List of Delhi University people
This is a list of notable people related to the University of Delhi. This page excludes those people whose only connection with Delhi University is that they were awarded an honorary degree.
Nine heads of state and government, and two Nobel laureates have been associated with the university.
Nobel laureates
Two Nobel laureates have been associated with Delhi University.
Name | Affiliation | Prize | Year | References |
---|---|---|---|---|
Aung San Suu Kyi | B.A. in Political Science (1964) | Nobel Peace Prize | 1991 | [1][2] |
Amartya Sen | Professor of Economics (1963-1971) | Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences | 1998 | [3] |
Activists
Name | Class
Year |
Degree | College | Notability | References |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Urvashi Butalia | founder of Zubaan, a feminist publishing house | ||||
Medha Patkar | founder member of the Narmada Bachao Andolan | ||||
Aruna Roy | Indraprastha | founder of Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan | [4] | ||
Bunker Roy | 1967 | St. Stephen's | social activist and educator | [5] | |
Rahul Verma | Delhi College of Arts and Commerce | social worker, columnist and founder of Uday Foundation | [6] |
Arts, entertainment and television
Business
Name | Class
Year |
Degree | College | Notability | References |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aditya Jha | philanthropist and global entrepreneur | ||||
Ajaypal Singh Banga | B. A. (Economics) | St. Stephen's | CEO and President, MasterCard | ||
Ankur Warikoo | B. Sc. (Physics) | Hindu | Co-Founder and CEO, Nearbuy | ||
Anshu Jain | 1983 | B. A. (Economics) | SRCC | Co-CEO, Deutsche Bank | |
Ivan Menezes | St. Stephen's | CEO of Diageo | |||
Naina Lal Kidwai | 1977 | Lady Shri Ram | Chief Executive Officer, HSBC India | ||
Piyush Gupta | B. A. (Economics) | St. Stephen's | CEO and Director of DBS Group | ||
Rahul Bajaj | 1958 | B. A. (Economics) | St. Stephen's | billionaire businessman and chairman of the Bajaj Group | [36] |
Samir Jain | St. Stephen's | Vice-Chairman and publisher, The Times Group | |||
Sanjeev Bikhchandani | 1984 | B. A. (Economics) | St. Stephen's | billionaire businessman; co-founder and CEO, Naukri.com | [37] |
Shikha Sharma | Lady Shri Ram | Managing Director and CEO of Axis Bank | |||
Siddhartha Lal | 1994 | St. Stephen's | CEO, Eicher Motors | ||
Vinita Bali | 1975 | Lady Shri Ram | Former Managing Director of Britannia Industries | ||
Vijay Shekhar Sharma | Delhi College of Engineering[note 1] | billionaire businessman and founder of Paytm | |||
Viresh Oberoi | Hansraj | Former CEO of Mjunction | |||
Vivek Chaand Sehgal | billionaire businessman and chairman of Motherson Sumi Systems | [38] |
Educationists
Name | Class
Year |
Degree | College | Notability | References |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Paranjoy Guha Thakurta | St. Stephen's; Delhi School of Economics | Director, School of Convergence | |||
Vivek Bhandari | St. Stephen's | director, Institute of Rural Management, Anand |
Humanities and social sciences
Law
Supreme Court judges
Others
Name | Class
Year |
Degree | College | Notability | References |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Abhilasha Kumari | Indraprashtha | Chief Justice on the Manipur High Court | |||
Bishwajit Bhattacharyya | Faculty of Law | ||||
Gopal Subramanium | Faculty of Law | ||||
Gita Mittal | Lady Shri Ram | Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir High Court | |||
Pinky Anand | Lady Shri Ram; Faculty of Law | ||||
Sidharth Luthra | 1987; 1990 | Hindu; Faculty of Law | Former Additional Solicitor General of India | ||
T. Vaiphei | Faculty of Law | Chief Justice of Tripura High Court |
Literature
Name | Class
Year |
Degree | College | Notability | References |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ali Sardar Jafri | Zakir hussain Delhi college | Urdu author and poet. | |||
Amitav Ghosh | St. Stephen's; Delhi School of Economics | English language author | |||
Anita Desai | Miranda House | writer | [42] | ||
Khushwant Singh | St. Stephen's | Author best known for his novel Train to Pakistan; Padma Vibhushan recipient | [23] | ||
