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Our community got the name Mudaliar from the honorary title Mudali conferred upon top-ranking bureaucratic officials and army officers in medieval South India. It means a person of first rank and is a surname used by Tamil Vellalars and Sengunthars. CN Annadurai, the legendary DMK founder, was a Mudaliar. Popular actor Vikram also belongs to our community.

Prominent Mudhaliyars
Social leaders, activists
OKSR Kumaraswamy Mudaliar aka Tiruppur Kumaran (1904 – 1932) - A leader who died holding the Indian national flag
Thillaiaadi Valliammai - A South African Tamil woman who fought the apartheid regime along with Mahatma Gandhi

Tamil literature
Paventhar Bharathidasan - Tamil poet also known as "Puratchi Kavignar"
Kalyanasundara Mudaliar - Tamil writer
Makaral Karthikeya Mudaliar - Tamil scholar
P. A. Subramania Mudaliar - Tamil scholar
Varadarasanar - Tamil novelist
Mahavidwan Vasudeva Mudaliar - Tamil scholar
Vellai Vaaranaar - Tamil scholar from Tiruvarur
Erode Tamilanban - Noted poet

Philanthropists
Pachaiyappa Mudaliar - Philanthropist after whom the Pachaiyappa's College, Chennai was named.
Raja Sir Ramaswamy Mudaliar - Philanthropist who endowed a hospital

Politics
Natesa Mudaliar – Founder of Justice Party along with Theagaroya Chetty and Dr. T. M. Nair as part of the Dravidian movement.
O. V. Alagesan - Former union minister of India.
T. M. Anbarasan - Current Labour Minister of Tamil Nadu
K. Anbazhagan - Minister of Tamil Nadu and DMK Leader.
C. N. Annadurai - Former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu and Founder of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK)
R. N. Arogyasamy Mudaliar - Indian civil engineer and politician who served as the Minister of Development in the Madras Presidency from 1926 to 1928
M. Bhakthavatchalam - Former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu and Congress leader
Pulavar K. Govindan - Former speaker, TN legislative assembly
Jayanthi Natarajan - Former MP from Indian National Congress party
Muniswamy Mudaliar - Fiji Indian politician & member of the Legislative Council of Fiji from 1932 to 1937
N. V. Natarajan - Founding member of DMK and former minister of Labour and Backward Classes in the Tamil Nadu government during 1967-75
C. Natesa Mudaliar – Founder of Justice Party
V. R. Nedunchezhiyan - Former Finance Minister of Tamil Nadu and former interim Chief Minister of Tamilnadu.
P. T. R. Palanivel Rajan - (1932-2006) Formerly speaker of Tamil Nadu Assembly,
Endowment Minister
Ponnambalam Arunachalam - Tamil political leader in Ceylon and a member of the Executive Council and the Legislative Council.
Ponnambalam Ramanathan - Former Solicitor-General and Tamil political leader in Sri Lanka.
A. M. Ponnuranga Mudaliar - Former MLA of Sholinghur constituency, INC
Sir P. T. Rajan - Former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Leader Justice Party.
C. Ramaswamy Mudaliar (1905-1997) - Indian politician from Indian National Congress. Member of Lok Sabha for Kumbakonam from 1951 to 1957.
S. J. Ramaswamy Mudali - Former DMK MLA
A. Ranganatha Mudaliar - Indian politician and theosophist from Bellary
S. C. Sadayappa Mudaliar - Former INC MLA
Era Sezhiyan - Former MP
A. C. Shanmugam - Founder New Justice Party, ex-MLA, MP
P. Shanmugam - Former Chief Minister of Pondicherry State and present State Congress Chief.
N. V. N. Somu - Former MP
A. R. Subbiah Mudaliar - Tamil Nadu politician
C. P. Subbiah Mudaliar - Tamil Nadu politician
C. N. Visvanathan - Former MP, Lok Sabha

Founders of educational institutions
V. L. Ethiraj - Founder of Ethiraj College for Women
A. C. Shanmugam - Founder, Dr. M.G.R. Educational and Research Institute
G. Viswanathan - Founder of VIT University, Vellore

Civil service and judiciary
S. Muthiah Mudaliar - High court lawyer and politician, Justice party
Arcot Ramasamy Mudaliar - A senior leader of the Justice Party
Justice R. Sudhakar - Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Chennai
T. V. Rajeswar - IPS Officer and Current Governor of Uttar Pradesh

Sports
Thirunavukkarasu Kumaran- Cricket Player
Vasudevan Baskaran - Former hockey player and captain

Arts and cinema
Pammal Sambandha Mudaliar - Early Tamil theater
Allah Rakha Rahman - Music director, composer and singer. (Born A. S. Dileep in a Hindu Mudaliar family
Anandaraj - Tamil film actor
Kalaipuli Dhanu - Tamil film producer
N. S. Krishnan - Popularly known as Kalaivanar, film comedian, drama artist, playback singer
Na. Muthukumar - Tamil lyricist
Pandiarajan - Tamil film director and actor
G. V. Prakash Kumar- Tamil film music director
M. K. Radha - Cinema actor & recipient of the Padma Shri Award
Aascar Ravichandran - Tamil film producer, Aaskar films
S. Shankar - Tamil film director
V. Ravichandran - Kannada film actor and director
K. S. Ravikumar - Tamil film director and actor
Pammal Sambandha Mudaliar - Playwright and director of Tamil drama
R. K. Selvamani - Tamil film director
R. K. Shekhar - Music conductor and composer for Malayalam films
Thengai Srinivasan - Tamil film actor
Tharini Mudaliar - Australian actress
Pa. Vijay - Tamil lyricist and actor
Vijaya Bhaskar - Kannada film Music Director
Vijayalakshmi Navaneethakrishnan - Singer, composer of Tamil folk songs

Business
Chenniappan - Chairman, Nilgiris
M.B.Nirmal - Founder and chairman of Exnora International
Sivasankaran - Chairman of Sterling group
Ethiraj Mudaliar - Chairman Binny group, Partner Ram Chandra Medical College