Iyengars are a caste

Caste

Caste is an elaborate and complex social system that combines elements of endogamy, occupation, culture, social class, tribal affiliation and political power. It should not be confused with race or social class, e.g. members of different castes in one society may belong to the same race, as in India...

 of Tamil

Tamil people

Tamil people , also called Tamils or Tamilians, are an ethnic group native to Tamil Nadu, India and the north-eastern region of Sri Lanka. Historic and post 15th century emigrant communities are also found across the world, notably Malaysia, Singapore, Mauritius, South Africa, Australia, Canada,...

 origin who follow the Visishtadvaita philosophy propounded by Sri Ramanujacharya. The existence of the caste

Caste

Caste is an elaborate and complex social system that combines elements of endogamy, occupation, culture, social class, tribal affiliation and political power. It should not be confused with race or social class, e.g. members of different castes in one society may belong to the same race, as in India...

 dates from the 11th century AD when Ramanuja

Ramanuja

Ramanuja ; traditionally 1017–1137, also known as Ramanujacharya, Ethirajar , Emperumannar, Lakshmana Muni, was a theologian, philosopher, and scriptural exegete...

 lived.

Spiritual leaders

Asuri Ramanuja 1017 to 1137 AD , father figure and Acharya of the Sri Vaishnava Sect

• Agnihotram Ramanuja Tatachariar
  Agnihotram Ramanuja Tatachariar
  Agnihotram Ramanuja Tatachariar was a renowned Vedic scholar of Vaishnava sect of Hinduism. He was a descendant of Nathamuni hailing from Kumbakonam...
  
   (1907–2008) - Descendant of Nathamuni - Belonged to a distinguished line of 'Acharya Purushas' and had a large number of followers. He was also a renowned vedic scholar.
• Chinna Jeeyar Swamy
  Chinna Jeeyar Swamy
  Sri Tridandi Srimannarayana Ramanuja Chinna Jeeyar Swami is a Hindu pontiff. He is considered one of the foremost preachers and popularizers of Sri Vaishnavism.The Crusader of Peace His Holiness Sri Sri Sri Tridandi Srimannarayana Ramanuja Chinna Jeeyar Swamiji was born on Diwali day, the...
  
  
• Manavala Mamuni
• Nathamuni
  Nathamuni
  Nathamuni was a Tamil Vaishnava scholar who founded the Sri Vaishnava tradition.According to Sri Vaishnava history, Acharya Shriman Nathamunigal was born at Veera Narayana Puram near Kattumannarkoil...
  
  
• Pillai Lokacharya
  Pillai Lokacharya
  Pillai Lokacharya was a prominent Sri Vaishnavite leader and philosopher who authored several works important to Vishishtadvaita philosophy.-A Biographical sketch:...
  
  
• Vedanta Desika
  Vedanta Desika
  Vedanta Desika was a Sri Vaishnava Guru. He was a poet, devotee, philosopher and master-teacher...
  
  
• Yamunacharya
  Yamunacharya
  Yamunacharya or Alavandar was a vishistadvaita philosopher in Srirangam. Ramanuja, one of the leaders of the srivaishnava school sought to be his disciple. He was born in early 10th century CE and was the grandson of a brahmin, Nathamuni. Nathamuni was a famed yogi who collected to the works of...
  
  
• Rama Mishra
• Swami Parthasarathy
  Swami Parthasarathy
  Swami Parthasarathy is a modern exponent of Vedanta. His multi-disciplined academic base includes post-graduation from the University of London. For a period of over half a century, he has dedicated himself to the study, research and propagation of Vedanta and its practical application to life...
  
  
• Prativadi Bhayankara Annan - Sanskrit scholar and composer of the Suprabhatam in 1430 AD. One of the prominent disciples of Manavala Mamuni - Belonged to a distinguished line of "Acharya Purushas" and had a large number of followers. Acharya composed many classical poems, of which the "Suprabhatham" is recited daily at Tirupati Tirumala, and millions of households in India.

Academics, Scientists, Intellectuals

• Raja Ramanna
  Raja Ramanna
  Raja Ramanna , D.Phil., was an Indian nuclear scientist and a prominent physicist, is best known for his leadership directing the research integral for the development of Indian nuclear programme in its early stages. Having started and joined the nuclear programme in 1964, Ramanna worked under...
  
  , Nuclear scientist, noted pianist, who played an important role in India's first nuclear tests.
• Ravi V. Gomatam, quantum physicist, one of the pioneers in the field of consciousness studies
• Mysore Narasimhachar Srinivas, noted sociologist.
• Raghuram Rajan
  Raghuram Rajan
  Raghuram Govind Rajan is currently the Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. He is also an honorary economic adviser to Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh and the current President of the American Finance...
  
  , honorary adviser to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund
  International Monetary Fund
  The International Monetary Fund is an organization of 187 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world...
  
  , winner of the Fischer Black Prize
  Fischer Black Prize
  Fischer Black Prize is a memorial prize awarded in honor of Fischer Black that rewards individual financial research. The prize was established in 2002 and first awarded in 2003. It is awarded to a financial scientist for a body of work that demonstrates significant original research that is...
  
  , and currently the Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at The Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago.
• A.K. Ramanujan-Folklorist, Essayist, Poet, and Linguist from the University of Chicago
  University of Chicago
  The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
  
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• R. N. Iyengar
  Rangachar Narayana Iyengar
  Professor Rangachar Narayana Iyengar is a renowned civil engineer from India. He was with the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore for about four decades. He has been the director of Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee...
  
  -Renowned Civil Engineer of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He was also the Director of the Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee, India.
• Dr. V.K. Aatre
  V. K. Aatre
  Dr. Vasudev Kalkunte Aatre is an Indian Scientist and former head of the Defence Research and Development Organisation , India's premier Defence R&D Organization. In that capacity, he also served as the Scientific Advisor to the Defence Minister . He is an awardee of the Padma Bhushan...
  
