Telugu Brahmin
Telugu Brahmins are members of the Indian Brahmin caste whose native language is Telugu. Most of them hail from the region of Andhra Pradesh, located in Southern India. Vaidikulu and Niyogilu are two sub-castes.
Brahmins from this part of India(Andhra Pradesh)have contributed significantly to the development of nation, as has been the case with the Brahmin community in the rest of India.
Eminent/Famous Telugu Brahmins
The following outstanding personalities made significant contribution to the TELUGU literature
- Challapilla Venkata Sastry
- Divakarla Tirupathi Sastry
- Sankarambadi Sundaracharya(Poet who wrote MAA TELUGU TALLIKI MALLEPU DANDA)
- Krishna Sastry
- Bulusu Venkateswarlu
Journalists and Writers
- Nannaya
- Annamayya
- Tyagaraju
- Garimella Satyanarayana
- Mutnuru Krishna rao
- Viswanatha Satyanarayana
- Chilakamarthi Lakshminarasimham
Distinguished people in the Entertaintment Industry
- Ghantasala Venkateshwara Rao(Singer)
- J V Somayajulu (Actor)
- K.Viswanath(Director-Actor)
- Chandra Mohan(Actor)
- Kota Srinivasa Rao (Actor)
- Jandhyala(Director)
- Sreerangam Sreenivasa Rao(Sri Sri)(Writer-Director)
- S P Balasubramanyam(Singer)
- Keervani(Music-Director)
- Bhagavatula Siva Sankara Sastry (Writer) - Known by his pen name "Arudra"
- Veturi Sundara Ram Murthy(Writer)
- Sirivennala Seetha Rama Sastry(Writer)
- Uday Kiran
- Sutti Velu
- Kanta Rao
- Bhanumati
Social Reformers
- Kandukuri Veerasalingam Pantulu
- Gurazada Appa Rao
- Unnava Lakshminarayana
- Unnava Lakshmibai Amma
- Durgabai Deshmukh
Notable Personalities
- Pingali Lakshmikantamu (Literature, Artist)
- Jallepalli Hanumantharao (Literature)
- Garimella Satyanarayana (Literature)
- TennetiViswanadham (Freedom Fighter)
- Veturi Prabhakarasastri(1880-1950)(Literature)
- Vishwanadha Satyanarayana (1895-1976)(Literature)
- Duggirala Gopalakrishnayya (1889-1928)(Freedom Fighter)
- Ganti Krishnavenamma (1910-96)(Literature)
- Mallampalli Somasekharasharma (1891-1963)(Literature)
Politicians
- P.V. Narasimha Rao (Former Prime Minister )
- Varaha Giri Venkata Giri (Former President)
- Tanguturi Prakasam (Former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh)
- Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya (1861-1962A.D.) (Prime Minister of Mysore)
- Sarvepalli Radha Krishnan
- Bhogaraju Pattabhiseetaramayya
Recipients of the Civilian awards
- Padmashree Vempati Chinna Satyam (Doyen of Kuchipudi Dance)
- Bharat Ratna Varaha Giri Venkata Giri (Former President)
- Padmashree Dattaguru Bhagavatula (Professor - IISC, Bangalore)
- Padmabhushan Mulukutla Ramabrahmam (Former Chairman Indian Oil Corporation, Founding Chairman Madras Refineries and eminent Civil Engineer)
Other Luminaries
- Karnam Malleshwari (Olympicsbronze medal in 69-kg class weightlifting)
- V V S Laxman (Cricketer)
- Tyagaraja (chief among the trinity of carnatic music)
- Tallapaka Annamacharya (widely known as pada kavitha pithamaha)
- Bhadradri Ramadasu (Ardent devotee of Lord Rama)
- Syama Sastry (one among the trinity of carnatic music)
- Emani Sankara Sastry(Doyen of Veena)
- Mangalampalli Bala Murali Krishna (Doyen of Carnatic Music)
- Sidhendra Yogi (the father of Kuchipudi dance style)
- Madhunapantula Satyanarayana Sastry (Literature)
- Challapilla Venkata Sastry (1870-1950) (Literature)
- Divakarla Tirupati Sastry (1872-1919) (Literature)
- Madhavapeddi Satyam (Literature)
- Prof.Madhunapantula Suryanarayana Murty ( Eminent Applied Mathematician)
- Dr.Yellapragada Subba Rao (Miracle Man of Miracle Drugs)
- Thyagaraja (Musician and Saint- Devotee of Shri Rama)
Typical Last Names
- Adiraju
- Akella
- Akkiraju
- Andukuri
- Annambhotla
- Annamraju
- Anupindi
- Aryasomayajula
- Ayyalasomayajula
- Balijepalli
- Bollapalli
- Bellamkonda
- Bhagavatula
- Bhamidipati
- Bulusu
- Challa
- Chamarthi
- Chintalapati
- Chitrapu
- Dronamraju
- Gannavarapu
- Ganti
- Gorti
- Garimella
- Iragavarapu
- Jhandyala
- Kandala
- Kasturi
- Kaza
- Konduri
- Kommu
- Kompalli
- Kota
- Kothapalli
- Kraleti
- Kuchipudi
- Palaparthy
- Madduri
- Malladi
- Mamillapalli
- Maruwada
- Mullapudi
- Nidamarthi
- Nimmagadda
- Nandigama
- Nanduri
- Nimishakavi
- Nimushakavi
- Nittala
- Oruganti
- Pamulaparthi
- Peri
- Pullela
- Singaraju
- Sudhapalli
- Surampudi
- Tanguturi
- Tenneti
- Vakkalanka
- Velury
- Vempati
- Vedantam
- Vedula
- Vemuri
- Voleti
- Yadavalli
- Yerrapragada
See also
External links
http://amazingtelugus.blogspot.com/ You will find famous telugus here and most of them are brahmins