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Syrian Malabar Nasrani

The Syrian Malabar Nasrani people, also known as Saint Thomas Christians, "'Nasrani Mappila'" and Nasranis, are an ethnoreligious group from Kerala, India, adhering to the various churches of the Saint Thomas Christian tradition...

s who have made significant contribution to public service, science, sports, literature and the arts.

Terminology

During the Dutch power in Malabar (1679–1728) there were four distinctive sections of Christians in Kerala.

Syrian Christians. Dutch called them “The Christians of St. Thomas.”
Syrian Christian Roman Catholics.
The non-Syrian Roman Catholics. Known as Inland Christians by the Van Rheede and New Christians by Moens. They were grouped into seven parish churches under the bishop of Cochin.
Topass Christians. (Thuppai). They were the descendents of Indian mothers or fathers belonging to the diverse European nations.

Only the first two are Syrian Malabar Nasrani. Others are not. So, all Christians in Kerala are not included in this article.

Government of India Padma Vibhushan award winners

Name	Field	Year
John Mathai John Mathai John Matthai was an economist who served as India's first Railway Minister and subsequently as India's Finance Minister, taking office shortly after the presentation of India's first Budget, in 1948. Mathai graduated in economics from Madras Christian College. He served as a part-time professor in... (Dr.)	Literature Literature Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources... & Education Education Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...	1959

Government of India Padma Bhushan award winners

Name	Field	Year
Jacob Chandy (Dr.)	Medicine Medicine Medicine is the science and art of healing. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....	1964
Kandathil Mammen Cherian (K.M. Cherian)	Literature Literature Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources... & Education Education Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...	1971
Pothen Joseph	Literature Literature Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources... & Education Education Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...	1973
K. M. Mathew K. M. Mathew K. M. Mathew was a former Editor-in-chief of leading Malayalam daily Malayala Manorama.He joined the newspaper as Managing Editor in 1954 and went on to become Editor in chief in 1973....	Literature Literature Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources... & Education Education Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...	1998
D. C. Kizhakemuri D. C. Kizhakemuri Dominic Chacko Kizhakemuri , better known as D. C. Kizhakemuri, was a well-known writer, activist and book publisher from Kerala, India. He set up the book publishing company known as D C Books. He was awarded Padma Bhushan in 1999....	Literature Literature Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources... & Education Education Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...	1999
Karimpanamannil Mathai George (Dr. K.M. George)	Literature Literature Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources... & Education Education Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...	2001
K. J. Yesudas K. J. Yesudas Kattassery Joseph Yesudas is an Indian classical musician and playback singer.Yesudas sings Indian classical, devotional, and popular music. He has recorded more than 50,000 songs in many languages including Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, Bengali, Gujarati, Oriya, Marathi, Punjabi,...	Arts ARts aRts, which stands for analog Real time synthesizer, is an audio framework that is no longer under development. It is best known for previously being used in KDE to simulate an analog synthesizer....	2002
M V Pylee	Literature Literature Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources... & Education Education Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...	2006
Fr. Gabriel Chiramel, CMI	Literature Literature Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources... & Education Education Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...	2007
Justice K.T. Thomas	Public affairs Public administration Public Administration houses the implementation of government policy and an academic discipline that studies this implementation and that prepares civil servants for this work. As a "field of inquiry with a diverse scope" its "fundamental goal.....	2007

Politics and Public Service

Thoma of Villarvattom
Thoma of Villarvattom
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(c. 15th century CE): The first and only Christian King in the history of the Indian sub-continent.
Thachil Matthoo Tharakan (1741-1814) - First non-Hindu minister of Travancore and the first native Christian to become a minister in a princely state
Princely state
A Princely State was a nominally sovereign entitity of British rule in India that was not directly governed by the British, but rather by an Indian ruler under a form of indirect rule such as suzerainty or paramountcy.-British relationship with the Princely States:India under the British Raj ...

in India.
T. M. Varghese, Thandaneth(1886–1961), Founder of Travancore State congress, freedom fighter, Minister
John Mathai
John Mathai
John Matthai was an economist who served as India's first Railway Minister and subsequently as India's Finance Minister, taking office shortly after the presentation of India's first Budget, in 1948. Mathai graduated in economics from Madras Christian College. He served as a part-time professor in...

(born 10 January 1886 – 1959) - an economist who served as India's first Railway Minister and subsequently as its Finance Minister
A. K. Antony
A. K. Antony
Arackaparambil Kurien Antony is an Indian National Congress politician, a former Chief Minister of Kerala, and the current Defence Minister of India....

(1940 - Present), Defence minister of India and former Chief Minister of Kerala
Kerala
or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....

Oommen Chandy
Oommen Chandy
Oommen Chandy is an Indian politician and the current Chief Minister of Kerala. He has held the Chief Minister of Kerala position earlier from 2004 to 2006, and was the Leader of the Opposition in the Kerala Legislative Assembly from 2006 to 2011.-Early life:Oommen Chandy or 'Kunjoonju' was born...

(1943 - Present) - Current Chief Minister of Kerala
Kerala
or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....

and former leader of opposition in the Kerala Legislative Assembly
Akkamma Cherian
Akkamma Cherian
Accamma Cherian was an Indian freedom fighter from the erstwhile Travancore , India. She was popularly known as the Jhansi Rani of Travancore....

, Freedom Fighter.
Sindhu Joy
Sindhu Joy
Dr sindhu joy is an activist and admirer of the Indian National Congress..She was a fulltime member of CPI from 1992-2011.In 2011 March 24 she resigned from CPI due to Political, Ideological and spiritual reasons. She joined Indian National Congress and actively participates in the election...

, Politician
Chalakuzhy Paulose Mathen
Chalakuzhy Paulose Mathen
Chalakuzhy Paulose Mathen or C. P. Mathen, was a banker in Kerala, founder of the Quilon Bank Ltd which merged with another bank and formed The Travancore National and Quilon Bank....

