Loyola College is a private Catholic higher education institution run by the

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. It was founded in 1925 by the

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priest, Francis Bertram, along with other

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s. It is an autonomous Jesuit college affiliated with the University of Madras. Loyola commerce association celebrated its 75th year in 2019. Loyola College has more than 8000 students studying as of 2021.

Rankings

Loyola College secured 3rd rank among 100 colleges in The

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(NIRF) ranking 2021 with a score of 69.28. It admits undergraduates and post-graduates and confers degrees in the

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. The college is on a campus in the neighbourhood of Nungambakkam. The campus features tree-lined pathways, academic buildings, steepled

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church that dates back to 1930, and separate fields for each sport.

History

The name Loyola comes from the ancestral castle where Íñigo López de Loyola was born in 1491, the last of a large Basque family. He along with St. Francis Xavier and five other companions founded the

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(the Jesuit Order), a worldwide organization of religious men numbering about 19,000. Nearly 4,000 are working in the 18 provinces of

. In

there are 480 Jesuits working in schools, colleges, youth services, social work centres, parishes, mission outreach programmes, and in other forms of service and church ministry. Loyola College was founded in 1925 by the

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priest, Francis Bertram (originally a.k.a. Père François Bertrand; 1870/1871–1936), along with other

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s, Fr Francis Bertram was educated at the universities of

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, and the

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. The Department of Economics was founded by Basenach from the

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Academics

The college offers courses at the

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levels. The arts/humanities stream includes

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and

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. Science courses include

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chemistry Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the elements that make up matter to the compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions: their composition, structure, proper ...

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and

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. The college follows a credit-based, semester pattern. Undergraduate students must pass all examinations and obtain at least 120 credits in three years to be eligible for a degree. All students must also earn non-academic credits from extra-curricular and social service options. The Department of Outreach facilitates social work in the college. It is a degree requirement that every student irrespective of department complete the outreach program in second year, intended to form more complete human persons. The program takes students to

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s and backward areas in and around

to acquaint them with the sufferings of the people and to serve in small ways to better the living conditions. The program awards 3 credits. Loyola College along with Women's Christian college are the only colleges in the state capital

with "A+" accreditation from NAAC. ''

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'' magazine in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009 ranked Loyola number one in India for science degrees, and in 2007 in both science and humanities. The Department of Scientific and Industrial Research has recognised Loyola College as a Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, the highest research honour for an Arts and Science College. The college has been conferred a "College with Potential For Excellence" status by the University Grants Commission. It was given a 10 million grant (1 Crore) in 2006 by the UGC for continual improvement of facilities. The UGC has further certified it as a "College of Excellence" in the year 2014. The certification, for a period of five years until 2019, comes with a grant of Rs. 2 crore for the college to upgrade its facilities. Loyola college is one of the colleges which was selected fo
Deen Dayal Upadhyay KAUSHAL Kendra
a remarkable scheme initiated and funded by the Government of India and the University Grants Commission. It hosts a variety of courses like B.Voc. 3D Animation, B.Voc. Digital Journalism, M.Voc. 3D Animation and M.Voc. Digital Journalism, all of which are designed to offer Job oriented training. It has both UG and PG level curriculum courses in the department.

Faculty

* T. N. Ananthakrishnan, joined the Department of Natural Sciences, Loyola College in 1948, build the Department of Zoology from scratch, established Entomology Research Unit within the Loyola College campus in 1968. He became the Director of

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(ZSI), Calcutta in 1977. He won several laurels: 500 journal papers, 33 reference volumes and monographs, Rafi Ahmad Kidwai Award, Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship, INSA Senior Scientist Award, Pitambar Pant Environmental Fellowship, and the Asiatic Society Gold Medal. He is a Fellow of both the National Science Academies at Bangalore ( IAS) and New Delhi ( INSA), and the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Many insect species are named after him (''Ananthakrishnana Bhatti'' 1967'', Ananthakrishnaniella Stannard'' 1970'', Ananthakrishnanothrips Bournier'' 1985''; Allelothrips ananthakrishnani Stannard'' 1961'', Hydatothrips ananthakrishnani Bhatti'' 1973'', Exothrips ananthakrishnani Bhatti'' 1975'', Helionothrips ananthakrishnani Wilson'' 1975'', Liothrips ananthakrishnani Sen'' 1976'', Terthrothrips ananthakrishnani Kudô'' 1978'', Plectrothrips ananthakrishnani Okajima'' 1981 ''and Hennigithrips ananthakrishnani Johansen'' 1986). * A. W. Rabi Bernard, member of the

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* Father.

Jerome D'Souza Father Jerome D'Souza, SJ (6 August 1897, Mangalore, South Canara, British India – 12 August 1977, Madras, India) was an Indian Jesuit priest, educationist, writer and member of the Indian Constituent assembly (1946–50). Early years and ...

