List of Delhi University people

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.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Nobel laureates

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]

Activists

Name	Class year	Degree	College	Notability	References
Aruna Roy			Indraprastha	founder of Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan	[4]
Bunker Roy	1967		St. Stephen's	social activist and educator	[5]
Rahul Verma			Delhi College of Arts and Commerce	social worker, columnist and founder of Uday Foundation	[6]
Sunita Narain	1983		School of Open Learning	environmentalist, director of Centre for Science and Environment	[7]
Urvashi Butalia			Reader at College of Vocational Studies	founder of Zubaan, a feminist publishing house

Arts, entertainment and television

Name	Class year	Degree	College	Notability	References
Aarti Bajaj			Hansraj College	film editor
Abish Mathew			Ram Lal Anand College	Indian comedian and YouTuber
Abhinav Kashyap	1995	B.A. (English)	Hansraj College	film director and screenwriter	[8]
Abhishek Chaubey	1998		Hindu College	film director	[9]
Aditi Arya			Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies	model and actress	[10]
Aditi Rao Hydari			Lady Shri Ram	actress	[11]
Alankrita Sahai			Gargi College	model
Ali Abbas Zafar			Kirori Mal College	film director	[12]
Amba Sanyal			Delhi College of Art[note 1]	stage actor and costume designer	[13]
Amitabh Bachchan			Sri Aurobindo College	actor	[14]
Anjolie Ela Menon			Miranda House	artist	[15]
Aneet Padda			Jesus and Mary	actress	[16]
Ankita Shorey	2013	B.A. (History)	Jesus and Mary	model, Femina Miss India International (2011)
Anu Aggarwal				actress
Anurag Kashyap			Hansraj College	filmmaker	[17]
Arjun Rampal	1993		Hindu College	actor	[17][11]
Ashvin Kumar			St Stephen's	independent filmmaker	[18]
Baisali Mohanty			Lady Shri Ram	Odissi dancer
Benjamin Gilani		M.A. (English)	St Stephen's	actor
Chitrangada Singh		BSc (Home Science)	Lady Irwin College	actress	[19]
Deepa Mehta			Lady Shri Ram	director
Devika Vaid		BCom		model and beauty queen	[citation needed]
Dipannita Sharma			Indraprastha	actress	[20]
Ekta Chowdhry				model
Gauri Khan			Sri Aurobindo College	film producer and co-owner of Red Chillies Entertainment	[4]
Geeta Chandran			Lady Shri Ram	Bharatanatyam dancer
Gulshan Grover			Shri Ram College of Commerce	actor	[21]
Hasleen Kaur			Jesus and Mary	model	[22]
Huma Qureshi	2007	B.A. (History)	Sri Aurobindo College	film actress and model	[23][11]
Indrani Dasgupta		B.A. (Economics)	Miranda House	model
Imtiaz Ali	1993		Hindu College	film director	[17]
Imran Zahid		BCom	Hindu College	theatre and film actor
Jaspinder Narula		B.A. (Music) PhD (Hindustani Music)	Indraprastha Faculty of Music and Fine Arts	playback singer	[24]
Kabir Bedi			St Stephen's	film actor	[25]
Kabir Khan			Kirori Mal College	film director and screenwriter	[26]
Kahlil Joseph		B.A. (English)	Ramjas College	American actor and director	[27]
Karan Oberoi		BCom (Hons)		fitness model
Konkona Sen Sharma	2001		St Stephen's	actor	[17]
Koyal Rana	2014		Deen Dayal Upadhyaya	model
Krishnakumar Kunnath		BCom	Kirori Mal College	singer	[26]
Kulbhushan Kharbanda			Kirori Mal College	film actor
Madhumita Raut			Indraprastha	Odissi dancer
Madhur Jaffrey	1953	B.A. (English)	Miranda House	actress and food critic
Mallika Sherawat		B.A. (Philosophy)	Miranda House	actress	[4]
Maneesh Sharma		B.A. (English Literature)	Hansraj College	film director
Manish Paul		B.A. (Tourism)	College of Vocational Studies	television host and stand-up comedian	[28]
Manish Jha		B.A. (English)	Ramjas College	director	[29]
Manoj Bajpayee	1989	B.A. (History)	Ramjas College	Bollywood actor	[17]
Manpreet Brar			Lady Irwin	model
Manushi Chhillar	did not graduate		Miranda House	actress and model	[30]
Marc Robinson		M.A. (Economics)	Delhi School of Economics	supermodel, fashion director and fashion choreographer	[31]
Mini Mathur		B.A. (English Literature)	Lady Shri Ram	television host and actress
Minissha Lamba			Miranda House	film actor	[17]
Mira Nair		B.A. (Sociology)	Miranda House	director
Mohit Marwah	did not graduate		Shaheed Bhagat Singh College		[32]
Mrinalini Sharma			Jesus and Mary	actress
Nandita Das			Miranda House; Delhi School of Social Work	actress	[15]
Nandita Chandra			Lady Shri Ram	theatre actor
Naveen Kasturia		BTech (MPAE)	NSIT[note 2]	film actor and assistant director	[citation needed]
Neetu Chandra			Indraprastha	model and actress
Neeraj Pandey			Sri Aurobindo College	director, writer and producer
Neha Dhupia		B.A. (History)	Jesus and Mary	actress	[24][11]
Nimrat Kaur		BCom	Shri Ram College of Commerce	actress
Nivedita Tiwari	2006	B.A. (English)	Ramjas College	actress	[citation needed]
Palash Sen		MBBS	University College of Medical Sciences	founder of rock band Euphoria
Pamella Bordes			Lady Shri Ram	model and photographer
Parikshit Sahni			St. Stephen's	actor
Parvin Dabas			Hansraj College	actor
Pathik Vats			Ramjas College	dialogue-writer	[33]
Pavan Malhotra			Hansraj College	actor	[34]
Prakash Jha	did not graduate	BSc (Physics)	Ramjas College	director	[8][35]
Priyanka Kothari			Dyal Singh	actress
Priyanshu Chatterjee			Ram Lal Anand	film actor
Rabbi Shergill			Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College	singer, musician
Radhika Madan			Jesus and Mary	actress	[36]
Rahul Roy			Ramjas College	actor	[29]
Rajesh Hamal		M.A. (English Literature)
Rajkumar Gupta			Ramjas College	Bollywood director	[citation needed]
Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra			Shri Ram College of Commerce	director	[8]
Rakul Preet Singh	2012	BSc (Maths)	Jesus and Mary	actress
Rannvijay Singh			Hansraj College	VJ with MTV India; current host and director of MTV Roadies	[17]
Rati Pandey		B.A. (Economics)	Miranda House	actress
Rekha Bhardwaj		B.A. (Music)	Hindu College	singer
Richa Chadda			St. Stephen's	actress	[37]
Ritu Kumar			Lady Irwin	fashion designer
Ritu Beri			Lady Shri Ram	fashion designer	[4]
Rohit Bal		B.A. (History)	St Stephen's	fashion designer
Roshan Seth			St Stephen's	actor	[38]
Saakshi Tanwar			Lady Shri Ram	TV actor, star of Star Plus daily Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii
Sandali Sinha			Lady Shri Ram	actress and model
Sanya Malhotra			Gargi	actress	[11][39]
Satish Kaushik			Kirori Mal College	actor and film director	[14]
Saurabh Shukla			Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College	actor, director
Shah Rukh Khan	1988		Hansraj College	Bollywood actor	[17]
Shakti Kapoor			Kirori Mal College	actor
Shanky Singh	2010		Maharaja Agrasen	CWE wrestler
Sharan Rani Backliwal			Indraprastha	sarod player; recipient of Padma Shri and Padma Vibhushan
Shekhar Kapur		B.A. (Economics)	St Stephen's	film director
Shekhar Suman		B.A. (History)	Ramjas College	Bollywood actor; TV personality	[29][40]
Shikha Swaroop			St Stephen's	Miss India
Shonali Nagrani			Lady Shri Ram	model and actress
Shriya Saran		B.A.	Lady Shri Ram	actress
Siddharth			Kirori Mal College	actor
Siddharth Malhotra		BCom	Shaheed Bhagat Singh	actor	[41][11]
Siddhartha Basu			Hindu College	television producer and quizmaster
Sonal Chauhan			Gargi	model and actress	[11]
Sriti Jha			Sri Venkateswara College	actress
Sushant Singh Rajput	did not graduate		Delhi College of Engineering[note 3]	actor	[42]
Swara Bhaskar			Miranda	actress
Tahir Raj Bhasin			Hindu College	actor	[43]
Tisca Chopra			Hindu College	actress
Vikas Bahl			Ramjas College	director	[29]
Vipin Patwa			Ramjas College	music composer; singer	[44]
Vishal Bhardwaj			Hindu College	director	[11]

