List of people of North Karnataka

Introduction

North Karnataka, the land which gave personalities like Basavanna, Sarvagna, Bhaskaracharya, Bharat Ratna Bhimsen Joshi, Dr. D.R. Bendre, Girish Karnad, Gangubai Hangal, Puttaraj Gawai.

Law and Justice

• Chief Justice of India P. B. Gajendragadkar from Gajendragad

Historical

Amoghavarsha I Mayurasharma Pulakesi I Pulakesi II Krishna Deva Raya Kumara Rama	Vikramaditya VI Somesvara I Bijjala II Basavanna Belawadi Mallamma Kittur Chennamma	Akka Mahadevi Sangolli Rayanna Attimabbe Raghavendra Acharya Sculptor Ramappa Chand Bibi	Tailapa II Saraswati Gangadhar

Mathematics

• Bhaskaracharya
• Mahavira
• D.C. Pavate

Literature

Classical Age of Kannada Literature

Asaga Shivakotiacharya Amoghavarsha I Adikavi Pampa Ranna Sri Ponna	Kumaravyasa Basavanna Akka Mahadevi Sarvajna Kanaka Dasa

Modern Kannada Literature

D.R. Bendre Girish Karnad Chandrashekhara Kambara Ferdinand Kittel	Dinakara Desai Panchakshari Hiremath Narayanacharya Venkatesh Galaganath	Channaveera Kanavi Giraddi Govindaraj Aravind Malagatti

Jnanpeeth Award winners

1. D. R. Bendre 2. V K Gokak 3. Girish Karnad 4. Chandrashekhara Kambara

Music

Carnatic music

• Kanaka Dasa
• Vijaya Dasa
• Gopala Dasa
• Jagannatha Dasa

Hindustani music

Abdulla Khaja (Bansuri) Bapu Padmanabha (Bansuri) Arjunsa Nakod (Vocal) Ashok Huggannanavar (Vocal) Bale Khan (Sitar) Balesh (Shehnai) Basavaraja Rajaguru (Vocal) Bhalachandra Nakod(Vocal) Bhimsen Joshi (Vocal) Dattatray Kalburgi (Tabla) Shripati Padigar (Vocal) Gangubai Hangal (Vocal) Gururao Deshpande (Vocal) Hanumanna Nayak Dore (Vocal) I.N. Kalaburgi (Vocal) Jayateerth Mevundi (Vocal) Kaivalya Kumar Gurav (Vocal) Keshav Ginde (Flutist) Krishna Hangal (Vocal)	Kumar Gandharva (Vocal) Madhava Gudi (Vocal) Mallikarjun Mansur (Vocal) Nagaraja Rao Havaldar (Vocal) Panchakshari Gawai (Vocal) Panchakshari Swami Mattigatti (Vocal) Pravin Godkhindi (Bansuri) Puttaraja Gawai (Vocal) Raghunath Nakod (Tabla) Rajabhau Sontakke (Vocal) Rajashekhar Mansur (Vocal) Rajendra Kulkarni (Bansuri) Rajendra Nakod (Tabla) Ravindra Katoti (Harmonium) Ravindra Yavagal (Tabla)	Sanjeev Chimmalgi (Vocal) Sangameshwara Gurav(Vocal) Sangeetha Katti(Vocal) Sawai Gandharva (Vocal) Shantaram Hegde (Vocal) Sheikh Hannumiya (Vocal) Sheshagiri Hanagal (Tabla) Shobha Gurtu Smita Bellur (Vocal) Venkatesh Godkhindi (Bansuri) Venkatesh Kumar (Vocal) Vinayak Torvi (Vocal) Vishwanath Nakod (Tabla) Vyasamurthy Katti (Harmonium)

Sugama Sangeetha

• Balappa Hukkeri

Clarinet

• Narasimhalu Wadawati

Awards

• Bharat Ratna : Sri Bhimsen Joshi
• Padmabhushan: Pandit Puttaraj Gawai, Sri Basavaraj Rajguru, Smt. Gangubai Hangal, Dr. Mallikarjun Mansur
• Padma Vibhushan : Sri Bhimsen Joshi

Film

Late Gudugeri Basavaraj Sunil Kumar Desai Atul Kulkarni Yashwant Sardeshpande Umashri Milind Gadagkar Raju Talikoti Aasif Farooki Charan Raj Biradar

Comedian

• Beechi a comedian from Bellary District
• Pranesh (Gangavati Beechi) from Gangavati
• Narasimha Joshi from Manvi
• Mahamani

Journalist

• Patil Puttappa
• Ravi Belagere
• Chamaraj Savadi

Epigraphist

• P. B. Desai

Freedom fighters

• Rani Chennamma, considered the "morning star" of India's freedom struggle
• Sangolli Rayanna, army chief of the Kingdom of Kittur who fought against the British
• Aluru Venkata Rao
• Huilgol Narayana Rao

Social reformers

• Basaveshwara
• Shishunala Sharif, the first ever Muslim poet in Kannada literature

Spiritual masters

Vidyaranya Siddharudha Swami Narayan Maharaj

Dattatreya Kaadsiddheshwar Keshavashram

Science and Technology

S. G. Balekundri Nandan Nilekani Sudha Murthy Vivek Kulkarni

Arun Netravali Gururaj Deshpande Anant Koppar Vijayalakshmi balekundri

Officers

• Shankar Bidari, Vijayalakshmi Bidari, Vijayendra Bidari

Army

• Ramesh Halagali,AVSM, SM, Deputy Chief of Indian Army.

Politicians

• Ramakrishna Hegde
• S. Nijalingappa
• Veerendra Patil
• S.R.Bommai
• Dharam Singh
• S.R.Kanti
• B D Jatti.
• Neeraj Patil - The Mayor of Lambeth district of London.
• M. P. Prakash
• D. C. Pavate

Cricketers

• Deepak Chougule
• Sunil Joshi
• Manju Nadgoda

Cartoonists

• Shivram Dattatreya Phadnis

See also

• List of people from Karnataka

• Kannada people

• Recipients of the Karnataka Ratna Award

• People from Uttara Kannada District

• People from Belgaum District

• People from Bagalkot District

• People from Bellary District

• People from Bidar District

• People from Bijapur District

• People from Gadag District

• People from Gulbarga District

• People from Haveri District

• People from Koppal District

• People from Raichur District