This is a list of prominent Syrian Christians of Kerala.
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- P. J. Thomas, Parakunnel, an economist who served as first economic advisor of independent India (1942-1948), member of Indian delegation that signed the UN Charter (1945), Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha (1957–1962) and founder-principal of St. Thomas College, Palai (1950–1952).
- A. M. Thomas Union Minister, Chairman Khadi Commission )
- John Mathai, an economist who served as India's first Railway Minister (1947–1948), as Finance Minister (1949–1950), first Chairman of State Bank of India (1955), Vice Chancellor of University of Mumbai (1955-1957) and of University of Kerala (1957-1959).
- M. M. Jacob – Ministries of Parliamentary Affairs, Water Resources and Home Affairs at different periods (1987–93).
- A. K. Antony,[1] politician who served as Defence Minister of India (2006-2014), Chief Minister of Kerala (1977–78, 1995–96, 2001-2004) and Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha (1985–1995, 2005–present).
- P. J. Kurien – 18th Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha (2012–2018)[2][3][4]
Council of Ministers, India
Minister of State (Independent Charges)
- Alphons Kannanthanam, BJP – Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology, Culture, and Tourism (2016–2019)
Minister of State (MoS)
- M. M. Jacob – Ministries of Parliamentary Affairs, Water Resources and Home Affairs at different periods (1987–93)
Chief Ministers of Kerala
Chief Ministers of Travancore-Cochin (1949-56)
National Medal of Science
- Thomas Kailath (2012) – presented by President Barack Obama in 2014 for "transformative contributions to the fields of information and system science, for distinctive and sustained mentoring of young scholars, and for translation of scientific ideas into entrepreneurial ventures that have had a significant impact on industry"[11][12]
The Medal of the Order of Australia
Australia
- Peter Varghese – Former Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
High Court Judges
- Anna Chandy, first woman judge of an Indian High Court[22]
- Bechu Kurian Thomas, judge of Kerala High Court
- J. B. Koshy, Chief Justice Patna high court
- Mary Joseph, Kerala High Court judge
- P. Cherian, high court judge of Travancore
- Antony Dominic, former Chief Justice of Kerala
- Pius C. Kuriakose, Chief Justice of Sikkim High court
- Shaji P. Chaly, Kerala High Court judge
- Sunil Thomas, Kerala High Court judge
- T. C. Poonen, High court judge of Travancore and the first Malayali to study law in England.
- Sathish Ninan, present Kerala High court judge
Medical sciences
- Mary Poonen Lukose – first female surgeon general of India
- Abraham Verghese – Professor of Medicine and Senior Associate Chair of Department of Internal Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine
- Lucy Oommen – Indian gynaecologist, first medical director of Indian origin at the St Stephen's Hospital, Delhi
- Sunny Kurian – founder president of the UAE wing of the Indian Academy of Pediatrics
- Thomas Thomas – first Indian cardio-thoracic surgeon
- Jacob Chandy – first neurosurgeon in India
- Prof Joseph Vettukattil. Inventor AFR device, VASO, VB stent. Endowed chair Congenital Cardiology Research. First certified pediatric cardiologist UK. Structured multiplanar reformating of 3D echocardiography. First to do 3D printing from echocardiography and first in the world to do multimodality image integration.
Saints
Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church
Jacobite Syrian Christian Church
Malabar Independent Syrian Church
Heads of Churches
Malankara Syrian Churches (puthenkoor nasranis)
Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church
Jacobite Syrian Christian Church
Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church
Malabar Independent Syrian Church
Heads of the Chaldean Syrian Churches (Pazhayakoor Nasranis)
Literature and writing
Writers
- Arundhati Roy – writer, awarded the Booker Prize in 1997 for The God of Small Things, which is set in Kerala
- Arch Deacon Koshy (1825–1899) – author of Pulleli Kunju (1882); the first novellike original work on a local theme, in Malayalam, and a number of other books
- George Menachery – historian, editor of The St. Thomas Christian Encyclopaedia of India, editor of The Indian Church History Classics (The Nazranies)
- Mridula Koshy
- M. P. Paul – literary critic
- P. C. Devassia (1906–2006) – Sanskrit scholar and poet who won the Sahitya Akademi Award (1980) for Sanskrit for his poem "Kristubhagavatam"
- Paul Zacharia – writer
- Sarah Joseph – writer, Novelist, Sahitya Academy winner
- Benyamin (writer) – Novelist, writer, Kerala Sahitya Academy winner
Olympians
- Thomas Varghese (Thiruvalla Pappan), Football (1948-London)
- Ivan Jacob, 400m (1952-Helenski)
- Manuel Frederick, Hockey (1972-Munich)
- T. C. Yohannan, Long Jump (1976-Montreal)
- Shiny Wilson, 800m (1984-Los Angeles, 1988-Seoul, 1992-Barcelona, 1996-Atlanta)
- Sebastian Xavier, Swimming (1996-Atlanta)
- Mercy Mathew Kuttan, 400m (1988-Seoul)
- Bobby Aloysius, High Jump (2004-Athens)
- Jincy Phillip, 4x400 relay (2000-Sydney)
- Anju Bobby George, Long Jump (2004-Athens, 2008-Beijing)
- Sini Jose, 4 × 400 m (2008-Beijing)
- Tintu Luka, 800 m (2012-London)
- Mayookha Johny, Triple jump (2012-London)
- Valiyaveetil Diju, Badminton (2012-London)
- Jinson Johnson, 800 m (2016 Rio de Janeiro)
- Jisna Mathew, 4 × 400 m (2016 Rio de Janeiro)
Thachil Mathu Tharakante Thankakompan (Malayalam) by K M Varghese, Manorama, Kottayam (1927)
1. Mathew Vaidyan K.L. Fr.Dr. Chief Editor; Vaidikarude Vaidikan, Commemorative Volume, Rev.Dr.V.C.Samuel – Ecumenical Forum, Konni, India 2001, 2. Kuriakose M.K. Fr. Orthodox Identity in India: Essays in Honor of V.C.Samuel, Bangalore, 1988
"പ്രൊഫ. മാത്യു ഉലകംതറ അന്തരിച്ചു". Mathrubhumi daily (in Malayalam). 25 February 2022.
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