, S.J., Rector and Principal of Loyola College, Chennai from 1942 to 1950, elected to represent Madras legislative assembly at the

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from 1946 to 1950, member of the Indian Delegation to the

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(1949, 1951–1952, 1955, 1957), founder-director of the

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from 1951 to 1956, appointed as the Assistant and adviser of the

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(

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) for Indian and Asian affairs in 1957. * G. Prabha, journalist, Professor of Sanskrit, and director of 'Ishti', the first film in Sanskrit with a social theme * P. R. Pisharoty, physicist and meteorologist, father of remote sensing in India, began his career as a lecturer in Loyola College, Chennai in 1935, joined the

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in 1942, founder Director of the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune in 1962, Director of Remote Sensing and Satellite Meteorology, ISRO Space Applications Centre, Ahmedabad during 1972–75, Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of

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from 1963 to 1968 and later its Chairman, Emeritus Professor at Physical Research Laboratory, recipient of Raman Centenary Medal (1988), INSA's Prof K R Ramanathan Medal (1990),

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in 1989

Institute for Excellence

* Loyola College of Education *

Loyola Institute of Business Administration Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA) is a private business school in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, was founded by the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in 1979. It is situated on the Loyola College, Chennai, campus and run by the Loyola ...

* Centre for International Program * Entomology Research Institute * Ignatian Institute for Career Development * Institute for Dialogues with Cultures and Religions (Research institution under University of Madras) * Loyola – Racine Research Institute of Mathematics and Computer Sciences * Loyola ICAM College of Engineering and Technology * Loyola Institute for Industrial and Social Science Research * Loyola Institute of Frontier Energy * Loyola Institute of People Studies * Loyola Institute of Social Science Training and Research * Loyola Institute of Personal Development * Loyola Institute of Vocational Education

Culturals

Loyola College was a pioneer among colleges in South India in hosting cultural fests, and stands out among men's college in

for fostering well-rounded development. Women were first admitted at the turn of the

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, and they too are encouraged to participate in cultural activities. The college has been commended for its blend of cultures and for requiring all students to have weekly contact with the poor. Its cultural sensitivity also extends worldwide. The large, Down Sterling inter-college carnival was terminated by college authorities in 1992 when things got out of hand. This historic carnival is memorialized in the friendship song "MUSTHAFA MUSTHAFA" from the movie ''

Kadhal Desam ''Kadhal Desam'' () is a 1996 Indian Tamil-language action romance film written and directed by Kathir and produced by K. T. Kunjumon. The film starred Vineeth and debutant Abbas in the main leads, along with actress Tabu (in her Tamil debut ...

'' (1996). To somewhat fill the void the Loyola Student's Union organizes the intra-collegiate cultural event Ovations each September where the students compete for the Trophy in both on and off stage cultural competitions while representing their home departments. The college also used to host an annual inter-collegiate dance competition called "Ignite" each February, where its dance team, Loyola Dream Team, excels; also featured are Western/acoustic music bands, and variety and mime teams, but hasn't been conducted for the past 3 years for various reasons.

Alumni

Loyola college alumni also referred to as Loyolites have been contributors in various fields of law, politics, civil services, science, education, business, sports and entertainment.

Law and politics

Heads of state and Heads of government

* Daniel Lisulo, third

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, Eighth

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, Indian independence activist, and member of the

Supreme Court Judges

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, former judge of the

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* K. M. Joseph, sitting judge of the

* M. M. Sundresh, sitting judge of the

High Court Judges

* Kumar Rajarathnam, Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court * R Sudhakar, Chief Justice of the Manipur High Court *

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, Chief justice of Gujarat and

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Governors

* M. O. Hasan Farook Maricar, former Chief minister of Pondicherry, former Governor of Kerala * M. K. Narayanan, former National Security Adviser of India, Director of Intelligence Bureau, the

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and he also played a significant role in the negotiation of the India–United States Civil Nuclear Agreement

Other political figures

* P. Chidambaram, Member of Parliament, former Finance Minister, Government of India * B. S. Gnanadesikan, president of the

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NCC* A. P. Shanmugasundara Goundar, former

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, Member of Legislative Assembly, Minister, Government of

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, Member of Parliament, chairman of Kerala Congress (M) party *

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, Member of Parliament, former Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India *

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, first speaker of

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(1946 -1955), first Scheduled Caste mayor of Madras * V. Vaithilingam, former Chief minister of Pondicherry * K. Thulasiah Vandayar, former Member of Parliament, Secretary and Correspondent of the A.V.V.M Sri Pushpam College * P. Wilson, Member of Parliament and former

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Civil servants

* F. V. Arul, IPS, second Director of

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(CBI) * K. Sankaran Nair,

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, former Director of the

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(R&AW) * Ronald Carlton Vivian Piadade Noronha, Indian Civil Service, second and fifth Chief Secretary of Madhya Pradesh state (1963–68, 1972–74), RCVP Noronha Academy of Administration & Management (RCVP), premier training institution of M.P. Government is named after him * B. Raman, IPS, former head of the counter-terrorism division of the

(R&AW) * Pattabhi Sundar Raman, former advocate-general of Tamil Nadu * C. Rangarajan, 19th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India and

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of the Prime Minister's

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* V. K. Rao, Indian Civil Service, Principal Secretary to the President of India, Neelam Sanjiva Reddy * V. Selvaraj, IAS, Chairman of Madras Port Trust and Industries Secretary of the Government of Tamil Nadu * C. G. Somiah, IAS, former

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* S. Sripal, IPS, former Director General of Police, Tamil Nadu State *

