List of people from North Malabar

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This is a list of notable people from North Malabar , a historical and cultural area including the former French exclaves of Pondicherry. North Malabar is now administratively at the northern end of Kerala, India.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">E. K. Nayanar</span> Former Chief minister of Kerala

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kannur district</span> District in Kerala, India

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Thalassery</span> City in Kerala, India

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Brahmananda Swami Sivayogi</span> Atheist, writer, and social reformer of Kerala, Sanskrit teacher (1852–1929)

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dharmadom</span> Census Town in Kerala, India

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">V. T. Bhattathiripad</span> Indian social critic and dramatist

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">T. K. Madhavan</span> Indian social reformer

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">C. V. Kunhiraman</span> Indian journalist and social reformer (1871 – 1949)

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Changaramkumarath Krishnan Vakkeel was a community leader, banker, social reformer, and journalist from Kerala, India. He was a champion of implementing the revolutionary socialist reforms proposed by Sree Narayana Guru for the upliftment of the downtrodden people of Kerala. He was called Mithavathi―a minimalist―after the newspaper he published from 1913 to 1938 to spread the message of the reformist movement. He was well-educated and hailed from an influential family. Although he could have entered the government service and risen to higher positions with his education and wealth, he renounced all these for the liberation of the backward classes from the clutch of pathological social system.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Vagbhatananda</span>

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kerala reformation movement</span> Socio-cultural movement originated in Kerala

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ayyathan Gopalan</span> Indian physician, writer, social reformer (1861–1948)

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<i>Vasanthathinte Kanal Vazhikalil</i> 2014 Indian film

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ayyathan Janaki Ammal</span> First female doctor in Kerala (Malabar)

Dr. Ayyathan Janaki Ammal (1881–1945) was the first female doctor in Kerala and also in Malabar region which was an administrative district of Madras Presidency during British rule in India. She was also the first female doctor from the Thiyya community and also hailed with the title as the first Malayali lady doctor and surgeon. and the sister to Ayyathan Gopalan. a social reformer of Kerala, the founder of the Sugunavardhini movement (1900), Depressed Classes Mission (1909) and the leader and propagandist of Brahmo Samaj in Kerala.

Pullambil Sankaran Mooppan was an ancient chief commander of the Pazhassi Raja. The pullambil Moopan's Thiyyar family of thellichery and the families vazhayil moopan and vamala moopan too seem to have engaged in sea trade on an extantion scale.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kallingal Madathil Rarichan Moopan</span> Prominent social reformer in Kozhikode

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