Famous People with Name Krishnan

Krishnan Sasikiran            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Krishnan Sasikiran: is an Indian chess Grandmaster. Among Indians, he is second only to Vishwanathan Anand in FIDE rating.Sasi as he is sometimes called, comes from Chennai in Tamil Nadu in south-eastern India. He earned the Grandmaster title at the 2000 Commonwealth Champio

Krishnan Guru-Murthy            Origin/Culture/Country: British

Krishnan Guru-Murthy: is a British television newscaster and journalist. He is the main anchor of the Channel 4 News at Noon and regularly presents the main evening Channel 4 News.Originally from Liverpool, Guru-Murthy attended the independent Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School,

Krishnan Srinivasan            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Krishnan Srinivasan: an Indian diplomat and scholar.He was born 1937 in Madras, India, was educated at Bedford School and Oxford University. He joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1959 and rose to become the Ambassador/High Commissioner to Zambia and Botswana, Nigeria, Benin and the Cameroons, the Netherlands and Bangladesh. He concluded his career with the Government of India in 1995 after being appointed Secretary and finally Foreign Secretary. He was then appointed Commonwealth Deputy Secretary-General (political) in London where he served until 2002.

Krishnan Ajayan Nair            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Krishnan Ajayan Nair: is an Indian football player. He is currently playing for Mahindra United in the I-League in India as a Midfielder. Ajayan plays as the skipper of Mahindra United. Ajayan is also a regular for Indian National Team.Due to several injuries Ajayan missed sev

Krishnan Bhaskar Pillai            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Krishnan Bhaskar Pillai: is a former Indian cricketer who was a prolific run scorer for Delhi and North Zone. A right-handed batsman, he had particular success between 1983 and 1989 in the Ranji Trophy where he averaged about 70. Although he never got to play international cricke

Ramya Krishnan            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Ramya Krishnan: a successful multilingual actress in commercial Indian cinema. She has over 200 films to her credit. She also holds a rare record of acting in five languages, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi. She has played such diverse roles as a glam-doll, a caring wife, a devoted mom, an arrogant vamp and even a goddess.The south Indian actress has a long career spanning over two decades and 200+ films to her credit. She has portrayed a wide range of roles from that of an innocent village belle to a hip and happening female.

Ramanathan Krishnan            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Ramanathan Krishnan: is a retired tennis player from India who was among the world's leading players in the 1950s and 1960s. He was at one point ranked the World No. 3 amateur player – the highest ranking ever achieved by a tennis player from Asia.

Maharajapuram Seetharaman Krishnan            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Maharajapuram Seetharaman Krishnan: was an Indian geologist.Krishnan excelled in early student years and was given a fellowship to study in England. He completed his Ph. D. at the age of 26 and joined the Geological Survey of India and worked alongside Lewis Fermor, C. S. Fox, J. A. Dunn, A. M. Heron, H. C. Jones, and J. B. Auden in pre-Independence times.He worked on stratigraphic mapping in Gangpur, Bonai, Bamra and Keonjar (parts of present Orissa State) and identified the 'Gangpur Series' published in GSI Memoir 71 (1937). He also worked on minerals of economic importance including iron, manganese ores, gypsum, mica, limestone and published his studies in the GSI Memoir 80 (1952). He also worked on the of the rocks of Girnar and Osham hills of Saurashtra (now in Gujarat), lateritization of the peculiar meta-sedimentary rocks called the khondalites, the mineral resources of former Central Provinces and Berar (now forming parts of Madhya Pradesh), the geology of the Vindhyan formations of northern India, the Deccan traps, the Tertiaries of Tanjore (Tamil Nadu), and made observations on mythical rivers such as the Indobrahm and Saraswathi.

Trisha Krishnan            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Trisha Krishnan: a prominent, award-winning actress in both Tamil and Telugu film industries. She rose to fame in the Tamil industry with her roles in movies, Saamy, Ghilli, Aayitha Ezhuthu and Abhiyum Naanum and the Telugu industry with her movie, Varsham and Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana.She started her career as a model, appearing in many TV advertisements including that of Fair and Lovely and Josco Jeweller. She also starred in Falguni Pathak's music album Meri Chunar Ud Ud Jaye.

Kookal Ramunni Krishnan            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Kookal Ramunni Krishnan: as an Indian physician. He was former director of Southport Regional Spinal Injuries Centre in Southport, United Kingdom, a lecturer in the department of neurological science at University of Liverpool, and visiting professor of rehabilitation at University of Salford. He is credited with pioneering the spinal injuries service at Southport.