Perugu Siva Reddy was a renowned eye surgeon from Andhra Pradesh, India.
Kaloji Narayana Rao was an Indian poet, freedom fighter, anti-fascist and political activist of Telangana. He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan in 1992. The Telangana government honored Kaloji's birthday as Telangana Language Day.
Sarojini Devi Eye Hospital is a Regional Institute of Ophthalmology and Government Ophthalmic hospital, a medical institution in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. It is named after Sarojini Naidu, a child prodigy, Indian independence activist and poet. It is affiliated to Osmania Medical College and Gandhi Medical College and serves as a teaching hospital. Originally, it included an ENT section, but it was separated and moved to separate premises in Hyderabad. Located very near to Mehdipatnam, it is situated near the starting point of the P.V. Narasimha Rao Expressway.
Nandini Goud is an Indian painter and printmaker from Hyderabad, India. She received various awards and fellowships such as Junior Fellowship for painting from the Department of Culture of the Government of India for 1998 to 2000 and National Scholarship in 1995.
Dr. Manga Shiv Lingam Gowd, also known by the names M. S. Gowd or M. S. Goud, is a dental surgeon prosthodontist from Andhra Pradesh, India, with fellowship in the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry and many International Fellowships.
Veluri Venkata Krishna Sastry was an archaeologist and historian in Andhra Pradesh, India.
Sankurathri Foundation (SF) was established in 1989 by Dr. Chandra Sekhar Sankurathri in memory of his wife Manjari, son Kiran and daughter Sarada, who died in the bombing of Air India Flight 182 off the coast of Ireland on 23 June 1985.
Boora Narsaiah Goud is an Indian politician in the state of Telangana. Joining in the Bharat Rashtra Samithi political party in 2009 he has won as a Member of Parliament in the 16th Lok Sabha representing Bhongir constituency in 2014 election and lost in 2019.
Chaganti Koteswara Rao is an Indian speaker known for his discourses on Sanatana Dharma. An exponent in puranams, his discourses are widely followed and are telecast over television channels such as Bhakti TV and TTD and is quite popular among Telugu-speaking people all over the world. He was also appointed as cultural adviser for the government of Andhra Pradesh in 2016. He was also one of the 10 ambassadors Swacch Andhra Corporation. He is also hired for state government activities. He was bestowed with titles like Pravachana Chakravarti, and Sarada Jnana Putra.
Prof. Ghanta Chakrapani is a distinguished Academician and the first (founder) Chairman(2014-2020) of Telangana State Public Service Commission. At Present he is working as a professor of Sociology and Dean of Social Sciences at Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Open University, Hyderabad. Associated with peoples movements, democratic and rights movements he became a public intellectual in the region. Since 1997, Bhuvanagiri meeting he was directly associated with the Telangana separate statehood movement, and emerged as one of the protagonists of the Telangana agitation, as a writer, public speaker, columnist, and Television analyst he played multiple roles in the spread of Telangana ideology. He is one of the founders of the Peace Initiative Committee which negotiated with the government and Maoist Naxalites for peace talks in 2004-05. During the talks, the Government of Andhra Pradesh (AP) appointed him as the convenor for the Cease-fire Monitoring Committee. After the formation of a separate State for Telangana, the Government of Telangana appointed Dr.Chakrapani as the first Chairman of TSPSC. After assuming the Charge as Chairman, TSPSC in December 2014, Prof. Chakrapani has introduced several path-breaking reforms and introduced IT initiatives to modernize the conduct of examinations and processing of recruitments.The Hans India, thereby transforming the youngest State PSC in the country into a modern Public Service Commission.The Hindu.
Potturi Vijayalakshmi is a Telugu writer well known for her humorous short stories.
Tammreddy Bharadwaja is an Indian film director and producer who works in Telugu cinema. Bharadwaja directed over 20 films and produced around 10 films in his career. He also served as the president of the APFCC. He is known for his role as a liaison between Telugu film producers and film workers unions. He is the son of Tammareddy Krishna Murthy, a veteran film producer who received the Raghupathi Venkaiah Award.
K. Nageshwar is an Indian professor, politician, and political analyst. He served as member of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Council and subsequently in Telangana Legislative Council during 2007 to 2015. Nageshwar is a professor at the Department of Communication & Journalism, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India.
Dr. Karnati Lingaiah born on 10 June 1944 in Narasimhapuram Village, Nalgonda District, Telangana, India. He is a retired Lecturer in Economics and recipient of State Best Teacher Award given by Government of Andhra Pradesh, India in 1984. He is also a poet who has written books in Telugu Language. He has authored about 17 books in Economics and 18 books in Telugu Literature.
Pailla Shekar Reddy is an Indian politician affiliated with the Telangana Rashtra Samithi. He won from Bhongir constituency in Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district in 2014 general elections. He belongs to Telangana Rashtra Samithi and is a member of its Politburo.
Gullapalli Nageswara Rao is an Indian ophthalmologist, the chairman of the Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis (AOI) and the founder of the L. V. Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad. A former associate professor at the School of Medicine and Dentistry of the University of Rochester, Rao is a Fellow of the National Academy of Medical Sciences, India. He was honored by the Government of India, in 2002, with the fourth highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri. He was elected in 2017 to the Ophthalmology Hall of Fame instituted by the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery.
Vidyavati, former Vice-Chancellor, Kakatiya University, Warangal, Telangana, India was born on 15 September 1939, in Goud community. She is President of Phycological Society of India. She was honored by Telangana State Government as Eminent Women on 8 March 2017, on the occasion of "International Women's Day" celebrations.
Sundaram Natarajan is an Indian ophthalmologist. In 2002, he started a free clinic in Dharavi, a slum in Mumbai, and treated more than 8,000 people. He has also held free camps in various other suburbs of Mumbai such as Mankhurd and Govandi to treat the economically poor. In 2016, he also held a camp in Kashmir to operate and cure the victims of pellet gun firings.
Nidadavolu Malathi is a Telugu writer from Andhra Pradesh, India. She is a short story writer, essayist, literary critic, and translator. Her daughter Sarayu Rao is a Hollywood actress.
