kerala state, South India. He is the current President of the Samastha Kerala Jamiyyathul Ulama, the religious organisation of E. K. Sunni faction Muslim scholars and clerics....
  
  , a prominent E. K. Sunni leader.
• Ullal Thangal
  Ullal Thangal
  Ullal Thangal is a Sunni Muslim scholar from the Indian state of Kerala, South India. He is current President of Samastha Kerala Sunni Jam'iyyathul Ulama , the organization of scholars and clerics under A. P. Sunni faction of Muslims of Kerala...
  
  , a prominent A. P. Sunni leader.
• Hyderali Shihab Thangal
  Sayed Hyderali Shihab Thangal
  Sayyid Hyderali Shihab Thangal is the Kerala State president of the Indian Union Muslim League and current supreme leader of the E. K. Sunni of Kerala.He is the third son of PMSA Pookkoya Thangal...
  
   - Current supremo of the E. K. faction Sunnis
  E. K. Sunni
  E. K. Sunni is one of the powerful traditional Sunni factions of Muslims in Kerala, South India under the Chelari Samastha. They belong to Sunni-Shafi school of law. It is largest Muslim faction in Kerala in terms of number of followers and was named after the cleric E.K...
  
   of Kerala
  Kerala
  or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....
  
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• Chekannur Maulavi
  Chekannur Maulavi
  Chekannur Moulavi was a progressive Islamic cleric who lived in Edappal in Malappuram district of Kerala, India. He was noted for his controversial and unconventional interpretation of Islam based on Quran and Hadeeth...
  
   - A progressive Islamic cleric.

Christianity

• Alphonsa Muttathupadathu - On 12 October 2008, Pope Benedict XVI
  Pope Benedict XVI
  Benedict XVI is the 265th and current Pope, by virtue of his office of Bishop of Rome, the Sovereign of the Vatican City State and the leader of the Catholic Church as well as the other 22 sui iuris Eastern Catholic Churches in full communion with the Holy See...
  
   canonized
  Canonization
  Canonization is the act by which a Christian church declares a deceased person to be a saint, upon which declaration the person is included in the canon, or list, of recognized saints. Originally, individuals were recognized as saints without any formal process...
  
   her a saint at a ceremony at Saint Peter's Square
  Saint Peter's Square
  Saint Peter's Square is located directly in front of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, the papal enclave within Rome .-History of St...
  
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• Kuriakose Chavara
  Kuriakose Elias Chavara
  Blessed Kuriakose Elias Chavara was the co-founder and first prior-general of the Congregation of the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate and of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Mother of Carmel....
  
    - On February 8, 1986 was beatified by Pope John Paul II
  Pope John Paul II
  Blessed Pope John Paul II , born Karol Józef Wojtyła , reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church and Sovereign of Vatican City from 16 October 1978 until his death on 2 April 2005, at of age. His was the second-longest documented pontificate, which lasted ; only Pope Pius IX ...
  
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• Mar Aprem Mooken
  Mar Aprem Mooken
  Mar Aprem Mooken is the Assyrian Church of the East Metropolitan of India. Mar Aprem was born in Thrissur, Kerala, India, on 13 June 1940. Educated in India, England and America, he specialised in Church History...
  
   - Assyrian Church of the East Metropolitan of India and the United Arab Emirates
  Christianity in the United Arab Emirates
  According to a ministry report, which collected census data, 76 percent of the total population of the United Arab Emirates is Muslim, 9 percent is Christian, and 15 percent is "other."...
  
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• Gheevarghese Gregorios - Canonized Spiritual Leader of Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church.
• Athanasius Paulose - Canonized a saint by Patriarch Ignatius Zakka I Iwas
  Ignatius Zakka I Iwas
  Ignatius Zakka I Iwas is the 122nd reigning Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, and as such, Supreme Head of the Universal Syriac Orthodox Church. Also known by his traditional episcopal name, Severios, he was enthroned as patriarch on 14 September 1980 in St. George's...
  
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• Coorilos Paulose - Former Malankara Metropolitan of Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church, canonized by Patriarch Ignatius Zakka I Iwas
  Ignatius Zakka I Iwas
  Ignatius Zakka I Iwas is the 122nd reigning Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, and as such, Supreme Head of the Universal Syriac Orthodox Church. Also known by his traditional episcopal name, Severios, he was enthroned as patriarch on 14 September 1980 in St. George's...
  
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• Mar Ivanios
  Geevarghese Mar Ivanios
  Geevarghese Giovanni Giorgio Tommaso Panickerveetil aka Archbishop Aboon Geevarghese Mor Ivanios, Servant of God, OIC , born as Geevarghese Panickeruveetil, was a Christian bishop and the founder of the Bethany Ashram order of monks.- Childhood :Geevarghese Panicker was born in Mavelikkara, India,...
  
   - Archbishop and founder of the Bethany Ashram.
• Benedict Mar Gregorios
  Benedict Mar Gregorios
  Archbishop Benedict Mar Gregorios was the second Metropolitan Archbishop of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church....
  
   - Archbishop of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church
  Syro-Malankara Catholic Church
  The Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is an Eastern Catholic Church in full communion with the Holy See...
  
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• Baselios Paulose II - Former Catholicos
  Catholicos
  Catholicos, plural Catholicoi, is a title used for the head of certain churches in some Eastern Christian traditions. The title implies autocephaly and in some cases is borne by the designated head of an autonomous church, in which case the holder might have other titles such as Patriarch...
  
   of the East of Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church in India.
• Baselios Marthoma Didymos I - Catholicose of All the East and Malankara Metropolitan.
• Varghese Palakkappilly
  Varghese Payapilly Palakkappilly
  Varghese Payapilly Palakkappilly was a Syrian Catholic priest from the Indian state of Kerala and the founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Destitute.-Family:...
  
   - Founder of founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Destitute
  Sisters of the Destitute
  Sisters of the Destitute is a Syro-Malabar Catholic women's order.-History:The Congregation of the Sisters of the Destitute was founded by Servant of God Varghese Payapilly Palakkappilly in Chunangamvely, Kerala on 19 March 1927....
  
   and was declared Servant of God
  Servant of God
  Servant of God is a title given to individuals by various religions, but in general the phrase is used to describe a person believed to be pious in his or her faith tradition. In the Catholic Church, it designates someone who is being investigated by the Church for possibly being recognized as a...
  
   on 6 September 2009.
• Baselios Thomas I, Catholicos
  Catholicos
  Catholicos, plural Catholicoi, is a title used for the head of certain churches in some Eastern Christian traditions. The title implies autocephaly and in some cases is borne by the designated head of an autonomous church, in which case the holder might have other titles such as Patriarch...
  
   of India - 3rd Maphrian
  Maphrian
  The Maphrian was historically the prelate in the Syriac Orthodox Church who ranked second in the hierarchy after the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch. The Maphrian, whose title literally means "one who bears fruit", i.e. "consecrator", was originally the head of the church in Persia and the...
  
   of the Syriac Orthodox Church
  Syriac Orthodox Church
  The Syriac Orthodox Church; is an autocephalous Oriental Orthodox church based in the Eastern Mediterranean, with members spread throughout the world. The Syriac Orthodox Church claims to derive its origin from one of the first Christian communities, established in Antioch by the Apostle St....
  
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• Philippose Chrysostem
  Philipose Mar Chrysostom
  -See also:* Mar Thoma Church* Syrian Malabar Nasrani* Saint Thomas Christians* Christianity in India* List of Syrian Malabar Nasranis* Juhanon Mar Thoma* Alexander Mar Thoma* Joseph Mar Thoma-Further reading:...
  
   - Metropolitan Bishop of the Mar Thoma Church
  Mar Thoma Church
  The Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church also known as the Mar Thoma Church is a Christian denomination based in the state of Kerala in southwestern India. It has an entirely different identity when compared with other Churches in India. Most Christian churches around the world are divided into...
  
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Writers

• Akkitham Achuthan Namboodiri - A famous Malayalam poet who is honored by the epithet 'Mahaakavi'. He won the Kendra Sahithya Academy Award for Malayalam in 1973. His famous poems include 'Irupatam Nuttantinte Ithihasam. Akkitham is associated with Tapasya _ a cultural organization.
• Kandathil Varughese Mappillai Writer and poet
• P.M. Taj - Writer
• Anita Nair
  Anita Nair
  Anita Nair is a popular Indian-English writer. She was born at Mundakottakurissi, near Shornur in Kerala State.A bestselling author of fiction and poetry, her novels The Better Man and Ladies Coupe have been translated in to 21 languages. She was educated in Chennai before returning to...
  
   - Writer.
• Arundhati Roy
  Arundhati Roy
  Arundhati Roy is an Indian novelist. She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her novel, The God of Small Things, and has also written two screenplays and several collections of essays...
  
    - Writer, awarded the Booker Prize in 1997 for 'The God of Small Things
  The God of Small Things
  The God of Small Things is the debut novel of Indian author Arundhati Roy. It is a story about the childhood experiences of fraternal twins whose lives are destroyed by the "Love Laws" that lay down "who should be loved, and how. And how much." The book is a description of how the small things in...
  
  ', which is set in Kerala.
• Arun Kumar Pallathadka
  Arun Kumar Pallathadka
  Arun Kumar Pallathadka,born 9th March 1992 , is an author of Indian origin, and apparently, one of the youngest authors in the world. Arun Kumar is the author of 2 novellas, and . - Background :...
  
    - Author of two blockbuster novellas - Life - A Whirlwind and Dark Clouds
• Balachandran Chullikkadu
  Balachandran Chullikkadu
  Balachandran Chullikkadu is a renowned Malayalam poet and film actor.-Early life:Balachandran was born in Paravur, Ernakulam, Kerala. He completed his graduation in English literature from Maharajas College, Ernakulam.-Writing career:...
  
    - Poet admired for his realistic approach and hummable and rhythmic poems.
• Balamani Amma
  Balamani Amma
  Nalappat Balamani Amma was an Indian poetess who wrote in Malayalam. She was a prolific writer and was known as the Poetess of Motherhood. Amma , Muthassi , and Mazhuvinte Katha were some of her well known works...
  
   - Poet; won the literary medal in India, the Saraswathi Samman.
• Changampuzha Krishna Pillai
  Changampuzha Krishna Pillai
  Changampuzha Krishna Pillai was a celebrated Malayalam poet from Kerala, India, known almost exclusively for his romantic elegy Ramanan which was written in 1936 and sold over 100,000 copies...
  
   (1911–1948) - Poet, author of the pastoral elegy 'Ramanan' (1936) which sold over 100,000 copies, a record that still stands. Changampuzha took Malayalam poetry to the zenith of romanticism.
• Cherusseri Namboothiri
  Cherusseri Namboothiri
  Cherusseri Namboothiri is the author of Krishna Gatha, a poem which is used in India for daily recitation as an act of worship of Krishna during the Malayalam month Chingam by devout Keralites, especially women. Cherussery was the writer of krishnagatha...
  
    - Mahakavi (great poet), part of the old Kavithrayam (triad of poets), with Ezhuthachan
  Thunchaththu Ramanujan Ezhuthachan
  Thunjathu Ramanujan Ezhuthachan was an Indian poet from around the 16th century, known as the father of the Malayalam language — the principal language of the Indian state of Kerala, spoken by 36 million people in the world...
  
   and Kunchan Nambiar
  Kalakkaththu Kunchan Nambiar
  Kunchan Nambiar was a renowned Malayalam poet and inventor of the art form Ottamthullal.-Early life:Kunchan Nambiar spent his early childhood at Killikkurussimangalam in Kerala state, south India, his boyhood at Kudamaloor and his youth at Ambalappuzha. Scholars like Guru Mani Madhava Chakyar have...
  
