List of University of Mumbai people
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This is a list of the notable alumni of the University of Mumbai.
Arts
| Name | Class
Year |
Degree | College | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aditi Govitrikar | Mrs. World beauty pageant winner, 2000 | ||||
| Aishwarya Rai | actress | ||||
| Emraan Hashmi | actor | ||||
| Genelia D'souza | actress | ||||
| John Abraham | actor | ||||
| Kareena Kapoor Khan | actress | ||||
| Lara Dutta | Miss Universe pageant winner, 2000 | ||||
| Priyanka Chopra | actress | ||||
| Sonam Kapoor | actress | ||||
| Zubin Mehta | conductor of Western classical music |
- Anil Kapoor – actor
- Anand Patwardhan – documentary film-maker
- Dadasaheb Phalke – Indian producer-director-screenwriter, known as "the father of Indian cinema"[1]
- Ebrahim Alkazi – theatre director, Padma Vibhushan awardee
- Gangadhar Gadgil – author (fiction, Marathi)
- Kader 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
- Javed Jaffery - Actor, Comedian & Voice over Artist
Business
| Name | Class
Year |
Degree | College | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adi Godrej | Chairman of Godrej Group | ||||
| Ajay Piramal | Chairman, Piramal Group | ||||
| Ajit Gulabchand | industrialist, chairman and managing director Hindustan Construction Company | ||||
| Anil Ambani | B.Sc. | Kishinchand Chellaram | Chairman of Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group | ||
| Anji Reddy | founder of Dr. Reddy's Laboratories | ||||
| Avtar Saini | former director for South Asia Region, Intel; one of the pioneers of the Pentium-series processors | ||||
| Azim Premji | Chairman of Wipro Limited | ||||
| Chanda Kochhar | CEO and MD of ICICI Bank | ||||
| Chinubhai Madhowlal Ranchhodlal, 2nd Baronet | businessman and philanthropist | ||||
| Dorabji Tata | former chairman of Tata group | ||||
| Jagdish Chandra Mahindra | industrialist, founder of Mahindra Group | ||||
| Jamsetji Tata | founder of Tata group | ||||
| Keki Hormusji Gharda | founder of Gharda Chemicals | ||||
| Mukesh Ambani | Chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries | ||||
| Tarang Jain | billionaire founder of Varroc[2] |
- Keki Mistry – Vice-chairman and CEO
- Leena Tewari - Chairperson of USV Private Limited
- Narotam Sekhsaria – co-founder and chairman of Ambuja Cements
- Nirmal Jain - founder and chairman of India Infoline (IIFL)[3]
- 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
- Swati Piramal - Scientist and industrialist
Humanities and Social Sciences
- 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
- Nissim Kanekar, astrophysicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate[4]
Journalism
- Sucheta Dalal – business journalist
- Samarth Singh – former Times of India writer, foreign affairs blogger, Spain India Council Foundation [5][6]
- Thrity Umrigar – journalist and author
- Homai Vyarawalla – first woman photojournalist of India, Padma Vibushan awardee
Law
Military
| Name | Class
Year |
Degree | College | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Satish Nambiar | St. Xavier's | Force Commander and Head of Mission of the United Nations Protection Force; Lieutenant General of the Indian Army |
Politics
Heads of State and Government
| Name | Class
Year |
Degree | College | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iskander Mirza | did not graduate | Elphinstone | 1st President of Pakistan | ||
| John Samuel Malecela | 1959 | B.Com. | 6th Prime Minister of Tanzania | ||
| Morarji Desai | Wilson | 4th Prime Minister of India | |||
| Muhammad Ali Jinnah | 1st Governor-General of Pakistan | ||||
| Pratibha Patil | Government Law College | 12th President of India |
Others
| Name | Class
Year |
Degree | College | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B. R. Ambedkar | Founding Father of India | ||||
| Godfrey Serunkuma Lule | 1961 | LL B | Idi Amin's Minister of Justice |
- Bhulabhai Desai – Indian independence activist and acclaimed lawyer
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- Ashley J. Tellis – Tata Chair of Strategic Affairs at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Shanti Gandhi – US politician and physician
- Jai Pratap Singh - Cabinet Minister In UP Government
- Kshama Sawant – member of the Seattle City Council (2014–present)
- I. G. Patel – 14th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India
Religion
| Name | Class
Year |
