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.
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] |
Name | Class
year |
Degree | College | Notability | References |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Urvashi Butalia | ReaderatCollege of Vocational Studies | 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 College | social activist and educator | [5] | |
Rahul Verma | Delhi College of Arts and Commerce | social worker, columnist and founder of Uday Foundation | [6] |
Name | Class
year |
Degree | College | Notability | References |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aditya Jha | philanthropist and global entrepreneur | ||||
Ajaypal Singh Banga | B. A. (Economics) | St. Stephen's College | CEO and President, MasterCard | ||
Anshu Jain | 1983 | B. A. (Economics) | Shri Ram College of Commerce | co-CEO, Deutsche Bank | |
Geeta Aiyer | B. A., M. A. | founder and President, Boston Common Asset Management | [42] | ||
Ivan Menezes | St. Stephen's College | CEO of Diageo | |||
Naina Lal Kidwai | 1977 | Lady Shri Ram | Chief Executive Officer, HSBC India | ||
Piyush Gupta | B. A. (Economics) | St. Stephen's College | CEO and Director of DBS Group | ||
Rahul Bajaj | 1958 | B. A. (Economics) | St. Stephen's College | billionaire businessman and chairman of the Bajaj Group | [43] |
Samir Jain | St. Stephen's College | Vice-chairman and publisher, The Times Group | |||
Sanjeev Bikhchandani | 1984 | B. A. (Economics) | St. Stephen's College | billionaire businessman; co-founder and CEO, Naukri.com | [44] |
Shikha Sharma | Lady Shri Ram | Managing Director and CEO of Axis Bank | |||
Siddhartha Lal | 1994 | St. Stephen's College | CEO, Eicher Motors | ||
Vinita Bali | 1975 | Lady Shri Ram | former Managing Director of Britannia Industries | ||
Tarun Poddar[45] | 2014 | Keshav Mahavidyalaya | CEO and founder of Foxhog Ventures Corp. | ||
Vijay Shekhar Sharma | Delhi College of Engineering[note 1] | billionaire businessman and founder of Paytm | |||
Vinod Khanna | 1954
1956 |
B.A. (political science and economics);
M.A. (political science and international law) |
Hindu College (B.A.) | businessman | [46][47] |
Viresh Oberoi | Hansraj College | former CEO of Mjunction | |||
Vivek Chaand Sehgal | billionaire businessman and chairman of Motherson Sumi Systems | [48] |
Name | Class
year |
Degree | College | Notability | References |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Paranjoy Guha Thakurta | St. Stephen's College; Delhi School of Economics | Director, School of Convergence | |||
Sanjay Kumar | B.A. in Political Science | Ramjas College | former Director, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies | [49] | |
Vivek Bhandari | St. Stephen's College | director, Institute of Rural Management, Anand |
Name | Class
year |
Degree | College | Notability | References |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Abhilasha Kumari | Indraprashtha | Chief Justice on the Manipur High Court | |||
Ajit Prakash Shah | Ramjas College | former Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court; Chairman of the 20th Law Commission of India | [61] | ||
Ashutosh Mohunta | 1973; 1976 | BA (Hons) in History; LLB | Kirori Mal College; Faculty of Law | [62] | |
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 College; Faculty of Law | former Additional Solicitor General of India | ||
T. Vaiphei | Faculty of Law | Chief Justice of Tripura High Court |
Name | Class
year |
Degree | College | Notability | References |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ali Sardar Jafri | Zakir Hussain Delhi College | Urdu author and poet | |||
Amitav Ghosh | St. Stephen's College; Delhi School of Economics | English language author | |||
Anita Desai | Miranda House | writer | [54] | ||
Khushwant Singh | St. Stephen's College | 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 College | historian, novelist and political and social essayist | |||
Mohan Rana | Hindi poet | ||||
Nabila Jamshed | writer | ||||
Namita Gokhale | co-founder of Jaipur Literature Festival | [22] | |||
Narendra Kohli | Ramjas College | Hindi author | [63] | ||
Shiv Khera | writer | ||||
Upamanyu Chatterjee | St. Stephen's College | writer |
Name | Class
year |
Degree | College | Notability | References |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Padmavathy Bandopadhyay | Kirori Mal College | 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 College | former Chief of the Naval Staff in the Indian Navy | [64] | |
