List of Banaras Hindu University people
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The list of Banaras Hindu University people includes notable graduates, professors and administrators affiliated with Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi. For a list of Vice-Chancellors, see List of Vice-Chancellors of Banaras Hindu University.
Nobel laureates
- C. V. Raman, the Nobel Prize winner in Physics in 1930 and Bharat Ratna laureate in 1954 (permanent visiting professor at BHU)[1]
Heads of state and government
- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, 11th President of India, 2002–2007;Bharat Ratna laureate in 1997 (visiting professor, taught technology at BHU)[2]
- Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala (B.A. 1934), former Prime Minister of Nepal[3]
- Krishan Kant (M.Sc.), former Vice President of India[4]
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, first Vice President of India, 1952–1962; second President of India, 1962–1967; Bharat Ratna laureate in 1954 (the Vice Chancellor of BHU from 17 September 1939 to 16 January 1948)[5]
- Sushila Karki (MA Political Science 1975) former interim Prime Minister of Nepal, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nepal.[6][7][8]
Notable alumni
Arts, humanities and social sciences
- Famous alumni in arts, humanities, and social sciences
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| Name | Class
Year |
Degree | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adya Prasad Pandey | BSc (Zoology, Botany), M.A., MBA, Ph.D. | Former Vice Chancellor; Recipient of the BHU Gold Medal | [9] | |
| Amara Ranatunga | Kan Singh Parihar, Sri Lankan singer | [10] | ||
| Amarnath Sehgal | Indian sculptor, painter and poet, Padma Bhushan (2008) | [11] | ||
| Kan Singh Parihar | Ananda Shankar | Hindustani classical musician | [12] | |
| Bettina Bäumer | Austrian-born Indian scholar and academic | [13][14] | ||
| Bhupen Hazarika | 1944; 1946 | BA; MA | singer, poet, filmmaker; Recipient of the Bharat Ratna | [15] |
| Byomakesh Mohanty | MA | painter | [16] | |
| Harivash Narayan Singh | 1976, 1977 | MA Economics, Diploma Journalism | Deputy Chairperson of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament | [17] |
| Harivansh Rai Bachchan | Hindi poet | [18] | ||
| Kamala Shankar | M.Sc., Ph.D. | Hindustani classical musician | [19] | |
| Kamalesh Chandra Chakrabarty | M.Sc., Ph.D. | Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India (2009–2014) | [20] | |
| K. N. Govindacharya | 1962 | M.Sc. | environmentalist, social activist | [21] |
| Koenraad Elst | Belgian scholar | [22][23] | ||
| Lakshmi Kant Jha | Former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (1967-70), Governor of Jammu & Kashmir, Ambassador of India to the United States, and civil servant | [24][25] | ||
| Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar | 1926, 1928 | B.Sc., M.Sc. | Second Sarsanghchalak (Supreme Chief) of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh | [26] |
| Mannu Bhandari | 1953 | M.A | Acclaimed Hindi writer | [27] |
| Moti BA | B.A. | Bhojpuri language Poet and Author | [28][29] | |
| Osnat Elkabir | Israeli singer, dancer and theatre director | [30][non-primary source needed] | ||
| Patrick Moutal | 1976; 1978; 1979; 1983 | B.Sc., M.Sc., M.A., Ph.D. | French musician and Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres awardee | [31] |
| Paul William Roberts | studied Sanskrit | writer | [32] | |
| Radha Burnier | B.A., M.A | Theosophist | [33] | |
| Ritwik Sanyal | 1980 | M.A., Ph.D. | Hindustani classical musician, Dhrupad vocalist | [34] |
| Robert M. Pirsig | American philosopher | [35][36] | ||
| Raimon Panikkar | Spanish theologian | [37] | ||
| Sameer Anjaan | M.Com. | lyricist | [38] | |
| Sandeep Das | BA (English Literature) | Tabla player; Recipient of the BHU Gold Medal, Grammy Award | [39] | |
| Shiba Prasad Chatterjee | Geographer | [40] | ||
| Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena | poet | [41] | ||
| Shivamurthy Shivacharya Mahaswamiji | Ph.D. | social activist, educationist | [42] | |
| Veena Pandey | B.A., M.A., Ph.D. in Hindi | Politician, Former Member of Legislative Council, Politician | [43] | |
| Vibhuti Narayan Singh | M.A. | last Maharaja of Benares; social activist; Chancellor of BHU | [44] | |
| Vina Mazumdar | feminist, academic, pioneer of women's studies | [45] |
Social sciences
| Name | Class
Year |
Degree | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ahmad Hasan Dani | 1944 | M.A. | Pakistani archaeologist and historian | [46] |
| Awadh Kishore Narain | 1947 | M.A. | archaeologist, historian, academic | [47] |
| Bellikoth Raghunath Shenoy | 1929 | M.A. | classical liberal economist | [48] |
| Bindeshwar Pathak | 1964 | B.A.
