- Mammootty
Muhammed Kutty, better known by his screen name Mammootty, is a very popular Indian film actor. He has acted in more than three hundred films, most of them in Malayalam cinema. Mammootty is the recipient of three National film awards for Best Actor, six State awards and six Filmfare awards in the "best actor" category. He was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 1998. Mammootty is also the current Chairman of Malayalam Communications, …
- Nayanthara
- Navya Nair
"Navya Nair" (born 1984) whose real name is Dhanya Nair, is a Malayalam actress. She is noted for her portrayal of the typical "Malayali" (Keralite) girl in various movies. She debuted in the Malayalam film "Ishtam" (2001). She bagged the Kerala State Award for the Best Actress in 2002 for the film "Nandanam" and again in 2005 for her performance in films "Kanne Madanguka" and "Saira".
- Lal Jose
Lal Jose is a famous director of Malayalam films. His début film was Oru Maravathoor Kanavu. His second film was Chandran Udikunna Dikil which introduced Kavya Madhavan into mainstream Malayalam films. Later he teamed up with Dileep and produced many successful films.
- K. J. Yesudas
Kattassery Joseph Yesudas (usually referred to as Dr. K. J. Yesudas or Jesudas, Malayalam: കാട്ടശ്ശേരി ജോസഫ് യേശുദാസ് , also nicknamed "Gana Gandharvan") (born January 10, 1940) is an eminent Indian classical musician and leading playback singer of film songs in many Indian languages.
- Mohan Lal
- M. T. Vasudevan Nair
M. T. Vasudevan Nair, popularly known as MT, is a Malayalam author, screenplay writer and film director. He was born on July 15, 1933 in Kudallur, a small village in Palakkad district, in the Indian state of Kerala. One of the most prolific and versatile of modern Malayalam writers, his novels, short stories and screenplays speak of the pain and anguish of the Kerala society in the post independence India.
- Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Adoor Moutatthu Gopalakrishnan Unnithan (b. Adoor, Pathanamthitta district, Kerala, South India, July 3, 1941) is an internationally known Indian film director. His films are made in the Malayalam language.
- John Abraham
John Abraham (August 11, 1937 - 31 May, 1987), was a Malayalam film director and writer. John Abraham studied at FTII, Pune and was trained by Ritwik Ghatak. Considered an avant-garde film director and writer, he produced only four films, namely "Vidyarthikale Ithile Ithile", 1972; "Agraharathil Kazhuthai" (Tamil), 1977; "Cheriachante Krurakrithyangal", 1979; and "Amma Ariyan", 1986.
- Mohanlal
Padmashri Mohanlal (born May 21, 1960), is a four time National award winning Indian actor, producer who works in Malayalam films. He is one of the two most popular actors in the Indian state of Kerala. He is noted for his versatality, effortless acting, unique body language and for his association with some of the best Malayalam directors and screenwriters during the golden age of Malayalam cinema.
- Amrita Arora
Amrita Arora, born 31 January 1978 is an Indian actress.
- Mamta Mohandas
Mamta Mohandas (born 1985 in Bahrain) is a popular Malaylam actress. She attended the Indian School, Bahrain till 2002. Mamta, who originally hails from Kozhikode, Kerala, grew up in Bahrain and is currently undertaking a degree at Mount Carmel, Bangalore. Before films, Mamta was modelling for quite some time, doing both print ads for such names as IBM and Kalyan Kendra and on the ramp for the Mysore Maharajah and Raymonds. Mamta is trained in Karnatic and Hindustani music.
- Vidya Balan
Vidya Balan is the daughter of P. R. Balan , the Vice President of ETC Channel and her mother is a homemaker. She has an older sister named Priya. Vidya attended St. Anthony's Girls High School, St. Xavier's College, Bombay and later the University of Mumbai. She gradutaed in sociology. Balan's Bollywood debut film was Pradeep Sarkar's Parineeta (2005). She had appeared in many TV ads directed by Pradeep Sarkar before making her debut in his film.
