Harika Dronavalli (born 12 January 1991) is an Indian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM).

[2] In 2016, she won the FIDE Women's Grand Prix event at Chengdu, China and rose up from world no.

[3] Harika was born to Ramesh and Swarna Dronavalli on 12 January 1991 in Guntur where she attended Sri Venkateswara Bala Kuteer school.

[4] Her father works as a deputy executive engineer at a Panchayat Raj subdivision in Mangalagiri.

[6] She gave birth to her first child on 24 August 2022 after having played at the 2022 Chess Olympiad, where the Indian women won the bronze medal, while in her ninth month of pregnancy.