Surinder Mehra | former Chief of Air Staff in the Indian Air Force | [65] | |||
Syed Ata Hasnain | 1972 | B. A. (History) | St. Stephen's College | retired lieutenant general in the Indian Army |
Name | Class
year |
Degree | College | Notability | References |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Niharika Acharya | VOA Aaj Tak reporter, anchor | ||||
Pallavi Aiyar | B. A. (Psychology) | St. Stephen's College | author and China correspondent of The Hindu College | ||
Rajat Sharma | Shri Ram College of Commerce | editor in chief of India Tv, founder of Independence News Services, host of Aap Ki Adalat | |||
Swaminathan Aiyar | St. Stephen's College | 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 BaatonAaj Tak | ||||
Swapan Dasgupta | 1975 | B. A. | St. Stephen's College | political analyst and journalist | |
Vinod Dua | Hansraj College | journalist | |||
Bahar Dutt | columnist for CNN-IBN | ||||
Barkha Dutt | television anchor and journalist | [54] | |||
Sagarika Ghose | news editor and columnist, CNN-IBN | ||||
Arnab Goswami | Hindu College | editor-in-chief, Times Now, Republic tv | |||
Ramachandra Guha | writer and columnist | ||||
Prem Shankar Jha | columnist; former editor, The Hindu Collegestan Times | ||||
Manoj Joshi | journalist, deputy editor, Mail Today | ||||
Rini Simon Khanna | news anchor | [66] | |||
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 | [26] | |||
Chitra Subramaniam, | journalist who broke the Bofors scandal story | ||||
Salma Sultan | news anchor of Doordarshan | ||||
Dibang | Rajdhani | anchor of ABP News, previously worked at Aaj Tak and NDTV | |||
Rahul Kanwal | news anchor, India Today, Aaj Tak and Business Today | ||||
Sudhir Chaudhary | B.A | consultant editor, Aaj Tak; formerly worked at Zee News, WION and hosted DNA | |||
Ravish Kumar | former senior executive editor at NDTV, Ramon Magsaysay Award and Red Ink Award winner |
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) |
Shri Ram College of Commerce | 3rd President of Malawi | [67][68] |
G.P. Koirala | 30th Prime Minister of Nepal | ||||
Khandu Wangchuk | former Prime Minister of Bhutan | [69] | |||
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq | 1943 | B.A. (History) | St. Stephen's College | 6th President of Pakistan | [70][64] |
Narendra Modi | 1978 | B.A. (Political Science) | School of Open Learning | 14th Prime Minister of India | [71][72] |
Salim Ahmed Salim | 1968 | St. Stephen's College | 4th Prime Minister of Tanzania | [64] | |
Sangay Ngedup | St. Stephen's College | former Prime Minister of Bhutan |
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.
Name | Class
year |
Degree | College | Notability | References |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ajai K. Singh | 1977 | M.Sc; Ph.D. (chemistry) | professor of chemistry; fellow Royal Society of Chemistry; member of American Chemical Society | ||
Ajoy Ghatak | M.Sc. (Physics) | physicist; recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | |||
Amolak Chand Jain | 1948; 1950 | B.Sc. (Chemistry) | chemist; recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | [94] | |
Amit Dutt | 1994; 1995 | B.Sc. (Botany); Diploma in biochemical technology | geneticist; recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | [95][96] | |
Amitabh Joshi | BSc (Botany); M.Sc. (1988) | evolutionary biologist; recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | [97] | ||
Amitava Raychaudhuri | 1973 | M.Sc. (Physics) | particle physicist; recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | [98] | |
Anil Grover | 1977; 1979 | B.Sc.; M.Sc. | plant molecular biologist, N-Bios laureate | [99] | |
Anil Kumar Tyagi | biochemist; recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | [100] | |||
Apurva Sarin | cell biologist, N-Bios laureate | [101] | |||
Archana Bhattacharyya | B.Sc (Physics); M.Sc. (Physics) | physicist; Director of the Indian Institute of Geomagnetism | |||
Asoke Nath Mitra | 1947; 1949 | B.Sc (Mathematics) | Ramjas College | physicist; recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | |
B. K. Misra | 1980 | M.S. (General Surgery) | neurosurgeon; recipient of the Dr. B. C. Roy Award, the highest medical honour in India | [102] | |
Charusita Chakravarty | B.Sc. (Chemistry) | St. Stephen's College | professor of chemistryatIIT Delhi; recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | ||
Deepak Kumar | St. Stephen's College | physicist; recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | [103] | ||
Eknath Prabhakar Ghate | St. Stephen's College | mathematician; recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | |||