(C.P. Mathen)(1890–1960) Member of Parliament from Mavelikara Constituency to the first Lok Sabha(1952),Indian Ambassador to the Sudan -1957.
Sebastian Edathy
Sebastian Edathy
Sebastian Edathy is a German politician.Edathy was born in Hanover, the son of an immigrant from Kerala, India, and is a trained sociologist. He has been an SPD member of the German parliament since 1998...

, German Member of Parliament
C. M. Stephen
C. M. Stephen
C. M. Stephen was an Indian politician and Union Minister Republic of India. He was a close aide of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. He was the leader of the Congress Parliamentary Party - Indira faction during 1978-79. He hailed from Mavelikara in Alleppey District, the home town of another...

, former Union Minister of India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
K. M. Chandy, Governor of Madhya Pradesh and KPCC President
P. C. Alexander
P. C. Alexander
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, Member of parliament, Former Governor of Maharashtra
Maharashtra
Maharashtra is a state located in India. It is the second most populous after Uttar Pradesh and third largest state by area in India...

, India's High Commissioner to UK.
Samuel Mathai, Vice-Chancellor, University of Kerala (1963-1969)
Dr. M. M. Thomas, former Nagaland
Nagaland
Nagaland is a state in the far north-eastern part of India. It borders the state of Assam to the west, Arunachal Pradesh and part of Assam to the north, Burma to the east and Manipur to the south. The state capital is Kohima, and the largest city is Dimapur...

Governor
Cherian Philip
Cherian Philip
Cherian Philip is a leading politician of Kerala, India and is currently Chairman of Kerala Tourism Development Corporation . He was the President of Deshiyavedi Organisation. He was the Secretary of KPCC while A. K...

, Chairman of Kerala Tourism Development Corporation
Kerala Tourism Development Corporation
The Kerala Tourism Development Corporation is a public sector undertaking that conducts and regulates the tourism activities of the Indian state of Kerala. The KTDC is headquartered at Thiruvanathapuram and has offices across all the districts of Kerala. The agency also operates hotels, resorts,...

(KTDC) and President of Deshiyavaedi Organisation.
George Thomas
George Thomas (politician)
Dr. K. George Thomas was a journalist, acedemican, Indian National Congress politician and former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Kallooppara to Kerala Legislative Assembly in 1967...

, former MLA and publisher
T. M. Jacob - Former Minister of Kerala
P. J. Joseph
P. J. Joseph
P. J. Joseph is an Indian politician, the leader of the Kerala Congress party in Kerala, and an MLA, representing the Thodupuzha assembly constituency. Since 1990 his party has been part of the Left Democratic Front as an alliance. He has also held various ministerial positions with the Government...

, Kerala State Minister for Public Works.
P. J. Kurien
P. J. Kurien
Professor P.J. Kurien a politician from Indian National Congress party is a Member of the Parliament of India representing Kerala in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament. P.J. Kurien was born on March 31 1941 to Mr. P.G. Joseph and Mrs. Rachel Joseph at Puramattom, in...

, Former Union Minister of State
K. A. Mammen
K. A. Mammen
K. A. Mammen was an Indian Freedom fighter, a social worker, a leader, a friend for his colleagues, one of the founder members of Kerala Congress and a Syrian Christian Marthomite. Living in a village, he extended himself to transform the villages and the people around him.-Early days:Mammen was...

, Indian Freedom fighter and one of the founder members of Kerala Congress
Kerala Congress
The Kerala Congress is a recognized State political party in Kerala, India. The party was founded by K. M. George in October 1964 after a group of legislators decided to break from the Indian National Congress...

.
K. M. Mani
K. M. Mani
Karingozhakkal Mani Mani is a veteran Indian politician and the leader of Kerala Congress , one of the factions of the Kerala Congress. He holds the records of having presented the maximum number of eight budgets in the Kerala Legislative Assembly as Finance Minister and also as the...

- Longest tenure as MLA of Kerala and Former Minister of Kerala
Mathai Manjooran
Mathai Manjooran
Mathai Manjooran was an Indian independence activist from Kerala, socialist revolutionary, Member of Parliament, Minister of Labour in the second E.M.S...

- Indian freedom fighter, Socialist revolutionary and former Minister
Babu Thomas,Vice President of Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee
Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee
The Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee is the unit of the Indian National Congress for the state of Maharashtra. The head office of the organization is situated in Mumbai at Tilak Bhawan in Dadar...
Monce Joseph
Monce Joseph
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, Former Minister of Kerala
E. John Philipos,Former Minister of Transport, T.C.State
E. John Jacob Former Minister, Kerala
E.P.Eapen Former M.L.A,& Former Mayor, Trivandrum
M.O. Mathai, (1909-1981) Private secretary to India's First Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru , often referred to with the epithet of Panditji, was an Indian statesman who became the first Prime Minister of independent India and became noted for his “neutralist” policies in foreign affairs. He was also one of the principal leaders of India’s independence movement in the...
Lonappan Nambadan
Lonappan Nambadan
Lonappan Nambadan was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Mukundapuram constituency of Kerala and is a member of the Communist Party of India political party. Earlier he was a state minister in two Nayanar ministries.-External links:*...

Former Minister of Kerala

Literature and media

Abraham Kovoor
Abraham Kovoor
Abraham Thomas Kovoor was an Indian professor and rationalist who gained prominence after retirement for his campaign to expose as frauds various Indian and Sri Lankan "god-men" and so-called paranormal phenomena...

, Writer
Abu Abraham
Abu Abraham
Attupurathu Mathew Abraham , pen name Abu, was an Indian cartoonist, journalist, and author. He was a life-long atheist and rationalist....

, Cartoonist
Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy is an Indian novelist. She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her novel, The God of Small Things, and has also written two screenplays and several collections of essays...

