Nadarajah
| Pronunciation | Naṭarājā |
|---|---|
| Gender | Male |
| Language(s) | Tamil Telugu Malayalam |
| Origin | |
| Meaning | King of dance |
| Region of origin | Southern India North-eastern Sri Lanka |
| Other names | |
| Alternative spelling | Nadaraja Nataraj Nataraja Natarajan |
Nadarajah or Natarajan (Tamil: நடராஜா, Telugu: నటరాజ) is a South Indian male given name. Due to the South Indian tradition of using patronymic surnames it may also be a surname for males and females. It also Nataraja, a depiction of Hindu God Shiva.
Notable people
[edit]Given name
[edit]- A. Natarajan, Indian politician
- A. K. C. Natarajan (born 1931), Indian musician
- A. R. Natarajan, Indian publisher
- B. Natarajan, Indian politician
- E. M. Natarajan (died 2001), Indian politician
- Indi Nadarajah, Malaysian actor and singer
- K. V. Nadarajah (1905–2000), Ceylonese lawyer and politician
- M. Nadarajah, Sri Lankan politician
- N. Nadarajah (1897–?), Ceylonese lawyer and judge
- N. S. N. Nataraj, Indian politician
- N. V. Natarajan (1912–1975), Indian politician
- Nadarajah Govindasamy, Singaporean convicted murderer
- Nataraja Guru (1895–1973), Indian social reformer
- Natarajan Subramaniam, Indian actor and producer
- P. R. Natarajan, Indian politician
- Pyramid Natarajan, Indian actor and producer
- R. Nataraja Mudaliar (1885–1972), Indian film director
- S. Nadarajah (died 1988), Sri Lankan lawyer and politician
- S. Natarajan, Indian politician
- Saralees Nadarajah (born 1965), British statistician
- T. Nadaraja (1917–2004), Sri Lankan lawyer and academic
Surname
[edit]- Bhuvana Natarajan, Indian author
- Jayanthi Natarajan (born 1954), Indian lawyer and politician
- Krishnakumar Natarajan, Indian businessman
- Natarajan Chandrasekaran (born 1963), Indian businessman
- Meenakshi Natarajan (born 1973), Indian politician
- Nataraja Ramakrishna (1923–2011), Indian dance guru
- Nadarajah Raviraj (1962–2006), Sri Lankan lawyer and politician
- Nadarajah Selvarajah (born 1954), Sri Lankan librarian, writer and bibliographer
- Nadarajah Shanmugarajah (1912–?), Ceylonese engineer
- Nadarajah Thangathurai (died 1983), Sri Lankan rebel
- Navya Natarajan, Indian actress
- Priyamvada Natarajan, Indian academic
See also
[edit]- All pages with titles containing Nadarajah
- All pages with titles containing Nadaraja
- All pages with titles containing Nataraj
- All pages with titles containing Nataraja
- All pages with titles containing Natarajan
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