Velupillai
Velupillai or Veluppillai is a Tamil male given name. Due to the Tamil tradition of using patronymic surnames it may also be a surname for males and females.
Notable people
Given name
- A. Veluppillai, Sri Lankan historian and academic
- Vela Velupillai, Sri Lankan economist
Surname
- C. Velupillai Kandaiah Sivagnanam, Sri Lankan civil servant and politician
- Kanthapillai Velupillai Nadarajah, Ceylonese lawyer and politician
- Samuel James Veluppillai Chelvanayakam, Ceylonese lawyer and politician
- Velupillai Ambalavanar Kandiah, Ceylonese lawyer and politician
- Velupillai Appapillai, Sri Lankan physicist and academic
- Velupillai Coomaraswamy, Ceylonese civil servant and diplomat
- Velupillai Kumaraswamy, Ceylonese lawyer and politician
- Velupillai Prabhakaran, Sri Lankan rebel
- Velupillai Suppiah Thurairajah, Sri Lankan architect