Tamil executives and businesspeople

Australia

Maha Sinnathamby

Hong Kong

M. Arunachalam

India

Raja Sir Annamalai Chettiar, Industrialist, Philanthropist & Educator who established Annamalai University.

Rajah Sir Muthiah Chettiar, Industrialist, Philanthropist and First Mayor of Madras.

Alagappa Chettiar (1909–1957), Industrialist, Philanthropist & Educator who established Alagappa University.

M. A. Chidambaram Chettiar, Industrialist.

Karumuttu Thiagarajan Chettiar, Industrialist & Educationist, Founder of erstwhile bank Bank of Madurai & institution Thiagarajar College of Engineering.

B. S. Abdur Rahman Industrialist, educationist

Ashok Amritraj: Chairman Hyde Park Entertainment-Hollywood.

Jeppiaar: Politician,Industrialist,Educationist and Philanthropist.

Ayya Nadar, founder of Ayyan Group of Companies

Shanmuga Nadar, founder of Standard Fireworks and other firework industries in Sivakasi

Shiv Nadar, founder and CEO of HCL Technologies

A. C. Muthiah, Chairman of Southern Petrochemical Industries Corporation (SPIC)

V. G. Panneerdas, founder of VGP Group of Companies

R. G. Chandramogan, founder of Arun Icecreams

H. Vasanthakumar, founder of Vasanth & Co and Vasanth TV.

V. R. Muthu, CEO and son of founder of Idhayam oil

K. P. Kandasamy, founder of Dinakaran

Arunachalam Muruganantham, founder of Jayashree Industries.

S. P. Adithanar, founder of Dina Thanthi

N.Mahalingam Gounder, Educator, Industrialist and Philanthropist.

Kalanidhi Maran, Media Baron.

M. G. Muthu, founder of MGM Group of Companies and MGM Dizzee World

M. A. M Ramasamy Chettiar, Industrialist, Philanthropist and Pro-Chancellor of Annamalai University.

Murugavel Janakiraman founder of Bharat Matrimony world's largest matrimonial website

Sivasankaran Chairman, Sterling group.

Mani Subramanian, CEO of the Keane India Private Limited.

Palani G. Periasamy, Chairman PGP Group of Companies.

Ayya Nadar

Sivanthi Adithan

S. P. Adithanar

Mecca Rafeeque Ahmed

Arcot Narayanaswami Mudaliar

M. Arunachalam

K. Pandiarajan

R. G. Chandramogan

Anand Amritraj

Vijay Amritraj

Kumar Mahadeva

M. A. M. Ramaswamy

Kumar Mahadeva

Malkar Mohamed

T. N. Manoharan

Kalanithi Maran

A. C. Muthiah

M. G. Muthu

V. R. Muthu

Shiv Nadar

V. G. Panneerdas

Palani G. Periasamy

Shanmuga Nadar

H. Vasanthakumar

Sarathbabu Elumalai

N. Subash Chandrabose

C.K.Ranganathan

Selvarathinam, Saravana Stores founder

N. Mahalingam

A. Vellayan

Avichi Meiyappa Chettiar

M. Saravanan (film producer)

Alagappa Chettiar

Annamalai Chettiar

Ramaswami Chettiar

M. A. Chidambaram

M. Ct. M. Chidambaram Chettyar

M. Ct. Muthiah Chettiar

Karumuttu Thiagarajan Chettiar

M. Anto Peter

Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi, Chairperson and CEO of PepsiCo

Malaysia

Ananda Krishnan

G. Gnanalingam

Bastianpillai Paul Nicholas

K. L. Palaniappan

Vijay Eswaran

Tony Fernandes

Vinod Sekhar

Seychelles

Chinnakannan Sivasankaran

Sri Lanka

Chandran Rutnam

Ken Balendra

Mahesh Amalean

Indrajit Coomaraswamy

Singapore

Robert Chandran

Naraina Pillai

K. Thamboosamy Pillay

United Kingdom

Kali Arulpragasam

Ratheesan Yoganathan

Subaskaran Allirajah

United States

Sanjay Kumar

Raj Rajaratnam

Murugan Pal

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google

Sridhar Vembu

Navin Selvadurai