  . Author of 'Krishnagaadha (The Song of Krishna)'.
• K.V.Dominic - Indian English poet, critic, editor and short story writer .
• D. Vinayachandran
  D. Vinayachandran
  D. Vinayachandran is a well-known Indian Malayalam poet. He is one of the proponents of modern style of prose in Malayalam poetry. He worked as a Malayalam professor in various colleges for more than thirty years...
  
   - Poet.
• Gayatri
  Gayatri
  Gayatri is the feminine form of , a Sanskrit word for a song or a hymn. Gayatri is a consort of Brahma and the goddess of learning. Brahma married her when there was a need for a companion during a yajna. Brahma had to start the yajna along with his wife...
  
   - Wrter, Painter, art and literary critic
• Hameed Chennamangaloor
  Hameed Chennamangaloor
  Hameed Chennamangaloor is a prominent social critic in Kerala, India. He is a staunch critic of religious fundamentalism. He was born to Areepattamannil Abdul Salam of Chennamangaloor and Katheeshumma of Perumanna. He had his early education at Chennamangaloor and Mukkam...
  
    - writer, progressive Muslim intellectual, critic of religious fundamentalism.
• Kadammanitta Ramakrishnan
  Kadammanitta Ramakrishnan
  Kadammanitta Ramakrishnan , popularly known as Kadammanitta, was an Indian poet. He was born in Kadammanitta province of Pathanamthitta district, Kerala. His childhood experiences, especially the Patayani songs, imparted strong influence in his literary work...
  
  - Noted Malayalam Poet.
• Kamala Das
  Kamala Das
  Kamala Suraiyya was a major Indian English poet and literateur and at the same time a leading Malayalam author from Kerala state, South India...
  
    - English poet and novelist, also wrote in Malayalam under the pen-name Madhavikkutty. First Indian woman to openly write about woman's sexuality. Embraced Islam under the name Kamala Suraiyya in 1999. Asian Poetry Prize, 1964, Kent Award, 1965.
• Kesari Balakrishna Pillai
  Kesari Balakrishna Pillai
  Kesari Balakrishna Pillai , was a prominent Malayalam writer, art and literary critic, journalist, thinker and visionary.Kesari Balakrishna Pillai, who was known by the name of the newspaper he ran, "Kesari". He was also a literary critic, essayist and translated literary works form French and...
  
    - Social thinker, Literary critic who influenced a generation of writers and other intellectuals in Kerala during the first half of 20th Century. The name of one of his book "Navalokam" (New World) is symbolical representative of his intellectual contributions. Kesari read and wrote about various subjects. He gave advice and guidance most of the second generation Malayalam writers including, Thakazhi, Basheer, Pottekkadu. Kesari published a newspaper "Kesari" by which name he is known later. Kesari translated many literary works directly from French to show examples of world Literature to then Malayali writers.
• Kumaran Asan
  Kumaran Asan
  N. Kumaran Asan , also known as Mahakavi Kumaran Asan , was one of the triumvirate poets of Kerala, South India...
  
    - Mahaakavi (great poet), part of the new Kavithrayam, with Ulloor
  Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyer
  Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyer , commonly known as Ulloor was a famous Malayalam poet and a noted historian. Ulloor was one of the famous triumvirate poets of Kerala, South India in the first half of the 20th century....
  
   and Vallathol. Kumaran Asan was the follower of Srinarayana Guru. He used poetry to influence the society.
• Kalakkaththu Kunchan Nambiar
  Kalakkaththu Kunchan Nambiar
  Kunchan Nambiar was a renowned Malayalam poet and inventor of the art form Ottamthullal.-Early life:Kunchan Nambiar spent his early childhood at Killikkurussimangalam in Kerala state, south India, his boyhood at Kudamaloor and his youth at Ambalappuzha. Scholars like Guru Mani Madhava Chakyar have...
  
    - Mahaakavi (great poet), part of the old Kavithrayam. Founder of the art form Ottan Thullal.
• Kunjunni
  Kunjunni
  Kunjunni, popularly known as Kunjunni Mash, was a noted Indian Malayalam poet.He was considered as the children's poet and his poems were short like him.- Early life and Career:...
  
  - Malayalam Poet
• N.S. Madhavan  - Writer and civil servant.
• M. Krishnan Nair
  M. Krishnan Nair (author)
  Prof. M. Krishnan Nair was an eminent Malayalam writer, literary critic and orator.He was born in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala on 3 March 1923. His father was V.K. Madhavan Pillai and mother, L. Sarada Amma. He had his school education at Travancore and his college education at University College,...
  
    - Literary critic, whose column Sahithyavaraphalam has long served as a window to contem–porary world literature.
• M. Mukundan
  M. Mukundan
  M. Mukundan is one of the pioneers of modernity in Malayalam literature, belonging to Mahe, part of Pondicherry Union Territory in South India. He was born on 10 September 1942 at Mayyazhi , a one-time French territory in India...
  
    - Novelist, author of 'Mayyazhippuzhayude Theerangalil (On the Banks of Mayyazhi)' and 'Deyvathinte Vikruthikal (Pranks of God)'.
• George Menachery
  George Menachery
  George Menachery is a professor, anthropologist, historian of Syro Malabar Church and history of Kerala. He is the editor the of the St. Thomas Christian Encyclopedia of India and the Indian Church History Classics.Menachery is also the recipient of the 'Order of Saint Gregory the Great', known as...
  
    - Historian, Editor of The St. Thomas Christian Encyclopaedia of India, Ed., The Indian Church History Classics (The Nazranies).
• Moothiringode Bhavathrāthan Namboothiripad
  Moothiringode Bhavathrathan Namboothiripad
  Moothiringode Bhavathrāthan Namboothiripad was a Malayalam author who is known for his work Aphante Makal which had great social relevance in pre-independent Kerala society.- Life :...
  
   - Author of the famous Aphante Makal. He was social reformer especially of the Namboothiri society.
• Moyinkutty Vaidyar
  Moyinkutty Vaidyar
  Moyinkutty Vaidyar , often referred to as Mahakavi , is historically considered as one of the most renown and authentic poets of the Mappila pattu genre of Malayalam language songs in Kerala state, South India.-Personal life:...
  
   - Great poet (Mahakavi), author of many authentic Mappila songs
  Mappila Songs
  Mappila Paattu or Mappila Song is a folklore Muslim song genre rendered to lyrics in colloquial Mappila dialect of Malayalam laced with Arabic, by the Mappilas of Malabar. Mappila songs have a distinct cultural identity, while at the same time, remain closely linked to the cultural practices of...
  
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• M. P. Parameswaran
  M. P. Parameswaran
  M. P. Parameswaran is an Indian nuclear engineer and eminent science contributor. He is an atomic scientist and educationist of India. He played an important role in Indian Nuclear program.- Education :...
  
    - Scientist turned social activist, involved with Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad.
• M. T. Vasudevan Nair
  M. T. Vasudevan Nair
  Madathil Thekkepaattu Vasudevan Nair , popularly known as MT, is an Indian author, screenplay writer and film director. He was born in Kudallur, a small village in the present day Palakkad District, which was under the Malabar District in the Madras Presidency of the British Raj...
  
    - Writer and cinema personality. Jnanpith Award
  Jnanpith Award
  The Jnanpith Award is a literary award in India. Along with the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, it is one of the two most prestigious literary honours in the country...
  
  , 1995.
• Niranam Poets
  Niranam poets
  Niranam is a small village in Southern Kerala in India near Mannar town. In 14th century Niranam gave birth to three poets who became well-known as the Niranam Poets. They were Madhava Panikkar, Sankara Panikkar and Rama Panikkar of the Kannassa family. The first two were uncles of Rama Panikkar...
  
    - Three Great Malayali poets Madhava Panikkar, Sankara Panikkar and Rama Panikkar of the Kannassa family. They lived between AD 1350 and 1450 in the Niranam village of Tiruvalla
• Nitya Chaitanya Yati
  Nitya Chaitanya Yati
  Nitya Chaitanya Yati was a philosopher, psychologist, author and poet. His writings have made him one of the world’s leading exponents of Advaita Vedanta including how it dovetails with modern scientific discoveries.-Biography:...
  
   - Scholar, monk.
• O. Chandumenon
  Oyyarathu Chandumenon
  Oyyarathu Chandumenon was a Malayalam language novelist from Kerala state, South India who wrote Indulekha in 1889, the first Malayalam fictional work which met with all the requisite characteristics typical of a novel according to a widely accepted Malayalam literary convention...
  
    - Author of the Malayalam novel 'Indulekha'. Also wrote the incomplete novel "Sharada".
• O. V. Vijayan
  O. V. Vijayan
  Ootupulackal Velukkuty Vijayan was an Indian author and cartoonist, who was an important figure in modern Malayalam literature. Best known for his first novel Khasakkinte Itihasam , Vijayan has six novels, nine short-story collections, and nine collections of essays, memoirs and reflections.-...
  
    - Novelist, cartoonist. Author of 'Khasakkinte Ithihaasam (The Legends of Khasak)' and 'Dharmapuranam (The Saga of Dharmapuri).
• O. N. V. Kurup
  O. N. V. Kurup
  Ottaplakkal Nambiyadikkal Velu Kurup , popularly known as O. N. V. Kurup or simply O. N. V., is a Malayalam poet and lyricist from Kerala, India, who won Jnanpith Award,the highest literary award in India for the year 2007. He is considered one of the finest living lyrical poets in India. O. N....
  
  
• P. Parameswaran
  P. Parameswaran
  P. Parameshwaran is a renowned Hindutva thinker in Kerala, an orator and a social philosopher. He is the director of Bharatiya Vichara Kendra and the president of Vivekananda Kendra, Kanyakumari. He is also one of the founder members of International Forum for India's Heritage...
  
   - Renowned thinker. Director of Bharatiya Vichara Kendram and former President of Vivekanand Kendra, Kanyakumari. Also known as Parameswarji.
• P. K. Gopi
  P. K. Gopi
  P. K. Gopi is a noted Indian poet in Malayalam. He used to write lyrics for Malayalam films. He is a member of Kerala Sahitya Akademi.He won the Mahakavi Vennikkulam Memorial Literary Award for 2006, for his anthology of poems entitled Chiranthanom. Gopi was also awarded the Mahakavi Kuttamath...
  
  - Poet.
• Paul, M.P.  - Literary critic.
• Paul Zacharia
  Paul Zacharia
  Paul Zacharia is a Malayalam short story writer, novelist and essayist. Born in Urulikkunnam in Kottayam district in Kerala, India, Zacharia lives in Trivandrum.-Literary career:...
  
    - Writer.
• Poonthanam
  Poonthanam
  Poonthanam was a famous devotee of Guruvayurappan, who lived in Keezhattoor in , Kerala, India. He was a famous devotee of Lord Krishna . He is remembered for his masterpiece, Jnanappana which means 'the song of wisdom' in Malayalam...
  
