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2nd April 2016, 03:55 PM
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Re: Important Alumni of Madras University

The University of Madras is a public state university in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Established in 1857, it is one of the oldest and its the most premier university in India. The university was incorporated by an act of the Legislative Council of India

As per your demand here I am providing you name list of the Important Alumni of this University

Head of State

-Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari, Governor-General of India (1948–1950), Bharat Ratna (1954)
-Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, 2nd President of India (1962–1967), Bharat Ratna (1954)
-Varahagiri Venkata Giri, 4th President of India (1969–1974), Bharat Ratna (1975)
-Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy, 6th President of India (1977–1982)
-R. Venkataraman, 8th President of India (1987–1992)
-A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, 11th President of India (2002–2007), Bharat Ratna (1997)

Law and politics
-Chidambaram Subramaniam, Indian independence activist, Bharat Ratna (1998)
-C. Vijayaraghavachariar, President of the Indian National Congress (1920)
-Arcot Ramasamy Mudaliar (KCSI), Last Diwan of Mysore, Padma Vibhushan (1970)
-C. P. Ramaswami Iyer (KCSI) (KCIE), Diwan of Travancore (1936– 1947)
-P. Subbarayan, Chief Minister of Madras Presidency (1924–1930)
-B. Munuswamy Naidu, Chief Minister of Madras Presidency (1930–1932)
-K. V. Reddy Naidu (KCSI), Chief Minister of Madras Presidency (1937)
-Patanjali Sastri, 2nd Chief Justice of India
-P. V. Rajamannar, 1st Indian Chief Justice of Madras High Court
-K. Subba Rao, 9th Chief Justice of India
-CN Annadurai (DMK), Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (1967–1969)
-Muhammad Shahabuddin, 3rd Chief Justice of Pakistan
-Kasu Brahmananda Reddy (INC), Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (1964–1971)
-A. J. John, Former Chief Minister of Travancore-Cochin and Governor of Madras
-V. K. Krishna Menon (INC), Minister of Defence (India) (1979–1980)
-M. Thambidurai (AIADMK), 8th Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha
-Palaniappan Chidambaram (INC), Cabinet minister (India)
-Shankarrao Chavan (INC), Cabinet minister (India)
-P. Sathasivam, 40th Chief Justice of India
-V. Balakrishna Eradi, 9th Chief Justice of Kerala High Court

Military and public services
-Field Marshal K.M. Cariappa (OBE), 1st Indian Chief of the Army Staff, Legion of Merit (1950)
-Krishnaswamy Sundarji, 13th Chief of the Army Staff, Param Vishisht Seva Medal (1978)
-Benegal Rama Rau (CIE), 4th Governor of Reserve Bank of India
-S. Jagannathan (ICS), 10th Governor of Reserve Bank of India
-C. Rangarajan, 19th Governor of Reserve Bank of India, Padma Vibhushan (2002)
-Y. Venugopal Reddy, 21st Governor of Reserve Bank of India, Padma Vibhushan (2010)
-Kalyan Sundaram, 2nd Chief Election Commissioner, Padma Vibhushan (1968)
-R. V. S. Peri Sastri, 8th Chief Election Commissioner
-K. Vijay Kumar (IPS), Chief of the Special Task Force (India) during Operation Cocoon
-T. N. Seshan, 10th Chief Election Commissioner
-M. K. Narayanan, 3rd National Security Advisor, Gusi Peace Prize (2011)
-N. Vittal (IAS), Chief Vigilance Commissioner (1998–2002)
-K. P. S. Menon (CIE), Lenin Peace Prize (1979)
-F. V. Arul (IPS), Director of CBI (1968–1971)