Kunzang Choden | B. A. (Psychology) | writer | [22] | ||
Mukul Kesavan | St. Stephen's | Historian, novelist and political and social essayist | |||
Mohan Rana | Hindi poet | ||||
Nabila Jamshed | writer | ||||
Namita Gokhale | co-founder of Jaipur Literature Festival | [22] | |||
Shiv Khera | writer | ||||
Upamanyu Chatterjee | St. Stephen's | writer |
Military
Name | Class
Year |
Degree | College | Notability | References |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Padmavathy Bandopadhyay | Kirori Mal | Air Marshal in the Indian Air Force | |||
Sonam Wangchuk | Sri Venkateswara | Colonel in the Indian Army; Kargil War veteran; Maha Vir Chakra recipient | |||
Sourendra Nath Kohli | B. A. | St. Stephen's | Former Chief of the Naval Staff in the Indian Navy | [44] | |
Surinder Mehra | Former Chief of Air Staff in the Indian Air Force | [45] | |||
Syed Ata Hasnain | 1972 | B. A. (History) | St. Stephen's | retired Lieutenant General in the Indian Army |
Media
Name | Class
Year |
Degree | College | Notability | References |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Niharika Acharya | VOA Aaj Tak reporter, anchor | ||||
Pallavi Aiyar | B. A. (Psychology) | St. Stephen's | author and China correspondent of The Hindu | ||
Rajat Sharma | Editor in chief of India Tv,founder of Independence News Services & host of Aap ki Adalat. | ||||
Swaminathan Aiyar | St. Stephen's | economist and former editor of The Economic Times | |||
Niret J. Alva | television producer and CEO, Miditech | ||||
Ambika Anand | Jesus and Mary | Editor-in-Chief, fashion at NDTV Good Times | [22] | ||
Shereen Bhan | Delhi Bureau Chief and Executive Editor, CNBC-TV18 | ||||
Satinder Bindra | India Bureau Chief, CNN | ||||
Romola Butalia | writer, author, website editor | ||||
Shoma Chaudhury | ex-Managing Editor, Tehelka | ||||
Prabhu Chawla | editor of India Today; host of Seedhi Baat on Aaj Tak | ||||
Swapan Dasgupta | 1975 | B. A. | St. Stephen's | political analyst and journalist | |
Vinod Dua | Hansraj | journalist | |||
Bahar Dutt | columnist for CNN-IBN | ||||
Barkha Dutt | television anchor and journalist | [42] | |||
Sagarika Ghose | news editor and columnist, CNN-IBN | ||||
Arnab Goswami | Hindu | Editor-in-chief, Times Now | |||
Ramachandra Guha | writer and columnist | ||||
Prem Shankar Jha | columnist; former editor, The Hindustan Times | ||||
Manoj Joshi | journalist, Deputy Editor, Mail Today | ||||
Rini Simon Khanna | news anchor | [46] | |||
Mammen Mathew | editor and Managing Director, Malayala Manorama | ||||
Rajiv Mehrotra | writer; television producer-director; documentary filmmaker | ||||
Chandan Mitra | editor of The Pioneer | ||||
Aroon Purie | Editor-in-chief, India Today | ||||
Nidhi Razdan | Lady Shri Ram | NDTV anchor | |||
Radhika Roy | co-founder of NDTV | ||||
Nalini Singh | journalist, Doordarshan, known for her programme Aankhon Dekhi | [25] | |||
Chitra Subramaniam, | journalist who broke the Bofors scandal story | ||||
Salma Sultan | news anchor of Doordarshan |
Politics and Government
Heads of state and government
Name | Class
Year |
Degree | College | Notability | References |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aung San Suu Kyi | 1964 | 1st State Counsellor of Myanmar | [2] | ||
Bingu wa Mutharika | 1961; 1963 | B.Com.;M.A. (Economics) | SRCC; Delhi School of Economics | 3rd President of Malawi | [47][48] |
G.P. Koirala | 30th Prime Minister of Nepal | ||||
Khandu Wangchuk | former Prime Minister of Bhutan | [49] | |||
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq | 1943 | B.A. (History) | St. Stephen's | 6th President of Pakistan | [50][44] |
Narendra Modi | 1978 | B.A. (Political Science) | School of Open Learning | 14th Prime Minister of India | [51][52] |
Salim Ahmed Salim | 1968 | St. Stephen's | 4th Prime Minister of Tanzania | [44] | |
Sangay Ngedup | former Prime Minister of Bhutan |
Other Politicians, Royalty, Civil servants and Diplomats
Note that Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, the fifth President of India, graduated from St. Stephen's College, when the college was under the University of the Punjab.
