K. K. Mathew

In this Indian name, the name Kuttyil Kurien is a patronymic, and the person should be referred to by the given name, Mathew.

Kuttyil Kurien Mathew (3 January 1911 – 2 May 1992)^[1] was a judge of the Supreme Court of India highly regarded for his scholarship and for his seminal contribution to the constitutional and administrative law in India.^[2][3] He later served as the Tenth Law Commission Chairman and also as the Chairman of the Second Press Commission.

He hailed from Kuttiyil family of Athirampuzha in Kottayam district, Kerala. His son Kuttyil Mathew Joseph also served as a judge of the Kerala Court from 2004 to 2014. In August 2018, while serving as the ninth Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court, Justice Joseph was recommended as a Supreme Court judge.^[4]