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Re: Mumbai University Alumni
The University of Mumbai is one of the first state universities of India and the oldest in Maharashtra. The University is one of the largest universities in the world. Notable Alumni= Politics and public life Muhammad Ali Jinnah – Founder and Father of the Nation of Pakistan B. R. Ambedkar – Author of the Constitution of India, social reformist and thinker Bhulabhai Desai – Indian independence activist and acclaimed lawyer Chaggan Bhujbal – Minister of Public Works Department and former Deputy Chief Minister, Government of Maharashtra Dadabhai Naoroji – Intellectual, educator, cotton trader, and an early Indian political leader; the first Asian to sit in the British House of Commons Gopal Krishna Gokhale, CIE – Social and political leader during the Indian Independence Movement Jayant Patil – Minister of Rural Development, Government of Maharashtra John Samuel Malecela – 6th Prime Minister of Tanzania, 1990–1994 Kona Prabhakara Rao – State Governor of Maharashtra, Pondicherry and Sikkim; Finance Minister of Andhra Pradesh; former speaker of Andhra Pradesh State Assembly Lal Krishna Advani – Former Deputy Prime Minister of India Lokmanya Tilak – Nationalist leader, savant, philosopher, mathematician, and an advocate of Swaraj (self-rule) Mahadev Govind Ranade – Distinguished scholar, social reformer and author Mancherjee Bhownagree – British politician of Indian Parsi heritage. Manohar Joshi – Former Chief Minister of Maharashtra Sir Manubhai Mehta – Dewan of Baroda state; Prime Minister of Bikaner state Morarji Desai – 5th Prime Minister of India Nilesh Rane – MP from Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg Sir Pherozeshah Mehta, KCIE – Indian political leader, activist, and an erstwhile leading lawyer in Mumbai Praful Patel – MP from Bhandara-Gondiya Pratibha Patil – 12th President of India Rafiq Zakaria – Politician and Islamic scholar Raj Thackeray – Founder, leader and chairperson of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena Sanjay Dina Patil – MP from Mumbai North East Sanjeev Naik – MP from Thane. Shivraj Patil – Governor of Punjab and former Home Minister of India Sushilkumar Shinde – Former Home Minister of India Swati Dandekar – Member of the Iowa House of Representatives Vasundhara Raje – Chief Minister of Rajasthan, India Yashwantrao Chavan – 1st Chief Minister of Maharashtra; 5th Deputy Prime Minister of India Chintaman Dwarakanath Deshmukh, CIE, ICS – 3rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India Shanti Gandhi – US politician and physician Science Abhas Mitra – Head of theoretical astrophysics at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre Acacio Gabriel Viegas – Medical practitioner credited with the discovery of the outbreak of bubonic plague in Mumbai, India in 1896 Chandrashekhar Khare – Professor of mathematics at the University of California Los Angeles Conjeevaram Srirangachari Seshadri, F.R.S – Mathematician and recipient of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize D. Raghavarao – Statistician and Laura H. Carnell Professor and chair of statistics at Temple University Doraiswami Ramkrishna – Harry Creighton Peffer Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University Edward Hamilton Aitken – humorist, naturalist Homi Jahangir Bhabha, F.R.S – A nuclear physicist who played a major role in the development of India's atomic energy programme Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan – Space scientist and former head of the Indian Space Research Organisation Madabusi Santanam Raghunathan – F.R.S, mathematician and recipient of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan Madhav Gadgil – Ecologist and professor at Indian Institute of Science Mambillikalathil Govind Kumar Menon – F.R.S, physicist and former director of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Man Mohan Sharma – F.R.S, former director of UDCT, Padma Vibhushan and Padma Bhushan awardee Manil Suri – Indian mathematician and writer. Mudumbai Seshachalu Narasimhan – F.R.S, mathematician and recipient of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, (1975) Mohammad Ali Reza Khan, wildlife conservationist Mustansir Barma – Director of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Raghavan Narasimhan – Mathematician and professor at University of Chicago Raghunath Mashelkar, F.R.S – Former Director General of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Raja Ramanna – Indian nuclear scientist Ravi Gomatam – Quantum physicist, director of Bhaktivedanta Institute Renee M. Borges – Ecologist Salim Ali – Indian ornithologist and naturalist Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar – Indian American mathematician known for his contributions to algebraic geometry, and former Marshall Professor and chair of mathematics at Purdue University Amol Dighe – Professor of physics in Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Anil Kakodkar – Former director of BARC, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary to the Government of India Department of Atomic Energy Sekhar Basu – Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India Bal Dattatreya Tilak – Former director of National Chemical Laboratory and recipient of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, Padma Bhushan H.N. Sethna – Former Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission G.S. Maddala – American economist and mathematician Vijay Gupchup – Former Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Mumbai, ex-chairman of the Research Council of Structural Engineering