List of University of Allahabad alumni

This is a list of notable alumni related to the University of Allahabad and its constituent colleges. Excluded from this list are those people whose only connection with Allahabad University is that they were awarded an honorary degree.

Padma Vibhushan recipient alumni

• Mahadevi Verma
• Bhagwati Charan Verma
• Raghupati Sahay
• Firaq Gorakhpuri
• Vidya Niwas Mishra

Arts

Name	Class Year	Degree	College	Notability	References
Aditya Srivastava				actor
Sudhir Dar				cartoonist	[1]

Humanities and Social Sciences

Name	Class Year	Degree	College	Notability	References
Baidyanath Misra	1948	MA, University topper and Gold medallist, First Odia to top the Faculty of Arts and the Department of Economics		Former Vice-Chancellor of the Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology, Chairman of Odisha State Planning Board and Chairman of Odisha's First State Finance Commission
Ghulam Yazdani	1905	BA	Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental[note 1]	archaeologist
Prabhat Nalini Das		MA, English, University Topper and gold medalist		University Professor and pro Vice Chancellor; first Director/Dean Humanities, IIT Kanpur
J K Mehta		PhD		economist	[2]
Udai Prakash Arora				historian

Law

Name	Class Year	Degree	College	Notability	References
Mohammad Hidayatullah				11th Chief Justice of India
Raghunandan Swarup Pathak				18th Chief Justice of India; Judge of the International Court of Justice
Kamal Narain Singh				22nd Chief Justice of India
J. S. Verma		BSc; LLB	Ewing Christian	27th Chief Justice of India	[3]
V. N. Khare				33rd Chief Justice of India
Daya Saran Sinha				Chief Justice of the Gujarat High Court
Vidyadhar Govind Oak				Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court
Prashant Bhushan				Supreme Court lawyer
Vashishtha Bhargava				Judge of the Supreme Court of India
Rajendra Kumar Acharya				jurist of Law of tort in Nepal

Literature and Journalism

• Doodhnath Singh – Hindi writer and critic[4]
• Harivansh Rai Bachchan - Famous hindi poet and father of Amitabh Bachchan.
• Prabhat Nalini Das - public intellectual and Professor; Head, English Department, Lady Shri Ram College; First Director-Dean, Humanities, IIT Kanpur; Founder-Professor and Head, Department of English, Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University; Pro Vice Chancellor, NEHU-Kohima Campus; English
• Gopinath Kaviraj – philosopher; Sanskrit scholar[5]
• Vibhuti Narain Rai renowned writer and novelist, former Director General of Police of Uttar Pradesh, former Vice Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya.
• Prem Chand Pandey – founding director of the National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research; recipient of SSB Prize[6]
• Ibn-e-Safi, Jasosi writer
• Mohammad Uzair, Sitara-i-Imtiaz
• Rafiq Hussain, Urdu writer, poet, academic, author, head of Urdu Department Allahabad University
• Dharamvir Bharati, writer
• Kamleshwar, writer
• Mrinal Pande, writer
• Neelum Saran Gour, author and academic[7]
• Govind Mishra, Hindi writer and former chairman of CBDT
• Ravindra Khattree, statistician, academic, author
• Acharya Narendra Dev
• Chandradhar Sharma Guleri, writer
• Krishna Kumar Sharma, Quit India Movement activist, poet and literary figure
  • Fani Badayuni Urdu poet.
• Ram Chandra Shukla, painter
• Surya Bahadur Thapa
• Daulat Singh Kothari, physicist
• Harish Chandra, mathematician
• Pankaj Mishra, author
• Lakshmi Raj Sharma, author and academician
• K. Banerjee, physicist and ex-Director of Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
• Leema Dhar, author, poet and columnist

Military

Name	Class Year	Notability	References
Krishnaswamy Sundarji		Chief of Army Staff

Politics

Heads of State and Government

Name	Class Year	Degree	College	Notability	References
Chandra Shekhar	1951			8th Prime Minister of India	[8][9]
Gulzarilal Nanda				acting Prime Minister of India
Surya Bahadur Thapa				24th Prime Minister of Nepal
Zakir Husain		MA	Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental[note 1]	3rd President of India	[10]
V. P. Singh				7th Prime Minister of India	[11][12]
Shankar Dayal Sharma				9th President of India

Others

Name	Class Year	Degree	College	Notability	References
Arjun Singh				12th Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh
Feroze Gandhi			Ewing Christian	former Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
Gopal Swarup Pathak				former Vice President of India
Govind Ballabh Pant				former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and Minister of Home Affairs
Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna				8th Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
Madan Lal Khurana				3rd Chief Minister of Delhi
Madan Mohan Malaviya				former President of the Indian National Congress	[13]
Motilal Nehru				former President of the Indian National Congress	[14]
Narayan Dutt Tiwari				9th Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh; 3rd Chief Minister of Uttarakhand
Naresh Chandra				former Governor of Gujarat and Indian Ambassador to the United States	[15]
Nikhil Kumar		MA		former Governor of Kerala
Purushottam Das Tandon				former Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
Rajendra Kumari Bajpai				former Lieutenant Governor of Pondicherry	[16]
Saiyid Nurul Hasan
Satyendra Narayan Sinha				19th Chief Minister of Bihar	[17]
Shanti Bhushan				former Minister of Law and Justice
Vijay Bahuguna				6th Chief Minister of Uttarakhand

• Vinod Kumar Yadav, IRSEE officer and Chairman of the Indian Railway Board[18]
• Jagmohan Yadav, IPS, former Director General of Uttar Pradesh Police.[19][20]
• Rajju Bhaiya, Ex-RSS Chief
• Murli Manohar Joshi, former Minister of Home Affairs and Minister of Human Resource Development
• Janeshwar Mishra, Ex-Minister Govt. of India
• Sir Syed Wazir Hasan, Chief Justice of Awadh Chief Court
• Mohan Singh, National General secretary, Samajwadi Party
• Ram Niwas Mirdha, former cabinet minister
• Dharmendra Yadav, Member of the Lok Sabha
• N. C. Saxena, IAS Officer, member of Planning Commission of India
• Alok Kumar, IPS Officer

Science and technology

Name	Class Year	Degree	College	Notability	References
Atma Ram (scientist)		Doctor of Science		Chemist, Founding Director Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute and Director General CSIR	[21]
Anuradha Misra				physicist	[22]
Prem Chand Pandey				Scientist, Academician and Founding Director NCAOR, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
Deepak Dhar				theoretical physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
Digvijai Singh				chemical engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
Jamuna Sharan Singh				ecologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize recipient
Nibir Mandal				structural geologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
Krityunjai Prasad Sinha				theoretical physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
Prabhu Lal Bhatnagar	1939	DPhil		mathematician	[23]
Onkar Singh	1991, 2000	M.E., PhD	Motilal Nehru Regional Engineering College	mechanical engineering

Sports

Name	Class Year	Notability	References
Manuel Aaron		chess player and International Master	[24]

Others

Name	Class Year	Notability	References
Rajendra Singh		environmentalist, Magsaysay Award, 2001	[25]

• Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, known for Transcendental Meditation[26]
• Uttar Kumar, film actor
• M. A. Ansari, pre-partition Royal Indian Navy Education Officer
• Udit Raj, social activist
• Vivek Sahai, former Chairman Railway Board

See also

• List of people associated with Allahabad
• Allahabad

References

Notes

1. The Muhammadan Anglo Oriental College (now known as Aligarh Muslim University) was affiliated to the University of Allahabad between 1885 and 1920.

Citations

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