# List of people from Tiruchirappalli

The following people were born or based their life in the city of Tiruchirappalli, earlier known as Trichinopoly, in Tamil Nadu, India.

## 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
* Kavin, Tamil television actor and Bigg Boss Tamil 3 contestant
* Napoleon, Indian film actor
* Prasanna, Indian film actor
* Kaka Radhakrishnan, Tamil film actor
* Sivakarthikeyan, Tamil film actor

### 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

* 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

* Santhosh Narayanan, Tamil film composer
* T. K. Ramamoorthy, film composer
* G. Ramanathan, film composer
* James Vasanthan, Tamil film composer

### Singer

* Musiri Subramania Iyer, carnatic musician
* Lalgudi Jayaraman, carnatic musician, including composer, singer and violinist
* Srirangam Kannan, carnatic musician
* Krish, playback singer
* Thiruchi Loganathan, Tamil playback singer
* P. Madhuri, playback singer
* T. L. Maharajan, Tamil playback singer
* A. K. C. Natarajan, carnatic musician
* Roshini, playback singer

### Lyricist

* Vaali, Tamil film lyricist, screenwriter

## Literature

* V. V. S. Aiyar, Indian independence activist, Tamil writer
* Madhan, cartoonist, journalist, and film critic
* Manushyaputhiran (S. Abdul Hameed), poet, lyricist, publisher
* Samuel Vedanayagam Pillai, Tamil poet, novelist and social worker
* Kalki Sadasivam, co-founder of Kalki magazine
* Sujatha, engineer, Tamil novelist, Tamil film screenwriter

## 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
* M. R. Sethuratnam Iyer, former Minister of Development in the Madras Presidency
* T. V. Seshagiri Iyer, Indian lawyer and politician
* T. S. S. Rajan, Indian independence activist, Minister of Public Health and Religious Endowments in the Madras Presidency from 1937 to 1939
* Khan Bahadur P. Kalifullah Sahib Rowther, politician and Dewan of Pudukkottai State from 1941 to 1947
* N.M.Kajamian Rowther, businessman, politician and philanthropist
* 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 the Justice Party until 1940

## Science

* M. A. Aleem, neurologist and first emeritus professor in neurology from Trichy
* N. Mathrubootham, medical practitioner, counselor and psychiatrist
* C. V. Raman, Nobel laureate in Physics and Bharat Ratna recipient

## Sports

* Charles Cornelius, former Indian hockey team goalkeeper and Olympic medallist
* Leslie Fernandez, former Indian hockey team goalkeeper
* Francis Monkland, former English first-class cricketer
* Arokia Rajiv, track and field athlete; specialised in 400 metres
* Rajagopal Sathish, Indian first-class all rounder, captain of Indian World Team in the former Indian Cricket League Twenty20 competition
* Francis Wyatt, former English first-class cricketer