A. Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar


A. Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar
Born14 October 1887
Died15 April 1974 (aged 86)
Madras, India
NationalityIndian
Alma materMadras Christian College
RelativesSir Arcot Ramasamy Mudaliar (brother)
AwardsPadma Bhushan, Padma Vibhushan
Statue of Lakshmanaswami in the Senate House, University of Madras

Sir Arcot Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar, FRCOG, FACS (14 October 1887 – 15 April 1974) was an Indian educationist and physician. He was the identical younger twin brother of Sir A. R. Mudaliar. His education began in Kurnool, and they moved to Chennai in 1903.

He pursued his education from the Madras Christian College. He later went on to become the longest serving Vice-Chancellor of Madras University (for 27 years) and principal of Madras Medical College. He was also the Deputy Leader of the Indian delegation to the First World Health Assembly in Geneva in 1948. He was elected as the chairman of the World Health Organization (WHO) Executive Board in 1949 and 1950, was Vice-President of the Eighth World Health Assembly in 1955 and President of the Fourteenth World Health Assembly in 1961.

Awards and honors

Textbooks

  • Clinical Obstetrics first edition 1938; later revised as Mudaliar and Menon, 10th edition, ISBN 81-250-2870-6



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