Famous People with Name Menon

N. R. Madhava Menon            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

N. R. Madhava Menon: a legal educator from India. He was instrumental in setting up the National Law School of India University in Bangalore, and was its founder-director. He has run other law schools based on the NLSIU model, most notably the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS) in West Bengal, Calcutta. He is currently the Director at the National Judicial Academy, Bhopal, an institute for training of judges. Madhava Menon has worked for nearly five decades to improve Indian legal education.As a member of the Legal Education Committee of the Bar Council of India and later as the first Secretary of the Bar Council Trust, Dr. Menon influenced the shaping of legal education policies.

Anjolie Ela Menon            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Anjolie Ela Menon: one of India's leading contemporary female artists. Her paintings are in several major collections. Most recently (2006), a major work "Yatra" was acquired by the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, California. Her preferred medium is oil on masonite, though she has also worked in other media, including glass (pictures of glass sculptures) and water colour. She is a well known muralist. She was awarded the Padma Shree in 2000. She lives and works in New Delhi.

Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon: was a prominent Malayalam poet.He was born on 11-5-1911,at Thrippunithura. He was also a school teacher. His poems depict real life and internal conflicts of human beings.

Lakshmi N. Menon            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Lakshmi N. Menon: was born in Tiruvananthapuram, the child of Rama Varma Thampan and Madhavikutty Amma. In 1930 she married Prof. V.K. Nandan Menon, who had been vice chancellor of the University of Travancore and Patna University and director of the Indian Institutes of P

Sashi Menon            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Sashi Menon: a former professional tennis player from India. He enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career he won 3 doubles titles.