List of Iyengars

Last updated August 08, 2025

Iyengars are an ethnoreligious group with origins in the Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.

Actors

Charuhasan (b. 1931) - Indian actor
Vasundhara Das (b. 1977) – Indian actress and singer^[1]
Akshara Haasan (b. 1991) - Indian actress
Kamal Haasan (b. 1954) Indian actor^[2]
Shruti Haasan (b. 1986) - Indian actress
Anu Hasan (b. 1970) - Indian actress and talk show host
Amrutha Iyengar (b. 1996) - Indian actress
Kalyan Kumar(1928-1999)- Indian actor
R. Madhavan (b. 1970)- Indian actor
Y. G. Mahendran (b.1950)-Tamil film actor
Hema Malini (b. 1948) – Indian actress and Bharathnatyam exponent^[3]
Suhasini Maniratnam (b. 1961) - Indian actress
T. G. Raghavachari - Filmmaker
Major Sundarrajan (b.1931)-Tamil film actor
Vyjayanthimala (b. 1936) - Indian actress

Politicians and bureaucrats

M. A. Ayyangar (1891 - 1978) - 1st Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha, 2nd Speaker of the Lok Sabha, 5th Governor of Bihar
N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar - 2nd Minister of Defence
N. Gopalaswami, 10th Chief Election Commissioner of India
H. V. R. Iengar - 6th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India
J. Jayalalithaa (1948 - 2016) – Indian actress and politician, former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu ^[4]
T. T. Krishnamachari - 4th Minister of Finance
E. S. L. Narasimhan - 1st Governor of Telangana
K. Parasaran - 6th Attorney-General for India
Mohan Parasaran - 22nd Solicitor General of India
Gopalaswami Parthasarathy (diplomat) - 7th Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations
C. Rajagopalachari - The last governor general of India & Chief Minister of Madras
Raghuram Rajan - 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India
C. Rangarajan - 19th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India
C. V. Rungacharlu, the 14th diwan of Mysore
K. Santhanam, 1st Minister of Railways (Minister of State)
Nirmala Sitharaman - Current Finance Minister of India, Bharatiya Janata party.^[5]
Madhavachari Srinivasan - Judge of Supreme Court of India
Srinivas Varadachariar - 1st Indian Chief Justice of Federal Court of India
C. Vijayaraghavachariar – President, Indian National Congress.^[6]

Musicians

Arjun Ayyangar - American Classical Pianist
Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar - Indian Carnatic vocalist and Sangeet Natak Akademi Award and Padma Bhushan recipient
Doreswamy Iyengar - Indian Carnatic Vainika
Narayan Iyengar - Gottuvadhyam Musician
Poochi Srinivasa Iyengar
T. M. Krishna - Indian Carnatic vocalist
P. T. Narasimhachar - Padma Shri Awardee, Playwright and Kannada Navodaya poet
Chitravina Narasimhan - Gottuvadhyam Musician
Latha Rajinikanth - Film producer and playback singer
Anirudh Ravichander - Film music composer
N. Ravikiran - Gottuvadhyam Musician and Proposer of Melharmony
T. N. Seshagopalan - Harikatha Exponent
Tiger Varadachariar - Indian Carnatic Vocalist
Vedavalli - Sangita Kala Nidhi

Scholars and academics

T. R. Govindachari - natural product chemist known for studies on the synthesis of isoquinolines and phenanthridines and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology Awardee
B. K. S. Iyengar (1918 - 2014) - Founder of Iyengar Yoga
C. N. S. Iyengar - Mathematician, Founder of the department of mathematics at Karnatak University Dharwad
Sujatha Rangarajan - screenwriter, novelist, engineer
Gorur Ramaswamy Iyengar - Kannada poet and author
K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar (1908–1999) - Indian writer in English, former vice-chancellor of Andhra University and winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award
Masti Venkatesha Iyengar - Jnanapith Awardee and famous Kannada poet and author
P. K. Iyengar - Indian nuclear physicist and former director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre and chairman of Atomic Energy Commission of India
Tirumalai Krishnamacharya (1888 - 1989) - Yoga teacher, often referred to as the "Father of modern Yoga"
M. S. Narasimhan - Padma Bhushan, Ordre national du Mérite, King Faisal International Prize for Science Awardee. Pioneer in the study of moduli spaces of holomorphic vector bundles on projective varieties
P. T. Narasimhan pioneer of computational chemistry in India and a professor at the IIT Kanpur
Shobhana Narasimhan - Computational Nano scientist and Indian Academy of Sciences Fellow
Indira Parthasarathy (b 1930) - writer, playwright, scholar
K. R. Parthasarathy - TWAS Prize in Mathematics Awardee and pioneer of quantum stochastic calculus
M. S. Raghunathan - Director of National Centre for Mathematics, IIT Bombay
Kavita Ramanan - Guggenheim Fellowship Awardee and probability theorist
S. Ramanan - Indian Mathematician and TWAS Prize in Mathematics and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology Awardee
Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887 - 1920) - mathematician who made significant contributions to mathematical analysis, infinite series, number theory, and continued fractions
C. S. Seshadri - Founder of Chennai Mathematical Institute
Krishna Srinivas, poet, founder of World Poetry Society and World Congress of Poets.
Govindan Sundararajan - Indian American Mathematician
Raghavan Varadarajan - Indian biophysicist and a professor at the Indian Institute of Science
Veeravalli S. Varadarajan - Onsager Medal Awardee and Professor of Mathematics at University of California, Los Angeles
S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan - Padma Vibhushan, Abel Prize and Birkhoff Prize awardee known for his contributions to probability theory. 7th Director of Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Usha Vijayaraghavan - Indian microbiologist

Sportspersons

Krishnamachari Srikkanth - Indian cricketer
Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan - Indian cricket captain and international umpire

References

↑ "Sify Movies – Vasundhara Das Interview". Sify . Archived from the original on 9 December 2015. Retrieved 3 January 2013. I'm a Tamil Hebbar girl
↑ Gupta, Priya. "I get devastated at the idea of marriage: Shruti Haasan". Times of India. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
↑ India Today International. Living Media International Limited. 2004. p. 23
Hema Malini self identifies her Iyengar Brahmin ancestry, says "I'm a pukka Iyengar Brahmin...".
↑ "Simi Garewal – Jayalalithaa interview". newindianexpress.com. Archived from the original on 6 December 2016.
↑ "A power couple whom AP looks up to | Hyderabad News - Times of India". The Times of India . 21 July 2014.
↑ Ramaswami. "C Vijayaraghavachariar, (1852–1944), President-Nagpur, 1920". Congress Sandesh. Retrieved 26 December 2012.

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[1] "Sify Movies – Vasundhara Das Interview". Sify . Archived from the original on 9 December 2015. Retrieved 3 January 2013. I'm a Tamil Hebbar girl

[2] Gupta, Priya. "I get devastated at the idea of marriage: Shruti Haasan". Times of India. Retrieved 13 December 2021.

[3] India Today International. Living Media International Limited. 2004. p. 23
Hema Malini self identifies her Iyengar Brahmin ancestry, says "I'm a pukka Iyengar Brahmin...".

[4] "Simi Garewal – Jayalalithaa interview". newindianexpress.com. Archived from the original on 6 December 2016.

[5] "A power couple whom AP looks up to | Hyderabad News - Times of India". The Times of India . 21 July 2014.

[6] Ramaswami. "C Vijayaraghavachariar, (1852–1944), President-Nagpur, 1920". Congress Sandesh. Retrieved 26 December 2012.

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