Kannada Brahmins are Brahmin

Brahmin

Brahmin Brahman, Brahma and Brahmin.Brahman, Brahmin and Brahma have different meanings. Brahman refers to the Supreme Self...

s whose mother-tongue is the Kannada language. Nearly all of them hail from the south India

South India

South India is the area encompassing India's states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu as well as the union territories of Lakshadweep and Pondicherry, occupying 19.31% of India's area...

n state of Karnataka

Karnataka

Karnataka , the land of the Kannadigas, is a state in South West India. It was created on 1 November 1956, with the passing of the States Reorganisation Act and this day is annually celebrated as Karnataka Rajyotsava...

. Kannada Brahmins are known to have preserved the purest form of Vedic Hinduism. It is in this region that the rituals and Vedic Chanting are done with great accuracy.

The three sects

Every south Indian Brahmin belongs by birth to one of three specific sects (schools of philosophy), being:

• the Smartha sect - adherents of the Advaita philosophy propounded by Sri Adi Shankaracharya.
• the Srivaishnava
  Vishishtadvaita
  Vishishtadvaita Vedanta is a sub-school of the Vedānta school of Hindu philosophy, the other major sub-schools of Vedānta being Advaita, Dvaita, and Achintya-Bheda-Abheda. VishishtAdvaita is a non-dualistic school of Vedanta philosophy...
  
   sect - adherents of the Vishishtadvaita
  Vishishtadvaita
  Vishishtadvaita Vedanta is a sub-school of the Vedānta school of Hindu philosophy, the other major sub-schools of Vedānta being Advaita, Dvaita, and Achintya-Bheda-Abheda. VishishtAdvaita is a non-dualistic school of Vedanta philosophy...
  
   philosophy propounded by Sri Ramanuja
  Ramanuja
  Ramanuja ; traditionally 1017–1137, also known as Ramanujacharya, Ethirajar , Emperumannar, Lakshmana Muni, was a theologian, philosopher, and scriptural exegete...
  
  charya.
• the Madhwa sect - adherents of the Dvaita
  Dvaita
  Dvaita is a school of Vedanta founded by Shri Madhvacharya....
  
   philosophy propounded by Sri Madhvacharya
  Madhvacharya
  Madhvācārya was the chief proponent of Tattvavāda "Philosophy of Reality", popularly known as the Dvaita school of Hindu philosophy. It is one of the three most influential Vedānta philosophies. Madhvācārya was one of the important philosophers during the Bhakti movement. He was a pioneer in...
  
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Kannada Smartha Brahmins

• Havyaka
  Havyaka
  Havyaka Brahmins are a Hindu Pancha Dravida Brahmin subsect primarily from the Indian state of Karnataka and Northern Kerala. Havyakas profess the Advaita philosophy propounded by Adi Shankaracharya.-Etymology:...
  
  
• Babboor Kamme
  Babboor Kamme
  The Babburkamme community is a caste of Smarta Brahmins whose members mainly reside in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu states in India...
  
  
• Ulucha Kamme
• Badaganadu
  Badaganadu
  Badaganadu's are a Brahmin community that mainly reside in Karnataka, and now due to the advent of globalization they are spread throughout the world. Badaganadu Community is one of the three main streams of adherents to the Advaita Vedanta propounded by Sri Shankaracharya and are followers of the...
  
  
• Aaravathokkalu which consists of two kannada terms Aaravathu vakkalu meaning 60 families.
• Hoysala Karnataka
• Kota brahmin
  Kota brahmin
  Kota Brahmins hail from the Kundapur and surrounding areas of Udupi district in Karnataka, Bantwal and Puttur Taluk in Mangalore District and Kasargod District in Kerala...
  
   - Smartha sect brahmins from the central part of coastal Karnataka
  Karnataka
  Karnataka , the land of the Kannadigas, is a state in South West India. It was created on 1 November 1956, with the passing of the States Reorganisation Act and this day is annually celebrated as Karnataka Rajyotsava...
  
  
• Kandavara/Shivalli Brahmin - Smartha Shivalli brahmins from coastal Karnataka
• Halenadu Karnataka Brahmin also known as Mooguru (Muguru) Karnataka Brahmins
• Panchagrama Brahmin
• Sankethi
  Sankethi people
  The Sankethis are Smartha brahmins residing in Karnataka. They are an offshoot of the Iyer Community. There are also some Sankethis in Tamil Nadu and Kerala. They are said to have left their homeland under the guidance of a saintly lady, nAcAramma...
  
  
• Sthanika
• Shukla Yajurvedi
  Yajurveda
  The Yajurveda, a tatpurusha compound of "sacrificial formula', + ) is the third of the four canonical texts of Hinduism, the Vedas. By some, it is estimated to have been composed between 1400 and 1000 BC, the Yajurveda 'Samhita', or 'compilation', contains the liturgy needed to perform the...
  
