List of Famous people born in Andhra Pradesh, India
Srini Raju
Chintalapati Srinivasa Raju is an Indian entrepreneur and private equity investor. Srini Raju was the founding chief executive officer (CEO) and managing director (MD) of Dun & Bradstreet Satyam Software, the in-house technology unit of Dun & Bradstreet, established in 1994, which focused on implementing large-scale IT projects for Dun & Bradstreet businesses. DBSS was later renamed Cognizant.
Roja
Roja Selvamani, also known as R. K. Roja or Lady Roja Selvamani, is an Indian politician and former actress. She is serving as the current Minister for Tourism, Culture and Youth Advancement of Andhra Pradesh. She was a leading actress in Tamil and Telugu films from 1991 to 2002. She has also acted in a few Kannada and Malayalam-language films. She won three Nandi Awards and one Tamil Nadu State Film Award.
Himaja
Himaja Mallireddy is an Indian model and actress who works primarily in Telugu cinema. She is popularly known for her Debute serial Konchem Istam Konchem Kastam and primarily known for her roles in movies Shatamanam Bhavati, Vunnadhi Okate Zindagi and Chitralahari. She participated as a contestant in Season 3 of Bigg Boss Telugu and evicted on day 63.
Ramakrishna
Ramakrishna was a noted Telugu film Hero and actor. He has acted in over 200 films, including Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam. He has acted in several super hit Telugu movies such as 'Nomu', 'Pooja', 'Nenu Naa Desam', 'Bomma Borusa', 'Badi panthulu', 'Kurukshetram', 'Yuvataram kadilindi', 'Mantralaya Sri Raghavendra Vaaibhavam', 'Hantakulostunnaru jagrattha', 'Magadu', 'Katakatala Rudraiah', 'Doralu Dongalu', 'Kotalo paga', 'Vishwanadha Nayakudu'. He played various roles in several mythological films, including Yashoda Krishna, Vinayaka Vijayamu, Devude digivasthe. He had also acted alongside thespians N. T. Ramarao and Akkineni Nageswara Rao.
K. S. Rama Rao
K. S. Rama Rao is an Indian film producer known for his work in Telugu cinema. Under his the Creative Commercials banner and has produced a number of notable films, including Mounageetam, Abhilasha, Rakshasudu, Chanti, Matrudevobhava and Swarna Kamalam.
Mohan Babu
Manchu Bhakthavatsalam Naidu, known popularly as Mohan Babu, is an Indian actor and producer, known for his works predominantly in Telugu cinema. An alumnus of the Madras Film Institute, Mohan Babu has acted in more than five hundred feature films in lead, supporting and a variety of roles.
Shobha Nagi Reddy
Shobha Nagi Reddy was an Indian politician from Andhra Pradesh, India. She represented the Allagadda constituency in the Legislative Assembly of Andhra Pradesh for four terms until 2012 when she resigned due to political turmoil in her party. She served as the chairperson of Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) and was the spokesperson for Prajarajyam party, having previously been General Secretary and also a state committee member in Telugu Desam Party. In 2012, she left the Prajarajyam party and joined the newly formed YSR Congress. Her husband Bhuma Nagi Reddy is also a politician who served twice as a Member of Legislative Assembly and thrice as a Member of Parliament.
Y. S. Avinash Reddy
Y. S. Avinash Reddy is an Indian politician who is the Member of Parliament in Lok Sabha from Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh. He won the Indian general elections of 2014 and 2019 being a Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party candidate. He along with his party MPs resigned for their posts in protest for not giving special status to AP as promised by putting no confidence motion on PM Modi. YSRCP is first party to put no confidence motion on PM Modi.
Johnny Lever
John Prakash Rao Janumala, popularly known as Johnny Lever is an Indian film actor and one of the most noted comedians in Hindi cinema. Lever is one of the first stand-up comedians in India. Lever has received thirteen Filmfare Awards nominations in Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Comic Role, and has won the award twice, for his work in Deewana Mastana (1997) and Dulhe Raja (1998). He began his career in 1984, and has acted in more than three hundred Bollywood films.
Srikar Bharat
Kona Srikar Bharat, better known as K. S. Bharat or Srikar Bharat, is an Indian cricketer who plays as a wicket-keeper batsman for Andhra cricket team in domestic cricket. In February 2015, he became the first wicket-keeper batsman to score a triple hundred in the Ranji Trophy. Later that month, he was signed up for Rs. 10 lakh by the Indian Premier League franchise Delhi Daredevils.