Omana Kunjamma was India's first woman Magistrate. Kunjamma was born in the village of Thikkurissy, Nagercoil (then a part of Travancore, now in Nanchilnadu, Nagercoil, Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu), in an aristocratic family, to Mangat C. Govinda Pillai and N. Lekshmi Amma. She is the elder sister of Malayalam actor Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair.