T. C. Narendran

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Thekke Curuppath Narendran (24 February 1944 – 31 December 2013; middle name sometimes written Kuruppath) was an Indian entomologist specializing in the systematics of parasitic wasps in the superfamily Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera).

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Narendran received a Janakiammal National Award for Taxonomy (2004){{usurped|[https://web.archive.org/web/20071130012452/http://www.hinduonnet.com/2005/09/16/stories/2005091604721600.htm National Award for Best Taxonomist retrieved 12 April 2010]}} and was a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore (IASc) and the Indian Entomology Academy, Chennai.

His major publications include monographs on the Oriental Chalcididae (1989), Torymidae & Eurytomidae of Indian Subcontinent (1994) and Indo-Australian Ormyridae (1999) - and some 300 research papers in various scientific journals describing 700 new species and over 50 new genera. Narendran mentored a number of taxonomists at the Calicut University where he worked.

He died of a heart attack on 31 December 2013, aged 69.{{cite news | url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/taxonomist-narendran-passes-away/article5523036.ece | title=Taxonomist Narendran passes away | date=31 December 2013 | newspaper=The Hindu | accessdate=10 February 2019 }}