List of notable people who were born or settled in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.

Former rulers of Travancore Marthanda Varma Sethu Lakshmi Bayi Dharma Raja Ayilyam Thirunal Swathi Thirunal Rama Varma Moolam Thirunal Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma

Religion and spirituality Sree Narayana Guru Ayyankali Vakkom Moulavi Chattampi Swamikal Sade Guru Shivalingadasa Swamigal Sri M

Freedom fighters Vakkom Abdul Khader Annie Mascarene Accamma Cherian

Politicians Pattom A. Thanu Pillai Shashi Tharoor Vakkom Purushothaman Varkala Radhakrishnan K. Muraleedharan A. Sampath V. Sivankutty V. S. Sivakumar Kadakampally Surendran V. K. Prasanth K S Sabarinathan G Karthikeyan M. Vijayakumar C. Jayan Babu Neelalohithadasan Nadar O. Rajagopal Arya Rajendran V. Muraleedharan Rajeev Chandrasekhar Adv VV Rajesh

Musicians Swathithirunal B. Sasikumar K. S. Chithra M. Jayachandran Bichu Thirumala Hariharan L. Athira Krishna - violinist Vidhu Prathap M. G. Radhakrishnan - music director and vocalist M. G. Sreekumar Neyyattinkara Vasudevan V. Madhusoodanan Nair G. Venugopal Sujatha Mohan Balabhaskar Job Kurian Ishaan Dev Jassie Gift Prince Rama Varma Najim Arshad Abhaya Hiranmayi Akhila Anand Raftaar (rapper) Vinayak Sasikumar Vishnu Vijay

Painters Raja Ravi Varma Celia Paul A. Ramachandran

Sculptor Kanayi Kunhiraman

Performing artists, Indian dance Guru Gopinath Gopinath Muthukad L. Athira Krishna Neena Prasad Guru Chandrasekharan Madavoor Vasudevan Nair G. S. Pradeep Rajashree Warrier Gayathri Govind

Architects Laurie Baker - architect, born in England, settled in Thiruvananthapuram Gopalan Nair Shankar (G. Shankar) - received Padma Shri award in 2011

Science V. N. Krishnamurthy - ex-Dy. Director, VSSC; ex-Director, ISRO-UoP Cell G. Madhavan Nair - ISRO Chairman Thanu Padmanabhan - Indian theoretical physicist K. S. S. Nambooripad -Mathematician

Social Reformers Ayyankali Vakkom Moulavi Narayana Guru - also a poet Chattampi Swamikal - also a poet and prose writer

Writers Kumaran Asan - poet A. Ayyappan K. A. Beena - journalist and author Kilimanoor Chandran Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyer - poet Sugathakumari - poet Gopi Kottoor - poet O. N. V. Kurup - poet Mali Madhavan Nair V. Madhusoodhanan Nair George Onakkoor Ayyappa Paniker C. V. Raman Pillai E. V. Krishna Pillai Kesari Balakrishna Pillai N. Krishna Pillai Sreekanteswaram Padmanabha Pillai - author of Shabda Tharavali Kilimanoor Ramakanthan Sukumar Irayimman Thampi Bichu Thirumala - Malayalam poet Swathi Thirunal A. R. Raja Raja Varma Vijayakrishnan Poovachal Khader - poet Vellayani Arjunan

Military personnel Radhakrishnan Nair Harshan Admiral R. Hari Kumar

Jurists N. R. Madhava Menon – member of Centre-State Relations Commission of the Government of India; former VC of National Law School of India University, Bangalore and NUJS Kolkata K. S. Paripoornan – Chief Justice of Patna High Court (1994) and Justice of the Supreme Court of India (1994–1997)

Sports K. N. Ananthapadmanabhan - Umpire (ex-Cricketer) Sanju Samson - Cricketer Aneil Nambiar (born 1984) - Cricketer Jobby Justin - Footballer Padmanabhan Prasanth - Cricketer Prannoy H. S. - Badminton player Raiphi Vincent Gomez - Cricketer P. Ranganathan - ex-cricketer Rohan Prem - Cricketer Bijoy Varghese - Footballer Britto P. M. - Footballer

IT Kris Gopalakrishnan - CEO of Infosys Raj Subramaniam - CEO of FedEx

Actors and directors Sathyan Prem Nazir Madhu Mohanlal Prithviraj Sukumaran Priyadarshan Abhirami Ahaana Krishna Aishwarya Lekshmi Alencier Ley Lopez Ambika Aneesh Ravi Anil Murali Annie Shaji Kailas Appani Sarath Arthana Binu Arun Kumar Aravind Arya Rohit Baiju Bharat Gopy Biju Pappan Biju Sopanam Chippy Deepu Karunakaran Devi Ajith Gokul Suresh Indrajith Sukumaran Indrans Iniya Isha Sharvani Jagadish Jagathy Sreekumar J.C. Daniel Joshi Kalaranjini Kalpana Kani Kusruti Karamana Janardanan Nair Karthika Keerikkadan Jose Keerthy Suresh Kochu Preman K. P. A. C. Azeez Krishnakumar Krishnankutty Nair Lalitha Maala Parvathi Mahesh Narayanan Mallika Sukumaran Manikuttan Maniyanpilla Raju Manjima Mohan Manju Pillai Menaka Sureshkumar Mithun Ramesh Murali Gopy N. L. Balakrishnan Namitha Pramod Nandu Nayanthara Chakravarthy Nazriya Nazim Noby Marcose Nyla Usha Padmini Poojappura Ravi Prajesh Sen Pranav Mohanlal Prathap Pothan Premkumar Priyanka Nair Radha Ragini Rajasenan Ravi Vallathol Rojin Thomas R. S. Vimal Saji Surendran Sajin Baabu Sakhi Thomas Sangeeth Sivan Santosh Sivan Senthil Krishna Shafna Shaji Kailas Shaji N. Karun Shobhana Shyamaprasad Sithara Sona Nair Suchitra Murali Sudheer Karamana Sujith Vasudev Sukumaran Sukumari Suraj Venjaramoodu Suresh Gopi Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair Thulasidas Urvashi Venu Nagavally Vijayakumar Vijayasree Vinduja Menon

Doctors Padmanabhan Palpu C.O. Karunakaran M. Krishnan Nair - Founding Director of Regional Cancer Centre R. Kesavan Nair K. P. Haridas - Laparoscopic and Bariatric Surgeon, Awardee of Padma Shri 2015 A. Marthanda Pillai - neurosurgeon, recipient of 2011 Padma Shri P. K. R. Warrier

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