Arumuka Navalar (, 18 December 1822 – 5 December 1879) was one of the early revivalists of native Hindu Tamil traditions in
Sri Lanka and
India. He and others like him were responsible for reviving and reforming native traditions that had come under a long period of dormancy and decline during the previous 400 years of colonial rule by various European powers. A student of the Christian missionary school system who assisted in the translation of the
King James Bible into Tamil, he was influential in creating a period of intense religious transformation amongst Tamils in India and Sri Lanka, preventing large-scale conversions to
Protestantism.