Sociology |
Padma Bhushan awardee
Founder, Sulabh International |
[49] |
| Colin Turnbull | MA | British-American anthropologist | [51] | |
| Ram Raj Pant | 1941; 1943 | LLB; MA | founder of Nepal Law College; pioneering linguist of Nepali language | [52] |
Literature
- Sitaram Chaturvedi (B.A., M.A., Ph.D.), playwright, academic
- Janki Ballabh Shastri, Indian Hindi poet, writer and critic, Padma Shri (2010)
- Atul Kumar Rai (B.Mus. Tabla) (M.P.A. Musicology) Sahitya Academy Award winner [53]
Politicians
- Ved Prakash Goyal, politician[54]
- Rajesh Kumar Mishra, politician[55][56]
- Yadunandan Sharma (B.A. 1929), Indian independence activist, farmers' rights activist
- Shyama Charan Shukla, Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh
- Veena Pandey, (B.A., M.A., B.Ed., LLB, Ph.D.), Former M.L.C., National Executive Member, B.J.P. Former Vice President Student Union B.H.U.[57]
| Name | Class
Year |
Degree | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amod Prasad Upadhyay | Minister of Education and Sports, Nepal | |||
| Anil Srivastava | [58] | |||
| Ashok Mitra | M.A. | politician, finance Minister of West Bengal | ||
| Bhola Paswan Shastri, | Former Chief Minister Of Bihar | |||
| Iswar Prasanna Hazarika, | Former Lok Sabha MP, former Director of NTPC, MMTC, STC etc. | [59] | ||
| Janaki Ballabh Patnaik | 1949 | M.A. | politician, former Chief Minister of Odisha | [60][61] |
| Jagjivan Ram | 4th Deputy Prime Minister of India | [62][63] | ||
| Mahendra Nath Pandey | M. A., Ph.D. Hindi | politician, MP, Minister in union cabinet | [64][65] | |
| Manoj Sinha | M.Tech | Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, former Member of parliament | [66][67] | |
| Mohamed Ayub | 1985 | M. Surgery | MLA in Sixteenth Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh | |
| Manoj Tiwari | M.P.Ed. | [68][69] | ||
| Sarat Chandra Sinha | politician, Chief Minister of Assam | [70] | ||
| Shankar Dayal Singh | BA | Member of Lok Sabha | ||
| Ram Bahadur Rai | MA Economics | senior Hindi journalist, former editor Jansatta | [71] |
- Vina Mazumdar, academic and founding Director of the Centre for Women's Development Studies (CWDS) [72]
Science and technology
- Prem Saran Satsangi Sahab, Leader of Radhasoami Faith,[73] Dayalbagh. System Scientist and Physicist. (Ex Dean IIT Delhi,[74] EX-Vice chancellor, Dayalbagh Educational Institute[75])
- Ashok Agarwal (B.Sc. 1975, M.Sc. 1977, Ph.D. 1983), pioneer in reproductive biology
- Girish Saran Agarwal (M.Sc.), physicist specialising in quantum optics; Regents Professor in the Department of Physics of Oklahoma State University; winner of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (Physics) in 1982; elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 2008[76]
- Pulickel Ajayan (B.Tech. 1985), pioneer in nanotechnology
- Nikesh Arora (B.Tech. 1989), senior vice president and chief business officer at Google
- Meenakshi Banerjee, scientist
- Bir Bhanu, (B.Tech. 1972), Electronics Engineering, Bourns Presidential Chair in Engineering and Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering[77] University of California, Riverside, California
- Alok Bhattacharya, Parasitologist and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
- Nishith Gupta (M.Sc. 1999), molecular biologist
- Achal Das Bohra (B.Sc. 1941), government administrator, engineer
- S. Ganesh (PhD 1996), molecular geneticist, N-Bios laureate [78]
- Vinod Kumar Gaur, seismologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
- Kota Harinarayana (B.Tech. 1965), scientist, academic
- Aldas Janaiah (Ph.D. 1995), agricultural scientist
- Arvind Mohan Kayastha (B.Sc. 1979, M.Sc. 1982, Ph.D. 1988), scientist, academic
- Akhlesh Lakhtakia (B.Tech. 1979, D.Sc. 2006), pioneered sculptured thin films
- Subhash Chandra Lakhotia, cytogeneticist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
- Devendra Lal, geophysicist; winner of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (Physics) in 1967; elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1979[76]
