List of Nairs

This is a list of notable members of the Nair community of southern India.

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Chattampi Swamikal , Hindu sage
Jayabharathi , famous Indian actress
Lakshmi Menon (actress) , Lakshmi Menon at 60th South Filmfare Awards 2013
Mohanlal , famous Indian actor
Suresh Gopi , actor and politician
Rhea Pillai , Indian model
Parvathy Omanakuttan , Indian model, actress and beauty pageant titleholder
Adoor Gopalakrishnan , Indian film director, script writer, and producer
Anjali Menon , Indian filmmaker
K. S. Chithra , Little Nightingale of Indian Cinema
M. G. Sreekumar , Indian playback singer
Sujatha Mohan , Indian playback singer
Nisha Pillai , main news anchor for BBC World News
Kumbalathu Sanku Pillai , Social reformer
Lakshmi Sahgal , revolutionary of the Indian independence movement
Sugathakumari , famous Indian poet and activist
M. T. Vasudevan Nair , prolific and versatile writer in modern Malayalam literature
V. K. Krishna Menon , veteran diplomat and Cabinet minister
Gopal Krishna Pillai , 15th Home Secretary of India
M. K. Narayanan , 3rd National Security Advisor of India and former director of Intelligence Bureau
Ranj Pillai , Canadian politician, who has been the tenth premier of Yukon
Sundaresh Menon , Chief Justice of Singapore
Pattom A. Thanu Pillai , 2nd chief minister of Kerala
Padayatt Kesava pillai Vasudevan Nair , 7th chief minister of Kerala
Ayillyath Kuttiari Gopalan Nambiar , Indian politician
Shashi Tharoor , Indian politician
Raja Kesavadas , Statue of Kunnathur Kesavan Raman Pillai (military head of Travancore army)
Velu Thampi Dalawa , Statue of Veluthampi (Prime Minister of the kingdom of Travancore between 1802 and 1809)
C. Achutha Menon , 4th chief minister of Kerala
E. K. Nayanar , 9th chief minister of Kerala
Kunhiraman Palat Candeth , former Indian army officer
B. Ravi Pillai , Dubai-based Indian billionaire businessman
K. P. P. Nambiar , Indian industrialist and technocrat
Gita Gopinath , Indian-American economist
M. G. K. Menon , physicist and policy maker from India
G. Madhavan Nair (right) with APJ Abdul Kalam
S. Sreesanth , Indian former cricketer Sreesanth in the field for India