List of Jawaharlal Nehru University people
Appearance
This is a list of people associated with the Jawaharlal Nehru University. Excluded are those people whose only connection with JNU is that they were awarded an honorary degree.
Alumni
Arts
Name | Class
Year |
Degree | Notability | References |
---|---|---|---|---|
Srijit Mukherji | Bengali film director | [1] |
Politics and Law
Heads of State and Government
Name | Class
Year |
Degree | Notability | References |
---|---|---|---|---|
Baburam Bhattarai | 1986 | PhD in Urban Planning | 36th Prime Minister of Nepal | [2] |
Ali Zeidan | 24th Prime Minister of Libya | [3][4] |
Others
Humanities and Social Sciences
Name | Class
Year |
Degree | Notability | References |
---|---|---|---|---|
Abhijit Banerjee | 1983 | MA in Economics | Nobel laureate and Ford Foundation Professor at MIT | [20][21][22] |
David Vumlallian Zou | MA; M.Phil | historian | ||
Muzaffar Alam | 1977 | George V. Bobrinsky Professor of History at University of Chicago | [23] | |
Sanjoy Bhattacharya | MA | historian | [24] |
Military and police
Name | Class
Year |
Degree | Notability | References |
---|---|---|---|---|
R. Hari Kumar | Chief of Personnel of the Indian Navy | [25] | ||
Anjana Sinha | Master of Arts | Director of National Industrial Security Academy |
Science and Technology
Name | Class
Year |
Degree | Notability | References |
---|---|---|---|---|
Alok Bhattacharya | 1976 | PhD | Parasitologist and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [26] |
Apurva Sarin | Cell biologist, N-Bios laureate | [27] | ||
Arun Kumar Shukla | structural biologist, N-Bios laureate | [28] | ||
Gaiti Hasan | 1980 | MPhil | microbiologist | [29] |
Srinivasan Ramachandran | bioinformatician, N-Bios laureate | [30] | ||
Suman Kumar Dhar | Molecular biologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [31] |
Others
- Harun Rashid Khan, Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India (2011 to 2016)
- Umesh Upadhyay, President & Director Media at Reliance Industries Limited
- Pankaj Mishra, novelist and essayist.[32]
- Ashok Kumar Sarangi, Chief Vigilance Officer and CGM-in-Charge, Reserve Bank of India
- Jawed Habib, hairdresser and businessman[33][34]
Faculty
Name | Affiliation | Notability | References |
---|---|---|---|
Anvita Abbi | Professor of Linguistics | [35][36] | |
Ayesha Kidwai | Professor of Linguistics | theoretical linguist and Infosys Prize recipient | |
Balaji Prakash | biochemist, N-Bios laureate | [37] | |
Birendra Nath Mallick, | Neurobiologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [38] | |
Brahm Shanker Srivastava, | microbiologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [39] | |
Deepak Kumar | Professor of Physics between 1988 and 2016 | physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [40] |
Franson Manjali | Professor of linguistics. | ||
Joy Pachuau | Professor of Historical studies | historian | [41] |
Kapil Kapoor | Professor of Linguistics & English, Chairman Indian Institute of Advanced Study | [42] | |
Mahendra P. Lama | Professor, JNU | vice chancellor of Sikkim University | [43][44] |
Makarand Paranjape | Professor of English between 1999 and 2018 | author, poet, and director of Indian Institute of Advanced Study | [45][46] |
Muchkund Dubey | Former Professor of International Relations | 17th Foreign Secretary of India | |
Nivedita Menon | Professor of Political thought | [47] | |
Prabhat Patnaik | Former Professor of Economics | ||
Pushpesh Pant | Professor of International relations | food critic and writer | [48] |
Raja Mohan | [49] | ||
Robert L. Holmes | philosopher | ||
Sanjay Puri | held various positions since 1987 | Statistical physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [50] |
Syed Iqbal Hasnain | glaciologist, writer, and climate change activist |
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- ^ Smialek, Jeanna (2019-10-14). "Nobel Economics Prize Goes to Pioneers in Reducing Poverty". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
- ^ "Proud day for JNU as alumnus Abhijit Banerjee wins Nobel Prize". The Times of India. 2019-10-14. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
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- ^ "Sanjoy Bhattacharya - History, The University of York". University of York. Archived from the original on 2019-07-28. Retrieved 2020-01-07.
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- ^ "Two scientists get national award". The Hindu. 2006-03-15. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2017-12-18.
- ^ "Arun K. Shukla IITK". www.iitk.ac.in. 2018-12-30. Retrieved 2018-12-30.
- ^ "Gaiti Hasan - INSA Fellow". Indian National Science Academy www.insaindia.org. Archived from the original on 16 March 2014. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
- ^ "CCB@IIIT-Delhi". ccb.iiitd.ac.in. 2017-12-26. Retrieved 2017-12-26.
- ^ "Suman Kumar Dhar-Faculty profile" (PDF). Jawaharlal Nehru University. 2016. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
- ^ PankajMishra.com/About. Retrieved 2 December 2018.
- ^ Tankha, Madhur (2017-09-04). "A cut above: Jawed Habib on the importance of hairstylists in fashion industry". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2020-01-15.
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- ^ "Prof Anvita Abbi, Centre for Linguistics, SLL&CS, selected for the Kenneth L Hale Award 2015 by the Linguistic Society of America". jnu.ac.in. Retrieved 2019-07-14.
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- ^ "Indian fellow-Birendra Nath Mallick". Indian National Science Academy. 2017.
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- ^ "A Physicist and a Gentleman". Ramaswamy.com. 2017.
- ^ "Joy Pachuau". JNU. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
- ^ "Kapil Kapoor", Wikipedia, 2019-07-08, retrieved 2019-07-14
- ^ "Mahendra P. Lama (Ph.D., JNU)". Jawaharlal Nehru University. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
- ^ "Professor (Retd.) Kapil Kapoor | Indian Institute of Advanced Study". iias.ac.in. Retrieved 2019-07-14.
- ^ "Makarand R. Paranjape". www.jnu.ac.in. Retrieved 2019-07-14.
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- ^ "Professor Pushpesh Pant". The Northcap University. Archived from the original on 2019-01-15. Retrieved 2019-08-30.
- ^ "Top Indian academic C Raja Mohan joins Singapore's think tank". The Economic Times. 2018-05-18. Archived from the original on 2018-07-07. Retrieved 2019-08-30.
- ^ "Biographical Information - Sanjay Puri" (PDF). Jawaharlal Nehru University. 23 October 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 October 2017. Retrieved 23 October 2017.