Presidency College, Chennai

(1925–2014), Indian-born American founder of the Hindu Temple Society of North America^[5]

Alagappa Alagappan

Founder of Institute of Mathematical Sciences

Alladi Ramakrishnan

(1909–1957), Industrialist and Philanthropist

Vallal Dr. RM. Alagappa Chettiar

(1878–1963), educator, social worker in Chennai.

E. S. Appasamy

- Dewan of Mysore^[6]

K. Seshadri Iyer

Siram.Venkataramadas Nayudu, Diwan of Pudukkottai and Former Chief secretary and Magistrate of Madras Presidency.

Diwan Bahadur

First Indian Chief Judge of the Chief Court of Mysore, Offg. Dewan of Mysore.

T. R. A. Thumboo Chetty

- Nobel laureate in Physics^[7]

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

C. V. Raman, Nobel laureate in Physics^[8]

Bharat Ratna

C. Rajagopalachari, the last Governor-General of India^[9]

Bharat Ratna

C. Subramaniam^[10] - Minister, Finance Government of India

Bharat Ratna

,^[11] freedom fighter, close aide to Gandhiji during South African Indian issue

G. P. Pillai

,Veteran Communist leader

Singaravelar

one of the founders of Justice Party

T. M. Nair

first Commander-in-Chief of Defence Forces of independent India

K. M. Cariappa

Governor, Reserve Bank of India

Benegal Rama Rau

Governor, Reserve Bank of India

S. Jagannathan

Chief Election Commissioner of India (1958–1967)

K. V. K. Sundaram

Former Finance Minister of India

P. Chidambaram

M. P. Periasamy Thooran

Dewan of Cochi state and Travancore

P Rajagopalachari

Former MP, Founder of MDMK

V Gopalsamy (Vaiko)

managing director and Editor-in-Chief, The Hindu

N. Ram

Carnatic vocalist

G. N. Balasubramaniam

politician and former IAS officer

V. S. Chandralekha

Telugu scholar

Paravastu Chinnayya Soori

chairman, National Book Trust and historian

Sarvepalli Gopal

^[12]

Nataraja Guru

Dewan of Travancore

C. P. Ramaswamy Iyer

Law Member of the Viceroy's Executive Council

P. S. Sivaswami Iyer

(1896–1974), Defence Minister of India (1957–1962)

V. K. Krishna Menon

Minister, Law and Company Affairs, GOI

C. R. Pattabhiraman

businessman

Palani G. Periyasamy

Palynologist, Fyson Prize recipient

Ganapathi Thanikaimoni

social activist

Uma Sambanthan

founder of a pre-school for hearing-impaired children

K. K. Srinivasan

educator and social reformer

R. S. Subbalakshmi

Chief Minister of Madras

P. Subbarayan

Secretary, Defence Production, Government of India

K. Subrahmanyam

Abel Prize laureate in Mathematics

Srinivasa Varadhan

Former director of Tata Sons and Padma Shri awardee

R. K. Krishna Kumar

Chemist and Padma Bhushan award

T. R. Seshadari

author and cartoonist,

O. V. Vijayan

Plant pathologist and Padma Bhushan awardee

Toppur Seethapathy Sadasivan

Mycologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize recipient

C. V. Subramanian

Journalist

Pothan Joseph

Botanist and Padma Shri awardee

Janaki Ammal

Geneticist and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize recipient

Thavamani Jegajothivel Pandian

Natural product chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate

T. R. Govindachari

Supreme court Judge and Speaker of the Lok Sabha

K. S. Hegde

Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu

M K Stalin

Former chief justice madras high court

M M Ismail

physicist and meteorologist.

K R Ramanathan

Justice of the Supreme Court of India

Vazhakkulangarayil Khalid

- Music director

M.B Sreenivasan

journalist and freedom fighter

Edatata Narayanan

artist. He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan

K.G Subramanyan

psychologist

Psycho Muhammad

biochemist and biotechnologist

Govindarajan Padmanaban

Former Chief minister Andhra Pradesh

Kasu Brahmananda Reddy

Chief Justice Madras High Court

P. V. Rajamannar

Sri Lankan politician and Member of Parliament

A. L. Abdul Majeed

member of the erstwhile Indian Civil Service

Nilakanta Mahadeva Ayyar

interpreter, civil servant and polyglot

C. V. Runganada Sastri

first woman to be elected to the presidency of the World Council of Churches.

Sarah Chakko

zoologist, founder of Indian chronobiology

M. K. Chandrashekaran

member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon

P. Coomaraswamy

philanthropist

V. L. Ethiraj

Salim Ghouse, actor

chemist

T. R. Govindachari

freedom-fighter

S. Srinivasa Iyengar

Indian linguist

L. V. Ramaswami Iyer

Advocate-General of Madras Presidency

K. Rajah Iyer

tenth Governor of the Reserve Bank of India

Sarukkai Jagannathan

Union minister of India

Kadambur R. Janarthanan

lawyer and an acclaimed writer in English

K. S. Venkataramani

lawyer and historian

V. Kanakasabhai

timber engineer and scientist

Sonti Kamesam

film director

Kanmani

film producer and short story writer

Pattathuvila Karunakaran

Editor of The Hindu

Gopalan Kasturi

prominent Indian botanist and phycologist

M. O. P Iyengar

oncologist

Dr. V. Shanta

Playback Singer

Gana Bala

Folk Singer

Pushpavanam Kuppusamy

Indian politician

Thol. Thirumavalavan

Moosa Raza

Dr. A. K. Viswanathan IPS

T. Ananda

Vice chancellor Madras University

P. S. Sivaswami Iyer

Vice chancellor Madras University

S. Subramania Iyer

Chief Justice of Madras High Court

Palapatti Sadaya Goundar Kailasam

Judge of the Supreme Court of India

B. Jagannadha Das

Dadasaheb Phalke award recipient and Former MP

D. Ramanaidu

Social reformer

Mithavaadi Krishnan

First Malayalee pilot in the Royal Indian Air Force

Moorkoth Ramunny

, Second woman to be a career diplomat in India^[13]

Kezhekapt Rukmini Menon

Freedom fighter and Minister of States

O. V. Alagesan

Writer and Scholar

K. Kunjunniraja

Vice Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University

Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit

Film Director

T. J. Gnanavel

E. B. Powell

^[14]

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

^[15]

John Mathai

Alfred Gibbs Mourne

Philip Furley Fyson

(Civil Servant)

Mark Hunter

E. W. Middlemast

Gustav Solomon Oppert

Harold Papworth

Peter Percival

A. Chakravarthi

Paravastu Chinnayasuri

T. R. Govindachari

P. C. Kokila

T. P. Meenakshisundaram

Mu. Metha

Chirayinkeezhu Ramakrishnan Nair

M. Nannan

Samuel Satthianadhan

B. G. L. Swami

^[16]

Atoor Ravi Varma

^[17]

Perumal Murugan

M. O. P Iyengar

Tamil scholar^[18]

U.V. Swaminatha Iyer

(1986)

Mouna Ragam

(1987), court scenes

Nayakan

(1990)

Iyer the Great

(1991)

Idhayam

(1993), government office scenes

Thiruda Thiruda

(1996)

Maanbumigu Manavan

(1996)^[20]

Kadhal Desam

(1996)

Sipayi

(2004)

Aaytha Ezhuthu

(2012), hostel scenes^[21]

Nanban

(2015)^[22]

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