The list of Banaras University people includes notable graduates, professors and administrators affiliated with

Banaras Hindu University Banaras Hindu University (BHU) IAST: kāśī hindū viśvavidyālaya IPA: /kaːʃiː hɪnd̪uː ʋɪʃwəʋid̪jaːləj/), is a collegiate, central, and research university located in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, and founded in 1916 ...

Varanasi Varanasi (; ; also Banaras or Benares (; ), and Kashi.) is a city on the Ganges river in northern India that has a central place in the traditions of pilgrimage, death, and mourning in the Hindu world. * * * * The city has a syncretic t ...

. For a list of Vice-Chancellors, see

List of Vice-Chancellors of Banaras Hindu University The vice-chancellor of Banaras Hindu University (VC-BHU) is the chief administrator, and a full-time salaried officer of the Banaras Hindu University. The vice-chancellor derives his powers from sections 7(B) and 7(C) of the Banaras Hindu Univ ...

Nobel laureates

C. V. Raman Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (; 7 November 188821 November 1970) was an Indian physicist known for his work in the field of light scattering. Using a spectrograph that he developed, he and his student K. S. Krishnan discovered that when ...

, the

Nobel Prize The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...

winner in Physics in 1930 and

Bharat Ratna The Bharat Ratna (; ''Jewel of India'') is the highest Indian honours system, civilian award of the Republic of India. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is conferred in recognition of "exceptional service/performance of the highest orde ...

laureate in 1954 (permanent visiting professor at BHU)

Heads of state and government

A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam (; 15 October 193127 July 2015) was an Indian aerospace scientist and statesman who served as the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007. He was born and raised in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu and studied phy ...

, 11th

President of India The president of India ( IAST: ) is the head of state of the Republic of India. The president is the nominal head of the executive, the first citizen of the country, as well as the commander-in-chief of the Indian Armed Forces. Droupadi Murmu ...

, 2002–2007;

laureate in 1997 (visiting professor, taught technology at BHU) *

Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala ( ne, विश्वेश्वरप्रसाद कोइराला; 8 September 1914 – 21 July 1982), (Nepali: 1971 B.S. Bhadra 24 - 2039 B.S Shrawan 6)better known as B. P. Koirala ( ne, बीपी ...

(B.A. 1934), former

Prime Minister of Nepal The Prime Minister of Nepal ( ne, नेपालको प्रधानमन्त्री) is the head of government of Nepal. The Prime Minister is the head of the Council of Ministers of Nepal and the chief adviser to the President of N ...

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (; 5 September 1888 – 17 April 1975), natively Radhakrishnayya, was an Indian philosopher and statesman. He served as the 2nd President of India from 1962 to 1967. He also 1st Vice President of India from 1952 ...

, first

Vice President of India The vice president of India (IAST: ) is the deputy to the head of state of the Republic of India, i.e. the president of India. The office of vice president is the second-highest constitutional office after the president and ranks second in the ...

, 1952–1962; second

, 1962–1967;

laureate in 1954 (the Vice Chancellor of BHU from 17 September 1939 to 16 January 1948) *

Krishan Kant Krishan Kant (28 February 1927 – 27 July 2002) was an Indian politician who served as the tenth vice president of India from 1997 until his death 2002. Formerly, he was the governor of Andhra Pradesh from 1990 to 1997. He was a member of Lok ...

(M.Sc.), former

Notable alumni

Arts, humanities and social sciences

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Mannu Bhandari Mannu Bhandari Yadav (3 April 1931 – 15 November 2021) was an Indian author, screenplay writer, teacher, and playwright. Primarily known for her two Hindi novels, ''Aap Ka Bunty'' (''Your Bunty'') and ''Mahabhoj'' (''Feast''), Bhandari also ...

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M. S. Golwalkar Madhav Sadashivrao Golwalkar (19 February 1906 – 5 June 1973), popularly known as Guruji was the second ''Sarsanghchalak'' ("Chief") of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). Golwalkar is considered one of the most influential and prominent fi ...

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Radha Burnier Radha Burnier (; 15 November 1923 – 31 October 2013) was born in Adyar, India. She was president of the Theosophical Society Adyar from 1980 until her death in 2013. She was General Secretary of the Indian Section of the Society between 1960 ...

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Vibhuti Narayan Singh Maharaja Vibhuti Narayan Singh (5 November 1927 – 25 December 2000) was the king of Benares, a city considered holy, located in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. He was the last Bhumihar king of the Kingdom of Kashi. Childhood Vibhuti Naraya ...

