Famous People with Name Nair

Nair Ibrahim Meer Abdulrahman            Origin/Culture/Country: Arabic

Nair Ibrahim Meer Abdulrahman: is a retired UAE football (soccer) player who played as a left back for the UAE national football team and Sharjah FC. He played in the 1990 FIFA World Cup along with his twin brother Eissa.

Nair Almeida            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Nair Almeida: is an Angolan handball player who learned handball in a small handball team called Escola de Andebol da restinga no lobito (EARL). She competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and at the 2005 World Championship. At the 2007 World Championship Angola finished 7th, while Almeida scored 57 goals and was number six on the list of top scorers. She played for Angola at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

Nair De Tefé Von Hoonholtz            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Nair De Tefé Von Hoonholtz: was Brazil's first female cartoonist, as well as a painter, singer and pianist.In 1914, Nair de Tefé organized a recital to launch Corta Jaca, a maxixe composed by Chiquinha Gonzaga. The following day, controversy and criticism developed because the presidential palace had promoted and disseminated music that had its roots in what the social elite believed were lascivious and vulgar dances. Bringing popular music to the presidential palace was considered at the time to be a breach of protocol, causing controversy in the highest ranks of Brazilian society and politics. Ruy Barbosa had strong criticism about the wife of the president.

Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair: a famous poet, playwright, scenarist, lyricist, orator, film director and actor in Malayalam, though he is best known as an actor. He is the recipient of Padmashri from the Government of India, which is one of the highest civilian honours in India. In a career that spanned about 47 years, he acted in over 700 films.

Pulloottupadathu Bhaskaran Nair            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Pulloottupadathu Bhaskaran Nair: was a famous Malayalam poet and lyricist of Malayalam film songs. He penned about 3000 songs for close to 250 films. He also had directed and acted in several Malayalam films. He was a journalist and an All India Radio employee before becoming active in t

P. Kunhiraman Nair            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

P. Kunhiraman Nair: was a renowned Malayalam poet whose works romanticised the natural beauty of his home state of Kerala in south India and juxtaposed it with the hard realities of his life and times.

Puthukkody Kottuthody Sankaran Kutty Nair            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Puthukkody Kottuthody Sankaran Kutty Nair: is India's premier political cartoonist. He is popularly known as Cartoonist Kutty.Kutty was born at Ottapalam, Kerala in 1921 to Kayarat Narayana Menon and Kottuthodi Lakshmi Amma[1]. He was educated at Ottapalam and Malabar Christian College, Kozhikode. Kutty's talent was discovered by the famous Malayalam satirist, Professor M. R. Nair (better known by his pen name "Sanjayan"). His first cartoon appeared in the Malayalam humor magazine Viswaroopam (edited by Sanjayan) in 1940[1].

Mira Nair            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Mira Nair: an Indian-American film director and producer based in New York. Her production company is Mirabai Films.She was educated at Delhi University and Harvard University. Her debut feature film, Salaam Bombay! (1988), won the Golden Camera award at the Cannes Film Festival and also earned the nomination for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. She used the proceeds of the film, to establish an organization for street children, called the Salaam Baalak Trust in India.[1] She often works with longtime creative collaborator, screenwriter Sooni Taraporevala, whom she met at Harvard.