List of actors of Tamil origin

This list outlines the names of notable film actors of ethnic Tamil origin. The names are ordered by the actors' first or stage name.

Actors

 * Aari Arujunan
 * Ajay Rathnam
 * Akhil
 * Ameer
 * Appukutty
 * Arjunan
 * Aruldoss
 * Arun Pandian
 * Arun Vijay
 * Arvind Swamy
 * Ashok Selvan
 * Attakathi Dinesh
 * Azhagam Perumal
 * Aziz Ansari
 * Bala Saravanan
 * Bagavathi Perumal
 * Besant Ravi
 * Bharani
 * Bharath
 * Bonda Mani
 * Ceylon Manohar
 * Chaams
 * Charle
 * Charuhasan
 * Crane Manohar
 * Darshan Dharmaraj
 * Delhi Ganesh
 * Dhamu
 * Dhruv Vikram (Half Tamil)
 * Elango Kumaravel
 * Ennathe Kannaiah
 * G. Marimuthu
 * G. Ramanathan
 * G.Srinivasan
 * Ganja Karuppu
 * Gautham Karthik
 * Gemini Ganesan
 * George Maryan
 * Goundamani
 * Gowtham Sundararajan
 * Gundu Kalyanam
 * Guru Somasundaram
 * Harish Kalyan
 * Idichapuli Selvaraj
 * Irfan
 * Ilavarasu
 * Imman Annachi
 * Inigo Prabhakaran
 * J. Livingston
 * Jai
 * Jai Akash
 * Jaishankar
 * Janagaraj
 * Jay Chandrasekhar
 * Jayam Ravi (Half Tamil)
 * Jayaram
 * Jiiva (Half Tamil)
 * Jithan Ramesh (Half Tamil)
 * K. Balaji
 * K. Manikandan
 * K. Sarangapani
 * K. A. Thangavelu
 * K. K. Soundar
 * K. R. Ramasamy
 * Kalaiyarasan
 * Kalloori Vinoth
 * Kali N. Rathnam
 * Kamal Haasan
 * Karthi
 * Karthik
 * Karunakaran
 * Karunas
 * Kathir
 * Kavin
 * King Ratnam
 * Kishore DS
 * Krishna
 * Kullamani
 * Kuralarasan
 * LIC Narasimhan
 * Loose Mohan
 * M. K. Radha
 * M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar
 * M. S. Bhaskar
 * Mahanadhi Shankar
 * Manoranjan Ravichandran (Half Tamil)
 * Mansoor Ali Khan
 * Manivannan
 * Major Sundararajan
 * Maran
 * Michael Thangadurai
 * Mime Gopi
 * Mohan Raman
 * Munishkanth
 * Murali (Half Tamil)
 * N. S. Krishnan
 * Namo Narayana
 * Nandha Durairaj
 * Nassar
 * Nellai Siva
 * Nithin Sathya
 * Nizhalgal Ravi
 * O. A. K. Thevar
 * O. A. K. Sundar
 * Omakuchi Narasimhan
 * P. S. Veerappa
 * P. U. Chinnappa
 * Pandi
 * Pandiarajan
 * Pandiyan
 * Pandu
 * Pasi Narayanan
 * Pasupathy
 * Periya Karuppu Thevar
 * Ponnambalam
 * Poornam Viswanathan
 * Pradeep Ranganathan
 * Prabhu
 * Prasanna
 * Prashanth (Half Tamil)
 * Pugazh
 * Pyramid Natarajan
 * R. Madhavan
 * R. Muthuraman
 * R. K. Suresh
 * R. S. Manohar
 * Raghava Lawrence
 * Rahul Ravindran
 * Rajasekhar
 * Rajesh
 * Ramarajan
 * Ramesh Aravind
 * Ramki
 * Ravi Mariya
 * Ravi Raghavendra
 * Ravichandran
 * Rajendran
 * Rajkiran
 * Redin Kingsley
 * Rishi (Tamil actor)
 * Robo Shankar
 * S.A. Ashokan
 * S.J. Suryah
 * S. S. Rajendran
 * S. V. Ramadas
 * S. V. Sahasranamam
 * S. V. Venkataraman
 * Sadhu Kokila
 * Sai Dheena
 * Sam Anderson
 * Samuthirakani
 * Santhanam
 * Santhosh Prathap
 * Saran Shakthi
 * Sarathkumar
 * Saravanan
 * Sasikumar
 * Sathyan
 * Sathyaraj
 * Scissor Manohar
 * Selva
 * Selva Rasalingam (Half Tamil)
 * Sendhil Ramamurthy (Half Tamil)
 * Sendrayan
 * Seeman
 * Senthil
 * Shaam
 * Shanmugasundaram
 * Shiva
 * Sibiraj
 * Siddharth (actor)
 * Silambarasan
 * Singampuli
 * Sivakarthikeyan
 * Sivaji Ganesan
 * Sivakumar
 * Soori
 * Soundararaja
 * Sree Raam
 * Sri
 * Srikanth (Half Tamil)
 * Subbu Panchu
 * Sundar Raj
 * Suresh Joachim
 * Suriya
 * Suruli Rajan
 * Swaminathan
 * T. Rajendar
 * T. R. Ramachandran
 * T. S. Balaiah
 * Teejay Arunasalam
 * Thambi Ramaiah
 * Thengai Srinivasan
 * Thiagarajan
 * Thyagu
 * V. Gopalakrishnan (actor)
 * V. Ravichandran
 * V. K. Ramaswamy
 * V. I. S. Jayapalan
 * V. S. Raghavan
 * VTV Ganesh
 * Vadivelu
 * Vagai Chandrasekhar
 * Vasanth Ravi
 * Vela Ramamoorthy
 * Vennira Aadai Moorthy
 * Vetri
 * Vidharth
 * Vignesh
 * Vijay
 * Vijay Antony
 * Vijay Sethupathi
 * Vijay Vasanth
 * Vijayakumar
 * Vikram
 * Vikram Prabhu
 * Vikranth
 * Vimal
 * Vinod Raj
 * Vinoth Kishan
 * Vivek
 * Y. G. Mahendran
 * Yogi Babu
 * Yugi Sethu

