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.

Politics and government[]

Heads of state and government[]


Name	Degree	College	Notability	References
Khaled Bahah	B.Com.; M.Com.		2nd Vice President of Yemen and Prime Minister of Yemen	^[1]^[2]
Pratibha Patil		Mooljee Jetha	12th President of India
Vishwanath Pratap Singh			7th Prime Minister of India	^[3]

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

Others[]

Name	College	Notability
Agatha Sangma		former Member of Parliament of India
Anil Shirole		Member of Parliament of India
Bhawani Singh	Deccan College	member of the 1st Lok Sabha, studied at Deccan College^[4]
Gautam Bambawale	Fergusson^{[note 1]}	High Commissioner of India to Pakistan
Ranjan Mathai		ex-foreign secretary of India
Sharad Pawar	BMCC	former Chief Minister of Maharashtra
Kenneth Chawngliana		4th Speaker of Mizoram Legislative Assembly
Vilasrao Deshmukh		14th Chief Minister of Maharashtra

Business[]

Name	Class Year	Degree	College	Notability	References
Cyrus S. Poonawalla	1966		BMCC	Indian billionaire, recipient of the Padma Shri

Military[]

Name	Class Year	Degree	College	Notability	References
Sunil Kumar Choudhary				officer in the Gorkha regiment of the Indian Army; Recipient of Kirti Chakra

Science and engineering[]

Name	Class Year	Degree	College	Notability	References
Padmanabhan Balaram	1967	BSc in Chemistry		chemist and director of the Indian Institute of Science; recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize	^[5]^[6]
V. S. Huzurbazar				statistician, first head of the statistics department of Pune University

Akhil Chandra Banerjea, virologist, N-BIOS laureate^[7]
John Barnabas, evolutionary biologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (1974)^[8]
Dipshikha Chakravortty, microbiologist, N-Bios laureate^[9]
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)
Sanjeev Galande, epigeneticist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (2010) laureate^[10]
Faisal Hawar, engineer and entrepreneur, CEO/President and co-founder of the International Somalia Development Foundation as well as the Maakhir Resource Company
Yogesh M. Joshi, rheologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (2015) laureate^[11]
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
Nissim Kanekar, astrophysicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate^[12]
Vistasp Karbhari, civil engineer, President of the University of Texas at Arlington^[13]
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)^[14]
Kullal Chickappu Naik, agricultural scientist
Deepak T. Nair, molecular biologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate^[15]
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^[16]
Kanury Venkata Subba Rao, immunologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (1997) laureate^[17]
Bhaskar Saha, immunologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (2009) laureate^[18]
K. B. Sainis, immunologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (1994) laureate^[19]
Vinod Scaria, bioinformatician, sequenced the first Indian genome
Krityunjai Prasad Sinha, theoretical physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (1974) laureate^[20]
K. George Thomas, nanotechnologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (2006) laureate^[21]
Mohan R. Wani, cell biologist, N-BIOS laureate^[22]

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
Jyoti Gogte, Indian academician

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
Mini Menon, 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
Anjali Menon, Malayalam film director

Sports[]


Name	Class Year	Degree	College	Notability	References
Akshayraj Kore			MMMCOE	chess grandmaster
Stephie D'Souza			Fergusson^{[note 1]}	athlete

Others[]

Nabeel Rajab, Bahraini human rights activist
Shivani Verma (BK Shivani), spiritual speaker ^[23]

References[]

Notes[]

^ ^a ^b The Fergusson College has been affiliated to the Pune University since 1948.

Citations[]

^ "New Permanent Representative of Yemen Presents Credentials". United Nations. 13 August 2014. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
^ Al-Moshki, Ali Ibrahim (14 October 2014). "New Prime Minister Appointed". The Yemen Times. Archived from the original on 14 August 2015. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
^ "V.P. Singh". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
^ "Members Bioprofile: First Lok Sabha". Lok Sabha website. Archived from the original on 24 June 2014. Retrieved 24 June 2014.
^ "Prof. P. Balaram lab Webpage at IISc". Pune University. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
^ "INSA :: Indian Fellow Detail". insaindia.res.in. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
^ "Indian fellow - AC Banerjea". Indian National Science Academy. 21 October 2017. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
^ Prabhakar Ranjekar, Shama Barnabas (10 February 1995). "John Barnabas (1929–1994) - Obituary" (PDF). Current Science. 68 (3): 346–7.
^ Chakravortty, D (25 January 2018). "Virulence profile". Virulence. 5 (2): 321–5. doi:10.4161/viru.27047. PMC 3956508. PMID 24504093.
^ "Message from Dr. Sanjeev Galande, highly decorated scientist and ex-alumnus of M.Sc. Biotechnology from University of Pune". Opportunities and Concerns in Biotechnology. 12 August 2015. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
^ "Joshi on IITK" (PDF). IIT Kanpur. 2017.
^ "Biographical Information-Kanekar" (PDF). National Centre for Radio Astrophysics. 31 October 2017. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
^ "Vistasp Karbhari takes helm as eighth president of The University of Texas at Arlington". PR Newswire. 1 June 2013. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
^ "Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize: an inspiration for international recognitions" (PDF). Current Science. 107 (2): 164. 25 July 2014. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
^ "Biographical Information - Deepak Nair". Regional Centre for Biotechnology. 9 November 2017. Archived from the original on 5 November 2017. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
^ "C. Kumar N. Patel". The American Institute of Physics. Archived from the original on 22 September 2013. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
^ "Group Leader Kanury Venkata Subba Rao" (PDF). Translational Health Science and Technology Institute. 2016. Retrieved 11 October 2016.
^ "Pune scientist on fast gets govt assurance". DNA India. 15 June 2013. Retrieved 29 October 2016.
^ "Professor Dr. Krishna B. Sainis on UNSCEAR". UN Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation. 2017.
^ "Indian fellow-K.P. Sinha". Indian National Science Academy. 3 November 2017. Archived from the original on 27 April 2017. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
^ "Nanohub profile". Nanohub. 2016.
^ "Mohan R. Wani Scientist 'F'". nccs.res.in. 20 January 2018. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
^ "Studying engineering helped me think logically: Brahmakumari Shivani". Indian Express. 7 June 2010. Retrieved 27 March 2014.

