University of Pune - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

  • Vishwanath Pratap Singh, 7th Prime Minister of India and 41st Raja of Manda
  • P.V. Narasimha Rao, 9th Prime Minister of India
  • Vilasrao Deshmukh, 17th and 19th Chief Minister of Maharashtra
  • C. Kumar N. Patel, vice Chancellor for Research at the University of California, Los Angeles
  • Padmanabhan Balaram, director of the Indian Institute of Science
  • Vijay Kelkar, economist and academic
  • Suhas Patankar, pioneer in the field of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and Finite volume method
  • Shankar Sarda, journalist
  • Shereen Bhan, journalist
  • Kantilal Mardia, statistician
  • Thomas Kailath, scientist in the area of information theory
  • Venugopal Dhoot, Chairman of Videocon
  • Siddharth Vinayak Patankar, journalist, NDTV
  • Nabeel Rajab, Bahraini human rights activist
  • Satish Alekar, noted Indian playwright
  • Sharmila Rege, noted Indian sociologist and currently Director of the Women's Studies Centre at the University of Pune

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