- N. T. Rama Rao
Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, more commonly known as N.T. Rama Rao, NTR, Pedala Pennidhi by his fans, or Anna garu, was an Indian film actor, director, producer, and politician. He founded the Telugu Desam Party and served three times as Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh. His repertoire of films included mythological, social, and folk themes.
- Annamacharya
Sri Tallapaka Annamacharya (శ్రీ తాళ్ళపాక అన్నమాచార్య) (1408-1503), the mystic saint composer of the 15th century is the earliest known musician of South India to compose songs called “sankeertanas” in praise of Lord Venkateswara, the deity of Seven Hills in Tirumala, India. He is widely regarded as the Telugu "pada kavita pitaamaha" (Grand old man of simple poetry).
- Allu Arjun
Allu "Bunny" Arjun, born April 8 1983, is a Telugu film actor. He is the son of producer Allu Aravind, grandson of the comedian Padmashree Allu Ramalingaiah and nephew of the famous Telugu actors Chiranjeevi and Pawan Kalyan. Allu debuted as a special appearance in the movie Daddy, that was produced by his father. His dancing abilities in the film bagged him more offers as an actor.
- Shriya Saran
Shriya Saran :(born on September 11, 1982) is an Indian film actress. She began her career acting in Telugu language films in the Telugu cinema industry, while also attending an acting studio, to follow her dream to act. After her debut in 2001 with Ishtam, she gained Indian cinema's attention in 2002 by playing the role of Bhanu in Santhosham, her first major hit. She reached superstardom by enacting the role of Anjali in the Telugu language film, Nuvve Nuvve, …
- Katrina Kaif
Katrina is a Kashmiri-Brit fusion as his father was Indian and mom was English. Katrina was born on July 16th 1983 in Hong Kong; her family lived for a while in Hawaii and the moved to London. Katrina has seven other siblings and all sisters. Katrina started modeling when she was fourteen and her first shoot was for a jewellery brand. Katrina continued modeling in London and was approached by Kaizad Gustad for his film 'Boom'; after which the model decided to move to Mumbai.
- Akkineni Nageswara Rao
Akkineni Nageswara Rao (born September 20, 1924 at Venkataraghavapuram, Dist. Krishna, Andhra Pradesh), also known as ANR, is a film actor from Gudivada Andhra Pradesh. He is one of the first fully commercial Telugu Cinema heroes. His films include a diverse range of genres which include mythological, folk tale, social, adventure and drama. He acted with NTR who is one of the greatest actors of India for almost 40 years.They both called each other as brother.
- Ileana D'Cruz
Ileana D'Cruz is a South Indian film actress. She made her Telugu language début through Y.V.S. Chowdhary's "Devadasu" opposite newcomer, Ram but has also done a Tamil language film and has recently signed a Hindi language film. D'Cruz, who originally hails from Mumbai, India, had grown up in Mumbai and and currently resides at Goa. Before films, Ileana was modelling for quite some time and doing ads. She has three sisters and two brothers.
- Viswanatha Satyanarayana
Viswanatha Satyanarayana (b. 10 September 1895- d. 18 October 1976), popularly known as the "Kavi Samraat" (Emperor of Poetry), was a modern Telugu poet. Born in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, Viswanatha was a disciple of the "Tirupati Venkata Kavulu" duo. Viswanatha's style of poetry was classical in nature and his popular works include "Ramayana Kalpa Vrikshamu" (A resourceful tree called Ramayana), …
- Jr Ntr
Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao (born May 20, 1983 in Hyderabad, India) more popularly known as Jr. NTR or just NTR, is an Telugu film actor. He is the grandson of the Late Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao.
- Uday Kiran
Uday Kiran (born 1980) is an Indian Film Actor from the state of Andhra Pradesh. He has acted in the films of Telugu and Tamil
- Kshetrayya
Kshetrayya (17th Century A.D) - born Varadayya, was a prolific Telugu poet and composer who wrote with Sringara as a main theme in expressing Madhurabhakti (devotion to the supreme). Sringara is a motif where the mundane sexual relationship between a man and a woman is used to express a connection with the divine. In most of his compositions, Kshetrayya has used the signature "MuvvaGopala" as a reference to himself, …
- Srinatha
Srinatha (1365--1441) was a fammous 15th century Telugu poet who popularised the "Prabandha" style of composition.
- Venu Madhav
Venu Madhav is a popular Comedy Actor in Tollywood. He has acted in many movies in Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam Languages. Besides an actor, he is a well known Mimicry artist. He is also a television anchor, who has hosted several popular programs in various Telugu Channels.
