The following were born in Chennai, formerly known as Madras:
- Ashok Amritraj, Hollywood producer
- Indra Nooyi, Chairperson & CEO of PepsiCo
- Ilaiyaraja, Indian Music Composer and Symphonic Maestro
- Shivaji Ganesan,Super-mega Actor and the first International Award winner of India.
- Yuvan Shankar Raja, First Cypress-International-Award Winning Creative music Composer.
- Vijay Amritraj (14 December 1953), Tennis Player, Sports Commentator and Actor
- Anand Amritraj (20 March 1952), Tennis Player, Businessman
- Viswanathan Anand (b. 1969), chess grandmaster
- Vijay Yesudas (March 23, 1979), Playback Singer
- Pete Best (b. 1941), early Beatles drummer
- Mahesh Bhupathi (b. 1974), Tennis Player
- John Henry Constantine Whitehead (11 November 1904 – 8 May 1960) British mathematician
- Engelbert Humperdinck (b. 1936), pop singer
- Nasser Hussain (b. 1968), English cricketer
- Dinesh Karthik (b. 1985), Indian cricketer
- R.K. Narayan (b. 1906; d. 2001), writer
- A. R. Rahman (b. 1966), music composer
- Mani Ratnam (b. 1956), film director
- Krishnamachari Srikkanth (b. 1959), former Indian cricketer
- Kamal Haasan, Thespian
- C. Rajagopalachari, Last Governor-General of India
- C. V. Raman, Nobel Laureate
- Periyar E. V. Ramasamy, Social Reformer
- Ravichandran Ashwin, Cricketer
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Famous quotes containing the words list of, list and/or people:
“My list of things I never pictured myself saying when I pictured myself as a parent has grown over the years.”
—Polly Berrien Berends (20th century)
“Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“This people must cease to hold slaves, and to make war on Mexico, though it cost them their existence as a people.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)