Business

Name	Class year	Degree	College	Notability	References
Aditya Jha				philanthropist and global entrepreneur
Ajaypal Singh Banga		B.A. (Economics)	St. Stephen's	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	[45]
Ivan Menezes			St. Stephen's	CEO of Diageo
Naina Lal Kidwai	1977		Lady Shri Ram	Chief Executive Officer, HSBC India
Piyush Gupta		B.A. (Economics)	St. Stephen's	CEO and Director of DBS Group
Rahul Bajaj	1958	B.A. (Economics)	St. Stephen's	billionaire businessman and chairman of the Bajaj Group	[46]
Samir Jain			St. Stephen's	Vice-chairman and publisher, The Times Group
Sanjeev Bikhchandani	1984	B.A. (Economics)	St. Stephen's	billionaire businessman; co-founder and CEO, Naukri.com	[47]
Shikha Sharma			Lady Shri Ram	Managing Director and CEO of Axis Bank
Siddhartha Lal	1994		St. Stephen's	CEO, Eicher Motors
Vinita Bali	1975		Lady Shri Ram	Former Managing Director of Britannia Industries
Vijay Shekhar Sharma			Delhi College of Engineering[note 3]	billionaire businessman and founder of Paytm
Viresh Oberoi			Hansraj College	Former CEO of Mjunction
Vivek Chaand Sehgal				billionaire businessman and chairman of Motherson Sumi Systems	[48]

