Malayali people

Priyanka Chopra Jonas is an Indian actress and film producer. The winner of the Miss World 2000 pageant, she is India's highest-paid actress and her accolades include two National Film Awards and five Filmfare Awards. In 2016, the Government of India honoured her with the Padma Shri, and Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Forbes listed her among the World's 100 Most Powerful Women, and in 2022, she was named in the BBC 100 Women list.

Indian novelist, essayist, and activist

Indian film actor, producer and model

Samantha Ruth Prabhu is an Indian actress who works predominantly in Telugu and Tamil films. One of South India's highest-paid actresses, Samantha is the recipient of several accolades, including four Filmfare Awards South, two Nandi Awards and a Tamil Nadu State Film Award.

Indian actress

Indian spiritual leader and guru

The Malayali people (; also spelt Malayalee and sometimes known by the demonym Keralite) are a Dravidian ethnic group native to the southern Indian state of Kerala, and the union territory of Lakshadweep. They are predominantly native speakers of the Malayalam language, one of the eleven classical languages of India. The state of Kerala was created in 1956 through the States Reorganisation Act. Prior to that, since the 1800s existed the Kingdom of Cochin, the Travancore, Malabar District, and South Canara of the British Raj. The Malabar District was annexed by the British Indians through the T

film actor, chief minister of Tamil Nadu (1917 – 1987)

Indian agronomist (1925–2023)

ethnoreligious group

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Malaysian-Singaporean politician, 3rd President of Singapore (1923–2005)

Indian-American economist

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Indian long jumper

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Indian classical dancer, choreographer and instructor (1918-2016)

Syro-Malabar Catholic Franciscan Religious Sister

Indian film director (born 1941)

former Indian film actress

Indian actress in South Indian films

Spanish-Indian Catholic priest and theologian (1918-2010)

Asha Kelunni (born 8 July 1966), better known by her stage name Revathi, is an Indian actress and director, known for her works predominantly in Tamil and Malayalam cinema - in addition to Telugu, Hindi and Kannada films.

Indian film actress and model

Indian playback singer and musician from Kerala.

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Indian saint (1876–1926)

Indian justice

Indian actor, film director and producer (born 1979)

Indian chess player

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Catholic cardinal (1927-2011)

Indian judge (1905-1996)

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Indian actress (1999-present)

Kalyani Priyadarshan is an Indian actress who appears predominantly in Malayalam films, in addition to Tamil and Telugu films. Kalyani is a recipient of one Filmfare Award South and three South Indian International Movie Awards.

Indian poet (1878-1958)

Indian actress

Indian Carmelite sister and saint (1877–1952)

Indian author (1908–1994)

Indian politician

Syro Malabar Catholic Archbishop belonging to the Archdiocese of Ernakulam (1943-2020)

Athletics (sport) competitor

Indian actress

Indian diplomat (1936–2005)

Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation

Indian rationalist

Indian author, screenplay writer and film director (1933–2024)

Sanju Viswanath Samson is an Indian cricketer who plays for the India national cricket team in the ODI and T20I formats. He was part of the 2024 and 2026 T20 world cup winning teams, including a Player of the Tournament performance in 2026. He plays for Chennai Super Kings in the IPL and for the Kerala cricket team domestically.

athletics competitor

Indian Malayalam language author

badminton player

Jyeṣṭhadeva () was an astronomer-mathematician of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics founded by Madhava of Sangamagrama (). He is best known as the author of the Yuktibhāṣā, a commentary in Malayalam of the treatise Tantrasamgraha by Nilakantha Somayaji. In the Yuktibhāṣā, Jyeṣṭhadeva gave complete proofs and rationales for the statements in Tantrasamgraha, which was unusual for traditional Indian mathematicians of the time. The Yuktibhāṣā is now believed to contain derivations of Taylor and infinite series expansions for certain trigonometric functions. However, it did not combine

Indian author and diplomat (1895-1963)

Indian aerospace engineer