Kumar Bangarappa was born on 28 September 1963 to S. Bangarappa, former Chief Minister of Karnataka and Shakuntala. He married Vidyullatha and has a son Arjun Bangarappa and a daughter Lavanya. Arjun has completed his Civil Engineering and has been getting many offers for acting since a very young age and will be debuting in 2025. Lavanya has completed her Biomedical Engineering and married to a Hyderabad family.