List of Famous people born in Kerala, India

Shalini Ajith Kumar also commonly known as Shalini is a former Indian actress who predominantly worked in Malayalam films and few Tamil films.

Meera Jasmine is an Indian actress who appears in South Indian films, primarily Malayalam and Tamil films. She was a popular lead actress during the 2000s.

Abraham Viruthakulangara was an Indian archbishop of Nagpur. He was also the President of the Maharashtra Regional Bishops' Conference.

Kateekal Sankaranarayanan is the ex-governor of the Indian state of Maharashtra. He had also served as the Governor of Nagaland and Jharkhand. Prior to his appointment as governor, he had served as a minister in several Congress led governments of Kerala headed by Chief Ministers A K Antony and K. Karunakaran. On 24 August 2014 he was transferred by the NDA government to Mizoram.

V. A. Shrikumar is an Indian advertisement and feature film director and businessman. He has directed more than 400 commercials for various brands. He is the chairman and managing director of Push Integrated Communications, a marketing company. He directed his debut feature film Odiyan in 2018. Despite mixed reviews, it was a major commercial success at the box office, becoming one of the highest-grossing Malayalam films of all time.

Pooradam Thirunal Sethu Lakshmi Bayi CI was the monarch, though designated as the Regent due to British policy, of the Kingdom of Travancore in southern India between 1924 and 1931. She, along with her younger cousin, Moolam Thirunal Sethu Parvathi Bayi, were adopted into the Travancore Royal Family and were the granddaughters of the celebrated painter, Raja Ravi Varma.

Arackaparambil Kurien Antony, better known as A. K. Antony is an Indian politician and attorney who was the 23rd Defence Minister of India. He is the current Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha, from Kerala for the fifth term since 1985. He also currently serves as the Chairman of the Disciplinary Action Committee of the All India Congress Committee, Congress Working Committee, and member of the Congress Core Group and Central Election Committee.

Puthenpurayil Chandrika Thulasi is an Indian badminton player. She was part of the national team that won the gold medals in 2010 and 2016 South Asian Games, also the women's doubles silver in 2010. Thulasi was the women's singles national champion in 2016, and the gold medalist in 34th National Games.

Malabar Gopalan Nair Sreekumar, popularly known as M. G. Sreekumar, is an Indian playback singer, composer, music producer, television presenter and film producer, who works predominantly in Malayalam cinema and television. He has sung more than 20000 songs in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi languages. He owns a music company named KMG Musics and also Saregama School of Music in Thiruvananthapuram. Sreekumar has won several awards, including two National Film Awards, three Kerala State Film Awards and a Filmfare Awards South. He was also honoured with the Harivarasanam Award by the Government of Kerala in 2016.

Shankar Panicker is an film actor and director, popularly known as Powerstar Shanker in Malayalam films. In the early 1980s, he was a most prominent romantic lead actor of Malayalam cinema. Galatta Cinema magazine described him as the "True romantic hero of Mollywood" in their special edition on 100 years of Indian cinema. Shankar's debut, Tamil film Oru Thalai Ragam, ran for over 365 days in theatres. His Malayalam debut, Manjil Virinja Pookkal, ran over 200 days in theatres and became one of the highest-grossing Malayalam films of all time.