Bellary - Noted Personalities

Noted Personalities

• Arcot Ranganatha Mudaliar – Former Deputy Collector of Bellary, Politician and Theosophist. He served as the Minister of Public Health and Excise for the Madras Presidency from 1926 to 1928.
• G.Narayanaswamy Iyengar – First Deputy Collector of Bellary, Politician and Theosophist. He served as the Minister of Public Health and Excise for the Madras Presidency from 1916 to 1925.
• Bahaddoor S. Seshagiri Rao – Former principal of the Municipal High school, National Award winning teacher and associate of the Gandhi Bhavan in Bellary.
• Basavarajeshwari – Politician and Industrialist
• Bellary Raghava – Noted dramatist. The auditorium Raghava Kala Mandir in Bellary is named after him.
• Dharmavaraṃ Rāmakr̥ṣṇamācāryulu (1853–1912) – Noted dramatist.
• Gali Janardhan Reddy – Chairman, OMCPL, and incumbent minister for State Tourism Development in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly{Presently in Hyd Chenchaguda Jail in Mining Scam ].
• Jayanthi – Renowned cinema actress; was born in Bellary.
• Kolachalam Srinivasa Rao (1854–1919) – Noted dramatist.
• K.C.Kondaiah – Politician and Industrialist
• Mundlur Diwakar Babu – Politician, District Congress President and former Cabinet Minister in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly.
• Nagaruru Narayana Rao – Former Chairman of the Bellary Municipality. A public park in the town is named after him.
• Rai Bahadur A. Sabhapathy Mudaliar – Philanthropist; The Women & Children's Hospital or The District Hospital was initially named after him, following his donation of land and building to the hospital.
• Ravi Belagere – Publisher of the Hai Bengaluru Tabloid
• Tekur Subramanyam – Indian Freedom Fighter, First post-independence MP of Bellary, elected thrice in a row since 1952, Political Secretary to Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru

• Haji Syed Abdul Salam - one of the leading entrepreneurs of Bellary along with his sons Syed Abdul Hameed, Syed Adul Rahman, Syed Abdullah, Syed Abdul Hafeez . His last son Syed Abdul Thawab was amongst the first in the mining business in the early 1960s.