   Smartha Brahmins
• Sama Vedi
  Samaveda
  The Sama veda , is second of the four Vedas, the ancient core Hindu scriptures. Its earliest parts are believed to date from 1700 BC and it ranks next in sanctity and liturgical importance to the Rigveda...
  
   Smartha Brahmins
• Hale Sirinadu

Kannada Srivaishnava Iyengar Brahmins

• Hebbar Iyengars
  Hebbar Iyengars
  Hebbar Iyengars , formerly an endogamous group, constitute a part of the Iyengar sub-caste of the Karnataka Brahmins. They are traditionally followers of Ramanuja and Vedanta Desika. They hail primarily from Hassan, Mysore, Tumkur, Bangalore, and surrounding areas in southern Karnataka...
  
  
• Hemmige Iyengars
• Mandyam Iyengars
• Shattada Sri Vaishnava Iyengars

Kannada Madhva Brahmins

• Madhwa Brahmins
  Madhwas
  The Madhwa are one community of Brahmins of India, whose members follow the doctrine of Dvaita or Dualism as codified by Madhwa Acharya ....
  
  
• Koteswara Magane Brahmins - Madhva brahmins from the central part of coastal Karnataka.
• Shivalli Madhwa Brahmins
• Shukla Yajurvedi
  Yajurveda
  The Yajurveda, a tatpurusha compound of "sacrificial formula', + ) is the third of the four canonical texts of Hinduism, the Vedas. By some, it is estimated to have been composed between 1400 and 1000 BC, the Yajurveda 'Samhita', or 'compilation', contains the liturgy needed to perform the...
  
   Madhva Brahmins

Madhwa Arvathu Vokkalu (60 Families who migrated from Punjab in the north and settled in the South.Some families died while the king was fighting)
Madhwa Aravelu (Parts of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh)
Madhwa Balaganadu/Badaganadu (Karnataka, Tamil Nadu)

kannada Vishwakarma Brahmins

• Vishwa Brahmins
• angraje BrahminsBrahmins - Vishwakarma Brahmins from north karnataka
  Karnataka
  Karnataka , the land of the Kannadigas, is a state in South West India. It was created on 1 November 1956, with the passing of the States Reorganisation Act and this day is annually celebrated as Karnataka Rajyotsava...
  
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• Manu Maya Brahmins. Brahmins - from costal karnataka
  Karnataka
  Karnataka , the land of the Kannadigas, is a state in South West India. It was created on 1 November 1956, with the passing of the States Reorganisation Act and this day is annually celebrated as Karnataka Rajyotsava...
  
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Literature

• Raja Rao
  Raja Rao
  Raja Rao was an Indian writer of English language novels and short stories, whose works are deeply rooted in Hinduism. Raja Rao's semi-autobiographical novel, The Serpent and the Rope , is a story of a search for spiritual truth in Europe and India...
  
   (famous English writer)
• Chikkupadhyaya
  Chikkupadhyaya
  Chikkupadhyaya was born to Sri RangAcharya and Srimathi NAchiyAramma in TerakanAmbi in Mysore district of Karnataka. His actual name at birth was Lakshmipathi....
  
   (Kannada Poet 17th century AD)
• K. Shivaram Karanth
  K. Shivaram Karanth
  Kota Shivaram Karanth was a major Kannada writer, social activist, environmentalist, Yakshagana artist, film maker and thinker. He was described as the "Rabindranath Tagore of Modern India who has been one of the finest novelists-activists since independence" by Ramachandra Guha...
  
   (Writer)
• U.R.Anantha Murthy (Writer)
• Samethanahalli Rama Rao
  Samethanahalli Rama Rao
  Samethanahalli Rama Rao was a noted Kannada author. He was born in the village of Samethanahalli which is an hour east of Bangalore near Whitefield...
  
   (Kannada writer)
• S. L. Bhyrappa
  S. L. Bhyrappa
  Santeshivara Lingannaiah Bhyrappa , is a Kannada novelist, whose works are immensely popular both within and beyond Karnataka. Bhyrappa is widely regarded as one of India's foremost modern-day writers. His novels are unique in terms of theme, structure, and characterization...
  
   - famous Kannada writer
• Late Dr.Vaidyula Krishna Rao Reader in Political Science OU

Sports

• G.R. Vishwanath (Cricketer)
• B.S. Chandrashekar (Cricketer)
• E.A.S. Prasanna (Cricketer)
• Javagal Srinath
  Javagal Srinath
  Javagal Srinath is a former Indian cricketer. He was a frontline fast bowler for the Indian cricket team until his retirement, being the second Indian pace bowler after Kapil Dev to take 200 Test wickets. One ball that he bowled during the 1996 tour of South Africa measured...
  