  - Former Scientific Advisor to Defence Minister of India (replaced Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Oceanographic scientist, Fmr. Scientific Advisor to the Defence Minister of India and Fmr. head of the DRDO.
• M.O.P. Iyengar
  M.O.P. Iyengar
  Mandayam Osuri Parthasarathy Iyengar was a prominent Indian botanist and phycologist who researched different types of algae. He studied structure, cytology, reproduction and taxonomy of major group of algae. He is also known as "FATHER OF INDIAN PHYCOLOGY" or "FATHER OF ALGOLOGY IN INDIA".The Dr...
  
   - Known as the Father of Algology in India, did pioneering research in fresh water, estuarine and marine algae, their systematics, life-histories, morphology and cytology.
• M.O.T. Iyengar - Zoologist, after whom the species Romanomermis iyengari and the species of musquito Culex iyengari is named.
• P. K. Iyengar
  P. K. Iyengar
  Dr. P. K. Iyengar is an eminent Indian nuclear scientist and a noted nuclear physicist who has known to be played a central role in India's cold fission tests. He was former head of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre and former chairman of Atomic Energy Commission of India...
  
   - Former Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission.
• H. K. Kesavan
  H. K. Kesavan
  H.K. Kesavan is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.-Early life and education:...
  
   - Systems theorist.
• K. S. Krishnan - Physicist, Fellow of the Royal Society, Director of National Physical Laboratory. He along with Sir C.V.Raman discovered the Raman Effect.
• S. Krishnaswami Aiyangar
  S. Krishnaswami Aiyangar
  Diwan Bahadur Sakkottai Krishnaswamy Aiyangar was an Indian historian, academician and Dravidologist. He chaired the Department of Indian History and Archaeology at the University of Madras from 1914 to 1929....
  
   (1871–1947): Dravidologist and head of department of history in the University of Madras
  University of Madras
  The University of Madras is a public research university in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It is one of the three oldest universities in India...
  
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• Krishnaswami Kasturirangan
  Krishnaswami Kasturirangan
  Dr. Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan is a space scientist based in Bangalore, Karnataka who headed the Indian Space Research Organization for more than 9 years until 2003. He was a Member in the Upper House of the Indian Parliament. He is now a Member of the Planning Commission of Government of...
  
   - Former ISRO Chairman.
• Srinidhi Varadarajan
  Srinidhi Varadarajan
  Srinidhi Varadarajan is the director of the Terascale Computing Facility and an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech. He joined the Department of Computer Science in August 1999. His research interests are in the area of high performance computer systems...
  
   - Computer Scientists, Director of Terrascale Computing Facility at Virginia Tech and leader of the team that built the world's cheapest and seventh fastest super computer.

• P. T. Srinivasa Iyengar
  P. T. Srinivasa Iyengar
  P. T. Srinivasa Iyengar was an Indian historian, linguist and educationist regarded as one of the greatest Dravidologists of the 20th century.- Academic career :...
  
   (1863–1931): Eminent Dravidologist.
• Rangaswamy Srinivasan
  Rangaswamy Srinivasan
  Rangaswamy Srinivasan is an inventor at IBM Research. One of the famous inventions he has contributed to is LASIK.-Ablative Photodecomposition :...
  
   - Former Scientist, IBM Research Labs, NY and inventor of LASIK
  LASIK
  LASIK or Lasik , commonly referred to simply as laser eye surgery, is a type of refractive surgery for correcting myopia, hyperopia, and astigmatism...
  
   laser surgery.
• Dr Thirumalachari Ramasami- Secretary, Department of Science and Technology, Govt of India, New Delhi.
• Ramanuja Vijayaraghavan
  Ramanuja Vijayaraghavan
  Ramanuja Vijayaraghavan is an Indian physicist, specializing in condensed matter physics.Vijayaraghavan pioneered active research in the areas of metal physics, magnetic resonance in biophysical systems, and fine particle physics, a forerunner to nanoscience...
  
   (b.1931), Indian physicist specializing in condensed matter physics
• Varadaraja V. Raman
  Varadaraja V. Raman
  Varadaraja V. Raman is Emeritus Professor of Physics and Humanities at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He has lectured and written profusely on many aspects of Indian heritage and culture and authored numerous books, more than 300 book reviews and scores of articles on science and religion...
  
   : Is Emeritus Professor of Physics and Humanities at the Rochester Institute of Technology
  Rochester Institute of Technology
  The Rochester Institute of Technology is a private university, located within the town of Henrietta in metropolitan Rochester, New York, United States...
  
  .
• Kilambi Ramanujachari
  Kilambi Ramanujachari
  Kilambi Ramanujachari , shortly K. Ramanujachari, was an Indian lawyer and administrator.He was born in 1853 in Pentapadu Agraharam, British India. He has studied the Hindu epics and met the Maharajah of Vizianagram. He has impressed the Rajah immensely by performing Avadhanam. The Rajah sponsored...
  
   Ex. Principal of Maharajah's College
  Maharajah's College
  Maharajah's College shortly M. R. College is one of the oldest Colleges in India. It was established in 1879 by Sri Poosapati Vijayarama Gajapathi, Maharajah of Vizianagram. National Accreditation and Assessment Council assessed and accredited the Institution with "B" grade.There are 21...
  
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• PVN Acharya
  PVN Acharya
  PV Narasimh Acharya : Prativadi Bhayankara Venkat Narasimh Acharya received his PhD in Biochemistry with highest honors from the University of Paris-Sorbonne, and published papers with his professor, the famous French scientist Edgar Lederer...
  
   - PV Narasimh Acharya (Prativadi Bhayankara Venkat Narasimh Acharya ) conducted groundbreaking work in tuberculosis and was the first scientist to discover that "irreparable DNA damage" is caused by low-dose ionizing radiation, environmental pollutants and the food additives nitrites and nitrates, and that such damage to the DNA is a causal factor in premature aging and cancer.
• Budugur Laxminarayana-Dr. Lakshminarayana has more than thirty years of teaching, research, and consulting experience in turbomachinery aerodynamics, computational and experimental fuild dynamics, aerospace propulsion, gas turbines, turbulence modeling, and aeroacoustics.Dr. Lakshminarayana is a Fellow of AIAA and ASME. He has been honored with the AIAA Air Breathing Propulsion Award and advisory professorships from the Shangai Jaio Tong University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Engineering Thermophysics in Beijing. He has received numerous other awards including the Arch T. Colwell Merit Award (SAE), ASME Freeman Scholar Award, AIAA Pendrey Aerospace Literature Award, NSF International Award for Scientists, CNRS Professorship at Ecole Centrale de Lyon (France), Fulbright Senior Professor Award for Research in Germany, and Distinguished Alumni Professor and Premier Research Awards From Penn State.