, Novelist (Mother, Syrian Christian)
Dominic Chacko Kizhakemuri, Author and Publisher

Joseph Edamaruku
Joseph Edamaruku
Joseph Edamaruku , popularly identified by his surname Edamaruku, was a well known journalist and rationalist from Kerala. He was the Delhi Bureau chief of the Malayalam magazine Keralasabdam for more than twenty years, and the founder-editor of Therali, a rationalist periodical in Malayalam...

, writer
Joseph Mundassery
Joseph Mundassery
Joseph Mundassery was a renowned literary critic and Indian politician from Kerala state. He was one among the towering literary critics in the Malayalam language and literature...

, literary critic
Kattakayam Cherian Mappillai
Kattakayam Cherian Mappillai
Kattakayam Cherian Mappillai was a Malayalam poet. His magnum opus is the epic poem Shreeyeshu Vijayam composed over a span of 15 years, and finished in the year 1926, which earned him the title of Mahakavi. He was the Editor of Vijnaana Rathnaakaram, one of the early literary magazines in the...

, poet
K. C. Mammen Mappillai
K. C. Mammen Mappillai
K. C. Mammen Mappillai became editor of the Malayalam language daily called Malayala Manorama after Kandathil Varghese Mappillai died. Besides being a noted journalist, he was a freedom-fighter. He was a member of the Sree Moolam Popular Assembly...

, former chief editor of Malayala Manorama
Dr.Fr.Biju John Kochuparampil,writer and author,
Meena Alexander
Meena Alexander
Meena Alexander is an internationally acclaimed poet, scholar, and writer. Born in Allahabad, India, and raised in India and Sudan, Alexander lives and works in New York City, where she is Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College in the and at the CUNY Graduate Center in the...

, poet
Mookencheril Cherian Joseph
Mookencheril Cherian Joseph
Mookencheril Cherian Joseph , popularly known as Yukthivadi M. C. Joseph, was an eminent rationalist from Kerala, India....

, writer
Muttathu Varkey
Muttathu Varkey
Muttathu Varkey was a Malayalam novelist, short story writer, and poet from Kerala state, South India.-Early life and career:...

, novelist
M.P. Paul, writer
Paul Zacharia
Paul Zacharia
Paul Zacharia is a Malayalam short story writer, novelist and essayist. Born in Urulikkunnam in Kottayam district in Kerala, India, Zacharia lives in Trivandrum.-Literary career:...

, author
Ponkunnam Varkey
Ponkunnam Varkey
Ponkunnam Varkey was a writer and activist living in Kerala, India. He isconsidered a leading figure of the 'progressive' school of Malayalam fiction....

, essayist and short-story writer
Sunnykutty Abraham
Sunnykutty Abraham
Sunnykutty Abraham is a journalist , political analyst, and writer based in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. He has worked with Mathrubhumi Daily for 25 years specializing in political journalism. He got four years experience of covering the Parliament of India and more than eight years of covering the...

, journalist
Toms, cartoonist.
Victor George
Victor George
Victor George was a photographer from Kerala, India who died in 2001 while taking pictures of landslides in Kerala Geography of Kerala#Natural Hazards in Kerala. He was working in an Indian Publication as Chief Photo Editor. His works include Portrait of "Rain"...

, news photographer
Vinod Jose
Vinod Jose
Vinod K. Jose, or Vinod Kizhakkeparambil Joseph, is an award winning journalist from India. He is currently the Deputy Editor of The Caravan published from New Delhi. In 2009, Jose was hired by Delhi Press to re-launch the company's 70-year old title The Caravan, which was discontinued in 1988...

, journalist
Yesudasan
Yesudasan
Chackalethu John Yesudasan, better known as simply Yesudasan, is a popular cartoonist from Kerala. Born in 1938 in Bharanikavu near Mavelikkara, Yesudasan entered the world of cartoons in 1960. For three years with Malayalam daily of the Communist Party Janayugom. Joined Shankar's weekly in Delhi....

, cartoonist

Arts and entertainment

Kattassery Joseph Yesudas ( 1940- )Indian classical musician and playback singer.
Anand Jon
Anand Jon
Anand Jon Alexander , know simply as Anand Jon; is a fashion designer who appeared on America's Next Top Model and rose to fame in the fashion industry prior to being indited and convicted of multiple counts of sex crimes against aspiring models.-Career:Jon was born in Kerala, India and came to...

, Fashion Designer.
Anchal Joseph
Anchal Joseph
Anchal Joseph is an Indian-American fashion model and actress. She competed on America's Next Top Model, Cycle 7.-Top Model:...

, Model.
Ann Augustine
Ann Augustine
Anate Augustine , better known by her stage name Ann Augustine, is an Indian film actress, who appears in Malayalam films. She made her debut in Lal Jose's Elsamma Enna Aankutty .-Early life:...

, Actress
Asin Thottumkal
Asin Thottumkal
Asin Thottumkal , known mononymously as Asin, is an Indian film actress, model and stage performer who acts primarily in Bollywood and Kollywood....

, Indian Movie Actress
Babu Antony
Babu Antony
Babu Antony is an Indian film actor, noted mainly for his negative character roles. He has also acted as a lead actor in a number of films. His life and movie roles are much debated in film industry at one time....

, Malayalam Movie Actor
Benny Mathews
Benny Mathews
Benny Mathews aka Swami Dada is an international director who directed the films Dude, Where's the Party? and Santeria . When he is not directing independent films, he shoots music videos for Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, and notorious Houston hip hop artists such as Scarface and Bun B...

, Film Director
Captain Raju
Captain Raju
Captain Raju is a Malayalam film actor. He was born at Omallur in Pathanamthitta District, Kerala.After finishing his graduation in Zoology, Raju joined the Indian Army as a first class officer at the age of 21. He started acting in films after leaving the army service. He has acted in more than...