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, IAS, former Central Vigilance Commissioner * Beno Zephine, first 100% visually challenged Indian Foreign Service Officer

Social workers

* P. K. Gopal, International President of the International Association for Integration, Dignity and Economic Advancement of people affected by leprosy (IDEA), first Chairman of the National Forum of Persons affected by Leprosy (now Association of People affected by Leprosy), recipient of the

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award in 2012. * Joe Madiath, Social Entrepreneur, founder and chairman of Gram Vikas, a non-governmental organisation based in

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, recipient of Water Champion Award from

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and Social Life Time Achievement Award by Godfrey Phillips National Bravery Awards in 2006

Science, technology, medicine, and mathematics

* Geetha Angara, first woman to be awarded a master's in chemistry by the university, receiving a gold medal in the process for graduating at the top of the class. Victim of an unsolved 2005 homicide in the U.S. *

Narayanan Chandrakumar Narayanan Chandrakumar (born 1951) is an Indian chemical physicist and a professor of chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He is the founder of the first Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) laboratory in India and is known for ...

, Professor Emeritus at IIT Madras, founder of the first Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) laboratory in India, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate * Ranjan Roy Daniel, former Dean, School of Physics and Senior Professor at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay, Scientific Secretary of the Committee on Science and Technology in Developing Countries (COSTED) from 1988 to 1995, Chairman of

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's National Committee on Middle Atmosphere Research (1989) and Advisory Committee on Space Sciences (1981–88), founder member of Indian Physics Association and

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, founder Chairman of the Bombay Association for Science Education, Fellow of IAS, INSA, TWAS, recipient of the Padma Bhushan award in 1992 and COSPAR International Cooperation Medal in 1994 * M. S. Narasimhan, Fellow of the Royal Society, London, Honorary Fellow of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Head of the Mathematics group at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, derived Narasimhan–Seshadri theorem and recipient of the

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* Kadiyala Ramachandra, former head of the department of medicine at Madras Medical College and established the Department of Oncology & Cancer Chemotherapy and the Rheumatic Care Unit at the Government General Hospital, Chennai * Ramakrishna Ramaswamy, Visiting Professor at IIT Delhi, former president of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, Vice President of the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi and Vice Chancellor of the University of Hyderabad *

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, known for number theory and algebraic geometry ( Ramanujam–Samuel theorem, Ramanujam vanishing theorem), a mathematics student of Father Charles Racine * Natesan Rangabashyam, established Ostomy Department in 1978 at Madras Medical College and Government General Hospital, Chennai, introduced the first M.Ch. (Surgical Gastroenterology) course in India in 1984, Honorary Surgeon to the President of India,

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, Fellow of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland,

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and the recipient of Padma Bhushan in 2002 and Dr B C Roy National Award twice *

Paul Ratnasamy Paul Ratnasamy is an Indian catalyst scientist, INSA Srinivasa Ramanujan Research Professor and a former director of National Chemical Laboratory of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). He was honored by the Government of Ind ...

, catalyst scientist, former director of the CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune *

Ravi Sankaran Ravi Sankaran (4 October 1963 – 17 January 2009) was an Indian ornithologist whose work concerned the conservation of several threatened birds of India. He was the Director of the Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History, Coimbato ...

, ornithologist, former Director of the

Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History Salim, Saleem or Selim may refer to: People *Salim (name), or Saleem or Salem or Selim, a name of Arabic origin *Salim (poet) (1800–1866) *Saleem (playwright) (fl. 1996) *Selim I, Selim II and Selim III, Ottoman Sultans *Selim people, an ethn ...

Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran (born March 17, 1949; ta, லட்சுமணன் சத்யவாகீஸ்வரன்) is the former Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner for the County of Los Angeles. In 2016, he again took over this positio ...

, former Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner for the County of Los Angeles * C. S. Seshadri, Fellow of the Royal Society, London, founder and Director-Emeritus of the

Chennai Mathematical Institute Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI) is a higher education and research institute in Chennai, India. It was founded in 1989 by the SPIC Science Foundation, and offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in physics, mathematics and comp ...

, derived Narasimhan–Seshadri theorem, the

Seshadri constant In algebraic geometry, a Seshadri constant is an invariant of an ample line bundle ''L'' at a point ''P'' on an algebraic variety. It was introduced by Demailly to measure a certain ''rate of growth'', of the tensor powers of ''L'', in terms of the ...

is named after him, recipient of Padma Bhushan and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology * Veeravalli S. Varadarajan, Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Research Professor at the Department of Mathematics,

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the Californ ...

(UCLA), Trombi–Varadarajan theorem, a mathematics student of K.A. Adivarahan in 1950

Academics

Educational institution founders and presidents

* Malcolm S Adiseshiah, Deputy Director-General of

UNESCO The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a List of specialized agencies of the United Nations, specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) aimed at promoting world peace and security through international coope ...

(1963-1970), founder-director of the

Madras Institute of Development Studies The Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS) is a research institute based in Chennai. It is a joint undertaking of the Governments of India and Tamil Nadu for conducting research on development problems in Tamil Nadu and the rest of Ind ...

