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
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
Business
Military
Science and engineering
- 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
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
Others
References
Notes
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