Mathematics
-Srinivasa Ramanujan (FRS), a Mathematical prodigy
-S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, Abel Prize (2007), National Medal of Science (2010)
-C. S. Seshadri (FRS), Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (1972)
-M. S. Narasimhan (FRS), Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (1975)
-K. G. Ramanathan, Padma Bhushan (1983), Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (1965)
-K. S. Chandrasekharan, Srinivasa Ramanujan Medal (1966), Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (1963)
-M. S. Raghunathan, Srinivasa Ramanujan Medal (1991), Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (1977)
-Sundararaman Ramanan, Srinivasa Ramanujan Medal (2010), Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (1979)
-C. P. Ramanujam, Ramanujam–Samuel theorem and Ramanujam vanishing theorem
-Krishnaswami Alladi, Fellow of American Mathematical Society
-A.V. Balakrishnan, Control Heritage Award (2001)

Educationists
-S. Krishnaswami Aiyangar (Dewan Bahadur), Historian, author and Dravidologist
-M. Aram, Educator and peace advocate, Padma Shri (1990)

Science and Technology
-C. V. Raman, Nobel Prize in Physics (1930), Bharat Ratna (1954)[1]
-S. Chandrasekhar, Nobel Prize in Physics (1983), Padma Vibhushan (1968)[2]
-G.N. Ramachandran, Biophysicist who described the structure of Collagen
-M. Visveshwarya (KCIE), Civil engineer, Bharat Ratna (1955)
-Raja Ramanna, Nuclear scientist, Padma Vibhushan (1975)
-Rajagopala Chidambaram, Nuclear scientist, Padma Vibhushan (1999)
-E. C. George Sudarshan, Theoretical physicist, Dirac Prize (2010), Padma Vibhushan (2007)
-A. Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar (FACS), Padma Vibhushan (1963)
-K. S. Krishnan, Physicist, Co-discoverer of Raman scattering, Padma Bhushan (1954)
-Gunamudian David Boaz, 1st Indian Psychologist (1943)
-Vilayanur S. Ramachandran (FRCP), Cognitive neuroscientist, Ariëns Kappers Medal (1999)
-Eric Prabhakar, Olympian, 1st Indian recipient of Rhodes Scholarship
-Tanjore R. Anantharaman, Materials scientist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (1967)
-Vasanthy Arasaratnam, Biochemist, Vice-chancellor of the University of Jaffna (2011-Present)

Pioneers and innovators
-Verghese Kurien, Father of White Revolution in India, Padma Vibhushan (1999)
-M. S. Swaminathan, Father of Green Revolution in India, Padma Vibhushan (1989)
-S. R. Ranganathan, Father of Library and information science, Padma Shri (1957)
-Raj Reddy, one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence systems, Padma Bhushan (2001), Turing Award (1994)
-Rangaswamy Srinivasan, pioneer work on Excimer laser at IBM Research, National Medal of Technology (2011)

Economists and business
-Kakkadan Nandanath Raj, one of the architects of the Five-Year Plans of India, Padma Vibhushan (2000)
-Raja Chelliah, Founding chairman of the Madras School of Economics, Padma Vibhushan (2007)
-C. K. Prahalad, Prominent business thinker, Padma Bhushan (2009)
-Prathap C. Reddy, Founder, Apollo Hospitals, Padma Vibhushan (2010)
-Ram Shriram, Founding board member of Google Inc.
-Indra Nooyi, Chairman, Pepsi Co., Padma Bhushan (2007)
-Srikanth Balachandran, Global CFO, Bharti Airtel
-Suresh Krishna, TVS Group, Padma Shri (2006)
-Kalanithi Maran, Founder and chairman of Sun Group
-Kasinathuni Nageswara Rao, Founder of Amrutanjan Healthcare and Andhra Patrika
-Usha Ananthasubramanian, Chairman and managing director of the Bhartiya Mahila Bank
-Mahesh Amalean, Engineer and industrialist, Deshamanya (2005)

