T. T. Krishnamachari

Thiruvellore Thattai Krishnamachari
Krishnamachari in 2002 stamp of India
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha for Madras South
In office 1957–1962
Prime Minister	Pandit Nehru
Preceded by	None
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha for Madras
In office 1951–1957
Prime Minister	Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
Preceded by	None
Succeeded by	Bifurcated into Madras North and Madras South constituencies
Personal details
Born	1899 Madras, British India
Died	1974 (age 74-75)
Political party	Indian National Congress
Children	TT Rangasamy TT Narasimman TT Raghavan TT Vasu
Profession	Politician, Entrepreneur TTK group

Tiruvellore Thattai Krishnamachari (1899 – 1974) was an Indian politician who served as Finance Minister from 1956 to 1958 and from 1964 to 1966. He was also a founding member of the first governing body of the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) in New Delhi, India's first independent economic policy institute established in 1956.

Krishnamachari graduated from Madras Christian College (MCC) and was a visiting professor to the department of economics at MCC. He was popularly known as TTK.

He has the ignominy of being the first minister in free India to have resigned due to his involvement in a scam.^[1] He was also a member of drafting committee, an entrepreneur and prominent leader within the Indian National Congress. He was also deputy viceroy from 1947-1950.