The following is a list of notable people from the Indian city of Madurai, Tamil Nadu.
Religious figures
Bodhisena Chithalai Chathanar Mangayarkkarasiyar Manikkavacakar Kulachirai Nayanar Santhananda
Scholars
Ganapathy Baskaran Augustus De Morgan S. Subramania Iyer Solomon Pappaiah Vida Dutton Scudder
Dancers
Rukmini Devi Arundale – Bharatanatyam dancer; founder of the Kalakshetra Foundation, an art and cultural academy Anita Ratnam – classical and contemporary dancer
Entrepreneurs and business leaders Chitra Bharucha – former vice chairman of the BBC Trust Rajashree Birla – wife of Aditya Vikram Birla Karumuttu Thiagarajan Chettiar – Indian independence activist, industrialist and the founder of Thiagarajar College of Engineering and Thiagarajar School of Management Sundar Pichai – chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc. and its subsidiary Google Inc.
Social activists Narayanan Krishnan Gopi Shankar Madurai – The Commonwealth Awardee, youngest candidate in the Tamil Nadu Assembly election and also the first openly intersex and genderqueer person to do so S. Swapna – first Indian transgender to take the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission (TNPSC) recruitment examination for public-service employees in the Tamil Nadu state
Literature
Kausalya Hart Karmegha Konar Mu. Metha S. Abdul Rahman Ba. Venkatesan S. Venkatesan
Music
Madurai Mani Iyer Ramnad Raghavan T. N. Seshagopalan T. M. Soundararajan M. S. Subbulakshmi
Film industry
Ameer (director) Atlee (director) Bala (director) Bharathiraja Cheran (director) Chimbu Deven Susi Ganeshan G. Gnanasambandam Ilaiyaraaja Kanika Ganja Karuppu C. V. Kumar Maniratnam Meenal Pandi (actor) Solomon Pappaiah Mohan Raja Pattimandram Raja Ramarajan Jayam Ravi Samudrakani M. Sasikumar Vijay Sethupathi Shaam Robo Shankar Shanmugarajan Soori (actor) Srinivasan (Tamil actor) Karthik Subbaraj Vadivelu Velraj Vijayakanth Vivek (actor)
Politicians and public servants
P. Amudha S. K. Balakrishnan Mayandi Bharathi R. Chidambara Bharathi Angidi Chettiar – former vice president of Mauritius A. Vaidyanatha Iyer Jana Krishnamurthi P. Mohan S. Muthu Pazha Nedumaran P. T. Rajan Palanivel Rajan S. M. Muhammed Sheriff – former Consecutive Member of Parliament Nirmala Sitharaman – Minister of Finance Palanivel Thiagarajan
Sportsmen A. Palanisamy Magesh Chandran Panchanathan Mohan Ukkrapandian
Software Sundar Pichai
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