Notable People
- tuluva narasa nayaka - fonder of tuluva dynasty of vijayanagar
- krishnadevaraya—the greatest king of vijayanagar empire and an icon of India and one of the greatest king of India
- vira narasimha raya - emperor of vijayanagara
- achuta devaray - emperor of vijayanagar
- venkata 1 - emperor of vijayanagar
- sadasiva raya—emperor of vijayanagar
- rani abbakka devi - the great queen of tulu nadu who repelled Portuguese attack
- V. S. Acharya — Former 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Janardhana Poojary — Former Union Minister of State for Finance
- Aishwarya Rai — Bollywood actresss 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
- 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
- Anushka Shetty — Kollywood and Tollywood actress
- B. R. Shetty — Enterprenuer
- Devi Prasad Shetty — Cardiac surgeon and philanthropist
- Shilpa Shetty — Bollywood actress
- Sunil Shetty — Bollywood actor, producer, and enterpreneur
- Reshma Shetty — American actress
- Rohit Shetty — Bollywood director
- Siddhanth Thingalaya — Track and field athlete
- Upendra — Kannada film actor, director, screen writer, lyricist and singer
- D V Sadananda Gowda — Former Chief Minister of Karnataka,Former Loksabha Member
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