 N. Ramaswami Ayyar

Natesaganabadigal Ramaswami Ayyar (1896–1976) was an Indian educationist, social reformer and lawyer from Tiruchirapalli, in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu.Born in 1896 in an orthodox Hindu family, he started his career as a criminal lawyer, but abandoned his practice in the 1930s to start "Savitri Vidyasala", a girls' school in Tiruchirapalli in 1938, when girls' education was a taboo in the society.