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Notable members of the [[Nair]] community of southern India include:

==Dynasties==

* [[Zamorin of Calicut]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xu-O9eNmQXMC&pg=PT162 |title=Land of seven rivers: History of India's Geography |author=Sanjeev Sanyal |year=2012|isbn=9788184756715 }}</ref>
*[[Kingdom of Travancore]]<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924023942828/page/n83/mode/2up|title=The Dutch in Malabar|year=1911|pages=53}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Pillai|first=Manu S|title=False Allies: India’s Maharajahs in the Age of Ravi Varma|publisher=Juggernaut Books|year=2021|pages=93}}</ref>
*[[Thekkumkur|Thekkumkur Kingdom]]<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|last=Panikkar|first=K.M|title=Malabar And The Dutch|year=1930|pages=31}}</ref>
*[[Vadakkumkur|Vadakkumkur Kingdom]]<ref name=":2" />
* [[Chirakkal Raja]]<ref name="google2">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hkbJ6xA1_jEC&pg=PA140 |title=History of Tipu Sultan |author=Mohibbul Hasan |page=140 |year= 2005|isbn=9788187879572 }}</ref>
* [[Kadathanadu]]<ref name="google2"/>
* [[Venad|Kingdom of Venad]]<ref name="gough">{{Cite book|title=Matrilineal Kinship|editor1-first=David Murray |editor1-last=Schneider |editor2-first=Kathleen |editor2-last=Gough |last=Gough|first=Kathleen |author-link=Kathleen Gough |chapter=Central Kerala|publisher=University of California Press|year=1962|isbn=978-1111665906|pages=303–304}}</ref>
* [[Valluvanad (southern Malabar)|Valluvanad]]<ref name="gough" />
* [[Ernād]]<ref name="gough" />
* [[Palakkad district|Palakkad]]<ref name="gough" />
* [[Kolathunadu|Kingdom of Kolathunadu]]<ref name="gough" />
*[[Kavalappara|Kavalappara Moopil Nayar]]<ref>{{Cite book|last=Thurston|first=Edgar|title=Castes and Tribes of South India|year=1909|pages=283}}</ref>

==Spiritual leaders==
* [[Tapovan Maharaj]]<ref>{{cite book |last= Chinmayananda |title=Journey Of A Master |year= 1989|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LVFgGKeAzFUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Journey+Of+A+Master#q=Journey%20Of%20A%20Master|page= 79|isbn= 9788175973053}}</ref>
* [[Chattampi Swamikal]]<ref name="Nangelimalil1996">{{cite book|author=Jacob Nangelimalil|title=The Relationship Between the Eucharistic Liturgy, the Interior Life and the Social Witness of the Church According to Joseph Cardinal Parecattil|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mnM-Oiul2KcC&pg=PA45|date=1 January 1996|publisher=Gregorian Biblical BookShop|isbn=978-88-7652-695-4|pages=45–}}</ref> – Hindu sage, social reformer
* [[Devasahayam Pillai]]<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-06-25|title=18th century Keralite 'martyr' to be beatified by church|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210625112530/https://www.news18.com/news/india/18th-century-keralite-martyr-to-be-beatified-by-church-523797.html|access-date=2021-06-25|website=web.archive.org}}</ref> - Roman Catholic Saint cannonized by the Church
* [[Swami Chinmayananda]]<ref name=emir98>{{cite book | last = Emir | first = Rudite | title = Swami Chinmayananda: A Life of Inspiration and Service | publisher = Central Chinmaya Mission Trust | year = 1998
| isbn = 1-880687-32-1}}</ref> - Spiritual leader and founding father of Vishwa Hindu Parishad

