- 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.
- Meera Jasmine
Meera Jasmine (born Jasmine Mary Joseph on 15 February 1984) is an Indian actress from Kerala. She won India's National Film Award for Best Actress in 2004 for her role in 2003 Malayalam film "Paadam Onnu: Oru Vilaapam". Meera Jamine is the highest paid Malayalam actress
- 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.
- Kavya Madhavan
Kavya Madhavan is a popular Malayalam cinema actress.. Though she normally does regular unimportant heroine roles, she has proved her ability in handling serious roles as well.
- Kishore Kumar
Kishore Kumar (August 4, 1929 - October 13, 1987) was an Indian film playback singer and comic actor. He also achieved notable successes as a lyricist, composer, producer, director, screenwriter and scriptwriter. Kishore Kumar sung in many Indian languages including Hindi, Bengali (his mother tongue), Marathi, Assamese, Gujarati, Kannada, Bhojpuri, Malayalam and Oriya.
- 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".
- 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.
- Asha Bhosle
Asha Bhosle (born September 8, 1933) is an Indian singer. She is best known as a Bollywood playback singer, although she has a much wider repertoire. Her career started in 1943 and has spanned over six decades. She has done playback singing for over 950 Bollywood movies and sold many records. She is the sister of the equally accomplished Lata Mangeshkar. Asha Bhosle is considered as one of the most versatile of South Asian singers — her range of songs includes film music, …
- Kalabhavan Mani
'Kalabhavan Mani' is a South Indian actor who started his career through Malayalam films. At first he was a comedian and then he turned to a serious actor as well as strong villain. He played a number of films in Malayalam and Tamil. He has proved his acting prowess in movies like Vasantiyum Lakshmiyum Pinne Njanum, in which he plays a blind beggar.
- 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.
- Sukumari
Sukumari(Malayalam :സുകുമാരി) is an Indian actress from Kerala who has primarily acted in Malayalam and Tamil movies. She has been acting for more than 52 years and has acted in different roles and languages. The total number of her movies is presumed to be about 2,000 movies. Even after having entertained generations with diverse tastes, she is still a much sought-after actress.
- 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.
- M. G. Sreekumar
M.G. Sreekumar is an Indian playback singer in Malayalam and Tamil cinema.
- 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.
- Divya Unni
Divya Unni is an indian film actress of Malayalam and Tamil language films. Her notable films were "Pranayavarnangal" and "Churam" (the final film made by Bharathan). She left for the USA after her marriage, but did a couple of television serials during her brief return. Divya Unni performs Indian dance throughout the world, and is currently the artistic director of Sreepadam School of Arts in Houston, Texas.
- Rajan P. Dev
Rajan P. Dev, South Indian movie and drama actor. Born at Cherthala in Kerala state of India. Acting in Malayalam and Tamil movies. He started his career as a drama actor and director. His drama Kattukuthira given him a break in his career.
- Sathyan Anthikkad
Sathyan Anthikkad is a Malayalam film director known primarily for family based mainstream movies. He has created many hits, especially when working with Sreenivasan as the scriptwriter.
- Anant Nag
Anant Nag is an actor and politician from Karnataka, India. In addition to Kannada movies, he has acted in Marathi, Malayalam and Hindi movies. He has also acted in Malgudi Days, directed by his younger brother Shankar Nag based on the stories by R.K.Narayan. His work was much appreciated by critics at that time. He is right now a politician.
- 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.
- 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.
- I. V. Sasi
I.V.Sasi The man behind the uniqueness and quality of malayalam cinema. A veteran director who is considered to be the "Guru" of most of the present directors in malayalam.He's done over 150 films and holds the record of most number of films directed by a director. His wife, Seema.I.V.Sasi is known to have done about 35 films with him in malayalam alone and, they, together have done the most number of films as a director actress combo in India.
- Ravi K. Chandran
Ravi K. Chandran (born Maduranthakam,Tamil nadu, India) is a cinematographer, educated at the A. M. Jain College in India. His work includes frequent collaborations with the film directors Rajiv Menon, Mani Ratnam and [(S. Shankar)]. Chandran started his career working in Malayalam films, as an assistant to his brother, the cameraman Ramachandra Babu. He has since worked as a cinematographer on Tamil films as well as Hindi films.
- Vineeth Sreenivasan
Vineeth Sreenivasan is the son of legendary Malayalam comedian Sreenivasan. He is an upcoming playback singer having had many hit songs.Vineeth is currently pursuing his final year mechanical engineering in KCG college of Technology (Hindustan Group of Institutions) Chennai. He resides in Chennai as well.