[:0-5] The Fergusson College has been affiliated to the Pune University since 1948.

[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. Archived from the original on 14 August 2015. Retrieved 8 August 2015.

[3] "V.P. Singh". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 29 March 2019.

[lok-4] "Members Bioprofile: First Lok Sabha". Lok Sabha website. Archived from the original on 24 June 2014. Retrieved 24 June 2014.

[6] "Prof. P. Balaram lab Webpage at IISc". Pune University. Retrieved 1 October 2013.

[7] "INSA :: Indian Fellow Detail". insaindia.res.in. Retrieved 24 September 2019.

[Indian_fellow_-_AC_Banerjea-8] "Indian fellow - AC Banerjea". Indian National Science Academy. 21 October 2017. Retrieved 22 October 2017.

[John_Barnabas_(1929–1994)_-_Obituary-9] Prabhakar Ranjekar, Shama Barnabas (10 February 1995). "John Barnabas (1929–1994) - Obituary" (PDF). Current Science. 68 (3): 346–7.

[Virulence_profile-10] Chakravortty, D (25 January 2018). "Virulence profile". Virulence. 5 (2): 321–5. doi:10.4161/viru.27047. PMC 3956508. PMID 24504093.

[Message_from_Dr._Sanjeev_Galande,_highly_decorated_scientist_and_ex-alumnus_of_M.Sc._Biotechnology_from_University_of_Pune-11] "Message from Dr. Sanjeev Galande, highly decorated scientist and ex-alumnus of M.Sc. Biotechnology from University of Pune". Opportunities and Concerns in Biotechnology. 12 August 2015. Retrieved 31 October 2016.

[Joshi_on_IITK-12] "Joshi on IITK" (PDF). IIT Kanpur. 2017.

[Biographical_Information-Kanekar-13] "Biographical Information-Kanekar" (PDF). National Centre for Radio Astrophysics. 31 October 2017. Retrieved 31 October 2017.

[14] "Vistasp Karbhari takes helm as eighth president of The University of Texas at Arlington". PR Newswire. 1 June 2013. Retrieved 21 September 2013.

[15] "Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize: an inspiration for international recognitions" (PDF). Current Science. 107 (2): 164. 25 July 2014. Retrieved 28 July 2015.

[Biographical_Information_-_Deepak_Nair-16] "Biographical Information - Deepak Nair". Regional Centre for Biotechnology. 9 November 2017. Archived from the original on 5 November 2017. Retrieved 9 November 2017.

[17] "C. Kumar N. Patel". The American Institute of Physics. Archived from the original on 22 September 2013. Retrieved 21 September 2013.

[Group_Leader_Kanury_Venkata_Subba_Rao-18] "Group Leader Kanury Venkata Subba Rao" (PDF). Translational Health Science and Technology Institute. 2016. Retrieved 11 October 2016.

[Pune_scientist_on_fast_gets_govt_assurance-19] "Pune scientist on fast gets govt assurance". DNA India. 15 June 2013. Retrieved 29 October 2016.

[Professor_Dr._Krishna_B._Sainis_on_UNSCEAR-20] "Professor Dr. Krishna B. Sainis on UNSCEAR". UN Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation. 2017.

[Indian_fellow-K.P._Sinha-21] "Indian fellow-K.P. Sinha". Indian National Science Academy. 3 November 2017. Archived from the original on 27 April 2017. Retrieved 3 November 2017.

[Nanohub_profile-22] "Nanohub profile". Nanohub. 2016.

[Mohan_R._Wani_Scientist_'F'-23] "Mohan R. Wani Scientist 'F'". nccs.res.in. 20 January 2018. Retrieved 20 January 2018.

[exp-24] "Studying engineering helped me think logically: Brahmakumari Shivani". Indian Express. 7 June 2010. Retrieved 27 March 2014.

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