Notable alumni includes tenth
President of India K. R. Narayanan, renowned
theoretical physicist Thanu Padmanabhan, geneticist
M. S. Swaminathan,
ISRO former chairman
G. Madhavan Nair,
INSA scientist
Perdur Radhakantha Adiga, former
Supreme Court judges,
Justice Kurian Joseph,
Justice Fathima Beevi, legal luminary
N. R. Madhava Menon, Indian film actor
Mohanlal, Malayalam poets
O. N. V. Kurup,
Sugathakumari, Music composer
G. Devarajan, historian
M. G. S. Narayanan, cricketer
Sanju Samson and many other eminent personalities. File:President Clinton with Indian president K. R. Narayanan (cropped).jpg|
10th President of India,
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Father of Green Revolution, Recipient of Bharat Ratna,
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ISRO Chairman G. Madhavan Nair with A. P. J. Abdul Kalam File:N. R. Madhava Menon.jpg|
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Music composer, G. Devarajan Others •
Pinarayi Vijayan –
12th Chief Minister of Kerala. •
Oommen Chandy –
10th Chief Minister of Kerala •
A. K. Antony –
6th Chief Minister of Kerala and
25th Minister of Defence (India),
Government of India. •
Vayalar Ravi – Former
Minister of Civil Aviation,
Government of India. •
Mullappally Ramachandran – Former
Minister of Home Affairs,
Government of India. •
P. J. Kurien- 11th
Deputy Chairperson of the Rajya Sabha. •
Kodiyeri Balakrishnan – Former Minister for
Home Affairs,
Government of Kerala. •
V. D. Satheesan –
Leader of the Opposition-
15th Kerala Assembly. •
Ramesh Chennithala - former Minister for
Home Affairs,
Government of Kerala. •
T. M. Thomas Isaac – Former Minister for Finance,
Government of Kerala. •
K. B. Ganesh Kumar – Minister for Transport,
15th Kerala Assembly,
Government of Kerala. •
K. N. Balagopal – Minister for Finance,
15th Kerala Assembly,
Government of Kerala. •
Veena George – Minister for Health,
15th Kerala Assembly,
Government of Kerala. •
Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan – Former
Revenue Minister,
Government of Kerala. •
M. B. Rajesh – 23rd Speaker of the
Kerala Legislative Assembly. •
Adoor Prakash – Member of parliament,
18th Lok Sabha,
Attingal Lok Sabha constituency. •
K. Sudhakaran – Member of parliament,
18th Lok Sabha,
Kannur Lok Sabha constituency. •
N. K. Premachandran-Member of parliament,
18th Lok Sabha,
Kollam Lok Sabha constituency. •
Rajmohan Unnithan – Member of parliament,
18th Lok Sabha,
Kasaragod Lok Sabha constituency. •
Benny Behanan – Member of parliament,
18th Lok Sabha,
Chalakudy Lok Sabha constituency. •
Anto Antony- Member of parliament,
18th Lok Sabha,
Pathanamthitta Lok Sabha constituency. •
Kodikunnil Suresh – Member of parliament,
18th Lok Sabha,
Mavelikara Lok Sabha constituency. •
Dean Kuriakose – Member of parliament,
18th Lok Sabha,
Idukki Lok Sabha constituency. •
Francis George (politician) -Member of parliament,
18th Lok Sabha,
Kottayam Lok Sabha constituency. •
Chandy Oommen – Member of the
15th Kerala Assembly. •
P. C. Vishnunadh – Member of the
15th Kerala Assembly. •
K. G. Balakrishnan – Former
chief Judge of the
Supreme Court of India . •
Alexander Thomas (judge) – Former judge of the
High Court of Kerala. •
George Alencherry –
Cardinal of the
Syro-Malabar Catholic Church. •
Baselios Cleemis –
Cardinal of the
Syro-Malankara Catholic Church. •
Thomas Jessayyan Netto –
Metropolitan Archbishop of the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Trivandrum. •
Appu Kuttan – He has served as an advisor to American President
Bill Clinton, India Prime Minister
Rajiv Gandhi, the
President of Venezuela, and the
Mauritius Prime Minister. •
T. V. Paul – Former president of the
International Studies Association. •
P. K. Abdul Aziz – Former Vice chancellor of
Cochin University of Science and Technology,
Aligarh Muslim University,
University of Science and Technology Meghalaya. •
Jacob Punnoose – Former
Director general of police of
