Vijayan is a
South India
South India, also known as Dakshina Bharata or Peninsular India, consists of the peninsular southern part of India. It encompasses the States and union territories of India, Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and T ...
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Pinarayi Vijayan
Pinarayi Vijayan (; born 24 May 1945) is an Indian Communist politician who is the current Chief Minister of Kerala, serving since 25 May 2016. A member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), he is the longest-serving se ...
(born 1944), Indian politician
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Vijayan (actor)
Vijayan was an Indian actor, primarily working in Malayalam and Tamil films in the late 1970s. He died following a cardiac arrest in 2007 while he was shooting for ''Aayudham Seivom''. His wife was the niece of former Chief Minister of Kerala ...
(1944–2007), Tamil & Malayalam film actor
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Vijayan (stunt coordinator)
FEFSI Vijayan simply known as ''Vijayan'' is an Indian action choreographer, stunt coordinator, actor who works in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Hindi language films. He has the record of being the youngest stunt master in the Indian film industr ...
, action choreographer for South Indian films
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Vijayan Nair
Vijayan (Vijay) N. Nair is currently Head of the Statistical Learning and Advanced Computing Group in Corporate Model Risk at Wells Fargo. He was Donald A. Darling Collegiate Professor of Statistics and Professor of Industrial and Operations Eng ...
, American statistician
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Vijayan Pillai, Indian politician
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Vijayan K. Pillai
Vijayan K Pillai (born 1948) is Professor, School of Social Work and PhD Program Director / Graduate Adviser at the University of Texas at Arlington.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1983, with a thesis on "Determinants of ...
(born c. 1948), American professor of social work
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Amritha Meera Vijayan
Amritha Meera Vijayan is a South Indian actress in the Malayalam film industry. She is known for her roles in Action Hero Biju (film).
Personal life
Amritha Meera Vijayan was born into a Nair Family in Kozhikode (Calicut) as the elder daugh ...
(born 1990), South Indian actress
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Chandroth Vijayan
Chandroth Vijayan (born 4 November 1936) was an Indian cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman who played for Kerala. He was born in Tellicherry
Thalassery (), formerly Tellicherry, is a municipality, Commercial City on the Malabar Coast in ...
(born 1936), Indian cricketer
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E. K. Vijayan
E. K. Vijayan is the member of 14th Kerala Legislative Assembly. He is from the Communist Party of India and represents Nadapuram
Nadapuram is a census town and a special grade Panchayath located in Kozhikode District of Kerala, coming un ...
(born 1953), Indian politician
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East Coast Vijayan
East Coast Vijayan is an Indian film producer, director and lyricist who works in Malayalam language.
Being a lyricist, Vijayan wrote the music album ''Ninakkai'', which was released in 1998. The music was given by Balabhaskar and the song ''N ...
, Indian lyricist
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G. S. Vijayan
G. S. Vijayan is an Indian film director who primarily works in Malayalam. He had his debut with the Mammootty-starrer '' Charithram''. His other films include ''Aanaval Mothiram'' and ''Ghoshayathra'', etc.
Vijayan's had started filming an un ...
, Indian film director
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Geetha Vijayan
Geetha Vijayan (born 22 June 1972) is an Indian actress who appears in Malayalam movies, a few Tamil and Hindi movies. She debuted in the 1990 Malayalam comedy-thriller film '' In Harihar Nagar''. She has since acted in more than 150 Malayalam ...
(born 1972), Indian actress
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I. M. Vijayan
Inivalappil Mani Vijayan (born 25 April 1969), also known by the nickname Kalo Harin (Blackbuck), is a former professional football player who also captained the India national football team. He played as a striker, where he formed a successful ...
(born 1969), Indian footballer
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Jay Vijayan
Jay (Jayaprakash) Vijayan is a US-based entrepreneur, engineer, inventor, and investor. He is the founder and CEO of Tekion Corp, a SaaS company based in the United States of America. Prior to founding Tekion, he served as chief information of ...
