title: List of people from Tiruchirappalli
text: # List of people from Tiruchirappalli
  
  The following people were born or based their life in Tiruchirappalli, earlier known as Trichinopoly.
  
  ## Arts
  
  ### Actor
  
  * Alex, Tamil film actor and magician
  * S. A. Ashokan, Tamil film actor
  * M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar, Tamil film actor
  * Bharath, Indian film actor
  * Napoleon, Indian film actor
  * Sivakarthikeyan, Tamil film actor
  * Prasanna, Indian film actor
  * Kaka Radhakrishnan, Tamil film actor
  * Kavin, Tamil television actor and Bigg Boss Tamil 3 contestant
  
  ### Actress
  
  * Anu Hasan, actress and television host
  * Vanitha Krishnachandran, South Indian film actress
  * T. A. Madhuram, Tamil film actress
  * Renuka, Indian film actress
  * Yuvarani, Tamil film actress
  
  ### Director
  
  * Akilan, Indian film director and producer
  * Balaji Mohan, Tamil film director
  
  ### Others
  
  * Vanitha Rangaraju, animator, Industrial Light & Magic
  * Javar Seetharaman, Tamil writer, playwright and Tamil film actor
  * Gunasekaran Sundarraj, miniature artist, social worker
  
  ## Music
  
  ### Composer
  
  * James Vasanthan, Tamil film composer
  * Santhosh Narayanan, Tamil film composer
  * T. K. Ramamoorthy, Indian film composer
  * G. Ramanathan, Indian film composer
  
  ### Singer
  
  * Thiruchi Loganathan, Tamil playback singer
  * Lalgudi Jayaraman, Violinist.
  * Srirangam Kannan, carnatic musician
  * Krish, Indian playback singer
  * P. Madhuri, Indian playback singer
  * T. L. Maharajan, Tamil playback singer
  * Roshini, Indian playback singer
  * A. K. C. Natarajan, carnatic musician
  * Musiri Subramania Iyer, carnatic musician
  
  ### Lyricist
  
  * Vaali, Tamil film lyricist, screenwriter
  
  ## Literature
  
  * V. V. S. Aiyar, Indian independence activist, Tamil writer
  * Madhan, cartoonist, journalist, writer and film critic
  * Manushyaputhiran (S. Abdul Hameed), poet, writer, lyricist, publisher
  * Samuel Vedanayagam Pillai, Tamil poet, novelist and social worker
  * Sujatha, Tamil writer, engineer, novelist, Tamil film screenwriter
  * Kalki Sadasivam, co-founder of Kalki
  
  ## Military
  
  * Valentine Munbee McMaster, British military personnel, recipient of the Victoria Cross
  * Mariappan Saravanan, Indian military personnel, recipient of Vir Chakra
  
  ## Politics and administration
  
  * F. G. Natesa Iyer, Indian National Congress leader from South India, Tamil dramatist
  * N.M.Kajamian Rowther, businessman, Politician and Philanthropist
  * M. R. Sethuratnam Iyer, former Minister of Development in the Madras Presidency
  * T. V. Seshagiri Iyer, Indian lawyer and politician
  * Khan Bahadur P. Kalifullah Sahib Rowther, Politician and Dewan of Pudukkottai State from 1941 to 1947
  * T. S. S. Rajan, Indian independence activist, Minister of Public Health and Religious Endowments in the Madras Presidency from 1937 to 1939
  * K. Subrahmanyam, former strategic affairs analyst of India and journalist
  * P. Rathinavelu Thevar, Chairperson of the Trichinopoly Municipality from 1924 to 1946 and former vice-president of the Justice Party
  * K. A. P. Viswanatham, Tamil scholar, activist and General secretary of Justice Party until 1940
  
  ## Science
  
  * N. Mathrubootham, medical practitioner, counselor and psychiatrist
  * C. V. Raman, Nobel laureate in Physics and Bharat Ratna recipient
  * M.A.Aleem Neurologist and first Emeritus Professor in Neurology from Trichy
  
  ## Sports
  
  * Arokia Rajiv, Track and field athlete specialised in 400 metres.
  * Charles Cornelius, former Indian hockey team goalkeeper and Olympic medallist
  * Francis Monkland, former English first-class cricketer
  * Francis Wyatt, former English first-class cricketer
  * Leslie Fernandez, former Indian hockey team goalkeeper
  * Rajagopal Sathish, Indian first-class all rounder, captain of Indian World Team in the former Indian Cricket League Twenty20 competition.
  