V. Nagayya also known as Chittoor Nagayya was brought up in Kuppam. He was a pioneering an Indian actor, singer, music composer, and director of Telugu and Tamil film industry. Cattamanchi Ramalinga Reddy was born in Kattamanchi, a suburb of Chittoor. He was an educationist, an economist, poet and literary critic. Prathap Chandra Reddy born in Aragonda is a cardiologist who founded the first corporate chain of hospitals in India, the Apollo Hospitals.
