List of Savitribai Phule Pune University people

This is a list of notable people related to Savitribai Phule Pune University. Excluded from this list are those people whose only connection with Savitribai Phule Pune University is that they were awarded an honorary degree.

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Heads of state and government

• Khaled Bahah, 2nd Vice President of Yemen and Prime Minister of Yemen (BCom and MCom)^[1][2]
• Pratibha Patil, 12th President of India
• Vishwanath Pratap Singh, 7th Prime Minister of India

Note that P.V. Narasimha Rao, 9th Prime Minister of India, graduated from Fergusson College, when the college was under the University of Mumbai.

Politics and government

• Vilasrao Deshmukh, 17th and 19th Chief Minister of Maharashtra
• Ranjan Mathai, ex-foreign secretary of India
• Sharad Pawar, the president of the Nationalist Congress Party, former Chief Minister of Maharashtra
• Agatha Sangma, former Member of Parliament of India
• Anil Shirole, Member of Parliament of India
• Bhawani Singh of Pokhran, member of the 1st Lok Sabha, studied at Deccan College^[3]

Science and engineering

• Padmanabhan Balaram, chemist and director of the Indian Institute of Science; recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Chemical Science (1986) (BSc in Chemistry in 1967)^[4]
• Shridhar Ramachandra Gadre, chemist and professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur; recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Chemical Science (1993)
• Faisal Hawar, engineer and entrepreneur, CEO/President and co-founder of the International Somalia Development Foundation as well as the Maakhir Resource Company
• V. S. Huzurbazar, statistician, first head of the statistics department of Pune University
• Thomas Kailath, electrical engineer, information theorist; recipient of the 2007 IEEE Medal of Honor; recipient of the 2014 National Medal of Science; Hitachi America Professor of Engineering at Stanford University
• Vistasp Karbhari, civil engineer, President of the University of Texas at Arlington^[5]
• Medha Khole, meteorologist, deputy director at the Indian Meteorological Department
• Sulabha K Kulkarni, physicist, Visiting Faculty, IISER Pune
• Kantilal Mardia, statistician and Guy Medallist, Senior Research Professor at the University of Leeds
• Goverdhan Mehta, chemist, recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Chemical Science (1978)^[6]
• Kullal Chickappu Naik, agricultural scientist
• Suhas Patankar, mechanical engineer and professor at the University of Minnesota; pioneer in the field of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and finite volume method
• C. Kumar N. Patel, electrical engineer, inventor of the carbon dioxide laser; recipient of the 1996 National Medal of Science; vice Chancellor for Research at the University of California, Los Angeles^[7]
• Vinod Scaria, bioinformatician, sequenced the first Indian genome

Humanities and social sciences

• Satish Alekar, playwright
• Purushottam Laxman Deshpande, Marathi writer
• Vijay Kelkar, economist, academic and Chairman of the 13th Finance Commission of India
• Nagnath Lalujirao Kottapalle, educationist and Marathi writer; taught at the Marathi department
• Kiran Nagarkar, novelist, recipient of the 2001 Sahitya Akademi Award
• Sharmila Rege, Indian sociologist and formerly Director of the Women's Studies Centre at the University of Pune
• Ram Shankar Tripathi, Indian Sanskrit scholar and Padma Shri awardee

Media and entertainment

• Radhika Apte, model and actress
• Mukta Barve, Marathi actress who starred in National Award-winning movie Jogwa
• Pooja Batra, model and actress
• Shereen Bhan, journalist
• Radhika Chaudhari, actress
• Tanushree Dutta, model and actress
• Mugdha Godse, model and actress
• Prahlad Kakkar, ad film director
• Sonali Kulkarni, actress
• Shaiju Mathew, author and filmmaker
• Shankar Sarda, journalist
• Anjali Menon, Malayalam film director

Others

• Cyrus S. Poonawalla, Indian billionaire, recipient of the Padma Shri
• Nabeel Rajab, Bahraini human rights activist
• Shivani Verma (BK Shivani), spiritual speaker ^[8]

References

1. "New Permanent Representative of Yemen Presents Credentials". United Nations. 13 August 2014. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
2. Al-Moshki, Ali Ibrahim (14 October 2014). "New Prime Minister Appointed". The Yemen Times. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
3. "Members Bioprofile: First Lok Sabha". Lok Sabha website. Retrieved 2014-06-24.
4. "Prof. P. Balaram lab Webpage at IISc". Pune University. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
5. "Vistasp Karbhari takes helm as eighth president of The University of Texas at Arlington". PR Newswire. 1 June 2013. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
6. "Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize: an inspiration for international recognitions" (PDF). Current Science 107 (2): 164. 25 July 2014. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
7. "C. Kumar N. Patel". The American Institute of Physics. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
8. "Studying engineering helped me think logically: Brahmakumari Shivani". Indian Express. June 7, 2010. Retrieved 2014-03-27.