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Payyanur is the cultural capital and political hotspot of North Kerala. Payyanur has bestowed various prominent figures to the world in the field of Administration, Politics, Arts, Astrology, Literature etc.

Jyothisha Chakravarthy VPK Poduval
Payyanur is very famous for Astrology and its well-known Astrologers. Today, the first name comes to the picture is of VPK Poduval who has acquired reputation all over India. He got many title of recognition from various institutions all over the country.

Payyanur Kesavanachari

Payyanur Kesavanachari is an eminent practitioner of traditional vasthu vidya (architecture). He published around twenty five books on different aspects of vasthuvidya. Manushyalaya chandrika, Manushyalaya Sopanam, Naveena Koopa Sastram, Vasthu Panchangam are some of them.He worked as a visiting professor at the Vasthu Vidya Gurukulam, Aaranmula and the Nirmiti Gurukulam, Thiruvananthapuram.

Kaithapram Damodaran Namboothiri

Kaithapram Damodaran Namboothiri, the noted Poet, Lyrist, Music Composer, Actor, Singer, Screenplay Writer and Great Performer of Individual Carnatic Music Concerts is son of well known singer late Keshavan Namboothiri popularly known as Kannadi Bhagavathar (disciple of Chembai Vaidyanathan Bhagavathar) and Aditi Antharjanam. He is popularly known as Kaithapram, and every Payyanurian is proud of this great versatile personality..

Artist Ganesh Kumar

Artist Ganesh Kumar, though both of his hands and legs are paralyzed, this young man named Ganesh Kumar (31yrs) is doing many miracles in the field of Paintings. Ganesh Kumar hails from Kunhimangalam, the neighboring village of Payyanur. He fought against his destiny and proved what determination and relentless hard work could achieve. By practicing painting from his childhood itself by keeping the brush in his mouth the and now he has gained international fame through his beautiful and creative works in the field of water colour as well as oil colour paintings.

Karipathu Kammara Poduval

Karipathu Kammara Poduval (70) is a well-known expert in cooking. One can even say that it is Kammara Poduval who defined the taste of Payyanur. He got “Pachaka Ratnam” title for the immense contribution to this sector. He is in this field for the last 36 years. He served as the Chief Chef for the Kerala State School Youth Festival held at Kannur, State Keralotsavam etc. He is the chief chef of all the major youth festivals, conferences and marriage feasts and dinners for various functions held not only Payyanur but all over North Malabar.

Magician Padmaraj

Padmaraj is a famous magician all over Kerala. Padmaraj who is an able and efficient crowd-pulling magician hails from Annur in Payyanur. Padmaraj crated history in the Magic field by exhibiting the most-surprise rendering Indian Rope Trick. This program was given vide publicity by BBC for many occasions. He had won many awards and title for his achievements in the magic field.

Dr.KK Karunakaran

Dr.KK Karunakaran: He made a lot of studies and researches on the folklore of Kerala, especially North Malabar. Born at Mahadevagramam, near Subrahmanya Swami temple in 1938, Karunakaran joined Calicut University as a research student. In 1998 he became a Professor in Malayalam at the same University. Dr. Karunakaran obtained his doctorate for the study on Poorakkali, the folkdance of North Malabar.

P.P. Narayanan Gurikkal

P.P. Narayanan Gurikkal is a Kalari Guru of Payyanur whose life is dedicated for the training and practice of Kalari and Kalari based treatments. Hundreds of people of all age groups has trained from his C.S. Kalari Sangam located near Thayineri Kurunji Temple. Even though Payyanur had a privileged tradition on Kalari, after the demise of great masters, this traditional martial art form has ruined when time passed.

Nartakaratnam Kanna Peruvannan

Nartakaratnam Kanna Peruvannan is a living legend in the art of Theyyam. He performed various Theyyams at numerous venues in and outside Kerala. Kanna Peruvannan, son of Kuttiyambu Manakkadan was born at Kodakkad, a small village near Karivellur. He started performing Theyyam at a very young age of six and he got a chance to perform the most brilliant Theyyam of Kathivannur Veeran when he was 14 years old.

Azeez Thayineri

Azeez Thayineri is well known all over Kerala for his wonderful performance of various Mappila art forms. He is active in this field for more than three decades. He has performed Mappila-Song Concerts in thousands of venues in and outside the country. He performed Mappila Pattu in AIR for the first time at the age of 19. Later he mastered in Kolkali and formed Sal Sabeel Kalavedi.

There are a lot of State leaders of various political parties from Payyanur. T.Govindan MP and leader of CPI(M), CKP Padmanabhan, State Committee CPIM, K.P.Kunhikkannan, MK.Raghavan, Kadanappally Ramachandran, [Photo right] President Congress(S), Kerala State Committee, K.C.Venugopal MLA, Satheesan Pacheni, P.Balan Master ( State Executive Member of CMP, P.P.Karunakaran Master (Regional President of BJP) are a few among them.

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