List of Osmania University people
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This is a list of notable people related to the Osmania University. Excluded from this list are those people whose only connection with Osmania is that they were awarded an honorary degree.
| Name | Class
Year |
Degree | College | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ananda Shankar Jayant | classical dancer and a recipient of Padma Shri and Sangeet Natak Akademi Award | [1] | |||
| Bholekar Srihari | [2] | ||||
| Diana Hayden | former Miss World and actress | ||||
| J. D. Chakravarthy | 1986 | CBIT | actor | ||
| Kader Khan | actor and screenwriter | [3][4] | |||
| Kandikonda | [5] | ||||
| Manasa Varanasi | 2018 | BE (CSE) | Vasavi | Miss India | [6][7] |
| Nandamuri Balakrishna | Indian film actor, works in Telugu cinema | [8] | |||
| Neeraj Ghaywan | 2002 | BE (EE) | CBIT | film director | |
| Nikhil Siddharth | MJCET | actor | [9] | ||
| Santosh Kumar | Pakistani film actor | [10] | |||
| Sekhar Kammula | 1991 | CBIT | film director | ||
| Shyam Benegal | director and screenwriter, recipient of the Padma Bhushan in 1991 | [8] |
Business
| Name | Class
Year |
Degree | College | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Karan Bilimoria | 1981 | B.Com. | founder of Cobra Beer; Member of the House of Lords; seventh Chancellor of the University of Birmingham | [11] | |
| G. V. K. Reddy | GVK Group Chairman | [12][13] | |||
| Sanjiv Sidhu | Chairman and CEO, i2 Technologies | ||||
| Shantanu Narayen | President and CEO, Adobe | [14] |
Humanities, social science, and literature
| Name | Class
Year |
Degree | College | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bhadriraju Krishnamurti | Dravidianist and linguist, founded the Department of Linguistics at the university | ||||
| Bhoopal Reddy | Telugu writer | [15] | |||
| Mahe Jabeen | social activist and writer; winner of Rajiv Gandhi Manavaseva award | ||||
| Makhdoom Mohiuddin | Urdu poet; Communist activist; recipient of the 1969 Sahitya Akademi Award in Urdu | [16] | |||
| Masud Husain Khan | linguist; 5th Vice Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia | ||||
| Muhammad Hamidullah | scholar on Islamic law (earned his BA, LLB and MA at Osmania, and taught international law at the university between 1936 and 1946) | ||||
| Pilli Alfred James | Public Administrator |
Law
| Name | Class
Year |
Degree | College | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B. Subhashan Reddy | Chief Justice of madras and Kerala High Court. | [17] | |||
| B. Sudarshan Reddy | 1971 | LLB | Judge of the Supreme Court of India and 2025 vice presidential candidate | [18] | |
| Gopal Rao Ekbote | [19] | ||||
| Ghulam Mohammed | [20] | ||||
| M. S. Ramachandra Rao | 1989 | [21] | |||
| N. Kumarayya | retired Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh and ex-judge, World Bank Administrative Tribunal | [22] | |||
| Sardar Ali Khan | [23] | ||||
| Syed Shah Mohammed Quadri | LLB | Judge of the Supreme Court of India | [24] | ||
| Subodh Markandeya | 1956; 1963 | Indian Senior Advocate | |||
| T. Amarnath Goud | [25] | ||||
| T. Meena Kumari | [26] | ||||
| Venkat Shrinivas Deshpande | Chief Justice of Bombay High Court. | [27] |
Politicians and civil servants
Science and Technology
| Name | Class
Year |
Degree | College | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ali Nawaz Jung | engineer | [42] | |||
| B. E. Vijayam | geologist | ||||
| D. Srinivasa Reddy | chemist | ||||
| Garikapati Narahari Sastry | BSc; MSc | chemist | [43] | ||
| Manju Bansal | molecular biologist | ||||
| Muhammad Raziuddin Siddiqui | Pakistani theoretical physicist | ||||
| Hassan Nasiem Siddiquie | marine geologist, Padma Shri recipient and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | ||||
| J. N. Reddy | 1968 | Distinguished and Regents' Professor, Texas A&M University | [44] | ||
| Patcha Ramachandra Rao | metallurgist | ||||
| Rafi Ahmed | 1968 | virologist and immunologist | [45] | ||
| Rakesh Sharma | cosmonaut, first Indian to travel in space | [8] | |||
| Undurti Narasimha Das | 1981 | MD | Osmania Medical[note 2] | immunologist, endocrinologist |
- Neelamraju Ganga Prasada Rao, plant breeder, popularly known as the Father of Hybrid Sorghum, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize recipient
- Vadapalli Chandrasekhar, organometallic chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
- G. Naresh Patwari, chemist and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate[46]
Sports
| Name | Class
Year |
Degree | College | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arshad Ayub | City College | Cricketer | |||
| Ashwini Ponnappa | B.Com. | St. Mary's | Badminton player | ||
| Asif Iqbal | Cricketer | [47] | |||
| Gagan Narang | BCA | Shooter | |||
| Kenia Jayantilal | Cricketer | [48] | |||
| Khlid Qayyum | 1980 | B.Com. | Nizam[note 1] | Cricketer | [49] |
| Harsha Bhogle | B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering | Cricket commentator | [50] | ||
| Mohammed Azharuddin | B.Com. | Nizam[note 1] | Cricketer | [8] | |
| Mumtaz Hussain | Cricketer | [51] | |||
| Murtuza Baig | Cricketer | ||||
| Nikhat Zareen | A. V. College | Boxer | [52][53] | ||
| Pullela Gopichand | A. V. College | Badminton player | [54] | ||
| Samaresh Jung | Shooter | [55] | |||
| Sania Mirza | St. Mary's | Tennis player | |||
| Sultan Saleem | Cricketer | [56] | |||
| Syed Abdul Rahim | Football coach | [57] |
