List of Savitribai Phule Pune University people

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.

This is an incomplete list that may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

Politics and government

• Vishwanath Pratap Singh, 7th Prime Minister of India
• Vilasrao Deshmukh, 17th and 19th Chief Minister of Maharashtra
• Ranjan Mathai, ex-foreign secretary of India
• Sharad Pawar, the president of the Nationalist Congress Party, former Chief Minister of Maharashtra
• Bhawani Singh of Pokhran, member of the 1st Lok Sabha, studied at Deccan College^[1]

Note that P.V. Narasimha Rao, 9th Prime Minister of India, graduated from Fergusson College, when the college was under the University of Mumbai.

Science and engineering

• Sulabha K Kulkarni, Visiting Faculty, IISER Pune
• Padmanabhan Balaram, director of the Indian Institute of Science (BSc in Chemistry in 1967)^[2]
• Shridhar Ramachandra Gadre, chemist and professor at IIT Kanpur
• Faisal Hawar, engineer and entrepreneur, CEO/President and Co-founder of the International Somalia Development Foundation as well as the Maakhir Resource Company.
• V. S. Huzurbazar, first head of the statistics department of Pune University
• Thomas Kailath, electrical engineer, information theorist and recipient of the 2007 IEEE Medal of Honor
• Vistasp Karbhari, President of the University of Texas at Arlington^[3]
• Kantilal Mardia, statistician and Guy Medallists
• Kullal Chickappu Naik, agricultural scientist
• Suhas Patankar, pioneer in the field of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and Finite volume method
• Medha Khole, deputy director at the Indian Meteorological Department
• C. Kumar N. Patel, inventor of the carbon dioxide laser, recipient of the 1996 National Medal of Science and vice Chancellor for Research at the University of California, Los Angeles^[4]

Humanities and social science

• Satish Alekar, Indian playwright
• Nagnath Lalujirao Kottapalle, educationist and Marathi writer, taught at the Marathi department
• Vijay Kelkar, economist, academic and Chairman of the 13th Finance Commission of India
• 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

Others

• Mukta Barve, well-known Marathi actress who starred in National Award winning movie Jogwa
• Shaiju Mathew, well-known author and film maker
• Shankar Sarda, journalist
• Shereen Bhan, journalist
• Cyrus S. Poonawalla, Indian billionaire, recipient of the Padma Shri
• Nabeel Rajab, Bahraini human rights activist
• Shivani Verma (BK Shivani) (born 1972), spiritual speaker ^[5]

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