Gaiti Hasan | 1976 | B.Sc. (Zoology) | Miranda House | molecular biologist | [104] |
Hirdaya Behari Mathur | 1948 | chemist; recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | [105] | ||
Jogesh Pati | 1957 | M.Sc. | physicist at the University of Maryland, College Park, recipient of the Dirac Medal | [106] | |
Kasturi Lal Chopra | 1952; 1954 | ||||
Meena Upadhyaya | medical geneticist | ||||
N. A. Ramaiah | physical chemist; recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | ||||
Pran Nath | 1958 | physicist at Northeastern University | |||
Raj Rewal | 1954 | Department of Architecture[note 3] | architect | ||
Rajinder Kumar | Delhi College of Engineering[note 1] | chemical engineer, former professor at the Indian Institute of Science | |||
Ravi Grover | 1970 | Delhi College of Engineering[note 1] | nuclear scientist and mechanical engineer; Padma Shri recipient | ||
S. C. Jain | physicist; recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | [107] | |||
Sampat Kumar Tandon | 1972 | PhD | geologist; recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | [108] | |
Sangeeta Malhotra | 1988 | B.Sc. | Hansraj College | astrophysicist; Fellow of the American Astronomical Society | |
Satish Chandra Maheshwari | St. Stephen's College | molecular biologist; recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | [109] | ||
Satish Kumar Gupta | B.Sc. | immunologist; recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | [110] | ||
Suresh Chandra Rai | geographer | [111] | |||
Shasanka Mohan Roy | 1960; 1962 | B.Sc.; M.Sc. | quantum physicist; recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | [112] | |
Srinivasan Varadarajan | 1952 | PhD | chemist and Padma Bhushan awardee | [113] | |
Subhash Chandra Lakhotia | 1971 | cytogeneticist; recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | |||
Sushil Kumar | 1960 | Hansraj College | geneticist; recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | ||
Usha Kehar Luthra | Lady Hardinge Medical College | pathologist and cytologist | |||
V. Balakrishnan | St. Stephen's College | Professor of Physics at IIT Madras | |||
Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman | 1952 | B.Sc. (Physics) | St. Stephen's College | engineer, academic and writer, known for his pioneering efforts in the field of computer science education in India | |
Vinod Dham | B.E. (Electrical Engineering) | Delhi College of Engineering[note 1] | inventor of the Pentium chip | ||
V. K. Dadhwal | B.Sc. (Botany) | Hansraj College | Director of Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology |
Name | Affiliation | College | Notability | References |
---|---|---|---|---|
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 | [125] | ||
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 College | Pakistani historian | [64] |
Jagdish N. Bhagwati | professor of international trade at the Delhi School of Economics 1962–1968 | |||
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 | [126] |
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 | [64] |
Pradip Krishen | Lecturer in History at Ramjas College | Ramjas College | eminent film-maker | [127] |
Pranab Bardhan | Professor (1973 to 1977) | Delhi School of Economics | Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley | [128] |
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 | |||
Rama Kant Shukla | former reader at Rajdhani College | Rajdhani College | Padma Shri Awardee, Hindi and Sanskrit scholar | [129] |
Ram Babu Gupta | Cricket Umpire | Rajdhani College | first Indian umpire to umpire a Cricket World Cup final in 1987 | [130] |
Saleem Kidwai | former Professor of History at Ramjas College | Ramjas College | eminent gay rights activist | [131] |
Sampat Kumar Tandon | former pro-vice chancellor, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [108] | ||
Santosh Kumar Sen | Head of post graduate studies | Maulana Azad Medical College | Indian surgeon and Padma Bhushan recipient | [132] |
Surendra Sheodas Barlingay | logician and Marathi writer | |||
Sushil Kumar Saxena | arts, Indian author, music critic and exponent | |||
Tista Bagchi | professor of linguistics | |||
Tapan Raychaudhuri | Indian historian | |||
T. A. Venkitasubramanian | former professor of biochemistry, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize recipient |
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Before he became a senior Congress leader, Salman Khurshid studied at St Stephen's and at Oxford.