Sunil Bandacharya Joshi is an Indian former cricketer and current selector of the India National Cricket Team. He played as an all-rounder who bowled slow left arm spin and batted left-handed. Sunil Joshi was appointed as Chief Selector of the Indian national team on 4 March 2020.
Upendra Rao is an Indian actor, filmmaker, producer, screenwriter and politician who works primarily in Kannada cinema. Upendra has also worked in Telugu films.
Sampath Kumar, known by his stage name Vishnuvardhan, was an Indian actor predominantly in Kannada cinema. He is regarded as one of the popular cultural icon of Karnataka. Vishnuvardhan is often referred to as Sahasa Simha and The Angry Young Man of Kannada Cinema. He appeared in more than 220 films all together in Kannada, Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu. He was called The Phoenix of Indian Cinema. He made his debut in the 1972 National Award winning film, Vamsha Vriksha, in a supporting role. The same year he played the lead role in Puttanna Kanagal's Naagarahaavu which was his breakthrough and he had won Filmfare Special Jury Award. He won Karnataka State Film Awards & Filmfare Awards South for best performance.
Adwai Raghuram Bhatpronunciation (help·info) is a former Indian cricketer who played in two Test matches in 1983.
Ramesh Rajaram Powarpronunciation (help·info) is a former Indian cricketer.
Raghvendrarao Vijay Bharadwaj is a former Indian cricketer & cricket coach. He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm offbreak bowler. He won the Man of the Series award on his debut one day international series against South Africa in the LG Cup in Kenya in the 1999–2000 season.
Venkataraman Subramanyapronunciation (help·info) is a former Indian cricketer who played in nine Tests from 1965 to 1968. He was an aggressive middle order batsman, who captained Mysore for some years, and a useful leg-spin bowler. He later emigrated to Australia. Subramanya was affectionately called as 'Kunju (small) Mani'.
Sadanand Viswanathpronunciation (help·info) is a former Indian cricketer who played in 3 Tests and 22 ODIs, from 1985 to 1988. Currently, he is a first class umpire and coach.
Ramchandra Sudhakar Raopronunciation (help·info) is a former Indian cricketer. He played domestic cricket for Karnataka and played one One Day International for India against New Zealand in 1976.
Robin Venu Uthappa is a former Indian cricketer, who last played for Kerala in domestic cricket & Chennai Super Kings in IPL. Robin has represented team India in ODIs and T20Is.
Bungle Shama Rao Dwarakanath, better known as Dwarakish, is an Indian actor, director and producer in the Kannada film industry. He was given the name Dwarakish by Kannada film maker C. V. Shivashankar.
Sudeep Sanjeev, known mononymously as Sudeepa, is an Indian actor, director, producer, screenwriter, television presenter and singer, who primarily works in Kannada language films, in addition to appearances in Hindi, Telugu and Tamil language films. He is one of the highest paid actors of Kannada Cinema and is one of the first Kannada actors to be listed in the Forbes' top 100 celebrities of India since 2013. He has received several awards including four Filmfare Awards South.
Manvinder Singh Bisla is an Indian cricketer. He is a wicket-keeper and right-handed batsman who currently plays for Goa. Bisla is one of the lesser known of the wicketkeeper batsman that Indian cricket unearthed from the junior and India-A ranks in the last decade, the others being Ajay Ratra, Parthiv Patel, M.S Dhoni and Dinesh Karthik. Bisla was the stand-in captain of the U-19 test team during their tour to England in 2002 season. The match ended in a draw.
Cricket is by far the most popular sport in Karnataka with International cricket matches attracting a sizeable number of spectators who are willing to pay more than the standard ticket price to get a chance to watch the match. The sports related infrastructure is mainly concentrated in Bangalore which also played host to the 4th National Games of India in the year 1997. Bangalore is also the location of the Sports Authority of India (SAI) which is the premier sports institute in the country. Karnataka is sometimes referred to as the cradle of Indian swimming because of high standards in swimming compared to other states.
Bharat Chipli is an Indian cricketer who plays for Karnataka in first-class cricket.
Konda Bhaskar Arun Karthik is an Indian cricketer, who currently plays for Tamil Nadu and was a member of the Royal Challengers Bangalore squad. Karthik is a right-hand batsman and leg-spin bowler. He was a Wicket-keeper batsman for Royal Challengers Bangalore.
Chidhambaram Muralidharen Gautam is an India domestic cricketer. He played for Karnataka cricket team before moving to Goa.
Karun Kaladharan Nair is an Indian international cricketer who plays for Karnataka in domestic cricket and Rajasthan Royals in Indian Premier League. He is a right-handed top order batter and occasional off break bowler. He is only the second Indian batter to score a triple century in Test cricket.
Dingri Nagaraj is an Indian actor in the Kannada film industry. He acted in Solillada Saradara (1992), Dore (1995) and Bangarada Kalasha (1995).
Rahul Salanke, popularly known as RK Rahul is an Indian actor, primarily from Kannada cinema.
