Anu Vaidyanathan is a multifaceted Indian professional known for her work as an engineer, athlete, author, filmmaker, comedian, and entrepreneur[1] whose memoir Anywhere But Home was long-listed for the Mumbai Film Festival's word-to-screen market in 2016.

She made her Off-Broadway debut with a solo BC: AD (Before Children, After Diapers) show at the Kraine Theater on January 12, 2023.

In that same year, she became the first Asian triathlete to finish an Ultraman[6] Vaidyanathan was born in New Delhi and grew up in Bengaluru and Chennai.

She was interested in technology and sports from a young age, spending much of her childhood learning to program.

[9] Vaidyanathan was the first Indian woman to have qualified for the Half Ironman 70.3 Clearwater World Championship in 2008[10] She has served as the visiting faculty at IIM Ahmedabad and IIT Ropar.