, Malayalam Movie Actor
Dhanya Mary Varghese
Dhanya Mary Varghese
Dhanya Mary Varghese is an Indian actress known for her performances in Malayalam cinema. She is also a model, dancer and a live performer.- Biography :...

, Malayalam Movie Actress.
Gopika
Gopika
Gopika is an Indian film actress, who has predominantly starred in Malayalam films. Starting her career as a model, she ventured into acting with the film Pranayamanithooval...

, Malayalam Movie Actress
Innocent Vincent
Innocent Vincent
Innocent Thekkethala , popularly known as Innocent, is a Malayalam film actor and producer. He was born in Irinjalakuda in Thrissur district of Kerala, India. He is one of the most successful and leading comedy actors of Malayalam cinema...

, Malayalam Movie Actor.
Johnson (composer)
Johnson (composer)
Johnson was an Indian film score composer and music director who has given music to some of the most important motion pictures of Malayalam cinema, including those for Namukku Parkkan Munthiri Thoppukal, Oru Minnaminunginte Nurunguvettam, Vadakkunokkiyantram, Perumthachan, Amaram, Njan...

, Malayalam Movie Composer.
Joshy,Malayalam Movie Director.
John Abraham
John Abraham (actor)
John Abraham is an Indian film actor and former model. After modeling for numerous advertisements and companies, Abraham made his film debut with Jism , which earned him a Filmfare Best Debut Award nomination. This was followed by his first commercial success, Dhoom...

, Actor and Model
John Abraham, Film Director.
Jomol
Jomol
Gowri Chandrasekhara Pillai is an Indian actress who appeared in Malayalam films. She has had major roles in films like Niram, Piriyadha Varam Vendum and Deepasthambham Mahascharyam.She born in Koodathayi near Thiruvambady in Calicut district...

John Kannampallil , Actress
Joshi Mathew, Film Director.(patham nilayile theevandi fame)
Kim Thayil
Kim Thayil
Kim Thayil is an American guitarist best known as the lead guitarist of the Seattle-based grunge band Soundgarden, which he cofounded with singer Chris Cornell and bassist Hiro Yamamoto in 1984...

, Guitarist
Kunchacko
Kunchacko
Kunchacko was a Malayali Indian film producer and director who heavily influenced the Malayalam film industry by redefining the commercial film scenario. His venture Udaya Studios influenced the gradual shift of Malayalam film industry from its original base of Madras, Tamil Nadu to Kerala...

, Pioneer movie-maker of Malayalam Film

Kunchacko Boban
Kunchacko Boban
Kunchacko Boban is an Indian film actor who works in Malayalam cinema. He is the grandson of film producer Kunchacko of the erstwhile Udaya Studios and the grandnephew of producer Maliampurackal Appachan...

, Actor.
Meera Jasmine
Meera Jasmine
Meera Jasmine is an Indian actress, who appears in regional Indian films that includes Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada films. She won the National Film Award for Best Actress in 2004 and is a two time recipient of the Kerala State Film Award, the Tamil Nadu State Film Awards, as well as the...

, Actress
Miss Kumari
Miss Kumari
-Early life:Miss Kumari, whose real name was Thresiamma, was born on 1 June 1932 at Bharananganam in Kottayam District, in the Kerala state of India.-Malayalam cinema:...

, Yesteryear Actress in Malayalam movies
Muktha Elsa George
Muktha Elsa George
Muktha Elsa George, known mononymously as Muktha or by her stage name Bhanu, is an Indian film actress hailing from Kerala. She has acted in a number of Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu language films.-Career:...

, Actress
Nafisa Joseph
Nafisa Joseph
Nafisa Joseph was an Indian model and MTV video jockey. She was the winner of Miss India Universe 1997 and was a semi-finalist in the Miss Universe pageant.- Biography :Nafisa Joseph was brought up in the city of Bangalore...

, Miss India Universe 1997, Model and Actress
Naveen Andrews
Naveen Andrews
Naveen William Sidney Andrews is a British American actor. He is best known for portraying Kip in the movie The English Patient and Sayid Jarrah on the American television series Lost.-Early life:...

, Actor
Nayantara
Nayantara
Nayantara , is an Indian film actress. She made her acting debut in 2003 in the Malayalam film Manassinakkare. She debuted in Tamil cinema with Ayya and in Telugu cinema with Lakshmi , following which she starred alongside popular lead actors...

, Actress
Amala Paul
Amala Paul
Amala Paul is an Indian film actress, who works primarily in the Tamil film industry. After appearing in supporting roles in a few low budget ventures, she was acclaimed for the portrayal of a controversial character in the film, Sindhu Samaveli...

, Actress
Archana Kavi, Actress
Kartika
Kartika
Kartika or Karthika may refer to:* alternative transliteration of Kartik** Kartikeya, the son of Shiva in the Indian mythology* alternative transliteration of Karthika, a feminine name in Indian languages** Kartika Rane, Indian actress...

, Actress
Ouseppachan
Ouseppachan
Ousephachan is a National Award, Filmfare Award and Kerala State Film Award-winning Indian music director who sets scores for Malayalam films. He is one of the most sought-after musicians in the Malayalam film industry.-Biography:...

, Music Composer
Paul Varghese
Paul Varghese
Paul Varghese is a Dallas, Texas, comedian of Indian descent who appeared on the hit reality show Last Comic Standing 2, where he made it to the semi-finals. He taped his first full-set for national television on March 8, 2007, for Comedy Central's Live at Gotham which aired July 13, 2007. He was...

, Comedian
Serena Varghese
Serena Varghese
Serena Varghese-Gonzalez is an American actress and voice actress of Indian descent. She primarily does voice work in anime titles with ADV Films and Seraphim Digital.-Anime:...

