List of people from Thiruvananthapuram

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List of notable people who were born or settled in Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum), Kerala.

• Marthanda Varma
• Sethu Lakshmi Bayi
• Dharma Raja
• Ayilyam Thirunal
• Swathi Thirunal Rama Varma
• Moolam Thirunal
• Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma

• Ayyankali
• Sri Madhukarnath
• Vakkom Moulavi
• Sree Narayana Guru
• Chattampi Swamikal
• Sade Guru Shivalingadasa Swamigal

• Vakkom Abdul Khader
• Annie Mascarene

• Shashi Tharoor
• Vakkom Purushothaman
• Varkala Radhakrishnan
• K. Muraleedharan
• A. Sampath
• V. S. Sivakumar
• Kadakampally Surendran
• K S Sabarinathan
• G Karthikeyan
• M. Vijayakumar
• C. Jayan Babu
• Neelalohithadasan Nadar
• O. Rajagopal
• Arya Rajendran

• Swathithirunal
• B. Sasikumar
• K. S. Chithra
• M. Jayachandran
• Bichu Thirumala
• Hariharan
• L. Athira Krishna - violinist
• Vidhu Prathap
• M. G. Radhakrishnan - music director and vocalist
• M. G. Sreekumar
• Neyyattinkara Vasudevan
• V. Madhusoodanan Nair
• G. Venugopal
• Balabhaskar
• Job Kurian
• Ishaan Dev
• Jassie Gift
• Prince Rama Varma
• Najim Arshad
• Abhaya Hiranmayi
• Akhila Anand
• Raftaar (rapper)
• Vinayak Sasikumar
• Vishnu Vijay

• A. Ramachandran
• Raja Ravi Varma

• Kanayi Kunhiraman

• Guru Gopinath
• Gopinath Muthukad
• L. Athira Krishna
• Neena Prasad
• Guru Chandrasekharan
• Madavoor Vasudevan Nair
• G. S. Pradeep
• Rajashree Warrier
• Gayathri Govind

• Laurie Baker - architect, born in England, settled in Trivandrum
• Gopalan Nair Shankar (G. Shankar) - received Padma Shri award in 2011

• V. N. Krishnamurthy - ex-Dy. Director, VSSC; ex-Director, ISRO-UoP Cell
• G. Madhavan Nair - ISRO Chairman
• Thanu Padmanabhan - Indian theoretical physicist
• K. S. S. Nambooripad -Mathematician

• Ayyankali
• Vakkom Moulavi
• Narayana Guru - also a poet
• Chattampi Swamikal - also a poet and prose writer

• Kumaran Asan - poet
• A. Ayyappan
• K. A. Beena - journalist and author^[1]
• Kilimanoor Chandran
• Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyer - poet
• Sugathakumari - poet
• Gopi Kottoor - poet
• O. N. V. Kurup - poet
• Mali Madhavan Nair
• V. Madhusoodhanan Nair
• George Onakkoor
• Ayyappa Paniker
• C. V. Raman Pillai
• E. V. Krishna Pillai
• Kesari Balakrishna Pillai
• N. Krishna Pillai
• Sreekanteswaram Padmanabha Pillai - author of Shabda Tharavali
• Kilimanoor Ramakanthan
• Sukumar
• Irayimman Thampi
• Bichu Thirumala - Malayalam poet
• Swathi Thirunal
• A. R. Raja Raja Varma
• Vijayakrishnan
• Poovachal Khader - poet
• Vellayani Arjunan

• Radhakrishnan Nair Harshan
• Admiral R. Hari Kumar

• N. R. Madhava Menon – member of Centre-State Relations Commission of the Government of India; former VC of National Law School of India University, Bangalore and NUJS Kolkata
• K. S. Paripoornan – Chief Justice of Patna High Court (1994) and Justice of the Supreme Court of India (1994–1997)

• K.N. Ananthapadmanabhan - Umpire (ex-Cricketer)
• Aneil Nambiar (born 1984) - Cricketer
• Vinu Jose - Footballer
• Jobby Justin - Footballer
• Padmanabhan Prasanth - Cricketer
• H.S. Prannoy - Badminton player
• Raiphi Vincent Gomez - Cricketer
• P. Ranganathan - ex-cricketer
• Rohan Prem - Cricketer
• Sanju Samson - Cricketer
• Bijoy Varghese - Footballer
• Britto PM - Footballer

• Kris Gopalakrishnan - CEO of Infosys
• Raj Subramaniam - CEO of FedEx

• Abhirami
• Ahaana Krishna
• Aishwarya Lekshmi
• Alencier Ley Lopez
• Ambika
• Aneesh Ravi
• Anil Murali
• Annie Shaji Kailas
• Appani Sarath
• Arthana Binu
• Arun Kumar Aravind
• Arya Rohit
• Baiju
• Bharat Gopy
• Biju Pappan
• Biju Sopanam
• Chippy
• Deepu Karunakaran
• Devi Ajith
• Gokul Suresh
• Indrajith Sukumaran
• Indrans
• Iniya
• Isha Sharvani
• Jagadish
• Jagathy Sreekumar
• J.C. Daniel
• Joshi
• Kalaranjini
• Kalpana
• Kani Kusruti
• Karamana Janardanan Nair
• Karthika
• Keerikkadan Jose
• Keerthy Suresh
• Kochu Preman
• K. P. A. C. Azeez
• Krishnakumar
• Krishnankutty Nair
• Lalitha
• Maala Parvathi
• Madhu
• Mahesh Narayanan
• Mallika Sukumaran
• Manikuttan
• Maniyanpilla Raju
• Manjima Mohan
• Manju Pillai
• Menaka Sureshkumar
• Mithun Ramesh
• Mohanlal
• N. L. Balakrishnan
• Namitha Pramod
• Nandhu
• Nayanthara Chakravarthy
• Nazriya Nazim
• Noby Marcose
• Nyla Usha
• Padmini
• Poojappura Ravi
• Prajesh Sen
• Pranav Mohanlal
• Prathap Pothan
• Premkumar
• Prem Nazir
• Prithviraj Sukumaran
• Priyadarshan
• Priyanka Nair
• Radha
• Ragini
• Rajasenan
• Ravi Vallathol
• Rojin Thomas
• R. S. Vimal
• Saji Surendran
• Sajin Baabu
• Sakhi Thomas
• Sangeeth Sivan
• Santosh Sivan
• Sathyan
• Senthil Krishna
• Shafna
• Shaji Kailas
• Shaji N. Karun
• Shobhana
• Shyamaprasad
• Sithara
• Sona Nair
• Suchitra Murali
• Sudheer Karamana
• Sujith Vasudev
• Sukumaran
• Sukumari
• Suraj Venjaramoodu
• Suresh Gopi
• Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair
• Thulasidas
• Urvashi
• Venu Nagavally
• Vijayakumar
• Vijayasree
• Vinduja Menon

• Padmanabhan Palpu
• C.O. Karunakaran
• M. Krishnan Nair - Founding Director of Regional Cancer Centre
• R. Kesavan Nair
• A. Marthanda Pillai - neurosurgeon, recipient of 2011 Padma Shri
• P. K. R. Warrier
• Mohammed Illias Sahadulla