Schools and Colleges
There are a number of schools and colleges, including engineering colleges. Government Victoria College was founded in 1866 and has many eminent persons as its former students. They include E. M. S. Namboodiripad, (the late Communist Party leader), T. N. Seshan, former Chief Election Commissioner, E. Sreedharan, the architect of Konkan Railway and Delhi Metro, writers like O. V. Vijayan and M. T. Vasudevan Nair and cartoonist Ravi Shankar.
The NSS College of Engineering is an institution founded in 1960 by the Nair Service Society. The undergraduate admission into this engineering college is based on merit ranking in the Kerala engineering entrance exam. A sizeable number of seats are also reserved for students belonging to socially deprived castes and religious minorities, such as Muslims. The major engineering departments are Civil, Electrical and Electronics, Mechanical, Electronics & Communication, Instrumentation & Control and Computer science Engineering.
The Chembai Memorial Music College, Government College Chittur, and NSS Colleges at Ottapalam and Nemmara are some of the older colleges in Palakkad.
Royal dental college, chalissery
Famous people from Palakkad
- Kunjan Nambiar
- Punnasseri Nambi Neelakanta Sharma (Founder of Govt.sanskrit college)
- E. M. S. Namboodiripad
- T. N. Seshan
- E. Sreedharan
- Shiv Shankar Menon ( National Security Advisor (NSA) to the PM of India)
- O. V. Vijayan (Author)
- M. T. Vasudevan Nair (Author)
- K.P.Narayana Pisharody (Sanskrit Scholar)
- P.T.Bhaskara Panicker (Author)
- Dr. K.N. Ezhuthachan
- T N Lakshmi Narayanan
- M K Narayanan
- Shashi Tharoor
- MGR (M G Ramachandran)
- Prakash Karat
- Kalamandalm Ramankutty Nair (Kathakali Artist)
- Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavathar
- Akkitham
- C.Radhakrishnan
- Olapamanna
- Mundur KrishnanKutty(Writer&Ciniartist)
- Mundur Sedhumadhavan(writer)
- Mannur Rajakumaranunni(singer)
- O.P.Nair (Lyrics writer)
- Njaralathu Rama pothuval(sopana sangeetham)
- Njaralathu Harigovindan(sopana sangeetham)
Film Actors
- Kalamandalam Ramankutty Nair
- Oduvil Unnikrishnan
- Shaju
- Madhupal
- Sree Dhevika.
- Kulapully Leela
- Priyamani
- Revathy.
- Shankar.
- Lal Jose
- M.G.Ramachandran (M.G.R)
- Raghuvaran
- Vidya Balan
Film Directors
- M.G Sasi - Kathakali
- Lal Jose - Meesa Madhavan
- Madhupaal
- Lohithadas - Nivedyam
Music
- Shankar Mahadevan
- Kalamandalam Ramavaryer
- Kalamandalam Unnikrishnakkurup
- Kalamandalam Tirur Nambissan
- Kalamandalam Rajendran
- Kalamandalam Narayanan Nambuthiri
- Sadanam Jyothi
- Kalamandalam Ananthanarayanan
- Kalamandalam Sreekumar
- Athippata Ravi
- Nedumballi Rammohan