Educationists

Name	Class year	Degree	College	Notability	References
Paranjoy Guha Thakurta			St. Stephen's; Delhi School of Economics	Director, School of Convergence
Sanjay Kumar		B.A. (Political Science)	Ramjas College	Former Director, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies	[49]
Vivek Bhandari			St. Stephen's	director, Institute of Rural Management, Anand

Humanities and social sciences

Name	Class year	Degree	College	Notability	References
Arundhati Virmani			Indraprashtha	historian
Gita Gopinath	1992; 1994	B.A.; M.A. (Economics)	Lady Shri Ram; Delhi School of Economics	Economic Counsellor of the International Monetary Fund	[15][50]
Gauri Viswanathan		B.A.; M.A.		literary scholar; Class of 1933 Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University	[51]
Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi			St. Stephen's	historian
Jasleen Dhamija			Miranda House	art historian	[52]
Kapila Vatsyayan				art scholar; chairperson of IGNCA; recipient of the Padma Vibhushan	[53]
Kaushik Basu			St. Stephen's	Former Chief Economist of the World Bank and Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India	[54]
Omkar Goswami	1978		Delhi School of Economics	Chairman and founder, CERG Advisor
Partha Dasgupta	1962		Hansraj College	Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Cambridge
Reenee Singh	1984;1990	B.A: M.A.(Psychology)	Lady Shri Ram College	Former Editor Journal of Family Therapy
Ramnarayan Rawat				historian of South Asia
Sanjay Jain	1986	B.A. (Economics)	St. Stephen's	Lecturer of Economics at the University of Oxford
Upinder Singh			St. Stephen's	historian
Usha Sanyal				historian	[24]
Utsa Patnaik			Indraprashtha	Professor of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Veena Das			Indraprashtha	Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University

Law

Supreme Court judges

Name	Class year	Degree	College	Notability	References
Arjan Kumar Sikri			Faculty of Law	former Judge of the Supreme Court of India, former Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court
Hima Kohli		B.A. (History); LLB	St. Stephen's; Faculty of Law	former Judge of the Supreme Court of India, former Chief Justice of Hyderabad High Court	[55]
Hrishikesh Roy	1982	B.A. LLB	Faculty of Law	Judge of the Supreme Court of India
Indu Malhotra	1982	B.A. (Political Science); M.A. (Political Science); LLB	Lady Shri Ram; Faculty of Law	former Judge of the Supreme Court of India
N. Kotiswar Singh	1983; 1986		Kirori Mal College; Faculty of Law	Judge of the Supreme Court of India
Madan Lokur	1974; 1977	B.A.; LLB	St. Stephen's; Faculty of Law	former Judge of Supreme Court of India; former Chief Justice of Hyderabad High Court	[56]
Madan Mohan Punchhi			Faculty of Law	28th Chief Justice of India	[57]
Qadeeruddin Ahmed			St. Stephen's	former Judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan
Ranjan Gogoi		B.A. (History); LLB	St. Stephen's; Faculty of Law	46th Chief Justice of India
Rohinton Fali Nariman		BCom; LLB	Shri Ram College of Commerce; Faculty of Law	former judge of the Supreme Court of India
Sanjay Kishan Kaul	1982	LLB	Faculty of Law	former Judge of the Supreme Court of India, former Chief Justice of the High Court of Punjab and Haryana	[57]
P. S. Narasimha	1988	LLB	Faculty of Law	Judge of the Supreme Court of India
P. V. Sanjay Kumar	1988	LLB	Faculty of Law	Judge of the Supreme Court of India
Sanjiv Khanna	1980; 1982	LLB	Faculty of Law	51st Chief Justice of India
Vikramajit Sen			St. Stephen's; Faculty of Law	former Judge of the Supreme Court of India, former Chief Justice of the High Court of Karnataka
Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal			Ramjas College; Faculty of Law	36th Chief Justice of India	[58]
Yogeshwar Dayal	1953	LLB	Faculty of Law	former Judge of Supreme Court of India; former Chief Justice of Hyderabad High Court	[59]
B. V. Nagarathna	1984	B.A. (History); LLB	Jesus and Mary College; Faculty of Law	former Judge of Supreme Court of India; former Judge of Karnataka High Court	[60]

Others

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	B.A. (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