Research Centre in Chennai and ex-chairman of the National Board of Accreditation of AICTE Jyeshtharaj Joshi – Indian chemical engineer and nuclear scientist, emeritus professor at Department of Atomic Energy. John Barnabas, Evolutionary biologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (1974) Virendra Nath Pandey, Molecular virologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate Ramakrishnan Nagaraj, Biochemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate Jayant B. Udgaonkar Molecular biologist and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate Academia Georg Bühler – Scholar of ancient Indian languages and law, fellow of University of Mumbai Indira Viswanathan Peterson – Professor of Asian Studies and editor of the Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces. Jagdish Bhagwati – University Professor of Economics at Columbia University Avinash Dixit – John J. F. Sherrerd '52 University Professor of Economics Emeritus at Princeton University Pandurang Vaman Kane – Indologist and Sanskrit scholar and former Vice-Chancellor of University of Mumbai Ramakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar – Oriental scholar and social reformer, first batch graduate, later vice-chancellor Homi K. Bhabha – Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature and Language, and director of the Humanities Center, Harvard University Klaus Klostermaier, F.R.S.C. – Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba, scholar of Indian Studies Madhav Das Nalapat – Academic, columnist, and UNESCO Peace Chair Madhav Sadashiv Gore - Vice-Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University and Padma Bhushan awardee Arts Anand Patwardhan – Documentary film-maker Dadasaheb Phalke – Indian producer-director-screenwriter, known as "the father of Indian cinema" Emraan Hashmi – Actor Ebrahim Alkazi – Theatre director, Padma Vibhushan awardee Gangadhar Gadgil – Author (fiction, Marathi) Genelia D'souza – Actor John Abraham – Actor Kader Khan – Actor Kareena Kapoor Khan – Actor Madhuri Dixit – Actor Mehli Mehta – Conductor of European classical music Nissim Ezekiel – Poet P. L. Deshpande – Writer, actor, composer, film and television producer and director Ranjan Ghosh – Filmmaker and director Aparna Sen's first co-author Rohinton Mistry – Author Shabana Azmi – Actor Smita Patil – Actor Sonakshi Sinha – Actor Srinivas – Playback singer Urmila Matondkar – Actor Vidya Balan – Actor Zubin Mehta – Conductor of Western classical music Beauty Pageant Winners Aditi Govitrikar – Mrs. World beauty pageant winner, 2000 Aishwarya Rai – Miss World 1993 pageant winner, actor Lara Dutta – Miss Universe pageant winner, 2000 Priyanka Chopra – Miss World 2000 pageant winner, actor Business Adi Godrej – Chairman of Godrej Group Ajit Gulabchand – Industrialist, chairman and managing director Hindustan Construction Company Anil Ambani – Chairman of Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group Anji Reddy – Founder of Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, Padma Shri awardee Azim Premji – Chairman of Wipro Limited Chanda Kochhar – CEO and MD of ICICI Bank Dorabji Tata – Former chairman of Tata group Jagdish Chandra Mahindra – Industrialist, founder of Mahindra Group Jamsetji Tata – Founder of Tata group and the Indian Institute of Science Keki Hormusji Gharda – Founder of Gharda Chemicals Keki Mistry – Vice-chairman and CEO Mukesh Ambani – Chairman and managing director, Reliance Industries Narotam Sekhsaria – Co-founder and chairman, Ambuja Cements Nita Ambani – Founder and chairperson of the Dhirubhai Ambani International School Pankaj Patel – Chairman and managing director of Cadila Healthcare Renuka Ramnath – Founder and CEO of Multiples Private Equity, Ex-CEO of ICICI Ventures Avtar Saini – Former director for South Asia Region, Intel and one of the pioneers of the Pentium-series processors Journalism Homai Vyarawalla – First woman photojounalist of India, Padma Vibushan awardee Samarth singh - Former Times of India Writer, Foreign Affairs Blogger, Spain India Council Foundation Sucheta Dalal – Business journalist Thrity Umrigar – Journalist and author Law B.N. Srikrishna – Indian jurist and a judge of the Supreme Court of India. H. J. Kania – First Chief Justice of India Kashinath Trimbak Telang – Indian judge and oriental scholar. M. C. Chagla – Indian jurist, diplomat, former cabinet minister, former Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court Mushtak Ali Kazi – Judge of the High Court of Sindh and Balochistan, Pakistan Nanabhoy Palkhivala – Indian jurist and economist P. N. Bhagwati – Chief Justice of India (1985–1986) S. K. Venkataranga – lawyer and an associate of Mahatma Gandhi Religion Virchand Gandhi – Jain scholar and lawyer known for representing Jainism at the first World Parliament of Religions, Chicago 1893 Zakir Naik – Muslim preacher on comparative religion Sport Farokh Engineer– Former cricket player Harish Kapadia – Himalayan mountaineer and recipient of Patron's Medal of the Royal Geographic Society Sunil Gavaskar – Former cricket player Sachin Tendulkar – Former cricket player Ajit Agarkar – Former cricket player Ravi Shastri – Former cricket player Miscellaneous Anant Pai – Publisher of Indian books for children, especially the series Amar Chitra Katha Sir Chinubhai Madhowlal Ranchhodlal, 2nd Baronet Dwarkanath Kotnis – Doctor practising in China who helped Chinese communists army during World War II Contact- University of Mumbai Kalina, Santacruz East, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400098 |
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