# List of Tamil businesspeople

There are Tamil executives and businesspeople throughout the world. The Tamil originate from India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu, the union territory of Puducherry and from Sri Lanka.

## Australia

* Maha Sinnathamby

## Hong Kong

* M. Arunachalam

## India

* Raja Sir Annamalai Chettiar, industrialist, philanthropist founder of Chettinad Group & educator who established Annamalai University.
* Rajah Sir Muthiah Chettiar, industrialist, philanthropist and first Mayor of Madras
* Padma Bhushan Alagappa Chettiar (1909–1957), industrialist, philanthropist & educator who established Alagappa University
* Diwan Bahadur Murugappa Chettiar, industrialist, philanthropist and founder of 125 years old Murugappa Group.
* Sir M.CT.Muthiah chettiar, Industrialist and Philanthropist
* Diwan Bahadur Ramasamy Chettiar, Industrialist, Philanthropist and founder of Indian Bank
* M. A. Chidambaram Chettiar, industrialist and founder of Indian Overseas Bank
* B. S. Abdur Rahman industrialist, educationist
* Rao Sahib A. Y. S. Parisutha Nadar, politician, industrialist, educationist and philanthropist
* Ayya Nadar, founder of Ayyan Group
* Shanmuga Nadar, founder of Standard Fireworks and other firework industries in Sivakasi
* Shiv Nadar, founder and CEO of HCL Technologies
* A. C. Muthiah Chettiar, Chairman of Southern Petrochemical Industries Corporation (SPIC)
* V. G. Panneerdas, founder of VGP Group of Companies
* R. G. Chandramogan, founder of Arun Icecreams
* H. Vasanthakumar, founder of Vasanth & Co and Vasanth TV
* V. R. Muthu, CEO and son of founder of Idhayam oil
* K. P. Kandasamy, founder of Dinakaran
* Arunachalam Muruganantham, founder of Jayashree Industries
* S. P. Adithanar, founder of Dina Thanthi
* N.Mahalingam Gounder, educator, industrialist and philanthropist.
* Kalanidhi Maran, Media proprietor founder and chairman of SUN Group
* M. G. Muthu, founder of MGM Group of Companies and MGM Dizzee World
* M. A. M Ramasamy Chettiar, industrialist, philanthropist and Pro-Chancellor of Annamalai University
* Murugavel Janakiraman founder of Bharat Matrimony world's largest matrimonial website
* Mani Subramanian, CEO of the Keane India Private Limited.
* Karumuttu Thiagarajan Chettiar, industrialist & educationist, founder of erstwhile Bank of Madurai & Thiagarajar College of Engineering
* Palani G. Periasamy, Chairman of PGP Group of Companies
* Sivanthi Adithan
* Arcot Narayanaswami Mudaliar
* M. Arunachalam
* K. Pandiarajan
* Anand Amritraj
* Vijay Amritraj
* Kumar Mahadeva
* Malkar Mohamed
* T. N. Manoharan
* Sarathbabu Elumalai
* N. Mahalingam
* A. Vellayan
* Jeppiaar, politician, industrialist, educationist and philanthropist
* M. Ct. M. Chidambaram Chettyar
* Karumuttu Thiagarajan Chettiar
* M. Anto Peter
* R. K. Swamy, advertising executive
* T. V. Sundram Iyengar
* Venu Srinivasan

## Malaysia

* Ananda Krishnan
* G. Gnanalingam
* Bastianpillai Paul Nicholas
* K. L. Palaniappan
* Vijay Eswaran
* Vinod Sekhar

## Sri Lanka

* Chandran Rutnam
* Ken Balendra
* V. R. M. Letchumanan Chettiar
* Indrajit Coomaraswamy

## Singapore

* Robert Chandran
* Naraina Pillai
* K. Thamboosamy Pillay
* S. R. Nathan

## United Kingdom

* Kali Arulpragasam
* Ratheesan Yoganathan
* Subaskaran Allirajah

## United States

* Ashok Amritraj: Chairman Hyde Park Entertainment-Hollywood
* Sanjay Kumar
* Preetha Ram
* Murugan Pal
* Sundar Pichai
* Navin Selvadurai