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This a list of notable people from the Indian city of Alappuzha, Kerala.

Contents

• Academia and science
• Arts and entertainment
• Film and stage
• Graphic arts
• Literature
• Music
• Kathakali and other art forms
• Commerce and business
• Judiciary
• Politics, government, and social welfare
• Religion
• References

Academia and science

• Itty Achudan - the major contributor of ethno-medical information for the compilation of Hortus Malabaricus
• Illiparambil Corah Chacko - geologist
• Pallithanam Luca Matthai - pioneer of kayal cultivation in Kuttanad, and former member of Sree Moolam Popular Assembly
• Sreedhara Panicker Somanath - Current Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation
• M. S. Swaminathan - Agronomist, Agricultural Scientist

Arts and entertainment

Commerce and business

• Bhima Bhattar - founder of Bhima Jewellers at Mullakkal, Alleppey

Judiciary

• Justice CT Ravikumar,Judge Supreme Court of India

Politics, government, and social welfare

• V. S. Achuthanandan - former Chief Minister and current leader of opposition of Kerala
• K. R. Gowri Amma - Revenue Minister in the first Kerala LDF ministry, initiated the revolutionary land reforms in Kerala, Agriculture Minister in Kerala UDF Ministry
• A. K. Antony - Three-time Chief Minister of Kerala, Former Indian Defence Minister
• Ramesh Chennithala - politician, former Member of Parliament
• T. K. Madhavan (1885—1930) social reformer, journalist and revolutionary
• Pallithanam Luca Matthai - Former member of Sree Moolam Popular Assembly and pioneer of kayal cultivation in Kuttanad
• Kavalam Madhava Panikkar - diplomat, administrator, historian
• P. Parameswaran - director of Bharathiya Vichara Kendram and president of Vivekananda Kendram
• Vayalar Ravi - former Home minister of Kerala, Union Cabinet Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs and Minister for Parliamentary Affairs
• C. M. Stephen - politician and Union minister

Religion

• Baselios Thoma Didymos I - Catholicos of the East and Malankara Metropolitan
• Kuriakose Elias Chavara - Blessed, co-founder of CMI
• James Kalacherry - Bishop of Changanacherry, who campaigned against the move by C. P. Ramaswami Iyer, the Diwan of Travancore in 1945, to nationalise all schools
• Navajyothi Sree Karunakara, the founder of Santhigiri Ashram
• Mar Thomas Kurialachery - Venerable, first bishop of what would become the Archdiocese of Changanassery, and founder of the Sisters of the Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament ^[1]

References