Humanities, arts, and social sciences
-M.G. Ramachandran, Film actor and former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Bharat Ratna (1988)
-Gemini Ganesan, Tamil film actor, Padma Shri (1971)
-K. A. Nilakanta Sastri, Historian and author, Padma Bhushan (1957)
-Sachchidananda Vatsyayan, Hindi poet and writer, Jnanpith Award (1978), Sahitya Akademi Award (1964)
-M. Govinda Pai, Kannada poet and writer, Rashtrakavi (1949)
-Sarvepalli Gopal, Indian historian, Padma Vibhushan (1999)
-Srirangam Srinivasarao, Telugu poet and lyricist, Sahitya Akademi Award (1972)
-Mani Ratnam, Film director, screenwriter and producer, Padma Shri (2002)
-Sashi Kumar, Journalist and film director, Founder, Asianet
-Mahesh Babu, Telugu film actor, Filmfare Awards South (3), Nandi Awards (7)
-David Davidar, Author and publisher, Former CEO of Penguin Group
-R. S. Subbalakshmi, Social reformer and educationist, Kaisar-i-Hind Medal (1920), Padma Shri (1958)
-V. Venkayya, Chief epigraphist, Government of India (1908–1912)
-K. C. S. Paniker, Abstract painter, Lalit Kala Akademi Ratna (1976)
-Vanamali, Telugu poet and lyricist, Ph.D. in Telugu literature
-Madhavan Ayyappath, poet and writer

Sports and games
-Viswanathan Anand, Chess Grandmaster and former World Chess Champion, Padma Vibhushan (2007)
-Vijay Amritraj, Tennis player and sports commentator, UN Messengers of Peace (2001), Padma Shri (1983)
-Ramanathan Krishnan, Tennis player, Arjuna award (1961), Padma Bhushan (1967)

Others
-Siva Shankar Baba
-A. P. Balachandran
-A.V. Balakrishnan
-Bapu
-P. Gururaja Bhat
-Pallathadka Keshava Bhat
-Virendranath Chattopadhyaya
-Chinmayananda Saraswati
-Chunkath Joseph Varkey
-Aswath Damodaran
-Sudi Devanesen
-Methil Devika
-Ian Ernest
-Michael Fernandes
-Anthony Leocadia Fletcher
-C.K. Gandhirajan
-Ramanathan Gnanadesikan
-Vijayalakshmy K. Gupta
-Randor Guy
-Lakshmi Holmström
-M. Yousuff Hussaini
-I. C. Chacko
-Cherakarottu Korula Jacob
-Alangar Jayagovind
-Jagath Jayasuriya
-L. S. Kandasamy
-C. Kesavan
-Sundeep Kishan
-Kuppuswamy Kalyanasundaram
-A. D. Loganathan
-A. Sreedhara Menon
-Ram Mohan
-A. C. Muthiah
-Sameer Nair
-K.K. Nayar
-Prabhakaran Paleri
-Joseph C. Panjikaran
-P. J. Thomas, Parakunnel
-Joseph Parecattil
-Parur T. K. Narayana Pillai
-W. Lawrence S. Prabhakar
-PeeVee
-A. Sivathanu Pillai
-N. U. Prabhu
-Samantha Ruth Prabhu
-A. Sreekar Prasad
-R. Neelakantan
-R. Radhakrishnan
-Bellary Raghava
-R. K. Raghavan
-P. V. Rajaraman
-N. Ram
-K. R. Ramanathan
-K. P. Ratnam
-Y. Venugopal Reddy
-Joshua Russell Chandran
-Palagummi Sainath
-B. A. Saletore
-Uma Sambanthan
-Ratnasothy Saravanamuttu
-C. S. Seshadri
-Shiva Rajkumar
-M. J. Rabi Singh
-Molly Easo Smith
-C. G. Somiah
-Raman Sukumar
-M. A. Sumanthiran
-C. Sylendra Babu
-Purna Chandra Thapa
-Lily Thomas
-Typist Gopu
-Carlos G. Vallés
-Alarmel Valli
-T. G. Venkatraman
-Ravindra Wijegunaratne


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