Mangaloreans - Notable Mangaloreans

Notable Mangaloreans

• V. S. Acharya – Higher education minister in the Karnataka state government
• Aravind Adiga – Writer and journalist who won the Booker Prize in 2008
• Gopalakrishna Adiga – Kannada poet
• Ashish Kumar Ballal – Former captain of the Indian National Hockey team
• Yograj Bhat – Kannada cinema film director, producer, screenwriter and a lyricist
• Sandeep Chowta – Bollywood and Tollywood music director, head of Columbia Records in India
• Genelia D'Souza – Bollywood actress
• Guru Dutt – Film director, producer and actor.
• George Fernandes – Former Railway and Defence Minister
• Bannanje Govindacharya – Madhava scholar
• Gurukiran – Singer, music director in the Kannada film industry
• Ganesh Hegde – Singer, performer, video director and Bollywood choreographer
• K. S. Hegde – Former Speaker of Lok Sabha and Supreme Court Judge
• Nitte Santosh Hegde – Former justice of the Supreme Court Of India, former Solicitor General of India, and Lokayukta (ombudsman) for Karnataka State of India from 2006–2011
• Veerendra Heggade – Philanthropist and the Dharmadhikari (hereditary administrator) of the Dharmasthala Temple
• Suresh Kalmadi – Politician and senior sports administrator
• K. V. Kamath – Chairman of Infosys Limited
• M. V. Kamath – Journalist and former Chairman of Prasar Bharthi
• B. V. Karanth – Playwright and director
• K. Shivaram Karanth – Kannada writer, social activist, environmentalist, Yakshagana artist, film maker and thinker
• Eesha Koppikhar – Bollywood actress
• Anil Kumble – Former cricketer
• Padma Shri Kadri Gopalnath - One of the pioneers of Carnatic music on the saxophone
• Shirish Kunder – Bollywood director
• Budhi Kunderan – Cricketer
• Madhwacharya – Hindu saint and philosopher
• Sheetal Mallar – Model who won the Femina Look of the Year in 1994
• Vijay Mallya – Liquor and airline baron
• V. Manohar – Music director, lyricist, film director and actor in Kannada Cinema
• Veerappa Moily – Minister of Corporate Affairs and former chief minister of Karnataka
• Daya Nayak – Sub-inspector in the Mumbai Police
• Deepika Padukone – Bollywood actress
• Prakash Padukone – Former badminton player, most notable for winning the All England Badminton in 1980
• Anant Pai – Educationist and creator of Indian comics
• M. Govinda Pai – Kannada poet
• T. M. A. Pai – Doctor, educationist, banker and philanthropist who founded the university town of Manipal in Udupi
• Santosh Rai Pathaje – Cinematographer and director in the Kannada film industry
• Freida Pinto – Indian actress and model
• Janardhana Poojary – Former Union Minister of State for Finance
• Aishwarya Rai – Bollywood actress and former Miss World
• Prakash Raj – Actor, director and producer who won the National Award winner in 2008
• V. T. Rajshekar – Journalist, founder and editor of the Dalit Voice
• Abbakka Rani – Chowta queen of Tulu Nadu who opposed the Portuguese in the latter half of the 16th century
• Amrita Rao – Bollywood actress
• U. R. Rao – Space scientist and former chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
• Ratnakaravarni – Kannada poet and writer
• Victor Rodrigues – Konkani novelist and short story writer
• V. J. P. Saldanha – Konkani littérateur, dramatist, novelist, short-story writer and poet
• Ravi Shastri – Former captain of the India national cricket team
• Anushka Shetty – Kollywood and Tollywood actress
• B. R. Shetty – Entrepreneur
• Devi Prasad Shetty – Cardiac surgeon and philanthropist
• Shilpa Shetty – Bollywood actress
• Sunil Shetty – Bollywood actor, producer, and entrepreneur
• Reshma Shetty – American actress
• Rohit Shetty – Bollywood director
• Siddhanth Thingalaya – Track and field athlete
• Upendra – Kannada film actor, director, screen writer, lyricist and singer
• Pooja Hegde – Miss Universe India 2010 second runner up and Kollywood actress
• Akshay Kamath - CEO Jet Airways