- Shashi Tharoor
Shashi Tharoor , Former United Nations Under-Secretary General for Communications and Public Information, and Author, India: From Midnight to the Millennium and Beyond
- Manoj K. Jayan
Manoj K Jayan is a famous Malayalam film actor, born in Kottayam district in Kerala to the famous Carnatic musician Jayan of the Jaya-Vijaya fame. He has excelled in various roles in quite a few Malayalam movies. He won the Kerala State Film Award for the best actor for his performance in the movie 'Sargam'. He captured the audience hearts by immortalising the character named "Kuttan Thamburan" by his incomparable acting skills.
- K. Karunakaran
K. Karunakaran was the home minister of Kerala during the emergency period. After the Emergency, the Rajan case rocked Kerala politics like no other issue before or hence, and K. Karunakaran was forced to step down as the case attracted national attention.It was a habeas corpus petition filed by T.V. Eachara Warrier seeking the state machinery produce his son in court. He was a member of the Congress Working Committee from 1969.
- Marthanda Varma
Marthanda Varma (Anizham Tirunal), Malayalam മാര്ത്താണ്ഡ വര്മ്മ, (1706 - 1758) was the son of the junior Rani of Attingal whose entire family was adopted by Rani Umayamma of Venad from the Royal clan of the Kolathiri (Raja of Kolathunad, near present-day Kannur). He inherited the throne of Venad, a small principality on the southernmost tip of peninsular India, from his uncle, according to the matrilineal system of inheritance.
- Raja Ravi Varma
Raja Ravi Varma (1848-1906) was an Indian painter who achieved recognition for his depiction of scenes from the epics of the Mahabharata and Ramayana. His paintings are considered to be among the best examples of the fusion of Indian traditions with the techniques of European academic art. Raja Ravi Varma is most remembered for his paintings of beautiful sari clad women, who were portrayed as very shapely and graceful.
- Suresh Babu
Suresh Babu has the unique record of holding the national title in the long, triple and high jump events in addition to the ten event decathlon. He is one of those rare athletes to have won medals in two events in successive Asian Games, the Bronze in the decathlon in the Teheran edition of 1974 and a Gold in the long jump of the Bangkok edition of l978. A fine athlete, Suresh Babu dominated the scene between 1972 and 1979, …
- Vayalar Ravi
Vayalar Ravi (born 1937 in Vayalar, Alappuzha, Kerala, India) is an Indian politician, and is currently the Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs
- Jagathy Sreekumar
Sreekumar, popularly known as Jagathy Sreekumar or Jagathy is a comedian actor in Malayalam cinema. He is considered widely as one of the best comedians in the history of Malayalam films.
- K. R. Narayanan
Kocheril Raman Narayanan (Malayalam: കോച്ചേരില് രാമന് നാരായണന്; 4 February 1921 - 9 November 2005), also known as K. R. Narayanan, was the tenth President of the Republic of India. He is the only Dalit and the only Malayali to have held the Presidency.
- O. V. Vijayan
Ootupulackal Velukkuty Vijayan (July 2 1930-March 30 2005) was an Indian author and cartoonist, an important figure in modern Malayalam literature.
- Ravi Shankar
- Nayantara
Diana Kurien, popularly known as Nayantara, meaning "Eyes like Stars", is a south Indian actress and has acted in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam movies.
- Cochin Haneefa
Cochin Haneefa is an Indian actor. He started his career in 1970's as a villain and turned to be one of the popular comedians of Malayalam film industry. He has done more than 300 films in Malayalam, Tamil and Hindi.
- Alphons Joseph
Alphons Joseph, one of the most talented music director in the Malayalam film industry, got a break in films with 'Vellithira'. Alphons had professional training in Carnatic music from Shri. Mangad K. Nadeshan(A.I.R) and got 7th grade in classical guitar from London Trinity College of Music. He took up music as a profession after he received the Kala Prathibha award by Calicut University for the years 1990 and 1992. Before he came into films he was associated with Rexband, …
- Malaika Arora Khan
Malaika Arora Khan (born 23 August, 1973) is an Indian supermodel and a Bollywood actress.