Kerala. •
T. P. Senkumar – Former
Director general of police of
Kerala. •
Jija Madhavan Harisingh – She was the first woman IPS officer (
Indian Police Service) from South-India (Karnataka cadre). •
Resul Pookutty – Oscar award winner. •
Ameer Shahul – Indian author and environmentalist. •
Ambalapuzha Gopakumar – Malayalam poet, historian, and writer from Kerala. •
C. V. Ananda Bose – 21st
Governor of West Bengal. •
P. S. Sreedharan Pillai – 19th
Governor of Goa. •
S. Venkitaramanan – 18th Governor of the
Reserve Bank of India. •
K. S. Chithra – Famous playback singer . •
Mammootty – Famous Malayalam actor . •
Thoppil Bhasi – Indian
Malayalam language playwright, screenwriter, and film director. •
Venu Nagavally – Famous
Malayalam actor & director. •
Adoor Gopalakrishnan – Indian
Malayalam language screenwriter, and film director. •
Sreekumaran Thampi – Famous Lyricist. He has written over 3,000 songs for
Malayalam Cinema. •
Murali (Malayalam actor) – Famous
malayalam actor. •
Bharat Gopy – Famous Malayalam actor . •
Padmarajan – Famous Malayalam movie director . •
K. G. George – An Indian filmmaker and screenwriter who worked in the
Malayalam cinema . •
Sibi Malayil – Famous Malayalam movie director . •
Blessy – Famous Malayalam movie director . •
Joshiy – Famous Malayalam movie director . •
Thilakan – Famous Malayalam actor . •
Nedumudi Venu – Famous
malayalam actor. •
Sukumaran – Famous Malayalam actor . •
Karamana Janardanan Nair – Famous
Malayalam Actor. •
Sudheer Karamana – Famous
Malayalam Actor. •
Narendra Prasad – Famous
Malayalam Actor. •
Fahadh Faasil – Famous Malayalam actor . •
Kunchacko Boban – Famous Malayalam actor . •
Murali Gopy – Famous Malayalam actor and screenwriter . •
M. Jayachandran – Indian composer, singer, and musician. •
Vayalar Sarath Chandra Varma -
Malayalam lyricist and poet. •
Prakash Varma – Famous Malayalam actor and advertisement director. •
Santosh Sivan – Famous Indian
cinematographer . •
K. J. Yesudas – Famous Indian playback singer . •
M. G. Sreekumar – Famous Indian playback singer. •
P. Jayachandran – Famous Indian playback singer. •
G. Venugopal – Famous Indian playback singer . •
Prem Nazir – Famous Malayalam actor . •
Madhu (actor) – prominent lead actor during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s and has acted in more than 400 films. •
Priyadarshan – Famous Indian director and screenwriter. •
Jacob Abraham- American
computer scientist and engineer. •
T. K. A. Nair – Formerly served as adviser to the
Prime Minister of India with the rank of the Minister of State. He also previously served as Principal Secretary to Prime Minister of India. •
R. Hari Kumar – He served as 25th
Chief of the Naval Staff. •
S. Suresh Babu- Indian film screenwriter. • Kuncheria P Isaac – Former secretary of
AICTE and first vice chancellor of
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Technological University, Thiruvananthapuram . •
M. A. Baby – General Secretary of the
Communist Party of India (Marxist). Minister of Education in Kerala from 2006 to 2011. •
T. V. Rajan Babu – organic chemist who holds the position of Distinguished Professor of
Chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences at the
Ohio State University. •
Veliyam Bharghavan- Secretary of the
Communist Party of India. •
Tiffany Brar – Indian social activist. •
Sathyabhama Das Biju – An Indian amphibian biologist,
wildlife conservationist and heads the Systematics Lab at the
University of Delhi. •
G. Devarajan – Indian composer and
Carnatic singer. •
Koppillil Radhakrishnan – 7th
Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation. •
S. Somanath – 10th
Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation. • Sheena Rani – Program director of the
Agni-V Intercontinental ballistic missile under
DRDO. •
V. R. Lalithambika – An Indian engineer and former Director of
ISRO Human Spaceflight Programme, played a key role in the
