List of people from Alappuzha

A list of notable people from Alappuzha:

• P Parameswaran - Director of Bharathiya Vichara Kendram and President of Vivekananda Kendram
• A. K. Antony- thrice Chief Minister of Kerala, Indian Defence Minister
• V S Achuthanandan - Chief Minister of Kerala
• M S Swaminathan - Agriculturist
• I C Chacko - Geologist
• Navajyothi Sree Karunakara Guru, the founder of Santhigiri Ashram
• Vayalar Ravi - former Home minister of Kerala, Union Cabinet Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs and Minister for Parliamentary Affairs
• Kuriakose Elias Chavara - Blessed, Co-founder of CMI
• Bishop Kurialassery^[1] - Venerable - First Bishop of what would become the Archdiocese of Changanassery, and he founded the Sisters of the Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
• Vellapally Natesan - General Secretary of SNDP Yogam
• Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai - Novelist and Short Story Writer
• K. R. Gowri Amma - Revenue Minister in the first Kerala LDF ministry, initiated the revolutionary land reforms in Kerala, Agriculture Minister in Kerala UDF Ministry
• Vayalar Ramavarma- Malayalam poet and film lyricist
• Vayalar Sarath Chandra Varma - film lyricist
• Fazil - film director
• Priyadarshan - film director
• Vinayan - film director
• Nedumudi Venu - film actor
• Mavelikkara Prabhakara Varma - musician
• Appachan Maliampurackal Chacko Punnoose (Navodaya Appachen) - Indian film producer, director, and entrepreneur
• Kunchako Boban - film actor
• Rajan P. Dev - Malayalam film actor and drama/theater personality
• Ratheesh - film actor
• Narendra Prasad
• Chelangatt Gopalakrishnan - writer and film critic
• Joy J. Kaimaparamban - English and Malayalam author
• Itty Achudan - the major contributor of ethno-medical information for the compilation of Hortus Malabaricus
• Kavalam Narayana Panicker - Poet
• K. Shankar Pillai - Cartoonist (Shankar)
• Padmarajan - film director, ,script writer, story writer
• K. P. A. C. Lalitha - film actress
• Muthukulam Raghavan Pillai - dramatist, film actor, poet
• Sreekumaran Thampi - lyricist, director, producer, script writer
• Ayyappa Paniker - poet
• Sardar K.M. Panikkar - diplomat, administrator, historian
• Lt Cdr (Retd) Arshad TK - Retired Naval Officer, Engineer, Poet, Writer, Humanitarian

References

1. ^ "Bishop Thomas Kurialacherry". http://www.churchesinindia.com/bishop_thomas_kurialacherry.html.