Ramanathan ( ta, ராமநாதன்) is a

South India South India, also known as Dakshina Bharata or Peninsular India, consists of the peninsular southern part of India. It encompasses the States and union territories of India, Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and T ...

n male given name. Due to the South Indian tradition of using patronymic surnames it may also be a surname for males and females. Ramanathan is derived from

Rama Rama (; ), Ram, Raman or Ramar, also known as Ramachandra (; , ), is a major deity in Hinduism. He is the seventh and one of the most popular ''avatars'' of Vishnu. In Rama-centric traditions of Hinduism, he is considered the Supreme Being ...

(a Hindu god) and the

Sanskrit Sanskrit (; attributively , ; nominalization, nominally , , ) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in South Asia after its predecessor languages had Trans-cul ...

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nath Nath, also called Natha, are a Shaiva sub-tradition within Hinduism in India and Nepal. A medieval movement, it combined ideas from Buddhism, Shaivism and Yoga traditions in India.Shiva Shiva (; sa, शिव, lit=The Auspicious One, Śiva ), also known as Mahadeva (; ɐɦaːd̪eːʋɐ, or Hara, is one of the principal deities of Hinduism. He is the Supreme Being in Shaivism, one of the major traditions within Hin ...

Rameshwaram Rameswaram (; also transliterated as Ramesvaram, Rameshwaram) is a municipality in the Ramanathapuram district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is on Pamban Island separated from mainland India by the Pamban channel and is about 40 ki ...

, one of the southernmost towns in India. Hindus believe that Lord Rama worshipped Shiva before beginning his journey to

Lanka Lanka (, ) is the name given in Hindu epics to the island fortress capital of the legendary asura king Ravana in the epics of the ''Ramayana'' and the ''Mahabharata''. The fortress was situated on a plateau between three mountain peaks kn ...

; hence "Lord of Rama". This name is from the history of great epics.

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Annamalai Ramanathan Annamalai Ramanathan (29 August 1946 – 12 March 1993) was an Indian mathematician in the field of algebraic geometry, who introduced the notion of Frobenius splitting of algebraic varieties jointly with Vikram Bhagvandas Mehta in . The notion ...

(1946–1993), Indian mathematician * Devakottai Ramanathan, Indian comedian * G. Ramanathan (died 1963), Indian composer *

K. G. Ramanathan Kollagunta Gopalaiyer Ramanathan (13 November 1920 – 10 May 1992) was an Indian mathematician known for his work in number theory. His contributions are also to the general development of mathematical research and teaching in India. K. G. Ra ...

(1920–1992), Indian mathematician * K. R. Ramanathan (1893–1984), Indian physicist and meteorologist * M. Ramanathan, Indian politician *

M. D. Ramanathan Manjapara Devesa Bhagavathar Ramanathan (20 May 1923 – 27 April 1984) was a Carnatic music composer and vocalist who created a distinctive style of singing rich in Bhava and Laya. He was considered for the Madras Music Academy's Sangeetha Ka ...

(1923–1984), Indian composer and vocalist * N. Ramanathan (born 1946), Indian musician and academic * Pathmanathan Ramanathan (1932–2006), Sri Lankan lawyer and judge *

Ponnambalam Ramanathan Sir Ponnambalam Ramanathan, CMG, KC ( ta, பொன்னம்பலம் இராமநாதன், translit=Poṉṉampalam Irāmanātaṉ; 16 April 1851 – 26 November 1930) was a Ceylon Tamil lawyer, politician and Solicitor-General of ...

(1851–1930), Ceylonese politician *

R. Ramanathan Chettiar Ramaswami Ramanathan Chettiar (30 September 1913 – 12 December 1995) better known as Mayor Ramanathan Chettiar was an Indian Industrialist, politician and bureaucrat who served as Mayor of Madras and member of Lok Sabha. Early life Ramana ...

(1913–1995), Indian businessman, politician and bureaucrat * Rama Ramanathan (born 1964), Indian politician *

Ramkumar Ramanathan Ramanathan Ramkumar (born 8 November 1994) is an Indian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as No. 111 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he achieved in July 2018, and in doubles at No. 58 ac ...

(born 1994), Indian tennis player * S. Kumara Kurubara Ramanathan, Indian politician * S. Ramanathan (1917–1988), musician *

Sellapan Ramanathan Sellapan Ramanathan (; 3 July 1924 – 22 August 2016),. often known as S. R. Nathan, was a Singaporean politician who served as the sixth president of Singapore between 1999 and 2011. He was also the longest-serving president in Singapore's h ...

(1924–2016), Singaporean politician *

Veerabhadran Ramanathan Veerabhadran "Ram" Ramanathan (born 24 November 1944) is Edward A. Frieman Endowed Presidential Chair in Climate Sustainability Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego. He has contributed to many areas of the a ...

, Indian climatologist

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Leelawathy Ramanathan Tirumati Leelawathy Ramanathan (née R. L. Harrison in 1870) was the Australia-born wife of Ponnambalam Ramanathan of the Ponnambalam-Coomaraswamy family. Lady Ramanathan was an Englishwoman who was born in Australia where her father was involved ...

(born 1870), Australian author and publisher * Ramanathan Indrarajah, Sri Lankan politician * Ramanathan Gnanadesikan (born 1932), Indian statistician * Ramanathan Krishnan (born 1937), Indian tennis player * Ramanathan V. Guha (born 1965), Indian computer scientist * Ramanathan Sarathkumar (born 1954), Indian film actor, journalist and politician *

(born 1994), Indian tennis player * Sharada Ramanathan, Indian journalist

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