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, *

Bettina Baumer Bettina Sharada Bäumer (born 12 April 1940) is an Austrian-born Indian scholar of religion. Vandana Parthasarathy, writing in The Hindu, described Baumer as a "renowned Indologist, one of the foremost expounders of Kashmir Saivism and a well ...

, Austrian-born Indian scholar and academic , - ,

Veena Pandey Veena Pandey is an Indian politician who is a former member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council. She was Student Union Vice-President at Banaras Hindu University from 1982–83. Veena Pandey has held the post of Uttar Pradesh BJP ...

, , B.A.,M.A. ,Ph.D. in Hindi , Politician, Former Member of Legislative Council ;

Politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking, a ...

, *

(M.A. 1953), writer *

(B.A., M.A), theosophist * Kamalesh Chandra Chakrabarty (M.Sc., Ph.D.), Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India (2009-2014) *

Ram Charan Konidela Ram Charan Teja (born 27 March 1985) is an Indian actor, producer, and entrepreneur who works predominantly in Telugu films. One of the highest-paid Telugu film actors, he is the recipient of three Filmfare Awards and two Nandi Award ...

, business consultant * Shiba Prasad Chatterjee, geographer *

Koenraad Elst Koenraad Elst (; born 7 August 1959) is a Flemish right wing Hindutva author, known primarily for his support of the Out of India theory and the Hindutva movement. Schola ...

, Belgian scholar * Amara Ranatunga, Sri Lankan songstress *

Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar Madhav Sadashivrao Golwalkar (19 February 1906 – 5 June 1973), popularly known as Guruji was the second '' Sarsanghchalak'' ("Chief") of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). Golwalkar is considered one of the most influential and prominent f ...

(B.Sc. 1926, M.Sc. 1928), second Sarsanghchalak (Supreme Chief) of the

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh ( ; , , ) is an Indian right-wing, Hindu nationalist, paramilitary volunteer organisation. The RSS is the progenitor and leader of a large body of organisations called the Sangh Parivar (Hindi for "Sangh family" ...

K. N. Govindacharya Kodipakam Neelameghacharya Govindacharya (born 2 May 1943) is a founder Bharat Vikas Sangam, Eternal Hindu Foundation and Rastriya Swabhiman Andolan, Formally Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh pracharak, environmental activist, social activist, politic ...

(M.Sc. 1962), environmentalist, social activist * Shivamurthy Shivacharya Mahaswamiji (Ph.D.), social activist, educationist * Vina Mazumdar, feminist, academic, pioneer of

women's studies Women's studies is an academic field that draws on feminist and interdisciplinary methods to place women's lives and experiences at the center of study, while examining social and cultural constructs of gender; systems of privilege and oppress ...

Ananda Shankar Ananda Shankar (11 December 1942 – 26 March 1999) was an Indian musician, singer, and composer best known for fusing Western and Eastern musical styles. He was married to dancer and choreographer Tanusree Shankar. Life Born in Almora in U ...

, Hindustani classical musician *

Raimon Panikkar Raimon Panikkar Alemany, also known as Raimundo Panikkar and Raymond Panikkar (November 2, 1918 – August 26, 2010), was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest and a proponent of Interfaith dialogue. As a scholar, he specialized in comparative reli ...

, Spanish theologian * Robert M. Pirsig, American

philosopher A philosopher is a person who practices or investigates philosophy. The term ''philosopher'' comes from the grc, φιλόσοφος, , translit=philosophos, meaning 'lover of wisdom'. The coining of the term has been attributed to the Greek th ...

Paul William Roberts Paul William Roberts (1950 – May 17, 2019) was a Canadian writer who spent many years in Toronto before moving to the Laurentians in Quebec upon losing his vision. Born in Wales and educated at Exeter College, Oxford, where he gained a seco ...

(studied

Sanskrit Sanskrit (; attributively , ; nominally , , ) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in South Asia after its predecessor languages had diffused there from the northwest in the late ...

), writer *

Sameer Anjaan Shitala Pandey, better known as Sameer Anjaan, is an Indian lyricist, writing songs such as "Mujhe Raat Din Bas", predominantly in Hindi language films. He is a Guinness World Record holder for writing the most songs. He was awarded this hono ...

(M.Com.), lyricist *

Ritwik Sanyal Pandit Ritwik Sanyal (born 12 April 1953) is an Hindustani classical music, Indian classical singer and the Dhrupad maestro from Varanasi. He is a retired professor and Ex Dean from the department of vocal music at the faculty of performing art ...

