List of Famous people born in Thoothukudi, India

Shiv Nadar is an Indian billionaire industrialist. He is the founder and chairman of HCL Technologies Limited and the Shiv Nadar Foundation. Nadar founded HCL in the mid-1970s and transformed the IT hardware company into an IT enterprise over the next three decades by constantly reinventing his company's focus. In 2008, Nadar was awarded Padma Bhushan for his efforts in the IT industry. Nadar, nicknamed by friends as Magus, since the mid-1990s has focused his efforts on developing the educational system of India through the Shiv Nadar Foundation. Ramanichandran, a prolific Tamil romance novelist is his cousin. He is the third richest person in India with a net worth of US$26 billion as of January 2021, according to Forbes.

Cottalango Leon is an Indian-American computer graphics technician who won the Academy Award for scientific and technical achievement jointly with Sam Richards and J. Robert Ray in 2016.

John Vijay is an Indian Tamil film actor, who plays supporting roles. He has also worked in a few Malayalam, Telugu, Hindi and Kannada films.

M. C. Veerabahu Pillai was an Indian lawyer, businessman, and politician from Tamil Nadu, who served in the first Lok Sabha of independent India; he was also an independence activist.

Sasikala Pushpa is a deputy leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Tamil Nadu. She served as a member of the Parliament in the Rajya Sabha. She was a mayor of Thoothukudi Municipal Corporation from 2011 to 2014.