Literature

Name	Class year	Degree	College	Notability	References
Ali Sardar Jafri			Zakir Hussain Delhi College	Urdu author and poet
Alka Pande	1976	B.A. (Economics)	Jesus and Mary	author and museum curator
Amitav Ghosh			St. Stephen's; Delhi School of Economics	English language author
Anita Desai			Miranda House	writer	[54]
Khushwant Singh			St. Stephen's	author best known for his novel Train to Pakistan; Padma Vibhushan recipient	[25]
Kunzang Choden		B.A. (Psychology)		writer	[24]
Mukul Kesavan			St. Stephen's	historian, novelist and political and social essayist
Mohan Rana				Hindi poet
Nabila Jamshed				writer
Namita Gokhale		B.A. (English)		co-founder of Jaipur Literature Festival	[24]
Narendra Kohli			Ramjas College	Hindi author	[63]
Shauna Singh Baldwin	1982	BCom	Jesus and Mary	novelist
Shiv Khera				writer
Upamanyu Chatterjee			St. Stephen's	writer

Military

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	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	retired lieutenant general in the Indian Army

Media

Name	Class year	Degree	College	Notability	References
Anna M. M. Vetticad	1994	BCom	Jesus and Mary	Former entertainment editor at India Today
Pallavi Aiyar		B.A. (Psychology)	St. Stephen's	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	economist and Former editor of The Economic Times
Niret J. Alva				television producer and CEO, Miditech
Ambika Anand	2001	B.A. (Economics)	Jesus and Mary	Editor-in-Chief, fashion at NDTV Good Times	[24]
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 Baat on Aaj Tak
Swapan Dasgupta	1975	B.A.	St. Stephen's	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	[67]
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
Tanvir Gill	2012	BCom	Jesus and Mary	news anchor at CNBC

Politics and government

Heads of state and government

Name	Class year	Degree	College	Notability	References
Aung San Suu Kyi	1964	B.A. (Political Science)	Lady Shri Ram College	1st State Counsellor of Myanmar	[2]
Bingu wa Mutharika	1961 1963	BCom M.A. (Economics)	Shri Ram College of Commerce; Delhi School of Economics	3rd President of Malawi	[68][69]
G.P. Koirala			Kirori Mal College	30th Prime Minister of Nepal
Khandu Wangchuk	1974		St. Stephen's	Former Prime Minister of Bhutan	[70]
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq	1943	B.A. (History)	St. Stephen's	6th President of Pakistan	[71][64]
Narendra Modi	1978	B.A. (Political Science)	School of Open Learning	14th Prime Minister of India	[72][73]
Salim Ahmed Salim	1968		St. Stephen's	4th Prime Minister of Tanzania	[64]
Sangay Ngedup			St. Stephen's	Former Prime Minister of Bhutan
Harini Amarasuriya	1991-94	B.A. (Sociology)	Hindu College	Prime Minister of Sri Lanka	[74]