Mathematics

• Srinivasa Iyengar Ramanujan - Mathematician.
• A. A. Krishnaswami Ayyangar
  A. A. Krishnaswami Ayyangar
  A. A. Krishnaswami Ayyangar was a mathematician from India. He also wrote many papers on Vedic mathematics.-External links:*-References:...
  
   - Exponent of Vedic Mathematics.
• Professor Mudumbai Seshachalu Narasimhan - Mathematician & Fellow of the Royal Society (1996).
• K.R.Parthasarathy- Professor Emeritus at the Indian Statistical Institute of New Delhi
• Thiruvenkatachari Parthasarathy
  Thiruvenkatachari Parthasarathy
  Thiruvenkatachari Parthasarathy is an Indian mathematician and the co-author of a book on game theory with T. E. S. Raghavan, and of two research monographs, one on optimization and one on univalence theory, published by Springer-Verlag.He received his B.Sc and M.Sc degrees from...
  
   - Mathematician and fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences
  Indian Academy of Sciences
  The Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore was founded by Sir C. V. Raman, and was registered as a Society on 24 April 1934. Inaugurated on 31 July 1934, it began with 65 founding fellows. The first general meeting of Fellows, held on the same day, elected Professor Raman as President, and adopted...
  
   (1988) and Indian National Science Academy
  Indian National Science Academy
  The Indian National Science Academy , New Delhi is the apex body of Indian scientists representing all branches of science & technology.-History:...
  
   (1995).
• Srinivasacharya Raghavan
  Srinivasacharya Raghavan
  Prof. Srinivasacharya Raghavan is an eminent Indian mathematician. He was born on 11 April 1934. He works in number theory.He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Mathematical Science in 1979...
  
   - Awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Mathematical Science.
• Madabusi Santanam Raghunathan
  Madabusi Santanam Raghunathan
  M. S. Raghunathan is a front rank Indian mathematician.He is professor of eminence at TIFR in Homi Bhabha Chair. Raghunathan received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from , University of Mumbai; his advisor was M. S...
  
   - Mathematician & Fellow of the Royal Society (2000).
• Chidambaram Padmanabhan Ramanujam - Mathematician, TIFR.
• Conjeeveram Seshadri
  C. S. Seshadri
  C.S.Seshadri FRS is an eminent Indian mathematician. He is currently Director-Emeritus of the Chennai Mathematical Institute, and is known for his work in algebraic geometry. The Seshadri constant is named after him. He is also a recipient of the prestigious Padma Bhushan in 2009, the third highest...
  
   - Mathematician & Fellow of the Royal Society (1988).
• Ramaiyengar Sridharan
  Ramaiyengar Sridharan
  Ramaiyengar Sridharan is a mathematician at Chennai Mathematical Institute, formerly at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research . He obtained his Ph. D. from Columbia under the guidance of Samuel Eilenberg in Filtered algebras and Representations of Lie Algebras. Dr...
  
   - Awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Mathematical Science.
• S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan
  S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan
  Sathamangalam Ranga Iyengar Srinivasa Varadhan FRS is an Indian-American mathematician from Madras , Tamil Nadu, India.-Biography:...
  
   - Abel Prize
  Abel Prize
  The Abel Prize is an international prize presented annually by the King of Norway to one or more outstanding mathematicians. The prize is named after Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel . It has often been described as the "mathematician's Nobel prize" and is among the most prestigious...
  
   awardee 2007.
• Tirukkannapuram Vijayaraghavan
  Tirukkannapuram Vijayaraghavan
  Tirukkannapuram Vijayaraghavan was an Indian mathematician from Madras region. He worked with G. H. Hardy when he went to Oxford in mid-1920s on Pisot-Vijayaraghavan numbers...
  
   - Eminent Mathematician.

Music

• Poochi Srinivasa Iyengar
  Poochi Srinivasa Iyengar
  Poochi Srinivasa Iyengar , also known as Ramanathapuram Srinivasa Iyengar, was a singer and composer of Carnatic music. He was born in Ramanathapuram in Tamil Nadu on August 16, 1860. He studied music under Patnam Subramania Iyer , a singer of Carnatic music and came in the sishya parampara of...
  
   (1860–1919), Vocalist and composer of carnatic music.
• Doraiswamy Iyengar
  Doraiswamy Iyengar
  Doreswamy Iyengar, generally known as Mysore V. Doreswamy Iyengar , was a famous Carnatic musician and an exponent of the Veena...
  
  - Veena
• Ariyakudi T. Ramanuja Iyengar
  Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar
  Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar or more popularly simply called as Ariyakudi was born in Ariyakudi a town in the Karaikudi district of Tamil Nadu, South India in the year 1890. Ariyakudi was a Carnatic Music vocalist and is known for his unique style. He made his debut at Tyagaraja Aradhana in 1918...
  
  (1890–1967) - Carnatic music vocalist. Disciple of Poochi Srinivasa Iyengar
• Tiger Varadachariar
  Tiger Varadachariar
  Tiger Varadachariar was a famous Carnatic music vocalist who hailed from the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. M. D. Ramanathan was his student.-Early life:...
  
   - Carnatic Music Exponent.
• Madurai T.N. Seshagopalan - Carnatic music maestro.
• Madurai T. Srinivasan
  Madurai T. Srinivasan
  Madurai T. Srinivasan is a well known figure in the field of music be it Carnatic or Cine music. The lithe movements of his fingers on the mridhangam is a sight to behold. For the past 40 years, he has accompanied renowned musicians in concerts and has played the mridhangam in many South Indian...
  
