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List Of People From Chennai
The following people were born or based their life in Tamil Nadu, formerly known as Madras State: Arts and language * R.K. Narayan (1906–2001), writer Business *Anil Kumar (born 1958), management consultant who pled guilty to insider trading *Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google *Indra Nooyi, Chairperson & CEO of PepsiCo *Shiv Nadar, founder and chairman of HCL Technologies *Venu Srinivasan, chairman and managing director, TVS Motors. *C Vijayakumar, CEO of HCL Technologies *Mallika Srinivasan, chairman and managing director, Tractors and Farm Equipment Limited *N. Srinivasan, chairman and managing director, India Cements Ltd. *A. Vellayan, chairman, Murugappa Group of Companies * M. A. M. Ramaswamy, Chettinad Cements Group of Companies and ex-Pro Chancellor, Annamalai University, Chidambaram. *A. C. Muthiah, former chairman, Southern Petrochemicals of India Corporation (SPIC) group of companies *Prathap C. Reddy, chairman, Apollo Hospitals *Naveen Selvadurai, co-founder of Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is a States and union territories of India, state in southern India. It is the List of states and union territories of India by area, tenth largest Indian state by area and the List of states and union territories of India by population, sixth largest by population. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu is the home of the Tamil people, whose Tamil language—one of the longest surviving Classical languages of India, classical languages in the world—is widely spoken in the state and serves as its official language. The state lies in the southernmost part of the Indian peninsula, and is bordered by the Indian union territory of Puducherry (union territory), Puducherry and the states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh, as well as an international maritime border with Sri Lanka. It is bounded by the Western Ghats in the west, the Eastern Ghats in the north, the Bay of Bengal in the east, the Gulf of Mannar and Palk Strait to the south-eas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foursquare (company)
Foursquare Labs Inc., commonly known as Foursquare, is an American-based technology company and data cloud platform. The company's location platform is the foundation of several business and consumer products, including the Foursquare City Guide and Foursquare Swarm apps. Foursquare’s products include: Pilgrim SDK, Places, Visits, Attribution, Audience, Proximity, and Unfolded Studio. Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai founded the company in late 2008 and launched it in 2009. The company rose to prominence with the launch of its namesake local search-and-discovery mobile app, now known as Foursquare City Guide. This app popularized the concept of real-time location-sharing and checking-in, especially in urban environments. Alongside the changes to the consumer apps, the company began creating products that leverage the location data collected via billions of check-ins. In May, 2019 Foursquare acquired Placed from Snap Inc. In April, 2020 Foursquare announced a merger with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Munirathna Anandakrishnan
Munirathna Anandakrishnan (12 July 1928 – 29 May 2021) was an Indian civil engineer, educationist, a chairman of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and a Vice-Chancellor of Anna University. He was also an Advisor to the Government of Tamil Nadu on Information Technology and e-Governance. A winner of the National Order of Scientific Merit (Brazil), he was honored by the Government of India, in 2002, with Padma Shri, the fourth highest Indian honours system, Indian civilian award. Biography Munirathna Anandakrishnan was born on 12 July 1928 in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu. After graduating in civil engineering (BE) from the College of Engineering, Guindy, Madras University in 1952, he pursued his studies at the University of Minnesota from where he secured a Master's degree (MS) in 1957 and a PhD in civil engineering in 1960. During his doctoral studies, he was a teaching assistant at the university and was the president of the ''Indian Students Association'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan
Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan (PSBB) is a group of schools located in Chennai, India. The school was founded by educationalist Rajalakshmi Parthasarathy (1925–2019), also known as Mrs. YGP. History The PSBB School in Chennai was established in 1958 by a group of housewives of the Nungambakkam Ladies Recreation Club. There were 13 students in a thatched shed on the terrace of the residence of the dean and director of the school, Mrs. Y. G. Parthasarathy. The land was donated by the family of the famous Table Tennis Player, Venugopal Chandrasekhar. At the time the school did not have many facilities. Today the school has 5 branches (including PSBB Millennium) with over 8000 students and 500 staff. The school was started with the vision of providing children with an Indianised version of education, one that would promote knowledge of Sanskrit shlokas, music, dance and reflect the Indian tradition. In 1959, one year after its inception, the school shifted to a campus of its ow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rajalakshmi Parthasarathy
Yecha Gunja Rajalakshmi Parthasarathy (27 November 1925 – 6 August 2019), better known as Mrs YGP, was an Indian journalist, educationist and social worker. She was the founder and dean of the Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan. Rajalakshmi was awarded the Padma Shri in 2010, India's fourth highest civil honour for her contribution to literature and education. Personal life Rajalakshmi was born in Madras on 27 November 1925 into an affluent and educated family, the daughter of Burmah Shell employee R. Parthasarathy and his wife Alamelu Amma. Her father was the son of Indian independence activist, Dewan Bahadur T. Rangachari and her mother was a homemaker. Her cousin K. Balaji was an actor and director in the Tamil film industry. Rajalakshmi studied at St. John's School and Holy Cross College, Madras and received a graduate degree in journalism from the University of Madras in 1947, at a time when few women in India undertook higher studies. She was the only woman in her class and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethiraj College For Women
