laureate (for Chemical Sciences) Nirmal Selvamony, Indian scholar and academician S. Kameswaran, renowned ENT surgeon and Padma Shri awardee H. Raja, eminent politician Gunasekaran Paramasamy, eminent scientist Karuppannan Veluthambi, eminent Plant Biotechnologist and Molecular Biologist Ram Rajasekharan, N-BIOS awardee Mukul Roy, eminent politician R. Sankararamakrishnan, N-BIOS awardee Syed Zahoor Qasim, Padma Bhushan awardee Kaustuv Sanyal, N-BIOS awardee K. S. Krishnan, Padma Bhushan awardee, Fellow of the Royal Society and the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate (for Physical Sciences) M. K. Chandrashekaran, the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate (for Biological Sciences) Sonajharia Minz, eminent Adivasi activist and current Vice Chancellor of Sido Kanhu Murmu University Thamizhachi Thangapandian, Indian Tamil poet, lyricist, orator, politician and writer Thavamani Jegajothivel Pandian, the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate (for Biological Sciences) Vijayalakshmi Navaneethakrishnan, Padma Shri awardee Ganapathy Baskaran, the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate (for Physical Sciences) Gopi Shankar Madurai, Indian equal rights and Indigenous rights activist Govindappa Venkataswamy, Padma Shri awardee and founder of Aravind Eye Care System Vijay Siva, Carnatic music vocalist Vivek, Indian actor and Padma Shri awardee Kailasavadivoo Sivan, eminent Indian space scientist and current Secretary (Space) and ex-officio chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and Space Commission Kumaravel Somasundaram, N-BIOS awardee Nazarene Soosai, Roman Catholic Bishop A. R. Venkatachalapathy, Indian historian Shiv Nadar, Padma Bhushan awardee and Indian billionaire industrialist and philanthropist S. Viyalendiran, Sri Lankan-Tamil politician M. Thiurumalai, Tamil scholar, writer and professor Sendurai Mani, Indian-American oncologist Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy, Robert W. Parry Collegiate Professor of Chemistry and Biophysics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. K.K. Pillay, eminent Indian historian, headed the Department of History in University of Madras and the first President of South Indian History Congress in the premises of the School of Historical Studies, Madurai Kamaraj University Sankaran Krishnaswamy, eminent computational biologist Ganapathy Marimuthu, renowned chronobiologist Shabaana Khader, notable Indian-American microbiologist Other associated people S. Ramachandran, Padma Bhushan awardee Ch. Mohan Rao, the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate (for Medical Sciences), Executive Committee member for the Centre of Excellence of the Bioinformatics Centre (founded by Prof. Kappamuthu Dharmalingam), Madurai Kamaraj University, 2004 P.N. Rangarajan, the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate (for Medical Sciences) and N-BIOS awardee, Coconvenor of the lecture workshop on Recent Advances in Biotechnology of Health and Disease (BHD-2011) organized by Madurai Kamaraj University in 2011 Sathees Chukkurumbal Raghavan, the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate (for Biological Sciences), Convenor of the lecture