    - Poet belonging to the Bhakti
  Bhakti
  In Hinduism Bhakti is religious devotion in the form of active involvement of a devotee in worship of the divine.Within monotheistic Hinduism, it is the love felt by the worshipper towards the personal God, a concept expressed in Hindu theology as Svayam Bhagavan.Bhakti can be used of either...
  
   school.
• Sara Joseph - Writer, Novelist, Sahitya Academy winner.
• Shashi Tharoor
  Shashi Tharoor
  Shashi Tharoor is an Indian politician and a Member of Parliament from the Thiruvananthapuram constituency in Kerala...
  
    - Novelist, Commonwealth Writers Prize, 1991; previous Under-Secretary-General (Communication and Public Information) of the United Nations, Deputy Minister of External affairs.
• S. K. Pottekkatt
  S. K. Pottekkatt
  Sankaran Kutty Pottekkatt , popularly known as S. K. Pottekkatt, was a famous Malayalam writer from Kerala state, South India...
  
   (1913–1982) - A well-renowned author whose work 'Oru Desattinte Katha' (The Story of a Land) fetched him the Jnanpith award of 1980.
• Sukumar Azhikode
  Sukumar Azhikode
  Sukumar Azhikode is a writer, critic and orator, acknowledged for his contributions to Malayalam and insights on Indian philosophy. He is a bachelor and lives in Eravimangalam near Thrissur....
  
    - Thinker, teacher, critic and orator.
• Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai
  Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai
  Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai was a novelist and short story writer of Malayalam language, spoken in Kerala state, South India. He is popularly known as Thakazhi, after his place of birth. He focused on the oppressed classes as the subject of his works, which are known for their attention to...
  
    - Novelist and short story writer whose work Chemmeen
  Chemmeen
  Chemmeen is a 1965 Malayalam romantic drama film based on the highly acclaimed novel of the same name by Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai and directed by Ramu Kariat from a screenplay by S. L...
  
   was awarded Jnanpith Award in 1984.
• TJS George - Fearless critic and 2011 Padma Bhushan award winner.
• Thirunalloor Karunakaran
  Thirunalloor Karunakaran
  Thirunalloor Karunakaran was a renowned poet, scholar, teacher and leftist intellectual of Kerala, India.-Early life:...
  
  - Renowned poet, scholar, teacher and leftist intellectual
• Thunchaththu Ramanujan Ezhuthachan
  Thunchaththu Ramanujan Ezhuthachan
  Thunjathu Ramanujan Ezhuthachan was an Indian poet from around the 16th century, known as the father of the Malayalam language — the principal language of the Indian state of Kerala, spoken by 36 million people in the world...
  
    - Architect of modern Malayalam. Mahakavi (great poet), part of the old Kavithrayam. Penned the most popular Malayalam renditions of Ramayana
  Ramayana
  The Ramayana is an ancient Sanskrit epic. It is ascribed to the Hindu sage Valmiki and forms an important part of the Hindu canon , considered to be itihāsa. The Ramayana is one of the two great epics of India and Nepal, the other being the Mahabharata...
  
   and Mahabharata
  Mahabharata
  The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India and Nepal, the other being the Ramayana. The epic is part of itihasa....
  
  .
• Ulloor S Parameswara Iyer  - Poet, part of the new Kavithrayam. Author of 'Umakeralam'.
• Uroob
  Uroob
  Uroob was a famous Malayalam writer from Kerala state, South India. He along with writers like Basheer, Thakazhi, Kesavadev, and Pottekkatt formed the progressive writers in Malayalam during the twentieth century. Uroob is a recipient of Kendra Sahithya Academy Award for his novel Sundarikalum...
  
   - Writer, Novelist, Sahitya Academy winner, Written screen play for Neelakuyil which was the first Malayalam movie with a social outlook & won president of India's silver medal.
• G.S.UnnikrishnanNair-Science Writer, children's Writer, winner of national science communication award, Bhima Balasahithya Award and State Science Literature Award. Author of 'Ottakangal Paranja Katha'
• Vaikom Muhammad Basheer
  Vaikom Muhammad Basheer
  Vaikom Muhammad Basheer was a Malayalam fiction writer from the state of Kerala in India. He was a humanist, freedom fighter, novelist and short story writer. He is noted for his pathbreaking, disarmingly down-to-earth style of writing that made him equally popular among literary critics as well...
  
    - Writer, philosopher.
• Vakkom Abdul Khader Moulavi
  Vakkom Moulavi
  Vakkom Muhammed Abdul Khadir Moulavi, popularly known as Vakkom Moulavi was a social reformer, teacher, prolific writer, Muslim scholar, journalist, freedom fighter and newspaper proprietor in Travancore, a princely state of the present day Kerala, India...
  
   - Publisher of the legendary publication Swadeshabhimani, social reformer, and a prominent leader of the progressive Islahi Movement in Kerala
  Islahi Movement in Kerala
  The renaissance of the ancient Sunni Muslim community in the Kerala state, South India mostly owes to the rise of Salafi ideas and scholars in the early 20th century, referred as Islahi movements of Kerala. Salafism is a puritanical and legalistic Islamic movement under the Sunni umbrella, and is...
  
  .
• Vallathol Narayana Menon
  Vallathol Narayana Menon
  Vallathol Narayana Menon , popularly known as Mahakavi, was one of the celebrity poets in Malayalam language, spoken in the South Indian state of Kerala. Vallathol was born in Chennara, near Tirur, in Malappuram District of Kerala state, southern India. Up to his 27 years he lived in Chennara and...
  
    - Mahaakavi, part of the new Kavithrayam. Author of 'Sahithyamanjari'. Founder of Kerala Kalamandalam
  Kerala Kalamandalam
  Kerala Kalamandalam , lately renamed as Kalamandalam Deemed University of Art and Culture, is a major centre for learning Indian performing arts, especially those that developed in the southern state of India, with the special emphasis on Kerala. It is situated in the village of Cheruthuruthy in...
  
  , the state's flagship institution for the promotion of performing arts.
• Vayalar Ramavarma
  Vayalar Ramavarma
  Vayalar Ramavarma , often known as Vayalar, was a modern Malayalam poet and lyricist. His famous works include Sargasangeetham, Mulankaadu, Padamudrakal, Aayisha, Oru Judas janikkunnu.-Biography:...
  
    - Arguably the greatest lyricist in the history of Malayalam cinema.
• Vayalar Sarath Chandra varma
  Vayalar Sarath Chandra Varma
  Vayalar Sarathchandravarma is a noted Malayalam film lyricist. His lyrics have proved that he has inherited his father, Vayalar Ramavarma’s‎ gift of poetry. He is a youthful entertainer by penning soothe romantic songs. All his recent contribution has got a large amount attention among Malayalam...
  
   - noted young Malayalam film lyricist.
• Vijayan, M. N  - Thinker, writer, literary critic, social activist. Most of his works are compilation of speeches.
• Vrindavanam Venugopalan
  Vrindavanam Venugopalan
  Vrindavanam Venugopalan was Editor of Viswakeralam Daily, Writer and Educationist from Kollam.-Educational Background:...
  
   - Writer, Journalist and Educationist,
• Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon
  Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon
  Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon was a renowned Indian poet of Kerala. He was born on 11 May 1911 in Kaloor in the Ernakulam district. After taking his bachelors degree in science he took B.T...
  
   (1911–1985)- Famous Malayalam poet.
• Yusuf Ali Kechery
  Yusuf Ali Kechery
  Yusuf Ali Kecheri is a poet and film director from Kerala, India.He is the former president of the Kerala Sahitya Academy. Professor K. P. Narayana Pisharody, the eldest scholar, was Yousuf Ali's Sanskrit teacher...
  
  - Poet.

Journalists

• Rohit Viswanath
  Rohit Viswanath
  Rohit Viswanath is an Indian foreign policy expert and a commentator on International Affairs. He is the editor of'Insight from India on Politics, Economics & Strategy' a premium blog on India's international relations...
  
  - CNN Young Journalist of the Year 2006. Editorial Page writer with The Times of India
  The Times of India
  The Times of India is an Indian English-language daily newspaper. TOI has the largest circulation among all English-language newspaper in the world, across all formats . It is owned and managed by Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd...
  
  .
• T. N. Gopakumar
  T. N. Gopakumar
  T. N. Gopakumar is an Indian journalist. He is presently the Editor in Chief, Asianet News. Gopakumar is the producer and anchorperson of the popular weekly programme Kannadi on Asianet. He has many awards and accolades to his credit, including the Kerala Sahithya Academy Award for his book...
  
   Editor-in-Chief, Asianet News
• V. E. Krishna Kumar - Former Editor-in-Chief of TiE Global(www.tie.org), Mantram Magazine, CNN IBN West Coast Bureau Chief
• Vinitha Nair - ABC newsreader.
• Nisha Pillai
  Nisha Pillai
  Nisha Pillai is a journalist based in London. She is one of the main news anchors with BBC World News.-Early life:Pillai was born in Kolkata, India and grew up in Mumbai. When she was 14, her family moved to London, England...
  
   -BBC newsreader
• Sunnykutty Abraham
  Sunnykutty Abraham
  Sunnykutty Abraham is a journalist , political analyst, and writer based in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. He has worked with Mathrubhumi Daily for 25 years specializing in political journalism. He got four years experience of covering the Parliament of India and more than eight years of covering the...
  
  - COO and Chief News Editor of Jaihind TV and noted political analyst
• Dr. Sebastian Paul
  Dr. Sebastian Paul
  Dr. Sebastian Paul was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Ernakulam constituency of Kerala.Dr. Sebastain Paul,made his electoral debut in the 1997 Lok Sabha byelection in Ernakulam when he defeated Antony Isaac of the INC...
  
  - Media critic.
• John Brittas- Business Head of Asianet
  Asianet
  Asianet Communications Limited is an Indian media conglomerate jointly owned by STAR TV and Jupiter Entertainment. Formed in 1991 and headquartered in the city of Thiruvananthapuram in the south Indian state of Kerala, the company owns several television channels including Asianet, the first...
  
  
• K. C. Mammen Mappillai
  K. C. Mammen Mappillai
  K. C. Mammen Mappillai became editor of the Malayalam language daily called Malayala Manorama after Kandathil Varghese Mappillai died. Besides being a noted journalist, he was a freedom-fighter. He was a member of the Sree Moolam Popular Assembly...
  
  - Founder of Malayala Manorama
  Malayala Manorama
  Malayala Manorama is a daily news paper, in Malayalam language, published in the state of Kerala, India. It was first published as a weekly on 14 March 1890, and currently has a readership of over 16 million . The Malayalam word "manorama" roughly translates to "entertainer"...
  
  .
• K. M. Mathew- Chief Editor of Malayala Manorama
  Malayala Manorama
  Malayala Manorama is a daily news paper, in Malayalam language, published in the state of Kerala, India. It was first published as a weekly on 14 March 1890, and currently has a readership of over 16 million . The Malayalam word "manorama" roughly translates to "entertainer"...
  
  .
• K. M. Roy
  K. M. Roy
  K. M. Roy is a veteran journalist and writer from Kerala., Kerala.com, Retrieved September 2, 2011While studying for M.A. at Maharaja’s College, Ernakulam, in 1961, K.M. Roy joined as a subeditor in Keralaprakasham, a Malayalam daily owned by Mathai Manjooran and published from Kochi . After the...
  
