List of people from Andhra Pradesh

Independence advocates

• Alluri Sitaramaraju (1897-1923), led Rampa Rebellion against British occupation
• Potti Sriramulu - Fought for the separate andhra state (Died during an indefinite fast he has undertaken to achieve this goal)
• N. G. Ranga
• Pingali Venkayya - He designed the Indian National Flag
• Tanguturi Prakasam - Andhra Kesari
• Colonel D. S. Raju, deputy of Subash Chandra Bose in the Indian National Army
• Kaloji Narayana Rao - is a well known freedom fighter and a political activist noted for his contributions in the social and literary fields
• Swami Ramanand Teerth - is an educator and social activist remembered for his role in the Hyderabad liberation struggle, during the reign of the last Nizam.
• Puchalapalli Sundaraiah.
• Makhdoom Mohiuddin
• Makineni Basavapunnaiah.
• Madapati Hanumantha Rao.
• Koratala Satyanarayana.
• Madabhushi Ananthasayanam Ayyangar(1891-1978)-First Dy. Speaker, then Speaker Lok Sabha, Governor Bihar. Member Parliament 1932-1962.
• Vuyalavada Narasimha Reddy
• Vavilala Gopalakrishnayya
• Kaneganti Hanumanthu
• Kalluri Chandramouli
• Veerapandiya Kattabomman/Kattabrahmanna
• Gottipati Brahmayya
• Khasa Subbarao
• Doddi Komuraiah
• Sarojini Naidu
• Ayyadevara Kaleswara Rao - First speaker of A.P., Assembly
• Bhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramiah - Author of History of Indian Congress and founder of Andhra Bank.

Presidents and Prime-Ministers

• Malik Maqbul- Wazir (Prime Minister) in the court of Feroz Shah Tughlaq
• Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, President of India May 13, 1962 to May 13, 1967
• Zakir Husain, President of India
• Varahagiri Venkata Giri, President of India May 3, 1969 to August 24, 1974
• Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, President of India July 25, 1977 to July 25, 1982
• P.V. Narasimha Rao, Prime Minister of India June 21, 1991 to May 16, 1996

Reserve Bank of India Governors

• C. Rangarajan Governor from December 22, 1992 – November, 1997
• Y.V.Reddy, Governor of Reserve Bank of India from 2001 to till date.

Chief Ministers

• Tanguturi Prakasam
• Bezawada Gopala Reddy
• Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
• Damodaram Sanjivayya
• Kasu Brahmananda Reddy
• P.V. Narasimha Rao later the Prime Minister of India
• Jalagam Vengala Rao
• Marri Chenna Reddy
• Tanguturi Anjaiah
• Bhavanam Venkataram Reddy
• Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy
• Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao
• Nadendla Bhaskara Rao
• Nedurumalli Janardhana Reddy
• Nara Chandrababu Naidu
• Yedugiri Sandinti Rajasekhara Reddy

Nizams

• Mir Qamaruddin Khan, Nizal ul Mulk, Asif Jah I (1720-1748)
• Mir Ahmed Ali Khan, Nizam-ud-Dowlah Nasir Jang (1748-1750)
• Nawab Hidayat Mohuddin Sa'adu'llah Khan Bahadur, Muzaffar Jang (1750-1751)
• Nawab Syed Mohammed Khan, Amir ul Mulk, Salabat Jang (1751-1762)
• Nawab Mir Nizam Ali Khan Bahadur, Nizam ul Mulk, Asif Jah II (1762-1803)
• Nawab Mir Akbar Ali Khan Sikandar Jah, Asif Jah III (1803-1829)
• Nawab Mir Farkhonda Ali Khan Nasir-ud-Daulah, Asif Jah IV (1829-1857)
• Nawab Mir Tahniat Ali Khan Afzal ud Daulah, Asif Jah V (1857-1869)
• Fath Jang Nawab Mir Mahboob Ali Khan, Asif Jah VI (1869-1911)
• Fath Jang Nawab Mir Osman Ali Khan, Asif Jah VII (1911-1948)