Other politicians and royalty

Name	Class year	Degree	College	Notability	References
Ajay Maken				Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation	[75]
Alka Lamba			Dyal Singh; St. Stephen's	Member of Legislative Assembly	[75]
Ambika Soni			Indraprastha	Former Minister of Information and Broadcasting	[24]
Amrita Meghwal				Member of Legislative Assembly
Arun Jaitley	1973; 1977	BCom; LLB	Shri Ram College of Commerce; Faculty of Law	Former Minister of Defence and Minister of Finance	[75]
Arun Shourie			St. Stephen's	Former Minister for Communications & Information Technology and Member of Parliament	[54]
Arvinder Singh Lovely			Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College	Former Minister for Urban Development & Revenue, Education, Transport, Tourism, Languages, Gurudwara Election, Local Bodies & Gurudwara Administration
Brahm Prakash			Ramjas College	first Chief Minister of Delhi	[29]
Brinda Karat			Miranda House	Member of Parliament	[4]
Chirag Paswan				Member of Parliament
Devyani Rana				Member of the Nepalese royal family
Emmanuel Blayo Wakhweya	1960			Ugandan Minister of Finance
Gopalkrishna Gandhi			St. Stephen's	Former Governor of Bihar and Governor of West Bengal
Gurmukh Nihal Singh			Ramjas College	fourth Principal of Ramjas College; second Chief Minister of Delhi	[76]
Dr. Harsh Vardhan			Zakir Husain Delhi College	Minister of Health and Family Welfare since 2014, Chairman of the WHO Executive Board
Holkhomang Haokip			Ramjas College	Member of Parliament	[77]
Jai Parkash Aggarwal				Member of Parliament
Jarbom Gamlin				Former Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh
Kapil Sibal		LLB	Faculty of Law	Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Government of India
Karni Singh			St. Stephen's	last titular maharaja of Bikaner	[64]
Kiren Rijju		B.A.; LLB	Hansraj College; Faculty of Law	Member of Parliament	[78]
Laxmi Narayan Yadav				Member of Parliament
Madanlal Khurana			Kirori Mal College	Former Chief Minister of Delhi
Mahesh Sharma			University College of Medical Sciences
Manjinder Singh Sirsa			Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College	President of Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee
Mani Shankar Aiyar		B.A. (Economics)	St. Stephen's	Member of Parliament	[25]
Maneka Gandhi			Lady Shri Ram	Minister of Women and Child Development	[15]
Mayawati	1975	B.A.; LLB	Kalindi; Faculty of Law	Former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh	[79]
Mazel Ampareen Lyngdoh	2008	B.A. (English)	Jesus and Mary	Cabinet Minister, Government of Meghalaya
Meenakshi Lekhi		BSc (Botany); LLB	Hindu College; Faculty of Law	Member of Parliament
Meira Kumar			Indraprashta; Miranda House	Former Minister of Water Resources, Speaker of the Lok Sabha, and Indian presidential candidate in 2017	[24]
Montek Singh Ahluwalia		B.A.	St. Stephen's	Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission	[54]
Murtaza Ali Khan			St. Stephen's	last titular nawab of Rampur
Naresh Gujral				Member of Parliament
Naveen Jindal	1990		Hansraj College	Member of Parliament
Naveen Patnaik		B.A.	Kirori Mal College	Former Chief Minister of Odisha
Pratap Keshari Deb	1992	B.A.	Ramjas College	Former Member of the Rajya Sabha	[80]
Priyanka Gandhi	2010	B.A. (Psychology); M.A. (Buddhist Studies)	Jesus and Mary; Department of Buddhist Studies	general secretary of Indian National Congress
Rahul Gandhi	did not graduate		St. Stephen's	Indian National Congress Member of Parliament (from Amethi Lok Sabha constituency)
Rangarajan Kumaramangalam	1977		Kirori Mal College	Former Minister of Power
Ranbir Singh Hooda	1937		Ramjas College	eminent politician from Rohtak; member of multiple Lok Sabhas	[81]
Raninder Singh			St. Stephen's		[citation needed]
Ranjib Biswal			St. Stephen's	Member of Parliament
Sachin Pilot		B.A.	St. Stephen's	Deputy Chief Minister of Rajasthan	[54][82]
Salman Khurshid			St. Stephen's	Former Minister of External Affairs	[54][83]
Sangeeta Kumari Singh Deo	1981	B.A. (Political Science)	Jesus and Mary	Member of Parliament
Sarup Singh			Ramjas College	Former Governor of Gujarat and Governor of Kerala	[84]
Satish Upadhyay		B.A. (Political Science)		Vice Chairman of New Delhi Municipal Council
Shashi Tharoor		B.A. (History)	St. Stephen's	Minister of State for External Affairs; Former U.N. Under Secretary General	[85][86]
Sheila Dikshit		M.A. (History)	Miranda House	Former Chief Minister of Delhi	[4]
Smriti Irani			School of Open Learning	Former Minister of Information and Broadcasting and Minister of Human Resource Development
Somnath Bharti		BSc Mathematics	Ramjas College	Former Law Minister of Delhi	[87]
Subramanian Swamy			Hindu College		[25]
Sucheta Kripalani			Indraprastha	Former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, India's first woman Chief Minister	[67][64]
Thupstan Chhewang	1967	B.A.; LLB	Ramjas College; Faculty of Law	Member of Parliament	[88]
Tulsi Agarwal				Bharatiya Janata Party politician
Virbhadra Singh		B.A.	St. Stephen's	Former Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh
Vijay Goel		MCom.	Shri Ram College of Commerce	Member of Parliament	[75]
Vijay Jolly		BCom; MCom.	Shri Ram College of Commerce	MLA	[75]
Syed Zafar Islam		Ph.D.		investment banker and Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha, Former Director at Deutsche Bank and spokesperson of Bharatiya Janata Party

Civil servants

Name	Class year	Degree	College	Notability	References
Ajai Malhotra		B.A. (Economics); M.A. (Economics)	Hindu College; Delhi School of Economics	Ambassador of India to Russia
Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta		B.A. (Political Science)	Ramjas College	Director General of Police of Assam	[89]
Ira Singhal			NSIT[note 2]	Indian Administrative Service officer
Javeed Ahmad			St. Stephen's	Director General of Police of Uttar Pradesh Police
Lala Hardayal			St. Stephen's
Kiran Bedi	1988	LLB	Faculty of Law	first woman to become an Indian Police Service officer
Montek Singh Ahluwalia		B.A.	St. Stephen's	Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission	[90]
Najeeb Jung		B.A. (History); M.A. (History)	St. Stephen's	20th Lieutenant Governor of Delhi
Navin Chawla	1966	B.A. (History)	St. Stephen's	Chief Election Commissioner of India; author of Mother Teresa's biography
P. N. Dhar			Hindu College	principal secretary to Indira Gandhi's Prime Minister's office
Pradeep Kumar Sinha			St. Stephen's; Delhi School of Economics	31st Cabinet Secretary of India
S. Y. Quraishi			St. Stephen's	17th Chief Election Commissioner of India
Shaktikanta Das		B.A. (History); M.A. (History)	St. Stephen's	25th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India	[91]
Syeda Saiyidain Hameed	1963	B.A.	Miranda House	Former member of the Planning Commission of India
Vinod Rai			Delhi School of Economics	11th Comptroller and Auditor General of India
Vivekanand Sinha		B.A. in History	Ramjas College	Additional Director General of Police of Chhattisgarh	[92]
Wajahat Habibullah	1965; 1967	B.A. (History); M.A. (History)	St. Stephen's	1st Chief Information Commissioner of India	[93]
Poonam Gupta (Economist)	1991	B.A. (Economics); M.A. (Economics)	Hindu College Delhi School of Economics	Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India