Degree | College | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Virchand Gandhi | Jain scholar and lawyer known for representing Jainism at the first World Parliament of Religions, Chicago 1893 | ||||
| Zakir Naik | Kishinchand Chellaram | Islamic scholar |
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
| Name | Class
Year |
Degree | College | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acacio Gabriel Viegas | medical practitioner credited with the discovery of the outbreak of bubonic plague in Mumbai, India in 1896 | ||||
| Amol Dighe | professor of physics in Tata Institute of Fundamental Research | ||||
| Edward Hamilton Aitken | entomologist and zoologist | ||||
| Homi Jahangir Bhabha | nuclear physicist who played a major role in the development of India's atomic energy programme | ||||
| Jayant B. Udgaonkar | molecular biologist and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [7] | |||
| John Barnabas | evolutionary biologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (1974) | [8] | |||
| M. Visvesvaraya | College of Engineering, Pune[note 1] | Engineer responsible for the construction of the Krishna Raja Sagara dam and the flood protection system of Hyderabad. | |||
| Madhav Gadgil | ecologist and professor at Indian Institute of Science | ||||
| Mohammad Ali Reza Khan | 1977 | PhD | ornithologist | [9] | |
| Muffazal Lakdawala | obesity surgeon; laparoscopic expert; founder of the Centre for Obesity and Digestive Surgery | ||||
| Mustansir Barma | Director of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research | ||||
| Nuggehalli Raghuveer Moudgal | endocrinologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [10] | |||
| Salim Ali | Ornithologist and naturalist | ||||
| Sekhar Basu | 1974 | VJTI | Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India | ||
| Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar | Mathematician known for his contributions to algebraic geometry, and former Marshall Professor and chair of mathematics at Purdue University | ||||
| Ravi Gomatam | quantum physicist, director of Bhaktivedanta Institute | ||||
| Renee M. Borges | ecologist | ||||
| Vijay Gupchup | 1958 | BE | VJTI | expert in the field of civil engineering and structural engineering. |
- Jyeshtharaj Joshi – Indian chemical engineer and nuclear scientist, emeritus professor at Department of Atomic Energy
- Anil Kakodkar – former director of BARC, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary to the Government of India Department of Atomic Energy
- Vijay Kumar Kapahi – astrophysicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate[11]
- Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan – space scientist and former head of the Indian Space Research Organisation
- Chandrashekhar Khare – professor of mathematics at the University of California Los Angeles
- Chunni Lal Khetrapal – chemical physicist and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate[12]
- Gopal Krishna - radio astronomer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate[13]
- Sethunathasarma Krishnaswami – geochemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate[14]
- Ashish Kishore Lele – chemical engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate[15]
- G.S. Maddala – American economist and mathematician
- Raghunath Mashelkar – F.R.S. – former Director General of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
- Ramakrishnan Nagaraj – biochemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate[16]
- Mudumbai Seshachalu Narasimhan – F.R.S., mathematician and recipient of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (1975)
- Raghavan Narasimhan – mathematician and professor at University of Chicago
- Virendra Nath Pandey – molecular virologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate[17]
- Beena Pillai, microbiologist, N-Bios laureate[18]
- D. Raghavarao – statistician and Laura H. Carnell Professor and chair of statistics at Temple University
- Raja Ramanna – Indian nuclear scientist
- Doraiswami Ramkrishna – Harry Creighton Peffer Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University
- Vivek Ranade – chemical engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate[19]
- E. V. Sampathkumaran - condensed matter physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate[20]
- N. S. Satya Murthy – physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate[21]
- Conjeevaram Srirangachari Seshadri, F.R.S. – mathematician and recipient of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize
