Iyengars are an ethnoreligious group with origins in the Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.
Actors edit
- Vasundhara Das (b. 1977) – Indian actress and singer[1]
- Akshara Haasan (b. 1991) - Indian actress
- Charu Haasan (b. 1931) - Indian actor
- Kamal Haasan (b. 1954) Indian actor[2]
- Shruti Haasan (b. 1986) - Indian actress
- Anu Hasan (b. 1970) - Indian actress and talk show host
- Amrutha Iyengar (b. 1996) - Indian actress
- Kalyan Kumar(1928-1999)- Indian actor
- R. Madhavan (b. 1970)- Indian actor
- T. G. Raghavachari - Filmmaker
- Y. G. Mahendran (b.1950)-Tamil film actor
- Hema Malini (b. 1948) – Indian actress and Bharathnatyam exponent[3]
- Suhasini Maniratnam (b. 1961) - Indian actress
- Major Sundarrajan (b.1931)-Tamil film actor
- Vyjayanthimala (b. 1936) - Indian actress
Politicians and bureaucrats edit
- J. Jayalalithaa (1948 - 2016) – Indian actress and politician, former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu[4]
- C. Rajagopalachari - The last governor general of India
- Raghuram Rajan - 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India
- C. Rangarajan - 19th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India
- Srinivas Varadachariar - 1st Indian Chief Justice of Federal Court of India
- H. V. R. Iengar - 6th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India
- C. V. Rungacharlu, the 14th diwan of Mysore
- M. A. Ayyangar (1891 - 1978) - 1st Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha, 2nd Speaker of the Lok Sabha, 5th Governor of Bihar
- N. Gopalaswami, 10th Chief Election Commissioner of India
- K. Santhanam, 1st Minister of Railways (India) (Minister of State)
- T. T. Krishnamachari - 4th Minister of Finance (India)
- N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar - 2nd Minister of Defence (India)
- Mohan Parasaran - 22nd Solicitor General of India
- Madhavachari Srinivasan - Judge of Supreme Court of India
- Nirmala Sitharaman - Current Finance Minister of India, Bharatiya Janata party.[5]
- C. Vijayaraghavachariar – President, Indian National Congress.[6]
- Gopalaswami Parthasarathy (diplomat) - 7th Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations
- E. S. L. Narasimhan - 1st Governor of Telangana
- K. Parasaran - 6th Attorney-General for India
Musicians edit
- Sangeetha Kalanidhi Doreswamy Iyengar - Indian Carnatic Vainika
- Sangeetha Kalanidhi N. Ravikiran - Gottuvadhyam Musician and Proposer of Melharmony
- T. M. Krishna - Indian Carnatic vocalist
- Latha Rajinikanth - Film producer and playback singer
- Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar - Indian Carnatic vocalist and Sangeet Natak Akademi Award and Padma Bhushan recipient
- Narayan Iyengar - Gottuvadhyam Musician
- Anirudh Ravichander - Film music composer
- Sangeetha Kalanidhi T. N. Seshagopalan - Harikatha Exponent
- Sangeetha Kalanidhi Tiger Varadachariar - Indian Carnatic Vocalist
- Chitravina Narasimhan - Gottuvadhyam Musician
- P. T. Narasimhachar - Padma Shri Awardee, Playwright and Kannada Navodaya poet
Scholars edit
- B. K. S. Iyengar (1918 - 2014) - Founder of Iyengar Yoga
- Tirumalai Krishnamacharya (1888 - 1989) - Yoga teacher, often referred to as the "Father of modern Yoga"
- Indira Parthasarathy (b 1930) - writer, playwright, scholar
- Raghavan Varadarajan - Indian biophysicist and a professor at the Indian Institute of Science
- Veeravalli S. Varadarajan - Onsager Medal Awardee and Professor of Mathematics at University of California, Los Angeles
- S. Ramanan - Indian Mathematician and TWAS Prize in Mathematics and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology Awardee
- M. S. Narasimhan - Padma Bhushan, Ordre national du Mérite, King Faisal International Prize for Science Awardee. Pioneer in the study of moduli spaces of holomorphic vector bundles on projective varieties
- Usha Vijayaraghavan - Indian microbiologist
- C. S. Seshadri - Founder of Chennai Mathematical Institute
- Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887 - 1920) - mathematician who made significant contributions to mathematical analysis, infinite series, number theory, and continued fractions
- P. T. Narasimhan pioneers of computational chemistry in India and a professor at the IIT Kanpur
- Kavita Ramanan - Guggenheim Fellowship Awardee and probability theorist
- P. K. Iyengar - Indian nuclear physicist and former director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre and chairman of Atomic Energy Commission of India
- T. R. Govindachari - natural product chemist known for studies on the synthesis of isoquinolines and phenanthridines and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology Awardee
- S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan - Padma Vibhushan, Leroy P. Steele Prize, Abel Prize and Birkhoff Prize awardee known for his contributions to probability theory. 7th Director of Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
- Govindan Sundararajan - Padma Shri Awardee and Indian Materials engineer known for his contributions in the areas of Surface Engineering and Ballistics
- M. S. Raghunathan - Padma Bhushan Awardee and Director of National Centre for Mathematics, IIT Bombay
- Shobhana Narasimhan - Computational Nano scientist and Indian Academy of Sciences Fellow
- K. R. Parthasarathy (probabilist) - TWAS Prize in Mathematics Awardee and pioneer of quantum stochastic calculus
Sportspersons edit
- Krishnamachari Srikkanth - Indian cricketer
References edit
- ^ "Sify Movies – Vasundhara Das Interview". Sify. Archived from the original on 9 December 2015. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
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- ^ Gupta, Priya. "I get devastated at the idea of marriage: Shruti Haasan". Times of India. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ India Today International. Living Media International Limited. 2004. p. 23
Hema Malini self identifies her Iyengar Brahmin ancestry, says "I'm a pukka Iyengar Brahmin...". - ^ "Simi Garewal – Jayalalithaa interview". newindianexpress.com. Archived from the original on 6 December 2016.
- ^ "A power couple whom AP looks up to | Hyderabad News - Times of India". The Times of India. 21 July 2014.
- ^ Ramaswami. "C Vijayaraghavachariar, (1852–1944), President-Nagpur, 1920". Congress Sandesh. Retrieved 26 December 2012.