25 Notable alumni of
Annamalai University
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Annamalai University is 1195th in the world, 255th in Asia, and 29th in India by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 25 notable alumni from Annamalai University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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K. Balachander
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- screenwriterfilm directorfilm produceractor
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Kailasam Balachandar was an Indian playwright, film director, film producer, screenwriter and actor who worked mainly in the Tamil cinema. He was well known for his distinct film-making style, and the Indian film industry knew him as a master of unconventional themes and hard-hitting contemporary subject matter. Balachander's films are well known for their portrayal of women as bold personalities and central characters. Popularly referred to as Iyakkunar Sigaram (lit. "Director Paramount"), his films are usually centred on unusual or complicated interpersonal relationships and social themes. He started his film career in 1964 as a screenwriter and graduated to a director with Neerkumizhi (1965).
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C. Sylendra Babu
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- police officer
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C. Sylendra Babu is an Indian Police Service Officer who served as the Director General of Police and Head of Police Force, Tamil Nadu Police. He retired on 30 June 2023 and was succeeded by Shankar Jiwal, IPS.
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K. Anbazhagan
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- authorpolitician
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Kalyanasundaram Anbazhagan was an Indian politician. He was a long-standing leader of the Dravidian movement and was the General Secretary of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party (DMK) for nine terms. He has held several cabinet ministerial portfolios in the Tamil Nadu government under M. Karunanidhi including Finance, Education and Health and Social Welfare. He was elected as a member of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly on nine occasions. He was earlier elected to the Lok Sabha the lower house of India's Parliament from Tiruchengode and was also a member of the Madras Legislative Council. He served as the opposition leader of Tamil Nadu assembly from 2001 to 2006. He was popularly referred to as Perasiriyar (Professor) as he was a lecturer in Tamil in Pachaiyappa's College before resigning to contest elections in 1957.
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Preetha Reddy
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- 1957-.. (age 68)
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Preetha Reddy is the vice chairperson of Apollo Hospitals, one of the largest healthcare conglomerates of India. In September 2012, she was elected to the board as independent director of Medtronic - a med tech firm.
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V. Narayanasamy
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- politician
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Velu Narayanasamy is an Indian politician who served as the 10th Chief Minister of Puducherry from 2016 to 2021. He is a member of Indian National Congress political party.
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S. P. Velumani
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- 1969-.. (age 56)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sugunapuram Palanisamy Velumani, born 10 May 1969, is an Indian politician and current Member of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly from Thondamuthur state assembly constituency. He is a prominent politician of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam. He has won the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly elections in 2006, 2011, 2016 and 2021 as an All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam candidate. He was previously the Minister for Municipal Administration, Rural Development, Law and Implementation of Special Programme. He is currently serving as the Headquarters Secretary of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam from 13 July 2022.
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K. Veeramani
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- lawyersocial worker
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Krishnasamy Veeramani is an Indian politician.
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V. R. Krishna Iyer
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- judgepoliticianautobiographer
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Justice Vaidyanathapuram Rama Iyer Krishna Iyer was an Indian judge who became a pioneer of judicial activism. He pioneered the legal-aid movement in the country. Before that, he was a state minister and politician.
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V. T. Sambanthan
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- politician
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Tun Thirunyanasambanthan s/o Veerasamy, also known as V.T. Sambanthan, was a Malayan and Malaysian politician who served as Minister of National Unity from January 1972 to 1974, Minister of Works, Posts and Telecommunications from April 1956 to December 1971, Minister of Health from 1957 to 1959, Minister of Labour from 1955 to 1957, Member of Parliament (MP) for Sungai Siput from July 1955 to June 1973, acting Prime Minister on 3 August 1973 for only 10 days and 5th President of the Malayan Indian Congress and later Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) from May 1955 to his removal from the party presidency in June 1973 by the party members. He is widely known as one of the founding fathers of Malaysia representing one of the three main ethnicities, people of Indian origin along with Tunku Abdul Rahman representing Malay ethnicity and Tan Cheng Lock representing the Chinese ethnicity.
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Jothimani
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- 1975-.. (age 50)
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- writerpoliticiannovelist
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Jothimani Sennimalai, also known mononymously as Jothimani, is an Indian politician, writer, and social worker. A member of the Indian National Congress, she was elected to the Lok Sabha from Karur, Tamil Nadu in 2019. Having joined politics at a young age, Jothimani served separate terms as the General Secretary and Vice President of Indian Youth Congress and Tamil Nadu Youth Congress respectively.
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Sirpi Balasubramaniam
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- translatorpoetliterary criticlinguist
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Sirpi Balasubramaniam is a Tamil poet, critic, scholar and professor from Tamil Nadu, India.
