Attoor Ravi Varma (27 December 1930 – 26 July 2019)[1] was an Indian poet and translator of Malayalam literature.

[4] Subsequently, he joined Presidency College, Madras Malayalam department[5] as a faculty where he had the opportunity to be in touch with M. Govindan, the noted writer, which helped him in the studies of Tamil language.

[1] Ravi Varma's poems ignored the metre and used free verse[9] and he was one among the group of poets who pioneered modernism in Malayalam literature.

It was Ravi Varma who translated the Bhakthi poems on the Malayalam calendar in vattezhuthu script published by Moozhikulam Sala.

[4] Maruvili is a documentary film made on the life and work of Ravi Varma, directed by Anvar Ali.