, Tamil entrepreneur, engineer, inventor and investor
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K. Vijayan
K. Vijayan was an Indian film director. He predominantly worked in Tamil cinema. He mainly worked with Sivaji Ganesan. He directed many Malayalam films as well.
Career
K. Vijayan was an employee of the Golden Rock Railway Workshop in Tiruchi ...
, Indian film director
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M. Vijayan
Mamannamana Vijayan (16 October 1941 – 24 April 2022) was an Indian structural biologist.
He was awarded Padma Shri by the President of India in 2004. He was the President of the Indian National Science Academy from 2007–2010. He was DAE ...
(born 1941), Indian structural biologist
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M. N. Vijayan (1930–2007), Indian writer, orator and academic
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O. V. Vijayan
Ottupulackal Velukkuty Vijayan (2 July 1931 – 30 March 2005), commonly known as O. V. Vijayan, was an Indian author and cartoonist, who was an important figure in modern Malayalam language literature. Best known for his first novel '' Khasak ...
(1930–2005), Malayalam novelist and cartoonist
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P. Vijayan
P Vijayan (born 4 February 1968), is the Inspector General of Police. He is a 1999 batch official of the Indian Police Service. He is the founder and chief architect of the Student Police Cadet Project, a youth development initiative.
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(born 1968), Indian police officer
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Rajisha Vijayan
Rajisha Vijayan is an Indian actress, who primarily appears in Malayalam films, in addition to a few Tamil films. She hosted several television shows in Malayalam before making her acting debut in the 2016 film '' Anuraga Karikkin Vellam,'' f ...
, Indian film actress in Malayalam films
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Raman Vijayan (born 1973), Indian football manager
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Rex Vijayan
Rex Vijayan (born 26 April 1983) is an Indian composer, guitarist, singer, record producer and multi-instrumentalist from Kerala. He is best known for being co-founder and guitarist for the alternative Malayali rock band Avial. He started out h ...
(born 1983), Indian guitarist, composer and producer
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Sivakumar Vijayan
Sivakumar VijayanSatyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (born 17 May) is an Indian Cinematographer.
Early life and education
Sivakumar Vijayan was born in Chennai to a middle-class Tamil family and grew up in Chennai and Kolkata. He is an ...
(born 1982), Indian cinematographer
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T. C. Vijayan
T. C. Vijayan is an Indian politician and was a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA). He was elected to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly as a Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) candidate from the Thiruvottiyur constituency in the 1996 elec ...
, Indian politician
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V S Vijayan
Vadayil Sankaran Vijayan (വി. എസ്. വിജയന്) (born 29 May 1945) is an Indian environmentalist, wildlife biologist, ornithologist, an admirer of naturopathy and the founding Director of the Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology ...
(born 1945), Indian environmentalist and wildlife biologist
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V. T. Vijayan
V. T. Vijayan is an Indian film editor who works in Malayalam, Telugu
Telugu may refer to:
* Telugu language, a major Dravidian language of India
*Telugu people, an ethno-linguistic group of India
* Telugu script, used to write the Telugu langua ...
, South Indian film editor
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Vazhenkada Vijayan
Vazhenkada Vijayan is a senior Kathakali exponent and a retired principal of Kerala Kalamandalam, the performing art institute where he was trained in the classical dance-drama from Kerala in southern India.
Life
A son and disciple of Kathakali ...
, Indian Kathakali dancer
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Vinod Vijayan
Vinod Kumar Vijayan is an Indian film director, writer and producer. He got International Video Festival Award for his first Short Film MASK in age of 18. He also won Berlinale international crystal bear award for the movie OTTAL. In 2013, he ...
, Indian film producer and director
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Dasan and Vijayan
Dasan and Vijayan (or Ramadas and Vijayan) are the protagonists of the ''Nadodikkattu'' trilogy. The comical characters were created by directors Siddique–Lal and are portrayed by Mohanlal (Dasan) and Sreenivasan (Vijayan). They first appear ...
, fictional characters in the ''Nadodikkattu'' film series
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