(M.A., Ph.D. 1980), Hindustani classical musician, Dhrupad vocalist *

Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena (15 September 1927 – 23 September 1983) was a Hindi writer, poet, columnist and playwright. He was one of the seven poets who first published in one of the "Tar Saptaks", which ushered in the ‘Prayogvaad’ (Experimenta ...

, poet * Kamala Shankar (M.Sc., Ph.D.), Hindustani classical musician *

(M.A.), last Maharaja of

Benares Varanasi (; ; also Banaras or Benares (; ), and Kashi.) is a city on the Ganges river in northern India that has a central place in the traditions of pilgrimage, death, and mourning in the Hindu world. * * * * The city has a syncretic tr ...

; social activist; Chancellor of BHU * Moti BA (B.A.),

Bhojpuri Language Bhojpuri (;Bhojpuri entry, Oxford Dictionaries
, Oxford U ...

Poet and Author * Harivash Narayan Singh, MA Economics 1976, Diploma Journalism 1977

Social Sciences

Literature

* Sitaram Chaturvedi (B.A., M.A., Ph.D.), playwright, academic *

Janki Ballabh Shastri Acharya Janki Ballabh Shastri (5 February 1916 – 7 April 2011) was an Indian Hindi poet, writer and critic. He declined to accept Padma Shri in 2010 stating his disciples deserved much more than Shri. He also refused the Padmashri Padma Shr ...

, Indian Hindi poet, writer and critic,

Padma Shri Padma Shri (IAST: ''padma śrī''), also spelled Padma Shree, is the fourth-highest Indian honours system, civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan. Instituted on 2 January 1954, ...

(2010)

Politicians

* Ved Prakash Goyal, politician * Rajesh Kumar Mishra, politician *

Yadunandan Sharma Yadunandan Sharma (also spelled Jddunandan) (1896–1975) was an Indian peasant leader and national liberation figure from the Indian state of Bihar. He had started a movement for the rights of tillers against the zamindars and Britishers at ''Reo ...

(B.A. 1929), Indian independence activist, farmers' rights activist *

Shyama Charan Shukla Shyama Charan Shukla (27 February 1925 – 14 February 2007) was an Indian National Congress politician and thrice Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh. Personal life Shyama Charan Shukla was born on 27 February 1925 in Raipur. His father Ravi ...

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, (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.

Science and technology

Prem Saran Satsangi Prem Saran Satsangi is the eighth and current Sant Satguru of Radhasoami Faith, Dayalbagh. He holds the Emeritus Chair from the East of the Integrated East-West Forum at The Science of Consciousness Conferences since 2012. He is the chairman ...

Sahab, Leader of Radhasoami Faith, Dayalbagh. System Scientist and Physicist. (Ex Dean

IIT Delhi The Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi is a public institute of technology located in New Delhi, India. It is one of the 23 IITs created to be Centres of Excellence for training, research and development in science, engineering and technolo ...

, EX-Vice chancellor,

Dayalbagh Educational Institute Dayalbagh Educational Institute (DEI) is an educational institution located at Dayalbagh in Agra. The institute has been given deemed university status by the University Grants Commission of India in 1981. History Founded as a primary scho ...

) * Ashok Agarwal (B.Sc. 1975, M.Sc. 1977, Ph.D. 1983), pioneer in reproductive biology *

Girish Saran Agarwal Girish S. Agarwal, Fellow of the Royal Society UK, (born 7 July 1946) is a theoretical physicist. He is currently at the Texas A & M University with affiliations to the Departments of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Physics and Astronom ...

(M.Sc.), physicist specialising in

quantum optics Quantum optics is a branch of atomic, molecular, and optical physics dealing with how individual quanta of light, known as photons, interact with atoms and molecules. It includes the study of the particle-like properties of photons. Photons have b ...

; Regents Professor in the Department of Physics of

Oklahoma State University Oklahoma (; Choctaw: ; chr, ᎣᎧᎳᎰᎹ, ''Okalahoma'' ) is a state in the South Central region of the United States, bordered by Texas on the south and west, Kansas on the north, Missouri on the northeast, Arkansas on the east, New ...

; winner of the

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (SSB) is a science award in India given annually by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for notable and outstanding research, Applied science, applied or Fundamenta ...

