Gottipati Brahmayya (3 December 1889 – 1984) was a freedom fighter, popularly known as Ryotu Pedda (Leader of Farmers).
[1] Brahmayya was born in 1889 in a Kamma family in Ghantasala (Divi Taluka of Krishna district) in Andhra Pradesh, India;[2] he was educated at Noble High School, Machilipatnam, he organized the library movement and the adult education movement in 1917.
He was sentenced to imprisonment for one year and six months in 1930 for participating in the black flag demonstration against the then Governor’s visit to Machilipatnam.
He again took part in the civil disobedience movement and was sentenced to two years of imprisonment in Rajahmundry, Bellary, Madras and Cuddalore jails.
Brahmayya 's autobiography Naa Jeevana Nauka was published in the Telugu daily newspaper Andhra Jyothi in the late 1970s.