Gaganyaan mission. She was conferred the Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur, France's highest civilian award, for her contributions to Indo-French space cooperation. •
George Joseph (scientist) – Indian space scientist, best known for his contributions to the development of
Remote sensing technology in India, especially Earth observation sensors. •
T. K. Alex – Former director of
Indian Space Research Organisation Satellite Centre (ISAC). •
K. N. Ninan (scientist) – Former deputy director of
Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre at
ISRO, and later an emeritus professor at the
Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST). •
C. Divakaran – State Executive Member of
Communist Party of India. •
Renji Panicker – Actor, screenwriter, director in
Malayalam films. •
Sanal Edamaruku – president of the
Indian Rationalist Association. •
Salim Gangadharan – Chairman of the
South Indian Bank. •
Kris Gopalakrishnan – Co-founder of
Infosys. •
S. D. Shibulal – He was the chief executive officer and managing director of
Infosys and one of its seven founding members. •
P. K. Gurudasan – An Indian politician, trade unionist, and a member of
Communist Party of India (Marxist) . •
Thirunalloor Karunakaran – was a poet, scholar, and teacher. •
O. Madhavan – was an Indian theatre director and actor . He was one of the founding members of the
Communist Party of India in Kerala. •
V. Madhusoodanan Nair – Indian poet and critic of
Malayalam literature . •
Lopamudra R – Indian poet and translator writing in
Malayalam language with the pen name Lopamudra. •
S. K. Satheesh – Indian meteorologist and a professor at the Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences of the
Indian Institute of Science (IISc). •
T. N. Seema – social worker, teacher, and politician who was an MP from
Rajya Sabha elected from
Kerala from 2010 to 2016 for the
Communist Party of India. •
Bindu Ammini – Indian lawyer and lecturer at
Government Law College,
Kozhikode, and a
Dalit activist. •
S. D. Shibulal – He was the chief executive officer and managing director of
Infosys, and one of its seven founding members. •
M. S. Valiathan – An Indian
cardiac surgeon . He was a president of the
Indian National Science Academy and a National Research Professor of the
Government of India. •
Jose Chacko Periappuram – An Indian
cardiac surgeon and medical writer who performed the first successful
heart transplant in the state of
Kerala, as well as the first successful heart retransplant in the country. •
M. Krishnan Nair (doctor)-Founding director of the
Regional Cancer Centre, Thiruvananthapuram.
Government of India awarded him Padma Shri in 2001 for his contributions in the cancer care field. • B Umadathan-Renowned
Forensic Surgeon, he who unravelled many mysterious murders including
Sukumara Kurup case. • P Rema-Former head of the
forensic department of the
Thiruvananthapuram Medical College and wife of actor
Jagadeesh. •
K. P. Haridas – Indian surgeon known for first successful liver resection. •
Mary Verghese – An Indian physician who was among the earliest pioneers of
physical medicine and rehabilitation in India. •
D. Vinayachandran –
Malayalam poet. •
Rajashree Warrier – one of India's foremost
Bharatanatyam Dancers. •
Jagathy Sreekumar – Indian actor, director and playback singer, who has appeared in over 1500
Malayalam films. •
Jagadeesh- an Indian actor, screenwriter, and television presenter. •
Basil Joseph- Indian film actor and director who works in the
Malayalam film industry. •
Suresh Gopi – actor, playback singer, television presenter and politician who is currently serving as the
Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas and the
Minister of Tourism since June 2024. •
Mukesh (actor) – Actor and politician. •
Balachandra Menon – Famous
Malayalam Actor & director. •
Parvathy Thiruvothu – Actress who predominantly works in
Malayalam and
Tamil films. ==See also==