13.0826° N, 80.2747° E

CHENNAI

Most Famous People Born in Chennai, India

Notable people

1,072

Peak decade

1980s

Median birth year

1965

Most distinctive

Cinema 11.9×

Tamil cinema's entire machine lives in these numbers — cinema, film, choreographer, and actor all over-index between 5.1× and 11.9×, a fingerprint no other Indian city comes close to. Add Viswanathan Anand's chess dominance and the mathematician footprint behind Ramanujan's home district, and the city balances movie glitter with something much quieter.