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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 kilo ...

, one of the southernmost towns in India. Hindus believe that Lord Rama worshipped Shiva before beginning his journey to Lanka; hence "Lord of Rama". This name is from the history of great epics.

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* Annamalai Ramanathan (1946–1993), Indian mathematician * Devakottai Ramanathan, Indian comedian * G. Ramanathan (died 1963), Indian composer * K. G. Ramanathan (1920–1992), Indian mathematician * K. R. Ramanathan (1893–1984), Indian physicist and meteorologist * M. Ramanathan, Indian politician * M. D. Ramanathan (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 (1851–1930), Ceylonese politician * R. Ramanathan Chettiar (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 ach ...

(born 1994), Indian tennis player * S. Kumara Kurubara Ramanathan, Indian politician * S. Ramanathan (1917–1988), musician * Sellapan Ramanathan (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 (born 1870), Australian author and publisher * Ramanathan Indrarajah, Sri Lankan politician * Ramanathan Gnanadesikan (born 1932), Indian statistician *

Ramanathan Krishnan Ramanathan Krishnan (born 11 April 1937) is a retired tennis player from India who was among the world's leading players in the 1950s and 1960s. He was twice a semifinalist at Wimbledon in 1960 and 1961, reaching as high as World No. 3 in Potte ...

(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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