- Shrikant Lele, metallurgical engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
- Anand Mohan (B.Sc. 1976, Ph.D. 1983), geologist
- Basanti Dulal Nagchaudhuri (B.Sc. 1936), physicist[79]
- Nishtala Appala Narasimham (M.Sc. 1945, Ph.D. 1952), physicist
- Jayant Vishnu Narlikar (B.Sc. 1957), theoretical physicist, Padma Vibhushan (1965)
- Paramasivam Natarajan, photochemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
- Sri Niwas, geophysicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
- Ganesh Prasad Pandey, organic chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
- Virendra Nath Pandey, Molecular virologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
- T. V. Ramakrishnan (B.Sc. 1959, M.Sc. 1961), theoretical physicist; winner of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (Physics) in 1982; elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 2000[76]
- Shyam Sundar Rai, seismologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
- Madisetti Anant Ramlu, founder and first Head of the Department of Mining Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)
- Ayyagari Sambasiva Rao, founder of ECIL
- C. N. R. Rao (M.Sc. 1953), chemist; scientific advisor to the Prime Minister of India; Bharat Ratna laureate in 2014[80]
- Ram Harsh Singh, Padmashri awardee 2016, ABMS 1961(BHU), MD(Hons), Ph.D. 1969 (BHU), D.Litt. FNA IM, Life-time Distinguished Professor, Faculty of Ayurveda BHU, First Vice Chancellor, Rajasthan Ayurved University, Jodhpur (2003–2006).
- Narla Tata Rao, former chairman of the Andhra Pradesh State Electricity Board[81]
- Palle Rama Rao (Ph.D.), metallurgist and Padma Vibhushan awardee
- Patcha Ramachandra Rao (M.Sc. 1965, Ph.D. 1968), metallurgist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate, Vice Chancellor of BHU
- Udipi Ramachandra Rao (M.Sc. 1952), space scientist, Chairman of ISRO
- N. A. Ramaiah physical chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
- Gangadhar J. Sanjayan, bioorganic chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
- Mushi Santappa, polymer chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
- Debi Prasad Sarkar, Immunologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
- Jagdish Shukla (B.Sc. 1962, M.Sc. 1964, Ph.D. 1971), meteorologist[82]
- Lalji Singh, molecular biologist, Vice Chancellor of BHU[83]
- Nagendra Kumar Singh (B.Sc. 1978, M.Sc. 1980), agricultural scientist; pioneer in mapping plant genomes
- Rishi Narain Singh, geophysicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
- Manick Sorcar (B.Tech.), artist, engineer, entrepreneur
- Brahm Shanker Srivastava, microbiologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
- Onkar Nath Srivastava (MSc 1961 and PhD 1966), material physicist and a recipient of Padma Shri and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize
- M. J. Thirumalachar, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
- Satish K. Tripathi (B.Sc., M.Sc.), President of University at Buffalo, The State University of New York[84]
- Prahalad Chunnilal Vaidya, physicist and mathematician; proponent of Vaidya Metric for gravitational fields; Vice Chancellor of Gujarat University
- A. N. Rai ex vc NEHU
- Sandeep Verma, bioorganic chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
- Kameshwar C. Wali (M.Sc.), research physicist and science writer
- Saket Kushwaha (B.Sc. 1983, M.Sc. 1986, Ph.D. 1992), agricultural economist, VC Rajiv Gandhi University[85][86]
- Jay Chaudhry[87] (B.Tech. 1980) Founder & CEO, Zscaler
Sports
| Name | Class
Year |
Degree | College | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Divya Singh | BA | Captain of Indian Women's Basketball team |
Notable faculty
Arts, humanities and social sciences
- Adya Prasad Pandey, Professor in Economics and Former Head Department of Economics, Vice Chancellor Manipur University
- Anant Sadashiv Altekar, Manindra Chandra Nandi Chair of Ancient History & Culture; led archaeological excavation of Mauryan era structures
- V. Balaji, Professor of Violin
