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.

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Padma award recipient alumni

• Mahadevi Verma^{[citation needed]}
• Bhagwati Charan Verma^{[citation needed]}
• Raghupati Sahay, also known as Firaq Gorakhpuri^{[citation needed]}
• Vidya Niwas Mishra^{[citation needed]}
• Murali Manohar Joshi
• B. D. Pande

Arts

Name	Class Year	Degree	College	Notability	References
Aditya Srivastava			Allahabad University	actor
Sudhir Dar			Allahabad University	cartoonist
Tigmanshu dhulia	1983 - 1986	Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)	Allahabad University	Movie director, writer	[1]

Humanities and social sciences

Name	Class Year	Degree	College	Notability	References
S. R. Goyal			Allahabad University	Historian
Baidyanath Misra	1948	MA, University topper and Gold medallist, First Odia to top the Faculty of Arts and the Department of Economics	Allahabad University	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
Prabhat Nalini Das		MA, English, University Topper and gold medalist	Allahabad University	University Professor and pro Vice Chancellor; first Director/Dean Humanities, IIT Kanpur
J K Mehta		PhD	Allahabad University	economist	[2]
Udai Prakash Arora				historian

Law

Name	Class Year	Degree	College	Notability	References
Raghunandan Swarup Pathak		Law	Allahabad University	18th Chief Justice of India; Judge of the International Court of Justice	[citation needed]
Kamal Narain Singh		Law	Ewing Christian	22nd Chief Justice of India
J. S. Verma		BSc; LLB	Ewing Christian	27th Chief Justice of India	[3]
V. N. Khare			Allahabad University	33rd Chief Justice of India	[citation needed]
Daya Saran Sinha	1953-1959	BA, LLB	Allahabad University	Chief Justice of the Gujarat High Court	[citation needed]
Vidyadhar Govind Oak		LLB	Allahabad University	Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court	[citation needed]
Prashant Bhushan		LLB	Allahabad University	Supreme Court lawyer	[citation needed]
Vashishtha Bhargava	1925	M.Sc.	Allahabad University	Judge of the Supreme Court of India	[citation needed]
Rajendra Kumar Acharya		PhD	Allahabad University	jurist of Law of tort in Nepal	[citation needed]

Milon K. Banerji, attorney general for India^{[citation needed]}

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 Polar and Ocean Research; recipient of SSB Prize^[6]
• Ibn-e-Safi, Jasosi writer^{[citation needed]}
• Mohammad Uzair, Sitara-i-Imtiaz^{[citation needed]}
• Rafiq Hussain, Urdu writer, poet, academic, author, head of Urdu Department Allahabad University^{[citation needed]}
• Dharamvir Bharati, writer^{[citation needed]}
• Kamleshwar, writer^{[citation needed]}
• Mrinal Pande, writer^{[citation needed]}
• Neelum Saran Gour, author and academic^[7]
• Govind Mishra, Hindi writer and former chairman of CBDT^{[citation needed]}
• Ravindra Khattree, Distinguished Professor, statistician, academic, author^{[citation needed]}
• Acharya Narendra Dev^{[citation needed]}
• Chandradhar Sharma Guleri, writer^{[citation needed]}
• Krishna Kumar Sharma, Quit India Movement activist, poet and literary figure^{[citation needed]}
• Fani Badayuni Urdu poet.
• Yagyadutt Sharma, Hindi novelist, writer and poet
• Ram Chandra Shukla, painter^{[citation needed]}
• Surya Bahadur Thapa^{[citation needed]}
• Daulat Singh Kothari, physicist^{[citation needed]}
• Harish Chandra, mathematician^{[citation needed]}
• Pankaj Mishra, author^{[citation needed]}
• Lakshmi Raj Sharma, author and academic^{[citation needed]}
• K. Banerjee, physicist and ex-Director of Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science^{[citation needed]}
• Leema Dhar, author, poet and columnist^{[citation needed]}

Military

Name	Class Year	Notability	References
Krishnaswamy Sundarji		Chief of Army Staff	[citation needed]

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	[citation needed]
Feroze Gandhi			Ewing Christian	former Member of parliament, Lok Sabha
Gopal Swarup Pathak				former Vice President of India	[citation needed]
Govind Ballabh Pant				former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and Minister of Home Affairs
Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna				8th Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh	[citation needed]
Madan Lal Khurana				3rd Chief Minister of Delhi	[citation needed]
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	[citation needed]
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	[citation needed]

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

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, Academic 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, Vice-Chancellor of Veer Madho Singh Bhandari Uttarakhand Technical University, founder Vice-Chancellor of Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology, Gorakhpur	[24]

Sports

Name	Class Year	Notability	References
Manuel Aaron		chess player and International Master	[25]

Others

Name	Class Year	Notability	References
Rajendra Singh Rana		environmentalist, Magsaysay Award, 2001	[26]

• Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, known for Transcendental Meditation^[27]
• Uttar Kumar, film actor^{[citation needed]}
• M. A. Ansari, pre-partition Royal Indian Navy Education Officer^{[citation needed]}
• Udit Raj, social activist^{[citation needed]}
• Vivek Sahai, former Chairman Railway Board^{[citation needed]}
• Desh Deepak Verma, Former 1978-batch IAS officer, former Secretary General of the Rajya Sabha (2017-2021).^[28]

See also

• List of people associated with Allahabad
• Allahabad