  - Noted Journalist.
• V. K. Madhavan Kutty
  V. K. Madhavan Kutty
  V. K. Madhavan Kutty was an eminent journalist from the state of Kerala, India. He was long associated with the Mathrubhumi newspaper, a Malayalam daily based out of Kozhikode. He was stationed at New Delhi as Chief of Bureau for most of his career. He was well known among the journalism circles...
  
   - Former Editor of the Malayalam daily, Mathrubhumi
  Mathrubhumi
  Mathrubhumi is a Malayalam language newspaper that is published from Kerala, India. Mathrubhumi was founded by K. P. Kesava Menon, an active volunteer in the Indian freedom struggle against the British.-History:...
  
  , and a founder director of satellite channel Asianet
  Asianet
  Asianet Communications Limited is an Indian media conglomerate jointly owned by STAR TV and Jupiter Entertainment. Formed in 1991 and headquartered in the city of Thiruvananthapuram in the south Indian state of Kerala, the company owns several television channels including Asianet, the first...
  
  
• Binoy Job
  Binoy Job
  Binoy Job is currently Director Media and Communications to the Prime Minister of India. A career Journalist and a Social Innovator, he was inducted in Prime Minister's Office in the second term of Dr...
  
   - Former Group Deputy Editor of NDTV- New Delhi Television, and a founder Editor of Development Channel, currently Director Media and Communication to Indian Prime Minister
• O. Abdurahman
  O. Abdurahman
  O. Abdurrahman is an Indian journalist, and author from Kerala. He is the Editor-in-Charge of Madhyamam, a Malayalam daily controlled by the Kerala wing of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind and one of the most widely circulated newspapers in Malayalam. He has authored many books on Islam and contemporary...
  
  -Editor-in-charge of Madhyamam
• Kummanam Rajashekharan - Managing Director Malayalam Daily Janmabhumi
  Janmabhumi
  Janmabhumi Newspaper is an Indian daily newspaper founded in 1977, published in a broadsheet format and owned by Matruka Pracharanalayam Ltd.The paper's Managing Director is Kummanam Rajashekharan.The paper's editor in chief is Hari S. Kartha....
  
  , General Secretary Hindu Aikya Vedi
  Hindu Aikya Vedi
  The Hindu Aikya Vedi or Hindu Ikyavedi or Hindu United Front is a "platform to bring all Hindu organizations together", active in the state of Kerala in India. The group is dedicated to bringing in various sections in Kerala Hindu society such as the Nairs and the Ezhavas under a single umbrella...
  
  
• Dr. Krishna Kishore - Noted journalist based in New York, USA. Anchor of Asianet's US Weekly Round Up; US Correspondent for Asianet News and Columnist for Mathrubhumi.

Actresses

• Shobana - Famous Actress, Padma Shri
  Padma Shri
  Padma Shri is the fourth highest civilian award in the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan...
  
   recipient. Two time National award winner.
• Urvashi - Famous Actress.
• Manju Warrier
  Manju Warrier
  Manju Warrier is an Indian film actress. She was among the popular lead actress in Malayalam cinema during the mid to late-1990s.She made her debut in Saakshyam...
  
   - Malayalam Film Actress.
• Monisha Unni - Famous Actress. National award winner
• Kavya Madhavan
  Kavya Madhavan
  Kavya Madhavan is an Indian film actress who works in Malayalam cinema. She made her debut in Pookkalam Varavayi as a child artist. In 1999, she became a lead actress in Lal Jose's Chandranudikkunna Dikhil.-Background:...
  
  - Famous Malayalm Film Actress.
• Meera Jasmine
  Meera Jasmine
  Meera Jasmine is an Indian actress, who appears in regional Indian films that includes Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada films. She won the National Film Award for Best Actress in 2004 and is a two time recipient of the Kerala State Film Award, the Tamil Nadu State Film Awards, as well as the...
  
   - Popular South Indian Film Actress. National award winner.
• Asin
  Asín
  Asín is a municipality located in the Cinco Villas comarca of the province of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain, located a few kilometers west of Orés. According to the 2004 census , the municipality has a population of 106 inhabitants....
  
  -Malayalam, Tamil and Bollywood actress
• Shweta Menon
  Shweta Menon
  Shweta Menon is an Indian model, film actress and television anchor. She has predominantly acted in Hindi and Malayalam language films, besides appearing in a number of Tamil productions....
  
   - Popular South Indian Film Actress.
• Navya Nair
  Navya Nair
  Dhanya Nair , better known by her stage name Navya Nair, is an Indian actress who works in Malayalam, Tamil, and Kannada films. She has won the honour of Kalathilakam in the Alappuzha District Schools Youth Festival.- Personal life :...
  
  - Noted Actress
• Kaviyoor Ponnamma
  Kaviyoor Ponnamma
  Kaviyoor Ponnamma is a Malayalam film actress. She won the Kerala State Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1971, 1972, 1973, and 1994.Ponnamma was born in Kaviyoor village, near Tiruvalla to a conservative upper-class family...
  
   - Famous actress.
• K. P. A. C. Lalitha
  K. P. A. C. Lalitha
  Maheshwari Amma, better known by her stage name K.P.A.C. Lalitha, is a National Award winning Indian film and stage actress. She was the wife of late filmmaker Bharathan.-Biography:...
  
   - Famous actress. National award winner
• Nayantara
  Nayantara
  Nayantara , is an Indian film actress. She made her acting debut in 2003 in the Malayalam film Manassinakkare. She debuted in Tamil cinema with Ayya and in Telugu cinema with Lakshmi , following which she starred alongside popular lead actors...
  
   - Popular actress
• Vidya Balan
  Vidya Balan
  Vidya Balan is an Indian actress, who appears in Hindi films. After graduating with a degree in sociology, she started her career starring in music videos, television shows and commercials, before appearing in feature films....
  
  - Popular Bollywood actress.
• Priya Mony - Popular South Indian Film Actress. National award winner.

Actor

Actor

An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

s

• Prem Nazir
  Prem Nazir
  Abdul Khader , better known by his stage name Prem Nazir , was an Indian film actor. He is considered one of the all time super stars in Malayalam cinema...
  
   - Popular actor of Malayalam cinema, Padma Bhushan
  Padma Bhushan
  The Padma Bhushan is the third highest civilian award in the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan, but comes before the Padma Shri. It is awarded by the Government of India.-History:...
  
  , Padma Shri
  Padma Shri
  Padma Shri is the fourth highest civilian award in the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan...
  
   recipient. Nazir holds four Guinness records; for playing the lead role in nearly 720 films,[1] for playing opposite the same heroine in 107 films (with Sheela),[2] for acting in lead roles in all thirty nine films which were released in a single year (1979),[3] and for acting opposite eighty heroines.
• Sathyan
  Sathyaneshan Nadar
  Manuel Sathyaneshan Nadar commonly known by his stage name Sathyan, was an Indian film actor known for his work in Malayalam cinema. He has won the Kerala State Film Award twice and is renowned for his acting skills...
  
    - One of the greatest pure actors in Indian cinema and is remembered for his versatile and natural acting.
• Mammootty
  Mammootty
  Mammootty is an Indian film actor and producer who works mainly in Malayalam cinema. He has also acted in a few Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, and Kannada films. During a career spanning more than three decades, he has acted in more than 360 films, and is only next to Prem Nazir in the number of lead roles...
  
    - Famous actor, Padma Shri
  Padma Shri
  Padma Shri is the fourth highest civilian award in the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan...
  
   recipient. Three time winner of the national award for Best Actor and Five time state award winner & eleven time filmfare award winner for best actor category; the most by any keralite along with Mohanlal
  Mohanlal
  Mohanlal Vishwanathan Nair , known mononymously as Mohanlal , is a National Award-winning Indian actor, producer, singer and writer who is well known for his versatile and natural acting in Indian cinema & hence widely known as the Universal Star...
  
  .He was the first (1998) Malayalam actor to be honoured with the state honour Padma Shri for contributions toward Indian cinema.[7] He was honoured a Doctor of Letters by University of Kerala in Jan 2010[8] and by University of Calicut in Dec 2010. He was chosen as the popular Malayali by asiavision. He was Male Sex Symbol of Kerala survey by vanitha 2004.
• Mohanlal
  Mohanlal
  Mohanlal Vishwanathan Nair , known mononymously as Mohanlal , is a National Award-winning Indian actor, producer, singer and writer who is well known for his versatile and natural acting in Indian cinema & hence widely known as the Universal Star...
  
   - Famous actor, Padma Shri
  Padma Shri
  Padma Shri is the fourth highest civilian award in the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan...
  
   recipient. Four time Winner of the National Film Award (including two time best actor award), several Kerala State Award winner, and several Filmfare Award  winner for best actor category. Mohanlal was granted the rank of honorary Lieutenant Colonel
  Lieutenant colonel
  Lieutenant colonel is a rank of commissioned officer in the armies and most marine forces and some air forces of the world, typically ranking above a major and below a colonel. The rank of lieutenant colonel is often shortened to simply "colonel" in conversation and in unofficial correspondence...
  
   in the Indian Territorial Army
  Indian Territorial Army
  The Territorial Army in India is an organization of volunteers who receive military training for a few days in a year so that in case of an emergency they can be mobilized for the defence of the country....
  
   in 2009. He was awarded Honorary Doctorate by Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit
  Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit
  Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit is a Ph.D. granting government university located at Kalady in Kerala. The university is named after the sage and philosopher Adi Sankaracharya and was established in the year 1993...
  
   in 2010. TIME magazine described him as India's answer to Marlon Brando
  Marlon Brando
  Marlon Brando, Jr. was an American movie star and political activist. "Unchallenged as the most important actor in modern American Cinema" according to the St...
  
  ". Mohanlal's film Vanaprastham was selected at Cannes Film Festival
  Cannes Film Festival
  The Cannes International Film Festival , is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres including documentaries from around the world. Founded in 1946, it is among the world's most prestigious and publicized film festivals...
  
   and several other International Film Festivals. Mohanlal's movie Guru
  Guru
  A guru is one who is regarded as having great knowledge, wisdom, and authority in a certain area, and who uses it to guide others . Other forms of manifestation of this principle can include parents, school teachers, non-human objects and even one's own intellectual discipline, if the...
  
   was chosen as India's official entry to the Oscar. He won IIFA award and Star Screen Awards
  Star Screen Awards
  The Star Screen Awards is an annual awards ceremony in India honoring professional excellence in film. The nomination and award selection is done by a panel of distinguished professional from the industry itself.- History :...
  
   for winner of best Supporting Actor in the film "Company
  Company
  A company is a form of business organization. It is an association or collection of individual real persons and/or other companies, who each provide some form of capital. This group has a common purpose or focus and an aim of gaining profits. This collection, group or association of persons can be...
  
  ". He also hold place in Limca Book of Records
  Limca Book of Records
  Limca Book of Records is a record book of Indian origin. First published in 1990, when the Limca Brand was owned by Parle Group. The book continued to be published by Coca-Cola, when they bought the Limca Brand. The 20th edition of this book was released by Amitabh Bachchan in March 2009...
  
   as "People of the year award". He was chosen as the "Most Popular Keralite by CNN-IBN and Deccan Chronicle. Mohanlal is well Known for his versatile and natural acting. He was ranked 80th position in Reader's Digest
  Reader's Digest
  Reader's Digest is a general interest family magazine, published ten times annually. Formerly based in Chappaqua, New York, its headquarters is now in New York City. It was founded in 1922, by DeWitt Wallace and Lila Bell Wallace...
  