   Carnatic &Cine Mridangam Player - Lyricist and Composer
• Sudha Ragunathan - Carnatic Vocal.
• T.M. Krishna - Carnatic Vocal.
• N. Ravikiran - Carnatic Gottuvadyam player
• Guitar Prasanna
  Guitar Prasanna
  Prasanna is a South Indian Carnatic musician who plays the south Indian musical art form of Carnatic music on the electric guitar. He is the second musician to take the guitar to the carnatic classical stage after Sukumar prasad. He not only plays carnatic music but is also a jazz musician...
  
   - Carnatic Guitar pioneer and Jazz fusion composer.
• Nagai Sriram
  Nagai Sriram
  Nagai Sriram is an Indian musician and Carnatic violinist.-Career:He was introduced to the Carnatic violin at the age of 10 under his grandmother, Smt R. Komalavalli. He currently receives more advanced training from his uncle Vidwan Kalaimaamani Nagai Sri R. Muralidharan...
  
   - Carnatic violin.
• Srirangam Kannan
  Srirangam Kannan
  Srirangam Kannan is an Indian musician and artist, known for playing the morsing. He has a degree in mathematics.-Profile:Vidwan Srirangam S. Kannan was born on 5 May 1952 in Srirangam to K Sathyamurthy and Kamalam. Growing up, he had little experience with carnatic music.When he was 19 years old...
  
   - Morsing.
• Srinivas
  Srinivas (singer)
  Srinivas 'Srini' is an award winning playback singer who has sung over 2000 songs in Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi. He is also a music composer.-Early life:...
  
   - Playback Singer
• Anil Srinivasan
  Anil Srinivasan
  Anil Srinivasan, born June 3, 1977 is a classical pianist born in Madras, India and educated at the University of Southern California and at Columbia University, New York...
  
   - Classical pianist and composer.
• Madurai N.Krishnan Iyengar - Carnatic violin.

Journalism

• Kasturi Ranga Iyengar (1859–1925), Indian journalist. Managing-director of The Hindu
  The Hindu
  The Hindu is an Indian English-language daily newspaper founded and continuously published in Chennai since 1878. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, it has a circulation of 1.46 million copies as of December 2009. The enterprise employed over 1,600 workers and gross income reached $40...
  
  from 1909 to 1925. Ancestor of N. Ram.
• N. Ram
  N. Ram
  Narasimhan Ram is an Indian journalist. Ram has been the Managing-Director of The Hindu since 1977 and its Editor-in-Chief since June 27, 2003. Ram also heads the other publications of The Hindu Group such as Frontline, The Hindu Business Line and Sportstar, and has been awarded the Padma Bhushan...
  
   - Editor-in-Chief, The Hindu. Although born an Iyengar, N. Ram has been an avowed communist for several decades.
• Madhan
  Madhan
  Madhan , whose real name is Maadapoosi Krishnaswamy Govinda Kumar, is a famous Tamil cartoonist, journalist, writer and film critic who works for Ananda Vikatan magazine, a leading Tamil weekly. Though his native is Thanjavur, he was brought up in Chennai...
  
   - Cartoonist.
• Sandilyan
  Sandilyan
  Sandilyan or Chandilyan is the Pen name of Bhashyam Iyengar, a noted Tamil writer of Historical fiction. He is known for his historical romance and adventure novels, often set in the times of the Chola and Pandya empires.-Early life:...
  
   - Tamil Novelist
• Indra Soundarrajan - Story Writer - Tamil
• Sujatha Rangarajan
  Sujatha Rangarajan
  Sujatha was the pseudonym of the Tamil writer S. Rangarajan, author of over 100 novels, 250 short stories, ten books on science, ten stage plays, and a slim volume of poems. He was one of the most popular writers in Tamil literature, and a regular contributor to topical columns in Tamil...
  
   (1935–2008), journalist, engineer, writer.
• Randor Guy
  Randor Guy
  Randor Guy is the pen name of Madabhushi Rangadorai, a prominent Indian lawyer, columnist and film and legal historian associated with the English language newspaper The Hindu.-Early life:Guy graduated in B.Sc and B. L. from Madras University and commenced his career as a lawyer...
  
  - journalist, script-writer
  Screenwriter
  Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
  
   and film historian. Real name Madabhushi Rangadorai
• M. Veeraraghavachariar
  M. Veeraraghavachariar
  Mudumbai Veeraraghavachariar was an Indian journalist, freedom-fighter and teacher from the erstwhile Madras Presidency. He was one of the founders of The Hindu newspaper and served as its Managing Director from 1878 to 1905.- Early life :...
  
   - owner of The Hindu
  The Hindu
  The Hindu is an Indian English-language daily newspaper founded and continuously published in Chennai since 1878. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, it has a circulation of 1.46 million copies as of December 2009. The enterprise employed over 1,600 workers and gross income reached $40...
  
   newspaper in 1898

T.S.Sreenivasa Raghavan - Editor (Special Features) Deccan Chronicle, Kochi. He was earlier with The Times of India for over a decade and Bangalare Mirror as senior journalist.

Industry

• G. R. Gopinath - CEO and Co-Founder of Air Deccan
  Air Deccan
  Kingfisher Red, known formerly as Simplifly Deccan and prior to that as Air Deccan, is a low-cost brand run by Kingfisher Airlines. It is headquartered in Mumbai, India....
  
  
• Arvind Raghunathan
  Arvind Raghunathan
  Arvind Raghunathan is the CEO of Roc Capital Management LP . On February 25, 2009, it was announced that Raghunathan and his associates would be leaving Deutsche Bank to set up the independent quant trading hedge fund.Raghunathan was the former Managing Director and Head of Global Arbitrage at...
  
   - Managing Director and Head of Global Arbitrage, Deutsche Bank
• T. V. Sundram Iyengar - Founder of T.V.S. group (automobile and finance)
• M.R.Srinivas Prasad - Vice President - IT, Fidelity Investments Ltd
• T. T. Krishnamachari
  T. T. Krishnamachari
  - References :...
  