, Indian American Actor
Sheela
Sheela
Sheela ), is a Malayalam film actress from India. She, along with Prem Nazir, holds the world record for acting in the largest number of films together as heroine and hero. In 2005 she won the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the Malayalam film Akale. She has also...

, Actress
Shelly Malil, Actor
Stephen Devassy
Stephen Devassy
Stephen Devassy is an Indian pianist. He composes, sets tunes and arranges music for the Indian music industry.-Early life:...

, Pianist
Suleka Mathew
Suleka Mathew
Suleka "Sue" Mathew is a Canadian actress, known for her portrayal of Dr. Sunita Ramen on the Canadian television series Da Vinci's Inquest....

, Canadian actor
Sugith Varughese
Sugith Varughese
Sugith Varughese is an Indian-born Canadian writer, director and actor.Born in Cochin, Kerala, into a Syrian Christian family , he immigrated to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan as a child when his neurosurgeon father obtained a professional appointment there...

, Canadian actor

Sports

Abey Kuruvilla
Abey Kuruvilla
Abey Kuruvilla is a former Indian pace bowler of the mid 1990s.Kuruvilla stood a towering tall and coupled with his broad frame cut an imposing figure on the field....

, Former member of the Indian Cricket Team
Anju Bobby George
Anju Bobby George
Anju Bobby George is an Indian athlete. Anju Bobby George made history when she won the bronze medal in Long Jump at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics in Paris. With this achievement, she became the first Indian athlete ever to win a medal in a World Championships in Athletics jumping...

, Long Jumper
K. M. Beenamol
K. M. Beenamol
Kalayathumkuzhi Mathews Beenamol, popularly known as K M Beenamol is an international athlete from India. She became the third Indian women to reach an Olympics semi-final since P. T. Usha Kalayathumkuzhi Mathews Beenamol, popularly known as K M Beenamol (born August 15, 1975, Kombidinjal, a...

, Athlete
K. M. Binu
K. M. Binu
Kalayathumkuzhi Mathews Binu is an Indian track and field athlete from Kerala who specializes in 400 metres and 800 metres. He holds the current 400 metres national record of 45.48 s set at the 2004 Athens Olympics on 20 August 2004...

, Athlete
Bobby Aloysius
Bobby Aloysius
Bobby Aloysius is a female athlete from India now residing in the UK. She held the Indian and south Asian record hold in high jump. Bobby participated the Athens Olympics, won silver in Busan Asian Games and won gold in Jakarta Asian Championship.Bobby was born in Chemperi, Kannur, Kerala, India. ...

, Athlete
Geethu Anna Jose
Geethu Anna Jose
Geethu Ann Jose Kottayam, Kerala, is an Indian basketball player who has been the captain of the Indian women's national basketball team....

, Indian Basketball Player
Jimmy George
Jimmy George
Jimmy George is often considered one of the greatest Indian volleyball players of all time...

, Indian Volleyball Player
Johnson Varghese, Boxer
Mercy Kuttan
Mercy Kuttan
Mercy Kuttan is a former Indian track and field athlete. She was the first Indian woman longjumper to cross six meters. In 1989, Mercy received Arjuna Award for her contribution to the Indian athletics.-Career:...

, Athlete
Shiny Abraham
Shiny Abraham
Shiny Wilson is a retired Indian athlete. She has been a National Champion in 800 metres for 14 years. Shiny Abraham Wilson represented India more than 75 times in international competition...

, Athlete
Tinu Yohannan
Tinu Yohannan
Tinu Yohannan is an Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed fast medium bowler. He plays first class cricket for Kerala. He is the first Kerala Ranji player to play Test and one day cricket for India....

, Indian Cricketer
M. D. Valsamma
M. D. Valsamma
Manathoor Devasia Valsamma , was an Indian athlete. She was the third Indian woman to win an individual Gold medal at the Asian Games and the first to win it on Indian soil.-Early life:...

, Athlete - Asiad Gold Medallist
T. C. Yohannan
T. C. Yohannan
Thadathuvila Chandapillai Yohannan , better known as T. C. Yohannan, is a former Indian long jumper who held the national record in long jump for nearly 3 decades and represented India in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. He hails from the state of Kerala...

, Long Jumper

Business

Abraham Thomas, Vice-president, IBM South Asia
Regi Abraham - Chairman Aban Group
Thomas John Kochuparampil,Canada
Muthoot M George - Pioneer Non-Banking Financier
George Joseph Kottukapally - Director of Palai Central Bank, Member of the Sree Moolam Prajha Legislative Assembly
George Thomas Kottukapally - Director of Palai Central Bank
K. C. Mammen Mappillai
K. C. Mammen Mappillai
K. C. Mammen Mappillai became editor of the Malayalam language daily called Malayala Manorama after Kandathil Varghese Mappillai died. Besides being a noted journalist, he was a freedom-fighter. He was a member of the Sree Moolam Popular Assembly...

, Kandathil - Malayala Manorama Publications
K. M. Mammen Mappillai
K. M. Mammen Mappillai
K. M. Mammen Mappillai was born in Kerala. He was born to K. C. Mammen Mappillai and Kunjandamma as the youngest of the prosperous family of eight sons and a daughter....

, Kandathil - MRF Tyres Limited
Joseph Augusti Kayalackakom
Joseph Augusti Kayalackakom
Joseph Augusti Kayalackakom was an outstanding entrepreneur of Kerala, India. He made pioneering ventures in diverse spheres during the first half of the 20th century, and was a major figure in the financial and social arena of the State for nearly fifty years.He was born in 1884 in Palai, a small...

