List of Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda people

This is a list of alumni and faculty at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.

Alumni

Arts

Name	Class Year	Degree	Notability	References
Anita Dube	1982	MFA	Artist	[1]
Dadasaheb Phalke			Film director, producer, and screenwriter. Father of Indian Cinema.	[2]
Dhruva Mistry			Sculptor
Elisha Kriis		BBA	Actress	[3]
Gulam Mohammed Sheikh			painter and writer.	[4]
Haku Shah			Indian painter	[5]
Jayant Parikh	1959; 1961	BA in Fine Art; MA	Indian painter, printmaker and mural artist	[6]
Jyoti Bhatt			Indian painter, photographer
Jyotsna Bhatt	1958		Indian ceramist and potter
Mitali Mukherjee			singer	[7]
Mrinalini Mukherjee			sculptor and textile atist
N. N. Rimzon			artist	[8]
Nilima Sheikh			artist
Ratan Parimoo			Painter and art historian
Surendran Nair			artist
Tanvi Vyas			actress and model	[9]
Vivan Sundaram			artist

Social Sciences and Law

Name	Class Year	Degree	Notability	References
Akshay H. Mehta			Former Judge of the Gujarat High Court	[10]
Chimanbhai Patel			Former Chief Minister of Gujarat and Member of Parliament	[11]
Mohit Shantilal Shah	1976	LLB	Former Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court	[12]
Ranjitsinh Pratapsinh Gaekwad			Former Maharaja of Baroda and Member of Parliament.	[13]
Arvind Shah			Sociologist	[14]
Sujan R. Chinoy		BA (Hons.) in English Literature and Psychology	Former Ambassador of India to Japan and the Marshall Islands	[15]

Science

Name	Class Year	Degree	Notability	References
Sandip Pakvasa	1957	BSc and MSc in Physics	Physicist. Awarded the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, as a member of the Kamioka Liquid Scintillator Antineutrino Detector Collaboration. American Physical Society Fellow, Humboldt Prize Fellow. [16][17][18]
Sam Pitroda	1964	BSc and Msc in Physics	Telecom engineer, entrepreneur and politician. Father of Telecommunications revolution in India. He served as advisor to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India on Public Information Infrastructure and Innovation and as a Cabinet Minister under Rajiv Gandhi and as the Chairman of the National Knowledge Commission under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh from 2005 to 2009.	[19] [20]
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan	1971	BSc in Physics	Biologist. Awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine for his research in ribosome. President of the Royal Society since November 2015 to November 2020	[21][22]
Arup Kumar Raychaudhuri	1973	BSc in Physics	Physicist. Awarded Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in 1994 for doing "pioneering experimental work in the field of low temperature quantum transport in oxides near metal-insulator transition elucidating the interplay of disorder and interaction." Humboldt Prize Fellow.	[23]
Karan Jani			Physicist. He is a part of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration which detected GW14092015, first such observation of gravitational waves from binary black hole merger. For this pathbreaking discovery, the pioneers of the very collaboration were awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics.	[24]
Kanury Venkata Subba Rao			Immunologist. Awarded Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar in 1997 in the field of Biological Sciences for "outstanding contribution in the design of synthetic peptide vaccines based on the regeneration of conformational epitopes and self association of such peptides to give high immunogenicity in humans."	[25][26]

Technology

Name	Class Year	Degree	Notability	References
Ajay Bhatt			Computer Architect. Co-invented Universal Serial Bus	[27]
Paritosh Pandya			Computer scientist. Former Dean, School of Technology and Computer Science at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. He is known for his research in Logics, Automata, Concurrency, Formal Methods, Embedded Systems and Software Engineering.	[28]
Vijay P. Bhatkar			Computer Scientist. Chancellor of Nalanda University. He is primarily known as the Inventor of PARAM Super computer.	[29]
Vishal Sikka			Former CEO of Infosys; CTO and Executive Board member of SAP AG	[30]

A

• Asha Puthli, producer,International Recording Artist,Composer.Publisher.[31]
• Ankur Vikal, Indian film and theatre actor.[32]
• Arup Kumar Raychaudhuri, condensed matter physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate[33]

B

• Bakul Harshadrai Dholakia, former Director of IIM Ahmedabad, a Padma Shri awardee[34]
• Bharati Mukherjee, Bharati Mukherjee, Writer of Immigrant Life, Dies at 76 .[35]

C

• Chintan Upadhyay, an Indian contemporary artist.[36]

D

• Deepak Shimkhada, a Nepali American educator, artist, art historian.[37]

E

• Esther David is an Indian Jewish author.[38]

G

• Gunvant Shah, a noted thinker, writer and columnis.[39]

H

• Hasmukh Patel architect credited with making significant contributions .[40]
• Prof. (Dr.) Hemlata Talesra, educationalist and activist[41]

K

• K. Chidananda Gowda, former Vice-Chancellor of Kuvempu University.[42]
• Kavitha Balakrishnan, an art critic.[43]

L

• Laxma Goud, painter, printmaker and draughtsman.[44]
• Latika Katt, an Indian sculptor.[45]

M

• Mrunalini Devi Puar, Dr Mrunalini Devi Puar, the Chancellor of the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.[46]

P

• Pramod Kale, a scientist and former Director, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre.[47]
• Pankaj Advani (director), film-director, film-editor, screenplay-writer, photographer, theater director, and painter.[48]
• Pan Nalin, director, screenwriter and documentary-maker.[49]

R

• Rajendra Shah, lyrical Gujarati poet and philosopher.[50]
• Reetika Khera, economist and tearcher.[51]

S

• S. L. Bhyrappa, Kannada novelist and philosopher.[52]
• Shanti Dave, painter and sculptor.[53]
• Srilamanthula Chandramohan, an artist.[54]
• Sosa Joseph, an Indian contemporary artist.[55]
• Salma Arastu, an Indian artist.[56]

T

• Thota Vaikuntam, an Indian painter.[57]

V

• Vinoba Bhave, Indian advocate of nonviolence and human rights; "National Teacher of India", spiritual successor of Mahatma Gandhi[58]

• Vihang A. Naik, (b.1969) Indian poet .[59]
• Vivan Sundaram, an Indian contemporary artist.[60]

Notable faculty

Name	Affiliation	Notability
Geoffrey Wainwright	Professor of environmental archaeology between 1961 and 1963	archaeologist
Gunvant Shah	Lecturer between 1961 and 1972	Writer
K. G. Subramanyan	Lecturer at the Faculty of Fine Arts between 1951 and 1956	Artist
Nasreen Mohamedi	Lecturer at the Faculty of Fine Arts between 1972 and 1990	artist [61]
Rajni Kothari	Lecturer (joined the university in 1958)	Political Scientist [62]
M. N. Srinivas	Lecturer (established the Department of Sociology)	Sociologist [63]
Arvind Shah	Lecturer	Sociologist [64]

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