  's "India's Most Trusted People" in 2010.
• Bharath Gopi
  Bharath Gopi
  V. Gopinathan Nair, popularly known as Bharath Gopi was an Indian film actor, producer, and director. He was one of the first actors to be associated with the New Wave cinema movement in Kerala....
  
   - veteran actor, Padma Shri
  Padma Shri
  Padma Shri is the fourth highest civilian award in the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan...
  
   recipient and winner of the national award for Best Actor in 1977 (Kodiyettam
  Kodiyettam
  Kodiyettam is a 1977 Indian feature film production written and directed by Adoor Gopalakrishnan. It is in Malayalam. The film notably does not feature any kind of film score.-Plot:...
  
  ).
• Premji
  Premji
  Premji was an Indian stage and film actor.-Biography:...
  
   - World-renowned Indian stage and film actor.
• M. G. Ramachandran
  M. G. Ramachandran
  Maruthur Gopalan Ramachandran , popularly known by his initials , was an Indian film actor, director, producer and politician....
  
   - Famous Tamil Actor.
• Suresh Gopi
  Suresh Gopi
  Suresh Gopinathan Nair , often credited as Suresh Gopi , is an Indian film actor who works mainly in Malayalam cinema; he is famous for his roles in police dramas. He is noted for his leading roles as much as his character roles...
  
   - Famous actor and winner of the national award for Best Actor in 1998 (Kaliyattam
  Kaliyattam
  Kaliyattam is a 1997 Malayalam film directed by Jayaraaj, and starring Suresh Gopi, Lal, and Manju Warrier. The film is an adapted version of William Shakespeare's play Othello against the backdrop of the Hindu Theyyam performance...
  
  ).
• Jayaram
  Jayaram
  Jayaram is an Indian film actor who mainly acts in Malayalam and Tamil films. He is also a chenda percussionist and mimic artist. In 2011, he was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India for his contribution towards the arts.-Early life:...
  
   - Famous Actor, Padma Shri
  Padma Shri
  Padma Shri is the fourth highest civilian award in the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan...
  
   recipient.
• Murali - Famous actor and winner of the national award for Best Actor in 2002 (Neythukaran).
• Jagathy Sreekumar
  Jagathy Sreekumar
  Sreekumar Achary, better known by his stage name Jagathy Sreekumar, is an Indian film actor who has performed in more than 1,000 Malayalam films. He has also directed two films and has written screenplays for two films...
  
   - Famous actor and comedian.
• Thilakan
  Thilakan
  Surendranatha Thilakan , known mononymously as Thilakan, is an Indian actor who works in Malayalam cinema and theatre. He was awarded Padma Shri on 25 January 2009.- Theatre:...
  
   - Famous actor, Padma Shri
  Padma Shri
  Padma Shri is the fourth highest civilian award in the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan...
  
   recipient and winner of the national award for Best Supporting Actor in 1988(Hrithubhedam).
• Salim Kumar - Actor, comedian and winner of the national award for Best Actor in 2010 (Adaminte Makan Abu
  Adaminte Makan Abu
  Adaminte Makan Abu is a 2011 Indian drama film written, directed and co-produced by Salim Ahamed in his debut film. It stars Salim Kumar and Zarina Wahab in the lead roles along with Mukesh, Nedumudi Venu, Kalabhavan Mani, and Suraj Venjarammoodu in other supporting roles. The cinematography was...
  
  ).
• Nedumudi Venu
  Nedumudi Venu
  Nedumudi Venu is a popular Malayalam film actor from Kerala, India. He has also written screenplays and has directed one film.- Early life :...
  
   - Famous actor.
• Thikkurussi Sukumaran Nair - poet, playwright, script writer, lyricist, orator, film director and actor, Padma Bhushan
  Padma Bhushan
  The Padma Bhushan is the third highest civilian award in the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan, but comes before the Padma Shri. It is awarded by the Government of India.-History:...
  
   recipient and winner of the national award for Best Supporting Actor in 1959.
• Madhu
  Madhu (actor)
  Madhavan Nair , commonly known by his stage name Madhu is an actor in Malayalam cinema. He was a prominent lead actor during the 60s and 70s. He has also directed and produced films, and at one time he owned Uma film studio.-Early life:...
  
   - Veteran actor
• Krishnakumar Kunnath - also known as KK, a prominent singer in Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Tamil films
• Benny Dayal
  Benny Dayal
  Benny Dayal is an Indian singer. He is a member of the band S5 launched by the channel SS Music. Originally from Kerala, he has worked as a playback singer with many noted composers to produce successful soundtracks.-Biography:Benny Dayal's parents hail from Kollam district, Kerala...
  
   - is a prominent singer in Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Tamil film
• Ajith Kumar
  Ajith Kumar
  Ajith Kumar is an Indian film actor who works mainly in Tamil cinema. He began his career as a supporting actor in a Telugu film before gaining critical recognition in the Tamil thriller Aasai . A succession of high-grossing films followed where Ajith was usually depicted as a romantic hero, with...
  
   - popular Tamil film actor and married to Malayalee actress Shalini
• Kay-Kay-Menon
  Kay Kay Menon
  Kay Kay Menon is an Indian actor.-Early life:Menon was raised in Ambarnath and Pune, Maharashtra. His early life was in "H" type Rangehills, Khadki which were factory quarters for those working in the ammunition and high explosives factories. His father was popularly known as "Cashier Menon"...
  
   (Krishna Kumar Menon) - Bollywood actor originally from Kerala.
• Naveen Andrews
  Naveen Andrews
  Naveen William Sidney Andrews is a British American actor. He is best known for portraying Kip in the movie The English Patient and Sayid Jarrah on the American television series Lost.-Early life:...
  
   - Actor. He is best known for playing Sayid Jarrah
  Sayid Jarrah
  Sayid Hassan Jarrah is a character from the ABC show Lost portrayed by Naveen Andrews.-Season 1:Sayid fixes the transceiver recovered from the cockpit, and leads a group into the jungle in order to send out a distress signal. Instead, he picks up a looping message . He tries to locate the...
  
   on the American television series Lost
  Lost (TV series)
  Lost is an American television series that originally aired on ABC from September 22, 2004 to May 23, 2010, consisting of six seasons. Lost is a drama series that follows the survivors of the crash of a commercial passenger jet flying between Sydney and Los Angeles, on a mysterious tropical island...
  
  .
• Shishir Kurup
  Shishir Kurup
  Shishir Ravindran Kurup is an Indian American actor, most notably seen on the television sci fi series Surface as Dr. Singh. Most recently he was on seen on episodes of top TV shows, Heroes and Lost. He is a playwright and theatrical director as well, and a member of the Cornerstone Theater...
  
  - Hollywood actor.
• Suresh Menon
  Suresh Menon
  -Career:Menon has appeared in movies including Phir Hera Pheri, Partner, Fool N Final, Krazzy 4, Deewane Huye Pagal, Chalte Chalte, God Only Knows, Dil To Pagal Hai and Hello. Additionally, he has made an appearance on the television show Comedy Circus...
  
   - Bollywood comedian/actor.

Film Producer and Directors

• Adoor Gopalakrishnan
  Adoor Gopalakrishnan
  Moutatthu "Adoor" Gopalakrishnan Unnithan is an Indian film director, script writer, and producer. Adoor Gopalakrishnan had a major role in revolutionizing Malayalam cinema and is regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of India.. Adoor's first film Swayamvaram pioneered the new wave cinema...
  
    - Internationally acclaimed director. Movies include Elipathayam (The Mousetrap) and Mathilukal (Walls).
• M. T. Vasudevan Nair
  M. T. Vasudevan Nair
  Madathil Thekkepaattu Vasudevan Nair , popularly known as MT, is an Indian author, screenplay writer and film director. He was born in Kudallur, a small village in the present day Palakkad District, which was under the Malabar District in the Madras Presidency of the British Raj...
  
    - Writer and cinema personality. Jnanpith Award
  Jnanpith Award
  The Jnanpith Award is a literary award in India. Along with the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, it is one of the two most prestigious literary honours in the country...
  
  , 1995.
• I.V. Sasi- Famous Film Director.
• Priyadarshan
  Priyadarshan
  Priyadarshan is an Indian film director, producer, and screenwriter. In a career spanning over two decades, Priyadarshan has directed over 80 films in several Indian languages including Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu...
  
  - Famous Film Director.
• Joshiy-Famous Film Director.
• Shaji N. Karun
  Shaji N. Karun
  Shaji Neelakantan Karun is a National Award-winning Indian film director and cinematographer. His debut film Piravi won the Caméra d'Or - Mention d'honneur at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival...
  
    - Noted Film Director, whose movies include Piravi (Birth), Swam and Vaanaprastham.
• Bharathan
  Bharathan
  Bharathan was an Indian film director, artist, lyricist, music director, sculptor, poster designer, editor and art director. Bharathan is noted for being the founder of a new school of film making in Malayalam cinema, along with Padmarajan, in the 1980s, which created films that were widely...
  
  - Popular Film Maker.
• Siddique
  Siddique
  Siddique may refer to:*alternate spelling of Siddiqui, last name common among some Muslim groups in South Asia and the Middle East*Siddique , Indian actor*Siddique , Indian director and script writer...
  
  - Very successful Film Maker.
• Santosh Sivan
  Santosh Sivan
  Santosh Sivan is an Indian cinematographer, film director, and producer who has worked in Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil, and Hindi cinema....
  
   - Famous Director and Cinematogrpher.
• Resul Pookutty
  Resul Pookutty
  Resul Pookutty is an Indian film sound designer, sound editor and mixer. He, along with Richard Pryke and Ian Tapp won the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing for the film Slumdog Millionaire...
  
    - Sound Engineer, first Oscar winning Indian.
• Shobana  - Actress and Bharatanatyam dancer. Two-time National award winner.
• Lohithadas
  Lohithadas
  Ambazhathil Karunakaran Lohithadas was an Indian screenwriter, director, and producer known for his extensive work in Malayalam cinema....
  
   - Film Director / Writer.
• G. Aravindan
  G. Aravindan
  Govindan Aravindan who was popularly known as G. Aravindan was a national award winning film director, screenwriter, musician and cartoonist from Kerala, India. He was known for his unorthodox way of film-making; he changed his cinematic forms consistently and experimented in story telling without...
  
    - Noted film director and cartoonist. Movies include Kanchana Seeta, Kummatty (Bogeyman) and Chidambaram. His cartoon strip series 'Valiya lokavum Cheriya manushyarum' was very popular.
• P. Padmarajan (1945–1991)- popular film director, affectionately known a 'Pappan' whose films often blurred the line between artistic and commercial cinema.
• Berny-Ignatius
  Berny-Ignatius
  Berny Ignatius is a famous music composer-duo-brothers in the Malayalam film industry, best known for their work in films like Thenmavin Kombath, Chandralekha, Kottaram Veettile Apputtan, Kalyanaraman, Chess, Kaaryasthan etc....
  
   - Music Director duo
• Rosshan Andrrews
  Rosshan Andrrews
  Rosshan Andrrews is an Indian film director who has made films in Malayalam cinema.- Career :His first movie was the 2005 Malayalam movie Udayananu Tharam starring Mohanlal. After the success of this movie Rosshan Andrrews directed another movie in 2006 named Notebook...
  