Education

• C. R. Reddy, Founder & Vice-chancellor of Andhra University, Vice-chancellor of Mysore University
• Prof. K . Venkata Ramiah , Founder Vice-chancellor of Kakatiya University
• G Ram Reddy, Vice-chancellor of A P Open University and Indira Gandhi National Open University.
• V. S. Krishna, Former Vice-chancellor of Andhra University.
• Rao Bahadur S. Govinda Rajulu Naidu, First Vice-Chancellor of S.V.University, Tirupati.
• Kotha Sachidananda Murthy - Buddhist philosopher and Former Vice-chancellor of S. V. University

Business and industry

• Kasinadhuni Nageswara Rao, founder of the Amrutanjan Limited
• K. V. K. Raju, founder of the Nagarjuna Group
• Ramoji Rao, founder of the Eenadu Group
• Prathap C. Reddy, founder of Apollo Hospitals
• Dr. Anji Reddy, Founder Chairman, Dr. Reddy's Laboratories
• GV Prasad, Vice-Chairman and CEO, Dr. Reddy's Laboratories
• Byrraju Ramalinga Raju Founder and Chairman Satyam Computers
• Ram Gopal Varma Producer Cum Director - RGV Factory

Science

• Yellapragada Subba Rao
• Y. Nayudamma
• Raj Reddy

Literature

• Viswanatha Satyanarayana
• Quli Qutub Shah Urdu
• Srirangam Srinivasa Rao
• Wali Mohammed Wali Dakni Urdu
• Amjad Hyderabadi Urdu
• Dhasarathy
• Makhdoom Mohiuddin Urdu
• Ahmadnisar
• Kaloji Narayana Rao
• Tripuraneni Ramaswamy
• Tripuraneni Gopichand
• Vasireddy Seethadevi
• Tummala Seetharama Murthy
• Madhunapantula Satyanarayana Sastry
• Ushasri
• Challapilla Venkata Sastry
• Divakarla Tirupati Sastry
• Divakarla Venkata Avadhani
• Cingireddy Narayana Reddy
• Gudipati Venkata Chalam
• Syed Akbar English
• Gurajada Appa Rao
• Bucchi Babu
• Kodavatiganti Kutumba Rao
• Kommuri Sambasiva Rao
• Devulapalli Krishna Sastry
• Tapi Dharma Rao Naidu
• Kavisekhara Dr Umar Alisha
• Sulaiman Athhar Javed Urdu
• Syed Yakoob Miran Mujhtahedi Urdu
• Ekkirala Krishnamacharya
• Rachakonda Viswanatha Sastry
• Puranam Subramanya Sarma
• Nayani Krishna Kumari
• Vutukuri Lakshmikanthamma
• Thenneti Hemalatha

Philosophers

• Jiddu Krishnamurti
• Vemana
• Satya Sai Baba
• Ekkirala Krishnamacharya

Award Winners

Member of the British Empire

• Sekhar Tam Tam, for service as District Medical Officer in the British Caribbean island of Grenada

Bharat Ratna

• V. V. Giri, 1975
• Zakir Hussain
• Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, 1954

Padma Vibhushan

• Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna
• C. Narayanareddy
• Kaloji Narayana Rao
• Dr P. Venugopal, Director of AIIMS
• Kotta Sachidanda Murthy

Padma Bhushan

• Dr. P. Tirumala Rao
• Gottipati Brahmaiah
• C.K. Nayudu
• Kongara Jaggayya
• Akkineni Nageshwara Rao
• B. V. Raju
• C. Narayanareddy
• G.A.Narasimha Rao
• Shri Vavilala Gopalakrishnaya
• Shri Adusumalli Radha Krishna
• Mullukutla Ramabrahmam
• Dr. Perugu Siva Reddy
• Dr. A.S.Rao (founder of ECIL)
• Dr K Srinath Reddy - Professor and Head of the dept Of Cardiology, AIIMS
• Dr.Vempati Chinna Satyam
• Dr.Chiranjeevi
• P. Susheela