- Kamala Das
Kamala Suraiya, better known as Kamala Das, is a well-known female Indian writer writing in English as well as Malayalam, her native language. She is considered one of the outstanding Indian poets writing in English, although her popularity in Kerala is based chiefly on her short stories and autobiography. Much of her writing in Malayalam came under the pen name Madhavikkutty. She was born on March 31, 1934 in Malabar in Kerala, India.
- Oommen Chandy
Oommen Chandy was the nineteenth Chief Minister of Kerala, India. He was born in Puthuppally in Kottayam on October 31, 1943 to K.O. Chandy and Baby Chandy. He lives at Puthuppally about 10 km from Kottayam. He is addressed as 'kunjukunju' by close family members. Oommen Chandy is a prominent Indian National Congress politician in Kerala. He is also a trade unionist and heads several INTUC-affiliated outfits.
- Madhupal
Madhupal is a Malayali Indian actor and writer. He is better known as a writer than an actor, with his collections of short stories turning popular. Madhupal has worked in most of the departments of filmmaking: scripting, directing and acting.
- Kumaran Asan
N. Kumaran Asan (1873-1924) also known as "Mahakavi Kumaran Asan", (the name prefix "Mahakavi" (Awarded by Madras University in the Year 1922) meaning great poet and the suffix "Asan" meaning scholar or teacher) was a Malayalam poet, philosopher and social reformer of kerala. More than that he is one of honored disciple of Sree Narayana Guru. Kumaran Asan was known as one of the famous triumvirate poets of Kerala in the first half of the 20th century.
- Adoor Bhasi
Adoor Bhasi was a famous Malayalam film comedian who gave an all new dimension to Malayalam comedies. Adoor Bhasi was almost always cast as the man who stands next to the hero. His roles gave the supple to commercialially important funny scenes in the later black and white age in the Malayalam film industry. He was also a writer, journalist, singer and film director.
- Mata Amritanandamayi
Amritapuri is the main Ashram of Amritanandamayi. It is located in Parayakadavu, Kollam, Kerala about 120km north of Thiruvananthapuram and 120km south of Cochin. Amritapuri is also the name by which the location of the ashram is now known. Amritapuri is also one of the campuses of the Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.
- P. T. Usha
Pilavullakandi Thekkeparambil Usha (b. June 27, 1964), popularly known as PT Usha is an Indian athlete. Regarded as "queen of Indian track and field", P.T. Usha has been associated with Indian athletics since 1979. Her initials stand for her family/house name, according to tradition in many parts of Kerala. She was also nicknamed Payyoli Express "PT Usha" was born in the village of Koothali, Kozhikode District, near Calicut, …
- V. K. Krishna Menon
Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon (3 May 1897 - 6 October 1974) was an Indian nationalist and politician.
- N. N. Pillai
N. N. Pillai (1914 - 14 November 1995) was one of the leading dramatists of Malayalam theatre. He was born in a small village in Kerala. He has won the National award for acting from the then Prime minister of India Indira Gandhi any many state awards for his outstanding works for the theatre. His famous works are "Kapalika", "Dam", "Cross-belt".He also acted in few main stream Malayam films such as "God Father" and "Nadodi".
- Mamukkoya
Mamukkoya is a popular Malayalam comedian actor. His unique usage of Malabar dialect and style marks his presence in the industry.
- Mukundan C. Menon
- Vallathol Narayana Menon
Vallathol Narayana Menon popularly known as Vallathol, was one of the famous triumvirate poets of Kerala. others are Kumaran Asan and Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyer. He was born in the Palakkad District of Kerala state, India. He died in March 1958. He is the author of the famous ' Sahithya Manjari '.He got the title,'Mahakavi' for his " MahaKaavyam " 'Chitrayogam'.