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 +NameClass YearDegreeCollegeNotabilityReferencesKhaled BahahB.Com.; M.Com.2nd Vice President of Yemen and Prime Minister of YemenPratibha PatilMooljee Jetha12th President of IndiaVishwanath Pratap Singh7th Prime Minister of India 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 NameClass YearDegreeCollegeNotabilityReferencesAgatha Sangmaformer Member of Parliament of IndiaAnil ShiroleMember of Parliament of IndiaBhawani SinghDeccan Collegemember of the 1st Lok Sabha, studied at Deccan CollegeGautam BambawaleFergussonThe Fergusson College has been affiliated to the Pune University since 1948.High Commissioner of India to PakistanRanjan Mathaiex-foreign secretary of IndiaSharad PawarBMCCformer Chief Minister of MaharashtraKenneth Chawngliana4th Speaker of Mizoram Legislative AssemblyVilasrao Deshmukh14th Chief Minister of Maharashtra
Business NameClass YearDegreeCollegeNotabilityReferencesCyrus S. Poonawalla1966BMCCIndian billionaire, recipient of the Padma ShriRonak Gupta2012MBASPPUFounder of CosmicByte
Military NameClass YearDegreeCollegeNotabilityReferencesSunil Kumar Choudharyofficer in the Gorkha regiment of the Indian Army; Recipient of Kirti Chakra
Science and engineering NameClass YearDegreeCollegeNotabilityReferencesPadmanabhan Balaram1967BSc in Chemistrychemist and director of the Indian Institute of Science; recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar PrizeV. S. Huzurbazarstatistician, first head of the statistics department of Pune University
Akhil Chandra Banerjea, virologist, N-BIOS laureate John Barnabas, evolutionary biologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (1974) Rajani A. Bhisey, epidemiologist specialising in environmental carcinogenesis and molecular epidemiology of cancer. Dipshikha Chakravortty, microbiologist, N-Bios laureate 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 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 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 Vistasp Karbhari, civil engineer, President of the University of Texas at Arlington 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) Kullal Chickappu Naik, agricultural scientist. Deepak T. Nair, molecular biologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate 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 Kanury Venkata Subba Rao, immunologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (1997) laureate Ramakrishnan Raman, Vice Chancellor of Symbiosis International University Bhaskar Saha, immunologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (2009) laureate K. B. Sainis, immunologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (1994) laureate Vinod Scaria, bioinformatician, sequenced the first Indian genome Krityunjai Prasad Sinha, theoretical physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (1974) laureate K. George Thomas, nanotechnologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (2006) laureate Mohan R. Wani, cell biologist, N-BIOS laureate
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 Anupama Jain, Indian writer Rashid Askari, Bangladeshi bilingual writer, distinguished academic, translator and public university Vice-chancellor
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 Arjun Radhakrishnan, actor
Sports +NameClass YearDegreeCollegeNotabilityReferencesAkshayraj KoreMMMCOEchess grandmasterStephie D'SouzaFergussonathlete
Others Nabeel Rajab, Bahraini human rights activist Shivani Verma (BK Shivani), spiritual speaker
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