- Founder Managing Director of Palai Central Bank
Palai Central Bank
Palai Central Bank was a commercial bank that functioned with its headquarters in Kerala, South India during the middle of last century. Although it was started in a small remote town, the Bank grew up to become not only the biggest bank but the biggest institution in Kerala, after the state...
Thachil Mathoo Tharakan
Thachil Mathoo Tharakan
Thachil Matthoo Tharakan played a key role in the history of Kerala/Travancore/Cochin in India towards the latter part of the 18th century and early 19th century. He was Commerce Minister to Dharma Raja and Balarama Varma, Maharajahs of Travancore...

, 18th century industrialist and timber exporter

Science and technology

E. C. George Sudarshan, Theoretical Physicist
George Varghese
George Varghese
George Varghese is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California San Diego where he leads the Internet Algorithms Lab and also works with the Center for Network Systems and the Center for Internet Epidemiology...
Dr.Fr.Biju John Kochuparampil,Technologist and author,UK
K. Mani Chandy
K. Mani Chandy
Kanianthra Mani Chandy is the Simon Ramo Professor of Computer Science at the California Institute of Technology. He has been the Executive Officer of the Computer Science Department twice, and he has been a professor at Caltech since 1989....
Mathai Varghese
Mathai Varghese
Mathai Varghese is a mathematician and an Australian Research Council Australian Professorial Fellow at the University of Adelaide. His most influential contribution to date is the Mathai-Quillen formalism, which he formulated together with Daniel Quillen, and which has since found applications in...

, Mathematician
Mathematician
A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
Matthew Pothen Thekaekara
Matthew Pothen Thekaekara
Rev. Dr. Matthew Pothen Thekaekara born into an eminent Syrian Catholic Christian family in Changanacherry, Kerala, India was a scientist and author of many books and papers relating to spectrophotometry and the solar constant besides works on theology.He was instrumental in publishing some of...
Reji Philip
Reji Philip
Dr. Reji Philip is an experimental physicist at the Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, who works in the areas of nonlinear optics and ultra-fast spectroscopy. He completed his PhD from Cochin University of Science and Technology and had post-doctoral stints at the University of Regensburg,...

, experimental Physicist
Physicist
A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole...
Santhosh George Kulangara
Santhosh George Kulangara
Santhosh George Kulangara is the first possible future Indian space tourist and has been confirmed along with 37 others for space-tour operator Virgin Galactic’s 2009 spaceflight.-Background:...
Thomas Kailath
Thomas Kailath
Thomas Kailath is an Indian electrical engineer, information theorist, control engineer, entrepreneur and the Hitachi America Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, at Stanford University...
Thomas Zacharia
Thomas Zacharia
Thomas Zacharia is an Indian-American computer scientist. He received his bachelors degree in Mechanical engineering from National Institute of Technology Karnataka in 1980 and a master’s degree in Materials Science from the University of Mississippi in 1984...
Thomas Kurian, Executive Vice President, Oracle Product Development
George Joseph,Indian Space Researcg Organisation(ISRO)

Medicine

Abraham Verghese
Abraham Verghese
Abraham Verghese is Professor for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at Stanford University Medical School and Senior Associate Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine. He was born in Ethiopia to parents from Kerala, India who worked as teachers. He is a Syro-Malabar Christian...

, American medico and author
Ajit Varki
Ajit Varki
Ajit Varki is a physician-scientist who is currently distinguished professor of medicine and cellular and molecular medicine, associate dean for physician-scientist training, co-director of the Glycobiology Research and Training Center at the University of California, San Diego , and co-director of...

, Physician-Scientist
Alexander Joseph, Entomologist and Director (Academics) at the Kerala Institute of Medical Sciences
Kerala Institute of Medical Sciences
Kerala Institute of Medical Sciences is a 450-bed hospital located on the outskirts of Trivandrum in Kerala, India.Kerala Institute of Medical Sciences , one of Asia's leading tertiary care hospitals, is a landmark healthcare destination in Kerala initiated by KIMS Healthcare Management Ltd...
Dr.Benjamin Pulimood
Benjamin Pulimood
Benjamin Pulimood was the Director/Principal of the Christian Medical College & Hospital, Vellore, Tamilnadu, India. As his friends remember him he was a dedicated physician and a great teacher and excelled in the true spirit of compassion. His friends called him Benji. He was the son of Mrs. and...

, Director/Principal of the Christian Medical College & Hospital
Christian Medical College & Hospital
Christian Medical College and Hospital, Vellore is one of the largest medical centres in India. This century-old Christian institution was founded by Ida S...

, Vellore
Vellore
Vellore It is considered one of the oldest cities in South India and lies on the banks of the Palar river on the site of Vellore Fort. The city lies between Chennai and Bangalore and the Temple towns of Thiruvannamalai and Tirupati...

, and president of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology
Gastroenterology
Gastroenterology is the branch of medicine whereby the digestive system and its disorders are studied. The name is a combination of three Ancient Greek words gaster , enteron , and logos...

.
K. M. Cherian
K. M. Cherian
K. M. Cherian is a leading Indian heart surgeon who has pioneered new treatments, founded new hospitals and earned an international reputation. He is the founding chairman of Frontier Lifeline based in Chennai, and the Dr K M Cherian Heart Foundation....

, Indian heart-surgeon
Padmabhushan Dr. Jacob Chandy, Father of Neurosurgery in India and world-renowned Neurosurgeon
Paul Antony
Paul Antony
Paul Antony is Executive Director of Global Health Progress and the Chief Medical Officer for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America serving as PhRMA’s principal advocate on all health care and medical policy issues ....

, American Physician
Thomas Thomas, The first Indian Cardio-Thoracic surgeon
Dr. Kalarikad Thomas, Eliz Challenor Royal Society Research Fellow,Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge

Judicial and Government Service

Abraham George
Abraham George
Dr. Abraham M. George is a Indian-American businessman, academic, and philanthropist. He is the founder of The George Foundation , a non-profit organization based in Bangalore, India dedicated to the welfare and empowerment of economically and socially disadvantaged populations in India...
Alexander Jacob
Alexander Jacob (police officer)
Alexander Jacob is the Inspector General of Police and the Director of Kerala Police Academy, Trichur, Kerala, India.- Education :...