   - Famous director.
• Jayaraj
  Jayaraj
  Jayaraj Rajasekharan Nair, often credited as Jayaraj, is an award-winning Indian Malayali filmmaker who has marked his presence in mainstream as well as art house films...
  
   - Famous director.
• Gireesh Puthenchery
  Gireesh Puthenchery
  Gireesh Puthenchery was a noted Malayalam lyricist and screenwriter. He also served as a governing council member of the Indian Performance Rights Society . He won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Lyrics seven times...
  
   - Lyricist / Writer.
• Jijo Punnose - Film Director - Navodaya Films - Maker of first 70 mm film in Malayalam "padayottam"/ 3D film in India " My dear Kuttichathan" - National / State Award Winner
• Appachan
  Appachan
  Maliampurackal Chacko Punnoose, known as Navodaya Appachan is an Indian film producer, director, and entrepreneur. He is mainly involved in Malayalam cinema....
  
   - Film Producer- Navodaya Films
• P. Jayachandran
  Jayachandran
  Paliyath Jayachandran, popularly known as P. Jayachandran is an Indian playback singer. He has won one National Award, four Kerala State Awards and four Tamil Nadu State Awards. He has recorded songs in Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu and Hindi languages...
  
  : Ever Green Singer, in Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu and Hindi
• Raveendran
  Raveendran
  M. Raveendran , fondly called as "Raveendran Master" was a popular South Indian music composer and Playback singer from Kerala. He was always referred to as the aristocratic music director of Malayalam who had a distinctive style of his own. He composed more than 150 films primarily for the...
  
   - Famous music director.
• Ranjith - Film Director / Writer.
• Alex Paul
  Alex Paul
  Alex Paul is an Indian music director mostly active in Malayalam cinema.- Biography :Alex Paul, born in Kochi, Kerala, is the son of A.M. Paul, a music artist who formed the first Orchestra troupe in Kochi...
  
   - Music Director
• K P Kumaran - Film Maker
• G. Devarajan
  G. Devarajan
  Paravoor Govindan Devarajan , popularly known as G. Devarajan or Devarajan master, was a noted Malayalam music composer, died on March 15, 2006 in Chennai, at the age of 80....
  
   - Famous music director.
• P.T.Kunju Muhammed - Film Director / Writer.
• Remesh Narayan - Music director.
• Bobby & Sanjay - Popular script writers.
• Pattanam Rasheed - Makeup Artist.
• Alberrt Antoni
  Alberrt Antoni
  Alberrt Antoni is a Malayali Indian film director. His debut film as a director is critically acclaimed Kanne Madanguka . He is the director of Nair-san, a forthcoming Indo-Japanese historical film, based on the legendary Indian freedom fighter A. M. Nair, popularly known as Nair-san in Japan with...
  
   - Film Director
• Blessy
  Blessy
  Blessy is an Indian film director and screenwriter who has made several critically acclaimed films in Malayalam. As a film director, he is influenced by Padmarajan and Bharathan.- Career :...
  
   - Popular Film Maker.
• Madhu Muttam
  Madhu Muttam
  Madhu Muttam is a popular script writer in Kerala, India. His second film as a script writer was the critically acclaimed Malayalam blockbuster Manichitrathazhu which was huge commercial success in Kerala. The film fetched Sobhana the National Award for Best Actress...
  
   - Popular script writer.
• Unni Menon
  Unni Menon
  Unni Menon is an Indian film playback singer. He has sung over 3000 songs in South Indian languages like Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada. In the early part of his career, he spent many years as a low-profile playback singer. The turning point in his career came when he sang the song "Pudhu...
  
    - Renowned Playback singer and multiple Tamil State Award winner.
• Fazil
  Fazil
  A. M. Fazil is an Indian filmmaker, producer, and screenwriter of Malayalam cinema.His father wanted him to be a doctor, but in school and college, extra curricular activities engulfed him. He wrote plays, enacted them with his friends A. M. Fazil (born 1953, in Alleppey, Kerala) is an Indian...
  
   - Film Director / Writer.
• Shaji Kylas - Action film director
• Kannur Rajan
  Kannur Rajan
  Kannur Rajan was a notable music composer from Kerala, India. He died in the year 2000 at his home town in Kannur. Though his contributions are few, they are noted as nostalgic in the Malayalam film songs....
  
   - Music composer
• Ouseppachan
  Ouseppachan
  Ousephachan is a National Award, Filmfare Award and Kerala State Film Award-winning Indian music director who sets scores for Malayalam films. He is one of the most sought-after musicians in the Malayalam film industry.-Biography:...
  
   - Music director.
• Sibi Malayil
  Sibi Malayil
  Sibi Malayil is an Indian film director of Malayalam cinema best known for his melodramas of the 80s and 90s. Since the mid-1980s he has directed some 40 movies. Movies like Kireedam, Dasharatham, Thaniyavarthanam, His Highness Abdullah, Bharatham, and Akashadoothu defined the way Malayalam movies...
  
   -- Malayalam Film Director.
• Vayalar Sarath Chandra Varma
  Vayalar Sarath Chandra Varma
  Vayalar Sarathchandravarma is a noted Malayalam film lyricist. His lyrics have proved that he has inherited his father, Vayalar Ramavarma’s‎ gift of poetry. He is a youthful entertainer by penning soothe romantic songs. All his recent contribution has got a large amount attention among Malayalam...
  
   -- lyricist in Malayalam cinema, son of Vayalar Rama Varma
• Johnson
  Johnson
  Johnson is an English, Scottish, and Irish name of Norman origin. The name itself is a patronym of the given name John, literally meaning "son of John." The name John derives from Latin Johannes, which is derived through Greek Ἰωάννης Iōannēs, from Hebrew יוחנן Yohanan meaning "Yahweh has favoured"...
  
   - Music director.
• Bharath Gopi
  Bharath Gopi
  V. Gopinathan Nair, popularly known as Bharath Gopi was an Indian film actor, producer, and director. He was one of the first actors to be associated with the New Wave cinema movement in Kerala....
  
   - Famous Film, Drama Producer, Director and Actor.
• Sathyan Anthikkad
  Sathyan Anthikkad
  Sathyan Anthikad is an Indian film director and screenwriter known primarily for his family based Malayalam films.He has created many critical and commercially successful films, especially when working with Sreenivasan as the scriptwriter...
  
   - Malayalam Film Director.
• Suresh Kumar - First Indian to win the 'Best Photography' Award in the San Francisco Short Film Festival in 2008.
• Kaithapram Damodaran Namboothiri - Lyricist.
• Shankar Mahadevan
  Shankar Mahadevan
  Shankar Mahadevan is an Indian music composer and singer. He is a part of the Shankar Ehsaan Loy trio team that composes for Indian films and a playback singer.-Early life:...
  
   - Bollywood's one of the finest Music Directors and a noted singer.
• Sabu Cyril
  Sabu Cyril
  Sabu Cyril is an Indian film art director. He has won National Film Award for Best Art Direction four times and Filmfare Best Art Direction Award twice. His latest work Enthiran, in which he also played an important role, has won him international recognitions.-Early life and education:Sabu Cyril...
  
  -famous art director
• Sangeeth Sivan
  Sangeeth Sivan
  Sangeeth Sivan is a Bollywood/Malayalam director and writer of Indian cinema.He is the brother of cinematographer-director Santosh Sivan. He started his career in films as a director with Malayalam films. After directing more than half a dozen Malayalam films, he directed his first Bollywood film,...
  
  - popular director
• Ravi K. Chandran -famous film cinematographer
• John Matthew Matthan
  John Matthew Matthan
  - Early life :John started his career as an assistant director on the epic movie Gandhi, directed by Sir Richard Attenborough. Govind Nihlani was also working on the same film. John went on to assist Govind Nihlani on several of his films before starting out on his own as an ad-film maker...
  
  - Hindi film director (Sarfarosh
  Sarfarosh
  Sarfarosh was a critically and commercially successful action film, released in 1999. It was directed by John Matthew Matthan and starred Aamir Khan, Sonali Bendre and Naseeruddin Shah. John started working on Sarfarosh in 1992...
  
  , 'Shikhar')
• Anthony -popular editor in Tamil films
• Santhosh Thundiyil - Bollywood cinematographer
• Suryakiran - Popular Telugu director and husband of actress Kaveri(actress).
• Benny Mathews
  Benny Mathews
  Benny Mathews aka Swami Dada is an international director who directed the films Dude, Where's the Party? and Santeria . When he is not directing independent films, he shoots music videos for Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, and notorious Houston hip hop artists such as Scarface and Bun B...
  
   - Hollywood director
• Vipin Vijay - Film Director
• Gowtham Menon - Tamil film director
• Ravi Menon - Tamil director

Singers

• K. J. Yesudas
  K. J. Yesudas
  Kattassery Joseph Yesudas is an Indian classical musician and playback singer.Yesudas sings Indian classical, devotional, and popular music. He has recorded more than 50,000 songs in many languages including Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, Bengali, Gujarati, Oriya, Marathi, Punjabi,...
  
    - Classical singer and musician. 7 time national award winner (more than any Indian singer). More than 40 state film awards.
• K. S. Chithra
  K. S. Chithra
  K. S. Chithra often credited as Chithra , is an Indian playback singer who has made her mark in the Indian music playback industry. Popularly known as Chinna Kuyil of South India, she has lent her voice to Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Oriya, Hindi, Assamese, Bengali, Badaga and Punjabi films...
  
    - Renowned playback singer and winner of several state and national awards.
• Hariharan
  Hariharan (singer)
  Hariharan , born 3 April 1955) is an Indian playback singer in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi, Bhojpuri and Telugu movies, an established ghazal singer, and one of the pioneers of Indian fusion music. His melody is strongly appreciated by the film fraternity...
  
   - playback singer in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu.
• Vayalar Ramavarma
  Vayalar Ramavarma
  Vayalar Ramavarma , often known as Vayalar, was a modern Malayalam poet and lyricist. His famous works include Sargasangeetham, Mulankaadu, Padamudrakal, Aayisha, Oru Judas janikkunnu.-Biography:...
  
    - Arguably the greatest lyricist in the history of Malayalam cinema.
• V. Dakshinamoorthy
  V. Dakshinamoorthy
  V. Dakshinamoorthy is a veteran carnatic musician and music director of Malayalam, Tamil and Hindi films, predominantly in Malayalam films. He has set scores for the songs in over 125 films. He is now retired from film music direction but is still active in classical music...
  
   - Carnatic Music exponent and one of the greatest Malayalam Music Directors.
• Sabrina Setlur
  Sabrina Setlur
  Sabrina Setlur , formerly known as Schwester S., is a German rapper, songwriter, Hebbar Iyengar and occasional actress...
  
   -German rapper/singer.
• Kozhikode Abdul Kader
  Kozhikode Abdul Kader
  Kozhikode Abdul Kader, born Leslie Andrews was a Malayalam playback singer.-Biography:Born to J. S. Andrews and Manini on February 19, 1916, Andrews converted to Islam and rechristened himself as Abdul Kader when he landed up in Burma. He was first noticed by the music director V. Dakshinamoorthy....
  
   - Abdul Kader made his debut as a playback singer in Malayalam films in 1951 in the film 'Navalokam.' The 'Malabar Saigal' died on February 13, 1977.
• M. G. Sreekumar
  M. G. Sreekumar
  M. G. Sreekumar is a two-time National Award-winning Indian playback singer and music director who works in Malayalam cinema. With a career of over 25 years, he is one of the prominent male singers in the Malayalam film industry. He is known for matching voice with Malayalam actor Mohanlal. He has...
  
