Jayadheer Tirumala Rao (born 20 June 1950) is a professor, poet, and historian from Telangana, India. He has been researching about tribal people and their culture for more than 35 years.^[2]

Jayadheer Tirumala Rao graduated from Telugu university in 1974. He became interested in studying the Gonds and Chenchu tribes spread in southern Indian forests.^[3] He gathered the oral histories of several tribes like Koyas as part of his research.^[4]

He was elected as the president of Telangana writers forum in 2014.^[5][6]

In 2017, he conducted an exhibition in Ravindra Bharathi, Hyderabad with the items he had collected from various places in the Deccan Plateau.^[7] In 2019, an open music exhibition was conducted showcasing more than 100 varieties of musical instruments collected by him.^[8][9] In 2021, he organized another exhibition which showcased rare manuscripts at State Art Gallery, Madhapur.^[10]

He documented the oral history of Sammakka Saralamma popular deities among the tribal people.^[11]

He promotes state policy changes to continue the tribal arts and culture for future generations.^[12]

He wrote a series of essays with the title Tovva Muchatlu in Andhra Bhoomi from 2011 to 2018. In these articles he depicted cultural, economic, and socio-political issues.^[13]

He wrote three poetry books: Aranya Nethram, Prathi Dhvanulu, Aagraha Geethalu.^[14]