(MIDS), Vice Chancellor of the University of Madras (1975–78), recipient of the Padma Bhushan award in 2010 * Parvataneni Brahmayya, former president of the

Institute of Chartered Accountants of India The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) is India's largest professional accounting body under the administrative control of Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India. It was established on 1 July 1949 as a statutory b ...

(ICAI) * C. Raj Kumar, Founding Vice Chancellor of O. P. Jindal Global University and Founding Dean of Jindal Global Law School * P. S. Manisundaram, first Principal of the Regional Engineering College (which later became the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli), the Alagappa Chettiar College of Engineering and Technology (ACGCET-Karaikudi) and the first Vice Chancellor of the Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli * V. M. Muralidharan, Chairman, Ethiraj College for Women * K. Thulasiah Vandayar, Secretary and Correspondent of the A.V.V.M Sri Pushpam College and former Member of Parliament * G. Viswanathan, founder and chancellor of Vellore Institute of Technology

Professors and scholars

* Srinivas Aravamudan, professor of English and former dean of the humanities at

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist Jam ...

* Mrityunjay Athreya, former professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, the London Business School and the

Strathclyde Business School The Strathclyde Business School (SBS) is one of four faculties forming the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. Founded in 1948, the school is located on Cathedral Street within the John Anderson campus of the University. It offers ...

, Scotland * Aswath Damodaran, Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University *

C. K. Prahalad Coimbatore Krishnarao Prahalad (8 August 1941 – 16 April 2010) was an Indian-American entrepreneur and author. He was the Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor of Corporate Strategy at the University of Michigan Step ...

, Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor of Corporate Strategy at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and distinguished fellow at the

William Davidson Institute The Stephen M. Ross School of Business, also known as Michigan Ross, is the business school of the University of Michigan, a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Founded in 1924, the school is ranked among the best business schoo ...

Business

* Wenceslaus Anthony, Chairman & managing director of WAML Group, Act Industrial Pty Ltd, recipient of the title,

Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit The New Zealand Order of Merit is an order of merit in the New Zealand royal honours system. It was established by royal warrant on 30 May 1996 by Elizabeth II, Queen of New Zealand, "for those persons who in any field of endeavour, have re ...

and the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice * S. S. Badrinath, founder and chairman emeritus of

Sankara Nethralaya Sankara Nethralaya is a not-for-profit missionary institution for ophthalmic care (i.e., an eye hospital) headquartered in Chennai, India. In the name "Sankara Nethralaya", "Sankara" is a reference to Adi Shankaracharya and "Nethralaya" means " ...

, Chennai * M. Damodaran, IAS, Chairman of

IndiGo Indigo is a deep color close to the color wheel blue (a primary color in the RGB color space), as well as to some variants of ultramarine, based on the ancient dye of the same name. The word "indigo" comes from the Latin word ''indicum'', ...

, former Chairman of the

Securities and Exchange Board of India The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) is the Regulatory agency, regulatory body for securities and commodity market in India under the ownership of Ministry of Finance (India), Ministry of Finance within the Government of India. It w ...

(SEBI), the

Industrial Development Bank of India The IDBI Bank Limited (IDBI Bank or IDBI) is a development finance institution under the ownership of Life Insurance Corporation of India and Government of India. It was established in 1964 as Industrial Development Bank of India, a developmen ...

(IDBI) and the

Unit Trust of India UTI Mutual Fund was carved out of the erstwhile Unit Trust of India (UTI) as a Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) registered mutual fund from 1 February 2003. The Unit Trust of India Act 1963 was repealed, paving way for the bifurca ...

(UTI) * R. K. Krishna Kumar, Tata Administrative Services (1963), Trustee of Sir Dorabji Tata Trust and Sir Ratan Tata Trust & Allied Trusts, former Vice Chairman of the Tata Global Beverages and Director of

Tata Sons Tata Sons Private Limited is the parent company of the Tata Group and holds the bulk of shareholding in the Tata group of companies including their land holdings across India, tea estates and steel plants. It is a privately owned conglomerate of ...

Sashi Kumar Sashi Kumar (born 23 February 1952) is an Indian journalist and media personality from Kerala. He worked in Asianet, the country's first regional satellite television channel. He founded and chairs the Media Development Foundation, the not ...

, founder and promoter of Asianet, chairman of the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai *

Verghese Kurien Verghese Kurien (26 November 1921 - 9 September 2012), known as the "Father of the White Revolution" in India, was a social entrepreneur whose "billion-litre idea", Operation Flood, made dairy farming India's largest self-sustaining industry a ...

, Father of the White Revolution, Founder Chairman of the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) from 1965 to 1998, the Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd (GCMMF), from 1973 to 2006 and the Institute of Rural Management Anand from 1979 to 2006 * N. Mahalingam, former chairman, Sakthi Group and former chairman, Ethiraj College for Women * Arumugham Mahendran, Chairman and Managing Director of Global Consumer Products Private Limited and former Managing Director of

Godrej Consumer Products Limited Godrej Consumer Products Limited (GCPL) is an Indian consumer goods company based in Mumbai, India. GCPL's products include soap, hair colourants, toiletries and liquid detergents. Its brands include 'Cinthol', 'Godrej Fair Glow', 'Godrej No ...

* Bala S. Manian, founder of ReaMetrix, Digital Optics and Quantum Dot Corporation *

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 mov ...

