List of people from Madurai

The following is a list of notable people from Madurai, India.

Religious figures

 * Manikkavacakar
 * Mangayarkkarasiyar
 * Kulachirai Nayanar
 * Santhananda
 * Bodhisena
 * Chithalai Chathanar

Scholars

 * Vida Dutton Scudder
 * Augustus De Morgan
 * S. Subramania Iyer
 * Solomon Pappaiah
 * Ganapathy Baskaran
 * Sridhar Sundar Raman

Dancers

 * Rukmini Devi Arundale - Bharatanatyam Dancer, Founder Kalakshetra
 * Anita Ratnam - Indian classical and contemporary dancer.
 * Sridhar Sundar Raman - Classical Belly Dancer

Entrepreneurs and business leaders

 * Karumuttu Thiagarajan Chettiar- Indian independence activist, industrialist and the founder of Thiagarajar College of Engineering and Thiagarajar school of management
 * Sundar Pichai - CEO of Alphabet Inc. and its subsidiary Google Inc.
 * RajaShree Birla -wife of Adhitya Birla

Journalists and authors

 * Chitra Bharucha-Former Vice Chairman of the BBC Trust

Social activists

 * Gopi Shankar Madurai - The Commonwealth Awardee, Youngest candidate in the Tamil Nadu Assembly election and also the first openly Intersex & Genderqueer person to do so.
 * S. Swapna - first Indian transgender to take the TNPSC recruitment exam for public service employees in the Tamil Nadu state
 * Narayanan Krishnan

Literature

 * Karmegha Konar
 * S. Abdul Rahman
 * S. Venkatesan
 * Kausalya Hart
 * Mu. Metha
 * Ba.Venkatesan
 * Dr.S.Tamilarasan (Madurai Sellur Upaathiyaayar)

Music

 * M.S. Subbulakshmi
 * T. N. Seshagopalan
 * Madurai T. Srinivasan
 * Madurai Mani Iyer
 * T. M. Soundararajan
 * Ramnad Raghavan

Film industry

 * Bharathiraja
 * Ilaiyaraaja
 * Maniratnam
 * Ameer (director)
 * Bala (director)
 * Cheran (director)
 * Chimbu Deven
 * Kanika
 * Karthik Subbaraj
 * Ramarajan
 * M. Sasikumar
 * Shaam
 * Susi Ganeshan
 * Vivek (actor)
 * Vadivelu
 * Vijay Sethupathi
 * Vijayakanth
 * Samudrakani
 * G. Gnanasambandam
 * Pattimandram Raja
 * C. V. Kumar
 * Soori (actor)
 * Srinivasan (Tamil actor)
 * Velraj
 * Shanmugarajan
 * Ganja Karuppu
 * Pandi (actor)
 * Meenal
 * Jayam Ravi
 * Mohan Raja
 * Robo Shankar
 * Atlee (director)
 * Shanmuga Bharathi (Writer, Vellaipookal)
 * Solomon Pappaiah

Politicians and public servants

 * Mayandi Bharathi
 * P. T. Rajan
 * Palanivel Rajan
 * Palanivel Thiagarajan
 * S.M.Muhammed Sheriff Former Consecutive Member of Parliament
 * Jana Krishnamurthi
 * Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Ministry of Commerce & Industry
 * R. Chidambara Bharathi
 * P. Mohan
 * Angidi Chettiar - former vice president of Mauritius
 * A. Vaidyanatha Iyer
 * S. K. Balakrishnan
 * S. Muthu
 * Pazha Nedumaran
 * P. Amudha

Sportsmen

 * A. Palanisamy
 * Magesh Chandran Panchanathan

Software

 * Sundar Pichai