, IG
Inspector General
An Inspector General is an investigative official in a civil or military organization. The plural of the term is Inspectors General.-Bangladesh:...

of Kerala Police and Director of Kerala Police Academy
Kerala Police Academy
Kerala Police Academy is situated in Ramavarmapuram in Thrissur city which began functioning in May, 2004. The Academy runs full-term basic courses for sub-inspectors, constables, women constables, drivers and telecommunication wing constables. It also runs short-term courses and in-service...

, President’s Police Medal (Meritorious Service) recipient.

Anna Chandy
Anna Chandy
Justice Anna Chandy was the first woman Judge of India . She became the first woman judge in India in a district court in 1937 . She was the first woman in India, and probably the second in the world to reach a high court judgeship .-Early life:...

, First woman judge of an Indian High Court
Jacob Punnoose
Jacob Punnoose IPS
Jacob Punnoose IPS is the DGP of Kerala. He had his education in P C High School , S C High School and Mar Ivanios College . He was the City Police Commissioner of Trivandrum and Kozhikkode, Joint Excise Commissioner, Zonal IG of Trivandrum and Kozhikkode, Intelligence IG, Additional DGP and...

, DGP (Director General of Police
Director General of Police
In India the director general of police or inspector general of police is a three-star rank and the highest ranking police officer in Indian States & Union Territories. All DGPs/IGPs are Indian Police Service officers. The DGP/IGP is usually the head of the state police force in every Indian state...

) of Kerala, President’s Police Medal (Distinguished Service) recipient
Joy Cherian
Joy Cherian
Dr. Joy Cherian is the first Asian American and first Indian American Commissioner at the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission . He was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1987 in what was seen as a milestone. At the time he was the highest ranking Indian American in the US...

, First Asian American to serve on the EEOC
K.K. Mathew, Judge of the Supreme Court of India
Supreme Court of India
The Supreme Court of India is the highest judicial forum and final court of appeal as established by Part V, Chapter IV of the Constitution of India...
Padmabhushan Justice K.T.Thomas, Former supreme court judge ,prominent Statesman
Peter Varghese
Peter Varghese
Peter Joseph Noozhumurry Varghese AO is an Australian diplomat and public servant. An ethnic Malayali Indian, Varghese was born in Kenya to Indian parents, and emigrated to Australia as a child...

, Director of the Office of National Assessments (Australia)
Rachel Paulose
Rachel Paulose
Rachel Kunjummen Paulose is an attorney for the Securities and Exchange Commission in Miami, United States. She is the former U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota. Palouse resigned the position of U.S. Attorney on November 19, 2007...

, Youngest US woman attorney
Ravi J. Matthai
Ravi J. Matthai
Ravi John Matthai was an outstanding management education administrator. He was the first full-time Director of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He was the son of John Matthai, the first Railway Minister and later Finance Minister of independent India.-Early years:Ravi was educated...

, Founding Director of IIM Ahmedabad
P K H Tharakan, Head of Research and Analysis Wing
Research and Analysis Wing
The Research and Analysis Wing is India's external intelligence agency. It was formed in September 1968 after the poor performance of the Intelligence Bureau in the Sino-Indian war of 1962 and the India-Pakistani war of 1965 convinced the then government of India that a specialized, independent...
Verghese Kurien
Verghese Kurien
Verghese Kurien is the founder of the Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation , an apex cooperative organization that manages the Amul food brand. He is recognised as the man behind the success of the Amul brand.He is credited with being the architect of Operation Flood – the largest dairy...

, Founder of Amul
Amul
Amul , formed in 1946, is a dairy cooperative in India. It is a brand name managed by an apex cooperative organisation, Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd...

and Father of the Indian White Revolution
E.J.John Elanjickal The first Indian Principal, Law College, Trivandrum
S. George IPS- Additional Director General of Police
Director General of Police
In India the director general of police or inspector general of police is a three-star rank and the highest ranking police officer in Indian States & Union Territories. All DGPs/IGPs are Indian Police Service officers. The DGP/IGP is usually the head of the state police force in every Indian state...

(Law and Order) of Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu is one of the 28 states of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu lies in the southernmost part of the Indian Peninsula and is bordered by the union territory of Pondicherry, and the states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh...

Religion

Abraham Malpan
Abraham Malpan
Palakunnathu Abraham Malpan of Malankara Church, was a strong Churchman, loyal to the best traditions of his Church. He wanted only to effect such reforms in the Church as were consistent with the apostolic and truly evangelical traditions of the Church...

(1795–1845), leader of reformation in Malankara Syrian Church
Abraham Mar Thoma
Abraham Mar Thoma
Abraham Mar Thoma Metropolitan was the Head of the Mar Thoma Church from 1944-1947. He was called Maret Kochu Thirumeni by his people...

(1917–1947), Mar Thoma XVII
Alexander Mar Thoma
Alexander Mar Thoma
Alexander Mar Thoma Metropolitan was the head of the Mar Thoma Church with its center in Kerala state in south-western India. About his life he wrote in his autobiography, “My life was a filled with trials and tribulations, joy and sorrow, pain and gain, struggles and rewards...

(1953–2000), Mar Thoma XIX.
Baselios Thoma Didymos I, Catholicos of the East
Baselios Thomas I, Catholicos of Malankara Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church
Cheppad Philipose Mar Dionysius (1825–1855), Mar Thoma XII
George Menachery
George Menachery
George Menachery is a professor, anthropologist, historian of Syro Malabar Church and history of Kerala. He is the editor the of the St. Thomas Christian Encyclopedia of India and the Indian Church History Classics.Menachery is also the recipient of the 'Order of Saint Gregory the Great', known as...