   (Cricketer)
• M. L. Jaisimha
  M. L. Jaisimha
  Motganhalli Laxminarsu Jaisimha was an Indian Test cricketer.M.L. Jaisimha a right-handed batsman who was noted for his style on and off the field. He bowled medium pace, often opening the bowling for India, and off breaks and was a brilliant fielder. But it was the way he went about things that...
  
   (Cricketer)
• Anil Kumble
  Anil Kumble
  Anil Kumble is a former Indian cricketer and captain of the Indian Test cricket team. He is a right-arm leg spin bowler and a right-hand batsman. He is currently the leading wicket-taker for India in both Test and One Day International matches...
  
   (Cricketer)
• Rahul Dravid
  Rahul Dravid
  Rahul Sharad Dravid , is a cricketer in the Indian national team, of which he has been a regular member since 1996. He was appointed as the captain of the Indian cricket team in October 2005 and resigned from the post in September 2007. Dravid was honoured as one of the top-five Wisden Cricketers...
  
   (Cricketer)
• Venkatesh Prasad
  Venkatesh Prasad
  Bapu Krishnarao Venkatesh Prasad is a former Indian cricketer. He is the bowling coach for Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League, having formerly performed the same role for the Indian cricket team from 2007 to 2009. He made his debut in 1996...
  
   (Cricketer)
• Sunil Joshi
  Sunil Joshi
  Sunil Bandacharya Joshi is a former Indian cricketer. He is an all-rounder who bowls slow left arm spin and bats left-handed. He used to travel 40 miles to Hubli each morning for practice, and then return to his native town of Gadag in time for school...
  
   (Cricketer)

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Businessmen

• C.K. Prahalad (Management Guru - famous for core-competence theory, and Distinguished Professor at the Ross School of Business, U. Michigan)
• N.R. Narayana Murthy (Infosys)
• Kumar Malavalli
  Kumar Malavalli
  Kumar Malavalli is a noted techonology entrepreneur and philanthropist, with specific interests in education and healthcare.Kumar is a co-author of Fibre Channel, a technology for developing storage area networks...
  
   (Founder of Brocade Inc)

Entertainment

• Vishnuvardhan (Kannada Superstar)
• Upendra
  Upendra
  Upendra is a cine actor, director, script writer and singer. Born in a middle class family at Koteshwara near Kundapura, he belongs to Kannada speaking Kota Brahmin community. Upendra started his career off with famous director Kashinath as a writer and an assistant director...
  
    Movie Actor and Film director
• B. V. Karanth
  B. V. Karanth
  Babukodi Venkataramana Karanth was a renowned film and theatre personality from India...
  
   (Playwright artist)
• Girish Kasaravalli
  Girish Kasaravalli
  Girish Kasaravalli is a noted film director, and one of the pioneers of the Parallel Cinema in Kannada cinema, who has won the National Film Award for Best Film four times, Ghatashraddha , Tabarana Kathe , Thaayi Saheba and Dweepa...
  
   (Kannada Films)
• Hunsur Krishnamurthy  (Kannada Film writer director)
• H.S.Subbarao  (Story writer for Kannada Film industry)
• Nagesh
  Nagesh (actor)
  Nagesh , was a Tamil film actor, mostly remembered for his roles as a comedian during the 1960s. He is regarded as one of the most prolific comedians in Tamil cinema....
  
  - Tamil film actor
• Chi.Uday Shankar - He composed more than 3000 songs for Kannada Films and also devotional songs.

Science & Technology

• Raja Ramanna
  Raja Ramanna
  Raja Ramanna , D.Phil., was an Indian nuclear scientist and a prominent physicist, is best known for his leadership directing the research integral for the development of Indian nuclear programme in its early stages. Having started and joined the nuclear programme in 1964, Ramanna worked under...
  
   (Nuclear Scientist)
• Professor V.K.R.V. Rao (Economist and founder of Delhi School of Economics, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi and the ISEC, Bangalore)

Politics

• Ramakrishna Hegde
  Ramakrishna Hegde
  Ramakrishna Mahabaleshwar Hegde was an Indian politician who served as the Chief Minister of Karnataka for three terms and as Minister of Commerce and Industry in the Union government.-Early life:...
  
   (Former chief minister of Karnataka)
• Vishveshwar Hegde Kageri(Current Primary and Secondary Education Minister of Govt of Karnataka)
• R. Gundu Rao
  R. Gundu Rao
  R. Gundu Rao was Chief Minister of Karnataka state, India from 1980 to 1983.Rao was born in Kushalnagar, Kodagu, India. His parents were K. Rama Rao and Chinamma. His father was a local Headmaster. He studied in Ammathi High school for a while. He was Town Municipal President of Kushalanagar...
  