- Chandrakala Padia, professor, political science, noted political scientist[88]
- C. V. Chandrasekhar, Professor of Performing Arts; Bharata Natyam dancer; Sangeet Natak Akademi Award winner; Kalidas Samman and Padma Bhushan awardee
- A.K. Chatterjee, Professor of philosophy, Indian philosopher and Buddhist scholar
- Sitaram Chaturvedi, Professor of Literature, playwright
- Amiya Kumar Dasgupta, Professor of Economics (1947–1958); pioneer of economics in Independent India
- Girija Devi, Professor of Performing Arts; Hindustani classical vocalist
- Julius Getman, Visiting professor of Law
- Chandradhar Sharma Guleri, former Manindra Chandra Nandi Chair in Ancient History and Religion
- Latika Katt, Professor of Visual Arts; sculptor
- Sucheta Kripalani, Professor of Constitutional History[89][90]
- Dalsukh Dahyabhai Malvania, Jain scholar, writer and Padma Bhushan awardee
- Lalmani Misra, Professor of Music; Hindustani classical musician
- Ram Shankar Misra, Professor of Comparative Religion
- Awadh Kishore Narain, Professor of History (1947–1960); Manindra Chandra Nandi Chair of Ancient History & Culture (1960–1971)
- B.C. Nirmal, Professor of Law
- N. Rajam, Professor of Performing Arts
- S. R. Ranganathan, Professor of Library Science (1945–1947); inventor of colon classification and five laws of library science
- Ritwik Sanyal, Professor of Performing Arts; Hindustani classical musician
- Ram Chandra Shukla, Professor of Visual Arts; painter
- Ramchandra Shukla, Professor of Literature
- Gurbachan Singh Talib, Professor of Sikh Studies
- Omkarnath Thakur, Professor of Performing Arts; Hindustani classical musician
- Koushal Kishor Mishra, Professor of Political Sciences, and Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences
- Alok Kumar Rai, Professor of Management Studies
Science and technology
- Prem Saran Satsangi Sahab, Leader of Radhasoami Faith,[73] Dayalbagh. System Scientist and Physicist. (Ex Dean IIT Delhi,[74] EX-Vice chancellor, Dayalbagh Educational Institute[75])
- Sir Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar, Professor of Chemistry (1921–1924); co-inventor of Bhatnagar-Mathur Magnetic Interference Balance; founding chairman of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
- Patcha Ramachandra Rao, former Vice Chancellor and Professor of Metallurgy and Material Science
- Prafulla Kumar Jena, former professor of Metallurgical Engineering[91]
- Prakash Chandra Sood, Padma Shri, Nuclear scientist, researcher, and Professor
- Madhu Sudan Kanungo, Professor of Biology (1962–2011); pioneer of gerontology; Padma Shri awardee
- Arvind Mohan Kayastha, Professor of Biotechnology
- Shrikant Lele, metallurgical engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
- Veer Bhadra Mishra, former professor of Civil Engineering; environmentalist; founder of Swatcha Ganga Campaign[92]
- Ganesh Prasad, Professor of Mathematics (1917–1923); mathematician
- Palle Rama Rao, Professor of Metallurgy (1962–1982); scientist; Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan awardee
- Birbal Sahni, Professor of Botany (1920); authority on plant fossils of Gondwana and Jurassic age
- Ram Harsh Singh Padmashri awardee 2016, ABMS 1961(BHU), MD(Hons), Ph.D. 1969 (BHU), D.Litt. FNA IM, Life-time Distinguished Professor, Faculty of Ayurveda BHU, First Vice Chancellor, Rajasthan Ayurved University, Jodhpur (2003–2006).
- Onkar Nath Srivastava Professor of the department of physics, material physicist and a recipient of Padma Shri and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize
- Birendra Bijoy Biswas, lecturer (1952–54); department of botany, recipient of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize
- Jamuna Sharan Singh, ecologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize recipient
- Kamanio Chattopadhyay, materials engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize recipient
- Sunit Kumar Singh,[93] molecular biologist, Fellow of Indian Academy of Neuroscience (FIANS)
- Anil Kumar Tripathi (BSc, MSc, PhD; director Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali[94]