   - Founder of TTK&CO.
• Venu Srinivasan
  Venu Srinivasan
  Venu Srinivasan is an Indian industrialist; the Chairman and Managing Director of Sundaram Clayton Ltd and TVS Motor Company, the third largest two wheeler manufacturer in India. He also served as the President of Confederation of Indian Industry for the year 2009-10...
  
  - Chairman,TVS Motor company.

Diplomats, bureaucrats, administrators and politicians

• M.P.T. Acharya (1887–1951),Indian nationalist, founding members of the Communist Party of India
  Communist Party of India
  The Communist Party of India is a national political party in India. In the Indian communist movement, there are different views on exactly when the Indian communist party was founded. The date maintained as the foundation day by CPI is 26 December 1925...
  
  
• Aniruddha Brahmarayar
  Aniruddha Brahmarayar
  Aniruddha Brahmarayar was a minister in the court of the Chola king Sundara Chola. The "Anbil plates" of Sundara Chola are the only source of information about him.- Family and ancestry :...
  
   (10th century AD), Bureaucrat in the service of the Medeival Chola king Sundara Chola.
• Madabhushi Ananthasayanam Ayyangar
  Madabhushi Ananthasayanam Ayyangar
  Madabhushi Ananthasayanam Ayyangar was the first Deputy Speaker and then Speaker of Lok Sabha in the Indian Parliament. He was Governor of Bihar also....
  
  , Member of Lok Sabha for Tirupathi from 1952 to 1962 and the first Speaker.
• T. S. S. Rajan
  T. S. S. Rajan
  Tiruvengimalai Sesha Sundara Rajan was an Indian doctor, politician and freedom-fighter who served the Minister of Public Health and Religious Endowments in the Madras Presidency from 1937 to 1939....
  
   (1880–1953), Indian politician and freedom-fighter. Member of the Imperial Legislative Council (1934–1936), Minister of Public Health and Religious Endowments (Madras Presidency) (1937–1939), Minister of Food and Public Health (Madras Presidency) (1946–1951)
• C. S. Venkatachari
  C. S. Venkatachari
  Cadambi Sheshachar Venkatachar was an Indian Civil Servant, diplomat and the Chief Minister of Rajasthan from 6 January 1951 to 25 April 1951....
  
  , Chief Minister of Rajasthan from 6 January 1951 to 2 April 1951.
• Ramiengar
  Ramiengar
  Vembaukum Ramiengar CSI was an Indian civil servant and administrator who served as the Diwan of Travancore from 1880 to 1887.Ramiengar was born in 1826 at Vembakkam in Chingleput district and had his education at Madras University...
  
  , Dewan of Travancore from 1881 to 1887.
• Sir V. Bhashyam Aiyangar
  Bhashyam Aiyangar
  Diwan Bahadur Sir Vembakkam Bhashyam Aiyangar CIE was an eminent lawyer and jurist who served as the first Indian Advocate-General of Madras Province and also as a Judge of the Madras High Court.- Posts held :...
  
   (1844–1908) Lawyer and jurist. First Indian Advocate-General of Madras.
• P. Rajagopalachari, Dewan
  Dewan
  The originally Persian title of dewan has, at various points in Islamic history, designated various differing though similar functions.-Etymology:...
  
   of Cochin
  Kingdom of Cochin
  Kingdom of Cochin was a late medieval Hindu kingdom and later Princely State on the Malabar Coast, South India...
  
   from 1897 to 1901 and Travancore
  Travancore
  Kingdom of Travancore was a former Hindu feudal kingdom and Indian Princely State with its capital at Padmanabhapuram or Trivandrum ruled by the Travancore Royal Family. The Kingdom of Travancore comprised most of modern day southern Kerala, Kanyakumari district, and the southernmost parts of...
  
   from 1904 or 1906 to 1914.
• E. S. L. Narasimhan
  E. S. L. Narasimhan
  Ekkadu Srinivasan Lakshmi Narasimhan is an Indian political figure who has been the Governor of Andhra Pradesh since December 2009...
  
   - Governor of Andhra Pradesh
  Andhra Pradesh
  Andhra Pradesh , is one of the 28 states of India, situated on the southeastern coast of India. It is India's fourth largest state by area and fifth largest by population. Its capital and largest city by population is Hyderabad.The total GDP of Andhra Pradesh is $100 billion and is ranked third...
  
   and former director of the Intelligence Bureau
  Intelligence Bureau
  Intelligence Bureau was the main internal intelligence agency of British India. It can also refer to:* Intelligence Bureau , the domestic intelligence organization of India...
  
  
• Shamaiya Iyengar
  Shamaiya Iyengar
  Shamaiya Iyengar, son of Vasudeva Iyengar, was one of the ministers during the time of Hyder Ali, originally from Sulkunte, near Budikote in Bangarpet. He received a sanad from Tipu to run the sante at sulkunte in 1793. He was also minister for communication posts and police during Tipu Sultan's...
  
   - minister of post and police under Tipu Sultan
• Sir V.T.Krishnamachari - Dewan of Baroda.
• C. Vijayaraghavachariar
  C. Vijayaraghavachariar
  Chakravarti Vijayaraghavachariar was an Indian politician. He rose to prominence following his appeal against the charges alleging him to have instigated a Hindu - Muslim riot in Salem...
  
   - The Lion of South India.
• C Rajagopalachari - Bharat Ratna, Freedom fighter, national leader, the first Indian Governor General of Independent India and also the Chief Minister of State of Madras.
• C. V. Rungacharlu
  C. V. Rungacharlu
  Cettipanyam Viravalli Rungacharlu CIE , also spelt as Rangacharlu, was an Indian civil servant and administrator who served as the Diwan of Mysore kingdom from 1881 to 1883.- Early life :...
  
   (1831–1883), Indian civil servant. Diwan of Mysore kingdom from 1881 to 1883.
• S. Srinivasa Raghavaiyangar
  S. Srinivasa Raghavaiyangar
  Diwan Bahadur Sesha Iyengar Srinivasa Raghavaiyangar CIE was an Indian civil servant, Anglophile and administrator who served as the Diwan of Baroda from July 15, 1896 to October 2, 1901...
  