(Physics) in 1982; elected Fellow of the

Royal Society The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, re ...

in 2008 * Pulickel Ajayan (B.Tech. 1985), pioneer in

nanotechnology Nanotechnology, also shortened to nanotech, is the use of matter on an atomic, molecular, and supramolecular scale for industrial purposes. The earliest, widespread description of nanotechnology referred to the particular technological goal o ...

Nikesh Arora Nikesh Arora (born February 9, 1968) is an Indian-American business executive. Arora was formerly a senior executive at Google. He served as the president of SoftBank Group from October 2014 to June 2016. On June 1, 2018, Arora took on the role ...

(B.Tech. 1989), senior vice president and chief business officer at

Google Google LLC () is an American multinational technology company focusing on search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, artificial intelligence, and consumer electronics. ...

* Meenakshi Banerjee, scientist * Bir Bhanu, (B.Tech. 1972), Electronics Engineering, Bourns Presidential Chair in Engineering and Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of California, Riverside The University of California, Riverside (UCR or UC Riverside) is a public land-grant research university in Riverside, California. It is one of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The main campus sits on in a suburban distr ...

, California * Alok Bhattacharya, Parasitologist and

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Sir Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar OBE, FNI, FASc, FRS, FRIC, FInstP (21 February 1894 – 1 January 1955) was an Indian colloid chemist, academic and scientific administrator. The first director-general of the Council of Scientific and Industr ...

laureate *

Achal Das Bohra Achal Das Bohra (23 December 1918 – 17 February 2007) was a prominent Indian engineer, academician, author, educator and philanthropist hailing from the town of Jodhpur, Rajasthan. Bohra, affectionately known as "Papaji" and "Bohra Saab", was ...

(B.Sc. 1941), government administrator, engineer * S. Ganesh (PhD 1996), molecular geneticist, N-Bios laureate * Vinod Kumar Gaur, seismologist,

laureate *

Kota Harinarayana Kota Harinarayana (born 1943 in Brahmapur, Odisha) is an aviation engineer. He was born in Brahmapur on the border of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh into a Telugu speaking family. He was appointed as chairman of the board of governors of IIT (BHU), ...

(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 Akhlesh Lakhtakia is Evan Pugh University Professor and Charles Godfrey Binder Professor of engineering science and mechanics at the Pennsylvania State University. His research focuses on electromagnetic fields in complex materials, such as scul ...

(B.Tech. 1979, D.Sc. 2006), pioneered

sculptured thin films Sculptured thin films (STFs) are nanostructured materials with unidirectionally varying properties that can be designed and realized in a controllable manner using variants of physical vapor deposition. The ability to virtually instantaneously cha ...

* Subhash Chandra Lakhotia, cytogeneticist,

laureate *

Devendra Lal Devendra Lal FRS (14 February 1929 – 1 December 2012) was an Indian geophysicist. Life He was born in Varanasi, India. He graduated from Banaras Hindu University. He graduated from Bombay University; his thesis was on cosmic ray physics; ...

, geophysicist; winner of the

(Physics) in 1967; elected Fellow of the

in 1979 * Shrikant Lele, metallurgical engineer,

laureate * Anand Mohan (B.Sc. 1976, Ph.D. 1983), geologist *

Basanti Dulal Nagchaudhuri Basanti Dulal Nagchaudhuri (6 September 1917 – 25 June 2006) was an Indian physicist and academic, and a scientific advisor to the Government of India. He is known as one of the pioneers of nuclear physics in India and for building the nation' ...

(B.Sc. 1936), physicist * Nishtala Appala Narasimham (M.Sc. 1945, Ph.D. 1952), physicist *

Jayant Vishnu Narlikar Jayant Vishnu Narlikar (born 19 July 1938) is an Indian astrophysicist and emeritus professor at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA). He developed with Sir Fred Hoyle the conformal gravity theory, known as Hoyl ...

(B.Sc. 1957), theoretical physicist,

Padma Vibhushan The Padma Vibhushan ("Lotus Decoration") is the second-highest Indian honours system, civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is given for "exceptional and distinguished service" ...

(1965) *

Paramasivam Natarajan Paramasivam Natarajan (1940–2016) was an Indian photochemist, the INSA Senior Scientist at the National Centre for Ultrafast Process of the University of Madras and the director of Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute (CSMCRI) o ...

, photochemist,

laureate * Sri Niwas, geophysicist,

laureate * Ganesh Prasad Pandey, organic chemist,

laureate * Virendra Nath Pandey, Molecular virologist,

laureate * T. V. Ramakrishnan (B.Sc. 1959, M.Sc. 1961), theoretical physicist; winner of the

(Physics) in 1982; elected Fellow of the

in 2000 * Shyam Sundar Rai, seismologist,

laureate * Madisetti Anant Ramlu, founder and first Head of the Department of Mining Engineering at the

Indian Institute of Technology The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are central government owned public technical institutes located across India. They are under the ownership of the Ministry of Education of the Government of India. They are governed by the Institu ...