Ethiraj College for Women is an arts and science college for women in Chennai, India, managed by the Ethiraj College Trust. It was founded in 1948 by the barrister V. L. Ethiraj of Vellore. History Ethiraj College for Women is an autonomous college situated in the heart of the city of Chennai with 9 acres of campus area. The formative years witnessed a strong foundation through introduction of undergraduate courses in Economics, Botany, Chemistry, History, Zoology and English Literature along with the infrastructural facilities, resulting in the construction of the Science Block, Hostel, Open Air Theatre and the Old Library Block. The landmark development of this decade was the auditorium, which to this day remains the pride of the college. The decade of 1968–1978 saw the growth of the college with the introduction of Commerce, Mathematics and Physics at the UG level and a number of PG courses and the construction of PG block. A significant development in the college was the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dora Metcalf
Dora Stuart Primrose Metcalf (11 March 1892 – 17 October 1982) was an entrepreneur, mathematician and computing pioneer. During World War I she was a comptometer operator in a munitions factory during which time she realised the potential in the mechanical descendants of the abacus. During World War II she was involved with supplying the "bombe" decryption machines to the codebreakers at Bletchley Park in England. Early life Dora Metcalf (''née'' Greene) was born to Irish parents in Madras (now Chennai) in India. She was the oldest of three children born to Eleanor Emily Ernestine ''née'' Burton (born 1868) and George Percy Greene (1862–1900, born in Lisburn, Antrim in Ireland), the Superintendent of the Madras Survey. The couple had married at All Souls' Church in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu in India in 1890. Metcalf's father died when she was eight years-old resulting in her and her family having to return to England. She attended Bedford High School in Bedfordshire befor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hatsun Agro Product
Hatsun Agro Product Ltd (HAP), often referred as Hatsun (HAP), is a leading private sector dairy company in India with headquarters in Tamil Nadu, Chennai. It was founded by R. G. Chandramogan in 1970. "World wants India to become a cooperated ltd" was his motto. The company was also awarded "The Fastest Growing Asian Dairy Company". The dairy product maker has been bagging the Golden Trophy from the Indian Government The Government of India (ISO 15919, ISO: ; often abbreviated as GoI), known as the Union Government or Central Government but often simply as the Centre, is the Government, national government of the Republic of India, a federal democracy lo ... for the largest dairy products exporter for the last many years. Growth The company has tripled its total turnover over the past 3 years and is set to become the fastest-growing dairy company in the world, with a record growth rate of 116% over the past 3 successive Quarters. During the financial year 2011–2012, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalanithi Maran
Kalanithi Murasoli Maran is an Indian billionaire media mogul who is the chairman and founder of the Sun Group. He owns television channels, newspapers, weeklies, FM radio stations, DTH services, a cricket team (Sunrisers Hyderabad), and a movie production house. He also held a major share in the Indian airline Spice Jet from 2010 to 2015. Career In 1990, Maran started a monthly magazine in Tamil called ''Poomaalai''. On 14 April 1993, he founded Sun TV. Sun TV was listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange on 24 April 2006 upon raising $133 million for 10% of the share capital, catapulting him into the billionaire charts. He was among the few representatives at a roundtable with the visiting then US President Bill Clinton. By 2010, he was the 17th richest Indian, with a net worth of US$4 Billion, and is the highest paid business executive in India. Maran and his wife, Kavery were ranked the highest paid Business executives in the list of Indian executive pay charts with a package ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MRF Limited
Madras Rubber Factory, commonly known as MRF or MRF Tyres, is an Indian Multinational tyre manufacturing company and the largest manufacturer of tyres in India. It is headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. The company manufactures rubber products including tyres, treads, tubes and conveyor belts, paints and toys. MRF also runs the MRF Pace Foundation, Chennai and MIDD - MRF Institute of Driver Development in Chennai. History Madras Rubber Factory was started by K. M. Mammen Mappillai as a toy balloon manufacturing unit in 1946 at Tiruvottiyur, Madras (now Chennai). In 1952, the company ventured into the manufacture of tread rubber. Madras Rubber Factory limited was incorporated as a private company in November 1960 and ventured into manufacture of tyres in partnership with Mansfield Tire & Rubber company based in Ohio, United States. The company went public on 1 April 1961 and an office was established in Beirut, Lebanon to develop the export market in 1964 and its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WNS Global Services
WNS (Holdings) Limited () is a global business process management company headquartered in Mumbai, India. The company has its expansion with 60 delivery centers worldwide. History WNS was founded in 1996 by British Airways as Speedwing World Network Services in Mumbai. In May 2002, a 70% shareholding was sold to Warburg Pincus. * 1999 – Launches delivery centre in Pune, India. * 2004 – Sets up new centres in Colombo in Sri Lanka and Gurugram in India. * 2006 – Initial public offering listing on the NYSE, the first Indian business process outsourcing company to be listed on the exchange. It raises about $224 million at $20 per ADS. * 2008 – Launches new delivery centres in the Philippines and Romania and Acquires Aviva Global Services, BizAps (SAP consulting) and Call 24/7 in U.K. * 2012 – Sets up first delivery centre in North America to service US clients. It also sets up a centre in Poland. * 2013 – Launches new centre in China and Warburg Pincus sells its entire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
