M. M. Kalburgi, Indian scholar, author, and academic (born 1938)

Malleshappa Madivalappa Kalburgi was an Indian scholar of Vachana sahitya in the Kannada language and an academic who served as the vice-chancellor of Kannada University in Hampi. A noted epigraphist of Kannada, he was awarded the National Sahitya Akademi Award in 2006 for Marga 4, a collection of his research articles.