Scholars from Tamil Nadu

Thiruvalluvar, commonly known as Valluvar, was an Indian poet and philosopher. He is best known as the author of the Tirukkuṟaḷ, a collection of couplets on ethics, political and economic matters, and love. The text is considered an exceptional and widely cherished work of Tamil literature.

Hindu Saint(Guru)

Nammalvar was one of the twelve Alvar saints of Tamil Nadu, India, who are known for their affiliation to the Vaishnava tradition of Hinduism. The verses of the Alvars are compiled as the Naalayira Divya Prabandham, where praises are sung of 108 temples that are classified as divine realms, called the Divya Desams. Nammalvar is considered to be the fifth in the line of the twelve Alvars. He is highly regarded as a great mystic of the Vaishnava tradition. He is also considered to be the foremost among the twelve Alvars, and his contributions amount to 1352 among the 4000 stanzas in the Naalayir

Indian writer

Indian historian (1892–1975)

Nathamuni, also known as Sri Ranganathamuni, (823 CE – 951 CE), was a Vaishnava theologian who collected and compiled the Naalayira Divya Prabandham. Considered the first of the Sri Vaishnava acharyas, Nathamuni is also the author of the Yogarahasya, and the Nyayatattva.

Indian philosopher

Indian philosopher (530-561)

Indian epigraphist (1930–2018)

Kapilar or Kabilar (Tamil: கபிலர்) was the most prolific Tamil poet of the Sangam period (c. 3rd century BCE to 3rd century CE). He contributed 206 poems, or a little less than 10% of the entire Sangam-era classical corpus by 473 ancient poets. Held in high regard by other poets of the Sangam era, as well as the post-Sangam era, he is variously dated to have lived between c. 50–125 CE, or 140–200 CE.

Saint, composer of Carnatic music and philosopher

Indian academic (1901–1980)

Indian Hindu leader

Advaita scholar; contemporary of Vaishnava Acharya Ramanuja

Sanskrit scholar and composer of the popular Venkateswara Suprabhatam

Indian politician (1915–2001)

Indian scholar (1928-2017)

Director of the U.S. National Science Foundation

Indian linguist (1925–2002)

Indian Sanskrit scholar (1890–1978)