(IIT) * Ayyagari Sambasiva Rao, founder of ECIL *

C. N. R. Rao Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao BR, (born 30 June 1934), is an Indian chemist who has worked mainly in solid-state and structural chemistry. He has honorary doctorates from 84 universities from around the world and has authored around 1,77 ...

(M.Sc. 1953), chemist; scientific advisor to the

Prime Minister of India The prime minister of India (IAST: ) is the head of government of the Republic of India. Executive authority is vested in the prime minister and their chosen Council of Ministers, despite the president of India being the nominal head of the ...

;

laureate in 2014 *

Ram Harsh Singh Ram Harsh Singh is an Indian practitioner of the Ayurveda system of alternative medicine and the founder vice chancellor of Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Rajasthan Ayurved University. An Emeritus Professor of Banaras Hindu University and a Nation ...

, 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 Narla Tata Rao (4 September 1917 – 7 April 2007) was a prominent person in the power sector of India and a former chairman of the Andhra Pradesh State Electricity Board. Personal Tata Rao was born on 4 September 1917 in Kowtharam in Krish ...

, former chairman of the

Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh (, abbr. AP) is a state in the south-eastern coastal region of India. It is the seventh-largest state by area covering an area of and tenth-most populous state with 49,386,799 inhabitants. It is bordered by Telangana to the ...

State Electricity Board *

Palle Rama Rao Palle Rama Rao FREng is an Indian scientist noted for his contribution to the field of Physical and Mechanical Metallurgy. He has collaborated and conducted research activities for over dozen universities and associations all over India and ab ...

(Ph.D.), metallurgist and

awardee * Patcha Ramachandra Rao (M.Sc. 1965, Ph.D. 1968), metallurgist,

laureate, Vice Chancellor of BHU * Udipi Ramachandra Rao (M.Sc. 1952), space scientist, Chairman of

ISRO The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO; ) is the national space agency of India, headquartered in Bengaluru. It operates under the Department of Space (DOS) which is directly overseen by the Prime Minister of India, while the Chairman ...

* N. A. Ramaiah physical chemist,

laureate * Gangadhar J. Sanjayan, bioorganic chemist,

laureate * Mushi Santappa, polymer chemist,

laureate *

Debi Prasad Sarkar Debi Prasad Sarkar (born 15 January 1958) is an Indian biochemist, immunologist and virologist. He was the head of biochemistry department and dean FIAS, at the University of Delhi South Campus and served as the director of IISER Mohali from 20 ...

, Immunologist,

laureate * Jagdish Shukla (B.Sc. 1962, M.Sc. 1964, Ph.D. 1971), meteorologist *

Lalji Singh Lalji Singh FNA, FASc (5 July 1947 – 10 December 2017) was an Indian scientist who worked in the field of DNA fingerprinting technology in India, where he was popularly known as the "Father of Indian DNA fingerprinting". Singh also worke ...

, molecular biologist, Vice Chancellor of BHU *

Nagendra Kumar Singh Nagendra Kumar Singh (born 15 October 1958) is an Indian agricultural scientist. He is presently a National Professor Dr. B.P. Pal Chair and JC Bose National Fellow at ICAR-National Institute for Plant Biotechnology, Indian Agricultural Rese ...

(B.Sc. 1978, M.Sc. 1980), agricultural scientist; pioneer in mapping plant genomes *

Rishi Narain Singh Rishi Narain Singh (born 1943) is an Indian geophysicist and an emeritus Professor of the National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad. He is known for his researches on the quantification of geological processes and is an elected fellow o ...

, geophysicist,

laureate *

Manick Sorcar Manick Sorcar (formal name Prafulla Chandra "P.C." Sorcar) is an Indian American artist, animator, engineer, and laserist. Sorcar is an artist

(B.Tech.), artist, engineer, entrepreneur * Brahm Shanker Srivastava, microbiologist,

laureate *

Onkar Nath Srivastava Onkar Nath Srivastava (31 December 1942 – 24 April 2021) was an Indian material physicist, an Emeritus professor of Banaras Hindu University and the vice president for India and South Asia of the International Association for Hydrogen Energy, ...