Diplomats

Name	Class year	Degree	College	Notability	References
Abhay Kumar			Kirori Mal College	Former Honorary Consul of India to Comoros
Ajai Malhotra		B.A. (Economics); M.A. (Economics)	Hindu College; Delhi School of Economics	Former Ambassador of India to Russia
Ajay Bisaria	1983	B.A. (Economics)	St. Stephen’s College	Former High commissioner of India to Pakistan
Arindam Bagchi		BSc. (Mathematics)	St. Stephen’s College	Permanent Representative of India to the UN at Geneva
Arun Kumar Singh		B.A. (Economics)		Former Ambassador of India to the United States
Chandrashekhar Dasgupta		B.A. (Economics)		Former Ambassador of India to China
Hardeep Singh Puri			Hindu College	Former Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations
Harsh Vardhan Shringla		B.A.	St. Stephen’s College	33rd Foreign Secretary of India
Jyotindra Nath Dixit		B.A. Honours M.A. (International Relations)	Zakir Husain College; Department of Political Science	2nd National Security Advisor of India; 18th Foreign Secretary of India
K. P. S. Menon Jr.			St. Stephen’s College	15th Foreign Secretary of India
Pankaj Saran		B.A. (Economics); M.A. (Economics)	Hindu College; Delhi School of Economics	Deputy National Security Advisor of India; Former Ambassador of India to Russia
Pavan Varma		B.A. (History)	St. Stephen’s College	Former Ambassador of India to Bhutan
Pooja Kapur				Former Ambassador of India to Bulgaria and Macedonia
Preeti Saran			Lady Shri Ram	Former Ambassador of India to Vietnam
Rakesh Sood		BSc. (Physics)	St. Stephen’s College	Former Ambassador of India to China
Raminder Jassal				Former Ambassador of India to Israel
Raveesh Kumar		B.A. (History)	Hansraj College	Ambassador of India in Czech Republic
Riva Ganguly Das		M.A. (Political Science)	Department of Political Science	Former Secretary (East) Ministry of External Affairs
Ruchira Kamboj		M.A. (Political Science)	Department of Political Science	Former Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations
Salman Haidar			St. Stephen’s College	20th Foreign Secretary of India
Shivshankar Menon		M.A. (History)	St. Stephen’s College	4th National Security Advisor of India; 27th Foreign Secretary of India
Sujatha Singh			Lady Shri Ram; Delhi School of Economics	30th Foreign Secretary of India
T. C. A. Raghavan			St. Stephen’s College	Former High commissioner of India to Pakistan
Veena Sikri		M.A. (Economics)		Former High Commissioner of India to Bangladesh
Vijay Keshav Gokhale		B.A. (History) M.A. (History)		32nd Foreign Secretary of India	[94][95]
Vikram Doraiswami		M.A. (History)	Department of History	High Commissioner of India to the United Kingdom
Vikram Misri		B.A. (History)	Hindu College	35th Foreign Secretary of India	[96]

