Elangovan is a given name or surname, which may refer to:
Chandrasekhar, Chandrashekhar or Chandra Shekhar is an Indian name and may refer to a number of individuals. The name comes from the name of an incarnation of the Hindu god Shiva. In this form he married the goddess Parvati. Etymologically, the name comes from the Sanskrit words "चन्द्र (candra)", meaning "moon", and "शेखर (śekhara)", meaning "crest" or "crown", which is an epithet of the Shiva.
Lal is an Indo-Iranian surname and given name, which means "darling", "precious", or "beloved", from the Sanskrit lala ("cajoling"). In addition, Lal means "garnet" or "ruby" in Persian, "ruby" in Pashto, and "red" in Hindustani and Bengali. The name Lal may refer to mainly Kayastha as well as used by other communities:
Mathew is a masculine given name and a variant of Matthew. It is also used as a surname.
Erode Venkata Krishnasamy Sampath Elangovan is an Indian politician who was a member of the Lok Sabha. He represented the Gobichettipalayam constituency of Tamil Nadu and is a member of the Indian National Congress party. He is the son of E. V. K. Sampath and grandson of Periyar E. V. Ramasamy's brother Krishnasamy. In 2009 Lok Sabha election, he lost to A. Ganeshamurthi of the MDMK by 49,336 votes in Erode constituency. He was appointed as President of Tamil Nadu Congress Committee by All India Congress Committee Chief Sonia Gandhi on 31 October 2014, followed by the resignation of B. S. Gnanadesikan. In the 2019 Lok Sabha election he lost to O. P. Ravindranath Kumar, the son of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam, in Theni. Elangovan was the only candidate of the UPA to lose in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in Tamil Nadu.
Abdul Sattar is a male Muslim given name, built on the Arabic words Abd, al- and Sattar. The name means "servant of the Veiler ".
N R Govindarajar an Indian politician from All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and a previous member of the Parliament of India representing Tamil Nadu in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament. He contested the 2004 Indian General Elections from Gobichettipalayam and lost to E. V. K. S. Elangovan.
Erode Venkatappa Krishnasamy Sampath(c. 5 March 1926 – 23 February 1977), usually referred to as E. V. K. Sampath was a prominent politician from Tamil Nadu, India. He was an advocate of the Dravidian Movement of Periyar E. V. Ramasamy and was considered by some as his political heir. He later split from Periyar's Dravidar Kazhagam to form Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) along with C. N. Annadurai. In spite of being one of the founders of DMK he later left and formed his own party, by the name, Tamil National Party. Nevertheless, he later merged his party with the Indian National Congress. He is a former Member of Parliament from the constituency of Namakkal
Ambikapathy is a 1937 Indian Tamil musical period film directed by American film director Ellis R. Dungan. It starred M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar, M. R. Santhanalakshmi, Serugulathur Sama, T. S. Balaiya, N. S. Krishnan, T. A. Madhuram and P. G. Venkatesan. Ambikapathy is regarded as one of the greatest hits of pre-independence Tamil cinema. Ambikapathy, along with Chintamani were the greatest hits of 1937 and made critics regard him as the "first superstar of Tamil cinema". This was the first Tamil film to name a music director in its credits.
Venkatesh is a given name and family name from the Indian subcontinent derived from Venkateswara, a Hindu deity.
Tiruppur is a Lok Sabha constituency in Tamil Nadu. Originally, Gobichettipalayam, it was converted to Tiruppur by Election commission after rearrangement of constituencies in 2008.
Nadesan or Natesan is a South Indian male given name. Due to the South Indian tradition of using patronymic surnames it may also be a surname for males and females.
Unnikrishnan is a Hindu name commonly used in the Indian state of Kerala. Unnikrishnan refers to the infant form of the Hindu deity Krishna. The following is list of people named Unnikrishnan:
Ramalingam is a Tamil male given name. Due to the Tamil tradition of using patronymic surnames it may also be a surname for males and females.
Vikas, Bikas or Bikash means expanding, progress or development in Sanskrit. It is often used as a masculine given name in Greater India.
T. K. S. Elangovan is an Indian politician.He was elected to the Rajya Sabha the upper house of Indian Parliament from Tamil Nadu as a member of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam.He was earlier elected to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India from Chennai North. He is also the Organisation Secretary of DMK. He is the son of Late TK Srinivasan also popularly known as Thathuva Medhai TK Srinivasan.
Nadarajah or Natarajan is a South Indian male given name. Due to the South Indian tradition of using patronymic surnames it may also be a surname for males and females. It also Nataraja, an depiction of Hindu God Shiva.
Lakshman or Laxman is a common Indian name, most commonly used as a masculine given name. It derives from Lakshmana, the character of the Ramayana epic.
Raman is a name of Indian origin, used both as a family name and as both a feminine and a masculine given name. Raman is a masculine given name of Belarusian origin. There may be other origins also.
Kokilavani is a 1956 Indian Tamil-language film directed by S. A. Natarajan. The film stars Raghuveer and Tambaram Lalitha.
P.D. Elangovan is an Indian politician. He was elected to the Lok Sabha the lower house of Indian Parliament from Dharmapuri in 1999 as a member of the Pattali Makkal Katchi. He later joined the Bharatiya Janata Party.