Happy Birthday Chennai! - The first city of modern India, Chennai, will celebrate its 375th birthday. The founding day of Madras is considered to be August 22, 1639. It was on that day, in that year, that a sliver of land, where Fort. St. George stands today, was transacted by the East India Company. The city has today grown into a teeming metropolis of 4.6 million people (including suburbs 6.4 million), showing the continuing shift of rural population to urban areas in the state seeking better employment opportunities. It has emerged as one of the four major metropolises in the country and has quality institutions in education and health sectors with a number of corporate hospitals contributing to medical tourism besides a thriving automobile and IT industry. Following people were born or based their life in Chennai: Arts and language: 1.R.K. Narayan (1906–2001), writer Business: 1.Indra Nooyi, Chairperson & CEO of PepsiCo 2.Sundar Pichai, Senior Vice President of Android, Chrome and Google Apps at Google 3. Bhargav Sri Prakash, founder & CEO of FriendsLearn, entrepreneur and hedge fund manager Education 1.Ramayya Krishnan, Dean of Heinz College and H. John Heinz III, W. W. Cooper and Ruth F. Cooper Professor of Management science and Information systems at Carnegie Mellon University Films and entertainment: 1. Ashok Amritraj, Hollywood producer 2.Ajith Kumar, Thespian and Racer 3. A. R. Rahman (born 1966), music composer and first Academy Award Winner 4. Ilayathalapathy Vijay, Thespian 5. Kamal Haasan, Thespian 6. Ilaiyaraja, Indian music composer and Symphonic Maestro 7. Shivaji Ganesan, actor and the first International Award winner of India 8. Yuvan Shankar Raja, First Cypress-International-Award Winning Creative music Composer 9. Vijay Yesudas (born 1979), Playback Singer 10.Pete Best (born 1941), early Beatles drummer 11. Engelbert Humperdinck (born 1936), pop singer 12.Mani Ratnam (born 1956), film director 13. Rajinikanth (born 1950), Thespian 14. Priya Anand, actress 15. Shruthi Hassan, actress 16. Samantha Ruth Prabhu, actress 17. Arvind Swamy, actor and businessman Scientists: 1.C. V. Raman, Nobel laureate 2.Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan 3. Subra Suresh 4. John Henry Constantine Whitehead (1904–1960), British mathematician 5. Nicodemus Abel, Indian plant geneticist Chess: 1.Viswanathan Anand (born 1969), chess grandmaster and the undisputed world chess champion from 2007 until 2013 Cricket: 1.Ravichandran Ashwin, cricketer 2.Nasser Hussain (born 1968), English cricketer 3. Dinesh Karthik (born 1985), Indian cricketer 4. Krishnamachari Srikkanth (born 1959), former Indian cricketer 5. Lakshmipathy Balaji, Indian cricketer 6. Murali Vijay (born 1984), current Indian cricketer 7. Sadagoppan Ramesh, former Indian cricketer 8. Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan, former Indian cricketer 9. W. V. Raman, former Indian crickter Tennis: 1.Vijay Amritraj (born 1953), tennis player, Sports Commentator and Actor 2.Anand Amritraj (born 1952), tennis player, Businessman 3. Ramanathan Krishnan, tennis player 4. Ramesh Krishnan, tennis player and coach Squash: 1.Dipika Pallikal (born 1991), squash player, WISPA titles and first Indian woman to break into the top 10 in the WSA rankings 2.Joshna Chinappa (born 1986), squash player, British Squash Championship Motorsport: 1.Ajith Kumar (born 1971), racing driver, Formula Two and Actor 2.Karun Chandhok (born 1984), racing driver, Formula One and sports commentator
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