Kodi Kushalappa Gowda (30 May 1931 – 3 September 2022) was an Indian Kannada scholar, writer, Dravidologist and linguist.

Born in 1931 at Kodi village near Mercara, Coorg Province, Gowda graduated in Kannada from the University of Madras in 1955 and obtained his master's from the same university in 1956.

[2][3] Gowda headed the University of Madras' Kannada department till 1991.

He writes Manasa Bharatha first epic of this Arebhashe Language and Grammar book.

[4] Gowda died at a hospital in Puttur, Karnataka, on 3 September 2022, at the age of 91.