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Panicker (sometimes Panikkar) is an Indian title or last name.

The Dravidian Etymological Dictionary, entry number 3884, considers the word Panikkan as a word of Dravidian etymology, deriving from the Dravidian root word Pani, meaning service, work etc. Panikkan could mean a person who commands as well as one who serves. The DED traces cognates of the word Panikkan in twelve Dravidian languages, besides Malayalam.^{[citation needed]}

The Portuguese traveller Duarte Barbosa said that "They are the skillful men who teach this art Kalarippayattu, and they are called the Panickers: these are the captains in war. Commander of one hundred (100) captains. Each captain commands one hundred (100) soldiers."^[1]

Following the current conventions for romanising Malayalam without diacritic marks, the name would be "Panikkar". However, Panikker, Panicker, Panickar, Paniker, Panikar, Panniker, and Pannikavannar, and other variants are found.^{[citation needed]}

• Achyuta Panikkar, astronomer of Kerala
• Ms.Preethi Panikkar, film director
• Ms.Lalita Panicker , opinion section at Hindustan Times, specialized in gender issues, reproductive health,child rights, politics and social engineering.
• Ayyappa Panikkar, Malayalam poet, critic
• Kadammanitta Ramakrishnan, Indian writer
• Madhava Panikkar, one of the Niranam poets
• Sankara Panikkar, one of the Niranam poets
• Rama Panikkar, one of the Niranam poets
• Kavalam Madhava Panikkar, Indian diplomat and writer
• Kavalam Narayan Panikkar, dramatist and poet
• K. N. Panikkar, Indian historian
• Raimon Panikkar, a Catalan scholar
• Arattupuzha Velayudha Panicker, Ezhava social reformer of Travancore
• Tischi Balachandra Panicker, entrepreneur, investor, engineer, army officer
• N. Kesava Panikkar, zoologist
• Ayyappa Paniker, poet
• Putumanna Panikkar, warrior of Valluvanad
• Arattapuzha Velayudha Panicker, Ezhava warrior of the 19th century
• Cheerappanchira Panicker, Ezhava kalari martial arts family
• Kavalam Narayana Panicker, Indian dramatist, theater director, and poet
• K. M. Panikkar, diplomat
• Muloor S. Padmanabha Panicker, Ezhava poet
• P. K. Narayana Panicker, former General Secretary and President of the Nair Service Society
• P. N. Panicker, father of the Library Movement
• Geevarghese Panicker, priest and educationalist of Syro-Malankara Catholic Church, Kerala
• Rahul Alex Panicker, entrepreneur, president and co-founder of Embrace Innovations
• Arattupuzha Velayudha Panicker, Ezhava forerunner of Narayana Guru
• Akathayyadi Panicker, Ezhava chief commander of the ilayidath swaroopam (Kottarakkara kingdom)
• Ambanattu Panicker, Ezhava chief commander of the Chempakassery kingdom^[2]
• Lokanatha Panicker, Ezhava chief commander of the Kayamkulam kingdom
• Patheenatha Panicker, Ezhava son of Lokanatha Panicker, chief commander of the Kayamkulam kingdom who defeated Marathanda Varma of Travancore three times
• Renji Panicker, journalist, script writer, producer, actor, and director