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.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Chennai during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Chennai Is Known For
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Actor is Chennai's biggest profession — 27% of all notables (292).
Chennai over-indexes on cinema — 11.9× the global rate.
Chennai under-produces politician — only 0.4× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Chennai's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Film & TV
- Sports
- Music
- Politics & Law
- Science
- Writing
- Other
- Field: Film Clear ×
Rajkumar Santoshi
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Rana Daggubati
Born 1984
Silambarasan
Born 1983
Ashok Amritraj
Born 1957
A. Sreekar Prasad
Born 1952
Selvaraghavan
Born 1976
A. Bhimsingh
1924 - 1978
Soundarya Rajinikanth
Born 1984
Raghava Lawrence
Born 1971
Vijayashanti
Born 1964
G. Dhananjayan
Born 1965
R. Parthiepan
Born 1957
Jayasudha
Born 1958
Raju Sundaram
Born 1948
Sriram Raghavan
Born 1963
Vijaya Nirmala
1946 - 2019
G. Srinivasan
1958 - 2007
Pandiraj
Born 1976
Jeeva (director)
1963 - 2007
Siva (director)
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A. L. Vijay
Born 1983
Aishwarya R. Dhanush
Born 1982
Teja (director)
Born 1966
Rajnesh Domalpalli
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Manjula Ghattamaneni
Born 1970
Visu
1945 - 2020
P. Madhavan
1928 - 2003
Bharat Bala
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Ramesh Khanna
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Kothanda Ramaiah
Born 1953
Dasari Yoganand
1922 - 2006
V. J. Sabu Joseph
Born 1981
Seetha (actress)
Born 1967
K. E. Gnanavel Raja
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Ghattamaneni Ramesh Babu
Born 1965
Thiagarajan Kumararaja
Born 1976
Shoba Chandrasekhar
Born 1948
I. Ahmed
Born 1973
R. B. Choudary
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Srinath (actor)
Born 1968
Udhayanidhi Stalin
Born 1977
Indraja (actress)
Born 1977
Latha Rajinikanth
Born 1958
K. T. Kunjumon
Born 1953
N. Sankaran Nair
1925 - 2005
Raja Mohammad
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Pa. Ranjith
Born 1982
Madhumitha (director)
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N. Veeraswamy
1932 - 1992
Hemant Madhukar
Born 1977
Mohamad Issack
Born 1978
Lokesh Kumar
Born 1989
Tharun Bhascker Dhaassyam
Born 1988
Bhuvan Srinivasan
Born 1986
T. S. B. K. Moulee
Born 1947
Senthilnathan
Born 1957
Nalan Kumarasamy
Born 1982
Yugi Sethu
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Suresh Balaje
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S. Sashikanth
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Balaji K. Kumar
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Chakri Toleti
Born 1981
Leo John Paul
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C. S. Amudhan
Born 1977
T. Siva
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Pradeep Kalipurayath
Born 1981
Kola Bhaskar
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Vijay Kumar (Tamil filmmaker)
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Pon Kumaran
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Kalanjiyam
Born 1981
Prem Menon
Born 1952
S. B. Khanthan
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Premsai
Born 1976
Divya Parameshwaran
Born 1987
Vikram Krishna
Born 1987
Ajayan Bala
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Kumar G. Venkatesh
Born 1981
Mithran Jawahar
Born 1971
Rajan Madhav
Born 1975
Shakti Soundar Rajan
Born 1982
Kundrai Vaendan Karikalan
Born 1956
Badri Venkatesh
Born 1974
Tatineni Satya
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Siddharth Chandrasekhar
Born 1977
K. Mohan
1925 - 2014
Sathyaraj Natarajan
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Hemachandran (actor)
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R. Sudharsan
Born 1982
Vijay Velukutty
Born 1987