   (Former chief minister of Karnataka)
• Mandagadde Rama Jois
  Mandagadde Rama Jois
  Justice Mandagadde Rama Jois is a member of Rajya Sabha, a former governor of Jharkhand, Bihar and a former Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court....
  
  - Former Governor of Jharkhand
  Jharkhand
  Jharkhand is a state in eastern India. It was carved out of the southern part of Bihar on 15 November 2000. Jharkhand shares its border with the states of Bihar to the north, Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh to the west, Orissa to the south, and West Bengal to the east...
  
   and a former Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   of the Punjab and Haryana High Court
  Punjab and Haryana High Court
  Punjab and Haryana High Court is a common High Court for both the States of Punjab and Haryana and Union territory of Chandigarh, in India. It is situated at Chandigarh, the capital of the States of Punjab and Haryana. The sanctioned strenghth of this High Court is 68 judges consisting of Chief...
  
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Other

• Tagaduru Ramachandra Rao
  Tagaduru Ramachandra Rao
  Tagaduru Ramachandra Rao was a veteran freedom fighter from Karnataka . Ramachandra Rao was born in a Halenadu Karnataka Brahmin family in a place called Tagaduru which is in Nanjangud Taluk of Mysore district...
  
   (Veteran freedom fighter, known as Mysore Gandhi and first freedom fighter political prisoner of Mysore State)
• Shakuntala Devi
  Shakuntala Devi
  Shakuntala Devi is a calculating prodigy who was born on November 4, 1939 in Bangalore, India. Her father worked in a "Brahmin circus" as a trapeze and tightrope performer, and later as a lion tamer and a human cannonball. Her calculating gifts first demonstrated themselves while she was doing...
  
   (Human computer fame)
• Sudha Murty
  Sudha Murty
  Sudha Murthy née Kulkarni is an Indian social worker, philanthropist, educator, author, and venture investor. Mrs. Murthy began her professional career as a computer scientist and engineer, but is best known for her role as Chairperson of the Infosys Foundation and her joint public health efforts...
  
   (Kannada writer and Philanthropist)
• Sri K. Pattabhi Jois
  Sri K. Pattabhi Jois
  Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois was an Indian yoga teacher. He was a student of Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, and taught at his school, the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute, in Mysore, India...
  
   (Yoga teacher)
• T. S. Vishweshwara Dikshith - Composer of Nanjangud
  Nanjangud
  Nanjangud is a town in Mysore district in the Indian state of Karnataka. It is a temple town and is on the banks of the river Kapila , and lies at a distance of 23 km from the city of Mysore.Nanjangud is famous for Srikanteshwara Temple...
  
   Sreekanteshwara Suprabhatha
• B.N. Srikrishna
  B.N. Srikrishna
  Bellur Narayanaswamy Srikrishna known as Justice Srikrishna is an Indian jurist and a retired Judge of the Supreme Court of India. From 1993-98, he headed the well-known Commission of Inquiry, the "Srikrishna Commission" as it became known, which investigated causes and apportioned blame for the...
  
   - Supreme Court Judge and head of the Srikrishna Commission to investigate the 1992-93 Bombay Riots
  Bombay Riots
  The Bombay Riots usually refers to the riots in Mumbai, in December 1992 and January 1993, in which around 900 people died. An estimated 575 Muslims and 275 Hindus died, and 2,000 people were injured in the riots. . An investigative commission was formed under Justice B.N. Srikrishna, but the...
  
  
• M. N. Venkatachaliah
  M. N. Venkatachaliah
  M. N. Venkatachaliah was the 25th Chief Justice of India. He served as Chief Justice from 1993 to 1994.He had education in the old State of Mysore with Bachelor's degree in Science and Bachelor's degree in law of the University of Mysore. He commenced general practice of law in the year 1951,...
  
   - former Chief Justice of India
  Chief Justice of India
  The Chief Justice of India is the highest-ranking judge in the Supreme Court of India, and thus holds the highest judicial position in India. As well as presiding in the Supreme Court, the Chief Justice also head its administrative functions....
  
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See also

• Konkani Brahmins
  Konkani Brahmins
  Konkani Brahmins are Brahmins whose mother-tongue is Konkani; and in some cases, Marathi, two related languages spoken in western India. Konkani Brahmins hail mainly from the southern part of the Maharashtra coast, Goa and coastal Karnataka....
  
  
• Telugu Brahmins
  Telugu Brahmins
  Telugu Brahmin is a sub-caste of the greater Brahmin community whose native language is Telugu. They hail from the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.However...
  
  
• Forward Castes