, founder and chairman of the SUN Group * Sudhakar Ram, Group CEO and Managing Director of Mastek * Jerry Rao, chairman of the Value and Budget Housing Corporation and founder and former CEO of MphasiS Corporation. * W Hansraj Saxena, Chief Executive Officer

News J ''News J'' is all year round Tamil news broadcasting channel headquartered at Nungambakkam in Chennai, Tamil Nadu and is run by Mantaro Network Private Limited, founded by Former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Edappadi K.Palaniswami, C.Ve.Radhaak ...

, former chief operating officer of Sun Pictures *

Ajit Shetty Ajit, Baron Shetty is a Belgian businessman. He was chairman of the board of directors of Janssen Pharmaceutica, a pharmaceutical company and subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, with its headquarters in Beerse, Belgium. In February 2012 he retired ...

, former Chairman of Board of Directors, Janssen Pharmaceutica *

Ram Shriram Kavitark Ram Shriram (born 1956/57) is an Indian-American billionaire businessman and philanthropist. He is a founding board member and one of the first investors in Google. He was earlier employed by Amazon, working for Jeff Bezos. Shriram cam ...

, ''Forbes'' billionaire, founding board member of

Google Inc. Google LLC () is an American multinational technology company focusing on search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, artificial intelligence, and consumer electronics. It ...

(now Alphabet) and an initial investor in Google, Founder of the Sherpalo Ventures, Menlo Park and board member of the

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is conside ...

. * A. Sivasailam, former chairman and managing director of Amalgamations Group of Industries * Damal Kandalai Srinivasan, co-founder of

Hindu Mission Hospital, Chennai The Hindu Mission Hospital is a 220-bed multidisciplinary health facility in Chennai, India. Spread over an area of 74,000 sq ft, the ISO 9001:2000-certified hospital is registered under Society Act of Tamil Nadu. Location The hospit ...

N. Srinivasan Narayanaswami Srinivasan (born 3 January 1945) is an Indian industrialist. He is a former Chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC) and former President of the BCCI, the governing body for cricket in India. He is also the managing d ...

, first Chairman of the International Cricket Council, managing director of

India Cements The India Cements Limited is a cement manufacturing company based in Chennai. It is the 9th largest listed cement company in India by revenue. The company is headed by former International Cricket Council chairman and Board of Control for Cricket ...

Limited * Rangaswamy Srinivasan, inventor at IBM Research *

Narayanan Vaghul Narayanan Vaghul (Born 1936) is a Philanthropist and an ex banker professional from India. He was awarded Padma Bhushan in the Trade and Industry category in 2010 by the Government of India. Early life Born in a remote village in South India, ...

, Chairman of the Board of

ICICI Bank ICICI Bank Limited is an Indian Private bank. It is headquartered at Mumbai. It offers a wide range of banking products and financial services for corporate and retail customers through a variety of delivery channels and specialized subsidiar ...

from 1985 to April 2009, director on the board of

Wipro Wipro Limited (formerly, Western India Palm Refined Oils Limited) is an Indian multinational corporation that provides information technology, consulting and business process services. Thierry Delaporte is serving as CEO and managing direct ...

since 1997, member on the Boards of Mahindra World City Developers Limited, Piramal Enterprises Limited, Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Limited, recipient of the Padma Bhushan award in 2010

Sport

* Vijay Amritraj, tennis player * Vasudevan Baskaran, captain of India men's national field hockey team, which won the gold medal at the

1980 Summer Olympics The 1980 Summer Olympics (russian: Летние Олимпийские игры 1980, Letniye Olimpiyskiye igry 1980), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad (russian: Игры XXII Олимпиады, Igry XXII Olimpiady) and commo ...

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...

* Mohammad Ghouse, cricket umpire and former Chairman of the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association * Sunny Gupta, cricketer *

Jawad Hussain Raza Jawad Hussain (20 April 1939 – 26 April 2008), commonly known as Joe Hussain, was an Indian cricketer. He played only one first-class match, for Tamil Nadu against Andhra in the 1964–65 Ranji Trophy. He scored 17 in his only innings, ...

, first class cricket player (father of the former England captain, Nasir Hussain) * Sharath Kamal, Indian

table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...

player * Ramanathan Krishnan, tennis player * Ramesh Krishnan, tennis player * Vidya Pillai, first Indian female snooker player to reach the finals of the WLBSA World Women's Snooker Championship * Ramkumar Ramanathan, tennis player *

A. G. Kripal Singh Amritsar Govindsingh Kripal Singh (6 August 1933 – 22 July 1987) was an Indian Test cricketer. Life and career Kripal Singh came from a famous cricketing family. His father A. G. Ram Singh was unlucky not to play for India, his brother M ...

, first class cricketer for

* A. G. Milkha Singh, cricketer *

Sivabalan Sivabalan is a basketball player from Tamil Nadu, India. He has played for both junior and senior national Basketball teams. He is currently the captain of Chennai Customs basketball team, Chennai. He earlier played for Indian Overseas Bank, Ch ...

