A. Ramana Rao:

Arikapudi Ramana Roaborn 1july 1945 is a former Indian Volleyball player. He was born in Chamallamudi Village, Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh He is a recipient of both the Arjuna Award for the yaer 1977-1978 and Dronacharya Award for the year 1990-1991. 

Ramana Rao stared playing Volleyball after joining college He graduated from Hindu College, Guntur in 1966 From the year 1966 to 1976 he participated in the National Volleyball Championships and Captained the Tamil Nadu state team consecutively for four years He playerd for the Tamil Nadu state team which won the National Volleyball championship title for the time at Tiruchirapalli in 1976.

He was the head coach for the Indian men's volleyball team at the Asian Volleyball Championship at Perth in 1991. He was also the first Indian Volleyball coach to qualify as FIVB Instrucot in the German Democratic Republic in 1986 and went on to conduct the international Coaches Courses in India and abroad He was nominated as a Member AVC Coaches Committee of the Asian Volleyball Confideration (AVC) from !993-1997. 

Ramana Rao is nominated as the Director of the Fivb Regional Development Centre, Chennai, India. Currently he is the President of Andhra Pradesh Volleyball   Association. He is the Chamirman, Coaching Committee, Volleyball Federation of India.