List of people from Kollam

The following is a list of notable people from Kollam, Kerala, India. For more details please see their respective articles.

Film and media[edit]

Jayan, Indian actor
Suresh Gopi, Indian actor and politician^[1]
Urvashi (actress), Indian actress
Jayabharathi, Indian actress
Kottarakkara Sreedharan Nair, Indian Actor
Kollam G. K. Pillai, Indian actor
Murali (Malayalam actor), Indian actor
Balachandra Menon, Indian actor and director
Sai Kumar (Malayalam actor), Indian actor
Kalaranjini, Indian actress
Anusree, Indian actress
Mallika Sukumaran, malayalam actress
Narendra Prasad, malayalam actor
Aranmula Ponnamma, malayalam actress
K. B. Ganesh Kumar, Indian actor and minister
Shobha Mohan, Indian actress
Jalaja, Indian actress
Ambili Devi, Malayalam film actress
Sreekandan Nair, Indian media personality
Madavoor Vasudevan Nair, Kathakali artist
Jayakumar Parameswaran Pillai, Indian film director
K. Ravindranathan Nair, Indian film producer
East Coast Vijayan, Indian film producer and lyricist
P. Balachandran, Indian actor
Rahul Riji Nair, Indian film director
G. R. Indugopan, Indian screenwriter
Anu Mohan, Indian actor
Vinu Mohan, Indian actor
Vijay Babu, Indian actor and producer
Uma Nair, television actress
Baby Ameya, Indian child actress
Amal Neerad, Indian film director
R. Sarath, Indian film director and screenwriter
Anwar Rasheed, Indian film director and producer
Kundara Johnny, Indian actor
Shiju Abdul Rasheed, Indian actor
Noorin Shereef, Indian actress
Vineeth Mohan, Indian actor
Mukesh, Indian actor and politician
Jameela Malik, Indian actress
K. P. A. C. Sunny, Indian actor
Sajan K. Mathew, Indian film director
Resul Pookutty, Oscar Award winner, sound engineer
Divyadarshan, Indian actor
Vinitha Koshy, Indian actress
Shaji N Karun, Malayalam movie director
James Albert, screenwriter and director
O. Madhavan, theatre personality
M. A. Nishad, Indian film director
C. V. Padmarajan, Indian politician and advocate
K. P. Nambiathiri, Indian cinematographer
Tony Babu, Indian film sound designer
Girish Gangadharan, Indian cinematographer
Geetha Salam, Indian actor
Ansar Shah, Indian cinematographer

Literature and writing[edit]

Azhakathu Padmanabha Kurup, renowned scholar in Sanskrit and Malayalam

Elamkulam Kunjan Pillai, historian and scholar
Azhakathu Padmanabha Kurup, Indian scholar
P. Madhavan Pillai, writer and translator
O. N. V. Kurup, Indian writer
N. P. Nayar, Indian writer
Sooranad Kunjan Pillai, Indian writer
S. Guptan Nair, Indian scholar and writer
Panmana Ramachandran Nair, Malayalam language writer
Kurissery Gopala Pillai, Indian writer
Sugathakumari, Indian poet
K. C. Kesava Pillai, Indian writer
C. N. Sreekantan Nair, Indian writer
Lalithambika Antharjanam, Indian writer
Pamman, Indian writer
Krishnabhaskar Mangalasserri, Indian writer
C. V. Kunhiraman, Indian writer
Thirunalloor Karunakaran, Indian writer
Vidhu Vincent, Indian writer
Cheri Viswanath, Indian writer
Samuel (cartoonist), Indian writer
P. Bhaskaranunni, Malayalam scholar and literary critic

Bureaucrats and Politicians[edit]

Gopal Krishna Pillai,Indian administrative officer
R. Balakrishna Pillai, Former minister of kerala
K. B. Ganesh Kumar, Indian actor and minister
G. Janardhana Kurup, Indian lawyer and politician
Kumbalathu Sanku Pillai, politician and freedom fighter
K. N. P. Kurup, Indian Politician
P. R. Madhavan Pillai, Indian politician
V. P. Ramakrishna Pillai, Indian politician
N. K. Premachandran, member of Lok Sabha representing Kollam Lok Sabha constituency.
Rajmohan Unnithan, Indian politician
E. K. Pillai, Indian politician
G. S. Jayalal, Indian politician
P. Aisha Potty, Indian politician and the MLA
C. Kesavan, Chief minister of erstwhile travancore-cochin(1950-52)
R. Sankar, former chief minister of kerala
M. A. Baby, politician
P. K. Gurudasan, politician and MLA
Baby John, politician
M. Noushad, politician
A. A. Rahim, politician
T. M. Varghese, politician and freedom fighter
J. Chinchu Rani, politician
Henry Austin (Indian politician), politician