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1. Statesman S. Radhakrishnan, former President of India 2. Freedom Fighters B. Pattabhi Sitaramayya S. Satyamurti Nyapathi Subba Rao K.P. Kesava Menon K. Kelappan MC Rajah Konda Venkatappiah 3. Gandhians Kumarappa Brothers, Khasa Subba Rao S.K. George P.T. Ummer Koya 4. Army General General K. Sunderj, former Chief of Army Staff 5. Central Ministers / Politicians R.K. Shanmugham Chetty, John Mathai, T.T. Krishnamachari - Three of the first four Finance Ministers of India Prakash Karat, R.Velu (Minister of State for Railways) 6. Governors
B.Gopal Reddy (Madhya Pradesh) Sir Mohamed Usman (Madras) KC. Abraham ( Andhra Pradesh) M.M. Rajendran (Orissa) 7. Chief Minister P.Munuswami Naidu (Madras Presidency 1930-32)
8. Diplomats / Civil Servants / Bureaucrats Sardar KM. Panikkar ,K.P.S. Menon, A.P. Venkateswaran, KS. Raghunath -( Foreign Secretaries) FV Arul, former Chief Officer Interpol TN Seshan - (former Chief Election Commissioner) Vijaya Rama Rao - former Director, C.B.I. T.P. Seetharam - former Press Secretary, The President of India S. Narayanan - Finance Secretary, Government of India 9. Parliament / Assembly Speakers P.T.R. Palanivel Rajan - former speaker, Tamil Nadu Assembly A.Easwara Reddy - former Speaker, A.P. Assembly Tambi Durai - former Deputy Speaker, Lok Sabha
10. Scientists Raja Ramanna (Nuclear Science) E.C.G. Sudharshan (Physicist and winner, Third World Prize) R. Y. George (first Indian Scientist to land on Antarctica) 11. Sports Persons Eric Prabhakar represented India in the 1948 Olympics and a Rhodes Scholar C.D. Gopinath- India Cricket Team K.E. Kaliah, India Hockey team T. Sunder Raj represented India in Athletics P. Sankar, the only Indian to officiate at the FIFA 2002 World Cup in Foot Ball 12. Businessmen / Entrepreneurs / Industrialists / Executives D.C. Kothari (Kothari Ltd.,) Mammen Mappilai (M.R.F.) Suresh Krishna (T.V.S.) Vikram Reddy (Nutrine) Jagadish Chandran (Premier Mills) Prakash Kuruvilla (HSBC) Ashok Narasimhan (LT., U.S.A.,) Ms. lndra K. Nooyi (Chairperson, ,PepsiCo World) 13. Vice-Chancellors John Mathai (Bombay) R.Venkataratnam Naidu (Madras University) Mahomed Usman (Madras University) A. Lakshmanasami Mudaliar (V.C. Madras University for 26 years) C. Ramalinga Reddy ( Andhra University) Justice Basheer Ahmed Sayeed ( Kashmir, and founder of New College and SIET, Chennai) Govidarajulu ( Sri Venkateswara University) D. Sadasiva Reddy ( Osmania University) SP Adinarayana (Annamalai University) Chandran Devanesen (North Eastern Hill University, Shillong) M. Abel (Sri Krishnadevaraya University) 14. Legal Professionals Alladi Krishna Swami Iyer, Member, Constituent Assembly PV Rajamannar, former Chief Justice, Madras High Court. Bopanna (former Chief Justice, Karnataka High Court) Balakrishna Eradi (former Judge, Supreme Court) 15. Economists K.N. Raj Raja J. Chelliah
16. Media/Journalism/ Cinema / Music MS Kamat, Journalist K.Nageswara Rao, founder Andhra Patrika Gemini Ganesan - Cinema actor Handel Manuel - Music Ninan, Ajit - Political Cartoonist T.N. Ninan - Chief Editor, Business Standard Sashi Kumar Menon - Asia Media Foundation David Davidar - C.E.O. Penguin India 17. Poets/Scholars 1. Manjeswara Govinda Pai(kannada) 2. Srirangam Srinivasa Rao (Telugu) 18. Health / Public Care Sudarshan Devanesen - Member of the Order of Canada for Community Health Dayalan Devanesen - Member of the Order of Australia for work among the Aborigines K. Mani - Nephrologist Pratap C. Reddy (Chairman, Apollo Hospitals) 19. Christian Leaders / Theologians V.S. Arzariah - the first Indian Bishop K.T. Paul - former president, Y.M.C.A. P. Chenchiah, V. Chakkarai, D.G. Moses, A.J. Appasamy - Well-known Indian theologians D.T. Niles, Wesley Ariarajah - former officers at World Council of Churches. Geneva Canon Ivor Smith Cameron - One of the Chaplains to her Majesty, the Queen of England K. Rajaratnam - former President, N.C.C.I. Paul Sabapathy, Lord Lieutenant to her Majesty, the Queen of England 20. Historians Prof. K.A.Nilakanta Sastri
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