Science and Engineering
Sports
Notable faculty
Name | Affiliation | College | Notability | References |
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Anil Kumari Malhotra | principal of Nehru Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital | Padma Shri recipient (2016) | ||
Andre Beteille | Professor Emeritus of sociology | Delhi School of Economics | ||
Amartya Sen | Professor of Economics between 1963 and 1971 at the Delhi School of Economics | Recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998 | [3] | |
Ashok Mitra | Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India and Member of Parliament | |||
Autar Singh Paintal | Principal | University College of Medical Sciences | medical scientist who made pioneering discoveries in the area of neurosciences and respiratory sciences. | |
Bhisham Sahni | former lecturer in English at Zakir Husain Delhi College | author and playwright | ||
Debi Prasad Sarkar | former professor of biochemistry, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize recipient | [94] | ||
Indu Malhotra | Lecturer of Political Science | Miranda House | Judge of the Supreme Court of India | |
Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi | Lecturer in History from 1928 to 1944 | St. Stephen's | Pakistani historian | [44] |
Jagdish N. Bhagwati | professor of international trade at the Delhi School of Economics from 1962 to 1968 | |||
Kamal Kumar Sethi | former professor of cardiology, Padma Shri recipient | |||
Manmohan Singh | Professor of International Trade, 1969-1971 | Delhi School of Economics | 13th Prime Minister of India | [95] |
M. N. Srinivas | sociologist | |||
Padma Desai | Associate professor of economics from 1959 to 1968 | Delhi School of Economics | Professor of Comparative economic systems, Columbia University | |
Percival Spear | lecturer in History from 1924 to 1948 | St. Stephen's College | historian | [44] |
Pranab Bardhan | Professor (1973 to 1977) | Delhi School of Economics | Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley | [96] |
Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan | Professor of Economics | Indraprastha | wife of the first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan | |
Raj Krishna | professor at the Delhi School of Economics | |||
Sampat Kumar Tandon | former pro-vice chancellor, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [79] | ||
Santosh Kumar Sen | Head of post graduate studies | Maulana Azad Medical College | Indian surgeon and Padma Bhushan recipient | [97] |
Surendra Sheodas Barlingay | logician and Marathi writer | |||
Sushil Kumar Saxena | arts, Indian author, music critic & exponent | |||
Tista Bagchi | professor of linguistics | |||
Tapan Raychaudhuri | Indian historian | |||
T. A. Venkitasubramanian | former professor of biochemistry, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize recipient |
Notes
- The Delhi College of Engineering (now known as Delhi Technological University) was affiliated to the University of Delhi until 2009.
- The Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (now known as Netaji Subhas University of Technology) was affiliated to the University of Delhi until 2018
- The Department of Architecture, Delhi College of Engineering (now known as School of Planning and Architecture) was affiliated to the University of Delhi until 1979.
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