Iyengars are an ethnoreligious group with origins in the Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.
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- T. R. Govindachari - natural product chemist known for studies on the synthesis of isoquinolines and phenanthridines and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology Awardee
- B. K. S. Iyengar (1918 - 2014) - Founder of Iyengar Yoga
- C. N. S. Iyengar - Mathematician, Founder of the department of mathematics at Karnatak University Dharwad
- Sujatha Rangarajan - screenwriter, novelist, engineer
- Gorur Ramaswamy Iyengar - Kannada poet and author
- K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar (1908âÂÂ1999) - Indian writer in English, former vice-chancellor of Andhra University and winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award
- Masti Venkatesha Iyengar - Jnanapith Awardee and famous Kannada poet and author
- P. K. Iyengar - Indian nuclear physicist and former director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre and chairman of Atomic Energy Commission of India
- Tirumalai Krishnamacharya (1888 - 1989) - Yoga teacher, often referred to as the "Father of modern Yoga"
- M. S. Narasimhan - Padma Bhushan, Ordre national du Mérite, King Faisal International Prize for Science Awardee. Pioneer in the study of moduli spaces of holomorphic vector bundles on projective varieties
- P. T. Narasimhan pioneer of computational chemistry in India and a professor at the IIT Kanpur
- Shobhana Narasimhan - Computational Nano scientist and Indian Academy of Sciences Fellow
- Indira Parthasarathy (b 1930) - writer, playwright, scholar
- K. R. Parthasarathy - TWAS Prize in Mathematics Awardee and pioneer of quantum stochastic calculus
- M. S. Raghunathan - Director of National Centre for Mathematics, IIT Bombay
- Kavita Ramanan - Guggenheim Fellowship Awardee and probability theorist
- S. Ramanan - Indian Mathematician and TWAS Prize in Mathematics and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology Awardee
- Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887 - 1920) - mathematician who made significant contributions to mathematical analysis, infinite series, number theory, and continued fractions
- C. S. Seshadri - Founder of Chennai Mathematical Institute
- Krishna Srinivas, poet, founder of World Poetry Society and World Congress of Poets.
- Govindan Sundararajan - Indian American Mathematician
- Raghavan Varadarajan - Indian biophysicist and a professor at the Indian Institute of Science
- Veeravalli S. Varadarajan - Onsager Medal Awardee and Professor of Mathematics at University of California, Los Angeles
- S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan - Padma Vibhushan, Abel Prize and Birkhoff Prize awardee known for his contributions to probability theory. 7th Director of Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
- Usha Vijayaraghavan - Indian microbiologist
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