   - Famous playback singer/ Music Director. 2 time national award winner
• Srinivas
  Srinivas (singer)
  Srinivas 'Srini' is an award winning playback singer who has sung over 2000 songs in Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi. He is also a music composer.-Early life:...
  
   - Play back Singer / Music Director - Kerala / Tamil Nadu State Award Winner
• Pradip Somasundaran
  Pradip Somasundaran
  Pradip Somasundaran , also known as Pradeep Somasundaram, is an Indian playback singer.-Academic career:He holds an M.Sc Degree in Electronics from the Andhra University Visakhapatnam and an M.Phil Degree in Electronics from Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappally and is currently working as...
  
  - Playback singer who won "Lata Mangeshkar Trophy" in "Meri Awaz Suno" in 1996.
• Sujatha Mohan
  Sujatha Mohan
  Sujatha Mohan , usually credited as Sujatha, is an award-winning Indian playback singer who is popular for singing in Malayalam and Tamil movies. She has also sung for Telugu, Kannada and Hindi movies. She is widely popular for her evergreen melodies and her sweet voice is considered to be her...
  
  - Famous playback singer winner of three Tamil Nadu state awards and three Kerala state awards.nominated twice for national award
• Madhu Balakrishnan
  Madhu Balakrishnan
  Madhu Balakrishnan is an Indian playback singer, who sings in Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil and Kannada languages.-Biography:Madhu Balakrishnan is from Tripunithura, Cochin, Kerala in India. A Graded artist in All India Radio and Doordarshan, he has performed with all major playback singers in Kerala...
  
   - Famous Play back singer
• KK-(Krishnakumar Kunnath)- Bollywood singer from Thrissur.

Artist

Artist

An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...

s, painter

Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

s, sculptors

Painters

• Raja Ravi Varma
  Raja Ravi Varma
  Raja Ravi Varma was an Indian painter from the princely state of Travancore who achieved recognition for his depiction of scenes from the epics of the Mahabharata and Ramayana...
  
   - World-renowned painter.
• K. C. S. Paniker - Painter, founder of Cholamandal Artists' Village.
• T. K. Padmini
  T. K. Padmini
  T. K. Padmini was a painter from Kerala, India.Born in Kadancheri, a small village off Ponani, a coastal town of Kerala, Padmini was a strong feminine presence in the history of painting in Kerala. She had her education at A. V. High School, Ponani. She had a brief course of training from K. L....
  
   - Painter
• A. Ramachandran
  A. Ramachandran
  A. Ramachandran is a renowned Indian painter, born in 1935 in Attingal, Kerala. In 2005,he was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India’s third highest civilian honour, for outstanding service to the nation. and in 2002, he was elected a Fellow of the Lalit Kala Akademi.In 1957, he obtained his Master's...
  
   - World-renowned painter.
• C. N. Karunakaran
  C. N. Karunakaran
  C. N. Karunakaran is an internationally renowned painter from India. He is the Former Chairman of Kerala Lalitakala Academy. He was born in 1940 at Brahmakulam, Near Guruvayur, Trissur District, Kerala. This versatile artist has achieved worldwide acclaim for his artistic variety.An exhibition of...
  
   - Painter, Chairman of Kerala Lalitakala Academi
• Akkitham Narayanan
  Akkitham Narayanan
  Born in 1939 in Kerala, Akkitham Narayanan received a Diploma in Painting from the Government School of Arts and Crafts, Chennai, India. He then studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris on a Government scholarship. He has won the Tamil Nadu State Lalit Kala Akademi Award thrice. He is the...
  
   - Painter, settled in Paris
  Paris
  Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
  
  
• Balan Nair - Painter
• V. S. Valiathan
  V. S. Valiathan
  V. S. Valiathan was an acclaimed artist and recipient of the prestigious Raja Ravi Varma Award of 2006, instituted by the Kerala Government. He is well known for his classical style of painting. He was considered to be the last link of Raja Ravi Varma tradition. He was the recipient of Chitrakala...
  
   - Artist, Raja Ravivarma award winner.
• Gayatri
  Gayatri
  Gayatri is the feminine form of , a Sanskrit word for a song or a hymn. Gayatri is a consort of Brahma and the goddess of learning. Brahma married her when there was a need for a companion during a yajna. Brahma had to start the yajna along with his wife...
  
  - Worldly known Painter, Art critic. Conducted many solo shows all over the country, won many national and international awards.

Sculptor

• Kanayi Kunhiraman
  Kanayi Kunhiraman
  Kanayi Kunhiraman is a sculptor from Kuttamath in Hosdurg Taluk in Kasaragod district of Kerala state, India. He is the Former Chairman of the Lalit Kala Academy....
  
   - Sculptor.

Cartoonists

• Abu Abraham
  Abu Abraham
  Attupurathu Mathew Abraham , pen name Abu, was an Indian cartoonist, journalist, and author. He was a life-long atheist and rationalist....
  
    - Cartoonist, worked for The Guardian
  The Guardian
  The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
  
   and The Observer
  The Observer
  The Observer is a British newspaper, published on Sundays. In the same place on the political spectrum as its daily sister paper The Guardian, which acquired it in 1993, it takes a liberal or social democratic line on most issues. It is the world's oldest Sunday newspaper.-Origins:The first issue,...
  
  .
• Cartoonist Shankar (1902–1989) -Renowned Indian Political Cartoonist
• K. S. Pillai
  K. S. Pillai
  Kesava Shankara Pillai , better known as Shankar, was an Indian cartoonist. He is considered as the father of political cartooning in India...
  
   (1919–1978) - Famous versatile political cartoonist (Deshabandhu, Malayala Manorama, Sarasan, Narmada)
• O. V. Vijayan
  O. V. Vijayan
  Ootupulackal Velukkuty Vijayan was an Indian author and cartoonist, who was an important figure in modern Malayalam literature. Best known for his first novel Khasakkinte Itihasam , Vijayan has six novels, nine short-story collections, and nine collections of essays, memoirs and reflections.-...
  
   Cartoonist, writer.
• Unni
  Unni
  Unni is used as a first name in and Kerala, India. In Malayalam language, it is also used as an adjective meaning an infant boy. Thus, Unnikrishnan means Lord Krishna in the infant form and Unniyesu means Yesu in the infant form...
  
    - Cartoonist,
• P. K. Manthri
  P. K. Manthri
  P. K. Manthri was a renowned Indian cartoonist.Manthri was born to Poomangalathu Kesavan and Kochikka, at Pandalam in Kerala, India. His father was a school manager and headmaster. Manthri studied painting from the Ravi Varma School of Arts, Mavelikkara...
  
  - Artist, Cartoonist.
• Gopikrishnan
  Gopikrishnan
  Gopikrishnan is a popular Kerala cartoonist. He is the staff cartoonist of Mathrubhumi daily. A trendsetter in cartooning, he has won several awards. Kakadrishty is his popular cartoon column.-External links:...
  
  - Cartoonist.
• Toms  - The creator of the cartoon characters Boban and Molly.
• Yesudasan
  Yesudasan
  Chackalethu John Yesudasan, better known as simply Yesudasan, is a popular cartoonist from Kerala. Born in 1938 in Bharanikavu near Mavelikkara, Yesudasan entered the world of cartoons in 1960. For three years with Malayalam daily of the Communist Party Janayugom. Joined Shankar's weekly in Delhi....
  
   - Famous Kerala Cartoonist. Staff Cartoonist Malayala Manorama

Others

• A. R. Raja Raja Varma
  A. R. Raja Raja Varma
  A. R. Raja Raja Varma or A R. Rajaraja Varma was an Indian poet, grammatician and Professor of Oriental Languages at Maharaja's College, Trivandrum. He wrote widely in Sanskrit and Malayalam...
  
   - Linguist and grammarian known as the Kerala Panini.
• Sekar Ayyanthole
  Sekar Ayyanthole
  Sekar Ayyanthole is a painter, art teacher and former president of Kerala Chithrakala Parishath-Education:Diploma in drawing and painting GOI Thrissur 1975.-Employment:...
  
   - Painter, art teacher, former president of Kerala Chithrakala Parishath
• M. V. Devan
  M. V. Devan
  Madathil Vasudevan is a painter, sculptor, writer, art critique and orator. He was born in Panniyannur village in Thalassery in northern Kerala, south India—. After completing high school in 1946, he left for Madras to study painting...
  
  - Artist, Writer.
• Yusuf Arakkal
  Yusuf Arakkal
  Yusuf Arakkal - Malayali painter based in Bangalore, India.Yusuf Arakkal was born in 1945 at Chavakkad, Kerala. His mother belonged to the royal family of Arakkal, the only Muslim royal family to have ruled Kerala and his father to Keyees, the well known business family based at Kozhikode and...
  
    - Bangalore based painter.
• Kavitha Balakrishnan
  Kavitha Balakrishnan
  Kavitha Balakrishnan is a poet, art critic, and Contemporary art researcher.Kavitha balakrishnan is an Art critic, poet , Contemporary art researcher,art painter and Art Curator . She started her teaching career as a lecturer of Art History at College of Fine Arts Trivandrum from 1998 to 1999...
  
    - Kavitha balakrishnan is a contemporary artist and art historian from thrissur
  Thrissur
  This article is about the city in India. For the district, see Thrissur district. For the urban agglomeration area of Thrissur see Thrissur Metropolitan Area...
  
  .

Sports 

• Sreesanth
  Shanthakumaran Sreesanth
  Sreesanth , is an Indian cricketer. He is a right-arm fast-medium-pace bowler and a right-handed tail-ender batsman. In first class cricket, he plays for Kerala and in the Indian Premier League, he plays for Kochi Tuskers Kerala...
  
   - Indian Test Cricket player.
• V. P. Sathyan
  V. P. Sathyan
  Vatta Parambath Sathyan , known popularly as V. P. Sathyan, was a captain of the Indian national football team who played in the centre back position. He was named the AIFF player of the year in 1995.- Career :...
  
   - Former Captain of the India national football team
  India national football team
  The Indian national football team is the national football team of India and is governed by the All India Football Federation. It is a member of the Asian Football Confederation. Since 1948, the AIFF has been affiliated with FIFA, the international governing body for football. In 1954, AIFF became...
  
  .
• Anju George  - The only Indian to win a medal at the World Athletics Championships
  IAAF World Championships in Athletics
  The World Championships in Athletics is an event organized by the International Association of Athletics Federations . Originally, it was organised every four years, but this changed in 1991, and it has since been organised biennially.-History:...
  
  .
• T. C. Yohannan
  T. C. Yohannan
  Thadathuvila Chandapillai Yohannan , better known as T. C. Yohannan, is a former Indian long jumper who held the national record in long jump for nearly 3 decades and represented India in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. He hails from the state of Kerala...
  
   - Longjump gold in the 1974 Asian Games
  1974 Asian Games
  The 7th Asian Games were held from September 1, 1974 to September 16, 1974 in Tehran, Iran. The Aryamehr sports complex was made for the Games. The Asian Games were hosted in the Middle East for the first time...
  
  .
• I. M. Vijayan
  I. M. Vijayan
  Inivalappil Mani Vijayan is one of the leading Indian football players of modern times. Playing in the striker position, he formed a successful attacking partnership with Baichung Bhutia for the Indian national team in the late nineties and early 2000's...
  
