The chief four Ammaveedus are the Arumana, Vadasseri, Thiruvattar and Nagercoil Ammaveedus.
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Other Ammaveedus of prominence were Vadasseri Ammaveedu, Nagercoil Ammaveedu, Thanjavur Ammaveedu, Thiruvattar Ammaveedu, Puthumana Ammaveedu (of Ravi Varman Thampi) etc., all named after the villages from where the original Ammachis came.
The public sector Indian Rare Earths Limited (IREL) also has its largest facility at Manavaalakurichy, near the town, which pioneers in the mining, processing and production of Thorium.
Neelakanta Sivan was born in 1839 at Vadiveeswaram, a part of Nagercoil, he stayed at Padmanabhapuram, the capital of the old Travancore.
Poopathi is located about ten kilometers south of Nagercoil and Eathamozhi.
Highest number of Sri Lankan Tamil families living in KK Nagar, Thuvakudi in Trichirapalli, Neelankarai, Valasaravakkam in Chennai, Nagercoil in Kanniyakumari, R.S puram, Valparai in Coimbatore.
Subbayya Sivasankaranarayana Pillai (1901–1950) was an Nagercoil native Indian mathematician specializing in number theory.
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Subbayya Sivasankaranarayana Pillai was born to parents Subbayya Pillai and Gomati Ammal who were natives of Nagercoil.
The film was launched on June 22, 2012, ten days after the shoot started in Nagercoil and Pollachii.
Walter Devaram is the former Director General of Police of Tamil Nadu and an native of Nagercoil, Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu.
Dharmakkan Jagatheesa Pandian is an Nagercoil born, senior IAS officer of 1981 batch currently serving as the Principal Secretary to Government of Gujarat in Energy & Petrochemicals Department.
It is located at Attoor near Thiruvattar in SH-90, 5 km North-east of Marthandam and 25 km North-west of Nagercoil, mid-way between Marthandam and Kulasekaram.
Fondly called Pon Rji by the BJP party cadres, Pon Radhakrishnan hails from a wealthy and eminent Nadar family from Alathankarai, Nagercoil.