• S. Radhakrishnan, former President of India

• Konda Venkatappaiah
• Raghupati Venkataratnam Naidu
• B. Pattabhi Sitaramayya
• S. Satyamurti
• Nyapathi Subba Rao
• K. P. Kesava Menon
• K. Kelappan
• M. C. Rajah
• Kumarappa brothers
• S. K. George

• General K. Sunderji, former Chief of Army Staff

• R. K. Shanmugham Chetty, John Mathai, T. T. Krishnamachari - Three of the first four Finance Ministers of India
• Prakash Karat, General Secretary, CPI-M
• R. Velu, Minister of State for Railways
• Kishore Chandra Deo

• Sir Mohamed Usman, Madras Presidency (Acting)
• K. C. Abraham, Andhra Pradesh
• M. M. Rajendran, Odisha

• P. Subbarayan 1926-30
• P. Munuswami Naidu, Madras Presidency 1930-32
• Kurma Venkatareddi Naidu 1937

• K. P. S. Menon, Sardar, A. P. Venkateswaran, K. S. Raghunath - Foreign Secretaries (KPS Menon Sr. was the first Foreign Secretary in Independent India)
• F. V. Arul, former Chief Officer Interpol
• P.Sabanayagam, first batch of IAS officers -1947, Secretary, Education& Culture, Govt of India, 1980
• Helen David IFS, former Deputy Sec. Ministry of External Affairs
• T. N. 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
• K. Matten, Draviam, S.K.Chetttur, former chief Secretaries, TN Govt.
• O. Pulla Reddi, M.Purushottam Pai, BPR Vittal, Jagatpati former chief secretaries, AP Govt.

• P. T. R. Palanivel Rajan, former Speaker, Tamil Nadu Assembly
• A. Easwara Reddy, former Speaker, Andra Pradesh Assembly
• Tambi Durai, former Deputy Speaker, Lok Sabha

• K. S. Krishnan, Physicist and collaborator with CV Raman
• Raja Ramanna, Nuclear Science
• E. C. G. Sudharshan, Physicist and winner of Third World Prize
• R. Y. George, first Indian Scientist to land on Antarctica
• C. P. Ramachandran, Science-Diplomat, WHO

• V. Pattabhiraman, Cricketer and Cricket Administrator
• R. S. Amrithraj, Athlete and father of well known Tennis players - Anand, Vijay
• CF Dywer, Well known sports commentator
• Eric (Philip) Prabhakar, represented India in the 1948 Olympics and a Rhodes Scholar 
• J. B. Joseph, National Athlete (400 metres) Asian games 1954, 1958
• C. D. Gopinath, Test Cricketer
• R. Balu Alaganan, Ranji team member and well known cricket commentator
• N. Kannayiram, Ranji team member from TN
• R. M. Perumal, Ranji team member from TN
• E.C.P.Prabhakar, civil servant, member of Ranji Trophy Cricketer
• Paul Joseph, National Basket Ball Player
• K. E. Kaliah, Hockey Team, India
• T. Sunder Raj, represented India in Athletics
• P. Sankar, the only Indian to officiate at the FIFA 2002 World Cup in Foot Ball

• 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
• lndra K. Nooyi, Chairperson, PepsiCo World
• Chandrika Tandon, Musician and Entrepreneur

• John Mathai, Bombay University
• R. Venkataratnam Naidu, Madras University
• Mahomed Usman, Madras University
• A. Lakshmanasami Mudaliar, Vice Chancellor, Madras University for 26 years
• A. Ramaswami Mudaliar, Travancore University, Kerala
• C. Ramalinga Reddy, Andhra University
• S. Radhakrishnan, Andhra University
• Justice Basheer Ahmed Sayeed, Kashmir University & founder of New College and SIET, Chennai
• Govidarajulu, Sri Venkateswara University
• D. Sadasiva Reddy, Osmania University
• Manavala Ramanujam, Annamalai University
• R.K.Shanmukham Chetty, Annamalai University
• S. P. Adinarayana, Annamalai University
• Chandran Devanesen, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong
• M. Abel, Sri Krishnadevaraya University (2 terms)

• Thambu Chetty, Judge, Chief court of Mysore
• Alladi Krishna Swami Iyer, Member, Constituent Assembly
• P. V. Rajamannar, former Chief Justice, Madras High Court
• M.Venkata Subba Rao, former acting Chief Justice, Madras High Court
• Bopanna, former Chief Justice, Karnataka High Court
• M.S.Menon, former Chief Justice, Kerala High Court
• Balakrishna Eradi, former Judge, Supreme Court

• K. N. Raj
• Raja J. Chelliah
• C. T. Kurian

• M. S. Kamat, Journalist
• K. Nageswara Rao, founder Andhra Patrika
• Gemini Ganesan, Cinema actor
• Handel Manuel, Music
• Ajit Ninan, Political Cartoonist
• T. N. Ninan, Chief Editor, Business Standard
• Sashi Kumar Menon, Asia Media Foundation
• David Davidar, C. E. O. Penguin India

• Manjeswara Govinda Pai, Kannada
• Srirangam Srinivasa Rao, Telugu
• Sachchidanada Hirananda Vatsyayan, Hindi
• C.S. Lakshmi (Ambal), Novelist and Feminist writer 

• 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

• V. S. Azariah, the first Indian Bishop
• K. T. Paul, former president, Y.M.C.A
• P. Chenchiah, V. Chakkarai, D. G. Moses, and 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

• V. Venkayya, Epigraphalogist
• K. A. Nilakanta Sastri
• Cadambi Minakshi
• Sardar K.M.Panikkar

Artists/Painters