List of people from Bengaluru

This is a list of notable people from Bengaluru.

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Founder and Architect of Bengaluru

• Nada Prabhu Kempe Gowda

Scientists

• C V Raman – Nobel Prize in Physics (1930), Bharat Ratna (1954)
• M. Visvesvarayya – Bharat Ratna, in 1955, Indian civil engineer, statesman, Diwan of Mysore
• C. N. R. Rao – Bharat Ratna (2014) Indian Institute of Science (Material Sciences) Bharat Ratna (2014)
• H Narasimhaiah – Indian physicist, educator, writer, freedom fighter and rationalist Padma Bhushan (1984)
• Bangalore Puttaiya Radhakrishna – geologist
• Kumble R. Subbaswamy – physicist
• Sachidananda Kangovi - Aerospace engineer, IT executive, and author

Politicians

• H. D. Deve Gowda - former prime minister
• H. D. Kumaraswamy - former chief minister of Karnataka
• Gundu Rao - former Chief Minister
• Siddaramaiah - former Chief Minister
• B S Yediyurappa - former Chief Minister
• Ramalinga Reddy - former State Home Minister and various ministry, seven time MLA from Bangalore
• D. K. Shivakumar - former minister of medical education
• B.Vaikunta Vaikunta Baliga - former Law Minister; former Speaker, Mysore State
• S.Bangarappa - former Chief Minister
• S. R. Bommai - former Chief Minister
• George Fernandes - former Defence Minister
• Kengal Hanumanthaiah - former Chief Minister
• Ramakrishna Hegde - former Chief Minister
• Qamar ul Islam - former Housing and Labour Minister
• Basappa Danappa Jatti - former Vice-President
• M.N. Jois - former M.L.C, Deputy Speaker of Legislative Council - Mysore State
• Mallikarjun Kharge - former State Minister (various portfolios); former Union Labour Minister in the Manmohan Singh Government; current leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha
• S. M. Krishna - former External Affairs Minister of India; former Governor of Maharashtra; former Chief Minister of Karnataka
• H.N.Ananth Kumar - former Union Minister and MP
• Kadidal Manjappa - former Chief Minister
• Veerappa Moily - Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas; former Chief Minister
• K. H. Muniyappa - union minister of state for railways
• S. Nijalingappa - former Chief Minister
• Nandan Nilekani - Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)
• J. H. Patel - former Chief Minister
• Veerendra Patil - former Chief Minister
• M. A. M. Ramaswamy - Rajya Sabha MP and industrialist
• K. C. Reddy - former Chief Minister
• Dharam Singh - former Chief Minister
• Devaraj Urs - former Chief Minister
• H. Vishwanath - former Minister

Kannada writers

• Kuvempu – poet, Jnanpith awardee
• U. R. Ananthamurthy – Kannada writer, thinker and Jnanpith awardee
• Da Ra Bendre – poet, Jnanpith awardee
• S. L. Bhyrappa – writer, novelist
• V. K. Gokak – writer, Jnanapith awardee
• Masti Venkatesh Iyengar – Jnanpith awardee
• T. P. Kailasam – Kannada writer, playwright
• Chandrashekhar Kambar – Jnanapith awardee for his contributions to Kannada literature
• K. Shivaram Karanth – Kannada writer, Jnanapith awardee
• Girish Karnad – Kannada writer, playwright, actor, Jnanpith awardee
• K. S. Nissar Ahmed – Kannada poet
• Sudha Murthy

Other writers

• Mahesh Dattani – English playwright and Sahitya Akademi award winner
• Ramachandra Guha – historian and Sahitya Akademi award winner
• Anita Nair – English author of the books Ladies Coupe and Mistress
• Malathi Rao – English-language writer, Sahitya Akademi award winner
• Madhuri Vijay – English-language writer, Pushcart Prize winner

Entrepreneurs

• G. R. Gopinath – founder of Deccan Aviation and Deccan 360
• Kiran Mazumdar – founder of Biocon, a biotechnology company
• N. R. Narayana Murthy – founder of Infosys
• Nandan Nilekani – Co-founder of Infosys
• V. G. Siddhartha – founder of Café Coffee Day