, volleyball player * Krishnamoorthy Vignesh, cricketer * Sanjay Yadav, cricketer * Tinu Yohannan, cricketer *

Edwin Sydney Vanspaul Edwin Sydney Vanspaul Henry (born 24 September 1992) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder or defender for East Bengal in the Indian Super League. Early career Son of a sports enthusiast, Edwin Sydney grew up watching ...

, footballer

Religion

* Archbishop Joseph Powathil, Archbishop emeritus of Archdiocese of Changanacherry. * Duraisamy Simon Cardinal Lourdusamy, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches * Swami Parthasarathy, philosopher and exponent of

Vedanta ''Vedanta'' (; sa, वेदान्त, ), also ''Uttara Mīmāṃsā'', is one of the six (''āstika'') schools of Hindu philosophy. Literally meaning "end of the Vedas", Vedanta reflects ideas that emerged from, or were aligned with, ...

* Chidananda Saraswati, President of the Divine Life Society,

Rishikesh Rishikesh, also spelt as Hrishikesh, is a city near Dehradun in Dehradun district of the Indian state Uttarakhand. It is situated on the right bank of the Ganges River and is a pilgrimage town for Hindus, with ancient sages and saints meditat ...

Journalism

* Kasturi Balaji, Managing Director of

The Hindu ''The Hindu'' is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It began as a weekly in 1878 and became a daily in 1889. It is one of the Indian newspapers of record and the sec ...

S. S. Balan S. S. Balan (or S. Balasubramanian) (28 December 1935 19 December 2014) was an Indian journalist, filmmaker, political analyst, and media personality as well as internationally famous aviculturalist and agriculturalist. He was a dominant force ...

, former chairman emeritus of the

Vikatan ''Ananda Vikatan'' is a Tamil-language weekly magazine published from Chennai, India. History and profile ''Ananda Vikatan'' was started by Late Pudhoor Vaidyanadhaiyar in February 1926 as a monthly publication. The issue for December 1927 wa ...

Group * Vincent D'Souza, editor and publisher of The Mylapore Times and The Arcot Road Times *

Manu Joseph Manu Joseph (born 22 July 1974) is an Indian journalist and writer. He is the former editor of ''Open'' magazine. Life and career Manu was born in Kottayam, Kerala, and grew up in Chennai. His father Joseph Madapally is a film maker who directe ...

, former editor of

OPEN Open or OPEN may refer to: Music * Open (band), Australian pop/rock band * The Open (band), English indie rock band * Open (Blues Image album), ''Open'' (Blues Image album), 1969 * Open (Gotthard album), ''Open'' (Gotthard album), 1999 * Open (C ...

magazine, and a columnist for The International New York Times and The

Hindustan Times ''Hindustan Times'' is an Indian English-language daily newspaper based in Delhi. It is the flagship publication of HT Media, an entity controlled by the KK Birla family, and is owned by Shobhana Bhartia. It was founded by Sunder Singh Ly ...

Narasimhan Murali Narasimhan Murali (born 10 May 1946) is currently Director of The HIndu Group Publishing Private Limited that publishes The Hindu ''The Hindu'' is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in ...

, Co-Chairman, Kasturi & Sons Ltd., Proprietors of The Hindu Group of Publications *

Sanjay Pinto Sanjay Pinto (born November 14, 1973) is an Indian lawyer, columnist, author, public speaker, talk show host, former bureau chief and resident editor at NDTV 24x7 and executive editor at NDTV Hindu. Early life Pinto was born to school teacher Ju ...

, Indian lawyer, former bureau chief and resident editor, NDTV 24 X 7 *

N. Ram Narasimhan Ram (born 4 May 1945) is an Indian journalist and a prominent member of the Kasturi family that controls The Hindu Group of publications. Ram was the managing-director of ''The Hindu'' since 1977 and its editor-in-chief since 27 Ju ...

, Chairman, The Hindu Publishing Group (THG); former Editor-in-Chief,

Group of Publications * N. S. Ramaswami,

sports Sport pertains to any form of competitive physical activity or game that aims to use, maintain, or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to participants and, in some cases, entertainment to spectators. Sports can, ...

journalist A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalis ...

and former assistant editor of

, Mail and

Indian Express ''The Indian Express'' is an English-language Indian daily newspaper founded in 1932. It is published in Mumbai by the Indian Express Group. In 1999, eight years after the group's founder Ramnath Goenka's death in 1991, the group was split be ...

* Palagummi Sainath, former rural affairs editor of

, founder editor of the

People's Archive of Rural India The People's Archive of Rural India (PARI ) is a multimedia digital journalism platform in India. It was founded in December 2014 by veteran journalist Palagummi Sainath, former rural affairs editor of '' The Hindu'', author of the book Every ...

and recipient of the

Ramon Magsaysay Award The Ramon Magsaysay Award ( Filipino: ''Gawad Ramon Magsaysay'') is an annual award established to perpetuate former Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay's example of integrity in governance, courageous service to the people, and pragmatic ideal ...

Film, theatre, and television

I. Ahmed I. Mueenuddin (born 30 March 1973), known as I. Ahmed, is an Indian film director and producer associated in South Indian cinema, predominantly known for his romantic-comedy film '' Endrendrum Punnagai'' (2013). Early life and education Mueenu ...

