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
 * 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

 * 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
 * Chitravina Narasimhan - Gottuvadhyam Musician
 * P. T. Narasimhachar - Padma Shri Awardee, Playwright and Kannada Navodaya poet

Scholars

 * 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"
 * 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
 * Kavita Ramanan - Guggenheim Fellowship Awardee and probability theorist
 * 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 Prize, Abel Prize and Birkhoff Prize awardee known for his contributions to probability theory. 7th Director of Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
 * Govindan Sundararajan - Padma Shri Awardee and Indian Materials engineer known for his contributions in the areas of Surface Engineering and Ballistics
 * M. S. Raghunathan - Padma Bhushan Awardee and 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