Science and engineering

Name	Class year	Degree	College	Notability	References
Ajai K. Singh	1977	MSc; Ph.D. (chemistry)		Professor of chemistry; fellow Royal Society of Chemistry; member of American Chemical Society
Ajoy Ghatak		MSc (Physics)		physicist; recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize
Amolak Chand Jain	1948; 1950	BSc (Chemistry)		chemist; recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize	[97]
Amit Dutt	1994; 1995	BSc (Botany); Diploma in Biochemical Technology		geneticist; recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize	[98][99]
Amitabh Joshi		BSc (Botany); MSc (1988)		evolutionary biologist; recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize	[100]
Amitava Raychaudhuri	1973	MSc (Physics)		particle physicist; recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize	[101]
Anil Grover	1977; 1979	BSc; MSc		plant molecular biologist, N-Bios laureate	[102]
Anil Kumar Tyagi				biochemist; recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize	[103]
Apurva Sarin				cell biologist, N-Bios laureate	[104]
Archana Bhattacharyya		BSc (Physics); MSc (Physics)		physicist; Director of the Indian Institute of Geomagnetism
Asoke Nath Mitra	1947; 1949	BSc (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	[105]
Charusita Chakravarty		BSc (Chemistry)	St. Stephen's	Professor of chemistry at IIT Delhi; recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize
Deepak Kumar			St. Stephen's	physicist; recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize	[106]
Eknath Prabhakar Ghate			St. Stephen's	mathematician; recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize
Gaiti Hasan	1976	BSc (Zoology)	Miranda House	molecular biologist	[107]
Hirdaya Behari Mathur	1948			chemist; recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize	[108]
Jogesh Pati	1957	MSc		physicist at the University of Maryland, College Park, recipient of the Dirac Medal	[109]
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 1]	architect
Rajinder Kumar			Delhi College of Engineering[note 3]	chemical engineer, Former Professor at the Indian Institute of Science
Ravi Grover	1970		Delhi College of Engineering[note 3]	nuclear scientist and mechanical engineer; Padma Shri recipient
S. C. Jain				physicist; recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize	[110]
Sampat Kumar Tandon	1972	PhD		geologist; recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize	[111]
Sangeeta Malhotra	1988	BSc	Hansraj College	astrophysicist; Fellow of the American Astronomical Society
Satish Chandra Maheshwari			St. Stephen's	molecular biologist; recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize	[112]
Satish Kumar Gupta		BSc		immunologist; recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize	[113]
Shasanka Mohan Roy	1960; 1962	BSc; MSc		quantum physicist; recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize	[114]
Srinivasan Varadarajan	1952	PhD		chemist and Padma Bhushan awardee	[115]
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	Professor of Physics at IIT Madras
Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman	1952	BSc (Physics)	St. Stephen's	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 3]	inventor of the Pentium chip
V. K. Dadhwal		BSc (Botany)	Hansraj College	Director of Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology

Sports

Name	Class year	Degree	College	Sport	References
Aditi Chauhan			Jesus and Mary	Football
Ajay Jadeja			Hindu College	Cricket	[116]
Akash Chopra			Rajdhani	Cricket
Aman Saini		B.A. Programme	Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College	Shooting	[117]
Amoj Jacob	2019	BCom	Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa	Athletics	[118]
Anjum Chopra			St. Stephen's	Cricket
Ankita Bhambri	2010	B.A. Programme	Jesus and Mary	Tennis
Apurvi Chandela	2014	B.A. (Sociology)	Jesus and Mary	Shooting	[119]
Arun Lal		BCom	St. Stephen's	Cricket	[64]
Ashok Gandotra		M.A.	St. Stephen's	Cricket	[64]
Ashish Nehra			Rajdhani	Cricket
Dalima Chhibber			Jesus and Mary	Football
Deep Dasgupta			Hindu College	Cricket	[116]
Gautam Gambhir	did not graduate	B.A. Programme	Hindu College	Cricket
Gaurav Bidhuri	2012		Kirori Mal College	Boxing
Hari Gidwani			Hindu College	Cricket	[120][121]
Jaspal Rana			St. Stephen's; Sri Aurobindo College	Shooting	[64][118]
Kirti Azad	1981	B.A. (History)	St. Stephen's	Cricket
Lalit Mathur	2017		Sri Guru Nanak Dev Khalsa College	Athletics	[122]
Manika Batra	did not graduate	B.A. (Sociology)	Jesus and Mary	Table Tennis	[123]
Maninder Singh			Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa	Cricket
Mansher Singh			St. Stephen's	Shooting	[64]
Manu Bhaker	2022	B.A. (Political Science)	Lady Shri Ram	Shooting	[118][124]
Manvinder Bisla			Hindu College	Cricket	[116]
Maheshwari Chauhan	2017	B.A. (Philosophy)	Lady Shri Ram	Shooting	[118]
Mohinder Amarnath			Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa	Cricket
Murali Kartik			Hindu College	Cricket	[125]
Navdeep Singh	2021	B.A. (Hindi)	Sri Venkateswara	Javelin Throw
Pincky Balhara	2019	B.A. Programme	Gargi College	Kurash	[126]
Prachi Tehlan	2007	BCom	Jesus and Mary	Netball
Prakash Bhandari			Hindu College	Cricket	[116]
Pranav Soorma			Delhi School of Economics	Club Throw
Prashanti Singh			School of Open Learning	Basketball
Praveen Kumar			Ramjas College	Cricket	[29]
Praveen Kumar	2022	B.A. Programme	Motilal Nehru	Athletics
Pratima Singh	2010		Jesus and Mary	Basketball
Raghbir Singh Bhola		B.E. (Electrical Engineering)	Delhi College of Engineering[note 3]	Hockey
Rajeshwari Kumari	did not graduate	B.A. Programme	Sri Venkateswara	Shooting	[118]
Ramita Jindal	2025	BCom (Hons)	Hansraj College	Shooting	[118]
Randhir Singh		B.A. (History)	St. Stephen's	Shooting	[64]
Rishabh Pant		BCom	Sri Venkateswara	Cricket	[127]
Rhythm Sangwan	2026	B.A. (English)	Lady Shri Ram	Shooting	[118]
Saba Karim	1988	BCom (Hons)	Hindu College	Cricket	[128][116]
Sanaa Bhambri			Jesus and Mary	Tennis
Sandeep Chaudhary	2015	BSc (Botany)	Hansraj College	Javelin Throw
Sandeep Sejwal			St. Stephen's	Swimming
Sharad Kumar	2013	B.A. (Political Science)	Kirori Mal College	High Jump
Shreyasi Singh	2012	B.A. Programme	Hansraj College	Shooting	[118]
Shyam Lal Meena			Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa	Archery
Sumit Antil	2018	BCom	Ramjas College	Javelin Throw	[129]
Sunil Valson			Hindu College	Cricket	[116]
Tania Sachdev			Sri Venkateswara	Chess
Unmukt Chand			St. Stephen's	Cricket	[130][131][11]
Vijay Mehra			St. Stephen's	Cricket	[64]
Vinay Lamba			Hindu College	Cricket	[116]
Yogesh Kathuniya	2018; 2020	BCom; MCom	Kirori Mal College; School of Open Learning	Discus Throw

