List of sportspeople from Tamil Nadu

• Satish Sivalingam - Weightlifting,
• Arokia Rajiv - 4 × 400 m Relay,
• Ayyasamy Dharun - 4 × 400 m Relay,
• Sharath Kamal - Table Tennis,
• Krishnan Ganapathi - 20 km Walk,
• Mohan Kumar - Track and Field

• Rajasekaran Pichaya
• Santhi Soundarajan
• Kumaravel Premkumar
• Nikhil Chittarasu

• Sathiyan Gnanasekaran
• Sharath Kamal

Achanta Sharath Kamal (born 12 July 1982) is a professional Table Tennis player from Tamil Nadu, India. Sathiyan Gnanasekaran is the highest ever ranked Indian in the world.

Medal	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Table Tennis - Men's Singles	2006 Commonwealth Games - Melbourne	26 March
Gold	Table Tennis - Men's Team	2006 Commonwealth Games - Melbourne	27 March
Gold	Table Tennis - Men's Doubles	2010 Commonwealth Games - Delhi	13 October
Bronze	Table Tennis - Men's Team	2010 Commonwealth Games - Delhi	9 October
Bronze[1]	Table Tennis - Men's Team	2018 Commonwealth Games - Gold Coast	9 April
Silver[2]	Table Tennis - Men's Doubles	2018 Commonwealth Games - Gold Coast	14 April
Bronze[3]	Table Tennis - Men's Singles	2018 Commonwealth Games - Gold Coast	15 April
Bronze[4]	Table Tennis - Mixed Doubles	2018 Commonwealth Games - Gold Coast	15 April

All grand slam and highest singles ranking by an Indian are achieved by the players from Tamil Nadu. Ramanathan Krishnan reached semi finals of grand slam twice. His son Ramesh Krishnan reached grand slam quarters thrice and have beaten then World No 1 player Matts Wilander in the Australian open. Vijay Amritraj have reached quarter finals of grand slams fours times and have won 18 ATP singles career titles. Mahesh Bhupathi have won 12 grand slams titles for doubles and mixed doubles.

• Ramanathan Krishnan
• Ramesh Krishnan
• Vijay Amritraj
• Anand Amritraj
• Mahesh Bhupathi
• Prajnesh Gunneswaran
• Ramkumar Ramanathan
• Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan
• Vijay Sundar Prashanth
• N. Sriram Balaji
• Prakash Amritraj

• Viswanathan Anand
• Gukesh D
• Pragganandha

• A. Maria Irudayam
• S. Ilavazhagi

• Vasudevan Baskaran

He captained the Indian team, which won the gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union.

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Vasudevan Baskaran	Field hockey	Field hockey at the 1980 Summer Olympics	29 July 1980

• Narain Karthikeyan
• Sundaram Karivardhan
• Ajith Kumar
• Parthiva Sureshwaren
• Karun Chandhok

• Kutraleeswaran
• Niranjan

• Joshna Chinappa
• Dipika Pallikal

Medal	Player name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold[5]	Dipika Pallikal & Joshna Chinappa	Squash - Women's Doubles	2014 Commonwealth Games - Glasgow	2 August
Silver[6]	Dipika Pallikal & Joshna Chinappa	Squash - Women's Doubles	2018 Commonwealth Games - Gold Coast	15 April
Silver[7]	Dipika Pallikal & Saurav Ghosal(West Bengal)	Squash - Mixed Doubles	2018 Commonwealth Games - Gold Coast	14 April