(MSc 1961 and PhD 1966), material physicist and a recipient of

and

* M. J. Thirumalachar,

laureate *

Satish K. Tripathi Satish K. Tripathi is an Indian-American computer scientist and academic administrator. He is the president of the University at Buffalo (UB), the flagship of the State University of New York (SUNY) system.

(B.Sc., M.Sc.), President of

University at Buffalo The State University of New York at Buffalo, commonly called the University at Buffalo (UB) and sometimes called SUNY Buffalo, is a public research university with campuses in Buffalo and Amherst, New York. The university was founded in 1846 ...

, The State University of New York *

Prahalad Chunnilal Vaidya Prahalad Chunnilal Vaidya (P.C.Vaidya; 23 May 1918 – 12 March 2010), was an Indian physicist and mathematician, renowned for his instrumental work in the general theory of relativity. Apart from his scientific career, he was also an education ...

, physicist and mathematician; proponent of

Vaidya Metric In general relativity, the Vaidya metric describes the non-empty external spacetime of a spherically symmetric and nonrotating star which is either emitting or absorbing null dusts. It is named after the Indian physicist Prahalad Chunnilal Vaidya ...

for gravitational fields; Vice Chancellor of

Gujarat University The Gujarat University is a public state university located at Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. The university is an affiliating university at the under-graduate level and a teaching university at the postgraduate level. It is accredited B++ by N ...

* A. N. Rai ex vc NEHU * Sandeep Verma, bioorganic chemist,

laureate *

Kameshwar C. Wali Kameshwar C. Wali (October 15, 1927 – January 14, 2022) was an Indian-born American theoretical physicist who was the Distinguished Research Professor of Physics Emeritus at Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences. He was a specia ...

(M.Sc.), research physicist and science writer *

Saket Kushwaha Saket Kushwaha is an Indian educationist and agricultural economist. He is the vice chancellor (VC) of Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh and former VC of Lalit Narayan Mithila University, Bihar. He is a professor of agricultural econom ...

(B.Sc. 1983, M.Sc. 1986, Ph.D. 1992), agricultural economist, VC

Rajiv Gandhi University Rajiv Gandhi University (RGU) (formerly Arunachal University) is the oldest university in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. It is located at Rono Hills in Doimukh town, about nine miles from the state capital, Itanagar. The foundation ston ...

Jay Chaudhry Jay Chaudhry (born 1958) is an Indian-American billionaire entrepreneur and the CEO and founder of cloud security company Zscaler. Early life Chaudhry was born in Panoh, a village in Una district of the state of Himachal Pradesh, India. His par ...

(B.Tech. 1980) Founder &

CEO A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especially ...

Zscaler Zscaler () is a cloud security company, with headquarters in San Jose, California. The company offers cloud migration services. History Zscaler was founded in 2007 by Jay Chaudhry and K. Kailash. In August 2012, Zscaler secured $38 million in f ...

Sports

Notable faculty

Arts, humanities and social sciences

* Adya Prasad Pandey, Professor in Economics and Former Head Department of Economics,

Manipur University *

Anant Sadashiv Altekar Anant Sadashiv Altekar (24 September 1898 – 25 November 1960; ) was a historian, archaeologist, and numismatist from Maharashtra, India. He was the Manindra Chandra Nandy's Professor and Head of the Department of Ancient Indian History and Cu ...

, Manindra Chandra Nandi Chair of Ancient History & Culture; led archaeological excavation of

Mauryan The Maurya Empire, or the Mauryan Empire, was a geographically extensive Iron Age historical power in the Indian subcontinent based in Magadha, having been founded by Chandragupta Maurya in 322 BCE, and existing in loose-knit fashion until ...

era structures * C. V. Chandrasekhar, Professor of Performing Arts;

Bharata Natyam Bharatanatyam () is a major form of Indian classical dance that originated in Tamil Nadu. It is one of the eight widely recognized Indian classical dance forms, and expresses South Indian religious themes and spiritual ideas, particularly of ...

dancer;

Sangeet Natak Akademi Award Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (IPA: Saṅgīta Nāṭaka Akādamī Puraskāra), also known as the Akademi Puraskar, is an award given by the Sangeet Natak Akademi Sangeet Natak Akademi (The National Academy of Music, Dance and Drama in Englis ...

winner;

Kalidas Samman The Kalidas Samman ( hi, कालिदास सम्मान) is an arts award presented annually by the Government of Madhya Pradesh in India. The award is named after Kālidāsa, a renowned Classical Sanskrit writer of ancient India. The ...