, film director and producer *

Ajesh Ajesh is an Indian music composer & singer from Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He works primarily for the Tamil film industry. Early life Ajesh was born and brought up in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. His mother found music in him at a very young age and he ...

, singer, music composer *

K. V. Anand Karimanal Venkatesan Anand (30 October 1966 30 April 2021) was an Indian cinematographer, film director and photojournalist, worked mainly in the Tamil film industry. After a short period as a journalist, he became a cinematographer in the earl ...

, cinematographer and director * Arulnithi, film actor * Mahesh Babu, Telugu film actor * Ramachandra Babu, cinematographer *

Yuthan Balaji K. Yuthan Balaji is an Indian actor who has appeared in Tamil language films. He made his debut in the 2009 film, '' Pattalam'' produced by N. Linguswamy, before featuring as the lead actor in ''Kaadhal Solla Vandhen'' (2010) and '' Nagarvala ...

, film actor * Gabriella Charlton, actor, dancer * Joe D'Cruz, writer, novelist and documentary film director * Venkatesh Daggubati, film actor *

Darshana In Indian religions, ''Darshana'', also spelt ''Darshan'', (Sanskrit: दर्शन, , ) or ''Darshanam'' (darśanam) is the auspicious sight of a deity or a holy person. The term also refers to six traditional schools of Hindu philosophy ...

, playback singer * Kishen Das, actor * Deepak Dinkar, film and television actor *

Gifton Elias Gifton Elias (born 14 February 1987) is an Indian composer and musician who works in Telugu-language films. He is from Hyderabad, Telangana and an alumnus of Trinity College of Music, London, United Kingdom. He made his debut as a film comp ...

, music composer * R. Ajay Gnanamuthu film director * Gokul, film director *

Vinay Govind Vinay Govindankutty or better known as Vinay Govind (born 3 March 1988) is an Indian film director. His first feature directional venture, ''Kili Poyi'' debuted on 1 March 2013. The film opened to mixed response from the critics, though found ...

, film director *

Sikkil Gurucharan . In 2020, he acted in a tamil anthology film, Putham Pudhu Kaalai. Early life Around 1987, as a 5-year-old, Gurucharan was casually coaxed by his grandmothers, the Sikkil Sisters, to sing some tune. After a little cajoling, he sang a popular fi ...

, Carnatic musician – vocalist * Kalidas Jayaram, actor and playback singer * Anand Jeeva, cinematographer * Ashwin Kakumanu, film actor *

Arvind Krishna Arvind Krishna is an Indian-American business executive serving as the Chairman and CEO of IBM. He has been the CEO of IBM since April 2020 and took on the role of Chairman in January 2021. Krishna began his career at IBM in 1990, at IBM's Th ...

, cinematographer, producer and actor * Anand Krishnamoorthi, film sound designer, sound editor *

Krishna Kulasekaran Krishna Kulasekaran (born 14 February 1978) credited as Krishna is an Indian actor who mainly appears in Tamil cinema. He is the younger brother of Tamil film director Vishnuvardhan. Early life Krishna's father is film producer K.K.Sekar (Pa ...

, film actor *

Jagadeesh Kumar Jagadeesh Kumar is an Indian playback singer. He was nominated for an Edison Award for Best Male Playback Singer in 2015 for the song "Silatta Pilatta" from the Tamil film ''Kanchana 2'' (2015). Early life Jagadeesh Kumar started his music ...

, singer * Thiagarajan Kumararaja, film director * Maalavika Manoj, singer * Richard M. Nathan, cinematographer * Shanmuga Pandian, film actor * Suresh Peters, singer, music director, music producer * Daniel Annie Pope, film actor *

Prashanth Prashanth Thiagarajan (born 6 April 1973), known professionally as Prashanth, is an Indian actor and businessman, known for his works predominantly in Tamil cinema. Besides Tamil films, he has also appeared in few Telugu, Hindi and Malayalam f ...

, film actor *

Pushkar–Gayathri Pushkar–Gayathri are an Indian filmmaking duo who primarily work in Tamil films Tamil cinema, also known as Kollywood is a part of Indian Cinema; primarily engaged in production of motion pictures in the Tamil language. Based out of th ...

, director duo * Karthik Raja, music composer *

Yuvan Shankar Raja Yuvan Shankar Raja or Abdul Haliq (born 31 August 1979) is an Indian film score and soundtrack composer and singer-songwriter. He mainly scores music for Tamil films. Considered a versatile composer, he is particularly known for his use of Wes ...

, music composer *

Mohan Rajan Mohan Rajan is an Indian lyricist working on Tamil language films. Career Hailing from Valayapatti near Tiruchirappalli, Mohan Rajan arrived in Chennai in 2001, hoping to become a lyricist in the Tamil film industry. However, he failed to get ...

, lyricist * K. Rajeshwar, film director * P. C. Ramakrishna, theatre actor,

The Madras Players The Madras Players are the oldest English-language theatre group in Chennai, India. The Madras Players have staged over 240 theatre productions for more than 50 years. History The Madras Players has its origins from Kilpauk General/Mental Hos ...

Sunder Ramu Sunder Ramu is an Indian film and stage actor, who has also worked as a photographer. He made his first film appearance in the 2011 drama film ''Mayakkam Enna''. After winning critical acclaim for his performance he has also gone on to feature ...