   (1849–1903), Indian civil servant and administrator. Served as Diwan of Barod from 1896 to 1901. Known for his work Memorandum of Progress of the Madras Presidency during the last forty years of British administration. Brother of Kasturi Ranga Iyengar.
• J.Jayalalitha Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu , Leader of AIADMK political party.
• T.T. Krishnamachari - Industrialist, Minister of Finance for Jawaharlal Nehru
  Jawaharlal Nehru
  Jawaharlal Nehru , often referred to with the epithet of Panditji, was an Indian statesman who became the first Prime Minister of independent India and became noted for his “neutralist” policies in foreign affairs. He was also one of the principal leaders of India’s independence movement in the...
  
  .
• H V R Iyengar - (Late) ICS, Home Secretary, RBI Governor, Secretary to the Constituent Assembly etc. among various positions in the administrative services in both pre and post independence India.
• G. Parthasarathy - Former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan, Cyprus and Australia.
• Jairam Ramesh
  Jairam Ramesh
  Jairam Ramesh born April 9, 1954, is an Indian economist and an influential politician of the Congress Party in the United Progressive Alliance ruling coalition of center-left political parties heading the Government of India. He is a Member of Parliament representing Andhra Pradesh state in the...
  
   - Member of Parliament
• C. Rangarajan
  C. Rangarajan
  C. Rangarajan is an Indian economist and a distinguished former Member of Parliament and Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. Currently, he is the Chairman of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council...
  
   - Former Governor of Reserve Bank of India and governor of Andhra Pradesh, India.
• K N Govindacharya - RSS Idealogue.
• K. Santhanam
  K. Santhanam
  Shri Kasturiranga Santhanam , also known as Kumitithadai Santhanam, was an Indian politician. He was a conservative Iyengar from Tamil Nadu and acquired the appellation 'Pandit' for his erudition....
  
  - An attorney, Gandhian, 1st Railway Minister in Free India, Governor of Vindhya Pradesh, Chairman of Santhanam Committee on Corruption, authored several books), including a critical edition on the Jallianwallah Bagh m

Films and entertainment

• Srinivas
  Srinivas (singer)
  Srinivas 'Srini' is an award winning playback singer who has sung over 2000 songs in Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi. He is also a music composer.-Early life:...
  
   - Playback Singer and Music composer
• Chinmayyi K. Sripadaa, playback singer and TV-anchor
• T. P. Rajalakshmi
  T. P. Rajalakshmi
  Thiruvaiyaru Panchapakesa Sastri Rajalakshmi was the first Tamil film Heroine, first Tamil female film director and film producer.- Early life :...
  
   (1911–1964), Tamil actress, director and film producer. First woman Tamil film director
• R. Madhavan
  R. Madhavan
  R. Madhavan is an Indian actor, writer, film producer and television host. Madhavan has received a Filmfare Award, an award from the Tamil Nadu State Film Awards alongside recognition and nominations from other organisations...
  
   -- Tamil actor
• Meenakshi Seshadri
  Meenakshi Seshadri
  Meenakshi Seshadri is an Indian film actress. She won the Miss India contest in 1981 at age 17. She is the youngest woman to be crowned Miss India-Career:...
  
   - Indian actress
• Vyjayantimala Bali - Indian actress
• Hema Malini
  Hema Malini
  Hema Malini is an Indian actress, director and producer, as well as a Bharatanatyam dancer-choreographer. Making her acting debut in Sapno Ka Saudagar , she went on to appear in numerous Bollywood films, most notably those with actor and future-husband Dharmendra. She was initially promoted as...
  
   - Indian actress
• Kavignar Vali
  Vaali (poet)
  Vaali is a Tamil poet and lyricist who writes Tamil poetry and film song lyrics. Most recently he has extended lyrics for a couple of songs in Engeyum Kaadhal for the music of Harris Jayaraj. He has also acted in several films, most notably Hey Ram, Parthale Paravasam and Poi Kaal Kudhirai...
  
   - Tamil Lyricist
• Raaghav (b. 1974), Indian television series and film actor
• Meera Vasudevan
  Meera Vasudevan
  Meera Vasudevan is an Indian film actress and model, who has appeared in Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi and Telugu-language films.- Career :...
  
   (b. 1982), Indian model and film actress
• Madhoo
  Madhoo
  Madhoo is an actress in Indian films. She has acted in Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada films. She was named after the late Hindi actress Madhubala. She has acted with almost all leading actors in India...
  
  : Actress. Heroine in multilingual blockbuster Roja
  Roja
  Roja is a 1992 Tamil political drama, romance film directed by Mani Ratnam. The film was subsequently dubbed in Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam and Telugu....
  
  
• B.S.Ranga - Veteran producer and director of Kannada, Telugu and Tamil films with more than 70 movies to his credit, winner of 2 President's Awards, Rajotsava Awardee.
• Crazy Mohan
  Crazy Mohan
  "Crazy" Mohan is a popular Tamil comedy actor, script writer and playwright.He was a student at the College of Engineering, Guindy, where he graduated as a Mechanical Engineer in 1973. He wrote his first drama at College of Engineering, Guindy, when he was in the 4th year in 1972. His guide was...
  
   - Scriptwriter and dramatist
• Maadhu Balaji
  Maadhu Balaji
  Maadhu Balaji, born as Balaji, is a famous theatre artist in Tamil theatre.Balaji has acted in a number of stage plays and films. He is the brother of the ace humorist and playwright Crazy Mohan....
  
   - dramatist
• Acharya Atreya (Kilambi Venkata Narasimhacharyulu) - Telugu lyricist.
• Vasundara Das - Indian actress
• Geetha
  Geetha
  ----Geetha is an Indian actress who has performed in Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada and Hindi films. She debuted in the Tamil language film Bhairavi as Rajnikant’s sister...
  
  - Indian actress
• Srikanth - Indian actor
• Major Sundarrajan - Yesteryears Film Personality
• Charuhasan - Indian actor - Brother of Kamal Haasan
  Kamal Haasan
  Kamal Haasan is an Indian film actor, screenwriter and director, considered to be one of the leading method actors of Indian cinema. He is widely acclaimed as an actor and is well known for his versatility in acting...
  