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M. Swaraj
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- politicianadvocate
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M Swaraj is an Indian politician of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and was a representative of Thripunithura constituency in the Kerala Legislative Assembly. He was the former Kerala State Secretary of Students' Federation of India and Democratic Youth Federation of India.
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AK Viswanathan
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- 1964-.. (age 61)
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Dr. A. K. Viswanathan, IPS, is an Indian Police Service officer of the 1990 batch. He is presently in the rank of Director General of Police and serves as the Managing Director of Tamil Nadu Police Housing Corporation Limited, a wholly owned Company of the Government of Tamil Nadu. TNPHC is engaged in various projects related to police housing and infrastructure. He served as the Commissioner of Police, Greater Chennai, from May 2017 to 1 July 2020.
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G. N. Balasubramaniam
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- 1910-1965 (aged 55)
- Occupations
- composer
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Gudalur Narayanaswamy Balasubramaniam, popularly known as GNB, was an Indian Carnatic singer. He innovated the art through emphasis on laya control and reducing the gamakas which eventually made Carnatic music appeal to the lay and the learned alike. He was also a Tamil film actor. Ariyakudi Iyengar inspired him.
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Pazha. Nedumaran
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- politician
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Pazha Nedumaran Krishnan Pillai Pazhaniyappan is an Indian politician from the state of Tamil Nadu, India. He is an ex-national Congressman, a writer and Tamil nationalist, who has authored many books in Tamil and English.
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Vijay Govindarajan
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- business theorist
- Biography
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Vijay Govindarajan, is the Coxe Distinguished Professor (a Dartmouth-wide chair) at Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business and Marvin Bower Fellow, 2015–16 at Harvard Business School.
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Sujatha Ramdorai
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- 1962-.. (age 63)
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Sujatha Ramdorai is an algebraic number theorist known for her work on Iwasawa theory. She is a professor of mathematics and Canada Research Chair at University of British Columbia, Canada. She was previously a professor at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.
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Bala V. Balachandran
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- entrepreneurprofessor
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Bala V. Balachandran was an Indian academic who was Professor Emeritus of Accounting Information & Management at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He was also the founder, chairman and dean emeritus of Great Lakes Institute of Management in Chennai, India.
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Veerabhadran Ramanathan
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- climatologistmeteorologist
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Veerabhadran "Ram" Ramanathan is Edward A. Frieman Endowed Presidential Chair in Climate Sustainability Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego. He has contributed to many areas of the atmospheric and climate sciences including developments to general circulation models, atmospheric chemistry, and radiative transfer. He has been a part of major projects such as the Indian Ocean Experiment (INDOEX) and the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE), and is known for his contributions to the areas of climate physics, Climate Change and atmospheric aerosols research. He is now the Chair of Bending the Curve: Climate Change Solutions education project of University of California. He has received numerous awards, and is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences. He has spoken about the topic of global warming, and written that "the effect of greenhouse gases on global warming is, in my opinion, the most important environmental issue facing the world today."
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Elamkulam Kunjan Pillai
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- historianauthor
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Elamkulam P. N. Kunjan Pillai, known as Elamkulam, was an Indian historian, linguist and academic from southern Kerala, India. He was a pioneering scholar of southern Indian history, Kerala history, in particular. Although only holding academic degrees in Sanskrit and Malayalam, and having no formal training as a historian, Elamkulam is considered one of the pioneers of modern Kerala historiography.
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K. Balakrishnan
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- politician
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K. Balakrishnan is an Indian politician and a former member of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly from the Chidambaram constituency. He represents the Communist Party of India party. He is the Former Secretary of CPI(M) Tamil Nadu.
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Narayanasami Sathyamurthy
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- 1951-.. (age 74)
- Occupations
- chemist
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Narayansami Sathyamurthy is a chemist in India. He is the founding director of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Mohali, Punjab, India and the President of Chemical Research Society of India.
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Ravi Gomatam
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- 1950-.. (age 75)
- Occupations
- theoretical physicist
- Biography
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Ravi Veeraraghavan Gomatam is the director of Bhaktivedanta Institute (Berkeley and Mumbai) and the newly formed Institute of Semantic Information Sciences and Technology, Mumbai. He teaches graduate-level courses at these institutes. He was an adjunct professor at Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani, Rajasthan, India (1993–2015).
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K.D. Satyam
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- film directorscreenwriter
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K.D. Satyam is an Indian film writer and film director. He wrote Gattu, a film that became a part of the list of India's Academy Awards nominations in 2012. He has also written and directed Bollywood Diaries. The film was released on 26 February 2016.
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K. Kushalappa Gowda
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- writer
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Kodi Kushalappa Gowda was an Indian Kannada scholar, writer, Dravidologist and linguist. He published over 12 books on linguistics in Kannada and English.
