Chennaites in SPOTLIGHT..!

Once when we start thinking about the best part of Chennai, for sure there will be lots and lots to be proud of. So under that category, here are few elites who's roots are to be found deep rooted in Chennai. Not just one or two people, here is a long list of all eminent personalities who is a resident of Chennai. 

Well once again feel proud to be a Chennaite.

The list starts with business and goes on....

BUSINESS :

• Indra Nooyi, Chairperson & CEO of PepsiCo.
• Venu Srinivasan, Chairman and Managing Director, TVS Motors Ltd.
• Mallika Srinivasan, Chairman and Managing Director, Ammalgamations Group.
• N. Srinivasan, Chairman and Managing Director, India Cements Ltd.
• A. Vellayan, Chairman, Murugappa Group of Companies.
• M.A.M. Ramaswamy, Chettinad Cements Group of Companies and ex-Pro Chancellor, Annamalai University, Chidambaram.
• A.C.Muthiah, former Chairman, Southern Petrochemicals of India Corporation (SPIC) group of companies.
• Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google.
• Prathap. C. Reddy, Chairman, Apollo Hospital.
• Bhargav Sri Prakash, founder & CEO of FriendsLearn, entrepreneur and hedge fund manager.
• Naveen Selvadurai, Co-founder of Foursquare.

EDUCATION :

• Subra Suresh, President of Carnegie Mellon University, Former Dean of the School of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Former Director of the National Science Foundation.
• Ramayya Krishnan, Dean of Heinz College and H. John Heinz III, W. W. Cooper and Ruth F. Cooper Professor of Management science and Information systems at Carnegie Mellon University.

ENVIRONMENT :

• Arun Krishnamurthy, Founder, Environmentalist Foundation of India.

FILMS & ENTERTAINMENT :

• Rajinikanth (born 1950), Actor, Superstar.
• Dhanush, Thespian and playback singer and producer.

• Ashok Amithraj, Hollywood producer.

• Padma Lakshmi, Cookbook author, actress, model and television host.
• Ajith Kumar, Thespian and Racer.
• M.G. Ramachandran, Actor, politician, producer, director.
• A.R. Rahman (born 1966), Music composer, winner of multiple awards including two Academy Awards, two Grammys and a Golden Globe.
• Vijay, Thespian.
• Kamal Hassan, Thespian.
• Ilaiyaraja, Indian music composer and Symphonic Maestro.
• Suriya Sivakumar, Thespian.
• Shivaji Ganeshan, actor and the first International Award winner of India.
• Yuvan Shankar Raja, First Cypress-International-Award Winning Creative music Composer.
• Vijay Yesudas (born 1979), Playback singer.
• Pete Best (born 1941), early Beatles drummer.
• Engelbert Humperdinck (born 1936), pop singer.
• Mani Ratnam (born 1956), film director.
• Hema Malini, actress.
• Rekha, actress.
• Sridevi, actress.
• Jayasudha, actress.
• Jayabharathi, actress.
• Lisa Haydon, actress.
• S. Janaki, Playback singer.
• P. Susheela, Playback singer.
• M.S. Vishwanathan, music composer.
• K.V. Mahadevan, music composer.
• S.P. Balasubrahmanyam, playback singer.
• Sumalatha, actress.
• Lakshmi Narayanan, actress.
• Allu Arjun, actor.
• Ram Charan Teja, actor.
• Lakshmi Manchu, actress.
• Sundeep Krishnan, actor.
• Priya Anand, actress.
• Shruthi Hassan, actress.
• Samantha Ruth Prabhu, actress.
• Siddharth Narayanan, actor.
• Trisha, actress.
• Arvind Swamy, actor and businessman.
• Diwakar, playback singer.

SCIENTISTS :

• Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan.
• Subra Suresh.
• Kannan Soundararajan, mathematician.
• John Henry Constantine Whitehead (1904–1960), British mathematician.

SPORTS :

• Vishwanathan Anand (born 1969), Chess Grand Master and the undisputed world chess champion from 2007 until 2013.
• Ravichandran Ashwin, cricketer.
• Nasser Hussain (born 1968), English cricketer.
• Dinesh Karthik (born 1985), Indian cricketer.
• Sharath Kamal (born 1982), Indian table tennis player.
• Hemanth Badani, former Indian cricketer.
• Krishnamachari Srikkanth (born 1959), former Indian cricketer.
• Lakshmipathy Balaji, Indian cricketer.
• Murali Vijay (born 1984), current Indian cricketer.
• Sadagoppan Ramesh, former Indian cricketer.
• Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan, former Indian cricketer.
• W.V.Raman, former Indian cricketer.
• Vijay Amrithraj (born 1953), tennis player, sports commentator and Actor.
• Anand Amithraj (born 1952), tennis player, Businessman.
• Ramanathan Krishnan, tennis player.
• Ramesh Krishnan, tennis player and coach.
• Dipika Pallikal (born 1991), squash player, WISPA titles and first Indian woman to break into the top 10 in the WSA Rankings.
• Joshna Chinappa (born 1986), squash player, British Squash Championship.
• Karun Chandhok (born 1984), racing driver, Formula one and sports commentator.
• Dhanpal Ganesh (born 1994) Indian football player. 

ARTS & LANGUAGE :

•   R.K. Narayanan.

Yeah guys what you read is true. :-D When we came to know about these people who are also Chennaites, seriously we were shocked and we were not ready to believe this. Later, when we browsed about these people we came to know that they all are Chennai borns. 

What could be more cool than this B-) ?!

Have you ever wondered that SUNDAR PICHAI, PETE BEST, INDRA NOOYI, ASHOK AMITHRAJ etc., might be a Chennaite????

Well, we were thrilled..... 8-) We know even you feel the same *_* !!

So, do like, comment and follow.. After all they are our heroes.

Looking forward to more such heroes from Chennai.. ;-) Who knows, the person reading this blog could also be one among them in the coming future. :-D !!!!