Actresses

 * Abhirami
 * Abitha
 * Akshara Haasan (Half Tamil)
 * Amara Karan
 * Ammu Abhirami
 * Athulya Ravi
 * Chandini Tamilarasan (Half Tamil)
 * Charithra Chandran
 * C. R. Vijayakumari
 * C. T. Rajakantham
 * Deepa Shankar
 * Deepa Venkat
 * Dhansika
 * Disco Shanthi
 * Dushara Vijayan
 * E. V. Saroja
 * Esha Deol (Half Tamil)
 * Gayathrie
 * Gandhimathi
 * Geraldine Viswanathan (Half Tamil)
 * Hema Malini
 * Hemalatha
 * Indhuja Ravichandran
 * Indira Krishnan
 * J.Jayalalitha
 * Jangiri Madhumitha
 * Joshna Fernando
 * Janani Iyer
 * Jeevitha
 * K. Thavamani Devi
 * K. B. Sundarambal
 * Kalpana Iyer
 * Kanika
 * Keerthi Pandian
 * Keerthy Suresh (Half Tamil)
 * Kruthika Jayakumar
 * Kumari Rukmani
 * Kutty Padmini
 * Kuyili
 * Lakshmi (actress) (Half Tamil)
 * Lakshmi Priyaa Chandramouli
 * Lakshmy Ramakrishnan
 * Lalitha Kumari
 * Latha Sethupathi (Half Tamil)
 * M. N. Rajam
 * M. R. Santhanalakshmi
 * M. S. Subbulakshmi
 * Maitreyi Ramakrishnan
 * Malavika Avinash
 * Manochitra
 * Manorama
 * Meenakshi Seshadri
 * Meera Vasudevan
 * Meghana Raj (Half Tamil)
 * Menaka
 * Mindy Kaling (Half Tamil)
 * Mrudhula Bhaskar
 * Myna Nandhini
 * N. C. Vasanthakokilam
 * Neelima Rani
 * Niranjani Shanmugaraja
 * Nisha Krishnan
 * Nivetha Pethuraj (7/8 Tamil due to paternal grandfather )
 * P. A. Periyanayaki
 * Padma Lakshmi
 * Padmapriya Janakiraman
 * Poornima Bhagyaraj
 * Poornima Indrajith
 * Priya Anand (Half Tamil)
 * Priyanka Arul Mohan (Half Tamil)
 * Priya Bhavani Shankar
 * Priyamani
 * Preetha Vijayakumar (Half Tamil)
 * Radhika Sarathkumar (Half Tamil)
 * Ramya Krishnan (Half Tamil)
 * Ramya Pandian
 * Ranjitha
 * Rathi Arumugam
 * Regina Cassandra
 * Rekha (Half Tamil)
 * Rukmani Devi
 * Rukmini Vijayakumar (Half Tamil)
 * Rupa Manjari
 * Riythvika
 * S. N. Lakshmi
 * Sanchana Natarajan
 * Sangeetha Krish
 * Sathyakala
 * Sathyapriya
 * Sabby Jey
 * Semmalar Annam
 * Shammu
 * Shanthi Krishna
 * Sheela Rajkumar
 * Shivani Rajashekar (Half Tamil)
 * Shruti Hassan (Half Tamil)
 * Simone Ashley
 * Sri Priyanka
 * Sridevi (Half Tamil)
 * Sridevi Vijayakumar (Half Tamil)
 * Sripriya
 * Srividya
 * Sruthi Hariharan
 * Sukanya
 * Suhasini Mani Ratnam
 * Sumathi
 * Swarnamalya
 * Tanya Ravichandran
 * Trisha (actress)
 * T. A. Madhuram
 * T. R. Rajakumari
 * T. P. Rajalakshmi
 * T. V. Rathnam
 * Tharini Mudaliar
 * U. R. Jeevarathnam
 * V. N. Janaki (Half Tamil)
 * Vadivukkarasi
 * Vanitha Krishnachandran
 * Varshini Sounderajan
 * Vasundhara Devi
 * Vasundhara Kashyap (Half Tamil)
 * Varalaxmi Sarathkumar
 * Vidya Balan
 * Vidyullekha Raman
 * Vindhya
 * Vinodhini Vaidyanathan
 * Vijayalakshmi Agathiyan
 * Vyjanthimala