- Rambha
Vijaya Lakshmi is an Indian film actress. She was born on June 5,1976. She is from Vijayawada, A.P. Her first screen name was Amritha but changed to Rambha. She has acted in over 100 South Indian films and also in a number of Bollywood films.She had done several successful films in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Kannada and Bengali. She was popular in Bollywood movies for her uncanny resemblance towards Divya Bharati, …
- Vani Jayaram
Vani Jayram is one of the major female playback singer in India. She has been singing in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Marathi, Hindi and Kannada. She made three times National Film Awards in play back singing.
- Vidhu Prathap
Vidhu Prathap is an Indian playback singer born on September 1st, 1980. He has sung various songs in Malayalam and Tamil. He is an up and coming talent with a number of hit songs.
- 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, …
- Prem Nazir
Abdul Khader(April 7, 1926 - January 16, 1989), popularly known as Prem Nazir was an actor in Malayalam films. He achieved a Guinness record for acting in the largest number of films (around one hundred and ten films) with the same heroine, Sheela. He has acted in over 700 films
- 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.
- P. Bhaskaran
Pulloottupadathu Bhaskaran Nair better known as P. Bhaskaran (April 21, 1924 - February 25, 2007) was a famous malayalam poet and lyricist of malayalam film songs. He penned songs for about 3000 songs in around 250 films. He also had directed and acted in several malayalam films. He was a journalist and an All India Radio employee before becoming active in the film industry. He was well-known for simple but beautiful use of the language in his songs.
- Jayamalini
Jayamalini is a famous south Indian film actress, who is famous for her vamp roles and Item Number Songs. She acted in more than 500 Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi movies. She had a dance number in Shalimar (film), (1978) starring Rex Harrison, Dharmendra and Zeenat Aman, which were in both English and Hindi versions. Her sister Jyothi Lakshmi was also a cabaret dancer in films.
- Jassie Gift
Jassie Gift is a Malayalam trend setting film music composer and singer from Thiruvananthapuram, India. His first composition is for the movie "Safalam". He has directed music for a kannada film Hudugaata,Acted by GANESH(MUNGAARU MALE). He became popular with his song "Lajjavathiye" for the movie "4 the people". It is later remade into Tamil, and also as "Malliswarive" into Telugu. The song was successful in all languages.
- Madhu Balakrishnan
Madhu Balakrishnan (June 24, 1974) is an Indian playback singer, who sings in Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil and Kannada languages. He is the brother-in-law of Indian Test cricket and One day cricket Player Sreesanth.
- 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.
- Sibi Malayil
Sibi Malayil is an Indian director of Malayalam movies. Since the mid 1980s he has directed some 40 movies. He directed some of the most fantastic movies in malayalam during the late eigties and early nineties. Movies like Kireedam, Thaniyavarthanam, His Highness Abdulla and Bhartham defined the way Malayalam movies were made and made Mohanlal the star he is. His best movies had screenplay by Lohithadas.
- Kunchacko Boban
Kunchacko Boban is a popular Malayalam actor. He is the grandson of famous film producer Kunchacko of erstwhile Udaya Studios Alappuzha. He started his career through a superhit Malayalam film "Aniyathipravu" in 1997. His role in the film Harikrishnans made him one of the top actors of Malayalam industry. He married Priya Ann Samuel on 2 April, 2005. He has acted in about 30 films in Malayalam.
- Satchidanandan
K. Satchidanandan (born May 28, 1946) is a well-known Malayalam poet, whose works bring subtle poetic verses to a contemporary political context. He was born in Thrissur district of Kerala, India. There are more than 50 books including translations on his credit. Through his powerful translations, he introduced many of the international radical voices like Antonio Gramsci and Pablo Neruda to the readers of Malayalam literature.
- Shweta Menon
Shwetha Menon is originally from Calicut, and finished 3rd behind Sushmita Sen and Aishwarya Rai in the Miss India contest. She is a Taurus, born on April 23. She has acted in several Hindi and a few Malayalam films with less than moderate success. She has acted in a Hindi film "ISHQ". She has also appeared in Kamasutra condom ads wearing two piece bikini. She studied in Kendriya Vidyalaya Calicut No.1. Her dad is an Indian Air Force Officer.
- Meenakshi
Meenakshi or Sharmili is a popular South Indian actress. She made her debut in Kollywood but she became popular through Malayalam films
- Gopika
Gopika is a Malayalam actress born in Thrissur,Kerala.