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| name = A. Lakshmanaswami
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| birth_date = 14 October 1887
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| death_date = 15 April 1974 (aged 86)<ref>{{cite book |title=Indian Journal of Medical Education |date=1974 |publisher=The Association |page=84 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dO8MAQAAIAAJ&q=Sir+Arcot+Lakshmanaswami+Mudaliar+April+1974&dq=Sir+Arcot+Lakshmanaswami+Mudaliar+April+1974&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi3vNjj19jhAhVGF6wKHQDBAfoQ6AEIKTAA |access-date=18 April 2019 |language=en|quote=Sir Arcot, a distinguished obstetrician and gynaecologist, an international public health worker, an outstanding medical statesman and an internationally recognised medical educationist passed away on 15th April, 1974, at Madras...}}</ref>
| death_place = [[Madras]], India
| nationality = [[India|Indian]]
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| alma_mater = [[Madras Christian College]]
| awards = [[Padma Bhushan]], [[Padma Vibhushan]]
| relatives = [[Sir Arcot Ramasamy Mudaliar]] (brother)
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[[File:A. L. Mudaliar.jpg|thumb|Statue of Lakshmanaswami in the Senate House, University of Madras]]
[[Diwan Bahadur]] '''Sir Arcot Lakshmanaswami''' , [[Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists|FRCOG]], [[Fellow of the American College of Surgeons|FACS]] (14 October 1887 – 15 April 1974) was an [[India]]n [[educationist]] and [[physician]]. He was the identical younger twin brother of [[Sir Arcot Ramasamy Mudaliar]]. Initial education was in [[Kurnool]] and they moved to Chennai in 1903.<ref>{{cite news|title=The twin stars of Arcot|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/the-twin-stars-of-arcot/article3995071.ece|access-date=28 February 2018|newspaper=The Hindu|date=14 October 2012}}</ref>

He pursued his education from the [[Madras Christian College]]. He later went on to become the longest serving [[Vice-Chancellor]] of [[Madras University]]<ref>{{cite web|title=The Vice Chancellors|url=http://www.unom.ac.in/index.php?route=university/formervcs|publisher=[[University of Madras]]}}</ref> (for 27 years) and principal of [[Madras Medical College]]. He was also the Deputy Leader of the Indian delegation to the First World Health Assembly in Geneva in 1948. He was elected as the chairman of the [[World Health Organization]] (WHO) Executive Board in 1949 and 1950, was Vice-President of the Eighth World Health Assembly in 1955 and President of the Fourteenth World Health Assembly.<ref>http://www.unom.ac.in/uploads/press/almudhaliar_20120124133534_32489.pdf</ref>

==Awards & Honors==
* He was knighted in the [[1945 New Year Honours]],<ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/36866/supplements/2 London Gazette, 1 January 1945]</ref>
* Awarded the [[Padma Bhushan]] in 1954 and the [[Padma Vibhushan]] in 1963.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web |url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2015 |access-date=21 July 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6U68ulwpb?url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 November 2014 }}</ref>
* He was the General president of 46th [[Indian Science Congress]] held in 1959.<ref>{{cite web|title=List of Past General Presidents|url=http://www.sciencecongress.nic.in/past_general_presidents.php|publisher=Indian Science Congress Association|access-date=28 February 2018}}</ref>

==Textbooks==
* ''Clinical Obstetrics'' first edition 1938; later revised as Mudaliar and Menon, 10th edition, {{ISBN|81-250-2870-6}}

==References==
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* S. Muthiah, ''Achievements in double'' The Hindu, 13 October 2003 accessed at [https://web.archive.org/web/20040113092139/http://www.hindu.com/mp/2003/10/13/stories/2003101300210300.htm] 3 August 2006
* ''The Second Decade, 50 years of WHO in SE Asia'', accessed at [https://archive.today/20130113134906/http://w3.whosea.org/EN/Section898/Section1444_5890.htm%23The%20Mudaliar%20twins%20and%20WHO] 3 August 2006
* Dr. Vedagiri Shanmugasundaram, ''Life and Times of the Great Twins: Dr. Sir. A. Ramasamy and Dr. Sir. A. Lakshmanasamy'', The Modern Rationalist, November 2004, accessed at [https://web.archive.org/web/20060917092208/http://www.themronline.com/200411m1.html] 3 August 2006
* Bio details from honorary degree at Hong Kong University [https://web.archive.org/web/20070311022420/http://www3.hku.hk/eroonweb/hongrads/person_c.php?id=103]
* Bio details from honorary doctorate of civil laws degree at Oxford University

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