and

Padma Bhushan The Padma Bhushan is the third-highest civilian award in the Republic of India, preceded by the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan and followed by the Padma Shri. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is given for "distinguished service ...

awardee * A.K. Chatterjee, Professor of philosophy, Indian philosopher and

Buddhist Buddhism ( , ), also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya (), is an Indian religion or philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha. It originated in northern India as a -movement in the 5th century BCE, and ...

scholar * Sitaram Chaturvedi, Professor of Literature, playwright *

Amiya Kumar Dasgupta Amiya Kumar Dasgupta (16 July 1903 – 14 January 1992) (অমিয় কুমার দাশগুপ্ত) was an Indian economist who has been described as "one of the founding fathers of modern economics in India" and "a true pioneer in ...

, Professor of Economics (1947–1958); pioneer of economics in Independent India *

Girija Devi Girija Devi (8 May 1929 – 24 October 2017) was an Indian classical singer of the Seniya and Banaras gharanas. She performed classical and light classical music and helped elevate the profile of thumri. She was dubbed as the 'Queen of Thumri' ...

, Professor of Performing Arts;

Hindustani classical Hindustani classical music is the classical music of northern regions of the Indian subcontinent. It may also be called North Indian classical music or, in Hindustani, ''shastriya sangeet'' (). It is played in instruments like the violin, sita ...

vocalist * Julius Getman, Visiting Professor of Law *

Chandradhar Sharma Guleri Chandradhar Sharma Guleri (7 July 1883 – 11 September 1922) was a writer and scholar of Hindi, Sanskrit, Prakrit and Pali from Jaipur, India. He was born in Jaipur and his father belongs to Guler village in Himachal Pradesh hence "Guleri" at t ...

, former Manindra Chandra Nandi Chair in Ancient History and Religion * Latika Katt, Professor of Visual Arts; sculptor *

Sucheta Kripalani Sucheta Kripalani (''née'' Majumdar; 25 June 1908 – 1 December 1974) was an Indian freedom fighter and politician. She was India's first female Chief Minister, serving as the head of the Uttar Pradesh government from 1963 to 1967. Early lif ...

, Professor of Constitutional History * Dalsukh Dahyabhai Malvania, Jain scholar, writer and

awardee *

Lalmani Misra Lalmani Misra (11 August 1924 – 17 July 1979) was an Indian classical musician. Initiation into music Lalmani learnt ''Dhruvapada (Dhrupad) Dhamar'' in the tradition of Shankar Bhatt and Munshi Bhrigunath Lal. He learnt ''Khayal'' singing w ...

, Professor of Music; Hindustani classical musician *

Awadh Kishore Narain Awadh Kishore Narain (A. K. Narain, 28 May 1925 – 10 July 2013) was an Indian historian, numismatist and archaeologist, who published and lectured extensively on the subjects related to South and Central Asia. He was well known for his book ...

, Professor of History (1947–1960); Manindra Chandra Nandi Chair of Ancient History & Culture (1960–1971) * B.C. Nirmal, Professor of Law *

N. Rajam N. Rajam (born 1938) is an Indian violinist who performs Hindustani classical music. She remained professor of Music at Banaras Hindu University, eventually became head of the department and the dean of the Faculty of Performing Arts of the Uni ...

, Professor of Performing Arts *

S. R. Ranganathan Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan ( 9 August 1892 – 27 September 1972) was a librarian and mathematician from India. His most notable contributions to the field were his five laws of library science and the development of the first major fa ...

, Professor of Library Science (1945–1947); inventor of colon classification and

five laws of library science The five laws of library science is a theory that S. R. Ranganathan proposed in 1931, detailing the principles of operating a library system. Many librarians from around the world accept the laws as the foundations of their philosophy. These laws ...

, Professor of Performing Arts; Hindustani classical musician *

Ram Chandra Shukla Ram Chandra Shukla (1925–2016) was an Indian painter and art critic. Early life Shukla was born in a small village called Shukulpura of district Basti, Uttar Pradesh, Basti, Uttar Pradesh in a farmer's family. Soon after that his father shifte ...

, Professor of Visual Arts; painter *

Ramchandra Shukla Ram Chandra Shukla (4 October 1884 – 2 February 1941), better known as Acharya Shukla, was an Indian historian of Hindi literature. He is regarded as the first codifier of the history of Hindi literature in a scientific system by using wide, e ...

