Trichy Sankaran
 Trichy Sankaran (born July 27 1942) is an Indian percussionist composer scholar and educator. He is acknowledged as one of the foremost virtuosos of the mridangam and also plays the kanjira on occasion. Since the early 1970s he has performed and recorded in a number of cross-cultural projects.Sankaran has lived in Toronto since 1971. He is the founder of the Tyagaraja Aradhana in Toronto and is a professor of music at York University.