Cultural Icons
- Thirumuruga Kirupananda Variyar, scholarly saint
- Madurai Chinna Pillai, grass-roots activist
- Vyjayanthimala, Bharatanatyam dancer & she introduce semi-classical dance in Bollywood.
- Rukmini Devi Arundale, Bharatanatyam dancer, founder of Kalakshetra
- Balasaraswati, Bharatanatyam dancer
- Alarmel Valli, Bharatanatyam dancer
- Chitra Visweswaran, Bharatanatyam dancer
- Padma Subramanyam, Bharatanatyam dancer
- Medha Hari, Bharatanatyam dancer
- Pithukuli Murugadas, musician known for his songs on Lord Murugan
- K. B. Sundarambal, actress, singer
- Sirkali Govindarajan, vocalist and Carnatic music exponent
- Sirkali G. Siva Chidambaram, vocalist and Carnatic music exponent
- T.M.Soundararajan, vocalist and carnatic music exponent
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“A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is pulled by the others, thus perpetually changing the configuration of the whole. If the cultural element called morals takes on a new shape, we must ask what other strings have pulled it out of line. It cannot be one solitary string, nor even the strings nearby, for the network is three-dimensional at least.”
—Jacques Barzun (b. 1907)