• Source: List of people from Madurai

The following is a list of notable people from Madurai, India.




Religious figures



Manikkavacakar
Mangayarkkarasiyar
Kulachirai Nayanar
Santhananda
Bodhisena
Chithalai Chathanar




Scholars



Vida Dutton Scudder
Augustus De Morgan
S. Subramania Iyer
Solomon Pappaiah
Ganapathy Baskaran
Sridhar Sundar Raman




Dancers



Rukmini Devi Arundale - Bharatanatyam Dancer, Founder Kalakshetra
Anita Ratnam - Indian classical and contemporary dancer.
Sridhar Sundar Raman - Classical Belly Dancer




Entrepreneurs and business leaders



Karumuttu Thiagarajan Chettiar- Indian independence activist, industrialist and the founder of Thiagarajar College of Engineering and Thiagarajar school of management
Sundar Pichai - CEO of Alphabet Inc. and its subsidiary Google Inc.
RajaShree Birla -wife of Adhitya Birla




Journalists and authors


Chitra Bharucha-Former Vice Chairman of the BBC Trust




Social activists


Gopi Shankar Madurai - The Commonwealth Awardee, Youngest candidate in the Tamil Nadu Assembly election and also the first openly Intersex & Genderqueer person to do so.
S. Swapna - first Indian transgender to take the TNPSC recruitment exam for public service employees in the Tamil Nadu state
Narayanan Krishnan




Literature



Karmegha Konar
S. Abdul Rahman
S. Venkatesan
Kausalya Hart
Mu. Metha
Ba.Venkatesan
Dr.S.Tamilarasan (Madurai Sellur Upaathiyaayar)




Music



M.S. Subbulakshmi
T. N. Seshagopalan
Madurai T. Srinivasan
Madurai Mani Iyer
T. M. Soundararajan
Ramnad Raghavan




Film industry






Politicians and public servants



Mayandi Bharathi
P. T. Rajan
Palanivel Rajan
Palanivel Thiagarajan
S.M.Muhammed Sheriff Former Consecutive Member of Parliament
Jana Krishnamurthi
Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Ministry of Commerce & Industry
R. Chidambara Bharathi
P. Mohan
Angidi Chettiar - former vice president of Mauritius
A. Vaidyanatha Iyer
S. K. Balakrishnan
S. Muthu
Pazha Nedumaran
P. Amudha




Sportsmen


A. Palanisamy
Magesh Chandran Panchanathan
Mohan Ukkrapandian




Software


Sundar Pichai




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