University of Mumbai - Alumni

Alumni

• Lokmanya Tilak – Maker of modern India, Indian nationalist leader, savant, philosopher, mathematician.
• B. R. Ambedkar – Architect of modern India & Author of the Constitution of India, social reformist and thinker.
• Lal Krishna Advani – Former Deputy Prime Minister of India
• John Abraham - Bollywood actor.
• Justice Mushtak Ali Kazi – Judge, High Court of Sindh & Balochistan, Pakistan.
• Kona Prabhakara Rao – Governor of Maharashtra, Lt. Governor of Pondicherry, Governor of Sikkim, Finance Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Speaker of AP State Assembly
• Ahmed Hussain A Kazi – Secretary to Government of Pakistan and Chairman Pakistan Industrial Development Corporation
• Satyajeet Dubey, Actor, (Always Kabhi Kabhi).
• Mahadev Govind Ranade – Indian lawyer, reformer and author, first batch graduate
• Man Mohan Sharma – Fellow Royal Society, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, Former Director of MUICT (formerly known as UDCT)
• Jagdish Bhagwati – University Professor of Economics at Columbia University
• Nissim Ezekiel – Indian poet (English language)
• Anil Kakodkar – Director of BARC and Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Atomic Energy
• Klaus Klostermaier, F.R.S.C., Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba, Scholar of Indian Studies
• R.A. Mashelkar – Fellow Royal Society, General, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India (He is an alumnus of MUICT (formerly known as UDCT))
• Mukesh Ambani – Managing Director, Reliance Industries (He is an alumnus of MUICT (formerly known as UDCT))
• Yogesh Chabria – Investor, entrepreneur and bestselling author of the Happionaire series.
• Anji Reddy – Founder, Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, Padma Shri (He is an alumnus of MUICT (formerly known as UDCT))
• Keki Hormusji Gharda – Founder, Gharda Chemicals (He is an alumnus of MUICT (formerly known as UDCT))
• Homai Vyarawalla (1913– ) – First woman photojounalist of India, Padma Vibushan
• Anant Pai – Publisher of Indian books for children especially the series Amar Chitra Katha
• Dwarkanath Kotnis – A well-known doctor in China who helped Chinese communists army during the World War II.
• Ebrahim Alkazi – Theatre director, Padma Vibhushan
• Madhuri Dixit- Popular Indian Actress
• Urmila Matondkar- Well-known Indian Actress
• Lara Dutta – Miss Universe in 2000
• Anand Patwardhan – Indian documentary film-maker
• Sunil Gavaskar – Indian cricketer (Attended St. Xavier's College)
• Smita Patil – Indian actress (Attended St. Xavier's College)
• Shabana Azmi – Indian Actress (Attended St. Xavier's College)
• Edward Hamilton Aitken – humorist, naturalist
• Ramakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar – Oriental scholar and social reformer, first batch graduate, later vice-chancellor
• Acacio Gabriel Viegas – Medical practitioner credited with the discovery of the outbreak of bubonic plague in Mumbai, India in 1896.
• Georg Bühler – Scholar of ancient Indian languages and law – fellow of University of Mumbai.
• John Samuel Malecela – Prime Minister of Tanzania from 1990–1994.
• Indira Viswanathan Peterson – Professor of Asian Studies and editor of the Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces.
• S. K. Venkataranga – lawyer and associate of Gandhi
• G.S. Maddala – American economist and mathematician
• Harish Kapadia – Himalayan Mountaineer and recipient of Patron's Medal of the Royal Geographic Society
• Mehli Mehta – Indian conductor of European classical music and father of conductor Zubin Mehta.
• Manil Suri – Indian mathematician and writer.
• Kashinath Trimbak Telang – Indian judge and oriental scholar.
• B.N. Srikrishna – Indian jurist and a Judge of the Supreme Court of India.
• Sir Pherozeshah Mehta – Indian political leader and social activist.
• Madhav Das Nalapat – Holder of the UNESCO Peace Chair.
• P. N. Bhagwati – Chief Justice of India (1985–1986)
• Bhulabhai Desai – Indian freedom fighter and lawyer.
• Vasundhara Raje – Chief Minister of the state of Rajasthan, India.
• Ranjan Ghosh – Indian screenwriter and director Aparna Sen's first co-author.
• Vidya Balan – Indian actress based in Mumbai, India.
• Gangadhar Gadgil – Marathi fiction writer.
• Rafiq Zakaria – late Indian politician and Islamic scholar.
• Pandurang Vaman Kane – Indologist and Sanskrit scholar and former Vice Chancellor of university of Mumbai.
• Mancherjee Bhownagree – British politician of Indian Parsi heritage.
• Nanabhoy Palkhivala – Indian jurist and economist.
• Sucheta Dalal – Business journalist from Mumbai, India.
• Thrity Umrigar – Journalist and author from Mumbai, India.
• Aditi Govitrikar- Mrs World 2000
• Chanda Kochhar- MD and CEO, ICICI
• Harish Manwani- Chairperson, Hindustan Uni Lever Ltd.
• Nitin Paranjape- MD & CEO, Hindustan Uni Lever Ltd.
• Zakir Naik – Muslim preacher on comparative religion
• Sanjeev Naik – MP from Thane
• Praful Patel – MP from Bhandara-Gondiya
• Sanjay Dina Patil – MP from Mumbai North East
• Nilesh Rane – MP from Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg
• Ajit Gulabchand – Industrialist, Chairman and Managing Director Hindustan Construction Company
• Ravi Gomatam – Quantum Physicist, Director of Bhaktivedanta Institute and Institute for Semantic Information Sciences and Technology, Berkeley, and Mumbai

• Virchand Gandhi - represented Jainism at the first World Parliament of Religions, Chicago in 1893 along with Vivekanand.