Moturi Satyanarayana was a freedom fighter, educationalist, parliamentarian, and pioneer of the consumer cooperative movement and linguistic self-help publishing trusts across South and Central India.
- February 2, 1902 – March 6, 1995
- Educated in Andhra Pradesh; trained in Gandhian basic education, journalism, and public administration.
- Place of Origin: Born in Dindukurru village, Krishna district, Andhra Pradesh.
- Founder and General Secretary of the Dakshina Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha (managed on a cooperative self-reliance framework)
- Co-founder of regional consumer cooperative stores and printing press cooperatives in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu
- Member of the Constituent Assembly of India; Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha for two terms)
- Cooperative Educational Publishing: Applied cooperative principles to the publication and distribution of affordable literature and educational materials, setting up worker-and-reader-owned printing co-ops across Southern India.
- Consumer Cooperative Networks: Built networks of urban and semi-urban consumer supply cooperatives during post-war shortages to ensure the transparent distribution of essential goods and food grains to smallholders and workers.
- Author and editor of over a dozen books, dictionaries, and monographs on adult literacy, cooperative self-reliance, and educational decentralization.
- Padma Bhushan (1962)
- Padma Shri (1954)
- Commemorated across South India as an educational and cooperative pioneer.