, Professor of Literature *

Gurbachan Singh Talib Sardar Gurbachan Singh ( pa, ਸਰਦਾਰ ਗੁਰਬਚਨ ਸਿੰਘ ਤਾਲਿਬ (Gurmukhi); 1911–1986) was a Sikh scholar, professor, and author. He was born in Moonak, Sangrur district. He was a lecturer at the Sikh National ...

, Professor of Sikh Studies *

Omkarnath Thakur Pandit Omkarnath Thakur (24 June 1897 – 29 December 1967), was an Indian music teacher, musicologist and Hindustani classical singer. A disciple of classical singer Vishnu Digambar Paluskar of Gwalior gharana, he became the principal of Gandha ...

, Professor of Performing Arts; Hindustani classical musician *

Koushal Kishor Mishra Kaushal Kishore Mishra (also Koushal Kishor Mishra) (born 1957) is a retired professor of political science at the Banaras Hindu University (BHU). He was formerly the Dean (27th) of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, pr ...

, Professor of Political Sciences, and Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences *

Alok Kumar Rai Alok Kumar Rai (born 20 January 1976) is a professor of marketing at the Banaras Hindu University, India. Currently, he is the 41st vice-chancellor of University of Lucknow. He is one of the youngest vice-chancellors of Lucknow University. Ed ...

, Professor of Management Studies

Science and technology

Sahab, Leader of Radhasoami Faith, Dayalbagh. System Scientist and Physicist. (Ex Dean

, EX-Vice chancellor,

) * Sir

Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Sir Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar OBE, FNI, FASc, FRS, FRIC, FInstP (21 February 1894 – 1 January 1955) was an Indian colloid chemist, academic and scientific administrator. The first director-general of the Council of Scientific and Industr ...

, Professor of Chemistry (1921–1924); co-inventor of Bhatnagar-Mathur Magnetic Interference Balance; founding chairman of

Council of Scientific and Industrial Research The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (IAST: ''vaigyanik tathā audyogik anusandhāna pariṣada''), abbreviated as CSIR, was established by the Government of India in September 1942 as an autonomous body that has emerged as the l ...

* Patcha Ramachandra Rao, former Vice Chancellor and Professor of Metallurgy and Material Science * Prafulla Kumar Jena, former Professor of Metallurgical Engineering * Madhu Sudan Kanungo, Professor of Biology (1962–2011); pioneer of

gerontology Gerontology ( ) is the study of the social, cultural, psychological, cognitive, and biological aspects of aging. The word was coined by Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov in 1903, from the Greek , ''geron'', "old man" and , ''-logia'', "study of". The fie ...

;

awardee * Arvind Mohan Kayastha, Professor of Biotechnology * Shrikant Lele, metallurgical engineer,

laureate *

Veer Bhadra Mishra Veer Bhadra Mishra was the founding president of the Sankat Mochan Foundation. He was a former professor of Hydraulic engineering and former Head of the Civil Engineering Department at the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi. He was ...

, former Professor of Civil Engineering; environmentalist; founder of Swatcha Ganga Campaign *

Ganesh Prasad Ganesh Prasad (15 November 1876 – 9 March 1935) was an Indian mathematician who specialised in the theory of potentials, theory of functions of a real variable, Fourier series and the theory of surfaces. He was trained at the Universities o ...

, Professor of Mathematics (1917–1923); mathematician *

, Professor of Metallurgy (1962–1982); scientist;

and

awardee *

Birbal Sahni Birbal Sahni Royal Society, FRS (14 November 1891 – 10 April 1949) was an Indian paleobotanist who studied the fossils of the Indian subcontinent. He also took an interest in geology and archaeology. He founded what is now the Birbal Sahni Ins ...

, Professor of Botany (1920); authority on plant fossils of Gondwana and Jurassic age *

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). *

Professor of the department of physics, material physicist and a recipient of

and

* Birendra Bijoy Biswas, lecturer (1952–54); department of botany, recipient of

Jamuna Sharan Singh Jamuna Sharan Singh (born 1941) is an Indian ecologist, academic and a former professor of botany and ecological sciences at Banaras Hindu University. He is known for his studies on the grassland ecosystems which are reported to have assisted i ...

, ecologist,

recipient *

Kamanio Chattopadhyay Kamanio Chattopadhyay (born 1950) is an Indian materials engineer and an honorary professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. He is the chair of the Mechanical Sciences Division of IISc and a former chair of the Department of Mater ...

, materials engineer,

recipient * Sunit Kumar Singh, molecular biologist, Fellow of Indian Academy of Neuroscience (FIANS)

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