(b. 1938), historian, editor of the St. Thomas Christian Encyclopedia of India
Saint Gregorios Geevarghese
Gregorios Geevarghese
Saint Geevarghese Mar Gregorios or Parumala Thirumeni of Parumala was a Syrian Orthodox religious leader and later canonized by Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church He is the first Saint of Oriental orthodox Churches in India...

, (Parumala Thirumeni) of Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church
Acharya K K Chandy, Founder Member- Christavashram, Kottayam
Kottayam
Kottayam is a city in the Indian state of Kerala, spread over an area of 55.40 km2. It is the administrative capital of the Kottayam district. Kottayam Kottayam (Malayalam: കോട്ടയം) is a city in the Indian state of Kerala, spread over an area of 55.40 km2. It is the administrative...

.
Joshua Mar Ignathios
Joshua Mar Ignathios
Dr. Joshua Mar Ignathios is the Metropolitan Bishop of the Eparchy of Mavelikara of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church. He was born at Kottarakara in the Kollam District as the son of Kizhakkevettil Oommen Varghese and Polachirackal Annamma Varghese. They gave the child the name Koshy. He had...

, Bishop of the Eparchy of Mavelikara.
Juhanon Mar Thoma
Juhanon Mar Thoma
Juhanon Mar Thoma Metropolitan was the Head of the Mar Thoma church from 1947–1976, who gave leadership to the church and at the same time actively participated in social and political arenas. He was respected by people from all walks of life, from all religions and from all age groups. He is...

(1937–1976), Mar Thoma XVIII
Mar Ivanios, Servant of God, OIC (1882 – 1953).
Zacharias Mar Athanasios, Bishop of the Eparchy of Tiruvalla

Mar Joseph Powathil
Mar Joseph Powathil
Mar Joseph Powathil is a Roman Catholic archbishop representing the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church. He is the archbishop emeritus of the Archdiocese of Changanassery...

, former archbishop of Changanacherry
Mar Sebastian Mankuzhikary
Mar Sebastian Mankuzhikary
Mar Sebastian Mankuzhikary was the first bishop of the Diocese of Thamarassery in Kerala, India.Born in Thanneermukkom, Kerala, he was educated at seminaries in India and ordained a priest on 12 March 1955...

(1818–1877), first bishop of Thamarasserry
Mar Thoma I
Mar Thoma I
-See also:*Indian Orthodox Church*Jacobite Syrian Church*Mar Thoma Church*Malankara Church*Dutch East India Company*Syrian Malabar Nasrani-Further reading:...

(1653–1670), first bishop of the Malankara Church
Mathews Mar Athanasius Metropolitan (1818–1877), Mar Thoma XIII
Sadhu Kochoonju Upadesi
Sadhu Kochoonju Upadesi
Sadhu Kochoonju Upadesi was a famous Malayali Christian preacher, poet and composer. Kochoonju was a very distinctive person in appearance. He always wore a white shirt and white dothi. He was 175 cm tall and had very thin and frail body. His eyes appeared to be meditative and his...

. Christian preacher, Poet and composer.
Metropolitan Paulos Mar Gregorios, Ecumenist and theologian Syrian Orthodox Church (1922-1996)
V.C. Samuel Syrian Orthodox Theologian and Church Historian
K. V. Simon
K. V. Simon
Kunnampurathu Varghese Simon was a notable Malayalam Christian poet. He was also a musician, a teacher, a reformer, a writer, a profound Bible scholar and apologist. Simon was the author of around 300 devotional songs or poems. He has also written about 30 books. K. V...

, poet and Mahakavi (an honorific meaning Great Poet)
Sebastian Kappen
Sebastian Kappen
Sebastian Kappen , was a renowned Indian Jesuit priest and Theologian.-Formation and studies:...

, liberation theologian
Varghese Payapilly Palakkappilly
Varghese Payapilly Palakkappilly
Varghese Payapilly Palakkappilly was a Syrian Catholic priest from the Indian state of Kerala and the founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Destitute.-Family:...

, Servant of God and the founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Destitute.
Cardinal Mar Varkey Vithayathil, head and major archbishop of Syro Malabar Church
Mar Joseph Powathil, Archbishop of Syro-Malabar Catholic Archdiocese of Changanassery
Cardinal Mar Antony Padiyara
Antony Padiyara
Antony Padiyara was an Indian prelate of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church. He was Major Archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly from 1985 to 1996, having previously served as Bishop of Ootacamund and Archbishop of Changanassery...

, Syro-Malabar Catholic Archdiocese of Changanassery

Others

George Abraham Thampy, Winner of the Scripps National Spelling Bee
Scripps National Spelling Bee
The Scripps National Spelling Bee is a highly competitive annual spelling bee in the United States, with participants from other countries as well. It is run on a not-for-profit basis by The E. W...

in 2000
Matthew Eappen, Baby who was murdered in the Louise Woodward
Louise Woodward
The Louise Woodward case concerned a young English au pair convicted, at age 19, of the 1997 involuntary manslaughter of eight-month-old Matthew Eappen while he was in her care in his home in Newton, Massachusetts, in the United States...

case
Vinod Thomas
Vinod Thomas
Vinod Thomas is Director-General of Independent Evaluation at the Asian Development Bank. He was formerly Director-General and Senior Vice President, Independent Evaluation Group , at the World Bank Group.He reports directly to the Board of Executive Directors and oversees the activities of...

, Director-General of Independent Evaluation Group
Independent Evaluation Group
The World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group is an independent unit within the World Bank Group. It evaluates the relevance and impact of the Bank Group's support to developing countries for reducing poverty...

), World Bank
World Bank
The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programmes.The World Bank's official goal is the reduction of poverty...

Metropolitan Paulos Mar Gregorios ((1922–1996)Ecumenist/Theologian

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