Ramaswami Ramanathan Chettiar (30 September 1913 – 12 December 1995) better known as Mayor Ramanathan Chettiar was an Indian Industrialist, politician and bureaucrat who served as Mayor of Madras and member of Lok Sabha.
[2][1] In the 1957 Lok Sabha elections, Ramanathan Chettiar was elected to the Indian parliament from the Pudukkottai Lok Sabha constituency.
[3] Ramanathan Chettiar was the first director of the Reserve Bank of India.
[3] He also served as a member of the executive committee of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and as chairman of the Indian Handicrafts Development Corporation.
[3] The Mayor Ramanathan Hall and M. R. C. Nagar in Raja Annamalaipuram, Chennai, are named after him.