Notable faculty

Name	Affiliation	College	Notability	References
Amartya Sen	Professor of Economics (1963–1971)	Delhi School of Economics	Recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998	[3]
Anil Kumari Malhotra	Principal	Nehru Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital	Padma Shri recipient (2016)
Andre Beteille	Professor Emeritus of Sociology	Delhi School of Economics	Padma Bhushan recipient (2005)
Ashok Mitra			Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India and Member of Parliament
Autar Singh Paintal	Principal	University College of Medical Sciences	Pioneered discoveries in the area of neurosciences and respiratory sciences
Bhisham Sahni	Former Lecturer in English	Zakir Husain Delhi College	Author and playwright
Debi Prasad Sarkar	Head of Biochemistry department	South Campus	Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize recipient	[132]
Govind Singh	Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies & Management	Cluster Innovation Centre; Indraprastha	Founder of Delhi Greens
Indu Malhotra	Lecturer of Political Science	Miranda House	Judge of the Supreme Court of India
Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi	Lecturer in History (1928–1944)	St. Stephen's	Pakistani historian	[64]
Jagdish N. Bhagwati	Professor of International Trade (1962–1968)	Delhi School of Economics
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	[133]
M. N. Srinivas	Founder of the sociology department	Delhi School of Economics	Sociologist
Padma Desai	Associate Professor of Economics (1959–1968)	Delhi School of Economics	Professor of comparative economic systems, Columbia University
Percival Spear	Lecturer in History (1924–1948)	St. Stephen's	Historian	[64]
Pradip Krishen	Lecturer in History	Ramjas College	Eminent film-maker	[134]
Pranab Bardhan	Professor (1973–1977)	Delhi School of Economics	Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley	[135]
Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan	Professor of Economics	Indraprastha	Wife of the first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan
Raj Krishna	Professor	Delhi School of Economics
Ram Babu Gupta		Rajdhani College	first Indian umpire to umpire a World Cup final	[136]
Rama Kant Shukla	Former reader	Rajdhani College	Padma Shri Awardee, Hindi and Sanskrit scholar	[137]
Saleem Kidwai	Former Professor of History	Ramjas College	eminent gay rights activist	[138]
Sampat Kumar Tandon	Former Pro-Vice Chancellor		Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate	[111]
Santosh Kumar Sen	Head of Postgraduate Studies	Maulana Azad Medical College	Indian surgeon and Padma Bhushan recipient	[139]
Surendra Sheodas Barlingay	Chair of the Department of Philosophy		Logician and Marathi writer
Sushil Kumar Saxena	Professor of Philosophy		Indian author, music critic, and exponent
Tista Bagchi	Professor of Linguistics
Tapan Raychaudhuri	Director of DSE, Head of the history department	Delhi School of Economics	Indian historian
T. A. Venkitasubramanian	Head of the Department of Biochemistry	Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute	Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize recipient
Asoke Nath Mitra	Professor at Department of Physics and Astrophysics	Renowned Theoretical Physicist	Recipient Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize
Daulat Singh Kothari	Professor and Head of Department of physics and Astrophysics	Theoretical physicist, educationist	Padma Vibhushan Padma Bhushan
Samarendra Nath Biswas	Professor at Department of Physics and Astrophysics	Theoretical Physicist	fellow of Indian National Science Academy,Indian Academy of Sciences,NASI
Ramesh Chandra Majumdar (physicist)	Professor and Head of Department of Physics, University Of Delhi	Physicist	fellow of Indian National Science Academy

Notes

1. The Department of Architecture, Delhi College of Engineering (now known as School of Planning and Architecture) was affiliated to the University of Delhi until 1979.
2. The Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (now known as Netaji Subhas University of Technology) was affiliated to the University of Delhi until 2018
3. The Delhi College of Engineering (now known as Delhi Technological University) was affiliated to the University of Delhi until 2009.