List of Famous people born in Kerala, India

Paliyath Jayachandrakuttan, often credited as P. Jayachandran or Jayachandran, is an Indian playback singer and classical musician from Kerala. Jayachandran is best known for his captivating voice which gave him the title Bhava Gayakan by the music fraternity of South India. He has worked with many composers including G. Devarajan, M. S. Baburaj, V. Dakshinamoorthy, K. Raghavan, M. K. Arjunan, M. S. Viswanathan, Ilaiyaraaja, Shyam, A. R. Rahman, M. M. Keeravani and Vidyasagar. He has sung more than 10000 songs in total in different languages.He also acted in few films too.

Remya Nambeesan is an Indian film actress and singer who appears in Malayalam and Tamil films. She has starred in over 60 films as child artist, minor supporting roles to character roles and has also sung over dozen songs including the song "Aande Londe" for the film Ivan Megharoopan (2012) and song "Muthuchippi Poloru" for Thattathin Marayathu (2012).

Prem Nazir was an Indian film actor known as one of Malayalam cinema's definitive leading men of his generation. Widely regarded as one of the most successful actors in the history of Indian cinema, Nazir is often referred to as Nithyaharitha Nayakan. Nazir began his career as a stage actor and made his film debut with the 1952 film Marumakal. He took on the stage name Prem Nazir on the sets of his second film, Visappinte Vili (1952). Nazir rose to stardom during the 1950s to become one of the biggest superstars from the late 1950s to early 1980s. He is most famous for being a romantic actor. After 1983, he intentionally moved from main hero roles to character roles as he wanted to portray a variety of characters, as other artists do.

Baselios Cleemis is the current major archbishop of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church. He was named to the College of Cardinals of the Catholic Church by Pope Benedict XVI on 24 November 2012.

Peter Celestine Elampassery OFM, Cap. was the 2nd Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Jammu–Srinagar.

Anizham Thirunal Marthanda Varma ; 1706 – 7 July 1758, known as the Maker of Modern Travancore, was ruler of the Indian kingdom of Travancore (Venadu) from 1729 until his death in 1758. He was succeeded by Rama Varma (1758–98).

Adv K. Raju is an Indian politician and the incumbent Minister of Forests, Wildlife Protection, Animal husbandry, Dairy Development, Milk- Co-operatives, Zoos of Kerala Legislative Assembly. He belongs to Communist Party of India and represents Punalur constituency. He was previously elected to the Assembly in 2006 and 2011.

Mar Thomas Chakiath ܡܵܪܝ ܬܐܘܿܡܐܵ ܐܲܦܸܣܩܘܿܦܵܐ is a retired Syro Malabar Catholic Bishop. He was the Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly.

Tania Ann Luiz is an Australian badminton player. At the age of nine, Luiz moved with her family to Melbourne, Australia. She started playing badminton three years later, and went on to represent Australia at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, coincidentally in her home city. She defeated South Africa's Michelle Edwards and Fiji's Karyn Whiteside in the preliminary rounds, before losing out her third match to New Zealand's Rachel Hindley, with a score of 7–21 and 12–21.

Peter Thuruthkonam was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Vijayapuram, India. He was born at Vallamkulam, Thiruvalla. He was ordained as a priest on 12 March 1959. He was ordained as the Bishop of the Diocese of Vijayapuram on 4 August 1988. He retired from his office in 2006. He is the first bishop from the Diocese of Vijayapuram.