- H.N. Sethna – former Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission
- Man Mohan Sharma – F.R.S., former director of UDCT, Padma Vibhushan and Padma Bhushan awardee
- Manil Suri – Indian mathematician and writer
- Bal Dattatreya Tilak – former director of National Chemical Laboratory and recipient of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, Padma Bhushan
- Ashok Krishnan – former associate of Tata Consultancy Services and Program Lead for The Gender Lab Boys Program at The Blue Ribbon Movement
Sports
| Name | Class
Year |
Degree | College | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ajit Agarkar | cricketer | ||||
| Anjali Bhagwat | Kirti M. Doongursee | shooter | |||
| Dattu Phadkar | Elphinstone | cricketer | |||
| Farokh Engineer | cricketer | ||||
| Harish Kapadia | mountaineer | ||||
| Kamlesh Mehta | Podar College | table tennis player | |||
| Ravi Shastri | cricketer and head coach of the Indian national cricket team | ||||
| Rohan Gavaskar | Podar College | cricketer | |||
| Sachin Tendulkar | Kirti M. Doongursee | cricketer | |||
| Sanjay Manjrekar | Podar College | cricketer | |||
| Saurabh Netravalkar | SPIT | cricketer | |||
| Shreyas Iyer | Podar College | cricketer | |||
| Sunil Gavaskar | St. Xavier's | cricketer and captain of the Indian national cricket team | |||
| Vijay Merchant | Elphinstone | cricketer |
Miscellaneous
- Dwarkanath Kotnis – doctor practising in China who helped the Chinese communist army during World War II
- Anant Pai – publisher of Indian books for children, especially the series Amar Chitra Katha
• L.K Advani - senior politician and lawyer, former Deputy Prime Minister of India
Notable Faculty
References
Notes
- ^ The College of Engineering, Pune was affiliated to the University of Mumbai between 1858 and 1948.
Citations
- ^ Dadasaheb Phalke, the father of Indian cinema – Bāpū Vāṭave, National Book Trust – Google Books. Books.google.co.in. Retrieved 17 November 2012
- ^ "Forbes profile: Tarang Jain". Forbes. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
- ^ "Nirmal Jain, IIFL Holdings Ltd: Profile & Biography". Bloomberg. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
- ^ "Biographical Information-Kanekar" (PDF). National Centre for Radio Astrophysics. 2017-10-31. Retrieved 2017-10-31.
- ^ "1st Edition of the Indian Future Leaders Program - Council Foundation Spain India". spain-india.org. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
- ^ "Interview with Capt. Samarth Singh, Founder of Hybrid Content - BlogProcess". blogprocess.com. 29 August 2016. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
- ^ "Profile on NCBS" (PDF). National Centre for Biological Sciences. 2016. Retrieved October 15, 2016.
- ^ Prabhakar Ranjekar, Shama Barnabas (10 February 1995). "John Barnabas (1929–1994) - Obituary" (PDF). Current Science. 68 (3): 346–7.
- ^ "Dr. mohammad ali Reza Khan". The Daily Star. Dhaka. 5 February 2016. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
- ^ Rao, AJ; Rao, Appaji (2012). "NR Moudgal – A pioneer in the development of immunocontraceptive approaches". Journal of Biosciences. 37 (2): 207–10. doi:10.1007/s12038-012-9207-5. PMID 22581325.
- ^ "Deceased fellow". Indian National Science Academy. 2017. Retrieved 2017-10-22.
- ^ "Director profile" (PDF). Centre of Biomedical Magnetic Resonance. 2016. Retrieved 2017-10-22.
- ^ "INSA :: Indian Fellow Detail - Professor Gopal Krishna". insaindia.res.in. Retrieved 2017-10-22.
- ^ "Deceased fellow". Indian National Science Academy. 2016. Retrieved 2017-10-22.
- ^ "Faculty profile". National Chemical Laboratory. 2017. Retrieved 2017-10-22.
- ^ "Indian fellow - Nagaraj". Indian National Science Academy. 2016. Retrieved 2017-10-22.
- ^ "Pandey.cvm Pandey. Virendra Nath on New Jersey Medical School" (PDF). New Jersey Medical School. 2016. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
- ^ "Beena Pillai CV Jun 2015_Medium.pdf". Google Docs. 2019-01-14. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
- ^ "Profile on Washington University in St. Louis" (PDF). Washington University in St. Louis. 2017.
- ^ "INSA :: Indian Fellow Detail - Professor EV Sampathkumaran". insaindia.res.in. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
- ^ "Deceased fellow". Indian National Science Academy. 2017. Archived from the original on 25 April 2017. Retrieved 2017-10-22.
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