  
• Kamal Haasan
  Kamal Haasan
  Kamal Haasan is an Indian film actor, screenwriter and director, considered to be one of the leading method actors of Indian cinema. He is widely acclaimed as an actor and is well known for his versatility in acting...
  
   - Indian actor
• Suhasini Maniratnam - Indian actress (daughter of Charuhasan)
• Anu Haasan
  Anu Haasan
  Anu Hasan is a Tamil actress and TV anchor. She made her film debut in the critically acclaimed film Indira and has since appeared in a few Tamil films, playing supporting roles. She currently hosts the celebrity talk show Koffee with Anu on the Tamil channel Vijay...
  
  , actress and TV presenter. Host of Coffee with Anu programme on Vijay TV. Niece of Kamal Haasan
  Kamal Haasan
  Kamal Haasan is an Indian film actor, screenwriter and director, considered to be one of the leading method actors of Indian cinema. He is widely acclaimed as an actor and is well known for his versatility in acting...
  
  .
• Shruthi Hassan - Indian actress/singer (daughter of Kamal Haasan
  Kamal Haasan
  Kamal Haasan is an Indian film actor, screenwriter and director, considered to be one of the leading method actors of Indian cinema. He is widely acclaimed as an actor and is well known for his versatility in acting...
  
  )
• Latha Rajinikanth
  Latha Rajinikanth
  Latha Rajinikanth is an Indian philanthropist, film producer, playback singer, and the wife of actor Rajinikanth. She is the founder and correspondent of The Ashram, a Chennai-based school, and is the chairperson of her daughter Soundarya Rajinikanth’s production company, Ocher Studios.-Early life...
  
   - singer (wife of Indian actor Rajinikanth)a
• Renuka
  Renuka (Tamil actor)
  Renuka is a Tamil stage, television and film actor who is known for playing the lead role Premi in K. Balachander's tele-serial of the same name.- Early life :...
  
  , Tamil television and film actor.
• Sampath (Cheluva Iyengar), Kannada film actor.

Sports

• M J Gopalan - Cricket & Hockey Player.
• Krishnamachari Srikanth - Cricketer.
• Krishnan Sasikiran
  Krishnan Sasikiran
  Krishnan Sasikiran is an Indian chess Grandmaster. Among Indians, he is second, after Viswanathan Anand, No. 6 in Asia & ranked 56th in the world in FIDE rating as on September 2011....
  
   - Chess Grandmaster.
• C. R. Rangachari
  C. R. Rangachari
  Commandur Rajagopalachari Rangachari was a fast bowler who represented India in Test cricket....
  
   - Test cricketer
• Sadagopan Ramesh
  Sadagoppan Ramesh
  Sadagoppan Ramesh is an Indian cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and a right-arm offbreak bowler. On debut, facing Waqar Younis and Wasim Akram, he made a solid 44 off 41 balls...
  
   - Former Opening Batsman, Indian Cricket Team.
• M. R. Srinivas Prasad - Former Cricket player, Karnataka.
• S. Venkataraghavan
  Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan
  Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan ; is a former Indian cricketer. He played for Derbyshire in English county cricket from 1973 to 1975. He played Test cricket for the Indian cricket team, and later became an umpire on the elite International Cricket Council Test panel...
  
   - Cricketer.
• T. E. Srinivasan- Former Test Cricketer
• W. V. Raman
  Woorkeri Raman
  Woorkeri Venkat Raman is a former Indian cricketer and a current coach. He played domestic cricket for Tamil Nadu, mainly as a left-handed batsman and a part time left arm spinner.-International career:...
  
   - Former Indian cricketer
• Murali Vijay
  Murali Vijay
  Murali Vijay Krishna is an Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed opening batsman for Tamil Nadu, Chennai Super Kings and India.-Test career:...
  
   - Indian cricketer - Opener
• Kidambi Sundararajan - Chess.
• Raj Madabushi - Cricketer Middlesex and Surrey County leagues in UK

Army and police

• Gen. K. Sundarji - Former Chief of the Indian Army.
• S. Parthasarathi Ayyangar
  S. Parthasarathi Ayyangar
  S. Parthasarathi Ayyangar was a lawyer and police commissioner in the state of Tamil Nadu in India.-Early life:...
  
   - Former Commissioner of Police in Madras Presidency.

Literature

• A.K. Ramanujan-Kannada and English language poet.
• Maasti Venkatesh Iyengar
  Maasti Venkatesh Iyengar
  Maasthi Venkatesha Iyengar was a popular writer in Kannada language. He was the fourth person among eight recipients of Jnanpith Award for Kannada the highest literary honour conferred in India. He was popularly referred to as Maasti Kannadada Aasti which means Maasti is Kannada's Treasure...
  
   - Eminent Kannada poet.
• Chikkupadhyaya
  Chikkupadhyaya
  Chikkupadhyaya was born to Sri RangAcharya and Srimathi NAchiyAramma in TerakanAmbi in Mysore district of Karnataka. His actual name at birth was Lakshmipathi....
  
   - Kannada writer, teacher of Sri Chikka Devaraja Wodeyar
  Wodeyar
  The Wodeyar dynasty was an Indian royal dynasty that ruled the Kingdom of Mysore from 1399 to 1947, until the independence of India from British rule and the subsequent unification of the Indian dominion and princely states into the Republic of India.The spelling Wodeyar/Wadiyar is found in most...
  
  .
• Gorur Ramaswamy Iyengar
  Gorur Ramaswamy Iyengar
  Goruru Ramaswamy Iyengar Kannada:ಗೊರೂರು ರಾಮಸ್ವಾಮಿ ಐಯ್ಯಂಗಾರ , popularly known as Goruru, was a Kannada writer; well known for his humour and satire.-Early life:...
  
