Tiruppur Kumaran (1904 - 1932) was an south Indian revolutionary who participated in the Indian independence movement. Kumaran was born in Chennimalai, a small town in the ErodeDistrict in Tamil Nadu region of south India. Kumaran died from injuries sustained from a Police assault during a protest march against the British colonial government. Kumaran died holding the flag of the Indian Nationalists, which had been banned by the British.Kumaran was Tirupur's contribution to the Congress movement. He gave his life defending the Congress flag. The government has erected his statue in a park by the railway station in Tirupur.Kumaran is revered as a martyr in Tamil Nadu and is known by the epithet Kodi Kaththa Kumaran meaning Kumaran who saved the Flag

Freedom fighter from Tirupur
His house is still in Odakkadu, Tirupur.