- S. Shankar
S. Shankar (born) is a popular film director from Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu, India. He has made many Tamil movies which have social themes with a commercial narration. He is credited with delivering expensive, high end CGI in most of his films. Most of his movies from Tamil are dubbed into other languages especially Telugu and Hindi. He started his career with 'Gentleman' which grossed very well, then followed by 'Kadhalan', 'Indian', …
- Vemana
"Vemana" was a Telugu poet. He composed numerous poems in Telugu in "Aata Veladhi" metre which consists of four lines; the fourth line, with some exceptions, is the refrain or chorus "Viswadabhirama Vinura Vema". Vemana's style is simple, his poems deal with social problems and sometimes propose solutions too. With the zeal of a social reformer, many of his poems criticise and strive to give fresh perspective to ardent followers of old, …
- Ram
Ram (born in May 15, 1989) is a Telugu film star who debuted with sensational hit, "Devadasu".
- P. Susheela
Pulapaka Susheela (born 1935) is an Indian playback singer. She has recorded several songs in many Indian languages including Telugu, language and Kannada. Her career spanned about four decades. Susheela was born in 1935 in Vijayanagaram, Andhra Pradesh. In 1950, music director Nageswara Rao was looking for new talent and scouted for new singers at All India Radio. Of the five people referred, Susheela was selected and Susheela sang her first song, …
- Sekhar Kammula
Sekhar Kammula is a Telugu film director.
- Allari Naresh
Allari Naresh is an Indian film actor who stars in Tollywood films. He is the son of Telugu veteran director and producer "EVV Satyanarayana". He got the tag "Allari" before his name after the success of his first film. But his debut film was in Tamil, "Kurumbu" which flopped miserably.
- Asin Thottumkal
Asin Thottumkal (born on October 26, 1985) is an Indian film actress. She is the daughter of Joseph Thottumkal and belongs to the kerala christian family Thottumkal.She began her career acting in minor roles as a supporting artist in the Malayalam cinema industry, while also attending an acting studio, to follow her dream to act. After her debut in the Malayalam film industry, …
- Dasari Narayana Rao
Dr. Dasari Narayana Rao(was born on May 4, 1947 in Palakol located in the West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh) is a politician, film direcor, and film producer. Beside graduating with a BA degree, he used to take part in scores of drama competitions. He was soon recognised as a potential stage artiste, scriptwriter and director. Dr .Dasari Narayana Rao had Directed about 150 films. He produced 53 films. He worked above 250 films as a dialogue writer and as a lyricist.
- Tenali Ramakrishna
Tenali Ramakrishna, popularly known as Tenali Rama and also as Vikata Kavi (VI KA TA KA VI), was a Telugu, a court-poet and court Jester, in the Sixteenth century. He was part of Ashtadiggajas patroned by Sri Krishnadeva Raya of the Vijayanagara Empire. He is also referred as "Tenali Raman" in Hindi media.
- D. Ramanaidu
Dr. Daggubati Ramanaidu (b. 6 June, 1936) is an Indian movie producer. The Guinness Book of Records lists him as the most prolific producer with 110 films under his banner called "Suresh Productions". He plays a very short role (often a cameo) in all his productions, especially the later ones. Apart from producing Telugu movies, he has also produced movies in languages such as Hindi, Tamil, Kannada and Bengali.
- Sameera Reddy
Sameera Reddy is a Telugu speaking Bollywood actress. Her fore fathers are from Rajahmundry, A town in Andhra Pradesh, India.She is a very close relative to Business tycoon Vijay Mallya.She graduated from Sydenham College. She is most famous for her role in Musafir. She was first noticed in a music video, "Aahista" by Pankaj Udhas. She modeled for a while before and deciding to act in films.
- Vijayashanti
Vijayashanti is an Indian actress who has starred in over 165 movies in 7 languages including Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi. She was born in Andhra Pradesh, India on June 24, 1964. She is credited as "The Lady Superstar" and "The Action Queen of Indian Cinema". At the peak of her career, she was among the highest paid movie stars in India.
- Raja
Raja(born November 9, 1978) is a very well known Telugu film actor.
- S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
Sripathi Panditaradhyula Balasubrahmanyam is a prolific Indian singer. He is also known as S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, S.P.B. and Baalu in the media.
- Kandukuri Veeresalingam
Kandukuri Veeresalingam (also known as Kandukuri Veeresalingham Pantulu), (16 April, 1848 - 27 May, 1919) was a social reformer of Andhra Pradesh. He was born in an orthodox Andhra family. He is widely considered as the man who first brought about a renaissance in Telugu people and Telugu literature. He was influenced by the ideals of Brahmo Samaj particularly those of Keshub Chunder Sen. He got involved in the cause of social reforms.
