List of people from Bangalore

This is a list of notable people from Bangalore.

Medical and health experts

• H. Sudarshan - graduated from Bangalore Medical College; won the Right Livelihood Award and Padma Sri for work with the Soliga tribe of Biligirirangan Hills
• Devi Prasad Shetty - cardiac surgeon (Bangalore)

Scientists

• M. Visvesvarayya - engineer and statesman
• Bangalore Puttaiya Radhakrishna - geologist
• Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan - astrophysicist, former Chairman of ISRO, member of Rajya Sabha
• C. N. R. Rao - Indian Institute of Science (Material Sciences)

Politicians

• V. S. Acharya - former Minister for Medical Education of Karnataka
• S. K. Amin - ex-vice president of the South Kanara District Congress Committee and MLA
• B.Vaikunta Vaikunta Baliga - former Law Minister; former Speaker, Mysore State
• S.Bangarappa - former Chief Minister
• S. R. Bommai - former Chief Minister
• Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya
• George Fernandes - former Defense Minister
• H. D. Deve Gowda - former Prime Minister
• Kengal Hanumanthaiah - former Chief Minister
• Ramakrishna Hegde - former Chief Minister
• Qamar ul Islam - former Housing and Labour Minister
• Basappa Danappa Jatti - former Vice-President
• Jayalalithaa - Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu
• M.N. Jois - former M.L.C, Deputy Speaker of Legislative Council - Mysore Stat
• Mallikarjun Kharge - former State Minister (various portfolios); current Union Labour Minister in the Manmohan Singh Government
• S. M. Krishna - former External Affairs Minister of India; former Governor of Maharashtra; former Chief Minister of Karnataka
• H.N.Ananth Kumar - former Union Minister and MP
• H. D. Kumaraswamy - former Chief Minister
• Kadidal Manjappa - former Chief Minister
• Veerappa Moily - Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas; former Chief Minister
• K. H. Muniyappa - union minister of state for railways
• S. Nijalingappa - former Chief Minister
• Nandan Nilekani - Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)
• J. H. Patel - former Chief Minister
• Veerendra Patil - former Chief Minister
• M. A. M. Ramaswamy - Rajya Sabha MP and industrialist
• Gundu Rao - former Chief Minister
• K.C. Reddy - former Chief Minister
• Siddaramaiah - former Deputy Chief Minister
• Dharam Singh - former Chief Minister
• Devaraj Urs - former Chief Minister
• H.Vishwanath - former Minister
• B. S. Yeddyurappa - former Chief Minister

Kannada writers

• K. S. Nissar Ahmed – Kannada poet
• U. R. Ananthamurthy – Kannada writer, thinker and Jnanpith awardee
• Da Ra Bendre – poet, Jnanpith awardee
• S. L. Bhyrappa - writer, novelist
• V. K. Gokak – writer, Jnanapith awardee
• Masti Venkatesh Iyengar – Jnanpith awardee
• T. P. Kailasam – Kannada writer, playwright
• Chandrashekhar Kambar - Jnanapith awardee for his contributions to Kannada literature
• K. Shivaram Karanth – Kannada writer, Jnanapith awardee
• Girish Karnad – Kannada writer, playwright, actor, Jnanpith awardee
• Kuvempu – poet, Jnanpith awardee
• Sudha Murthy

Other writers

• Mahesh Dattani - English playwright and Sahitya Akademi award winner
• Mookonda Nitin Kushalappa - author and historian in English
• Anita Nair - English author of the books Ladies Coupe and Mistress
• Malathi Rao - English language writer, Sahitya Akademi award winner

Entrepreneurs

• Ramjee Chandran - founder, Managing Director of Explocity group of magazines and websites
• G. R. Gopinath - founder of Deccan Aviation and Deccan 360
• Vijay Mallya - CEO of UB Group; owner of the Kingfisher brand, Royal Challengers Bangalore cricket team and Force India F1 team
• Kiran Mazumdar - founder of Biocon, a biotechnology company
• N. R. Narayana Murthy - founder of Infosys
• V. G. Siddhartha - founder of Café Coffee Day

Sportspersons

Athletics

• Ashwini Nachappa - former athlete

Badminton

• Prakash Padukone - badminton player
• Ashwini Ponnappa

Billiards

• Pankaj Advani - billiards and snooker World Champion

Cricket

• Vijay Bhardwaj
• Raghuram Bhat - left-arm spinner
• Roger Binny - all rounder
• Stuart Binny - all rounder
• B. S. Chandrasekhar - Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1972
• Rahul Dravid - batsman, former India Captain and has taken highest number of catches in international cricket
• Dodda Ganesh - medium pacer
• Sunil Joshi - retired all rounder
• Syed Kirmani - retired Wicket Keeper
• Vinay Kumar
• Anil Kumble - leg spinner, Test Captain, India's highest wicket taker
• Venkatesh Prasad - retired fast bowler; India's former bowling coach
• Erapalli Prasanna - retired off spinner
• Shantha Rangaswamy - former India Women's Cricket Team Captain
• Javagal Srinath - retired fast bowler, match referee
• Robin Uthappa
• Gundappa Ranganath Vishwanath - former Indian cricket captain (1979–80)

Hockey

• Ashish Ballal - hockey goalkeeper
• Arjun Halappa - Indian hockey team

Swimming

• Nisha Millet - Olympian at Sydney Olympics 2000

Tennis

• Mahesh Bhupathi - first Indian to win a Grand Slam tournament
• Rohan Bopanna

Entertainers

Kannada and Indian cinema

• Ambareesh - actor, Mandyada Gandu
• Dwarkeesh - actor, comedian
• Hamsalekha - music director, lyricist, dramatist
• Jaggesh - actor
• Puttanna Kanagal - late director
• Kashinath - actor
• Feroz Khan - actor, editor, producer, director
• Sanjay Khan - producer, director and actor
• Kiran - actor, director
• Shivaraj Kumar - actor, eldest son of Dr. Rajkumar
• Aishwarya Nag - actor
• Anant Nag - actor, brother of Shankar Nag
• Shankar Nag - late actor, producer, director
• Deepika Padukone - model, actress
• Prema - actress
• Rajkumar - actor, only Kannada actor to receive Dada Saheb Phalke Award, singer, cultural icon
• Puneet Rajkumar - actor, youngest son of Dr. Rajkumar
• Raghavendra Rajkumar - actor, second son of Dr. Rajkumar
• Rajnikanth, actor
• Rakshita - actress
• Ramya - actor
• Kiran Rao - producer, screenwriter, and director
• V. Ravichandran - actor, director, producer, music director, editor
• Soundarya - late actress, also acted in other South Indian films.
• Sreenath - actor, Pranaya Raja, 'Shubha Mangala'
• Sudeep - actor, director
• Darshan Thoogudeep - actor, Challenging Star
• Upendra - director, actor, producer
• Rockline Venkatesh - actor, film producer
• Vishnuvardhan - actor, Sahasa Simha

Architects

• K. Jaisim
• Kamal Sagar

Spiritual leaders

• Nataraja Guru
• Ravi Shankar
• Swami Sukhabodhananda
• Jaggi Vasudev

Others

• Vishal Yadav - from Azamgarah UP in Bangalore working in Maventic
• R. K. Baliga - founder of the Electronics City in Bangalore
• Shakuntala Devi - known as the "human calculator"
• Lakshmi Menon - first internationally successful Indian model
• A. N. Prahlada Rao - Kannada crossword writer
• Maya Rao (1928-2014) - Kathak Guru; founder of Natya Institute of Kathak and Choreography

See also

• List of people by India state
• List of people from Karnataka