Elphinstone College - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

• Dadabhai Naoroji - Intellectual, educator, cotton trader, and an early Indian political leader, being the first Asian to sit in the British House of Commons.
• Dr. B. R. Ambedkar - An Indian jurist, scholar, Bahujan political leader, a Buddhist revivalist, and the chief architect of the Indian Constitution.
• Kakasaheb Dixit - A prominent disciple of saint shri shiridi sai baba
• Iskander Mirza, last Governor-General of the Dominion of Pakistan and the first President of Pakistan
• Sonal Mansingh - Padma Vibhushan, Odissi dancer.
• Kishori Amonkar - Padma Vibhushan, Hindustani classical music performer.
• Ranjit Hoskote - noted poet, art critic, cultural theorist and curator.
• Madhav Apte - Cricketer
• Homi J. Bhabha - A nuclear physicist who had a major role in the development of the Indian atomic energy program.
• R.G.Bhandarkar - Scholar and social reformer.
• Bhulabhai Desai - An acclaimed lawyer involved in the Indian independence movement.
• C. D. Deshmukh - Economist and former Finance Minister of India
• P. L. Deshpande - Well-known Marathi author, playwright, performing artist, director and music director.
• M.V. Rajadhyaksha, noted Marathi writer and critic
• Sanjay Dutt - Filmfare winning Bollywood actor.
• Virachand Gandhi - Represented Jainism at the first ever World Parliament of Religions held in Chicago in 1893.
• Sanjay Ghose - Rural management, community health, development media
• Anand Kurian, Writer, activist, marketing theorist
• Raghavan N. Iyer - Philosopher & academic.
• Gopal Krishna Gokhale - Founding member of the Indian independence movement, social reformer.
• Mukesh Khanna - Television actor.
• Pherozeshah Mehta - A political leader, activist, and leading lawyer, who was knighted by the British Government for his service to the law.
• Vijay Merchant - Cricketer
• Dattu Phadkar - Cricketer.
• Mahadev Govind Ranade - Judge, author, and social reformer.
• Swaroop Sampat - Former Miss India and Bollywood actress.
• Jamsedji Tata - Entrepreneur and industrialist, founder of the Tata group.
• Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata
• Kashinath Trimbak Telang - Judge and oriental scholar.
• Bal Gangadhar Tilak - Nationalist, social reformer and freedom fighter, who was the first popular leader of the Indian Independence Movement.
• P. N. Bhagwati - Chief Justice of India (1985-1986)
• Venkanna H. Naik was a Barrister from Lincoln's Inn and a graduate from Cambridge.
• Ajit Wadekar - International cricketer, later served as both captain and manager of the Indian cricket team.
• Arjun Appadurai - postcolonial scholar of global media and culture.
• Suresh Desai - Pharmacist, MS in Biopharmaceutics University of Bombay 1969.
• Sujata Manohar, former Judge of the Supreme Court of India.
• Hormasji Maneckji Seervai, former Advocate General of Maharashtra.
• Rajkumar Pratap Aditya Singh Deo, Rajkumar of Saraikhela, Jharkhand.
• Rajkumar Debasish Singh Deo, Rajkumar of Saraikhela, Jharkhand.
• Homi K. Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature and Language and Director of the Humanities Center, Harvard University
• Manish Malhotra, Fashion Designer.
• Devdatta Dabholkar educationist, Gandhian and socialist.
• Mahesh Manjrekar - Actor, Director, Producer
• Shernaz Patel - theatre and film actor
• Kunal Ganjawala - Singer,
• Bharat Dabholkar
• Sayed Shifa - model, actor
• Harish Manwani, Chairman Unilever India.
• Suman S. Roy, Head - Business Development, HHM Events Pvt. Ltd.
• Shapurji Edalji - thought to be the first South Asian to become a Vicar in England