- Allasani Peddana
Allasani Peddana (15th and 16th centuries CE) was a famous Telugu poet and was ranked as the foremost of the "Astadiggajas" the title for the group of eight poets in the court of King Krishnadevaraya, a ruler of the Vijayanagara Empire.
- Ramya Krishnan
Ramyakrishnan (also spelt Ramya Krishnan) (born: September 15, 1967) is one of the successful multilingual actresses in commercial Indian cinema. She has over 200 films to her credit. She also holds a rare record of acting in five languages, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi. She has played such diverse roles as glam-doll, caring wife, devoted mom, arrogant vamp and goddess.
- S. Janaki
S. Janaki (born April 23, 1938) is an Indian playback singer. She has sung in many Indian languages including Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada. Janaki is also a lyricist and a music composer. A devotee of Lord Krishna and Shirdi Sai Baba, she spends a lot of time praying and has also released devotional music cassettes on Meera.
- Arthi Agarwal
Arthi Agarwal (also Arti Agarwal, Aarti Agarwal; Telugu: ఆర్తి అగర్వాల్; born March 5 in New Jersey, USA) is an American -Indian actress in Tollywood. She was brought up in New Jersey until the age of 14. Sunil Shetty invited her to dance on stage in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA when she was barely 14. Big B who was there too encouraged her father to take her to Bollywood.
- Mallika Kapoor
Mallika Kapoor (born April 25 1987; also known as Malika) is an Indian actress in the Kollywood and Tollywood industries. She started her film career through her debut Malyalam film Albudhadweep, alongside actor Prithviraj Sukumaran. Her Tamil debut was the leading role in Azhagai Irukkirai Bayamai Irukkirathu, alongside Bharath, and then subsequently in Vathiyar with action king Arjun.
- Nagendra Babu
Nagendra Babu(born October 29) is a Telugu film actor and producer. He acts in supporting character, villain roles. He also acted as hero in some films. He recently acted in "143", "Anji", "Shock" and "Sri Ramadasu". He produced many films with his brothers Chiranjeevi and Pawan Kalyan under Anjana Productions. His most recent film as producer was "Stalin" with Chiranjeevi in the lead role.
- Anand Sai
Anand Sai is a famous Indian art director who works for Telugu films. His debut venture was Pawan Kalyan's "Tholi Prema". He is son of senior art director B. Chellam, who has worked with over 700 films.
- Kanta Rao
T. L. Kantha Rao (b. 16 November, 1923) is a popular Telugu actor of Andhra Pradesh, India. He has acted in scores of Telugu mythological, social and fantasy movies and also few Hindi movies.
- Tripuraneni Ramaswamy
Tripuraneni Ramaswamy (January 15 1887-1943) Tripuraneni Ramaswamy was a lawyer, playwright, and reformer active among the Telugu-speaking people. He was part of a growing movement in India to reassess the culture of India. Beginning at the dawn of 19th century, this movement included such people as Ram Mohan Roy, Eswara Chandra Vidya Sagar, Ranade, Dayananda Saraswathi, Kandukuri Veeresalingam, and Gurazada Appa Rao.
- Paravastu Chinnayya Soori
Paravastu Chinnayya Soori (1807-1861) is a well-known Telugu writer. He was one of the most famous pandits of the 19th century. He was born in 1807 in Perambur of Chengalpattu district and died in 1861. He was a Vaishnavite. He was a Telugu pandit in the Government college of Madras. He dedicated his entire life to the progress and promotion of Telugu language and literature.
- Raghuvaran
Raghuvaran (December 11, 1948) is a famous Tamil actor. He has acted in several Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi films and has been praised as a natural actor. Most of his roles were of a villain or supporting actor. He has also acted as hero in a few movies, which did not do well at the box-office. He became famous with his role as the protagonist of a Tamil soap opera, "Oru Manidhanin Kadhai" (One Man's Story), …
- B. Saroja Devi
B. Saroja Devi is an Indian actress. She is a popular actress in the South Indian cinema. She was awarded the Padma Bhushan award and she has won many awards for different languages. She worked and equally popular in Tamil, Telugu and Kannada movies. She made her film debut in Honappa Bhagavathar's "Mahakavi Kalidasa" (1955). Her first Telugu film was K. Kameshwara's "Panduranga Mahatyam" opposite N T Ramarao.