List of Famous people born in Pondicherry, Puducherry

Kalki Koechlin is a Indian actress and writer. Known for her unconventional body of work in the Hindi film industry, she is the recipient of such accolades as a National Film Award, a Filmfare Award, and two Screen Awards.

Anandaraj is an Indian actor and politician. He has acted in villain roles in several Tamil films and has appeared in over a two hundred films in different languages including Tamil, Kannada, Telugu and Malayalam.

Jean-Jacques Duval d'Eprémesnil, French magistrate and politician, was born in India at Pondicherry, his father being a colleague of Joseph François Dupleix.

Jacques Alexandre Bernard Law, marquis de Lauriston was a French soldier and diplomat of Scottish descent, and a general officer in the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars. He was born in Pondicherry in French India, where his father, Jean Law de Lauriston, was Governor-General. Jean Law de Lauriston was a nephew of the financier John Law. Jacques’ mother was a member of the Carvallho family of Portuguese traders.

Velu Narayanasamy is an Indian politician serving as the 10th and current Chief Minister of the Union Territory of Puducherry since June 2016. He is a member of Indian National Congress political party.