Shyamala or Syamala may refer to:

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Gogu Shyamala Gogu Shyamala is a Telugu-language writer and women's activist and a prominent Dalit. Biography Gogu Shyamala was born in 1969 in Peddemul village in Ranga Reddy district (now part of Telangana). Her parents are agricultural workers. She was al ...

, Indian Telugu-language writer and women's activist *

Pavala Syamala Pavala Syamala is an Indian actress from Andhra Pradesh. She has been playing supporting roles in Telugu films since 1984. She made her debut as an actress with the film Babai Abbai. Personal life She was born in a Brahmin family. She lost h ...

, Indian actress * P. R. Shyamala (1931–1990), Indian Malayalam-language novelist and short story writer * R. Shyamala, Indian politician from Tamil Nadu

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Shyamala Goli Shyamala Goli also referred to as Goli Shyamala is an Indian endurance swimmer, Producer, Creative Director and Writer to the Animation Series and Movies. In March 2021, she became the second Indian woman and second woman in the world after ...

, Indian endurance swimmer *

Shyamala Gopalan Gopalan Shyamala (December 7, 1938 – February 11, 2009) was a biomedical scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, whose work in isolating and characterizing the progesterone receptor gene stimulated advances in breast biolog ...

(1938–2009), Indian-American cancer researcher and civil rights activist *

Shyamala Gopinath Shyamala Gopinath (born 20 June 1949) is Chairperson of HDFC Bank, India's largest lender by market capitalization. Ms. Gopinath is a former deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), a position she served for seven years. She was ac ...

(born 1949), Indian bank executive *

Syamala Kumari K. Syamalakumari aka Syamala Kumari is an Indian temple painter. This was an occupation traditionally carried out by men. Her work includes painting at the Sri Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerala. She has been awarded the Nari Shakti Puraskar. Life ...

, Indian temple painter *

Shyamala Pappu Shyamala Pappu (21 May 1933 – 7 September 2016) was an Indian lawyer and one of the senior counsels practicing in the Supreme Court of India. She was a member of the Law Commission of India and had participated in several conferences, deliveri ...

(1933–2016), Indian lawyer *

Shyamala Rajender ''Rajender v. University of Minnesota'' was a landmark class action lawsuit dealing with sexual discrimination at an American university. The case was filed on September 5, 1973, by Shyamala Rajender, an assistant professor of chemistry at the Univ ...

, plaintiff in the 1973 lawsuit ''Rajender v. University of Minnesota''

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* ''Shyamala'' (film), a 1952 Indian Tamil-language film *

Shimla Shimla (; ; also known as Simla, List of renamed Indian cities and states#Himachal Pradesh, the official name until 1972) is the capital and the largest city of the States and union territories of India, northern Indian state of Himachal Prade ...

, Himachal Pradesh, India, a city that rejected a name-change to Shyamala in 2018

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