, film and stage actor *

Paloma Rao Paloma Rao (born 4 February 1986), is an Indian music VJ, RJ and actress. Career A graduate of B.Sc Visual Communication from Loyola College, Chennai, Paloma began her career as a theatre artist. In 2004 she became a VJ on SS Music, and hosted ...

, actress and performer * Jayam Ravi, film actor *

Anirudh Ravichander Anirudh Ravichander (born 16 October 1990), also known mononymously as Anirudh, is an Indian film scorer music composer music producer singer and instrumentalist who primarily works in Tamil films. He is the son of actor Ravi Raghavendra. He ...

, music director * Ruben, film editor
Shyam Sibi
Editor *

R. Sarathkumar Sarathkumar Ramanathan (born 14 July 1954) is an Indian actor, politician, filmmaker, and singer. He has acted in more than 130 Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada films. He has won two Tamil Nadu State Film Awards and three Filmfare Awards ...

, film actor *

I. V. Sasi Irruppam Veedu Sasidaran (28 March 1947 – 24 October 2017), better known as I. V. Sasi, was an Indian film director who made over 110 films predominantly in Malayalam, in addition to Tamil and Hindi languages. In 2015, he was awarded the J. C ...

, film director *

Vinayak Sasikumar Vinayak Sasikumar (born 13 June 1994) is an Indian lyricist, who works in Malayalam cinema. Personal life He was born in Trivandrum, Kerala to S. Sasikumar and Asha Sasikumar. At the age of 12, he started writing poetry. Later, he moved to Che ...

, lyricist * Ashok Selvan, film actor * Silambarasan, film actor, singer, lyricst, film director, music composer * Sibiraj, film actor * Johnny Chakravarthy, film actor *

Tatineni Satya Tatineni Satya is an Indian filmmaker who has worked in the Telugu and Tamil film industry. Career Satya is the grandson of film director T. Prakash Rao, who was active from the 1940s to the 1980s in the Telugu film industry and son of film di ...

, film director * Rajesh M. Selva, film director and screenwriter * Soundararajan, cinematographer *

Bhuvan Srinivasan Bhuvan Srinivasan is an Indian film editor. Having made his debut with the independent Hindi /English film, '' Delhi in a Day'' (2012), Bhuvan has received critical acclaim for his work in '' films such as Arima Nambi'' (2014), ''Demonte Colony ...

, film editor * R. Sudharsan, film editor *

Suriya Saravanan Sivakumar (born 23 July 1975), known by his stage name Suriya, is an Indian actor, producer, television presenter and a philanthropist. He primarily works in Tamil cinema where he is one of the highest paid actors. He received numer ...

, film actor, producer, founder of the Agaram Foundation *

S. J. Surya S. Justin Selvaraj, known by his stage name S. J. Suryah is an Indian film director, screenwriter, actor, composer, producer and music director who has worked predominately in Tamil film industry. He sought to become an actor but started out d ...

, film actor, director, screenwriter, producer, music composer, singer * Arvind Swami, film actor *

Hiphop Tamizha Hiphop Tamizha () is an Indian musical duo based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The duo consists of Adhithya "Adhi" Venkatapathy and R. Jeeva. Their commercial break-through came with the song "Club le Mabbu le" in 2011. In 2012, Hiphop Tamizha rel ...

, (Jeeva) Tamil Hip-hop pioneers *

Vijay Vasanth Vijay Vasanth (born Vijayakumar Vasanthakumar on 20 May 1983) is an Indian politician who is a Member of Parliament from Kanyakumari Loksabha constituency. He contested and won the bypoll that took place for Kanyakumari Loksabha constituency i ...

, actor and managing director of Vasanth & Co * Arthi Venkatesh, actress *

Vetrimaaran Vetrimaaran is an Indian film director, screenwriter and film producer, who works in the Tamil film industry. As of 2021, he has won five National Film Awards, eight Ananda Vikatan Cinema Awards, two Filmfare South Awards and the Amnesty Inte ...

, film director, producer and writer * Vijay, film actor, also known as 'Thalapathy' by the media, a popular actor in

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* John Vijay, film actor *

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Siddharth Vipin Siddharth Vipin is an Indian composer, who mainly produces film scores and soundtracks in the Tamil film industry. He recently married Shriya Mohandas who is an advocate. Early life Siddharth was born in Salem,Tamil Nadu. Finished his schoolin ...

, music composer * Vishal, film actor, producer and anti-piracy activist * Sam Vishal, singer * Vishnuvardhan, film director * Josh Vivian, singer, music composer

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Viswanathan Anand Viswanathan "Vishy" Anand (born 11 December 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster and a former five-time World Chess Championship, World Chess Champion. He became the first grandmaster from India in 1988, and is one of the few players to have ...

, Grand Master and chess champion * S. Nandagopal, sculptor and painter and member of the Madras Art Movement * Sidney Sladen, fashion designer *

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World 2018 *

Tenzin Tsundue Tenzin Tsundue (born 1975) is a poet, writer and Tibetan refugee and activist. As of 2019 he has been taken into preventive custody, arrested or jailed 16 times for short durations for his activism by Indian authorities, as India does not allow ...

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