Raghavan (Tamil: ராகவன்; Malayalam: രാഘവന്‍) is a South Indian name. It derives from the Sanskrit ''raghava'', meaning "derived from Raghu" or "descendant of Raghu" (an

epithet An epithet (, ), also byname, is a descriptive term (word or phrase) known for accompanying or occurring in place of a name and having entered common usage. It has various shades of meaning when applied to seemingly real or fictitious people, di ...

of the Hindu god Rama, an incarnation of Vishnu), plus the Tamil-Malayalam third-person masculine singular suffix -n. Although it is used as a given name in India it has also come to be used as a family name in the United States. It may refer to:

People

Azhikodan Raghavan Azhikodan Raghavan was a leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)). Personal life He was born on 1 July, 1919, in South Bazar, Kannur. Political life In 1940, he was groomed into a true communist by comrades P. Krishna Pil ...

, Kerala politician *

Edappally Raghavan Pillai Edappally Raghavan Pillai (30 May 1909 – 4 July 1936) was an Indian poet of Malayalam literature and a close associate of Changampuzha Krishna Pillai. The pair, the front-runners of romanticism in Malayalam, was considered by many as the Shel ...

, Malayalam poet *

K. Raghavan K. Raghavan (2 December 1913 – 19 October 2013), also fondly called Raghavan Master, was a Malayalam music composer and Carnatic Vocalist. Along with G. Devarajan, V. Dakshinamoorthy and Baburaj, Raghavan is often credited for the renaissance ...

, Malayalam music composer * K. Raghavan Pillai, writer and scholar from Kerala, India * M. K. Raghavan, Member of Parliament from the Kozhikode Lok Sabha seat in Kerala, India *

M. V. Raghavan Melathu Veettil Raghavan (5 May 1933 – 9 November 2014) was a veteran Communist leader and a former Minister in Kerala state of India. He was the General Secretary of the Communist Marxist Party, an alliance partner in the United Democratic Fr ...

, communist leader from Kerala, India *

Muthukulam Raghavan Pillai Muthukulam Raghavan Pillai (1900–1979) was a Malayalam dramatist, poet, screen play writer and actor who was well known in the role of Ashaan in Kavyamela. He was born in 1900 in Muthukulam, a small village near Haripad in Alappuzha District ...

, Malayalam dramatist, poet, screenwriter, and actor from India *

N. S. Raghavan Nadathur Sarangapani Raghavan is an Indian industrialist, and one of the seven founders of Infosys Technologies, a global consulting and IT services company based in India. The company was incorporated as "Infosys Consultants Pvt Ltd.", with Ragh ...

, Indian industrialist * P. Raghavan, Communist Party of India (Marxist) politician from Kasargod district *

P. K. Raghavan P. K. Raghavan (23 April 1934 – 19 August 2005) was an Indian politician and former Minister of Kerala State. He came to active politics through the Student movement of the Communist Party of India. Political life He became a member of the ...

, former Minister of Kerala, India *

P. M. Raghavan Ponnabeth Mambally Raghavan (18 December 1920, date of death unknown) was an Indian cricketer who played at first-class cricket, first-class level for Travancore-Cochin cricket team, Travancore-Cochin (now Kerala cricket team, Kerala) from 1951 ...

, Kerala first-class cricketer *

Pa. Raghavan Pa. Raghavan, a well known Tamil writer, winner of the prestigious ‘ Bharathiya Basha Parishad Award’ in 2004. His best known and most appreciated work is Yathi, a Novel, which shows the world of Indian Sanyasis (Monks). His non fictions l ...

, Tamil writer and journalist from India * Radha Raghavan, (born 1961), Indian National Congress politician *

Raghavan N. Iyer Raghavan Narasimhan Iyer (10 March 1930 – 20 June 1995) was an Indian academic, political theorist and philosopher. Educated at Oxford, he was professor of political science at the University of California, Santa Barbara from 1965 to 1986, wh ...

, academic and philosopher from Madras, India * Ramnad Raghavan, Indian ''mridangam'' player *

Raghavan (actor) Raghavan (born 12 December 1941) is an Indian actor who has acted in Malayalam more than 100 films including Telugu and Kannada films. Malayalam actor Jishnu was his son. From early 2000s he is more active on Malayalam and Tamil television ser ...

, Indian film actor in Malayalam films *

M. R. Srinivasaprasad Madapusi Raghavan Srinivasaprasad, usually known as M. R. Srinivasaprasad (born in 1959 in Salem, Tamil Nadu) is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off-spin bowler who played cricket for Karnataka Ranji in the Wills Trophy (1983/84 � ...

, Indian cricketer *

Srinivasacharya Raghavan Srinivasacharya Raghavan is an Indian mathematician. He was born on 11 April 1934. He works in number theory. He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Mathematical Science in 1979 He is also a Fellow of th ...

, Indian mathematician * Sriram Raghavan, Indian film director and screenwriter * Sumeet Raghavan, Indian film and television actor *

Suren Raghavan Suren Raghavan ( ta, சுரேன் ராகவன், translit=Curēṉ Rākavaṉ; si, සුරේන් රාගවන්, translit=Surēn Rāgavan) is a Sri Lankan academic and former Governor of the Northern Province. He is of bieth ...

, Sri Lankan academic *

Raghavan Thirumulpad Raghavan (Tamil: ராகவன்; Malayalam: രാഘവന്‍) is a South Indian name. It derives from the Sanskrit ''raghava'', meaning "derived from Raghu" or "descendant of Raghu" (an epithet of the Hindu god Rama, an incarnation of Vi ...

, Ayurvedic scholar and physician from Kerala, India *

V. R. Raghavan Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Vasantha R. Raghavan is a former Indian military general and now a security consultant. He retired as the director general of military operations in 1994, having served in the Indian Army for 37 years. After retiring from the arm ...

, Indian military strategist * V. S. Raghavan, (b. 1925), Tamil actor * K.G. Raghavan, Malayalee author, Amrutavani, (Poetic Malayalam rendering of Quran)

Asteroids

* 24149 Raghavan, asteroid

Films

* Raghupathi Raghavan Rajaram, Tamil film *A character in

Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu ''Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu'' () is a 2006 Indian Tamil-language neo-noir action thriller film written and directed by Gautham Vasudev Menon. The film stars Kamal Haasan, Jyothika, and Kamalinee Mukherjee in prominent roles, while Prakash Raj, D ...

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