List of people from Karnataka

Cinema • Ambareesh • Ananth Nag • Aniruddha Jatkar • Ananya Kasaravalli • Anuradha Paudwal • Arati Ankalikar-Tikekar • Arjun Sarja • Aruna Balraj • Arthi • Atul Kulkarni • A. T. Raghu • B. Saroja Devi • B. C. Patil • B. S. Ranga • B. V. Karanth • Bala • Balakrishna • Balaraj • Bangalore Latha • Bank Janardhan • Bharathi Vishnuvardhan • Bhargavi Narayan • Bhavana • Bhavani Prakash • Bianca Desai • Chandrika • Chandulal Jain • Chetan Kumar • Darshan Thoogudeep • Daisy Bopanna • Deepika Padukone • Devaraj • Dinesh • Dingri Nagaraj • Dwarakesh • Ere Gowda • Ganesh • Ganesh Hegde • G. V. Iyer • Geetha • Girish Karnad • Girish Kasaravalli • Gulshan Devaiah • Guru Dutt • Hansika Motwani • Harshika Poonacha • Hema Bellur • Hema Prabhath • Honnavalli Krishna • Jaggesh • Jayant Kaikini • Kalpana • Kalyan Kumar • Kashinath • Keerthiraj • Keerthi Bhat • Kunigal Nagabhushan • Lakshmi Chandrashekar • Lakshmi Rai • Leelavathi • Leena Chandavarkar • Lokesh • M. S. Sathyu • Madhuri Itagi • Mandeep Roy • Manjula • Master Hirannaiah • Master Manjunath • Michael Madhu • Milind Gadagkar • Mohan • Mysore Lokesh • Nagathihalli Chandrashekar • Narasimharaju • Negro Johnny • Nidhi Subbaiah • Nirmala Chennappa • Nishan K. P. Nanaiah • Padma Vasanthi • Padmaja Rao • Pandari Bai • Pattabhirama Reddy, settler • Pooja Lokesh • Pradeep Uppoor • Prakash Rai • Prabhu Deva, settler • Pramila Joshai • Prathap • Prema • Puneeth Rajkumar • Puttana Kanagal • Raam Reddy • Radhika Pandit • Raghavendra Rajkumar • Rajanikanth • Rajesh Krishnan, settler • Rajkumar • Raju Sundaram, settler • Raj B. Shetty • Rakshita • Ramesh Arvind • Ram Kumar • Ramu • Ramya • Ravichandran, settler • Raju Talikote • Rashmi • Rekha Das • Rockline Venkatesh • Rohit Shetty • Roopa Iyer, settler • R.T. Rama • Sarigama Viji • Sakshi Shivanand • Sanchita Shetty • Sandeep Chowta • Sanketh Kashi • Sathyabhama • Satyajith • Shamita Shetty • Shani Mahadevappa • Shankar Nag • Shanthamma • Shashi Kumar • Shivarajkumar • Shilpa Shetty • Shobraj • Shraddha Srinath • Shruti Naidu • Shylaja Nag • Sihi Kahi Chandru • Sihi Kahi Geetha • Sneha Ullal • Soundarya • Srinivas Prabhu • Sudha Baragur • Sudha Belawadi • Sudha Narasimharaju • Sunil • Srimurali • Srinath • Sudha Rani • Sudheer • Suman Nagarkar • Suman Ranganathan • Sundar Krishna Urs • Sundar Raj • Sunil Shetty • Sunil Kumar Desai • Sudeepa • Syed Aman Bachchan • T. S. Nagabharana • Tara • Tiger Prabhakar • Umashri • Upendra • Vajramuni • Vaishali Desai • Vasundhara Das • Vanishree • Vijay Kashi • Vinayak Joshi • Vishnuvardhan • Yashwant Sardeshpande Theatre • Arundhati Nag • Bhargavi Narayan • B. V. Karanth • Chandrashekhar Kambara • Chindodi Leela • Girish Karnad • Gubbi Veeranna • K. V. Subbanna • Kalpana • Lakshmi Chandrashekar • Lokesh • Master Hirannaiah • Mukhyamantri Chandru • Prasanna • Shankar Nag • Shivananda • Umashree • Vajramuni • Yashwant Sardeshpande Ancient architecture and sculpture • Amarashilpi Jakanachari • Gundan Anivaritachari • Ruvari Malithamma Modern and contemporary art, art criticism • Dattatreya Aralikatte • Renuka Kesaramadu • Ashwini Bhat • Surekha • S. G. Vasudev • Yusuf Arakkal Music Classical music - Carnatic • Gopala Dasa • Harikesanallur Muthayya Bhagavathar • Jagannatha Dasa • Kadri Gopalnath • Jyotsna Srikanth • Kanakadasa • Maharaja Jayachamaraja Wadiyar • Dr.Mysore Manjunath • Mysore Sadasiva Rao • Mysore V. Ramarathnam • Mysore Vasudevacharya • Mysore Nagaraj • N. Ravikiran • Purandaradasa • R. K. Srikanthan • R.R. Keshavamurthy • Sripadaraya • T. Chowdiah • Vadiraja • Vijaya Dasa • Vyasatirtha • Doraiswamy Iyengar • Adarsh Iyengar • Veene Sheshanna • Vittal Ramamurthy • Ghatam Udupa • K. V. Krishna Prasad • B. Shankar Rao • Anoor Anantha Krishna Sharma • M. S. Sheela • Vidyabhushana Classical music - Hindustani • Basavaraja Rajaguru, vocal • Bhimsen Joshi, vocal • Bapu Padmanabha, bansuri • S. Ballesh, vocal and shehnai • Ganapati Bhat, vocal • Gangubai Hangal, vocal • Gururao Deshpande, vocal • Jayateerth Mevundi, vocal • Kumar Gandharva, vocal • Lalith J. Rao, vocal • Madhava Gudi, vocal • Mallikarjun Mansur, vocal • Milind Chittal, vocal • Nachiketa Sharma, vocal • Nagaraja Rao Havaldar, vocal • Pravin Godkhindi, bansuri • Puttaraja Gawai, vocal • Rajeev Taranath, sarod • Sanjeev Chimmalgi, vocal • Sangeetha Katti, vocal • Sawai Gandharva, vocal • Shobha Gurtu, vocal • Smita Bellur, vocal • Taranath Ram Rao Hattiangadi, tabla • Pandit Venkatesh Kumar, vocal • Vinayak Torvi, vocal • Keshav Ginde, flute • Madhav Gudi, vocal • Panchakshari Gawai, vocal Modern musicians • Mysore Ananthaswamy, bhavageete • P. Kalinga Rao, bhavageete • Pandit Narasimhalu Vadavati • S. Ballesh, shehnai and vocal • Mysore Manjunath • Pravin Godkhindi, flute • Shimoga Subbanna, Sugama Sangeetha • C. Ashwath, Sugama Sangeetha • Balappa Hukkeri, folklore • G.V. Atri, bhavageete • Ganesh Hegde, choreography • Biddu Appaiah, composer • Bapu Padmanabha, flute Film music • Anoop Seelin • Arjun • B. V. Karanth • C. Ashwath • G. K. Venkatesh • G. V. Iyer, settler • Gurukiran • S. Ballesh, playback singer, music director, shehnai • Hamsalekha • Jayant Kaikini • Mano Murthy • Rajan–Nagendra • Ravichandran • Sadhu Kokila • Sandeep Chowta • Shankar–Ganesh • V. Harikrishna • V. Manohar • Vijaya Bhaskar • Raghu Dixit • Bapu Padmanabha Film singers • Nanditha • Rajkumar • Rajesh Krishnan • Vijay Prakash • Chetan Sosca Dance • Maya Rao (1928-2014), Kathak Guru and founder of NIKC, Bangalore Fashion • Deepika Padukone • Prasad Bidapa • Riya Kodali ==Kings and nobles==