South Indian cinema, is the segment of Indian cinema. It refers to the cinema of the four major film industries in South India; primarily engaged in making feature films in the four major languages of the region, namely — Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam. They are often colloquially referred to as Tollywood, Kollywood, Sandalwood and Mollywood, respectively. This article lists notable families in the South Indian cinema, who have been involved in a variety of professions related to the film industry. For actors who featured in predominantly Hindi films rather than South Indian films, see List of Hindi film families. For Indian music families, see List of Indian music families.

A

Adivi family

Agathian family

Ajith Kumar family

Akkineni and Daggubati family

The Akkineni–Daggubati family is a prominent film family with a long history in Telugu cinema. Akkineni Nageswara Rao and influential movie Mogul Daggubati Ramanaidu are the prominent heads of both families.

Akkineni Prasad (L. V. Prasad) family

Allu and Konidela family

Allu–Konidela family is a prominent Indian film family known for their work in Telugu cinema. At least 3 generations of the family are involved in films, business ventures, and politics. Prominent heads of the family are comic actor Allu Ramalingaiah and his son-in-law, actor-politician Chiranjeevi.

Ambareesh family

Anant Nag family

Anandan family

Asif Ali family

Azhagappan family

B

Balasubrahmanyam family

Bhagyaraj family

Bhanupriya family

Bharathiraja family

C

Chandrasekhar family

Cho Ramaswamy family

Choudary family

Chittajallu family

D

Deva family

Deve Gowda family

Dileep Family

F

Fazil family

G

Ghattamaneni family

Ghantasala Family

Gemini Ganesan family

Gowda family

H

Haasan family

Hema Chaudhary Family

Hunsur family

I

Ilaiyaraaja family

Iyer family

J

Jaggesh family

Jayan family

Jayachitra family

Jayadev family

Jayaram family

Jeeva family

K

Kalabhavan Abi family

Kallara Sarasamma family

Kamesh family

Kannadasan family

Karunanidhi family

Karunas family

Kasthuri Raja family

Kunchacko family

Kiriyath family

Koduri family

Komal Swaminathan family

Krish family

Kottarakkara family

L

Lakshminarayana family

Lokesh family

Lokesh (Mysore Lokesh) family

M

M. G. Ramachandran (M.G.R.) Family

Madhavan family

Mammootty family

Manchu family

Mohan family

Mohanlal-Balaji family

Murali family

Muthuraman family

N

N. N. Pillai family

Nagendra Rao family

Nagesh family

Nandamuri family

Narayan family

Nassar family

Naval family

Nidudavolu family

O

Om Prakash Rao family

P

Pandian family

Panthulu family

Parthiban family

Peethambaram family

Pinnisetty family

Pothineni family

Pudipeddi family

Priyadarshan Family

R

Radha family

Rahman family

Rajasekhar family

Rajendar family

Rajendra Babu family

Rajesh family

Rajinikanth family

Rajkumar family

Rao family

Rathnam family

Ravichandran family

Reddy, G. K. family

Reddy, Sameera family

S

Sait Family

Saluri family

Sarja family

Sarovar Sanjeev family

Sasi family

Sathyaraj family

Satyanarayana family

Sekhar family

Siddique family

Sivaji Ganesan family

Sivakumar family

Singh Babu family

Sreenivasan family

Sridevi family

As the family of Sridevi have primarily appeared in Hindi films, only those who have appeared in South Indian films are listed below:

SS Rajendran family

Subramanyam family

Sukumaran family

Sundar family

Sundaram family

Suresh family

Suresh Gopi family

Susarla family

T

Thiagarajan family

Thoogudeepa family

Travancore Sisters family

Thotakura family

U

Uppalapati family

V

Vairamuthu family

Vasudevan family

Vedantham family

Veeraswamy family

Vijayakanth family

Vijayakumar family

Vishnuvardhan family

Vyjayanthimala family