  , Kannada novelist.
• P. T. Narasimhachar, famous Kannada poet
• R. Raghava Iyengar, Tamil and Sanskrit scholar.
• K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar
  K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar
  Kodaganallur Ramaswami Srinivasa Iyengar popularly known as K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar M.A., D.Litt. was Indian writer in English, former Vice Chancellor of Andhra University. He was a multifaceted literary genius with Aurobindian knowledge and ideas of Indian culture and renaissance...
  
  , Professor of English and Vice Chancellor of Andhra University
  Andhra University
  Andhra University or Andhra Viswa Kala Parishad , located in Visakhapatnam, north east coastal Andhra Pradesh, is one of the older premier universities in India with a broad focus...
  
  .
• Dasaradhi
  Dasaradhi
  Dasaradhi Krishnamacharyulu mononymously known as Dasaradhi was an Indian poet and political activist. He was a great pundit in the Telugu, Sanskrit, and Tamil languages and puranas .-Early life:...
  
  ,patriot, famous poet in Telugu,ASTHNA KAVI for andhra pradesh
• Bellary Raghava
  Bellary Raghava
  Bellary Raghava was a noted Indian playwright from Bellary, India.Tadpatri Raghavacharlu, populary known as 'Bellary' Raghava, was a renowned actor. He was born on 2 August 1880. He received his early education at Bellary and later graduated in law from the Madras University. His uncle Dharmavaraṃ...
  
   - Writer
• Dharmavaram Ramakrishnamacharyulu
  Dharmavaram Ramakrishnamacharyulu
  Dharmavaraṃ Rāmakr̥ṣṇamācāryulu was a renowned Telugu dramatist and playwright from Bellary. He was known as "Andhra Nataka Pithamaha" and wrote more than 30 original plays.-Early life:...
  
   - Writer.
• Puttaparthi Narayanacharyulu - Poet, Linguist, Scholar
• Sribhashyam Appalacharyulu
  Sribhashyam Appalacharyulu
  Sriman Sribhashyam Appalacharyulu was a Vedic scholar, commentator and a great teacher.-Early life:...
  
  -Vedic Scholar & Commentator.
• Jwalamukhi
  Jwalamukhi
  Jwalamukhi was the pen name of Veeravalli Raghavacharyulu , who was an Indian poet, novelist, writer and political activist....
  
  -Pen name of Veeravalli Raghavacharyulu famous revulutionary poet in telugu.

Yoga

• Ubhaya Vedhantha Krishna Iyengar.H - Famous in reciting Thiruvoimoli[4000 pashuras written by the 12 Alwars.
• Nathamuni
  Nathamuni
  Nathamuni was a Tamil Vaishnava scholar who founded the Sri Vaishnava tradition.According to Sri Vaishnava history, Acharya Shriman Nathamunigal was born at Veera Narayana Puram near Kattumannarkoil...
  
   Authored Yoga Rahasya
• Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
  Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
  Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya was an Indian yoga teacher, ayurvedic healer and scholar. Often referred to as "the father of modern yoga," Krishnamacharya is widely regarded as one of the most influential yoga teachers of the 20th century and is credited with the revival of hatha...
  
   - Father of modern Yoga, great Yogi and healer who taught B.K.S. Iyengar
  B.K.S. Iyengar
  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar , is the founder of Iyengar Yoga, although he himself would not call it Iyengar Yoga. He is considered one of the foremost yoga teachers in the world and has been practising and teaching yoga for more than 75 years...
  
  , Sri K. Pattabhi Jois
  Sri K. Pattabhi Jois
  Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois was an Indian yoga teacher. He was a student of Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, and taught at his school, the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute, in Mysore, India...
  
   and Indra Devi
  Indra Devi
  Indra Devi ; May 12, 1899 - April 25, 2002) was an early disciple of Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, and herself became a renowned yoga teacher. Born in Riga, she also acted in some Hindi films.-Early Years:...
  
  .
• B.K.S. Iyengar
  B.K.S. Iyengar
  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar , is the founder of Iyengar Yoga, although he himself would not call it Iyengar Yoga. He is considered one of the foremost yoga teachers in the world and has been practising and teaching yoga for more than 75 years...
  
   - Yogi and founder of Iyengar Yoga.
• T. K. V. Desikachar
  T. K. V. Desikachar
  T.K.V. Desikachar is the son and one of the primary students of Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, a prominent yogi credited with being a driving force behind the resurgence of Hatha yoga in recent decades.TKV Desikachar started his career as a civil engineer...
  
   Son of Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, and Yogi

People with Iyengar ancestry or heritage

• Anirudha Srikkanth
  Anirudha Srikkanth
  Anirudha Srikkanth is an Indian cricketer. He was born in Madras to the famous Indian cricketer Krish Srikkanth. He currently plays for the Chennai Super Kings....
  
   - Indian cricketer, son of Krishnamachari Srikkanth. Member of Tamil Nadu
  Tamil Nadu
  Tamil Nadu is one of the 28 states of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu lies in the southernmost part of the Indian Peninsula and is bordered by the union territory of Pondicherry, and the states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh...
  
   Ranji Trophy
  Ranji Trophy
  The Ranji Trophy is a domestic first-class cricket championship played in India between different city and state sides, equivalent to the County Championship in England and the Sheffield Shield in Australia...
  
   squad and Chennai Super Kings
  Chennai Super Kings
  Chennai Super Kings is a franchise cricket team based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu that plays in the Indian Premier League. Founded in 2008, the team is currently captained by Mahendra Singh Dhoni and coached by Stephen Fleming, a former New Zealand cricketer. The team's home ground is the M. A...
  
   in Indian Premier League
  Indian Premier League
  The Indian Premier League is a professional league for Twenty20 cricket competition in India. It was initiated by the Board of Control for Cricket in India , headquartered in Mumbai, and is supervised by BCCI Vice President Rajeev Shukla, who serves as the league's Chairman and Commissioner...
  
  . Anirudha is of patrilineal Iyengar descent, and of iyer descent on his mother's side.
• Sabrina Setlur
  Sabrina Setlur
  Sabrina Setlur , formerly known as Schwester S., is a German rapper, songwriter, Hebbar Iyengar and occasional actress...
  
  - German rapper (Father Iyengar).