Iyengars are an ethnoreligious group with origins in the Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.
Actors
Charuhasan (b. 1931) - Indian actor Sandhya (1924 - 1971) - Indian actress and Jayalalithaa's mother Vasundhara Das (b. 1977) – Indian actress and singer Akshara Haasan (b. 1991) - Indian actress Kamal Haasan (b. 1954) Indian actor 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 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
M. A. Ayyangar (1891 - 1978) - 1st Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha, 2nd Speaker of the Lok Sabha, 5th Governor of Bihar N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar - 2nd Minister of Defence N. Gopalaswami, 10th Chief Election Commissioner of India H. V. R. Iengar - 6th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India J. Jayalalithaa (1948 - 2016) – Indian actress and politician, former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu T. T. Krishnamachari - 4th Minister of Finance E. S. L. Narasimhan - 1st Governor of Telangana K. Parasaran - 6th Attorney-General for India Mohan Parasaran - 22nd Solicitor General of India Gopalaswami Parthasarathy (diplomat) - 7th Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations 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 C. V. Rungacharlu, the 14th diwan of Mysore K. Santhanam, 1st Minister of Railways (Minister of State) Nirmala Sitharaman - Current Finance Minister of India, Bharatiya Janata party. Madhavachari Srinivasan - Judge of Supreme Court of India Srinivas Varadachariar - 1st Indian Chief Justice of Federal Court of India C. Vijayaraghavachariar – President, Indian National Congress.
Musicians
Arjun Ayyangar - American Classical Pianist Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar - Indian Carnatic vocalist and Sangeet Natak Akademi Award and Padma Bhushan recipient Doreswamy Iyengar - Indian Carnatic Vainika Narayan Iyengar - Gottuvadhyam Musician Poochi Srinivasa Iyengar T. M. Krishna - Indian Carnatic vocalist P. T. Narasimhachar - Padma Shri Awardee, Playwright and Kannada Navodaya poet Chitravina Narasimhan - Gottuvadhyam Musician Latha Rajinikanth - Film producer and playback singer Anirudh Ravichander - Film music composer N. Ravikiran - Gottuvadhyam Musician and Proposer of Melharmony T. N. Seshagopalan - Harikatha Exponent Tiger Varadachariar - Indian Carnatic Vocalist Vedavalli - Sangita Kala Nidhi
Scholars and academics
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 B. K. S. Iyengar (1918 - 2014) - Founder of Iyengar Yoga C. N. S. Iyengar - Mathematician, Founder of the department of mathematics at Karnatak University Dharwad Sujatha Rangarajan - screenwriter, novelist, engineer Gorur Ramaswamy Iyengar - Kannada poet and author K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar (1908–1999) - Indian writer in English, former vice-chancellor of Andhra University and winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award Masti Venkatesha Iyengar - Jnanapith Awardee and famous Kannada poet and author P. K. Iyengar - Indian nuclear physicist and former director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre and chairman of Atomic Energy Commission of India Tirumalai Krishnamacharya (1888 - 1989) - Yoga teacher, often referred to as the "Father of modern Yoga" 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 P. T. Narasimhan pioneer of computational chemistry in India and a professor at the IIT Kanpur Shobhana Narasimhan - Computational Nano scientist and Indian Academy of Sciences Fellow Indira Parthasarathy (b 1930) - writer, playwright, scholar K. R. Parthasarathy - TWAS Prize in Mathematics Awardee and pioneer of quantum stochastic calculus M. S. Raghunathan - Director of National Centre for Mathematics, IIT Bombay Kavita Ramanan - Guggenheim Fellowship Awardee and probability theorist S. Ramanan - Indian Mathematician and TWAS Prize in Mathematics and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology Awardee Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887 - 1920) - mathematician who made significant contributions to mathematical analysis, infinite series, number theory, and continued fractions C. S. Seshadri - Founder of Chennai Mathematical Institute Krishna Srinivas, poet, founder of World Poetry Society and World Congress of Poets. Govindan Sundararajan - Indian American Mathematician 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. R. Srinivasa Varadhan - Padma Vibhushan, Abel Prize and Birkhoff Prize awardee known for his contributions to probability theory. 7th Director of Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Usha Vijayaraghavan - Indian microbiologist
Sportspersons
Krishnamachari Srikkanth - Indian cricketer Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan - Indian cricket captain and international umpire
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