List of Iyengars

Iyengars are an ethnoreligious group with origins in the Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.

Actors

• 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
• Y. G. Mahendran (b.1950)-Tamil film actor
• Hema Malini (b. 1948) – Indian actress and Bharathnatyam exponent[3]
• Suhasini Maniratnam (b. 1961) - Indian actress
• T. G. Raghavachari - Filmmaker
• Major Sundarrajan (b.1931)-Tamil film actor
• Vyjayanthimala (b. 1936) - Indian actress

Politicians and bureaucrats

• J. Jayalalithaa (1948 - 2016) – Indian actress and politician, former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu[4]
• C. Rajagopalachari - The last governor general of India & Chief Minister of Madras
• 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 (Minister of State)
• T. T. Krishnamachari - 4th Minister of Finance
• N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar - 2nd Minister of Defence
• 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

• Arjun Ayyangar - American Classical Pianist
• Doreswamy Iyengar - Indian Carnatic Vainika
• 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
• T. N. Seshagopalan - Harikatha Exponent
• Tiger Varadachariar - Indian Carnatic Vocalist
• R. Vedavalli - Sangita Kala Nidhi
• Chitravina Narasimhan - Gottuvadhyam Musician
• P. T. Narasimhachar - Padma Shri Awardee, Playwright and Kannada Navodaya poet

Scholars and academics

• 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
• Masti Venkatesha Iyengar - Jnanapith Awardee and famous Kannada poet and author
• Gorur Ramaswamy Iyengar - Kannada poet and author
• Kavita Ramanan - Guggenheim Fellowship Awardee and probability theorist
• K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar (1908–1999) - Indian writer in English, former vice-chancellor of Andhra University and winner of the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award
• 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 Priz, Abel Prize and Birkhoff Prize awardee known for his contributions to probability theory. 7th Director of Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
• Govindan Sundararajan - Indian American Mathematician
• M. S. Raghunathan - 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

• Krishnamachari Srikkanth - Indian cricketer
• Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan - Indian cricket captain and international umpire

References

1. "Sify Movies – Vasundhara Das Interview". Sify. Archived from the original on 9 December 2015. Retrieved 3 January 2013. I'm a Tamil Hebbar girl
2. Gupta, Priya. "I get devastated at the idea of marriage: Shruti Haasan". Times of India. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
3. 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...".
4. "Simi Garewal – Jayalalithaa interview". newindianexpress.com. Archived from the original on 6 December 2016.
5. "A power couple whom AP looks up to | Hyderabad News - Times of India". The Times of India. 21 July 2014.
6. Ramaswami. "C Vijayaraghavachariar, (1852–1944), President-Nagpur, 1920". Congress Sandesh. Retrieved 26 December 2012.