List of Famous people born in Andhra Pradesh, India
Akkineni Nageswara Rao
Akkineni Nageswara Rao, widely known as ANR, was an Indian film actor and producer, known for his work predominantly in Telugu cinema. He starred in many landmark films in his seventy five-year career, becoming one of the most prominent figures in the history of Indian cinema. He is considered one of the greatest and most successful actor of Indian cinema and one of the two pillars of Telugu Cinema, along with N. T. Rama Rao. Nageswara Rao received seven state Nandi Awards, and five Filmfare Awards South. He is a recipient of the Dada Saheb Phalke Award, the highest Indian award in the field of cinema. He was also honoured with the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian award, for his contribution to the film industry.
Devineni Nehru
Devineni Nehru, represented Kankipadu Assembly Constituency in Krishna District of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
Prasad Devineni
Prasad Devineni is an Indian film producer known for his works in Telugu cinema. Prasad is the board member of Arka Media Works, a film production company. He co-produced the two part Baahubali: The Beginning (2015) premiered at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival, and Baahubali 2: The Conclusion (2017) premiered at the British Film Institute, while becoming the highest grossing Indian multilingual film franchise of all time globally with a cumulative box office earnings of approximately ₹1,900 crore (US$270 million). The first part of the Telugu film has received the National Film Award for Best Feature Film, and got nominated for Saturn Award for Best Fantasy Film by the American Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. The second part has garnered the Telstra People's Choice Award at the 2017 Indian Film Festival of Melbourne.
Satyadev Kancharana
Satyadev Kancharana, known professionally as Satya Dev, is an Indian actor who primarily works in Telugu cinema. Starting with supporting roles, Satyadev established himself as a leading actor. He is better known for his performances in movies such as Jyothi Lakshmi (2015), Kshanam (2016), Mana Oori Ramayanam (2016), Bluff Master (2018), Brochevarevarura (2019), and Uma Maheswara Ugra Roopasya (2020).
Pydikondala Manikyala Rao
Pydikondala Manikyala Rao was an Indian politician. He was a Member of Legislative Assembly for Tadepalligudem and former Endowments Minister for Andhra Pradesh.
Neelima Chowdary
K Neelima Chowdary is an Indian badminton player who represented India in many international games and championships.
Konijeti Rosaiah
Konijeti Rosaiah is an Indian politician who was Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh from 2009 to 2010 and Governor of Tamil Nadu from 2011 to 2016. He was previously an MLC, MLA and MP from the Indian National Congress numerous times and handled many ministerial posts over his long political career spanning over half a century. He is one of the most experienced political leaders in the state of Andhra Pradesh and his role as the Finance minister is very well recognized.
K. S. Chandrasekharan
Komaravolu Chandrasekhar was a professor at ETH Zurich and a founding faculty member of School of Mathematics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR). He is known for his work in number theory and summability. He received the Padma Shri, the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award, and the Ramanujan Medal, and he was an honorary fellow of TIFR. He was president of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) from 1971 to 1974.
B. Nagi Reddy
Bommireddy Nagi Reddi was an Indian film producer and director mainly in Telugu cinema. He set up Vijaya Vauhini Studios in Chennai, which was then Asia's biggest film studio. As his elder brother had the same initials and was known as B. N. Reddi, Nagi Reddi was popularly known as B. Nagi Reddi. Some of the movies produced by Nagi Reddi include Patala Bhairavi (1951), Missamma (1955), Maya Bazaar (1957), Gundamma Katha (1962), Maduve Maadi Nodu (1965-Kannada), Enga Veetu Pillai (1965), Ram Aur Shyam (1967), Nam Naadu (1969-Tamil), Shriman Shrimati (1982), Julie (1975), and Swarg Narak (1978), the latter two of which were in Hindi. Reddi has served as the president of Film Federation of India twice, in 1960–61 and 1962–63.
K. S. Ravindra
K. S. Ravindra, popularly known as Bobby, is an Indian screenwriter and story writer who works in the Telugu and Kannada film industries. He won Best Debut Director Award for Power at 13th Santosham Film Awards.