One of his forefathers was the deputy chief minister of Ramnad Samasthanam, and his grandfather was Mahawidwan R. Raghava Iyengar, a renowned Tamil and Sanskrit scholar of the 20th century.
Iyengar | Indiramma Iyengar | Vijaya Raghava Nayak | T. V. Sundaram Iyengar | Sharda Rajan Iyengar | R. Raghava Iyengar | Poochi Srinivasa Iyengar | P. K. Iyengar | H. R. Janardhana Iyengar | Geeta Iyengar | Bellary Raghava |