# 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
* Akshara Haasan (b. 1991) - Indian actress
* Charu Haasan (b. 1931) - Indian actor
* 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
* Tiruchirapalli Srinivasan Rangarajan - Vaali - Tamil Poet, Lyricist
* 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
* 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.
* C. Vijayaraghavachariar – President, Indian National Congress.
* 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"
* Krishna Srinivas, poet, founder of World Poetry Society and World Congress of Poets.
* 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