Padma Shree

• Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu
• Nuthakki Bhanu Prasad
• Chitturi Nagaiah
• N. T. Rama Rao
• Ghantasala Venkateswar Rao
• Akkineni Nageswara Rao
• B. V. Raju
• K. Viswanath (Kalathapasvi)
• Shobha Naidu
• S.P.Balasubrahmanyam
• Nerella Venumadhav
• Nageshwar Reddy
• B. Soma Raju
• Gullapalli N. Rao
• D. V. S. Raju
• Allu Ramalingaiah
• A. V. Ramarao
• M. V. Rao
• Dr.M.Mohan babu
• Dr. Perugu Siva Reddy
• Kotta Sachidanda Murthy

Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award

• Karnam Malleswari, for weightlifting (1995-1996)
• Pullela Gopichand, for badminton (2000-2001)

Arjuna Awards

• Karnam Malleswari (Weight Lifting)
• V. V. S. Laxman (Cricket)
• Koneru Humpy (Chess)
• Achanta S. Kamal (Table Tennis)
• Mukesh Kumar (Hockey)
• Mulini Reddy (Volleyball)
• Abdul Basith (Volleyball)
• M. Shyamsundar Rao (Volleyball)
• Ramana Rao A (Volleyball)
• P. V. Ramana (Volleyball)
• Ravikanth Reddy (Volleyball)
• Yousuf Khan (Football)
• J. J. Shobha (Atletics)
• Anil Krishnan (Rowing)
• M. Srinivasa Rao (Physically challenged - badminton)
• Sania Mirza (Tennis)
• Mohammad Azharuddin (Cricket)
• Mithali Raj (Cricket)- India Women's Team Captain

Gnanpith Award

• Viswanatha Satyanarayana
• C. Narayana Reddy

Sports

Cricket

• C.K. Nayudu
• Mohammed Azaruddin
• Maharajkumar of Vizianagram
• Venkatapathy Raju
• V.V.S. Laxman
• M.Ganesh
• M.S.K. Prasad
• Venugopal Rao
• Ambati Rayudu
• Shivlal Yadav
• M.L. Jaisimha
• Ghulam Ahmed
• Syed Mohammad Hadi
• Abid Ali
• Abbas Ali Baig
• Arshad Ayub

Athletics

• Kodi Rammurthy Naidu
• B.V.Sathyanarayana
• Kalagara Raj Mohan

Chess

• Pendyala Harikrishna
• Koneru Humpy

Tennis

• Sania Mirza

Other Volley sports

• Pullela Gopichand, Badminton
• Achanta Sharath Kamal, Table Tennis

Others

• Mukesh Kumar, Hockey
• Zenak Awok, Soccer

Music

Traditional

• Tyagaraja, of the trinity of Carnatic music.
• Tallapaka Annamacharya
• Bhadradri Ramadasu
• Syama Sastri, of the trinity of Carnatic music.

Classical

• Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu
• Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna
• Nedunuri Krishnamurthy
• Sripada Pinakapani
• Nookala Chinna Satyanarayana
• Rallapalli Anantakrishna Sarma
• Emani Sankara Sastry
• U.Srinivas
• Dwaram Manga Thayaru

Film music

• S P Balasubrahmanyam, composer and singer
• Ghantasala, composer and singer
• P. Susheela, singer
• S. Janaki, singer
• Krishnaveni(Jikki), singer
• Jamunarani, singer
• S.P.Sailaja,singer
• Vijayalakshmi Kanna Rao, singer
• Pithapuram Nageswara Rao, singer
• Madhavapeddi Sathyam, singer
• Susarla Dakshina Murty, composer
• P. B. Sreenivas, singer
• Saluri Rajeswara Rao, composer
• Master Venu,Composer
• Ramesh Naidu, composer
• Chakri (music director)
• Talat Aziz, Ghazal Singer
• Adinarayana Rao, composer
• Suddala Ashok Teja, lyricist
• Nagur Babu (Mano), singer
• Devisri prasad, composer
• Ramana Gogula, composer
• Mani Sharma, composer
• Pendyala,Composer
• Satyam,Composer
• S.P.Kodandapani,Composer
• Akula Appalraj,composer
• Koti,composer
• Jetti.V.Raghavulu,composer