==Politicians==
* [[A. K. Gopalan|A K Gopalan]]<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-06-25|title=Facts on AK Gopalan, a different story|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210625112007/https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/in-other-news/100118/facts-on-ak-gopalan-tell-a-different-story.html|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-25|website=web.archive.org}}</ref>
* [[V.K. Krishna Menon]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hQ8p4XTRZgEC&pg=PT80&dq=himself+of+the+Nair+caste#q=Nair |title=Nehru: A Contemporary's Estimate |author=Walter Crocker |date= 20 November 2011|isbn=9788184002133 |access-date=2016-02-24}}</ref>
* [[Shashi Tharoor]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fRSC_uTGhZ8C&pg=PA114 |title=India: From Midnight to the Millennium and Beyond |first=Shashi |last=Tharoor |page=114 |date=1947-08-15 |isbn=9781559708036 |access-date=2016-02-24}}</ref>
* [[M. G. Ramachandran]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cpzzxxCgpbcC&pg=PT38&dq=himself+of+the+Nair+caste#q=Nair |title=A Time of Transition: Rajiv Gandhi to the 21st Century |author=Mani Shankar Aiyar |year=2009 |isbn=9780670082759 |access-date=2016-02-24}}</ref>
* [[Pattom Thanu Pillai]]<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p_nHft2p3moC&pg=PA91&dq=Pattom+Thanu+Pillai#q=Pattom%20Thanu%20Pillai|title=Liberation of the Oppressed a Continuous Struggle|publisher=History Kanyakumari District|language=en}}</ref>
* [[C. Sankaran Nair]]<ref>{{Cite book|last=Nair|first=Sir Chettur Madhavan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-p4sAAAAMAAJ&dq=Chettur+sankaran+nair&q=Sankaran+Nair+parents|title=A Short Life of Sir C. Sankaran Nair, C. I. E.: (fighter for India's Freedom) Member of the Viceroy's Executive Council|date=1969|language=en}}</ref> (Former president of Indian National Congress)
* [[ A. R. Menon ]] Ambattu Ravunni Menon
* [[M. V. Raghavan]]<ref>{{Cite book|last=P|first=Ullekh N.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WR1eDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT88&dq=M.+V.+Raghavan+family#q=M.%20V.%20Raghavan%20family|title=Kannur: Inside India's Bloodiest Revenge Politics|date=2018-06-19|publisher=Penguin Random House India Private Limited|isbn=978-93-5305-105-1|language=en}}</ref>
* [[E. K. Nayanar|E.K Nayanar]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=Kalyassery|first=Damodaran|title=Ancestral home of E.K Nayanar, Erambala Tharavadu|url=https://www.mathrubhumi.com/myhome/news/ek-nayanar-maternal-home-1.4348792|access-date=2020-06-21|website=Mathrubhumi|language=en}}</ref>
* [[C. Achutha Menon|C Achutha Menon]]
* [[P. K. Vasudevan Nair|P K Vasudevan Nair]]
* [[R. Balakrishna Pillai|R.Balakrishna Pillai]]<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-06-25|title=Kerala Congress (B) chairman Balakrishna Pillai passes away {{!}} Kerala News {{!}} Manorama English|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210625112901/https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2021/05/03/kerala-congress-b-leader-r-balakrishna-pillai-passed-away.html|access-date=2021-06-25|website=web.archive.org}}</ref>
* [[Ramesh Chennithala]]<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-06-25|title=Profile - Ramesh Chennithala|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210625111452/https://www.rameshchennithala.net/profile/|access-date=2021-06-25|website=web.archive.org}}</ref>
*[[Prakash Karat]]<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-06-25|title=When Prakash Karat was asked his caste|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210625154241/https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/when-prakash-karat-was-asked-his-caste-437079|access-date=2021-06-25|website=web.archive.org}}</ref>

==Policymakers/administrators==
*[[Velu Thampi Dalawa]]<ref name="RajadhyakshaWillemen2014">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SLkABAAAQBAJ&pg=PA159|title=Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema|author1=Ashish Rajadhyaksha|author2=Paul Willemen|date=10 July 2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-94318-9|pages=159–}}</ref> – Dalawa of erstwhile Travancore Kingdom and freedom fighter
*[[Raja Kesavadas]]<ref>{{Cite book|last=Allen|first=Charles|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qutzDQAAQBAJ&newbks=0&hl=en|title=Coromandel: A Personal History of South India|date=2017-11-02|publisher=Little, Brown Book Group|isbn=978-1-4087-0540-7|language=en}}</ref>– Dewan of Travancore and was known as the ''Maker of modern [[Alappuzha|Alleppey]]''
*[[Paliath Achan]]<ref>{{Cite book|last=Orpa|first=Slapak|title=The Jews of India: A story of Three Communities|year=1995|pages=28}}</ref>
*[[Gopal Krishna Pillai]]
* [[K. P. S. Menon (senior)]]<ref name="thehindu1">{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-sundaymagazine/some-places-are-unique/article1436898.ece |title=Some places are unique - CHEN |newspaper=[[The Hindu]] |date=2008-01-13 |access-date=2016-02-24}}</ref>
*[[V. P. Menon]]<ref name="thehindu1" /> – Constitutional Adviser and Political Reforms Commissioner to the last three Viceroys during British rule in India
* [[C. Madhavan Nair]]<ref name="thehindu1"/>
* [[M. K. Narayanan]]<ref name="thehindu1"/>
* [[Mannathu Padmanabha Pillai]]<ref>{{cite news|title=NSS call to emulate Mannathu Padmanabhan|url=http://www.thehindu.com/2002/01/03/stories/2002010303670300.htm|access-date=28 December 2016|work=[[The Hindu]]|date=2002-01-03|location=Kerala}}{{dead link|date=April 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>
*[[P. K. Narayana Panicker]]
*[[K. M. Panikkar]]<ref>{{cite journal |title=Review: An Autobiography. by K. M. Panikkar, K. Krishnamurthy |first=Susan |last=Lewandowski |journal=The Journal of Asian Studies |volume=38 |issue=2 |date=February 1979 |pages=396–397 |jstor=2053469 |doi=10.2307/2053469}}</ref> – Historian, novelist, and diplomat
* [[M. G. Ramachandran]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cpzzxxCgpbcC&pg=PT38&dq=himself+of+the+Nair+caste#q=Nair |title=A Time of Transition: Rajiv Gandhi to the 21st Century |author=Mani Shankar Aiyar |year=2009 |isbn=9780670082759 |access-date=2016-02-24}}</ref>
*[[K. Kelappan]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.keralamediaacademy.org/content/kelappan-k|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200419184627/https://archive.keralamediaacademy.org/content/kelappan-k|url-status=dead|archive-date=2020-04-19|title=Kelappan. K {{!}} Kerala Media Academy|date=2020-04-19|access-date=2020-04-19}}</ref> – a.k.a. Kerala Gandhi, freedom fighter, founder of the [[Nair Service Society]]
*[[ Jyotindra Nath Dixit]] Former National Security Adviser

