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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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