Dance

• Sidhendra Yogi, originator of the Kuchipudi dance style
• Shobha Naidu - Kuchipudi- Padma Sri awardee

Cinema

Directors

• Raghupathi Venkaiah Naidu
• K. V. Reddy
• P. Pullaiah
• B. N. Reddy
• L. V. Prasad
• C. Pulliah
• Kamalakara Kameswarara Rao
• B.A.Subba Rao
• N.T.Rama Rao
• Adurthi Subba Rao
• Tapi Chanakya
• Vittalacharya
• K.Prathyagatma
• K Vishwanath
• Dasari Narayana Rao
• K. Raghavendra Rao
• Bapu
• T.RamaRao
• Jandhyala
• A.KodandaRami Reddy
• Relangi Narasimha Rao
• Muthyala Subbaia
• Pinisetti Raviraja
• Singitam Srinivasa Rao
• Kodi Ramakrishna
• E.V.V. Satyanarayana
• B.Gopal
• Ram Gopal Varma
• Krishna Vamsi
• Puri Jagannadh
• S.S.Rajamouli
• V. V. Vinayak
• Y.V.S.Chowdary
• Sukumar
• Srinu Vaitla
• Sekhar Kammula
• Nagesh Kukunoor
• Shyam Benegal
• Vedantham Raghavaiah
• M.Raja
• Neelakhanta Reddy

Producers

• L. V. Prasad
• D. Ramanaidu
• Murali Mohan
• C. Ashwini Dutt
• M. S. Raju
• Allu Aravind
• A.M. Ratnam

Writers

• Pingali Nagendrarao
• Aathreya
• Mullapudi Venkata Ramana
• Jandhyala
• Paruchuri Brothers
• Trivikram Srinivas
• Gopimohan
• Veeru Potla
• Kona Venkat
• B.V.S.Ravi
• Abburi Ravi
• Guna Sekhar
• Chandra Sekhar Yeleti
• Sukumar
• Ajay Sastry

Actors

• S. V. Ranga Rao
• Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao
• Akkineni Nageswara Rao
• Kantha Rao
• Relangi Venkata Ramaiah
• Chittor V. Nagaiah
• Kongara Jaggayya
• Rajanala
• Gummadi Venkateswara Rao
• Allu Rama Lingaiah
• Kaikala Satyanarayana
• J. V. Somayajulu
• Dasari Narayana Rao
• Krishnam Raju
• Shoban Babu
• Harinath Raju
• Murkha Babu
• Ghattamaneni Krishna
• Chiranjeevi
• Akkineni Nagarjuna
• Nandamuri Bandakrishna
• Daggubati Venkatesh
• Brahmanandam
• Srihari
• Nagendra Babu
• Pawan Kalyan
• Bhanu Chander
• Gurramkonda Krishna
• Mahesh Babu Gattamaneni
• Jr.NTR
• Prabhas
• Allu Arjun
• M. S. Narayana
• Ram Charan Teja
• Ravi Krishna
• Jayam Ravi

Actresses

• Savithri
• Pasupuleti Kannamba
• Santhakumari
• G. Varalakshmi
• S. Varalakshmi
• Jamuna
• Jayaprada
• Bhanupriya
• Jayasudha
• Suryakantham
• Sarada
• Anjali Devi
• Bhanumathi Ramakrishna
• Vanisri
• Farah
• Tabu
• Vijaya Shanthi

Religion

Sanatana Dharma/Hinduism

• Tirumala_Tirupati_Devasthanams
• Chinna Jeeyar Swamy, proponent of Vaishnavism

Buddhism

• Acharya Nagarjuna

Secular

• Sathya Sai Baba
• Kavisekhara Dr Umar Alisha
• Dr Umar Alisha
• Brahmarishi Hussain Sha
• Mumtaz Ali

Christianity

• Bishop.Dr.K.John Peter, Founder and Director, United pastor's Fond Welare Association.

http://www.upfwa.org

See also

• Telugu people

References

• List of people by India state