==Military personnel==

* [[Lt General]] [[Kunhiraman Palat Candeth]]<ref>BJP today, Volume 12. Page:20, Column:3</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CBK7DgAAQBAJ&pg=PT46&dq=K.P+Candeth+Nayar#q=K.P%20Candeth%20Nayar|title=Themes of Glory: Indian Artillery in War|last=Khullar|first=Darshan|date=2017-05-15|isbn=9789385563973|pages=46|language=en}}</ref>
*[[Sandeep Unnikrishnan]]<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8LjjDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT146&dq=Nair+caste+ashoka+chakra#q=Nair%20caste%20ashoka%20chakra|title=Ashoka Chakra Recipients|last=Aggarwal|first=Rashmi|date=101|publisher=Prabhat Prakashan|language=en}}</ref>
*[[Lakshmi Sahgal]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/a-matriarchal-home-to-many-illustrious-daughters-of-india/989510/|title=A matriarchal home to many illustrious daughters of India - Indian Express|date=2012-08-17|website=Archive.indianexpress.com|access-date=2016-02-24}}</ref>
*[[Neelakantan Jayachandran Nair]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=അപൂർവധൈര്യത്തിന്റെ ഓർമപ്പെടുത്തലായി കേണൽ എൻ.ജെ.നായർ|url=https://www.mathrubhumi.com/thiruvananthapuram/nagaram/1.2063906|access-date=2020-06-03|website=Mathrubhumi|language=en}}</ref>

== Arts & literature ==
* [[Bharath Gopi]]<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Rajadhyaksha|first1=Ashish|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rF8ABAAAQBAJ&pg=PA1994-IA132&dq=Bharath+Gopi#q=Bharath%20Gopi|title=Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema|last2=Willemen|first2=Paul|date=2014-07-10|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-94325-7|language=en}}</ref>
* [[Suresh Gopi]]<ref>{{cite news|last=Philip|first=Shaju|title=Kerala actor Suresh Gopi snubbed by Hindu Nair leader|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/kerala-actor-suresh-gopi-snubbed-by-hindu-nair-leader/|access-date= 28 December 2016|work=[[The Indian Express]]|location=Kerala|date=27 June 2015}}</ref>
* [[C. V. Raman Pillai]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rr20K3WL-qgC&pg=PA51 |title=C.V. Raman Pillai |page=51 |isbn=9788172012731 |access-date=2016-02-24|last1=Guptannayar |first1=Es |last2=Guptannāyar |first2=Es |year=1992 }}</ref>
* [[Irayimman Thampi]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.keralaculture.org/|title=Irayimman Thampi|website=www.keralaculture.org|language=en|access-date=2020-04-20}}</ref>
*[[K. B. Ganesh Kumar|K.B. Ganesh Kumar]]<ref>{{Cite news|others=Special Correspondent|date=2012-10-17|title=Not anti-NSS: Ganesh Kumar|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/Not-anti-NSS-Ganesh-Kumar/article12560676.ece|access-date=2020-05-22|issn=0971-751X}}</ref>
*[[Mohanlal]]<ref>{{Cite web|date=2015-12-23|title=Will Mohanlal contest 2016 assembly polls? NSS denies|url=https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/will-mohanlal-contest-2016-assembly-polls-nss-denies-37017|access-date=2021-06-25|website=The News Minute|language=en}}</ref>
*[[Shobana|Shobana Chandrakumar Pillai]]<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|date=2021-06-25|title=The Travancore Trio: Sisters who conquered the silver screen {{!}} The News Minute|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210625110444/https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/travancore-trio-sisters-who-conquered-silver-screen-46694|access-date=2021-06-25|website=web.archive.org}}</ref>
*[[Travancore sisters|Travancore Sisters]]<ref name=":0" />
*[[Vineeth]]<ref name=":0" />

==See also==
* [[National Democratic Party (Kerala)]] - Political wing of the Nair Service Soci<nowiki/>ety
* [[List of people from Kerala]]

==References==
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List of Nairs - Revision history

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