Mahakavi

The word Mahakavi or Maha Kavi is an honorific and means "Great Poet." It could refer to any of the following (in alphabetical order): -

Bammera Potana, a 16th-century Telugu poet.
Kālidāsa, a 5th-century Sanskrit playwright and epic poet
P. C. Devassia, (1906 – 2006), a Sanskrit scholar and poet
Kumaran Asan, a Malayali poet.
Laxmi Prasad Devkota, a Nepali poet.
G. Sankara Kurup, a Malayali poet.
Srirangam Srinivasarao or Sri Sri, a Telugu poet.
Subramanya Bharathy, a Tamil poet.
Vallathol Narayana Menon, a Malayali poet.
Vidyapati, (1352 – 1448), also known as the Maithil Kokil Vidyapati (Vidyapati, the cuckoo of Maithili), famous for his poems in Maithili language.
Puthencavu Mathan Tharakan (1903 - 1993), a Malayalam Poet, writer and lyricist
Oothukkadu Venkata Subbayyar (1700), a prolific music composer of South India with his Classical Compositions in poetic Sanskrit and Tamil