Manivannan Gowindasamy

Manivannan s/o Gowindasamy (; born 1976) is a Malaysian politician who has served as Deputy Chairman of the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) since February 2024 and Political Secretary of the Office of the President of the People's Justice Party (PKR) since April 2024. He served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kapar from May 2013 to May 2018. He is a member of PKR, a component party in the Pakatan Harapan (PH) and formerly Pakatan Rakyat (PR) coalitions.

On 28 Nov 2017 Manivannan resigned as PKR's secretary whip after his error on the omission of an opposition vote during a tabulation of bloc vote on Budget 2018 he called in the parliament earlier.

In the 2018 election, Manivannan contested as PKR candidate in the Perak State Legislative Assembly constituency of Hutan Melintang instead but lost to the Barisan Nasional (BN) candidate in a three corner fight with Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) candidate.

Election results