Mahakavi

The word Mahakavi or Maha Kavi is an Indian honorific which means "Great Poet" in Sanskrit. This may refer to:

Poets

 * Kālidāsa, 5th-century Sanskrit playwright and epic poet, popularly known as "Mahakavi Kalidasa"
 * Bharavi, 6th century Sanskrit poet
 * Bāṇabhaṭṭa, 7th-century Sanskrit writer and poet
 * Bhavabhuti, 8th-century Sanskrit poet, and playwright
 * Magha (poet), 7th century Sanskrit poet
 * Shriharsha, 12th century Sanskrit philosopher-poet
 * Janna, known as Mahakavi Janna, 13th-century Kannada poet
 * Vidyapati (1352–1448), also known as Maithil Kavi Kokil (the poet cuckoo of Maithili language), Maithili poet and Sanskrit writer
 * Kshetrayya (c. 1600–1680) Telugu poet of songs for Krishna
 * Subramania Bharati (1882–1921), Tamil writer, poet and journalist, and Indian independence activist and social reformer from Tamil Nadu, popularly known as "Mahakavi Bharathi", he was a pioneer of modern Tamil poetry and is considered one of the greatest Tamil literary figures of all time
 * Ayodhya Singh Upadhyay (1865–1947), modern Hindi poet
 * Moyinkutty Vaidyar (1852–1892), Muslim Malayalam poet of the Mappila pattu genre
 * Kumaran Asan (1873–1924), one of the modern triumvirate poets of Malayalam
 * Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyer (1877–1949), one of the modern triumvirate poets of Malayalam
 * Vallathol Narayana Menon (1878–1958), one of the modern triumvirate poets of Malayalam
 * K.V. Simon (1883–1944), Christian Malayalam poet, Sanskrit scholar and polyglot
 * Puthencavu Mathan Tharakan (1903–1993), Christian Malayalam poet
 * P. C. Devassia (1906–2006), Christian Sanskrit scholar and poet
 * Laxmi Prasad Devkota (1909–1959), Nepali poet
 * Gurajada Apparao (1862-1915), playwright, dramatist, poet, and writer; his play Kanyasulkam is considered as the greatest play in the Telugu language
 * Dasu Sriramulu (1846-1908), scholar, dramatist, poet, orator and writer. Author of several literary works - kavyalu, satakas, plays, lyrics for musical and dance compositions

Others

 * Mahakavi (TV series), a 2016 Indian television documentary about Hindi poets hosted by poet Kumar Vishwas