    - One of the leading Indian football players of modern times. Indian Player of the Year in 1992, 1997 and 1999.
• Jimmy George
  Jimmy George
  Jimmy George is often considered one of the greatest Indian volleyball players of all time...
  
   - Volleyball player.
• Cyril Valloor - Volleyball player and captain of the 1986 Indian team that won the bronze medal in Asian games.
• P. T. Usha  - One of India's greatest athletes, who missed out on a bronze medal by 0.01 seconds in the 400 m hurdles event in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics
  1984 Summer Olympics
  The 1984 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held in Los Angeles, California, United States in 1984...
  
  .
• Tinu Yohannan
  Tinu Yohannan
  Tinu Yohannan is an Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed fast medium bowler. He plays first class cricket for Kerala. He is the first Kerala Ranji player to play Test and one day cricket for India....
  
   - Former Indian cricket team player.
• Shiny Wilson
  Shiny Abraham
  Shiny Wilson is a retired Indian athlete. She has been a National Champion in 800 metres for 14 years. Shiny Abraham Wilson represented India more than 75 times in international competition...
  
   - One of the best middle-distance runners India has ever seen.
• Abey Kuruvilla
  Abey Kuruvilla
  Abey Kuruvilla is a former Indian pace bowler of the mid 1990s.Kuruvilla stood a towering tall and coupled with his broad frame cut an imposing figure on the field....
  
   - Indian cricket player.
• M. D. Valsamma
  M. D. Valsamma
  Manathoor Devasia Valsamma , was an Indian athlete. She was the third Indian woman to win an individual Gold medal at the Asian Games and the first to win it on Indian soil.-Early life:...
  
   - 400m hurdles gold medal in the 1982 Asian Games
  1982 Asian Games
  The 9th Asian Games were held from November 19, 1982 to December 4, 1982 in Delhi, India.An incredible 74 Asian and Asian Games records were broken. This was also the first Asiad to be held under the aegis of the Olympic Council of Asia.-Sports:...
  
  .
• Preeja Sreedharan
  Preeja Sreedharan
  Preeja Sreedharan is an Indian long-distance runner. She won gold medal in the 10000 meter event and Silver in 5000 metres in the Guangzhou Asian Games. She holds Indian National Record for both 5000 and 10,000 metres.At the 2006 Asian Games she finished fifth in both the 5000 and the 10,000 metres...
  
   - Indian Athlete.

Activists

• K. V. Rabiya
  K. V. Rabiya
  Kariveppil Rabiya is a physically challenged social worker from Vellilakkadu, Malappuram, Kerala in India who rose to prominence through her role in the Kerala State Literacy Campaign in Malappuram district in 1990. Her efforts were recognized at a national level by the Government of India on...
  
   - Icon of literacy campaign, physically handicapped national award winning social worker.

Co-operators

• Advocate T. K. Krishnan- Cofounder of Indian Coffee Houses in Kerala
  Kerala
  or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....
  
  . Founder President of ICH Societeies in Thrissur
  Thrissur
  This article is about the city in India. For the district, see Thrissur district. For the urban agglomeration area of Thrissur see Thrissur Metropolitan Area...
  
   and Palakkad
  Palakkad
  Palakkad , formerly known as Palghat, is a municipality and a town in the state of Kerala in southern India, spread over an area of 26.60 km2.The city is situated about north of state capital Thiruvananthapuram. It is the administrative headquarters of Palakkad District...
  
  . Communist Leader, prominent advocate and Former M.L.A.
• Nadakkal Parameswaran Pillai
  Nadakkal parameswaran pillai
  N. S. Parameswaran Pillai or Nadakkal Parameswaran Pillai is the founder of Indian Coffee Houses in Kerala with the late Communist Leader of Thrissur Advocate T. K. Krishnan....
  
   or "Coffee House Pillai"- Cofounder of Indian Coffee Houses in Kerala
  Kerala
  or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....
  
  . Founder Secretary of ICH Societeies in Thrissur
  Thrissur
  This article is about the city in India. For the district, see Thrissur district. For the urban agglomeration area of Thrissur see Thrissur Metropolitan Area...
  
   and Palakkad
  Palakkad
  Palakkad , formerly known as Palghat, is a municipality and a town in the state of Kerala in southern India, spread over an area of 26.60 km2.The city is situated about north of state capital Thiruvananthapuram. It is the administrative headquarters of Palakkad District...
  
  . Chairman of the All India Federation of Coffee Board Workers Co-operative Societies. Author of Coffee Housinte Katha, the history of ICH Movement.

Performing Artists

Performing arts

The performing arts are those forms art which differ from the plastic arts insofar as the former uses the artist's own body, face, and presence as a medium, and the latter uses materials such as clay, metal or paint which can be molded or transformed to create some physical art object...

 

• G. S. Pradeep
  G. S. Pradeep
  Gangatharanpillai Soudaminithankachi Pradeep is known for his High Intellectual and Analytical Skill with great knowledge of history and contemporary world affairs. He has been in the limelight through "Reverse Quiz" on television and has also been featured on the Limca Book Of Records...
  
   Universal Genius, "Prince Of Knowledge", "Man Who Know Infinity", "Walking Encyclopaedia", Limca Book Of Records Holder, 'Father Of Reverse Quiz'
• Guru Gopinath
  Guru Gopinath
  Guru Gopinath was an Indian classical dancer, Kathakali master and mentor of a relatively new creative modern dancing style called Kerala Natanam. - Significance :...
  
   (1908–1987) - World renownd Indian Classical Dancer, Master and Author
• Guru Chandrasekharan
  Guru Chandrasekharan
  Guru Chandrasekharan was an Indian classical dancer, and choreographer in Kathakali, who was born at Trivandrum, India during 1916. His father was artist N.K...
  
   (1916–1998 )- Renowned Indian dancer and Choreographer.
• Padma Shri
  Padma Shri
  Padma Shri is the fourth highest civilian award in the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan...
  
   Mani Madhava Chakyar
  Mani Madhava Chakyar
  Guru Mani Madhava Chakyar was a celebrated master performance artist and Sanskrit scholar from Kerala, South India, considered to be the greatest Chakyar Koothu and Koodiyattam artist and authority of modern times...
  
   (1989–1991) -World-renowned Koodiyattam
  Koodiyattam
  Koodiyattam or Kutiyattam is a form of Sanskrit theatre traditionally performed in the state of Kerala, India. Performed in the Sanskrit language in Hindu temples, it is believed to be 2,000 years old...
  
   and Chakyar Koothu
  Chakyar koothu
  Chakyar Koothu is a performance art from Kerala, South India. It is primarily a type of highly refined monologue where the performer narrates episodes from Hindu epics and stories from the Puranas...
  
   artist, Natya Shastra
  Natya Shastra
  The Natya Shastra is an ancient Indian treatise on the performing arts, encompassing theatre, dance and music. It was written during the period between 200 BC and 200 AD in classical India and is traditionally attributed to the Sage Bharata.The Natya Shastra is incredibly wide in its scope...
  
   scholar and authority of Acting.
• Gopinath Muthukad
  Gopinath Muthukad
  Gopinath Muthukad is a magician, escapologist, and stunt performer from Kerala, India. He employs magic as a medium to convey his messages to society....
  
   - Noted magician.
• KalamandalamTirur Nambissan
  Tirur Nambissan
  Tirur Nambissan was a Kathakali singer. Tirur Nambissan, whose name was Narayanan, was born at Tirur in the Malappuram district of Kerala in southern India. He started learning music at the age of seven, while attending the local boys' high school...
  
  -Kathakali singer
• Kalamandalam Hyderali
  Kalamandalam Hyderali
  Kalamandalam Hyderali was one of the best Kathakali singers of his generation, and the first non-Hindu artiste to make a mark in the four-century-old classical dance-drama from Kerala in south India....
  
   - Kathakali singer.
• Kalamandalam Gopi
  Kalamandalam Gopi
  Vadakke Manalath Govindan Nair popularly known as Kalamandalam Gopi is a exponent of the classical dance-drama style known as Kathakali...
  
  - Renowned Kathakali Artist.
• Keeleri Kunhikkannan, the great circus acharya of Kerala established the first circus institute in Kerala (1901).
• Kottakkal Sivaraman
  Kottakkal Sivaraman
  Kottakkal Sivaraman was an acclaimed performing artiste who revolutionised the portrayal of female roles in Kathakali, the classical dance-drama from Kerala in southern India...
  
  - Renowned Kathakali Artist.
• Mrinalini Sarabhai
  Mrinalini Sarabhai
  Mrinalini Sarabhai is a celebrated Indian classical dancer, choreographer and instructor. She is the founder director of the Darpana Academy of Performing Arts, an institute for imparting training in dance, drama, music and puppetry, in the city of Ahmedabad...
  
    - Famous danseuse. She is the wife of late Indian physicist, Dr. Vikram Sarabhai
  Vikram Sarabhai
  Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai was an Indian physicist. He is considered to be the father of the Indian space program; legendary Homi Bhabha’s successor as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission; and was as at home in the world of the arts as in his favourite laboratory. His interests were vast and...
  
  , mother of Mallika Sarabhai
  Mallika Sarabhai
  Mallika Sarabhai is an activist and Indian Classical Dancer from Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. Daughter of Classical Dancer Mrinalini Sarabhai and renowned Space Scientist Vikram Sarabhai, Mallika is an accomplished Kuchipudi and Bharatanatyam dancer.-Early life:Mallika Sarabhai was born in...
  
  , and sister of Captain Lakshmi
  Lakshmi Sahgal
  Lakshmi Sahgal née Swaminathan, also known as Captain Laxmi. is an activist of the Indian independence movement, an ex-officer of the Indian National Army, and the Minister of Women's affairs in the Azad Hind Government.A doctor by profession, Captain Lakshmi came into the limelight in India...
  
  .
• Athira -Internationally Acclaimed Violin Prodigy /Guinness World Record Holder.
• Kim Thayil
  Kim Thayil
  Kim Thayil is an American guitarist best known as the lead guitarist of the Seattle-based grunge band Soundgarden, which he cofounded with singer Chris Cornell and bassist Hiro Yamamoto in 1984...
  
   famous guitarist of 90's vanguard grunge
  Grunge
  Grunge is a subgenre of alternative rock that emerged during the mid-1980s in the American state of Washington, particularly in the Seattle area. Inspired by hardcore punk, heavy metal, and indie rock, grunge is generally characterized by heavily distorted electric guitars, contrasting song...
  
   band Soundgarden
  Soundgarden
  Soundgarden is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington in 1984 by singer Chris Cornell, lead guitarist Kim Thayil, and bassist Hiro Yamamoto...
  
  .
• Paul Varghese
  Paul Varghese
  Paul Varghese is a Dallas, Texas, comedian of Indian descent who appeared on the hit reality show Last Comic Standing 2, where he made it to the semi-finals. He taped his first full-set for national television on March 8, 2007, for Comedy Central's Live at Gotham which aired July 13, 2007. He was...
  
   -American standup comedian.
• Dan Nainan
  Dan Nainan
  -Early life:Nainan born in Bloomington, Indiana to a nuclear physicist from India and child psychologist from Japan. Before becoming a comedian, he worked as a "demonstration engineer" and then as strategic relations manager with Intel...
  
  - American standup comedian of Indo-Japanese origin. Father is a Malayalee and mother a Japanese.