Sportspersons

Athletics

• Ashwini Nachappa – former athlete

Badminton

• Prakash Padukone – badminton player
• Ashwini Ponnappa

Billiards

• Pankaj Advani – billiards and snooker World Champion

Cricket

• Mayank Agarwal – Indian cricketer
• John Bean – English first-class cricketer and British Army officer
• Vijay Bhardwaj – former Indian allrounder
• Raghuram Bhat – former Indian left-arm spinner
• Roger Binny – former Indian all rounder
• Stuart Binny – all rounder
• B. S. Chandrasekhar – Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1972
• Rahul Dravid – batsman, former India Captain and has taken highest number of catches in international cricket
• Dodda Ganesh – former medium pacer
• Sunil Joshi – retired all rounder
• Syed Kirmani – retired wicket-keeper
• Prasidh Krishna – fast bowler
• Veda Krishnamurthy – Indian woman cricketer
• Vinay Kumar – medium pacer
• Anil Kumble – leg spinner, Test Captain, India's highest wicket taker, former Indian National Cricket Team coach
• Abhimanyu Mithun – Indian cricketer
• Devdutt Padikkal – Ranji player

• Manish Pandey – Indian cricketer
• Venkatesh Prasad – retired fast bowler; India's former bowling coach
• Erapalli Prasanna – retired off spinner
• KL Rahul – Indian cricketer
• Javagal Srinath – retired fast bowler, match referee
• Robin Uthappa – Indian cricketer
• Vellaswamy Vanitha – former Indian woman cricketer
• Sadanand Viswanath – former Indian wicket-keeper
• Gundappa Ranganath Vishwanath – former Indian cricket captain (1979–1980)

Hockey

• Ashish Ballal – hockey goalkeeper
• Arjun Halappa – Indian hockey team

Motorsports

• Arjun Maini – Asian Le Mans Series and Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters driver
• Akhil Rabindra – GT4 European Series driver

• Nikhil Pai – Indian rallying co-driver
• Shreyas Hareesh – Indian motorcycle racer

Swimming

• Nisha Millet – Olympian at Sydney Olympics 2000

Tennis

• Rohan Bopanna

Entertainers

Kannada and Indian cinema

• Dino Morea – actor, supermodel
• Ramesh Aravind - actor
• Sandeep Chowta - music director, producer
• Guru Dutt - actor, director, producer
• Dwarkeesh - actor, comedian
• Nicole Faria (born 1990) – actress, model, Miss Earth 2010
• Hamsalekha - music director, lyricist, dramatist
• Jaggesh - actor
• Amoghavarsha JS - filmmaker
• Kalpana - actress, Minugutare
• Puttanna Kanagal - director
• Girish Kasaravalli - director
• Kashinath - actor
• Feroz Khan - actor, editor, producer, director
• Sanjay Khan - producer, director and actor
• Bangalore Latha - playback singer
• Malashree - actress
• Manjula - actress
• Nithya Menen - actress
• Anant Nag - actor, brother of Shankar Nag
• Shankar Nag - actor, producer, director
• Nayanthara - actress, producer (born in Bengaluru from Malayali ancestry)
• Deepika Padukone - model, actress
• Prema - actress
• Prakash Raj - actor, director, producer
• Rajinikanth - actor
• Dr. Rajkumar - actor, singer, producer
• Puneeth Rajkumar - actor, son of Dr. Rajkumar
• Raghavendra Rajkumar - actor, son of Dr. Rajkumar
• Shiva Rajkumar - actor, son of Dr. Rajkumar
• Ramya - actress, politician
• Kiran Rao - producer, screenwriter, and director
• V. Ravichandran - actor, director, producer, music director, editor
• Anushka Sharma - actress
• Soundarya - actress
• Srinath - actor, Pranaya Raja, Shubha Mangala
• Sudeepa - actor, director, producer, singer, host
• Darshan Thoogudeep - actor
• Chi. Udayashankar - dialogue writer and lyricist
• Upendra - director, actor, producer
• Rockline Venkatesh - actor, film producer
• Dr. Vishnuvardhan - actor, singer
• Yash - actor

Architects

• K. Jaisim
• Kamal Sagar

Spiritual leaders

• Shivakumara Swami
• Balagangadharanatha Swamiji

Other notable people

• R. K. Baliga – founder of the Electronics City in Bangalore
• Shakuntala Devi – known as the "human calculator"
• Trivikrama Mahadeva – organiser of funerals for tens of thousands of paupers
• Thomas Mohan (born 1959) – wildlife photographer and civil engineer
• Maya Rao (1928–2014) – Kathak Guru; founder of Natya Institute of Kathak and Choreography^[1]
• Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan AC, (15 March 1977 – 28 November 2008) – military officer
• Dr H. N. Shubhada – educationalist

See also

• List of people by India state
• List of people from Karnataka